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Palestine: Why Context Is Important
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The genocide in Gaza has entered its 15th month. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed so far by Israel. 17,000 of them are children. This is the largest number of children killed in a genocide over a fourteen-month period.
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Canada: Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down
Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada and as the leader of the Liberal Party took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa.
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Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Studio B | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Maria Ressa speaks to computer scientist Prof. Mike Wooldridge about the promise and the dangers of AI. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her investigative journalism on corruption in the Philippines.
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The Columnist
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Fact Checking
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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”
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Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung’s conflict theory.
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Shambhala Prophecy Fulfilled?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – “Every day, Israel is killing 50 to 100 or more Palestinians in Gaza, who are already enduring unbearable suffering. 70% of those killed are women and children, which reflects the composition of the population.
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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq… into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of their military power serves as the primary target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure.”
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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!
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US Homegrown Terrorism!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – On New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets: one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Peace
Jerome Gavin | Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – The use of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, potentially offering a unique opportunity for peacebuilders.
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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
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What’s Next for Youth Engagement in Disarmament?
Robin Geiss and Melissa Nyoni | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In the lead up to the Summit of the Future, more than 1,500 youth attended the Action Days. Young leaders from all over the world made recommendations, which were presented to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General for youth affairs.
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(Italiano) Bollettino da uno zoo nucleare…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Leggendo l’articolo emerge l’idea che un deposito nucleare possa essere paragonato a uno zoo che ospita animali da compagnia: un luogo tranquillo, ben custodito ma sicuro, da visitare con curiosità e interesse. Il potere delle parole!
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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?
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A World’s Soul in Tatters
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent in Gaza. An increasingly normalized genocide . . .
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The Three Voices of Poetry
T. S. Eliot | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
April 1954 Issue – The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is his voice addressing an audience. The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse.
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 1): Oscilando à Beira do Armagedom, o Perigo da Guerra Nuclear
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Praticamente todos os grupos de bate-papo, como as “notícias” distribuídas pela mídia corporativa via televisão, rádio e jornais, encontram uma sequência infinita de questões inconsequentes para distrair as pessoas da realidade. E assim nossa morte ou escravidão transumana nos aguarda.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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A Remembrance of Jimmy Carter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – A recollection of my only meeting with the former president at the Carter Center, a minor event, although in the context of repeated mistakes by the ‘political realists’ who continue to shape US foreign policy, perhaps of some interest.
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Heavy Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill more than 90 Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Attacks Included a Strike on Tents in the Al-Mawasi ‘Safe Zone’
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World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – A member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a Ukrainian Jewish American, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
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U.S. Veterans: Major Source of Domestic Terrorists
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – The two men who carried out terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had been trained by the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon.
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(Français) Quelques Prédictions Possibles pour 2025 et Une Perspective Apocaloptimiste
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 janvier 2025 – Déjà en 2024, nous voyons les électeurs du monde entier rejeter la démocratie capitaliste, la forme de gouvernement par laquelle les capitalistes deviennent milliardaires tandis que les travailleurs sombrent dans la pauvreté.
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Six Scenarios for Syria
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
29 Dec 2024 – It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place–as it is. The situation resembles the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen. However, the next phase will not be peaceful.
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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” (sometimes known as genocide).
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Age of Anxiety
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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20 Years after His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In Aug 1996, Webb penned a series for the Mercury News documenting how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the CIA-backed mercenary army perpetrating a terrorist war against Nicaragua.
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The Avenging Heroes among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
It helps to remember this diversity of heroisms, because it saves us from imprisoning our heroes in the expectation that everyone contribute to the shared cause — the great project of human flourishing — in the same way. The protest marcher and the poet are very different kinds of heroes.
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Sudan: Inside the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Marc Español | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of victims, with extreme malnutrition and famine in certain regions, have left the country on the brink of catastrophe after more than a year and a half of war.
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(Castellano) Guerras, Militarización y Resistencia
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Enero 2025- Debemos replantearnos las cuestiones de la violencia y la seguridad. Frente a un enfoque que esencializa los conflictos armados, es preciso identificar sus dinámicas, causas y responsables, restablecer la primacía de la política sobre lo militar y poner fin a la normalización de la violencia.
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Sudan’s War Came to Represent the Worst of Humanity
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
26 Dec 2024 – The African Union has a responsibility to intervene to protect civilians.
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Shocking Statistics
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – On the 450th consecutive day of the genocide on the Gaza Strip, please read and disseminate that Israeli occupation forces (with US taxpayers’ money and munitions, and to a lesser extent other countries) did this:
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Some Possible Predictions for 2025 and an Apocaloptimist Perspective
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025- Already in 2024 we see voters around the world rejecting capitalist democracy by which capitalists become billionaires while working people sink into poverty. Instead, guided by a mass media controlled by these capitalists, voters choose fascism over socialism.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.
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Genocide Emergency: Gaza and the West Bank 2024
Grace Condon, et al. | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – The IDF intentionally target schools, homes, hospitals, designated humanitarian zones, and use 2000-pound bombs leveling entire apartment buildings. Of 163,778 buildings in Gaza, 52,564 have been destroyed and 18,913 severely damaged. Two-thirds of the dwellings are uninhabitable.
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Poem of the Atoms | Sufi Mysticism (Music Video of the Week)
Rumi | Who Am I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
A Poem That Speaks to the Soul – Rumi was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, which formed the basis for the Whirling Dervishes, after his death.
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One Day They’ll Wake Up
Bob Minor | Scraps from the Loft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Bob Minor’s 1925 cartoon predicts the fall of Western imperialism as China, India, Africa, and Russia rise, shifting global power away from U.S. and British dominance.
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Oblivion Culture: Countering the German Taboo on Palestinian Trauma
Sarah El Bulbeisi | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
The Holocaust and the Nakba—expulsion of Palestinians from historical Palestine, ongoing since 1947—are deeply intertwined. The Nakba is a direct consequence of the Holocaust. Yet it is excluded from German collective memory, its relationship to Israel as a safe haven for Jews.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 6 Jan 2025
US Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid since October 2023
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – According to data from SIPRI, US weapons now account for 78% of Israel’s arms imports.
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The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship
J.C. Hallman | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
27 Dec 2024 – A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old Indian chess champion.
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When Burning Hospitals Are No Longer News
Dr Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide.
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A Reflection on 2024 and a Call for Peace in 2025
David Andersson | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Time Magazine should have named WAR instead of Donald Trump as “Person of the Year.” In 2024, war propaganda took center stage in political and international relations, dominating the discourse and shaping global actions.
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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.
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Configuring the Paradoxical Insights of 48-fold and 100-fold Sets of Koans
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals at the Summit of the Future was previously explored through a series of interactions with AI.
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This Festive Season, Gaza Is Starving
Esraa Abo Qamar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Winter has made life amid genocide all the more miserable for us.
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‘Godfather of AI’ Makes Chilling Prediction for Future of Humanity and It Could Happen Very Soon
Mia Williams | LadBible - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is worried that systems are growing ‘much faster than expected’, after making a ‘scary’ admission about the threat to humanity. An AI expert, he says he feels some ‘regret’ for his role in developing Artificial Intelligence.
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The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.
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The End of Organized Humanity
Noam Chomsky | The Poetry of Predicament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Noam Chomsky, at a video conference in 2023, offers his truth-telling to the center of our global self-terminating culture. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has taken in.
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Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Staff, Reporters
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which opened a luxurious rest area for IDF soldiers in northern Gaza. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed by Israeli forces that stormed the hospital and forced hundreds of patients into the streets.
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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 30 Dec 2024
Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It
Murad Sadygzade | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.
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Good and Bad War Criminals
Mark Curtis | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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‘We Will Leave When the Last Palestinian Leaves’: The Defiant Last Stand of the Doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the IDF steps up its attacks.
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A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
It may even be that music is the language of time, mathematics its alphabet. “It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical,” said cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander.
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Personal Souvenirs of Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024)
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – I was privileged to know and work with Federico Mayor, a “thoughtful committed individual” who changed the world. He was nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize and should have received it.
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Manufacturing Rebels: How UK and USA Empowered Terrorists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria today.
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Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
All religions have certain texts declared to be “sacred.” One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?
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Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy
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OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill
Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.
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Science and Religion
Albert Einstein | Panarchy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.
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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance, was the brainchild of three engineers from the IDF’s Unit 8200. The main feature of the group is its amorality. There is literally no rogue government it will not add to its lists for supply.
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.
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‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?
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The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
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Bringing Gaza Home
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested for blocking the entrance to Raytheon Corp. For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county. The same approach can be used for any city in the world.
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How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?
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The ‘Self-defense’ Myth
Posted by Antonio C. S.. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Genocide by any Other Name…
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Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
21 Dec 2024 – Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.
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BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty
Udaibir Das | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.
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(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Discorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.
→ read full articleCondemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.
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(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.
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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
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Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
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From Bethlehem, Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
All souls wondering
find peace in the place of birthing
I, a lost soul, find it here in Bethlehem
A holy place cursed now by mayhem
Scandal Deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward Staging Syria Prison Scene
Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.
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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?
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Technocracy Rising: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Self-serving individuals and groups have always posed as rulers, financiers, benefactors and thought leaders to steer change toward preferred outcomes, from the Pharaohs to the French Revolution. Societal transformation has been constant as one form of government replaces another.
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Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region
George Galloway and Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.
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Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off Nation’s Wealth after Assad
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – Sanctions-privatization-reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of US foreign policy agenda.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The latest list of shootings in US schools shows that in 2024 there is a new record: 83. What is the cause of this violence? The list from 2008 to 2024.
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Syria “Liberated” by Its Own Destroyers
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
14 Dec 2024 – Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler in Damascus, began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in 2013.
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Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1957, Albert Camus became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Strength of character, taste, the ‘world,’ classical happiness, severe pride, the cold frugality of the wise. More than ever, these virtues are necessary today.”
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Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact with al-Qaeda-linked HTS
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Is Designated by the US as a Terrorist Organization
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Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 — Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling as the winter season brings heavy rains, causing floods in their tents and exposing them to the cold and wind.
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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.
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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The US initiative to create a specialized Palestinian Authority security force to carry out military assaults like the one now in Jenin, is focused on suppressing Palestinian opposition to Washington’s agenda and is paving the way for Israeli control by crushing grassroots resistance.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The CEO Murder…
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The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
Adrienne LaFrance | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does the US owe Hawai‘i now? – At the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, you find the compound of the self-appointed President of the Nation of Hawai‘i.
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Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Council of the European Union approved the new sanctions yesterday. The EU is willing to continue destroying its own industries by persisting on the economic warfare despite the boomerang effects.
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‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child.
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Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Letters and excerpts from Albert Einstein’s writings (1932-1949) in which he repeatedly reiterated his opposition to the creation of a state for Jews, preferring the formation of a simple spiritual and cultural centre to serve the Jewish world and all humanity.
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A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”
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