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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.
→ read full articleIslam 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
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!
→ read full articleThe 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.”
→ read full articleUN 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.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full articleConflict 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.
→ read full articleAbout 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.
→ read full articleFreedom 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.
→ read full articleSpying 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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full articleHumanitarian 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”.
→ read full articleAfter 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.
→ read full articleGaza 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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Peace Shuttle: The Big Picture Behind ‘Viktor the Mediator’
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. It’s Unipolar Order vs. Multipolar, Multi-Nodal Order.
→ read full articleAbout Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts/humanities as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation–a thesis, a text, a painting-sculpture, a piece of music–when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
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Elections
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Cliché – Ring any bells?
→ read full articleGazans Reeling from Closed Hospitals, Malnutrition and Heat Risks, Warns UN Health Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an ever more deadly threat to a population under constant attack, UN humanitarians warned today.
→ read full articleGaza ‘Split in Two’ as Civilians, Humanitarians Reset Lives, Aid Efforts
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said yesterday.
→ read full articleReligions: There Is Gentle Wisdom in Them All
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Religion can be hard, and soft and gentle. Any religion is a tissue with hard and soft strands, where the fundamentalists are playing on the hard. Religare sounds fine. But how?
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God Bless Anglo America
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Joke? No Joke!!
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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…
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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
→ read full articleOccupied Palestinian Territory News and Update
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 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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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study
Alene Bouranova | Boston University Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
5 Jun 2024 – New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case – The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.
→ read full article(Italiano) Diritti umani come discorso oltre 60 anni dopo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
I diritti umani, incorporate nella costituzione francese del 1789 e riformulati come Dichiarazione Universale, sono un’importante conquista, prossima a una costituzione mondiale, pur non costituendo diritto internazionale, ma lo sono le Convenzioni – civil-politiche, economico-social-culturali del 16 dicembre 1966.
→ read full articleUpside Down World: Elections
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The Embarrassing 2024 US Empire Debate
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The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
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Unabated Efforts: Cambodia Continues Push to Help Resolve Myanmar Conflict
Hang Punreay | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – As the conflict in Myanmar continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the Foreign Affairs Ministry says Cambodia is committed to pushing for the implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point Consensus and the ability to hold talks with ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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UNSC Resolution Gaza Ceasefire 10 Jun 2024
UN Security Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Resolution 2735 (2024)
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Global Solidarity on Haiti’s Flag Day to Stop Foreign Intervention
Haiti Action Committee | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – May 18 marked Haitian Flag Day, commemorating the day in 1803 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and created the Haitian flag. Flag Day signifies Haitian sovereignty and commemorates ancestors who died fighting for freedom.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
How do Human Rights stand up as a discourse? Incorporated in the French constitution of 1789 and reformulated as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a major human achievement, close to a world constitution. It is not international law, but the Covenants of 16 Dec 1966 — civil-political, economic-social-cultural — are.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
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Sudan Internal Displacement Set to Top 10 Million as Famine Looms: IOM
UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The UN International Organization for Migration warns that the number of displaced inside Sudan could top 10 million in coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis escalates with famine and disease added to the havoc of violence.
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The French Connection: Knights of Malta, Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods (Part II)
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Zapata’s description of this criminal society that was known as the Compagnia della Garduna, was one of the earliest descriptions of this criminal brotherhood. More enduring than “the principality of Venice,” its traditional date of origin has been established by 19th century scholars as having begun in 1417.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocities, a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses? A sledgehammer for a toothache? Déjà vu.
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More Than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the atrocities in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 Oct, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said today.
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(Italiano) La mia visione per il Sudan
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Il mio compito al termine di questa conferenza davvero impressionante con 150 partecipanti qui a Hermannsburg nella Brughiera di Lüneburg è quello di sorvolare le scialbe, malriuscite attuazioni dei numerosi accordi di pace, riferirne le visioni e indicare le possibili soluzioni provate con successo altrove.
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Inspire to Action
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Keep staring…
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UN Experts Outraged by Israeli Strikes on Civilians Sheltering in Rafah Camps
UN Human Rights Commissioner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – Israeli air strikes on a camp for civilians in Rafah claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and elderly on Sunday 26 May. “Harrowing images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn apart and people burnt alive,” UN experts said.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Well known African proverb: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers, and, when elephants make love, the grass suffers even more.” You have two elephants let loose, the USA and China, both oil drunk. You have their drug. Some Sudan violence is a proxy war.
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