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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 3: Israeli Defense Minister Orders Full Siege of Gaza “No Power, No Food, No Gas”
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau | TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Fighting between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas in Gaza, continued into their third day today, as Israel declared a complete siege of Gaza.
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The Religious Transformative Odyssey of Bharat (Part 1): Nationalism or Democracy
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
“The Government of Bharitiya Janata Party, in India, is practicing Islamic cleansing and Hindu Nationalism under the guise of a pseudo-democracy on 1.3 billion citizenry resulting in significant Peace Disruption.”
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CNN Interview Cuts Through Pro-Israel Propaganda on Gaza
Fareed Zakaria | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Barghouti argues that Hamas’ attack on Israel was a response to the Israeli occupation, and that Palestinians, like Ukrainians, are fighting for their freedom.
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Hell Is Not Predestined
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – Humanity’s cancer in Israel and Palestine: Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands die, many of them (oh God, of course) children. Israeli Defense Minister declares: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. . . . We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza; no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything will be closed.”
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European Leaders Pledge Support for Israel, Condemn Hamas and Halt Palestinian Aid
Fatima Al-Kassab | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Landmark buildings around Europe, including 10 Downing Street in London and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, have lit up with the Israeli flag — and some cities have seen pro-Palestinian protests — as governments across the continent convened emergency meetings to respond to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Sahara Desert, and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
In Dec1940, two years before he created ‘The Little Prince’ and four years before he disappeared over the Bay of Biscay, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began writing ‘Letter to a Hostage’ while waiting in Portugal for admission into the USA.
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Conservative Jones and the Mystery of the Recalcitrant Democrats
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 This Modern World
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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
Stephen Sefton | Kawsachun News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily by US and Canadian troops and by the MINUSTAH, always under the clear direction of the governments of the USA, Canada and France.
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India’s Case against Arundhati Roy Is a Big Red Flag for Free Speech
Karin Deutsch Karlekar | MSNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – In the absence of free expression, other freedoms are quick to die.
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Enough Is Enough, and Not Enough
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
What a terrible world,
Innocents’ dreams murder,
where and who a human being lives, so-called
How does the Earth bear?
It’s Not the ‘Israel-Hamas War’, It’s the Israel-Gaza Massacre
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Calling it the Israel-Hamas war creates the false impression that this is a war that is directed exclusively at Hamas when it’s really an ethnic purge that’s directed at all Palestinians in Gaza.
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History of the Gaza Strip
Maha Nassar | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – Why the History of the Densely Populated Enclave Is Key to Understanding the Current Conflict
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What Is the White Phosphorus That Israel Is Accused of Using in Gaza?
Areesha Lodhi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Human Rights Watch says the Israeli military recently used white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon and Gaza. This wax-like, toxic substance burns at temperatures high enough to melt metal.
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(Italiano) Ultimo atto di una tragedia: Chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Il brutale attacco terroristico di Hamas contro civili israeliani suscita orrore e non può che essere condannato senza se e senza ma. Per capire, non certo per giustificare, proviamo a riassumere i dati salienti, partendo dai fatti degli ultimi giorni, ma allargando lo sguardo ad un contesto più ampio che aiuti, per quanto possibile, a decifrarli.
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This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 – Washington and European governments are cheerleading Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
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Ari Ben-Menashe on Israeli Black Operations
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Oct 2023 – Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli military intelligence operative, revealed how Israel used proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran to finance black operations and false flag terrorism.
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The Traits That Make Us Human
Piero P. Giorgi, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – The article touched many aspects of the relationship between artificial intelligence and creativity except those that characterise Homo Sapiens, that is “the traits that make us human”, so well stated in the title but so badly ignored in the text. Lack of academic rigour?
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US Military to Move a Carrier Strike Group in Support of Israel
Tara Copp | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group will sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to assist Israel. The Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, its 5,000 sailors, deck of warplanes, cruisers and destroyers represent a show of force ready to respond to anything.
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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.
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(Italiano) Gaza–Uscire dalla reciproca morte
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Anche oggi un continuo fluire di notizie dolorose e di commenti ambivalenti, gli uni incitano la guerra, altri soffrono e cercano appigli per la vita.
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Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.
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Enough!
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – Mother Palestine
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The Savagery of the War against the Palestinian People
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children that will have hidden in their homes listening to the sounds of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer.
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change
Gloria Guillo | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement?
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Muslims in Narendra Modi’s India
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Hindu nationalist B.J.P. encourages young Hindu men to physically attack Muslims by brandishing their patriotism and faith. Even a rumour that a Muslim family ate beef for dinner or a Muslim man ferried a cow to a slaughterhouse can prove fatal in the hinterlands today.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
16-22 October 2023
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(Italiano) Immoral Code: militarizzazione delle tecnologie informatiche e rischi nucleari
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Immoral Code è una video-indagine in cui viene chiesto ad alcun* rappresentanti della società civile di esprimere il loro parere su situazioni in cui è, o potrebbe essere considerato moralmente e socialmente accettabile uccidere altri esseri umani.
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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – After Hamas launched a surprise attack, Israeli Defense Forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people but Western media have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as spokespersons for IDF.
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Contrarian Analysis as a Means of Avoiding Intelligence Failure
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Vulnerability of Mainstream Narrative from Suppression of Alternative Perspectives
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Exodus to Sinai
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
There are signs that the situation will grow more violent. There are no negotiations in sight.
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Long Live Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Soundtrack to the Struggle – Click on Watch on YouTube
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Medical Care
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
The impact of illness is severe in many rural or semi-urban regions of India which do not have sufficient facilities in terms of doctors, medical staff and equipment and necessary infrastructure. The people who fall ill have to depend on ill equipped hospitals with insufficient beds and nursing staff.
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The West’s Hypocrisy Towards Gaza’s Breakout Is Stomach-Turning
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, their immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation.’
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The October 7th Catastrophe. Why Did It Happen?
Hillel Schenker | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Maybe the US, EU, Arab League and others will realize that they have to intervene to stop the bloodletting and to arrive at a resolution based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Sociocide is the killing of a society’s capacity to survive, to reproduce itself, a crime against humanity. The USA and Israel were born the same way, as God’s chosen people with promised lands, using sociocide and genocide (the USA). With no policy change they may also decline and fall the same way. Even soon.
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The Achilles’ Heel of Propaganda – Julian Assange, Nick Cohen and Russell Brand
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – In the second decade of the 21st century, after much empty talk of ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’, it was discovered that people weren’t even capable of governing their own media consumption. Huge, artificially intelligent computers revealed…
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The Root of Violence Is Oppression
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians and wounding thousands, bombing residential buildings and threatening to commit war crimes against besieged Palestinians in Gaza.
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A Single Morning That May Change the Middle East Forever!
Mansoor Durrani | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the first 9 months of 2023, something unprecedented happened around 6:00 a.m. local time today!
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Palestine: The Resistance Rises toward Revolution, Return and Liberation
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
As the morning dawns on 7 Oct 2023, the resistance rises throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza, confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers, and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Is Not about Nobel’s Will
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – This year’s award again violates Nobel’s Will grossly, totally aligned with US/NATO interests. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.
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Netanyahu Shows Map of ‘New Middle East’—without Palestine—to UN General Assembly
Brett Wilkins | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – Speaking to a largely empty chamber, Netanyahu made clear with his little map what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes.
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Avoiding World War III
Eric Herter | Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
AI’s Thoughts on Peace – Can artificial intelligence communicate wisdom that has been ignored when it comes from the peace movement?
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Nobel Peace Prize 2023: Another Deliberate Betrayal of Nobel and World Peace
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – The Norwegian award committee has persistently ignored demands that it respect its obligation to formulate and publish the peace idea of Nobel’s Will and use every selection of winners to promote the new world peace order that Nobel had in mind.
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The IMF and World Bank Talk “Good Governance” but Walk with Corrupt Governments
Patrick Bond | Bretton Woods Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
There is a deeper reason for sustained corruption: Neoliberal ideology.
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The Many Lessons of the Ukraine [Proxy] War
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – Combating Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy. Remarks to the East Bay Citizens for Peace
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Journalism Itself Is Locked Up in Belmarsh
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
At the 17th anniversary of the creation of WikiLeaks on 4 October, it’s probably worth taking a moment to reflect on Julian Assange and what his persecution means for us and our society.
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The Half-Truth of Western Political Realism: A Buddhist Critique
William J. Long, Ph.D. | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
31 Aug 2023 – This paper provides a Buddhist critique of Western political realism and argues that the failure to appreciate the full extent of interdependence and our root nature is the ultimate source of all conflicts.
→ read full article(Italiano) I tempi sono cambiati… militari e clima
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
In occasione del Centenario dell’Aeronautica Militare, infatti, era stata organizzata una manifestazione aerea che prevedeva la partecipazione di moltissimi velivoli, e un gran finale con lo spettacolo della Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale organizzato dall’Aero Club Torino.
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US Weapons to Ukraine Sold through Back Door to Terrorists
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes to resell Western weapons on the black market.
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EXPOSED: How Coke Killed the Refillable Bottle
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest plastic producer and polluter, knew their plastic would trash the planet… but did it anyway!
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Brooklyn Duo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Composed and performed by Louis Armstrong; arranged for cello and piano by the Brooklyn Duo. Enjoy the beauty.
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A Maidan 2.0 ‘Color Revolution’ Looms in Georgia
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – The arrest of US regime change operatives in Tbilisi suggests a coup against Georgia’s government could be in the works. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive fails, the West appears eager to open a new front in its proxy war.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
The mood among India’s Muslims is bleak, and they see their position being undermined steadily by the new “nationalism” gripping the country.
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Al-Aqsa Flood
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – We have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.2 million are refugees). Israel cannot be allowed to get away with stealing lands and resources and setting up a racist apartheid regime. Even besieged, starving, blockaded people in Gaza manage to break through their prison walls.
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Emerging Science: The True Precipitating Cause of Alzheimer’s May Be Much Simpler Than Previously Believed
Ben Bartee | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
5 Oct 2023 – The mainstream medical community has long held that the buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brain is the precipitating cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but the true cause may be much simpler and, critically, much more simply prevented/treated.
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We Don’t Have to Rebottle the Nuclear Genie Just Because It Exists
David P. Barash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – “I certainly don’t like nukes, but what can we do? We can’t put that genie back in its bottle.” We hear this a lot and at first glance it seems true; we’re stuck with Oppenheimer’s genie because it can’t be disinvented. But this “common sense” is uncommonly wrong.
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The Climate Costs of the US Military Machine
Peace and Planet News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Fall 2023 – It is entirely possible for next generation to grow up in an economy that’s about nurturing life, not waging death.
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‘It’s like 1948’: Israel Cleanses Vast West Bank Region of Nearly All Palestinians
Oren Ziv | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land.
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Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against Apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a “prison camp”. We look over the evidence.
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Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaires’ “Great Reset?” Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of “The Good Club”
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The Forgotten: Migration of All Creations–Causing Peace and War (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Biologically, the migration of humans has caused invasion of the ecosystem of all other creations, including fellow humans and has resulted in significant Peace Disruption over the centuries.
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(Français) Pas de Paix Avec la Culture de Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 octobre 2023 – La culture de la guerre semble plus forte que jamais. Pour illustrer cela, un jour avant la Journée internationale de la paix, l’ouverture des Nations Unies a été donnée au président ukrainien Zelensky pour appeler à une guerre totale contre la Russie, même au risque de déclencher une Troisième Guerre mondiale.
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Black Girl Ignored at Irish Gymnastics Medals Ceremony
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – Footage shows the official skipping the girl, the only black gymnast in a medals lineup.
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Doctors, Scientists Cry Foul after Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA COVID Vaccine Team
John-Michael Dumais | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Scientists and doctors had harsh criticism for the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it today awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to a pair of biochemists for developing “effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”
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Beyond the Neocon Debacle to Peace in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Oct 2023 – The neocons have created utter disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and now Ukraine. The US has not yet held the neocons to account, since foreign policy is carried out with little public or Congressional scrutiny to date. Mainstream media have sided with the slogans of the neocons.
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Using Armenia to Destroy the International North South Transportation Corridor
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – The recent dissolution of Nagorno Karabakh and the Armenia embrace of a US-led world order have everything to do with destabilizing the largest, most strategic project in Eurasia connecting the Russian Arctic to Iran and India.
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Why Japan Should Stop Its Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater Ocean Release
Tatsujiro Suzuki | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
On 24 Aug 2023 TEPCO started discharging so-called “treated” and “diluted” water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. This is not the end of controversy but the beginning of a long-lasting struggle where science meets politics and lack of public trust both inside and outside Japan.
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No Peace with the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – The culture of war seems stronger than ever. Illustrating this, one day preceding the International Day of Peace, the opening of the United Nations was given to Ukraine president Zelensky to call for all-out war against Russia, even at the risk of launching a Third World War.
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Fascism Comes to the USA
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – The failure of the liberal class to halt the corporate assault on working people has spawned an ascendant Christian fascism that is poised to seize power and radically reshape the United States of America.
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They’re Repeating the Word ‘Unprovoked’ again, This Time in Defense of Israel
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – Skillful manipulators make frequent use of a cognitive bias known as the illusory truth effect, a glitch in the way human minds tend to operate which makes it hard for us to differentiate between the experience of hearing a well-evidenced fact and the experience of hearing something that we’ve heard repeated multiple times.
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“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Oct 2023 – The derivatives bubble exceeds one quadrillion dollars. The GDP of the world is $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; the collective wealth of the world is $360 trillion. The bubble looks ready to pop. We need to design an alternative financial system that is equitable and sustainable.
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The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
To live at all, however long or short, is an unbidden bargain to lose everything you hold precious: every love and every life, including your own. Loss is the price of life–a price not merely worth paying but beyond questions of worth and why.
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Zionist Settlers Have a Very Effective System for Forcing Palestinians Out of Their Homes
Avishay Mohar | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Herding sheep into others’ fields, preventing access to water, blocking roads, killing animals and breaking into homes in the middle of the night – these and other tactics are part of the daily terror perpetrated by Israeli settlers in Palestinian villages.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Rights to Reclaim Land
Lyric Aquino | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – The ruling puts up additional road blocks for the mining, logging, and cattle industries.
→ read full articleWho or What Will Do What Must Be Done?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Given that funds sufficient to solve the employment problem cannot come from sales, and cannot come from taxes, the necessary funds must come from surplus where surplus can be found.
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(Italiano) Gli Usa stanno passando all’Europa la patata bollente della guerra in Ucraina
Paolo Ferrero | Il Fatto Quotidiano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
E’ infatti del tutto evidente che di fronte al fallimento della controffensiva militare ucraina le classi dirigenti statunitensi – che già erano divise prima – stanno maturando l’idea che la guerra ucraina non meriti più tutto lo sforzo finanziario fatto sino ad ora.
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The United States Has Its Fingerprints All Over the Chaos in Haiti
Branko Marcetic | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Oct 2023 – The ongoing turmoil in Haiti has been exacerbated by US meddling. There’s a very good chance that the foreign intervention announced yesterday by the United Nations will make things worse.
→ read full articleNagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Exodus
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – The warnings have been ignored. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe created the Minsk Group to facilitate negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan but no visible progress was made. The Association of World Citizens encouraged Track Two informal meetings. The international community must stay on alert.
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West Bank Dispatch: Palestinian Teen Killed as Israeli Settlers Attack Huwwara
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – West Bank: An estimated 248 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of the year. The UN has documented more than 800 settler attacks on Palestinians and their property since the start of the year. Key Developments (October 3-6)
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
We all know that things and even life changes all the time. What was true a week back or even yesterday, may not be true today.
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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by Robin Collins of a Memoir by Balwant Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
“Everyone has the right not to be killed and the responsibility not to kill others.”
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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
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Spot the Mistakes!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Rainy Day Fun Game
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Jupiter-Sized Objects in Orion Nebula Baffle Scientists
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – The new entities, nicknamed ‘JuMBOs’, are neither stars nor planets. And they shouldn’t exist, researchers say.
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
9-15 October 2023
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A Year of U.S. Lying about Nord Stream
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
→ read full articleThe Gandhian Path to Resilience
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary reopens a familiar debate around his legacy every year. How could a frail man use his moral strength to galvanize 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the mighty British Empire?
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Dying for Inches in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.
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A Proven Path to Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution of UNESCO: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”
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Global Leaders Plead for Peace in Ukraine at UN
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – The calls for peace in Ukraine issued by at least 50 world leaders at this year’s UN General Assembly.
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The Big Business of War–a Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – US Congress has allocated 43 billion to the security of Ukraine for direct military purposes. The New York Times calls it “a clandestine arms market” in Ukraine as billions of dollars were pocketed by high-ranking officials in Kyiv; the government had to fire the Minister of Defence and all six deputy Defence Ministers for corruption.
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Ukraine on Fire
Global Tree Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
20 Aug 2021 – This video provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of Yanukovych. Producer Oliver Stone interviews Ukraine’s legally elected president Viktor Yanukovych, who in the 2010 election got 12,5 million votes.
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Peace Journalists in London and Vicinities
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
I plan to organise a journalistic event (lectures, debate, party) but would like to hear first from Peace journalists interested in taking part.
→ read full articleCyprus Anti-Migrant Violence: Reconciliation Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – To highlight the calls of Pope Francis in Marseille calling for humanitarian efforts for migrants, there was a wave of anti-migrant violence in southern Cyprus in September. Cyprus, in practice, is divided into two.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
After eating an entire bull, …
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The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge
Tom Valovic | Mass Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
15 Sep 2023 – It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply concerning.
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Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
Which one fits your personal story?
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Israeli Settlements ‘Systematically Erode’ Viability of Palestinian State
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today expressed deep concern over the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.
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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds.
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