Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Let’s Stop Dehumanizing the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – We — by which I mean most of humanity — are still playing with the so-called “just war theory,” the intellectual justification for war dating back to St. Augustine and the early centuries of the Common Era.
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The World Has Never Cared about Gaza’s Suffering
Ahmed Nehad | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – Gaza is being obliterated, and no global power is doing anything to stop it.
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Guernica, Revisited
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Palestine
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Nikola Tesla’s “Lost” Interview: “Visualization Is the Secret”
Be Inspired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
25 Sep 2023 – The ideas expressed were so revolutionary that its contents were covered up and hidden for decades.
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Names Released of 7,028 Palestinians Killed after Biden Questions Death Toll
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – Health ministry says US administration ‘devoid of human standards and morals’ for ‘shamelessly’ questioning validity of figures.
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Simulating the Israel-Palestine Conflict as a Strategy Game
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Experimental Use of ChatGPT to Develop a Realistic Game
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 20: Human Rights Group Warns Israel Is ‘Using Starvation as a Weapon of War’ in Gaza
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – As Israel’s Gaza assault enters day 20, food, clean water, and fuel are running out. Oxfam warns “millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.”
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Letter to Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Dear fellow Palestinians, many of us were addressing the world but did not address you. We know 1.2 million of you are children and that Israeli campaign displaced 1.4 million of you from your homes (half are children). We can’t imagine the terror all 2.4 million of you face. I am not sure if some of you who still have internet will see this.
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The Day UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Becomes Relevant Israel Calls for His Resignation
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The relevance of a UN Secretary-General depends on his degree of controversy. Dag Hammarskjöld was murdered over his intervention in Congo, 1961. The big powers like to render such figures impotent, if not insignificant. Thus, it was refreshing to hear the current UNSG speak truth to the powers that be. BRAVO!!
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Women as Peacebuilders
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
As UNSG Antonio Guterres wrote in his 2023 Report on Women, Peace, and Security, “Despite our best efforts, women represented just sixteen percent of negotiators or delegates in the peace processes led, or co-led, by the United Nations.” Such as Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, and Myanmar.
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A few FACTS about Gaza
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Below are some facts about Gaza to evaluate whether Guterres was accurate or not in his address to the UNSC.
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Israel: What Really Happened on 7th October?
Sharmine Narwani and Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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They Let Humanitarian Aid in and Then Bombed It So That Gaza Would Starve
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it after all the flour was unloaded.
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Can You Believe They Attacked Us?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Animals!!
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Humanity Is Being Destroyed by Madness of War and Inept Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
The wars between Russia , Ukraine and NATO, and between Israel and Palestine overshadowing the citizens of the world feeling incapacitated and dehumanized to share a sense of helplessness and wonder how to save humanity from the imperial-led war racketeering.
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Dear Dove
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – What Is Going On
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A Divided European Union Can’t Even Agree on Need for Ceasefire in Israeli Aggression against Gaza
Marc Martorell Junyent | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – The European Union’s initial response to the Israel-Gaza atrocities has been chaotic. Shortly after the Hamas attack in Israel, the European Commission announced the suspension of “all payments” to the Palestinians. The EU is the biggest donor of aid to Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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Rights Lawyers Release Legal Analysis of U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Center for Constitutional Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – According to the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Emergency Briefing Paper, there is a credible case, based on powerful evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit or committing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, and specifically in the Gaza Strip.
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Universal Peace Education for Justice and Peace, Prevention and Remedy of War
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Peace is more complicated than war because peace is tried to achieve through war.
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The Religious Transformative Odyssey of Bharat (Part 3): Islamophobia against the Muslim Minority in India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India is analogous to Apartheid nationalism in pre-1994 South Africa and Zionist nationalism in Israel for over 75 years.
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UN Chief Says ‘Clear Violations of International Humanitarian Law’ in Gaza–Israel Demands His Head
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – Speaking before the UNSC today, Guterres said that, “It is important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” Guterres’ comments drew ire from Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan who demands his resignation.
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“Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves
Felicity Arbuthnot and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Netanyahu’s 2023 declaration of war against 2.3 million people of the Gaza Strip is a continuation of its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead.” The objective is the military occupation of Gaza and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. However, the ultimate objective consists in confiscating the multi-billion-dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves.
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Catering for All
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
India is now a member of the top five economies of the world. It is trying to double its efforts so that it can become part of the top three economies of the world.
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Germany Bans Public Grieving and Solidarity with Palestine
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with roughly 80,000. Its criminalization of solidarity with Palestine has taken on entirely new dimensions since October 7.
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Exterminate All the Brutes
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – All settler colonial projects, including Israel, reach a point when they embrace wholesale slaughter and genocide to eradicate a native population that refuses to capitulate.
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UN Registers Record 114 Million Displaced People Worldwide
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – The report does not include the more than 1.4 million Palestinians displaced since the start of the escalation between Israel and Hamas.
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Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
In fact, the capitalism-versus-socialism contest does not really resume because it never really stopped. As changing social conditions changed socialism—a process that took time—it sometimes seemed to wishful thinkers that the systems struggle had ended with capitalism’s victory.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
After spending a year of military service guarding the Brazilian President in Brasilia, he was arrested and tortured by agents of the 1964 coup d’état regime who suspected him of being a Communist based on a membership card to the Brazil-Russia Cultural Union. The 20-year-old had joined to learn how to play chess… Antonio told me he felt rage, powerlessness and the urge for revenge… But he found another way.
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Behind All Those Bloody Incidents: From Kosovo to Afghanistan to Iraq to Gaza
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
A Historical Timeline
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Joe Biden’s Armageddon, from Gaza to Ukraine
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – The White House newly prioritizes hegemony over humanity.
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The Future of TRANSCEND
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
30 Oct 2023 – It is high time to plan for the future of TRANSCEND. Johan just turned 93. A few weeks ago, Antonio C. S. Rosa, Marilyn Langlois and I spent precious time together in Portugal where Antonio lives. There is minimal awareness and understanding of the field of “conflict resolution.” Here are some ideas.
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Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress
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30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – In 2019, GPT-2 could not reliably count to ten. Only four years later, deep learning systems can write software, generate photorealistic scenes, advise on intellectual topics, and combine language and image processing to steer robots. In this short consensus paper, we outline risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. We examine large-scale social harms and malicious uses.
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White House Says Continued Civilian Slaughter “Is Going to Happen” in Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press on Tuesday [24 Oct] that the continued killing of civilians in Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza “is going to happen”.
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Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza Must End
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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It’s a Little Bit Bomby in Gaza Today
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
It’s a little bit bomby in Gaza today,
at least that’s what the news men say.
(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio di Israele a Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Gli USA e Israele sono nati allo stesso modo, come popolo eletto di Dio con tanto di terre promesse, ricorrendo al sociocidio e al genocidio (gli USA). Senza cambiar politica possono declinare e cadere anche allo stesso modo. E magari presto.
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Israel’s Ambassador Calls for UN Chief to Resign after Comments about Gaza Massacre
SBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan: “I think that the Secretary General must resign.” He was referring to Guterres’ speech to the UNSC yesterday, when he said it was ‘important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum’ and that the Palestinian people had been ‘subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.’
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The Final Scene
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The USA–its vassal train in tow–is committing moral suicide in Palestine. The political consequences will be profound, and as enduring as the complete discrediting of the country’s standing as a positive presence in world affairs.
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(Italiano) Palestina e Israele: come sarebbe la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Le visioni/intuizioni di Galtung son quanto mai rilevanti oggi in vista della pulizia ernica degli abitanti di Gaza da parte IDF, debitamente disinfettata, banalizzata, normalizzata dalle narrazioni dei telegiornali mondiali. Il riferimento a Hamas del presidente Biden come ‘l’altra squadra’ rivela le loro mentalità: si tratta di una partita, non una faccenda di vita e di morte per i 2 milioni d’abitanti di Gaza massacrati mentre ne parliamo. È tragico che le guerre vincano le elezioni nelle (cosiddette) democrazie dell’Occidente.
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Whiter Shades of Pale (Music Video of the Week)
Bevox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Exquisite!!
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Confessions of a Think Tank Junkie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Expanding on Caitlin Johnstone’s Brilliant Analysis
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
30 Oct – 5 Nov 2023
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Richmond, California Becomes First U.S. City to Declare Support for Palestinians Amid Israel-Gaza Massacre
Katie Lauer | The Mercury News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Nearly five hours of public testimony preceded the 5-1 vote yesterday night.
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We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
NO Joke
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Karma of the Nation
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
We must remember that karma is actually a law of physics. Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale it is also a natural law, only it is called the law of karma. Individuals acquire karma as a result of their good or bad activities.
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(Português) A Desumanidade Atual: Perdeu-se a Humanidade do Ser Humano?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 out 2023 – Nietzsche repetiu muitas vezes que o desumano pertence também ao humano dado a nossa condição humana ser simultaneamente racional e irracional, caótica e harmoniosa. O que as maiorias da humanidade desejam desesperadamente é um mundo onde todos possam caber em paz, com o suficiente e o decente para todos, na mesma Casa Comum, agora em guerra e sob o fogo.
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All of Palestine Is under Attack
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine the scale of death and destruction in Gaza. Let us be clear: This is genocide. This isn’t a war on Hamas. It’s a war on the Palestinian people.
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The Lights Are Off – Here’s What We Know about Life and Death Inside Gaza
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – In a chilling interview on this week’s “Deconstructed,” Ryan Grim speaks with Maram Al-Dada, who has been in regular touch with his family in Gaza as they’ve been killed one after the other.
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Igniting a Peace Fire, Even as War Rages
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Here’s some advice about parenting: Write your child’s name on his or her leg or stomach, so that when your building is bombed, the child can be identified from the rubble. Mothers in southern Gaza are doing this now.
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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.
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Israeli Airstrike on Gaza City Hospital Kills at Least 500 People
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – An Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has killed more than 500 people. “This is genocide. This is a war crime,” a Red Crescent Society representative said.
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The Roots of Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Israel has always chosen occupation and supremacy over peace and security.
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Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.
→ read full articleAs Israel Levels Gaza, the U.S. Media Fuels the Fire
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – As Israel intensifies its brutal response to Hamas’ 7 Oct attacks, it is important to hear from those at the target end of the weapons – from both sides of the conflict. The mainstream media in the US consistently brings us only the voices of Israelis who have suffered violence.
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Optimistic Day 16
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023 – I remain optimistic on day 16 of the horrific onslaught on the people of Gaza; optimistic that we can stop large scale US/Israeli genocide in Gaza. But most of all I am optimistic because the Zionist onslaught (targeting hospitals, schools, universities, bakeries, residential buildings, mosques, churches, wiping out whole families) has ignited the global uprising that I and others have been calling for and predicting for a long time.
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Europe’s Largest News Aggregator Orders Editors to Play Down Palestinian Deaths
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Upday, an app owned by the German media giants Axel Springer, is instructing journalists to cover the war in Gaza with a pro-Israel bent as Israeli bombing raids virtually eliminated internet access in the Gaza Strip.
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US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – The US vetoed today a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave.
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Western Media’s Parroting of Official Lies Is Paving Way to Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – How did we get to the point where Israel can order half of Gaza’s population – more than one million people – to move from the north of their tiny prison to the south of their tiny prison? Catastrophe looms because journalists have failed to hold both Israel and their own governments to account.
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Saving Israel and Palestine through the United Nations
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Following Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians, Israeli military strategists are threatening the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This would be another Nakba, akin to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. If Israel commits war crimes in Gaza in the face of global calls for restraint, Israel would put its fundamental national security at risk.
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Palestine/Israel: A Textbook Case of Genocide
Raz Segal | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans and expel them into Egypt is another chapter in the Nakba where 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes for the creation of the State of Israel. The assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide.
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Gaza in the Interest of Humanity: “Stop This Insanity!”
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The Israeli government is committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. They are breaking international law, which prohibits the collective punishment of civilian populations. For peace, an immediate ceasefire, dialogue and negotiations in Gaza!
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – NO Joke
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The Truth about Gaza
Norman Finkelstein | The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Here’s What You Need to Know about Gaza’s History
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – As the Israeli-Hamas conflict intensifies, the situation looks as if it were on a downward spiral. There seems to be little possibility for mediation, but we must keep our eyes open as the non-governmental avenue may be the most likely for progress.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
History Offers Lessons for Change, Human Equality and Peacemaking – We, the People of globe, ask the global conscientious leaders to avoid the upcoming epicenter of cataclysm and listen to voices of reason for an immediate ceasefire.
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Instagram/Facebook Censored Image of Gaza Hospital Bombing, Claims It’s Too Sexual
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – In responses to users who tried to post pictures of the Gaza hospital bombing, Instagram and Facebook said they violated guidelines for sexual content or nudity.
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A Blow to the Strategy of Power
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Fifty years after the surprise of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel has once again been taken by surprise. Israel’s fundamental security conception – based solely on its military superiority vis-à-vis its enemies – has received a crushing blow. Peace is essential to our ability to survive in the Middle East.
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What Must Be Said
Gunter Grass, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
The Nobel Laureate’s controversial poem about Israel may have lacked elegance, but it was also a dire warning about war with Iran that has irritated, provoked and outraged people everywhere.
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G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles.
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Israel’s Culture of Deceit
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
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Dr. Gabor Maté on Israel and Palestine: A Must-Watch Discussion
Dr. Gabor Maté - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Dr. Gabor Maté, a famous psychologist and author, goes deeply into the complex and long-standing Israel/Palestine issue and provides a unique viewpoint on this important global issue for you to be informed, enlightened, and inspired.
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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story.
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Nonviolence Is the Missing Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Ali Abu Awwad | Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – I’m a Palestinian nonviolence leader for my people’s freedom and I will never be a victim of the Israeli occupation or a prisoner of hate.
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The Mask Is Off: Gaza Has Exposed the Hypocrisy of International Law
Wesam Ahmad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The mask that has long obscured the true nature and purpose of “international law” is finally off. The sinister truth: international justice is used as a tool to advance imperial interests, and not justice.
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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the crime of genocide by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, but the gravity of the current situation demands it. 791 Signatories
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Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire Are Keys to Universal History
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
I would like to go a little deeper into the longer wave of history shaping our presently confused age by taking a look at the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria (8-11th century CE).
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Let Them Eat Cement
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023 – Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. The U.S. and its Western allies are as morally bankrupt and as complicit in genocide as those who witnessed the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and did nothing.
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Atrocity Propaganda
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – Israel and its supporters in the West are helping to provide psychological cover for an ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians.
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Israel and the Weaponization of Empathy
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Selective empathy is not empathetic at all.
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Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations because the UN Charter is wrong. The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.
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Stunning US State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk
Akbar Shahid Ahmed | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, in messages circulated today US State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm,” according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.
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Former Ambassador and Assange Advocate Craig Murray Detained under UK Terror Laws
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs.
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Bare Bones
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestine Israel
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (170 books written in 60 years, +++).
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Struggles for a Just Multipolar World: Obstacles and Opportunities
Prof. Joseph A. Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and I, in an attempt to constructively react to a changing international landscape, invite you to a conversation with four leading thinkers from China, Iran, Russia and the United States on Sunday, 29 Oct 2023. Please see flyer enclosed for full details.
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Israel Either/Or, or Not
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
In the USA, a Fox poll asked, “In Middle East conflict, who do you side with more—Israelis or Palestinians?” ‘Side with’ means to have an opinion on who is in the right. Either Palestinians are right to strike against a repressive settler state, or Israelis are right to repress dangerous Palestinians. Pick one.
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The US/NATO/EU World Now Accepts Defence through Genocide
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
21 Oct 2023 – In civilisational terms war is a backward, primitive thing that solves no conflicts and creates no security. It’s a system of structural evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is the black-and-white, simplified narrative that there is only one evil party: Gazans/Hamas.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Johan Galtung’s insights are crucially relevant today in view of the ethnic cleansing of Gazans by the IDF—duly sanitized, trivialized, normalized by TV News Media narratives. Pres. Biden’s reference to Hamas as ‘the other team’ reveals their mindsets: it’s a game, not a matter of life and death for the 2 million being massacred as we speak. It is tragic that wars win elections in the (so called) democracies of the West.
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‘Al-Aqsa Flood Operation’ Day 13: Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Stalls as Israel Renews Airstrikes
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.
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Reporters without Borders Launches Global ‘Collateral Damage’ Campaign
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – Developed in partnership with the French advertising agency BETC, the campaign depicts Assange with his facial features made up of the logos of media organisations that initially ran stories based on WikiLeaks in 2010.
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Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics
Karuna Mantena | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Abstract: The contemporary literature on nonviolent politics relies upon a sharp distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence. Gandhi and King are associated with the latter, defined as a strict moral commitment to nonviolence that both scholars and activists view as unnecessary for the successful practice of nonviolent politics. I argue the distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence is misleading.
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Damning Evidence of War Crimes as Israeli Attacks Wipe out Entire Families in Gaza
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023 – As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as war crimes.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
In India and several Southern countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and several countries of South Africa and South America, women generally face discrimination and get less regard and recognition in comparison to men.
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Teachers for the United Nations and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Dedicated to the United Nations Day, 24 October
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The Religious Transformative Odyssey of Bharat (Part 2): Manipur
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Propagation of Hindu Nationalism with Destruction of Democracy and Systematic Erosion of Human Rights
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White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023 – Today, the Biden administration rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. White House officials say over $50 billion will go to US weapons manufacturers.
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How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right than understand — the situation, the context, the motives and vulnerabilities behind the actions, the basic fact of the other.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 93rd birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOHAN!
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
23-29 October 2023
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(Italiano) Questione arabo-ebraica in Palestina
M. K. Gandhi | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Un articolo che Gandhi scrisse per il giornale «The Harijan» e pubblicato il 26 novembre 1938, quanto mai attuale in questi giorni e quanto mai non compreso, allora, purtroppo.
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