Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024 – The Nation Lost Time and Opportunities for Political Change
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(Castellano) Profesores e Investigadores del Ámbito de la Comunicación Lanzan un Manifiesto en el Que Reivindican Unos Medios de Comunicación al Servicio de la Paz
Presentado por Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
El contenido de dicho manifiesto urge a medios de comunicación y representantes políticos a cuidar las representaciones que se ofrecen de los conflictos y a dar pasos firmes para actualizar el sistema de medios en beneficio de su resolución pacífica y justa.
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Who’s the Real A$$hole?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…
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The TrueLove
David Whyte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially…
Burma’s Crumbling Junta
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Burma, now renamed Myanmar after 1988, faces two basic and related issues: the installation of a democratic government and a constitutional system which grants real autonomy to the minority peoples. There is little democratic tradition or ethos upon which to structure a democratic government.
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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
South Africa lodged an urgent complaint on Monday [12 Feb] at the ICJ against Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees, have been pushed by the Israeli military.
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Global Evils Today (Part 1): Media Mis-Reporting Bias Generates Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
“The War On Gaza has unearthed numerous anomalies of The System and His Master’s Voice, which has penetrated far and deeply. It even influences reputable Governments, Organisations, Institutes, and has a long lasting, profound influence on the slaves of The Master, globally. This Dark, Evil and Covert Force of The Master encourages the development of conformity consensus in order to further the aims and goals of The System in its eternal quest for world dominance in which the Slaves, ultimately, do not matter.”
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How the CIA Destabilizes the World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international or U.S. laws. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous.
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Pathetic State of Our World
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – We look around our world that is sinking in a spiral of violence and wonder why we humans cannot learn the way of peace, harmony, and coexistence. What are the main factors that lead to such a situation?
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China in Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.
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Dilemmas around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part Two)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – When conducting peacebuilding training workshops, facilitators/trainers often encounter ethical dilemmas. How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings?
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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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IDF Torture of Palestinian Prisoners Is Turned into Entertainment for Israeli Viewers
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – “They Brought Israeli Civilians to Watch Our Nude Torture”
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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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Some Wisdom…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
“Being strong does not mean that one never falls down–but that one always gets up again after falling down.”
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US Seizes Plane That Iran Sold to Venezuela–Imperialism at Its Best
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – The US claims Iran violated its sanctions when it sold the jumbo jet to Venezuela.
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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
→ read full articleMemorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.
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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security
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EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: ‘Stop Saying Please’ and Cut Off Arms to Israel
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – “If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Johan Galtung “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) 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 (over 170 books written in 60 years, +++). RIP
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Professors and Researchers in the Field of Communication Launch a Manifesto Calling for the Media to Serve Peace
Submitted by Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024 – The signatory associations call on the academic community, communication and journalism professionals, media, associations, institutions, and anyone who shares the principles and proposals of the initiative to join through the website where you can find the complete manifesto and a form to sign up.
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Taylor’s Mission
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Mission: Impossible
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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us, war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
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Nicaragua Formally Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – The government of Nicaragua has filed a formal application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel.
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Ram Ram
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
India is a nation of many religions and faiths. The largest is Hinduism or the Hindu faith. The second largest is Islam or the Muslim Faith. There are also other religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Baha’i faith, zorasterism, and other smaller faiths.
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BRICS, Backbone of Emerging Multipolar World, Lavrov Says
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – “Today BRICS is one of the “backbones” of the emerging multipolar world. We are doing our utmost to ensure that after its expansion the association further strengthens its position as a reliable and effective promoter of the interests of the World Majority.” — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India
Tatiana Bokova | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Feb 2024
The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Worng-Puc
Sramana Da-Hsiu Cheng-Nien | Sung Dynasty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The great Dhyana Master admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever. He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.
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With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – While pushing its tired narrative about Biden “losing patience,” the White House remains dedicated to Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Scientists Create Artificial Worm Gut That Breaks Down Plastic
Paige Bennett | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – News of plastic-eating enzymes and insects have been making headlines. Take, for example, fungi that digests plastic in coastal salt marshes, or the greater wax moth caterpillar that can live on polyethylene in its larval stage. However, scientists need to be able to breed them in large numbers.
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The Ukraine War Could Come to an Unexpected End
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – Even if there is still fighting at the front, recent developments in Ukraine would suggest that the war could end in a way that is completely unexpected in the West – with a Ukrainian-Russian agreement. It all has to do with the fact that the war may now be decided in Kiev rather than on the front line.
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Over 30 Countries Queue Up for BRICS Membership
Jai Hamid | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – This surge in interest reflects a growing disillusionment with traditional economic models and a collective quest for more equitable international relations.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 127: Growing International Alarm Over Israeli Plans to Invade Rafah
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
11 Feb 2024 – Israel has announced its intention to push ahead with its plans to invade Rafah in the southernmost Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering. Rafah’s mayor, Ahmed al-Sufi, warns any military action there would result in a “massacre”.
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Netanyahu’s War on Truth
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
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龍 年 吉 祥 – Auspicious Year of the Wood Dragon
Fred Dubee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – New Year’s greetings and warmest wishes for the Year of the Wood Dragon overflowing with harmony, good fortune and accomplishments. As the Lunar New Year commences today, this enchanting combination promises a year marked by growth, vitality and the blossoming of wisdom.
→ read full articleDilemmas Around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part One)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings? Such a research theme was explored in a workshop called “Workshop on Values, Ethics, and Trust in a Peacebuilding Network.”
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Grim Milestone: Over 100,000 Killed, Wounded, Missing in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – More than 100,000 Palestinians are either dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead in the besieged Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization has announced. This follows more than three months of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave.
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A “False Flag” Operation to Justify the Israel-U.S. Genocide of the People of Palestine
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – From the outset on October 7, 2023, “A Tissue of Lies” has served to justify the killings in the Gaza Strip of more than 30,000 civilians, of which 70% are women and children. The atrocities committed against the People of Palestine are beyond description. At the time of writing, at least 13,000 children have been killed.
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Gaza ‘Buffer Zone’ Possible War Crime: UN Human Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Israel’s reported attempt to create a “buffer zone” with Gaza could constitute a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned today.
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Pushing Gazans into Rafah and Then Attacking Rafah, Killing UNRWA Funding without Evidence
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – The IDF has been packing the population of Gaza into the southernmost part of the enclave like toothpaste toward the end of a tube, and now they’re going to attack that southernmost part, but it’s totally not genocide and you’re an evil Nazi if you say it is.
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Suzanne Hammad on Embedded Palestinian Resistance in Bil’in in West Bank: Rooted in Land and Home
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – I wanted to share a foreword that I wrote to an exceptional ethnographic study of everyday resistance by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, quite near Ramallah, based on the Suzanne Hammad three years of residence and informed observation.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Feb 2024
At least 28,064 people have been killed and 67,611 wounded in the Gaza Strip*
More than 380 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
(Italiano) La Politica Non Violenta Mondiale Oggi
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Sessanta anni fa il cammino storico dell’umanità ha incontrato la minaccia del suicidio nucleare; ma non ha saputo porre mano a questo male ultimo; e anche oggi vengono evitate le decisioni coraggiose su altri problemi simili, che nel frattempo sono sopraggiunti.
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Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties with Israel Arms Maker
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Itochu Corporation, a major Japanese industrial conglomerate, is cutting ties with Israeli arms maker Elbit, citing the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. Its aviation division will terminate the partnership by the end of February.
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Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Jim Naureckas | Fair Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
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Gaza and the Dilemmas of Genocide Scholars
Prof. Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself, as well as the very act of genocide prevention.
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Shocking Spike in Use of Unlawful Lethal Force by Israeli Forces against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out unlawful killings, including by using lethal force without necessity or disproportionately during protests and arrest raids, and denying medical assistance to those injured.
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The Staged Sarajevo “Marketplace Massacre” 30 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – 30 years ago today [5 Feb 1994], the first Sarajevo “marketplace massacre” occurred, a fully staged false-flag event using actors and bodies of recently fallen soldiers. One year later, the second staged “marketplace massacre” and the Srebrenica “genocide” psyop opened NATO’s Pandora Box with its first military intervention.
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‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners
Fayha’ Shalash | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
This is a difficult, but critical read. The collective hardship experienced by Gaza’s female prisoners in Israel is unprecedented even within the tragic history of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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Fredrik S. Heffermehl (1938-2023)
Peter van den Dungen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Norwegian member of TRANSCEND, peace activist and lawyer who waged a long campaign against the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not respecting the will of Alfred Nobel.
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Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin
Tucker Carlson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Moscow, Russia, 6 Feb 2024
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China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’ with 35% of Global Output
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production – more than the 9 next largest manufacturers combined.
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A Few for the Road
Country Living – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Just try to keep a straight face at these one-liners:
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
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Imagine a Falling Empire…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
“A falling tree makes more noise than a whole forest growing.”
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Pakistan: The Generals Plan Fraudulent National Elections
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Pakistan is in the midst of fraudulent national elections. Progressive nations produce new, educated and intelligent young people for progress in future-making. But Pakistanis are stuck to fight the old bags and few inept generals for their survival and future-making.
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Four Months of Gaza Onslaught
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – What is the bottom line after 4 months of onslaught following the initial October 7 Gaza Ghetto Uprising? Where are we?
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Words That Kill: How Western Spin Doctors Dehumanize Select Peoples to Justify War
Chay Bowes | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – With Israel’s punitive operation against Gaza in its fourth month, it’s impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality being applied to Israel. Carefully chosen words and turns of phrase serve as lubricant for US-backed military machines.
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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed.
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(Italiano) Perché il fascismo sta crescendo? Come possiamo fermarlo?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Febbraio 2024 – Per comprendere perché il fascismo sta crescendo attraverso l’emergere e la crescita dei partiti di estrema destra in tutto il mondo, e soprattutto in Europa, dobbiamo tornare indietro alla fine della Prima guerra mondiale e analizzare il corso turbolento della democrazia liberale da allora.
→ read full articleRed Sea Tensions Increase
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Tensions increase in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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11,500 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – Horror of This Scale Has No Explanation – No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up this horror. It would be best if Israel’s propaganda machine didn’t even try to.
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The Forgotten Bedouin Palestinian Herders
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Indigenous communities are being marginalized and face imminent extinction. This is the reality facing the Palestinian Bedouin Herders who have to confront the challenges of the 21st century upon their traditional lifestyle and also the Jewish settlers invading their lands for Israeli new settlements.
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The ICJ’s ‘Plausibility Test’ Undermines the Crime of Genocide
Sana Khan | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – The fact that the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case ordered an immediate cease-fire yet did not impose one in the Gaza conflict in the South Africa v. Israel case presents a quandary.
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NATO, Germany’s Role and the Russia-Ukraine War
Jenny Brömel | University for Peace (UN-Mandated) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
A Political Historical Analysis
First part: NATO, Germany in NATO and its emergence after WWII; reunification of Germany, today’s NATO, and the European security order.
Second part: Russia’s and Ukraine’s relations with NATO.
Conclusion: Today’s NATO vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war.
The World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
See Accompanying Editorial, 29 Jan 2024
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The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – The $61 billion will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the physical destruction of Ukraine.
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I Am just a Child from Gaza
Jayanta Guha - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
I don’t hear the birds singing
Except the whine
Of the drones
And the missiles
Coming at us in fury
The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence. This may seem like a truism…
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(Italiano) Donne, scienza e visioni del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Febbraio 2024 – “Le affermazioni scientifiche descrivono il mondo. E nel mondo là fuori ci sono i fatti, fenomeni che esistono indipendentemente da noi che decidiamo di studiarli. Lo scopo della scienza è di conoscere queste cose in sé, cercando di rendersi indipendenti da chi le studia e garantire così l’obiettività dell’impresa scientifica”.
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China Builds as the USA Bombs: This Study Proves It
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructures as the US promotes freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons. Remember George Orwell? “War is peace. Ignorance is strength.” Reality is easily turned upside down.
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Beautiful Relaxing Music (Music Video of the Week)
Healing Soul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Stop Overthinking, Relieve Stress, Dream…
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U.S. Chooses Genocide Over Diplomacy in the Middle East
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – The Expanding U.S.-Israeli Atrocities in the Middle East and Their Rejection of Diplomacy to End the Genocide in Gaza
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Rafah Escalation Fears – Gaza Massacre Unprecedented Death Rate
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – The unprecedented population density in Rafah in southern Gaza makes it nearly impossible to protect civilians in the event of ground attacks, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned today.
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Let Them Eat Dirt
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.
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Spiritual vs Materialist Theories of Science
Matthew Ehret and Marc Solar | Canadian Patriot Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – We discuss whether or not modern science allows for a spiritual/psycho-physical substrate guiding the whole, if there is meaning in the universe, and what the “right” way of thinking is.
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The Void
Ben Okri | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
I was talking to a builder
of bridges and asked
how he built the structure
that brings two warring elements
together. This was his answer.
Goa — Special Features
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Goa is located on the west coast of India. It is located south from Bombay on the west coast — the Arabian Sea and its distance from Bombay (Mumbai) by road is about 600 km.
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Winners and Losers
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
2 Feb 2024 – Spineless World Justice and Civil Society
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Can Vedic Dharma Bring Peace to the World?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
The spiritual principles in the Vedic tradition teaches us to embrace all human beings and all living entities of all species. It sets aside false pride, and the sense of superiority. This is our spiritual quality as the outcome of a noble life that knows no distinction of rich and poor, or the high and low. This is our ideal culture.
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Hamas Lost – Its Way Wins
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Let’s assume that the goals against Hamas–elimination of its military/governmental capacity and its leaders–will be achieved, then Israel’s refusal of peace will obligate the Palestinians to return to the path of Hamas, even if under a different name.
→ read full articleSpirituality and Conflict Work
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
The West has rejected religion under enlightenment-modernity-secularism, and is now experiencing some rebirth of religion. Spirituality then enters as an over-arching concept, building on elements in most religions and on secular values. World power now moves from a spiritually poor Occident to a richer Orient.
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Why Is Fascism Growing? How Can We Stop It?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Z – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
28 Jan 2024 – To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and analyze the turbulent course of liberal democracy since then.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel Kills More Than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ Ruling – U.S. Bombs Yemen
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024- Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near the Egyptian border, as an Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” from Gaza. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Casualties: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
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Fake Justice at The Hague: The ICJ “Appoints” Netanyahu to Prevent and Punish Those Responsible for Genocidal Acts
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – While the ICJ has rejected Israel’s attempt to dismiss South Africa’s assertions, the Judgment –which is full of contradictions– is ultimately supportive of the Likud government. Moreover, no ceasefire was declared by the ICJ with a view to saving lives.
→ read full articleIsrael Cannot Hide from the International Court of Justice
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
29 Jan 2024 – It is easy to be cynical about the international rule of law. When the ICJ declared that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, the U.S. State Department said, “We continue to believe that allegations of genocide are unfounded and note the court did not make a finding about genocide or call for a ceasefire in its ruling…”
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Wealth of Five Richest Men Doubles Since 2020 as Five Billion People Made Poorer in “Decade of Division,” Says Oxfam
OXFAM International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
15 Jan 2024 – * Fortunes of five richest men have shot up by 114 percent since 2020. *
* The world could have its first-ever trillionaire in a decade; it would take over two centuries to end poverty. *
* A billionaire is running or the principal shareholder of 7 out of 10 of the world’s biggest corporations.
Emergency London Conference to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Prof. Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
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Psychosocial Geometry and Dynamics of Collective Memory
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Coherent Configuration of Knowledge Through Architectural Metaphors
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(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Gennaio 2024 – La forza di questo forum è il suo focus sulle civiltà; usiamolo per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le forme più importanti di disordine usano la violenza; la guerra è violenza organizzata dallo stato. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, entrambi con radici di civiltà.
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Proposal to Award Johan Galtung the Freedom of Expression Foundation Honorary Award
Randi Rønning Balsvik, Magnus Haavelsrud and Nils Vidar Vambheim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
15 Dec 2023 – Letter to the Norwegian Foundation Freedom of Expression – It is no exaggeration to say that Johan Galtung started modern peace studies and contributed through tireless work for half a century to making this study a respected academic discipline
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‘False’, ‘Outrageous’, ‘Antisemitic’: ICJ Ruling Infuriates Israeli Officials
Defend Democract Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
26 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s commitment to international law is unwavering. Equally unwavering is our sacred commitment to continue to defend our country and defend our people,” Netanyahu said after the world’s top court ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.
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For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.
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NASA Goes Nuclear
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
30 Jan 2024 – Nuclear Industry Takes Control of NASA
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‘We Are Dying Slowly:’ Palestinians Are Eating Grass and Drinking Polluted Water as Famine Looms Across Gaza
Fadi Shana and Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient.
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After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Tanupriya Singh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
26 Jan 2024 – Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.
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Israeli Reserve Soldiers Refuse to Fight in Gaza
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
18 Jan 2024 – Half a brigade was released from duty after complaining of poor training and lack of weapons before deployment to Gaza.
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Act Now Against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People
Palestinian BDS National Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Below is a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!
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