Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Peace Journalism
Christos Frangonikolopoulos and Naya Kalfeli | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
The term “peace journalism” was originally introduced in the 1960s by the Norwegian academic Johan Galtung, a pioneer in the study of news values, to describe the orientation of journalism focusing on the causes and possible solutions of a conflict, with the aim to improve the prospects for peace.
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The Power of Arts in Encountering Individual Unspoken Values within Peacebuilding
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
When we associate our values with the experiences of pain, grief, regret, guilt and trauma that we live with, many of us may try to find solace and catharsis (consciously or unconsciously) by working with others in similar contexts but without having an avenue to explore why we are doing this.
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Countries and Rivers
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
20 Jan 2024 – Most countries of the world have some important well known rivers flowing through them. Their capital cities are generally located on or very near some rivers.
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Leadership at the World Level
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
26 Jan 2024 – Given the armed conflicts such as Palestine-Israel and Russia-Ukraine, there is a widespread feeling that the UN Charter (1945) needs to be revitalized and renewed. To expand the rule of law and democratic institutions at the world level strong leadership is required.
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Biden Must Choose between a Ceasefire in Gaza and a Regional War
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – The stark choice facing Pres. Biden and U.S. decision-makers between a ceasefire in the Gaza genocide and a war where the Pentagon is engaged, after a ten-year period in which U.S. war-making has avoided putting “boots on the ground” thus creating an illusion of peace by relying on drone-bombing and proxy forces.
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Houthis Emerge as Latest Threat to U.S. Control Over Global Shipping
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
On 30 Dec 2023, a ship owned by Maersk Line came under missile attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, announced it was suspending operations in the sea indefinitely, joining major Western shipping and energy companies going away from the region.
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Who Are the Houthis and What Do They Want?
Ghaffar Hussain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
15 Jan 2024 – Who are the Houthis, where did they come from and what do they want? The Middle East is changing fast, new alliances are forming and old certainties are being tested. Power is shifting away from western allies and Yemen, like Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, is now moving into the Tehran-Moscow orbit of influence.
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The International Court of Justice Stops Short of Ordering Gaza Ceasefire to Stop Genocide
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
26 Jan 2024 – The ICJ ruled that Israel’s military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of Genocide Convention but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.
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A Unified Theory of Presidential Folly
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price.
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Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
In 2008, derivatives brought down investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer A.I.G. They could not fail because the trillions of dollars in credit default swaps would have been wiped out, forcing banks and financial institutions to write down their own risky and now “unhedged” loans. Bear and A.I.G. were bailed out; but the Treasury drew the line at Lehman Brothers, and the market crashed.
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Unbelievable: West Launches War on UNRWA
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 – War on Gaza Refugees: Following the US, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, UK and Finland have also decided to suspend funding to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.
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Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – Pay less attention to people’s words about wanting “peace” and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.
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Doomsday Clock Remains at 90 Seconds to Midnight
Sarah Starkey | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight, reflecting the unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emphasized that the Clock could be turned back, but governments and people needed to take urgent action.
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The Enduring Mystery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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Gaza and Germany’s Departure from Reason
[decoco] decolonial research group | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
22 Jan 2024 – In an open letter, 300 scholars from across the world condemn Germany’s role in silencing Palestinians and contributing to Israel’s genocide.
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War on Gaza: The International Court of Justice Delivers Judgment
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Looking beyond the Conflict, the ICJ Reflects on War and Its Consequences
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
Dear friends, it is the first time since 2008 that I miss two weeks in a roll. So, at the very least you deserve a truthful explanation. No drama intended.
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Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
11 Jan 2024 – Israel’s legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country’s ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence”.
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Guantanamo: An Enduring Stain
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
11 Jan 2024 – The infamous U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay turns 22 today. Then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chimed in, “To be in an eight-by-eight cell in beautiful, sunny Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is not inhumane.” Since then, 780 Muslim men and boys have been detained there; 30 still remain imprisoned today. The article also includes a list of books and films that I found very valuable.
→ read full articlePreventing the Expansion of the Gaza Conflict: Are Peace Brigades a Possibility?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
One possibility, developed by followers of Mahatma Gandhi in India to deal with Hindu-Muslim violence, is to place some nongovernmental teams on the frontier between antagonists in order to provide an opportunity for all parties to negotiate.
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(Italiano) L’energia ‘richiesta’ per il futuro: utopia o autodistruzione?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
10 Gennaio 2024 – La quantità di energia richiesta per i prossimi 30 anni è quasi inimmaginabile: dalle due alle quattro volte superiore a quella che usiamo oggi: qual è la soluzione, utopia o autodistruzione?
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There’s No Free Press without a Free Assange
David S. D’Amato | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
“The truth alone will make the people free. And for this reason, the truth must not be permitted to reach the people. The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly suppressed.” — Eugene V. Debs
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He Is a Liar and the Father of Lies
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
9 Jan 2024 – The Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon is a perfect representative example of Jesus’ words. – “a liar and father of lies.” To raise The Holy Bible to assert Jewish peoples’ right to Palestine is arrogantly offensive, insulting, abhorrent, and a shameless demonstration of hypocrisy, deception, and flagrant dishonesty.
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A Holistic Analysis of Apartheid and Related Ideologies as a Universal Peace Disruptor
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
Under Apartheid Regimes and Ideologies, globally, animals are allocated a higher social status than people of colour and the discriminated. In pre-liberation South Africa, Blacks were treated like animals, with no value for their lives. Presently, a worse status is bestowed upon the Palestinians by the Zionist Israelis.
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(Italiano) Memoria di Rodolfo Venditti (+ 4 gennaio 2024)
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
8 gennaio 2024 – Vicino ai cento anni, è morto a Torino il 4 gennaio Rodolfo Venditti, maestro di fine cultura per molti di noi, per tanti anni. Ricordiamo la sua viva serena fede, che animava la serietà del suo servizio nella società.
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How NATO Paved the Way to the War in Ukraine Doing Nothing to Prevent It
Leo Ensel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
13 Jan 2024 – Exactly two years ago, Russia formulated its security interests in letters to NATO S.G. Stoltenberg and to Pres. Biden in no uncertain terms. The West’s reaction: no response! Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have been prevented if the West had negotiated.
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The Barbaric Conduct of the Israeli State Must Be Stopped
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
14 Jan 2024 – The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state and must be treated as such by the international community.
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All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
Petra Molnar | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
19 Dec 2023 – Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation’s impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization, challenging preconceptions and raising questions about freedom and oppression.
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Useful Quotes Resisting Corporate, Congressional, Police State, Judicial, or Oval Office Tyranny
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – When Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington-DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
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Pyar Karne Wale Pyar Karte Hain Shan Se (Music Video of the Week)
Asha Bhosle | Desi Music Library – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
Enjoy the hit song from the Hindi movie Shaan vibrantly portrayed by Bollywood actors.
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The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’
Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.
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Inside Israel’s Torture Camp for Gaza Detainees
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
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How Israel Failed to Learn from the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Colin John Irwin | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – There is no peace in the Middle East because there is no effective peace process. The Good Friday agreement which brought peace to Northern Ireland a quarter of a century ago, provided a clear guide. The parties have to do what the negotiating teams, of which I was a part, did in Northern Ireland.
→ read full articleSquirrels and Other Animals
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
A squirrel is a common animal that can easily climb vertically on trees. I often see this 1 foot long yellowish green creature near my home climbing or jumping from one branch of a tree to another.
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Palestinians, Submit Your Case to the International Criminal Court
Justice for All – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
January 2024 – The ICC has opened a digital platform to enable submission of complaints online with the option of adding pictures and videos showing the crimes of Israel. Information submitted under this portal should relate to alleged crimes within the jurisdiction of the ICC:
War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, Aggression
Notice from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
Dear friends, unfortunately this week our TMS Weekly Digest is seriously lacking. Last week I was taken to the Emergency Room twice—and am getting ready to go back again shortly—due to an aggravation of the scoliosis on my column. Due to inflammation, pain killers don’t work. I pray and hope to get better. With a heavy heart, I count on your understanding. (pls read on)
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 93: Israel Surpasses Three Months of Gaza Bombing Campaign, UN Warns of Starvation
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service ,
8 Jan 2024
7 Jan 2024 – Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank in overnight raids. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Yunis.
22,835+ killed and 58,416+ wounded in the Gaza Strip.
South Africa Emerges as Moral Giant on Gaza
John Wight - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Pretoria is challenging the Israeli government’s claim to innocence, which for far too long has allowed it to act with impunity against the long-suffering Palestinians.
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Just War Theory as an Inspiration for “Just AI Theory”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – In Quest of a Robust Ethical Framework for AI Aided by ChatGPT – Just AI theory and Just suffering theory?
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(Castellano) John Pilger Obituario (9 oct 1939 – 30 dic 2023): Periodismo Comprometido y Valiente
Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
El reportero australiano, que cubrió las guerras de Vietnam, Camboya, Timor Oriental e Irak, falleció el 30 de diciembre 2023 a los 84 años. Chomsky le definió como “un faro de luz en tiempos a menudo oscuros”. [Descanse en paz]
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When You Sit in a “Digital Car” You Consent to Being Recorded and Your Personal Data Sold
Joanne Nova - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – The Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations, your face, and sell the data to the highest bidder. An AI will identify your voice and your face from the cameras. Anything you say in the public broadcasting world of private cars will belong to them, even if you are a passenger and were never asked.
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The US Can’t Stop China’s Rise, but It Will Cripple the EU while Trying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Washington’s desperate attempts to curb Beijing’s high-tech development are hurting U.S. allies more than the Chinese.
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The Genesis and Psychotype of Brutal and Gruesome Peace Disruptors
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
“In the present malicious, toxic global environment, the future trees of humanity will grow to lead the future with further agony and no ecstasy; deformed tress will produce deformed fruits for generations to come, and monsters will breed monsters without fail, globally.”
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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.
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On Rights and Other Myths
Latuff Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Think about it.
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Genocide in Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer | John’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Important document that should be circulated and read by anyone interested in the Gaza atrocities: the 84-page “application” South Africa filed with the ICJ on 29 Dec 2023 accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
→ read full articleWill the American Psychological Association Ever Join the Ceasefire Call?
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – The shocking numbers of Palestinian civilians, many of them children, subjected to death, displacement, disease, starvation, and more—grow larger every day. Calls for a humanitarian ceasefire still can’t be heard in the APA, which failed to oppose the abuse of U.S. war-on-terror prisoners and the involvement of psychologists in that abuse.
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Kristina Borjesson Broke the Truth about TWA 800: Exiled from CBS and the Profession Because of It – RIP
Celia Farber | The Truth Barrier - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
30 Dec 2023 – It was just as in Orwell’s 1984, an Immediate Rewriting of History Occurred–U.S. Journalism Lost a Giant
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They’re Calling Ethnic Cleansing “Voluntary Migration” Now
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – Violently coercing someone into doing something and ensuring that they’ll die if they don’t do it is the exact opposite of what the word “voluntary” means… Hamas is not the target in Gaza. Hamas is just the excuse.
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2024
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University wish you all the best in 2024 and that this year brings an end to the genocide/carnage of our people and to suffering people everywhere (Palestine, Western Sahara, Rohingya in Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen).
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For Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – In a world torn by the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and threatened by the Bidens, Putins and Netanyahus, we must not forget the slow, patient work of those who cultivate peace.
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A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
Marjorie Hecht | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Behavioral and cultural traits define human evolution; brain size, climate, and new technologies cannot explain the overall process. Hyperprosociality provides a comprehensive explanation. H. sapiens is the only species that has high levels of cooperation with those who are not related.
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A Condolence Message on the Passing of Dr. Betty A. Reardon
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
I shocked to hear the news of passing of Dr. Betty A. Reardon on November 3, 2023 at the age of more than 94 years. She was born on June 12, 1929. She was one of the founders of Peace Education.
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A Hindu Perspective on Ambition and Unsatiated Lust
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above-mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort more and more increased. That is the law of material nature.
→ read full articleThe T.T.C.U.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Cinematic Universe
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jan 2024
Avoiding a Broader Middle East War – Building Bridges for Peace in Palestine-Israel
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – While wars continue in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, we discuss whether and how bloodshed and killing can be stopped.
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Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” said a Turkish spokesperson.
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Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern: The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury
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(Français) Pour les Ministeres et Infrastructures de Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 janvier 2024 – Dans un monde déchiré par les guerres en Ukraine et en Palestine, et menacé par les Biden, Poutine et Netanyahu, nous ne devons pas oublier le travail lent et patient de ceux qui cultivent la paix.
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Family of Israeli Woman in NYT Oct 7 Sexual Violence Renounces Story, Says Reporters Manipulated Them
The Short String | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – A New York Times story claiming a pattern of Hamas’ gender-based violence on Oct 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush, but her family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
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Saving Israel by Ending Its War in Gaza
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – The Israeli government argues that it is in a mortal fight for survival against Hamas, and therefore must take every measure, including the very destruction of Gaza, to survive. This is false.
→ read full articleSome Perspectives on Veterans of Current Wars
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
These are not clear-cut good wars of Good against Evil. The goals of USA-West, beyond suppressing “insurrection”, include revenge, paranoia, economic interests, getting bases for future wars far from “good”. The goals of an enemy defined by US-West as Evil, are often badly understood or not at all.
→ read full articleMandela, King, Malcolm X – and Jesus: Black Liberation Activists Who Are Safely Dead – and Widely Ignored
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Dead men make such convenient heroes.
They cannot rise to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.
The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
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Gaza: South Africa Seeks Justice
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – JUST commends South Africa for requesting the ICJ to issue an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Geneva Convention for its massive slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza.
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Zelensky’s Former Top Adviser Wants Kiev to Ally with Moscow against the West – What Exactly Is Going On?
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Aleksey Arestovich’s latest idea is that the two warring countries should sue the US-led bloc together.
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Beyond Hypocrisy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Every resolution, I guess, has its exemptions. Hence, the irresistible impulse to draw attention to a singular example of lying by omission committed by the usual suspects.
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Successful!
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Which is the best? Why?
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U.S.-Israel’s War on Gaza a Prelude to Conquest of the Arab World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Looking Beyond the Lens of Reason and Political Expediency
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As China-Russia Economic and Diplomatic Ties Advance, Their Cultural Bond Flourishes with Ballet, Theatre and Music
South China Morning Post | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – As the Russian musical Anna Karenina is set to be staged in Shanghai and Beijing this month, theatre director Alina Chevik hopes to see how it can connect the two peoples at a time when Russian artists have been shunned in Western markets.
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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
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The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
Matthew Ehret | Rising Tide Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – I would like to go a little deeper into the history that shapes our age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria and at some remarkable and unknown examples of inter-religious collaboration.
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War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
President Biden and Secretary Blinken Never Lie but Say Things Differently
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
Written by John Lennon | Worthwhile Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Performed by 49 Musicians from 40 Countries
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Understanding Power Dynamics and Moving Beyond Divisions: COVID-19 through to Ukraine and Palestine/Israel
Vanessa Beeley and Piers Robinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – Connecting the dots of COVID, Ukraine and Gaza–three cataclysmic events that rocked the world since 2020. Deception and domination by Western global elites. We fail to withstand divide and conquer tactics, remaining stuck in the left-right paradigm.
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In Gaza Genocide, US Defends Israel’s ‘Aura of Power’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – As South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in The Hague, the Biden administration endorses Israel’s bid to sow “fear” in Gaza’s defenseless civilians.
→ read full articleAcquiring Kindness and Simplicity in People
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
The world today allows people to interact with each other through different means. People meet each other through Internet — in particular through WhatsApp, email or telephone.
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A Shift Against Impunity for Genocide
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – Officials who supplied, incited or cheered on Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza face legal actions with South Africa’s reference to the International Court of Justice. In the UK, Sunak, Cleverly and Shapps could be in the Old Bailey dock for genocide.
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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.
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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 86: Israel Falls in ‘Serious Strategic Trap’ in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight ‘for Months’
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
31 Dec 2023:
• 21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.
• 316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.
‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story
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Why the U.S. Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow?
Noam Chomsky | Free Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Noam Chomsky on Israel
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Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities, sanitation, access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation and epidemics turn Gaza into a mortuary.
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Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – Palestinian resistance factions held a meeting in Beirut to discuss the ongoing Zionist aggression on our land, people and holy sites, especially in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Al-Quds, with the following results.
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Agony of the Past and Ecstasy of the Future: War or Peace, Welcome 2024
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
“The Search for the Elusive Peace is striving with patient persistence and perseverance, coupled with realistic agony and expectant ecstasy. This is indeed the hallmark of the righteous humanity, in its efforts to achieve global, sustainable peace, in the 21st century.”
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Nearly Two Million Crowd Into Gaza’s South as Israeli Airstrikes Continue
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – Gemma Connell of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said what she had seen at the Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza yesterday was “absolute carnage”. Many severely injured people could not be treated because the hospital was “absolutely overloaded”, she said.
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Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide. The General Assembly also has an option left.
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Stunning Atrocities in Gaza Funded by US Taxpayers
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – The US Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax.” The atrocities are being recorded by drones and by brave Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israeli army. Over 66 journalists have been slain by the IDF so far in Palestine.
→ read full article37 Global 2024 Predictions
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
I do not pretend my predictions are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are intuitive and hypothetical, based on my knowledge and experience on international affairs over more than four decades. You may say they grow out of a Wright Mills-like sociological – and peace research – imagination.
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Meet the Companies Profiting from Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
20 Dec 2023 – As global resistance to war and apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible.
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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
24 Dec 2023 – Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. This war must end,” said the head of the UN agency where one of the victims worked.
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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.
→ read full articleHow the Hell Did We Get Here?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
27 Dec 2023 – Caitlin reminds us what a more mature human family could look like. We’re killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it’s antisemitic to oppose an active genocide.
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We Are All Palestinian (Music Video of the Week)
Mistahi Corkill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Dec 2023 – This song goes out to all human beings worldwide who support the historical just cause for a free Palestine.
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US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – In the past 20 years, every US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq is dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned by Russia in 2023 as the US secretly scuttles a peace agreement Russia-Ukraine in 2022.
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In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation with Israel
David Ignatius | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
16 Dec 2023 – For three days this past week, I traveled the West Bank from Hebron in the south to Nablus in the north. What I saw was a pattern of Israeli abuse that makes daily life a humiliation for many Palestinians — and could obstruct the peaceful future that Israelis and Palestinians both say they want.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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