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The Moon
Mosab Abu Toha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Her small belly, her chest,
her forehead, her hands,
her cold feet bare in the night.
Rwanda Genocide: The Lasting Consequences of Armed Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
On 7 April 2024, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, lit the memorial flame of the monument to the victims of the 1994 genocide during which some 800,000 persons, mostly ethnic Tutsi, were killed. Paul Kagame in 1994 was the head of a Tutsi-led militia, the Rwanda Patriotic Front which put an end to the massacres in Rwanda.
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Ukraine and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant: The Samson Solution
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 -A Biblical story: Having been betrayed and captured by the Philistines, Samson ends his life by exerting his great strength and pulling down the pillars he was chained to. The building falls down killing everyone.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
In Northern Ireland Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists learned to share power even though organizations like the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defense Alliance had both massacred “enemy” civilians. Black and white South Africans agreed on a new political order even though militants of the African National Congress and the National Party had terrorized each other for decades…. Destroying Hamas, it seems clear, is not the road to peace.
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Israel’s Message: ‘Don’t Feed the Palestinians or You Will Die’
Andrew Mitrovica | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” The killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israel’s brutal ‘rules of engagement’.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Aprile 2024 – C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
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There Is No Grudge That Cannot Be Resolved: China’s Xi Jinping to Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
“[There is] [n]o problem that cannot be talked through. And there are no forces that can separate us,” Xi Jinping said in momentous Beijing meeting.
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Five Years at Belmarsh: A Chronicle of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Calls for Assange’s freedom are renewed as the WikiLeaks founder marks five years in Belmarsh prison.
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Gaza Destroyed, Aid Workers Murdered: A Deliberate Israeli Strategy?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The missile attack on WCK was a war crime; a crime against humanity and part of a genocidal Likud plan to eliminate Gazans from the Mediterranean coastline that they have occupied for a thousand years.
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(Português) O Silêncio de Deus e a Morte dos Inocentes: Deus Por Que Te Calas?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 abril 2024 – Vivemos globalmente num mundo trágico, cheio de incertezas, de ameaças e de perguntas para as quais não temos respostas. Para onde estamos indo? para o prolongamento do atual modo de habitar a Terra, devastando-a para um maior enriquecimento de poucos, ou mudaremos de rumo?
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Sri Narasimha Prayer for Protection from Fear and Anxiety (Music Video of the Week)
ISKCON Bangalore Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Today I offer you a Music Video very different from the usual mundane. Enjoy the music, the choreography and the setting: beautiful, captivating and pleasant, exuding spirituality.
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Horror and Hope in Haiti after 20 Years of Occupation
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – The immediate crisis in Haiti goes back to the 29 Feb 2004 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the imposition of occupation forces, first by the US, France and Canada, then by a larger UN force, dubbed MINUSTAH, which, while overseeing the police, participated in several documented massacres, and introduced cholera in 2010.
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Violating Diplomatic Missions
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – The Premises of the Diplomatic Missions Shall Be Inviolable – From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood
Bradford Betz | Fox News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)
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Israeli Milestones: From Six Day Victory to Six Month Failure
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – We have passed the tipping point. The unrelenting slaughter of Palestinian civilians over the past six months has forever changed the perception of Israel in the West. Israel is now widely seen internationally as a “bad guy” similar to how the US was seen in the late 60’s in Vietnam.
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World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!
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Gaza Asks Us a Question about What Kind of Future We Want to Have
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. [Are 21st century human beings savage under the illusion of being civilized? –TMS Editor]
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For Roma, Justice Truly Is Blind
Jonathan Lee | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Europe’s courts fail to deliver justice to Roma abused by police even presented with overwhelming video evidence.
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As Palestine Applies for Full UN Membership, What’s in the Way?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – History set to be repeated as the US prepares to wield veto, cynically insisting Palestine must negotiate statehood with Israel first.
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Elections in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva: A Lesson in the Transformation of Democracy in Religious Autocracy (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 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 discuss any statements, perceived as biased and prejudiced, with the author.
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine’s subjugation to fossil empire.
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Ukraine May Have to Compromise with Russia, Says NATO Chief Stoltenberg
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Ukraine may ultimately have to agree to some kind of compromise with Russia to end the conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC published on April 6, adding that it is up to the West to ensure Kiev achieves an “acceptable result.”
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A.I. Systems That Manipulate the Human Nervous System, Thoughts, Emotions and Perceptions Should Be Banned Outright
Michel Chossudovsky and Mojmir Babacek | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – They Derogate Fundamental Human Rights – Open Letter to the European Parliament
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The Dark Origins of the Davos’ Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the DOD build software for military operations months after OpenAI ended its prohibition against military work. Contradiction: OpenAI describes its mission as developing AI that can benefit all of humanity.
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Socrates Redux
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Assange as Socrates
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Up to 14 Apr 2024:
33,686 + killed* and at least 76,309 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
462+ 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 over 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: Over 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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Invitation: Beyond War and Violence as a Way to Resolve Conflict in the Territories of Israel and Palestine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Israeli peace activist calls for the creation of a new forum to explore nonviolent solutions to the ongoing horrific violence in Israeli and Palestinian territory.
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Twenty Years Commemoration of the “March Pogrom” in Kosovo
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Kosovo was the first time in European history that a terrorist-style and mafia-ruled (quasi)independent state was created by a full diplomatic, political, economic, military, and financial sponsorship by the West under the umbrella of the NATO’s and the EU’s protective administration.
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Praxis Peace Institute – Mondragon Seminar and Tour
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Praxis Peace Institute offers a 5-day seminar at the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondragón businesses, a Research & Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondragón University, and much more!
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Extractivism in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
April 2024 – The idea of extractivism is a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth’s resources since the mid-twentieth century threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.
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British Media and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
April 2024 – An Exploration of Modern British Media and Propaganda – This analysis shows that Britain, although no longer a formal empire, remains a leading player in the field of international war propaganda and atrocity propaganda.
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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).
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Extractivism
Dio Cramer | Science for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
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Regressive Populism and the Resilience Imperative: Evading Global Challenges
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
This is the foreword I wrote to a recent book on the rise of ultra-nationalist populism around the world by the distinguished British author and historian, Deepak Tripathi. What is depicted in the book is emblematic of the populist and inter-governmental myopia that has become a menacing characteristic of the global setting.
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Eclipse
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Haiku Poem on the Total Solar Eclipse of 8 Apr 2024
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI
Cade Metz, et al. | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
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Politics of Road Show
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
A new technique has been evolved by political parties in India to come in contact with the electorate and canvass for their support and vote. This technique is popularly called Road Show.
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All the News That Fits
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Same old, same old…
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United Nations Continues to Face Aid Access Denials in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in Geneva. “They deny and that is it, and it ends there. We do not get an explanation,” he said.
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Dahiya Doctrine: Justifying Disproportionate Warfare—A Prelude to Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – This essay originated from my responses to questions from a journalist preparing an article on the Dahiya Doctrine. It led me to consider the relevance of the doctrine and link it to the events in Gaza, the Hannibal Directive, antisemitism, and genocide.
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Ben Arad, Young Israeli Conscientious Objector: “I Will Not Take Part in a War of Vengeance” [BRAVO!!]
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – Ben Arad, 18, is the third young Israeli to refuse enlistment in protest over the war in Gaza publicly; this morning he was sentenced to 20 days in military prison.
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Arakan Army Leadership Displays Deep-Seated Genocidal Racism Towards Rohingya in Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists display–-their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity–appears to be their Achilles’ heel.
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Imagining a Future Union of Artificial Intelligences (UAI)
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
By Reframing the History of a Union of International Associations (UIA)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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USA and the Rules-Based International Order
Ahmad Qaddura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Come again? Please explain…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Crimes They Are a-Changin’
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
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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
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.”
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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.
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The Day Weapons Refused to Kill
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Nonkilling Society
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Lisbon Airport Dance Frenzy (Music Video of the Week)
portugaldreamcoast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Flash Mob Fun at Christmas
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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.
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(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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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
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(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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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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 articleKosovo 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.
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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.
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(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.
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