Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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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.
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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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Imagine 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.
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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.
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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.
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Galtung’s Peace Education
Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Questions from Prof. Johan Galtung, father of Peace Studies
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Animal Antics
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
We see a lot of Antics by various animals and even by birds.
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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.
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Elon and the Daleks
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
… Life goes on…
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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.
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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.
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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 !
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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.
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 articleAfter 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.
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Among Terrorists
American Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Partnership
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‘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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.”
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(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.
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How 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.
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“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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”?
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The “Kosovo War” 25 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
24 Mar 2024 – 25 Years Ago Today, NATO Started the Illegal Kosovo War against Serbia
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What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
Mohammed El-Kurd | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures.
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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance.
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(Deutsch) Mit ihrer Rolle im Ukrainekrieg könnte die Europäische Union ihre eigene politische Zukunft riskieren
Michael von der Schulenburg und Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Die für den Westen sich verschlechternde militärische Lage in der Ukraine und der zunehmende Rückzug der USA aus diesem Krieg haben eine Situation entstehen lassen, in der die EU nun aufgerufen ist, eine Führung bei der Lösung dieses Krieges zu übernehmen.
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How the Western Media Helped Build the Case for Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.
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PEN America Self-Destructs
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members.
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The Urgency of Diplomacy
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – There has been a collapse of US diplomacy with Russia and China as Europe follows the Washington line. This creates an escalation that can lead to nuclear war. In the immortal words of JFK, “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
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The Song of Songs as Indicative of the Pattern That Connects
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Implications for strategic cultivation of global division?
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Johan Galtung on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Amy Goodman | EnvisionPeaceMuseum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” was a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician who taught around the world, helped found many institutions to build peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award among many others. He served on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Moscow Nights [Подмосковные вечера] (Music Video of the Week)
Music Video Vault - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Recorded live in 2013 at a Red Square Concert in Moscow
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Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”
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(Français) Des élections en mal de démocratie ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
4 mars 2024 – La démocratie est souvent réduite aux élections. Mais la croyance en l’efficacité de celles-ci décroit partout dans le monde, à mesure que croît la défiance envers la politique. Et la soif de démocratie effective.
→ read full articleZero Food Children
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Many young women keep busy by working in the homes of people in urban centres of India,. Most of these women are in the age group of 20 to 35 years. Despite getting suitable wages, they feel unhappy in their conditions.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine War in 2024
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
March 2024 – A no-nonsense analysis of new developments and deceptions in the Ukraine War. Dedicated to the people of Ukraine, east and west.
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Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Stop Treating Gaza like a Natural Disaster
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Blame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
No kidding…
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Voices from Gaza
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – The book ‘Gaza Writes Back’ is a collection of short stories from twenty young Gazans. The stories reveal how the last five months are the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades.
→ read full articleU.S. Doubles Down on Defunding UNRWA — Despite Flimsy Allegations
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – Congress passed a one-year ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency funds even as several Western countries have resumed funding for the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians.
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The Earth Constitution Could Transform the UN General Assembly and the UN Itself
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
If both Russia and the US had not wielded Security Council vetoes in the last few years, the ugly atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza might never have happened. The UN Charter’s grant of the veto to the P5 powers is a mockery of the rule of law and democratic ideals.
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The Other USA
Matthew Ehret et al. | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – A New Documentary on the Three Missed Chances for World Peace (1991-2016)
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Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Many people may know about Buddhism, but few seem to understand its connections with Vedic Culture and how many aspects of it have origins in the Vedic philosophy. It was several hundred years before the time of Lord Buddha that his birth was predicted in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, a major Vedic scripture.
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Pursuing Justice through Law: Edward Said, the Gaza ‘War,’ and Advocacy Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – This paper is devoted to several of my recent central concerns. Comments and conversation warmly invited. Adapted from annual Edward W Said Memorial Lecture, the American University in Cairo, 4 Nov 2023.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU Official Says Israel Failed to Prove Its Accusations against UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Netanyahu has vowed to invade Rafah despite the international red line. Meanwhile, the U.S. has sanctioned two illegal settler outposts in the West Bank for the first time.
→ read full articleReimagining the Canon to the Sounds of Cannon Fire
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Challenging Hegemony Through the Pattern That Connects
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(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].
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New UK MP George Galloway on the Next Era of Politics
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Upending the “West’s Dictatorship”
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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]
→ read full articleGlobalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect! Go beyond state-territorial and national-cultural borders, and transcend those jealously guarded borders in the mind, between disciplines and religions.
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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.
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The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and Its Religious Identity
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems.
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The Legacies of David Krieger and Robert Oppenheimer: Iconic Signatures of the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
I stress the comparison between Oppenheimer, the film, and Krieger, the civil society star anti-nuclear activist as well as the personae of these two extraordinary individuals.
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Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
The politico-legal aspects of Transitional Justice are a complex final stage in conflict transformation by peaceful means to identify the truths of victims and perpetrators. It encompasses two interconnected components: truth-seeking and judicial accountability.
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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)
Alondra de la Parra | WDR Klassik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on 27 Jan 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Absolutely Beautiful!
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How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti
Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Interview Jake Johnston | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
12 Mar 2024 – A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears significant responsibility for Haiti’s ongoing instability.
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The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024 – Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power.
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Starvation Camp in Poland, 1941–>Fast-forward to Gaza, 2024
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
A Cry from the Szebnie Concentration Camp, 1941, Poland
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UNRWA Report Says Israel Coerced Some Agency Employees to Falsely Admit Hamas Links
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.
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Haiti: Efforts for Stability and Hope for the Future
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024 – The interaction between political leaders, criminal gangs and voodoo religious leaders is not new in Haiti as was seen by the paramilitary killers, Les Tontons Macoutes, during the presidencies of Papa Doc and Baby Doc in the 1960s-70s. Action Needed
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Ego Is the Enemy
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
It is not enough to have an understanding of things or to criticize. It is not enough to protest or resist the evil that surrounds us. It is important to envision a better future AND WORK FOR IT. I am grateful that I am surrounded by groups of educated young people who share a vision of sustainable human and natural communities locally and globally.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
• 31,645+ killed and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
• 435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024 – A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.
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Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid—>Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid
Phyllis Bennis | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.
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Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023
Pieter D. Wezeman, et al. | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
On 11 March the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its latest report on the arms trade with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years.
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Life Is like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
The meaning of life has been contemplated by just about every thinking, feeling, breathing human being, and memorably so by a number of cultural icons, including…
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests
Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.
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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.
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On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.
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Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine
Majken Jul Sørensen | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Mar 2024 – To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else.
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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis
Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.
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Engels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution
Marnie Holborow | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
March 2024 – It is surprising how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked. He is dismissed for being deterministic, overly economistic, even un-Marxist. Heather Brown’s key work on Karl Marx and gender sees Engels as crudely mechanical compared to Marx.
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Religions, Global Gods and Peace Propagation: An Overview of Multiple, Human Behavioral Orders
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
“Human behaviour, from the time of evolution, is influenced and governed by some overarching tenets of a religious belief. This belief is in the unseen, unsubstantiated and not understood, force of a superior kind. This force is called by different didactic terminologies, ultimately leading to the creation of global Gods. Some humans even use Lucifer as a such a force…”
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