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Enforcing Silence on Genocide
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

4 May 2024 – The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity.

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War, Money and Universities
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

1 May 2024  – Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the planet around one primary principle: the existence of an enemy.

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The Rise of an Artificial Intelligence Messiah
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

I asked Claude 3, a low-level no-cost AI available from anthropic.com, to outline a video series on the rise of an AI Messiah. Claude 3 did so in less than ten seconds, coming up with the dramatic and nuanced plot-sequence below.

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What We Are Seeing in Gaza Is a ‘Repeat of Auschwitz,’ Says Genocide Expert
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

26 Apr 2024 – What Israel is doing in Gaza is ‘simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,’ says human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni, [a member of TRANSCEND]. ‘This is a collective white imperialist man’s genocide,’ Nobel Peace Prize nominee says.

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DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request to Arrest Students
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

27 Apr 2024 – The Washington, D.C. police turned down a request by GWU president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus.

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Palestinian Genocide: Worse Than You Can Imagine
Craig Murray | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

26 Apr 2024 – The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.

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Revolt in the US Universities
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

25 Apr 2024 – University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.

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Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

NO JOKE!

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Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to US Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

22 Apr 2024 – I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot.

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War & Genocide on Earth Day
Melissa Garriga | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

19 Apr 2024 – On Earth Day, Mon 22 Apr, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers about their love for the planet. U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security.

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United States Hypocrisy – Again
Robert Fantina | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

24 Apr 2024 – On 18 Apr, a proposal was submitted to the UNSC to admit Palestine as a full member. Of the fifteen members, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the USA opposed it after frantic lobbying to convince at least one of them to align, so it would not stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.

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Sermon for Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.

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US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained. 

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The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.

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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.

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More Than Fifty Species of Fish Circling and Spinning until They Die
Arthur Firstenberg | Cellular Phone Task Force - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

Whirling Fish, Bees, Worms, Sheep, Turtles, Penguins – No cause for this has been found. There is no evidence of a red tide, low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites in the dead fish.

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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

10 Apr 2024 – Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.

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World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

11 Apr 2024 – Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!

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World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?

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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

6 Apr 2024 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).

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Eric Nshimiye, Another Rwandan American Facing Trial in Another Rwandan Witch Hunt
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – The totalitarian state of Rwanda is guilty of many forms of transnational repression, including the lawfare exemplified in the case of Eric Nshimiye.

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Likely Widening of Middle East War
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

4 Apr 2024 – Is Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu moving toward “The Sampson Option”–the use of nuclear weapons (and possible WW III)–as a desperate attempt to avoid his removal as head of state and imprisonment for corruption?  The protests against him inside Israel keep growing.

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Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – The latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War of Terror.

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The Death of Amr
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.

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CIA Front Companies Play Crucial Role in Arms Pipeline to Ukraine and Profit from the Human Misery it Generates
CIAGate | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

1 Apr 2024 – Below is a series that CIAGate published on the CIA’s involvement in the arms pipeline to Ukraine through a shadowy CIA company that supplies drones to Kyiv.

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Lisbon Airport Dance Frenzy (Music Video of the Week)
portugaldreamcoast - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

Flash Mob Fun at Christmas

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Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

19 Mar 2024 – During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations, but has actually upgraded it.

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A Genocide Foretold
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

30 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.

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The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

25 Mar 2024 – Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States.  Soul became the chic word.  It popped up everywhere. 

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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

27 Mar 2024 – British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.

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How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

20 Mar 2024 –  2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.

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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.

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Israel’s Trojan Horse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.

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PEN America Self-Destructs
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

23 Mar 2024 – PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. 

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Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.

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African Stream
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.

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The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself and has existed for thousands of years. An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians.

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

9 July 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.

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The Tears of War Belong to All of Us
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! Now you can kill as many of them as you want.

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Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Ann Garrison spoke to Eritrean British attorney Feven Yemane regarding attacks on Eritrean diaspora festivals and gatherings and the investigations underway.

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Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29 Feb 2024 – Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. Divine violence terrifies a corrupt and discredited ruling class. It exposes their depravity. It illustrates that not everyone is paralyzed by fear. It is a siren call to battle radical evil. That is what Bushnell intended. His sacrifice speaks to our better selves.

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New York Times Report Demolishes the Narrative of the “Unprovoked War” in Ukraine
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Nearly every reference in the US media to the Feb 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been preceded by an obligatory word—“unprovoked.” However, the NYT just published a lengthy article revealing that the invasion was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression on the part of the CIA-USA.

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Changing the World with Fire and Love
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible.

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Forward, into the Breach
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The USA used 9/11 to further a hidden agenda with catastrophic results. Not only did we lose blood and treasure, we lost whatever moral high ground we once had. Israel needs to learn from our mistakes.

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(Italiano) Johan Galtung, il mio maestro
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

18 Febbraio 2024 – Il 17 febbraio, intorno alle 8 del mattino, si è spento serenamente Johan Galtung dopo una vita straordinaria, animata da uno spirito di missione a cui non è mai venuto meno, neppure negli ultimi giorni.  Aveva 93 anni.

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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…

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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.

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Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – Rwanda’s M23 militia and Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the DRC. I had a Zoom conversation with Congolese journalist Akilimali Saleh, who is based in Goma.

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First Iran-India Joint Working Group Meeting on Agriculture Held in Delhi
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – The first joint working group meeting on agriculture took place between Iran and India. The officials of the ministries of agriculture of both countries emphasised increasing cooperation in the field.

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UN Experts Condemn ‘Credible’ Reports of Executions, Sexual Assault by Israeli Soldiers
Nick Robertson | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – A group of UN human rights experts denounced the Israeli military today for “credible” allegations of execution and sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza.

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Who’s the Real A$$hole?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…

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China in Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.

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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security

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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us, war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

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Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India
Tatiana Bokova | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool.

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Over 30 Countries Queue Up for BRICS Membership
Jai Hamid | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

12 Feb 2024 – This surge in interest reflects a growing disillusionment with traditional economic models and a collective quest for more equitable international relations.

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Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Jim Naureckas | Fair Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.

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China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’ with 35% of Global Output
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production – more than the 9 next largest manufacturers combined.

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Words That Kill: How Western Spin Doctors Dehumanize Select Peoples to Justify War
Chay Bowes | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

6 Feb 2024 – With Israel’s punitive operation against Gaza in its fourth month, it’s impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality being applied to Israel. Carefully chosen words and turns of phrase serve as lubricant for US-backed military machines.

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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed. 

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Red Sea Tensions Increase
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – Tensions increase in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

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The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence.  This may seem like a truism…

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Let Them Eat Dirt
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.

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Hamas Lost – Its Way Wins
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Let’s assume that the goals against Hamas–elimination of its military/governmental capacity and its leaders–will be achieved, then Israel’s refusal of peace will obligate the Palestinians to return to the path of Hamas, even if under a different name.

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‘Legal’ Genocide?
Ahmad Qaddura Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

That’s what it seems: a ‘normalized’ genocide–a TV entertainment–to a desensitized, idiotic public worldwide. Violence made in USA-Israel-NATO proves highly profitable. Poor UN, vilified, helpless, hopeless, useless!

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BRICS+: An Impressive Enlargement
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – The BRICS+ 10 countries represent 45% of the world’s population with 3.5 billion people, a third of the Earth’s solid surface, 44% of total global oil production, and 1/3 of global GDP of 29 trillion dollars, surpassing in purchasing power the G7.

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Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Anya Parampil’s book tells the story of US hybrid warfare on Venezuela and of the tectonic social and economic shifts reshaping the world today.

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The Silence of the Damned
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity.

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It May Be Genocide, but It Won’t Be Stopped
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter.

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Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
UN International Court of Justice ICJ - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 January 2024 – Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures – Order

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The Hague: South Africa v. Israel – ICJ Order
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

The International Court of Justice delivers its order in South Africa v. Israel – Streamed live on 26 Jan 2024

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Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – In accordance with its long-planned, detailed and comprehensive blueprint labeled ‘The Great Reset’, the Global Elite is currently implementing its program to reshape world order, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, enclose the Commons ‘forever’, transfer all remaining wealth to the Elite and enslave those left alive in one of their technocratic ‘smart city’ prisons.

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Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia, and the US/EU/NATO
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.

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Cobalt Red: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in ‘Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.’ His book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

21 Jan 2024 – Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.

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The International Court of Justice Stops Short of Ordering Gaza Ceasefire to Stop Genocide
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ICJ ruled that Israel’s military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of Genocide Convention but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.

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The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’
Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.

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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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On Rights and Other Myths
Latuff Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Think about it.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.’

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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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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.

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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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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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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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The Cost of Bearing Witness
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

23 Dec 2023 – There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.

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Murdering Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – IDF in Gaza

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That Can’t Be True about Israel
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Israel’s actions are so horrific and depraved I keep thinking I must be misinterpreting what I’m reading or disregarding a claim as over the top, only to find out it’s true.

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Twenty More Countries Have Applied to Join BRICS
Chris Devonshire-Ellis | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – BRICS Ambassador Anil Sooklal stated that, “over 20 countries have formally applied to join BRICS, while the same number have expressed interest. This is affirmation that BRICS is playing an important role in championing emerging and developing economies.”

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West Sabotaged Ukraine Peace Deal with Russia, Admit Zelensky Official and Germany’s Ex-Leader
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

4 Dec 2023 – Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.

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US Blocks Gaza Peace Proposal at UN for 3rd Time, Holding World Hostage
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

10 Dec 2023 – The USA voted alone against the rest of the world preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the UNSC. Meanwhile, Washington [the Good Guys] continues giving weapons to Israel [the other Good Guys] to commit genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza [the Bad Guys]. Tragicomic.

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The Weapons Israel Tests on Palestinians Will Be Used Against All of Us
The Chris Hedges Report | Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.

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