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Notice from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
Dear friends, unfortunately this week our TMS Weekly Digest is seriously lacking. Last week I was taken to the Emergency Room twice—and am getting ready to go back again shortly—due to an aggravation of the scoliosis on my column. Due to inflammation, pain killers don’t work. I pray and hope to get better. With a heavy heart, I count on your understanding. (pls read on)
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 93: Israel Surpasses Three Months of Gaza Bombing Campaign, UN Warns of Starvation
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service ,
8 Jan 2024
7 Jan 2024 – Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank in overnight raids. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Yunis.
22,835+ killed and 58,416+ wounded in the Gaza Strip.
South Africa Emerges as Moral Giant on Gaza
John Wight - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Pretoria is challenging the Israeli government’s claim to innocence, which for far too long has allowed it to act with impunity against the long-suffering Palestinians.
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Just War Theory as an Inspiration for “Just AI Theory”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – In Quest of a Robust Ethical Framework for AI Aided by ChatGPT – Just AI theory and Just suffering theory?
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(Castellano) John Pilger Obituario (9 oct 1939 – 30 dic 2023): Periodismo Comprometido y Valiente
Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
El reportero australiano, que cubrió las guerras de Vietnam, Camboya, Timor Oriental e Irak, falleció el 30 de diciembre 2023 a los 84 años. Chomsky le definió como “un faro de luz en tiempos a menudo oscuros”. [Descanse en paz]
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When You Sit in a “Digital Car” You Consent to Being Recorded and Your Personal Data Sold
Joanne Nova - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – The Subaru privacy policy allows them to record your conversations, your face, and sell the data to the highest bidder. An AI will identify your voice and your face from the cameras. Anything you say in the public broadcasting world of private cars will belong to them, even if you are a passenger and were never asked.
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The US Can’t Stop China’s Rise, but It Will Cripple the EU while Trying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Washington’s desperate attempts to curb Beijing’s high-tech development are hurting U.S. allies more than the Chinese.
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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.
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The Genesis and Psychotype of Brutal and Gruesome Peace Disruptors
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
“In the present malicious, toxic global environment, the future trees of humanity will grow to lead the future with further agony and no ecstasy; deformed tress will produce deformed fruits for generations to come, and monsters will breed monsters without fail, globally.”
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Genocide in Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer | John’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Important document that should be circulated and read by anyone interested in the Gaza atrocities: the 84-page “application” South Africa filed with the ICJ on 29 Dec 2023 accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
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On Rights and Other Myths
Latuff Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Think about it.
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Will the American Psychological Association Ever Join the Ceasefire Call?
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – The shocking numbers of Palestinian civilians, many of them children, subjected to death, displacement, disease, starvation, and more—grow larger every day. Calls for a humanitarian ceasefire still can’t be heard in the APA, which failed to oppose the abuse of U.S. war-on-terror prisoners and the involvement of psychologists in that abuse.
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Kristina Borjesson Broke the Truth about TWA 800: Exiled from CBS and the Profession Because of It – RIP
Celia Farber | The Truth Barrier - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
30 Dec 2023 – It was just as in Orwell’s 1984, an Immediate Rewriting of History Occurred–U.S. Journalism Lost a Giant
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They’re Calling Ethnic Cleansing “Voluntary Migration” Now
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – Violently coercing someone into doing something and ensuring that they’ll die if they don’t do it is the exact opposite of what the word “voluntary” means… Hamas is not the target in Gaza. Hamas is just the excuse.
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2024
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University wish you all the best in 2024 and that this year brings an end to the genocide/carnage of our people and to suffering people everywhere (Palestine, Western Sahara, Rohingya in Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen).
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A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
Marjorie Hecht | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Behavioral and cultural traits define human evolution; brain size, climate, and new technologies cannot explain the overall process. Hyperprosociality provides a comprehensive explanation. H. sapiens is the only species that has high levels of cooperation with those who are not related.
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For Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – In a world torn by the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and threatened by the Bidens, Putins and Netanyahus, we must not forget the slow, patient work of those who cultivate peace.
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A Condolence Message on the Passing of Dr. Betty A. Reardon
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
I shocked to hear the news of passing of Dr. Betty A. Reardon on November 3, 2023 at the age of more than 94 years. She was born on June 12, 1929. She was one of the founders of Peace Education.
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A Hindu Perspective on Ambition and Unsatiated Lust
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above-mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort more and more increased. That is the law of material nature.
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The T.T.C.U.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Cinematic Universe
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jan 2024
Avoiding a Broader Middle East War – Building Bridges for Peace in Palestine-Israel
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – While wars continue in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, we discuss whether and how bloodshed and killing can be stopped.
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Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” said a Turkish spokesperson.
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Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern: The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury
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(Français) Pour les Ministeres et Infrastructures de Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 janvier 2024 – Dans un monde déchiré par les guerres en Ukraine et en Palestine, et menacé par les Biden, Poutine et Netanyahu, nous ne devons pas oublier le travail lent et patient de ceux qui cultivent la paix.
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Family of Israeli Woman in NYT Oct 7 Sexual Violence Renounces Story, Says Reporters Manipulated Them
The Short String | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – A New York Times story claiming a pattern of Hamas’ gender-based violence on Oct 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush, but her family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
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Saving Israel by Ending Its War in Gaza
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – The Israeli government argues that it is in a mortal fight for survival against Hamas, and therefore must take every measure, including the very destruction of Gaza, to survive. This is false.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
These are not clear-cut good wars of Good against Evil. The goals of USA-West, beyond suppressing “insurrection”, include revenge, paranoia, economic interests, getting bases for future wars far from “good”. The goals of an enemy defined by US-West as Evil, are often badly understood or not at all.
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The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
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Mandela, King, Malcolm X – and Jesus: Black Liberation Activists Who Are Safely Dead – and Widely Ignored
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Dead men make such convenient heroes.
They cannot rise to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.
Gaza: South Africa Seeks Justice
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – JUST commends South Africa for requesting the ICJ to issue an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Geneva Convention for its massive slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza.
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Zelensky’s Former Top Adviser Wants Kiev to Ally with Moscow against the West – What Exactly Is Going On?
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Aleksey Arestovich’s latest idea is that the two warring countries should sue the US-led bloc together.
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Beyond Hypocrisy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Every resolution, I guess, has its exemptions. Hence, the irresistible impulse to draw attention to a singular example of lying by omission committed by the usual suspects.
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Successful!
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Which is the best? Why?
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U.S.-Israel’s War on Gaza a Prelude to Conquest of the Arab World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Looking Beyond the Lens of Reason and Political Expediency
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As China-Russia Economic and Diplomatic Ties Advance, Their Cultural Bond Flourishes with Ballet, Theatre and Music
South China Morning Post | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – As the Russian musical Anna Karenina is set to be staged in Shanghai and Beijing this month, theatre director Alina Chevik hopes to see how it can connect the two peoples at a time when Russian artists have been shunned in Western markets.
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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
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The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
Matthew Ehret | Rising Tide Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – I would like to go a little deeper into the history that shapes our age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria and at some remarkable and unknown examples of inter-religious collaboration.
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
Written by John Lennon | Worthwhile Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Performed by 49 Musicians from 40 Countries
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War on Gaza: What is Next after Genocide?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
President Biden and Secretary Blinken Never Lie but Say Things Differently
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Understanding Power Dynamics and Moving Beyond Divisions: COVID-19 through to Ukraine and Palestine/Israel
Vanessa Beeley and Piers Robinson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – Connecting the dots of COVID, Ukraine and Gaza–three cataclysmic events that rocked the world since 2020. Deception and domination by Western global elites. We fail to withstand divide and conquer tactics, remaining stuck in the left-right paradigm.
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Acquiring Kindness and Simplicity in People
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
The world today allows people to interact with each other through different means. People meet each other through Internet — in particular through WhatsApp, email or telephone.
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In Gaza Genocide, US Defends Israel’s ‘Aura of Power’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – As South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in The Hague, the Biden administration endorses Israel’s bid to sow “fear” in Gaza’s defenseless civilians.
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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.
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A Shift Against Impunity for Genocide
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – Officials who supplied, incited or cheered on Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza face legal actions with South Africa’s reference to the International Court of Justice. In the UK, Sunak, Cleverly and Shapps could be in the Old Bailey dock for genocide.
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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 86: Israel Falls in ‘Serious Strategic Trap’ in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight ‘for Months’
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
31 Dec 2023:
• 21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.
• 316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.
‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story
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Why the U.S. Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow?
Noam Chomsky | Free Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Noam Chomsky on Israel
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Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities, sanitation, access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation and epidemics turn Gaza into a mortuary.
→ read full articleJoint Statement by Multiple Resistance Factions: Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, DFLP, and PFLP-GC
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – Palestinian resistance factions held a meeting in Beirut to discuss the ongoing Zionist aggression on our land, people and holy sites, especially in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Al-Quds, with the following results.
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Agony of the Past and Ecstasy of the Future: War or Peace, Welcome 2024
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
“The Search for the Elusive Peace is striving with patient persistence and perseverance, coupled with realistic agony and expectant ecstasy. This is indeed the hallmark of the righteous humanity, in its efforts to achieve global, sustainable peace, in the 21st century.”
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Nearly Two Million Crowd Into Gaza’s South as Israeli Airstrikes Continue
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – Gemma Connell of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said what she had seen at the Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza yesterday was “absolute carnage”. Many severely injured people could not be treated because the hospital was “absolutely overloaded”, she said.
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Special Features of the Region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
1 Jan 2024
In principle, the crucial mark of the region is the predominant Arab culture with some contrasts in the cultural habits between, for instance, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Besides, the cultural features of several other ethnic and confessional groups of MENA give a more comprehensive picture of the region’s peoples and challenges.
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Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide. The General Assembly also has an option left.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
I do not pretend my predictions are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are intuitive and hypothetical, based on my knowledge and experience on international affairs over more than four decades. You may say they grow out of a Wright Mills-like sociological – and peace research – imagination.
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Stunning Atrocities in Gaza Funded by US Taxpayers
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – The US Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax.” The atrocities are being recorded by drones and by brave Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israeli army. Over 66 journalists have been slain by the IDF so far in Palestine.
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Meet the Companies Profiting from Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
20 Dec 2023 – As global resistance to war and apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible.
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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
24 Dec 2023 – Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. This war must end,” said the head of the UN agency where one of the victims worked.
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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.
→ read full articleHow the Hell Did We Get Here?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
27 Dec 2023 – Caitlin reminds us what a more mature human family could look like. We’re killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it’s antisemitic to oppose an active genocide.
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We Are All Palestinian (Music Video of the Week)
Mistahi Corkill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Dec 2023 – This song goes out to all human beings worldwide who support the historical just cause for a free Palestine.
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US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – In the past 20 years, every US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq is dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned by Russia in 2023 as the US secretly scuttles a peace agreement Russia-Ukraine in 2022.
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In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation with Israel
David Ignatius | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
16 Dec 2023 – For three days this past week, I traveled the West Bank from Hebron in the south to Nablus in the north. What I saw was a pattern of Israeli abuse that makes daily life a humiliation for many Palestinians — and could obstruct the peaceful future that Israelis and Palestinians both say they want.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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The Enlightenment Sutra
Buddhism Study and Practice Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
In so far as the Buddha’s disciple, they should read day and night piously and earnestly the following eight precepts leading the followers of Mahayana Buddhism to attain the state of enlightenment:
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Let’s Hope for a Happier New Year!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Dear friends, I hope that you, your family and friends have a Happy New Year of 2024. But to be candidly honest, I have my doubts.
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Choose Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
— Leo Tolstoy
John Pilger, on the Betrayers of Julian Assange
John Pilger | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
More than a decade on from his forced asylum and subsequent torture in 2012 at the hands of British and US authorities, Julian Assange remains abandoned by his own government and the media.
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Prof. Galtung: Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | University of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Apr 2016 – The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp–UCSIA
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Nazism & Zionism: Oppressed Turned into Oppressors
Martin Luther King, Jr - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Remember Hitler, Nazism, Holocaust and the ‘good Germans?’
Holocaust Redux with Netanyahu, Zionism and the ‘good Jews.’
South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention against Israel
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – South Africa becomes the first country to approach the International Court of Justice and invoke the Genocide Convention with regard to Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
→ read full articleMovements Around Us
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
We live in a world where there is movement all around us. The movement can be on the ground or in air — the latter is called flying. In water, movement is generally known as swimming.
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The Unbridgeable Gulf between Israeli Politicians’ Rhetoric and the Reality in Gaza
Amos Harel | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
24 Dec 2023 – The Israeli army is planning stage three of the atrocities, but – unusually – it is facing no pressure to meet a timetable ■ Hamas’s Sinwar is in no hurry to make another hostage deal.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence – Palestine, 1 Jan 2024 – (Un)Happy New Year!
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Israel’s War Crimes
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Every time the UN can get more aid into Gaza, the Israeli bombardment of civilian areas intensifies, and the civilian deaths increase.
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‘Are We the Baddies?’ Western Support for Genocide in Gaza Means the Answer Is Yes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
27 Dec 2023 – Western leaders have not only backed genocide by Israel on Gaza, but provided diplomatic cover, weapons and other military assistance. The West is fully complicit in the ethnic cleansing of two million Palestinians and the killing of more than 20,000 and the injuring of many tens of thousands more, a majority of them women and children.
→ read full articleDrug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Do expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistleblowers rather than honest mea culpas. It is up to consumers of toxic substances to do the research themselves, for they may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons.
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Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
22 Dec 2023 – Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-950), Islamic scientist, philosopher, mathematician and musical theorist, lived at the golden age of Islamic civilization. The medieval Latin world knew him as Magister Secundus: the second greatest teacher of philosophy after Aristotle. Al-Farabi should be heeded as the quintessential philosopher of civilization, built under the aegis of truth, virtue and compassion.
→ read full articleChristmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas!!
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The World Has Lost John Pilger (9 Oct 1939 – 30 Dec 2023) RIP
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of any generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday 31 Dec.
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Grant Report: TRANSCEND International–Hawaii
Pua’Ena Burgess - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Nov 2023 – Mahalo TRANSCEND International-Hawaii for the generous funding of Hawaii Literacy and our Waianae Summer Fun Program which made it possible to continue this popular program that seeks to connect ‘opio with impactful learning experiences beyond the school environment.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 79: Bethlehem Cancels Christmas Celebrations as Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
24 Dec 2023 – Palestinian pastor Munther Issac says, “If Jesus was born today, he’d be born under the rubble of Gaza” as Israeli forces flattens entire neighborhoods to create buffer zones in north, east, and south of the Gaza Strip.
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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.
→ read full articleDeclaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023 – This Declaration calls not only for the denunciation of Israel’s genocidal assault but also for taking effective action to permanently prevent its repetition. The urgency of the moment obliges global intellectuals to stand against the ongoing horrific ordeal of the Palestinian people and, most of all, to implore action by those who have the power, and hence the responsibility, to do so.
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Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to What End?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
25 Dec 2023 – Cognitive Clarification Enabled by ChatGPT in Eliciting Strategic Coherence
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Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023 – NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming.
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Yemen’s Houthis in Defense of Gaza
Huseyin Vodinali | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
21 Dec 2023 – Zionazis massacre children, women, babies, elderly journalists and doctors without showing the slightest sign of humanity. 70 days have passed since the massacre started on 7 Oct and at least 25 thousand Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, at least 22 thousand of them civilians, and most of the civilians children and babies.
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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security
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Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Alfons Pérez and Nicola Scherer | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
18 Dec 2023 – Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?
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Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza—How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent?
Amira Hass | Haaretz/Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
Fall 2023 – The Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure?
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“Big Money” Behind the Genocide: Israeli Settlers Plan ‘Dream Beach Houses’ in Gaza
Marc Vandepitte | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
21 Dec 2023 – The advertisement reads: “We are working to prepare the ground for the return to Gush Katif. Our employees are working on the rehabilitation of the region, cleaning up waste, and deporting the occupiers (Palestinians). We hope that in the near future, the kidnapped and our soldiers will somehow return to their homes, and we can start construction in the entire Gush Katif area in the Gaza Strip.”
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The Forgotten (Part 6): The Pillars of Peace Propagators, from Yajnavalkya in Antiquity to Johan Galtung Today
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
22 Dec 2023 – Yajnavalkya and Johan Galtung have lived millennia apart but their discourses on ethical lifestyle coupled with Peace Propagation are available and applicable to the miscreant humanity and its wickedness, in all its glory, in the 21st century.
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Why Empathy Constitutes the Ultimate Leadership Skill
Dr. Julia Milner | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
Managers rated ‘expressing empathy’ as the most challenging communication skill, above ‘asking questions’ and ‘providing feedback’. The trend appears to be linked to a number of old-school thinking errors.
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Boycotts and Protests – How Are People Around the World Defying Israel?
Alia Chughtai, Marium Ali and Delaney Nolan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
15 Dec 2023 – Al Jazeera takes a look at the movements against Israel and illegal settlements in Palestine.
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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
Merry Christmas!
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Poetry Bleeds from the Shattered Normal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023 – It seems more relevant than ever, as innocent blood flows in the wars being waged by military-political bureaucracies across the planet. How many more stunned facial expressions will I see on YouTube, of parents who have just lost their children, their spouse, their siblings?
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Hamas ‘Mass Rape’ Claim Lacks Evidence–but It’s Being Used to Justify Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
18 Dec 2023 – The Western Media’s Refusal to Investigate What Happened on October 7 – Journalists are suppressing evidence from the Israeli military on its killings of many citizens, including the charred remains cited as proof of barbarism by Hamas.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas
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Human Rights Groups Demand ICC Issue Arrest Warrants on Israeli Officials
People's Dispatch | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
22 Dec 2023 – A joint letter sent to the International Criminal Court also demands an urgent investigation into the allegations of war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.
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