Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
We found 27942 results.
Eric Nshimiye, Another Rwandan American Facing Trial in Another Rwandan Witch Hunt
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The totalitarian state of Rwanda is guilty of many forms of transnational repression, including the lawfare exemplified in the case of Eric Nshimiye.
→ read full article
Likely Widening of Middle East War
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Is Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu moving toward “The Sampson Option”–the use of nuclear weapons (and possible WW III)–as a desperate attempt to avoid his removal as head of state and imprisonment for corruption? The protests against him inside Israel keep growing.
→ read full article
Israeli Soldiers Film Themselves Mocking Destruction of Palestine
Al Jazeera | TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Israeli soldiers have been filming themselves mocking Palestinians and posting it on social media as they continue their offensive in Gaza.
→ read full article
What We Know about the Seven World Central Kitchen Workers Killed in Gaza
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – Citizens from Australia, the UK and Poland were among seven people who were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
→ read full article
War Begets Retribution Begets War
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Using its dwindling resources (and human lives) to violently redraw national borders or spheres of influence is a zero-sum game. Modern warfare increasingly renders large swaths of the planet uninhabitable, destroying the only home we have.
→ read full article
How Can Peace Journalism Grow?
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Peace journalism aims to provide news from conflict zones focused on peacebuilding and the work of peacebuilders. This is in stark contrast to mainstream news coverage that focuses on violence, the voice of elites, propaganda and victory framing.
→ read full article
Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War of Terror.
→ read full article
The Death of Amr
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.
→ read full article
‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza and the Corporate Media
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
5 Apr 2024 – A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. It is no accident that they supply news that covers up the crimes of elite power. However, the appalling violence and destruction being inflicted in Gaza by Israel are simply too great to conceal.
→ read full article
USA and the Rules-Based International Order
Ahmad Qaddura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Come again? Please explain…
→ read full article
CIA Front Companies Play Crucial Role in Arms Pipeline to Ukraine and Profit from the Human Misery it Generates
CIAGate | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – Below is a series that CIAGate published on the CIA’s involvement in the arms pipeline to Ukraine through a shadowy CIA company that supplies drones to Kyiv.
→ read full article
Modernity in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Modernity is a universal aspect of the Modern World. We see its signs in the world as well as in India in various ways. Earlier Modernity was essentially a western concept.
→ read full article
By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on 26 March was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the US national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
→ read full article
How Israel Weaponizes Water
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water – Israel is using water as a weapon in its war of aggression against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.
→ read full article
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA 8 Apr 2024
The Crimes They Are a-Changin’
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
No Comment
→ read full article
Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – A doctor at the Sde Teiman Israeli detention center for Palestinians is sounding the alarm about torture in what human rights defenders call a concentration camp. “Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event.”
→ read full article
Six Months of Hell on Earth
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – Half a year of insulting our intelligence. Half a year of insulting our humanity. Half a year of unfathomable suffering. Half a year of irreparable trauma.
→ read full article
Lisbon Airport Dance Frenzy (Music Video of the Week)
portugaldreamcoast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Flash Mob Fun at Christmas
→ read full article
The Day Weapons Refused to Kill
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Nonkilling Society
→ read full article
October 7
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
20 Mar 2024 – Hamas’s incursion into Israel on 7 Oct transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera carried out a forensic analysis of the events and found that many of the stories that came out were false, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape. In particular, claims by the IDF that it found 8 burned babies were entirely untrue.
→ read full article
(Français) Écoutez les Femmes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 avril 2024 – Comme nous le montre l’exemple de Search for Common Ground, la paix ne peut venir que du dialogue et de l’instauration d’un climat de confiance entre les deux parties au conflit. C’est un processus long et difficile, mais il n’y a pas d’autre solution.
→ read full article
The Israeli-USA Crusade beyond Gaza and the Arab-Muslim World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
How the War Dehumanized the Arab-Muslim World
→ read full article
Dancing Outside the Concentration Camp
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Dancing outside the concentration camp, rave music pounding through our bones like bombs. A disco at the genocide, baby. A disco at the genocide.
→ read full article
Israeli Army War Crime against Aid Workers Could Have Killed Me
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – Delivering aid is a dangerous business. Before the tragic assassination of the seven World Central Kitchen staff, a lot of aid workers have died while on mission. If I were younger, I might well have been in Gaza on that mission.
→ read full article
Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Human in a Posthuman Age
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Between Psyche and Cyborg – The technosphere now overlays the ecosphere and we cannot help but inhale its post-industrial gases. Virtuality has begun to displace reality, making the ground of human existence hard to discern… in today’s technocratic cult of posthumanism.
→ read full article
Chosen People or People Who Choose?
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
The rich theology of the Vedic literature can end speculative attempts to resolve the apparently contradictory concepts of predestination and free will.
→ read full article
‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.
→ read full article
Grotesque: We All Live in the Palestine Laboratory
Antony Loewenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – Israel is live-testing the most sophisticated killing machines and surveillance in its war of aggression against the population of Gaza. It is using and testing deadly robot dogs, both made in Israel and the US.
→ read full article
‘Obscene’: Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – “Arming a war criminal makes you a war criminal,” one critic admonished the U.S. president.
→ read full article
Bharatiya Janata Party: Pseudo Peace Propagation in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
This paper is written as an objective analysis of the current political climate in India, prior to the general election, being the largest democracy in the world. Readers are invited to Join the Discussion with the author about any statements perceived as biased or prejudiced.
→ read full article
AI Lavender Conclusively, Irrefutably Debunks IDF’s ‘Human Shields’ Lie
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
5 Apr 2024 – One aspect of the IDF’s Lavender AI system that’s not getting enough consideration is that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses “human shields”.
→ read full article
Listen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – As ‘Search for Common Ground’ shows us by example, peace can only come from dialogue and trust-building between the two sides of the conflict. This is a long and difficult process, but there is no other way.
→ read full article
Operation Amazon
Jon Lee Anderson | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.
→ read full article
China’s Economic Success in Face of Growing U.S., EU Protectionism
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – The best solution for the world economy would be for China, USA and EU to maintain open trade and mutually agreed industrial policies. Yet if the US and Europe turn strongly protectionist against China, the best response for China is to hasten its successful and growing trade and financial relations with the emerging economies.
→ read full article
Western Countries in ‘Peace Talks’ without Russia
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – The “peace negotiations” about Ukraine continue to take place without Russian involvement. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, diplomatic initiatives are taking place to end the conflict but Moscow continues to be excluded, which obviously invalidates the negotiations.
→ read full article
The Age of Extinction: ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – Does Scale of Environmental Destruction Amount to a War Crime? Satellite analysis shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside air and water pollution, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable.
→ read full article
Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Israel is imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed… We are fighting human animals.”
→ read full article
Biden’s Warning to Netanyahu: Political Maneuver, Not Policy Shift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – Critique of Biden’s ‘muscular approach’ to foreign policy, specifically in relation to China, Russia and Israel, at the expense of the peoples of the world, including of the North Americans. Biden is guilty of war-mongering, reluctance to engage in peace diplomacy, and complicity crimes of support given to Israel on its genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.
→ read full articleJesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
There is an exercise called Western Civilization, and a dramatic narrative at the center of that exercise with two persons in the key roles, Jesus and Judas. Easter times, now, are here to remind us of the drama.
→ read full article
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 175: ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Famine in Gaza as Israel Continues to Raid Hospitals
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – The International Court of Justice imposed new provisional measures in South Africa’s case against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, ordering Israel to ensure the entry of food and other supplies in order to stop the spreading famine.
→ read full article
Just Skin and Bone: The Starving Gaza Children Kept in Incubators
Perkin Amalaraj | Daily Mail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
UN Human Rights Chief Warns Israel May Be Guilty of War Crime if It Has Cut Off Food Aid
→ read full article
(Italiano) Ritorno di Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Oltre l’immane tragedia umana in svolgimento nell’atrocità di Gaza, prende forma una domanda: i dirigenti israeliani, politici e militari, hanno perso del tutto il lume della ragione? Un maglio per un mal di denti, quelle punture d’ago di razzi lanciati per rabbia, 8 uccisi – e allora ne uccidono 800?
→ read full article
Israel Blocks UNRWA’s Food Convoys from Entering Starving North Gaza
Sanjana Karanth | HuffPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – The agency’s chief accused Israel of intentionally obstructing aid as Palestinians face a starvation crisis created by the military offensive.
→ read full article
VIP Memo: The French Road to Nuclear War
VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
France could be leading the USA down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in its interests–or of humanity itself, VIPS warn President Joe Biden.
→ read full article
When Starvation Is a Weapon, the Harvest Is Shame
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
14 Mar 2024 – As Palestinians die of starvation under occupation, it brings grim echoes of another famine nearly two centuries ago in Ireland.
→ read full article
Gaza: World Court Issues Fresh Measures for Israel as Crisis Deepens
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
28 Mar 2024 – The International Court of Justice today issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.
→ read full article
The UN Security Council Has Approved a Cease-Fire Resolution for Gaza
Jaclyn Diaz and Michele Kelemen | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – The UNSC has voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan. The US abstained from the vote, clearing the way for the measure to pass.
→ read full article
‘Kill Them All’: Inside the Israeli Blockade on Gaza Aid
Jeremy Loffredo | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
On a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo films Israeli citizens as they physically block trucks. There, a reservist confesses to an array of war crimes, including blowing up the offices of UN centers dedicated to providing food to the local population.
→ read full article
‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Choral Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
The Royal Choral Society has performed Handel’s Messiah on Good Friday at the Royal Albert Hall every year since 1876.
→ read full article
The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED-Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. Jeff Dekofsky solves some heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox.
→ read full article
Kosovo Independence: Dilemmas on NATO’s Aggression in 1999
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
30 Mar 2024 – Twenty-five years commemoration of NATO’s military intervention against Yugoslavia in Mar−Jun 1999 once again opened the question of the Western foundation for Kosovo’s secession from Serbia and its unilateral proclamation of a quasi-independence in Feb 2008.
→ read full article
Evil Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
31 Mar 2024 – Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA? In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills.
→ read full article
(Italiano) Un pianeta accogliente: forme di nonviolenza attiva, azioni di contrasto e azioni di sostegno
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
29 Marzo 2024 – L’Associazione ‘A Sud’ è un’organizzazione ecologista indipendente, formata da attiviste e attivisti da vent’anni impegnat* per la giustizia ambientale e climatica, per vivere in un pianeta accogliente.
→ read full article
Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza
Ralph Nader | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, a more likely estimate is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour.
→ read full article
Love Anyway
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, but you love anyway.
→ read full articleImagine if Russia or China Did the Things Israel Is Doing in Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
28 Mar 2024 – It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.
→ read full article
Global Human Rights Institutions: A Veneer of Peace Propagation by Toothless Alligators (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Since WW II numerous Human Rights institutions have been established globally to monitor violations and to issue statements either directly or through the jurisdiction of the UN. The question arises whether these official bodies are toothless alligators or are they formed as whitewash bodies to play the tunes of the inevitable System, based on an ethos of Consensus Conformity.
→ read full article
Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
19 Mar 2024 – During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations, but has actually upgraded it.
→ read full article
Galtung’s Peace Education
Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Questions from Prof. Johan Galtung, father of Peace Studies
→ read full article
Assange Extradition Delayed: UK High Court Asks US to Offer ‘Assurances’ or Face Limited Appeal
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
26 Mar 2024 – While granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a limited appeal against extradition, the US government was encouraged by the UK High Court to submit “assurances” that could prevent further proceedings.
→ read full article
Bold Action Needed Now to Address ‘Cataclysmic’ Situation in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
28 Mar 2024 – Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti, the UN Human Rights Office said in a report issued today.
→ read full article
What Is UNRWA? Why Has Israel Long Sought Its Demise? What Is the US Actually Supporting in Defunding UNRWA?
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Following the 1948 War between Israel and Arab neighbors, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) on December 8th, 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. The Agency began operations on May 1st, 1950.
→ read full article
How the Israeli War on Gaza Makes the US Morally and Politically Bankrupt?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – The US and Israel are at Odds–How to End the Gaza War?
→ read full article
A Genocide Foretold
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
30 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.
→ read full article
The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word. It popped up everywhere.
→ read full article
Active-Duty Air Force Airman on White House Hunger Strike for Gaza
Veterans for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
On Easter Sunday, 31 Mar 2024 at the White House, active-duty Air Force Senior Airman Larry Hebert began a hunger strike to highlight the plight of the starving children of Gaza.
→ read full articleAnimal Antics
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
We see a lot of Antics by various animals and even by birds.
→ read full article
The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
27 Mar 2024 – British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.
→ read full article
Elon and the Daleks
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
… Life goes on…
→ read full article
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
21 Mar 2024 – Exploring the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces, in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines.
→ read full article
Israel’s Conscientious Objectors Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Ariel Gold | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
“Slaughter cannot solve slaughter,” 18-year-old Israeli-American Tal Mitnick said in Dec 2023 before receiving his first 30-day prison sentence for refusing to join Israel’s military.
→ read full article
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Up to 29 Mar 2024:
32,623 + killed* and at least 75,092 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
450+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: around 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
The Heart Sutra
Buddhism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Om Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom the Lovely, the Holy !
→ read full article
Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
27 Mar 2024 – Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
→ read full article
Palestinian
Ibrahim Nasrallah - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
I was silent and nothing came of it.
I spoke and nothing came of it.
I cursed, I apologized, and nothing came of it.
After the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Nonviolence, sophistication, world, and domestic traffic rules as opposed to endless interventionism for whatever purpose. May the current Asian blend of age-old wisdom and youthful energy inspire a world filled with pessimism and fear.
→ read full article
Among Terrorists
American Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Partnership
→ read full article
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 170: Israel Assaults al-Shifa, Nasser, and al-Amal Hospitals in One Day
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Israeli forces ordered Palestinians inside al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis to leave “naked,” while survivors of the al-Shifa Hospital raid witnessed numerous atrocities committed by the Israeli army. In Jerusalem, Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa.
→ read full article
“Man-Made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – “I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto. Warning: This article contains graphic images.
→ read full article
Johan Galtung Obituary
Hugh Miall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has died aged 93, was a leading contributor to peace and conflict research. His ideas about positive peace and structural violence have had a global resonance. Now taught in more than 500 universities, the field he helped to establish has become a worldwide endeavour.
→ read full article
Peace Propagation: Human Rights Day, Post Liberation 1994 South Africa (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
“The erosion of basic human rights is witnessed in freedom of speech and religious association. In these unfolding tragedies, South Africa stands proud by innovating the Human Rights Day as a public holiday and sustains it in protecting and ensuring that human rights are always respected.”
→ read full article
(Italiano) Globalizzare Dio: Religione e pace nelle scienze sociali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Le letture arcigne portano all’intolleranza o alla tolleranza malmustosa. Quanto mai necessari: rispetto e curiosità; dialogo e reciproco apprendimento. C’è tanta saggezza! La si selezioni! Si estrapoli conciliando! Si vada oltre i confini territoriali di stato e culturali di nazione, e di trascendano quelli mentali gelosamente protetti, fra le discipline e le religioni.
→ read full articleHow Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.
→ read full article
“Never Again”: Arundhati Roy on Palestine at Delhi Press Club
Arundhati Roy | The Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Public meeting held at the New Delhi Press Club to voice opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Arundhati Roy’s statement is titled, “Never Again”.
→ read full article
With Its Role in the Ukraine War the European Union May Risk Its Own Political Future
Michael von der Schulenburg and Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – The deteriorating military situation in Ukraine and the United States increasing withdrawal from it created a situation in which the EU is now pushed into the forefront in dealing with this problem.
→ read full articleIt’s Journalistic Malpractice to Say Gazans Are Starving without Saying Israel Is Starving Them
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing packaging a story about Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it’s a troubling prediction about the weather.
→ read full article
An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.
→ read full article
The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.
→ read full article
From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The narrative of cannibal gangs ruling Haiti is as shocking as it is misleading, drawing attention away from the complex socio-political dynamics at play. Haiti’s turmoil cannot be isolated from the global context; it shares the same root causes with conflicts in the Sahel region, the DRC, and around the Global South.
→ read full article
Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests Internationally
Global News Service | TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” toured the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists.
→ read full articleGaza Redux
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung wrote this seminal Editorial in 2009 and is being republished to offer a context to Gaza 2024. What has changed? What remains the same? What devolved? What if…? Israel, beware the grave you are digging for yourself.
→ read full article
Gaza and Its Astounding Parallels with 9/11: “A Territory or Country Is Targeted for Previously Established Geostrategic Goals”
Richard Gage | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Has the Israeli government betrayed its own people, as well as the Palestinians, with its own “9/11 Moment”?
→ read full article
Remembering a Voice for Peace: Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Our world lost a giant of peace research. Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” author of more than 170 books and 1,500 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on 17 Feb 2024, at age 93. Galtung taught at 30 universities on five different continents over the course of his seven-decade career…
→ read full article
US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington.
→ read full article
Special Journal Issue on Galtung
Charles Webel, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
I’ve been asked to be the editor of a special edition of the journal Scienza e Pace/Science and Peace (Univ. of Pisa). Therefore, I’m wondering if one of you, TRANSCEND Members, would consider being the co-editor with me of this special edition of that journal. Also, I’m issuing a Call for Papers.
→ read full article
Israel’s Trojan Horse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.
→ read full articleIsrael Tells UN It Will Reject UNRWA Food Convoys into Northern Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
24 Mar 2024 – Israeli authorities informed the United Nations today that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.
→ read full article
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Up to 24 Mar 2024:
32,223+ killed* and at least 74,518 wounded in the Gaza Strip
435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout, which provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression and threats of demonetization.
→ read full article