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Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood
Marija Šarić, Siniša Sajević and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – Coming of Age During and After the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina – The journey of child soldiers after war is fraught with different challenges.

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(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

The Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, was for the in-group only. But today we are ever more one big in-group. Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.

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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Nov 2024 – The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?

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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump. 

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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Novembre 2024 – Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.

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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

6 Nov 2024 – Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.

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Peace and Security: Women and Men
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

My approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues in formal and informal politics, in mediation and mediation training, in peace-keeping and peace-building operations, and in meetings.

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Hoax?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

31 Oct 2024

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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.

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UN General Assembly Renews Long-Standing Call for End to US Embargo against Cuba
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

30 Oct 2024 – The UNGA today overwhelmingly urged the USA to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, a demand it makes since 1992.
(In favor: 187; Against: 2 [USA, Israel]; Abstention: 1 [Moldova])

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Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief 
Amy Pope | UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

29 Oct 2024 – The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. This is an underreported conflict and we must pay it more attention. Millions are suffering and there is the possibility of igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.

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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…

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Israeli Knesset’s Banning of UNRWA Will Deepen Palestinian Suffering
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

28 Oct 2024 – Today’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency contradicts principles of the UN Charter, violates Israel’s obligations under international law, and sets a dangerous precedent. The UN chief pledged he would take the issue to the General Assembly.

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Criminalize War!
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

Wars get ever worse as measured by the percentage of non-combatant, civilian casualties; from about 10 percent in WWI to 90 percent in recent wars. They dare refer to crimes as “unintended consequences”, “collateral damage.” Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.

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Israeli Army ‘Deliberately Demolished’ Watchtower, Fence at UN Peacekeeping Site in Southern Lebanon
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

20 Oct 2024 – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon informed that an Israeli army bulldozer demolished an observation tower and the perimeter fence of a UN position earlier today in the southern part of the country.

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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “

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2024 Nobel Peace Winner Has Compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza–We Must Listen to Him
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

24 Oct 2024 – The now elderly child survivor of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and his Hiroshima-Gaza parallel must be taken seriously. His words must be seized by the world of conscience to end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.

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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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Gaza: Polio Could Spread Unless Vaccines Reach Genocide-Torn North
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

24 Oct 2024 – An immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza as the enclave faces the additional threat of polio spreading, if the final phase of a vaccination campaign continues to face delays in reaching the besieged north, where the “nightmare is intensifying”, top UN officials stressed today.

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Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

10 Sep 2024 – Report prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people: the economic impact of the Israeli military operation in Gaza from Oct 2023 to May 2024.

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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the Human Rights Council
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

Report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 to the Human Rights Council 58th session. Deadline: 30 Nov 2024

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(Italiano) L’Islam e l’Occidente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

Ci siamo già passati, molte volte. Per l’Occidente, invadere le terre islamiche era parte di un massiccio esercizio noto come colonialismo.

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Over 1.8 million in Gaza Face Extreme Hunger
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

17 Oct 2024 – More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed by the Israeli genocidal military offensive, a UN food security assessment released today has revealed.

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The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

19 Oct 2024 – Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.

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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.

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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’

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Gaza: Dramatic Escalation of Humanitarian Catastrophe with Forced Mass Displacement of Civilians
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

9 Oct 2024 – Aid Organisations Warning: Israel’s new displacement orders in northern Gaza threaten to force civilians into ever-shrinking areas and endanger aid operations. 

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Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”

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UN Commission Finds War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Health Facilities and Treatment of Detainees, Hostages
UN Human Rights High Commissioner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

10 Oct 2024 – Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities.

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On Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

What happens when the US empire not only declines but falls, will we follow?  Will the world poor rise against us?  Who am I, with whom am I, on the right side, the wrong? How has my mother-in-law programmed her daughter for it all?  A super-complex world. 

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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

7 Oct 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.

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Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

11 Oct 2024 – It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide.

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Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Jin Yanagawa | Asahi Shimbun/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

7 Oct 2024 – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”

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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.

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(Italiano) Più creatività, per favore!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

Le istituzioni latin-americane domani possono diventare quelle dell’Asia Orientale, entrambe ispirate da e ispirazione per l’Unione Africana e soprattutto dalla madre delle Unioni, quella Europea, persa nel divario fra il desiderio di essere emulata e la paura d’irritare i nordamericani.

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Happy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.

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We Have a Moral Obligation to Speak Out against Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

30 Sep 2024 – Dialogue with Prof. Alex Hinton, a leading anthropologist of genocides at Rutgers Univ.

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Lebanese and Syrians Suffer Loss and Displacement amid Surging Attacks
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

2 Oct 2024 – Since a deadly escalation of the conflict in Lebanon began just over a week ago, the Government estimates that more than 1 million people have already been forced to flee their homes.

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Islam and the West
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

We have been there before, many times. For the West, encroaching on Islamic lands was part of the massive exercise known as colonialism.

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“Bloodied, Bruised and Broken” – More Than 690 Children Injured in Lebanon in Last Six Weeks
UNICEF - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

4 Oct 2024 – UNICEF calls for a ceasefire to protect children as physical injuries and psychological suffering rise dramatically.

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‘Orphanage City’ Helps Children in Gaza as the Genocide Grinds On
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

4 Oct 2024 – Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long Israeli assault continue to deplete the Strip.

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Die with a Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

Aug 2024 – Simply Delicious!…

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UN Summit of the Future – Outcome Documents
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

*22-23 Sep 2024
*Pact for the Future
*Global Digital Compact
*Declaration on Future Generations

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More Creativity, Please!
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

Latin America’s institutions can tomorrow become those of East Asia, both inspiring and being inspired by the African Union and above all by the mother of unions, the European one, lost in the gap between its desire to be emulated and its fear of irritating the North Americans.

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Standing at Gaza Border Felt like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni
Amy Goodman interviews Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

19 Sep 2024 – TRANSCEND member Burmese scholar, dissident, and human rights activist Maung Zarni discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma’s and Israel’s human rights abuses.

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Israel’s Siege Now Blocks 83% of Food Aid Reaching Gaza, New Data Reveals
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

16 Sep 2024 – Joint Press Release: 15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction.

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UN General Assembly Demands Israel End ‘Unlawful Presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

18 Sep 2024 – The United Nations General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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The World Would Be Better Off without NATO, Revisited
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

20 Sep 2024 – The hyper-capitalist terror state that plots to rule the world keeps its fist in a mailed glove called NATO. But NATO is in trouble as its massive, disastrous Ukraine adventure fails and member Turkey applies to join the other side, namely BRICS.

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Corruption…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

… Is King

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Adagio G Minor (Music Video of the Week)
Albinoni | Sungoo Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

Cello: Stjepan Hauser, the Cellist of Sarajevo – Exquisite, Bello!

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The Cold War as a Metaphor
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

The Cold War is worth remembering.  There is much to learn about conflict and meta-conflict.  For West vs. Islam.

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(Italiano) Sud globale: Il cambio-marce assistito
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

18 Settembre 2024 – Arriva il Sud Globale con – o si spera senza – una voglia di rivalsa.

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Beyond Palestine, International Law and White Supremacy: A Personal Reflection
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

12 Sep 2024 – Even if the issue is organically tied to you, if you offer a perspective that challenges the White Supremacist World’s prevailing analyses and views, you would very likely find yourself swimming against the currents.

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Israel Has Built a Vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

8 Sep 2024 – Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a US delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days witnessing the institutionalized textbook Lemkinian genocide. — “This is beyond what the Nazis embodied. I’ve never seen such sadistic violence.”

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UN OCHA Gaza Strip Impact Report
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

11 Sep 2024 – Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the MoH in Gaza has fully identified as of 1 Aug out of the higher number of casualties they report.

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Young People Will Save the World, Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
Keara Sosa | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

13 Sep 2024 – The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our leaders get it right.

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The Power-Shift to the Global South
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution.

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(Italiano) Trascendimento del conflitto come forza propulsiva della storia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

Il Trascendimento del conflitto, la teoria di mediazione del Metodo TRANSCEND considera cinque possibili esiti per conflitti semplici e molte più variabili per conflitti complessi, nascosti nella storia.

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(Italiano) Libertà d’espressione vs. libertà d’umiliazione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

Tesi base: Una falsa dicotomia. con un po’ d’abilità possiamo permetterci entrambe, rifiutando di farci intrappolare dai fondamentalisti dell’uno o altro fronte. Come? Beh, facciamo prima del nostro meglio per chiarire le due libertà, la libertà d’espressione e la libertà d’umiliazione.

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Catastrophic Hunger Doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan Worst Hit
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN today.

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Blinken Marks Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Even as US Finances Genocide of Palestinians
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

27 Aug 2024 – The US secretary of state’s genocide memorial tweet is a Zombie-esque, self-unaware act of supreme hypocrisy.

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Conflict Transcendence as Driving Force in History
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

The mediation theory of TRANSCEND opens for five possibilities for simple conflicts and much more for more complex conflicts; but they are hidden in history. To transcend is to go beyond, into a new reality accommodating opposed theses, also such as the goals of actors.

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Janmashtami in Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
Sunita Viswanath | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

26 Aug 2024 – Krishna was born in a prison in Mathura, and while his evil uncle Kamsa planned to kill him, the guards fell asleep and the prison doors mysteriously opened. Krishna’s father Vasudeva carried him across the Yamuna River to safety in Gokul. Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest open air prison” by the UN and Human Rights Watch.

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About Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts as for the sciences.  Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”? 

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Mpox: What You Need to Know about the Latest Public Health Emergency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

20 Aug 2024 – The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the Mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week.

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Why Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Is it really so bad that the US could collapse in the not-so-distant future? Isn’t it acting like the worst of empires? Isn’t it wreaking havoc on the world? Is it not a good thing that it collapses internally and spares the world from further wars?

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Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

TRANSCEND Method: To prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. At the root of the method is the understanding of conflict as incompatible goals, meaning as a problem to be solved; not as incompatible parties.

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US Military Base in Bangladesh at the Heart of a Revolution
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

22 Aug 2024 – Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has a shocking accusation against the US: “I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed the U.S. to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal.”

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Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.

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(Italiano) Spiare per gli USA – e per la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Esporre i crimini di guerra agghindati da “segreti” è un servizio per la pace. Ellsberg ha avuto il Premio Nobel Alternativo per la Pace. E così sarà per Assange.

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Freedom of Expression vs. Freedom from Humiliation
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Of course we can indicate our doubts without humiliating. And of course we can be respectful without submitting. But do so in the spirit of dialogue, not in that continuation of war by verbal means known as a debate. And explore the answers together.

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(Italiano) Dopo l’impero statunitense: Un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Un’ipotesi chiave è che il sistema che ci sarà dopo l’impero statunitense non sarà né un’egemonia gestita da un unico grande attore come la Cina o l’UE, né la globalizzazione gestita dalle TNC, ma un mondo di regioni. Potrebbe arrivare una moneta comune globale. Ma le regioni domineranno, il sistema statale sta svanendo.

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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.

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Turkey and Syria Both Want the US Military Out of Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Removing foreign troops from occupation can be done peacefully through diplomatic negotiations in which each side benefits.  Or, it can be achieved through violent attacks on the occupation forces in order to make them decide to leave on their own.

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WHO Declares Mpox Virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

14 Aug 2024 – The chief of the World Health Organization declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, following advice from members at today’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting.   

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The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

18 Aug 2024 – This article is a synopsis of some of Chomsky’s responses to questions, and it includes third-party supporting facts surrounding his statements about the two biggest risks to humanity’s continual existence.

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Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said today.

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(Italiano) Sudan. Un genocidio periferico che non interessa nessuno
Gianni Tognoni | Volere la Luna - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 ago 2024 – RSF era la milizia del genocidio, che è stata ribattezzata Janjawee, e finanziata dall’UE con milioni di euro, per fungere da lupi che proteggono i rifugiati africani dal raggiungere l’Europa cristiana bianca, dopo il genocidio del Sudan del Sud.

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Rethinking Conflict: The Cultural Approach
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Conflict is a complex human phenomenon and should by no means be confused with violence. Although conflicts may lead to violence, they are totally different conceptually. At the root of a conflict there is always an incompatibility, a contradiction, between goals.

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‘Another Day of Horror’: UN Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes at Gazan School
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

10 Aug 2024 – The UN Human Rights Office condemned today the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.

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Spying for the USA–And for Peace
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace.  Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.

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World-Ending Maneuvers?
Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

7 Aug 2024 – Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today – The Pentagon’s $2 trillion plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines, which benefits contractors such as Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.

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Experts Hail ICJ Declaration on Illegality of Israel’s Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “Historic”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Israel and other UN Member States must immediately comply with the authoritative determination by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, independent human rights experts said today.

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Gaza: Thousands on the Run again Following New Israeli Evacuation Order
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

8 Aug 2024 – Thousands of people in Gaza have been fleeing west toward Al Mawasi after the Israel military issued a new evacuation order today, UN humanitarian partners on the ground have reported.

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Israeli Military in Spotlight over ‘Incommunicado’ Detention, Torture of Palestinians
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – A new UN Report published today into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of Palestinians detained by the Israeli authorities since the genocide erupted in Gaza last October has documented a range of serious violations and torture.

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The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also Killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.

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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.

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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.

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After the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

The successor system to the US empire will be neither a hegemony run by one big actor like China or the EU, nor globalization run by the TNCs, but a world of regions. A global common currency may come but the regions will dominate as the state system is fading.

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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.

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Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by “heavy shooting” from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.

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Johan Galtung: Positive and Negative Peace
Baljit Grewal | School of Social Science, University of Auckland - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

In the present essay, the word peace is the central focus. It is often stated that the word peace is very often used and abused and that since it lacks an agreeable definition and difficult to conceptualise, it is unreal and utopian.

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Tribute to Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Jake Lynch | International Journal of Communication Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

A Personal Recollection – A tribute to one of the founders of peace journalism whose death in February 2024 went largely unnoticed by the Western corporate media.

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(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

16 Luglio 2024 – L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?

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Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Nicky Reid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts…

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To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble
Bill Hatch | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Jul 2024 – “Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones.”

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Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?
Walden Bello | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – The crisis of U.S. hegemony may lead to a deeper crisis or to opportunity. Like Ulysses, we cannot avoid the dangerous passage between Scylla and Charybdis to get to the promised safe harbor.

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UN Human Rights Report 2023
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

Foreword by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – As I reflect on 2023, a milestone anniversary year for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the impression remains of a year battered by multiple, intersecting crises, refusing to release their grip.

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(Italiano) Religioni: in tutte c’è una garbata saggezza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Le religioni sanno essere dure, e morbide e garbate, e ogni religione è tessuta di fili duri e morbidi, dove i fondamentalisti agiscono sui duri. Religare suona bene. Ma come?

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The End of Obama’s War on Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

8 Jul 2024 – Lesson to be learned from Syria: never participate in any U.S. [proxy] war abroad using terrorists as assets.

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