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Peace Shuttle: The Big Picture Behind ‘Viktor the Mediator’
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. It’s Unipolar Order vs. Multipolar, Multi-Nodal Order.
→ read full articleAbout Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts/humanities as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation–a thesis, a text, a painting-sculpture, a piece of music–when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
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Elections
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Cliché – Ring any bells?
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Gazans Reeling from Closed Hospitals, Malnutrition and Heat Risks, Warns UN Health Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an ever more deadly threat to a population under constant attack, UN humanitarians warned today.
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Gaza ‘Split in Two’ as Civilians, Humanitarians Reset Lives, Aid Efforts
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said yesterday.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Religion can be hard, and soft and gentle. Any religion is a tissue with hard and soft strands, where the fundamentalists are playing on the hard. Religare sounds fine. But how?
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God Bless Anglo America
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Joke? No Joke!!
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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…
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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
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Occupied Palestinian Territory News and Update
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study
Alene Bouranova | Boston University Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
5 Jun 2024 – New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case – The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.
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(Italiano) Diritti umani come discorso oltre 60 anni dopo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
I diritti umani, incorporate nella costituzione francese del 1789 e riformulati come Dichiarazione Universale, sono un’importante conquista, prossima a una costituzione mondiale, pur non costituendo diritto internazionale, ma lo sono le Convenzioni – civil-politiche, economico-social-culturali del 16 dicembre 1966.
→ read full articleUpside Down World: Elections
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The Embarrassing 2024 US Empire Debate
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The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
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Unabated Efforts: Cambodia Continues Push to Help Resolve Myanmar Conflict
Hang Punreay | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – As the conflict in Myanmar continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the Foreign Affairs Ministry says Cambodia is committed to pushing for the implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point Consensus and the ability to hold talks with ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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UNSC Resolution Gaza Ceasefire 10 Jun 2024
UN Security Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Resolution 2735 (2024)
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Global Solidarity on Haiti’s Flag Day to Stop Foreign Intervention
Haiti Action Committee | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – May 18 marked Haitian Flag Day, commemorating the day in 1803 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and created the Haitian flag. Flag Day signifies Haitian sovereignty and commemorates ancestors who died fighting for freedom.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
How do Human Rights stand up as a discourse? Incorporated in the French constitution of 1789 and reformulated as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a major human achievement, close to a world constitution. It is not international law, but the Covenants of 16 Dec 1966 — civil-political, economic-social-cultural — are.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
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The French Connection: Knights of Malta, Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods (Part II)
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Zapata’s description of this criminal society that was known as the Compagnia della Garduna, was one of the earliest descriptions of this criminal brotherhood. More enduring than “the principality of Venice,” its traditional date of origin has been established by 19th century scholars as having begun in 1417.
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Sudan Internal Displacement Set to Top 10 Million as Famine Looms: IOM
UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The UN International Organization for Migration warns that the number of displaced inside Sudan could top 10 million in coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis escalates with famine and disease added to the havoc of violence.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocities, a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses? A sledgehammer for a toothache? Déjà vu.
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More Than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the atrocities in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 Oct, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said today.
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(Italiano) La mia visione per il Sudan
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Il mio compito al termine di questa conferenza davvero impressionante con 150 partecipanti qui a Hermannsburg nella Brughiera di Lüneburg è quello di sorvolare le scialbe, malriuscite attuazioni dei numerosi accordi di pace, riferirne le visioni e indicare le possibili soluzioni provate con successo altrove.
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Inspire to Action
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Keep staring…
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UN Experts Outraged by Israeli Strikes on Civilians Sheltering in Rafah Camps
UN Human Rights Commissioner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – Israeli air strikes on a camp for civilians in Rafah claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and elderly on Sunday 26 May. “Harrowing images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn apart and people burnt alive,” UN experts said.
→ read full articleMy Vision for Sudan
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Well known African proverb: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers, and, when elephants make love, the grass suffers even more.” You have two elephants let loose, the USA and China, both oil drunk. You have their drug. Some Sudan violence is a proxy war.
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On Johan Galtung’s Approach to Peace Studies
Burak Ercoşkun | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Peace studies and research are fascinating because they delve into some of the quintessential questions concerning human relations, behavior, cooperation, and conflict. So how should we define peace at this point?
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On-the-record Update on Situation in Gaza, Palestine
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – From Suze van Meegen, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head of operations in Gaza: “The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions.”
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Renowned Burmese Genocide Scholar & Rights Activist Sounds Rohingya Genocide Warning on BBC
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Dr Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND and Nobel Peace Prize nominee) told the BBC World Service Newsday on 22 May 2024 that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.
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Palestinian Resistance Denounces U.S. Floating Pier in Gaza
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – The pier, built at a cost of $320 million, is part of the enormous $26 billion in additional aid to Israel that Biden recently approved as part of the supplemental aid package. That package was a public statement of complete support for genocide in Gaza.
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The UK Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window into Big Pharma’s ‘Business with Disease’
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – From 1970s to 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK received blood transfusions contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. Authorities covered up; Bayer and Armour Pharmaceuticals knowing that treatments were infected continued to sell them anyway. The profit-driven nature of big pharma’s ‘business with disease.’
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Myanmar: Probability of Return to Peace and Restoration of Human Rights
Taing Rinith interviews Maung Zarni | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Maung Zarni, Myanmar peace activist and 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talks about peace and human rights.
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Genocide Joe
Paul Street | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
7 May 2024 – This morning the sorry-ass arch-imperialist warmonger Genocide Joe Biden did a nationally televised address painting the US campus protests against US-backed genocide in Gaza as a “violent,” “antisemitic,” and “chaos”-causing threat to the educational process and to the “rule of law.” F’ this guy.
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Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Israel Uses the Holocaust as a Cover for its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza – Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
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Yanis Varoufakis Sues the German State
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – In 2024, Europe Day is marked by the violation of the fundamental rights of European citizens. In the interests of Germans and everyone else who cherishes political freedom, the German state’s slide towards lawlessness and totalitarianism must be checked.
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Newcastle Student Investigates Roman 12-Sided ‘Mystery Objects’
Newcastle University Press Office - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
A Newcastle University doctoral student shares her expertise on mysterious Roman artefacts called dodecahedra.
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What Choice Do the Rohingya Have?
Maung Zarni | Democratic Voice of Burma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Who will protect the Rohingya in Myanmar? This is becoming an urgent question. And yet there are no easy answers. The latest tactic by the Myanmar military is the forceful conscription of Rohingya males to fight against the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army.
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Oxford Faculty on the Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment
University of Oxford Faculty & Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – As members of faculty and staff of the University of Oxford, we stand firmly in support of the encampment to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and from Israel’s apartheid regime against Palestinians and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Beyond Palestine: A Burmese Activist Salutes Anti-Genocide US Campus Protestors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – US students’ courageous and passionate activism is inspiring their peers in other institutions of higher learning in places as diverse as Waseda University in Tokyo, the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris, and Britain’s universities at Warwick and Bristol.
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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
April 2024 – Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced.
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Heart-Stopping Moment Bridge Is Wiped Out in ‘Apocalyptic’ Brazil Floods & Roads Turn to Rivers
The Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
3 May 2024 – Shocking footage shows the moment a bridge collapses and vanishes in “apocalyptic” Brazil floods that killed at least 32 people. The death toll is expected to rise as 60 people are reported missing in Rio Grande do Sul while the state suffers “its biggest disaster”.
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Ukraine War: Washington Moves on to Plan B
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Here’s what everyone needs to understand about Ukraine: The US has already moved on to Plan B, but the Biden administration has not issued an official statement; the shift has already begun. The Washington Brain-trust has abandoned any hope of winning the war outright.
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World Press Freedom Day: Journalists the “Ultimate Allies in Human Rights”
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
3 May 2024 – When I think of the values of journalism, I think of trust, truth and integrity. I think of the countless, fearless individuals daring to question. Daring to challenge power, risking their lives to document atrocities, corruption and crime, and to stand up against oppression.
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Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment with Weapons
Niko Georgiades | Unicorn Riot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Over more than five hours on Tue 30 Apr night, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed and threw fireworks at hundreds of college students and protesters in a “unilateral, surprise attack“ as they held UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment while security and police stood by idly.
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Israel Uses Foreign Mercenaries in Gaza
Steven Sahiounie | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – The international community is not only silent about Israel’s genocide but also sends foreign mercenaries to fight alongside IDF in Gaza. The US are trying to make the Kurds partners with Israel but many Kurds take the side of the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.
→ read full articleStill Thinking Conflict
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Hans Küng gives a number of examples of misguided policies by the present US and Israeli administrations. Not difficult to agree. But something even more basic than a new ethos also has to happen, like coming to terms with conflicts where the USA is involved. And exactly with the term conflict, how to think about conflict, let alone solving it.
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Senior UN Aid Official Urges Comprehensive Response to Haiti Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme official said today.
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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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The Years 1968 and 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – In 1968, the Vietnam War was the decisive moral issue of the time. In 2024, Israel’s genocidal warfare in Gaza is the decisive moral issue. The likelihood of an ugly Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza will lead to additional Palestinian deaths and to increased fury at home and abroad.
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‘Barbaric’ Sexual Violence in Sudan
UNOCHA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Reports of sexual violence reveal the war’s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls – especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan – continue to be recorded.
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Art… Signs of the Times
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Reverse Inspiration
→ read full articleHow the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”
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WATCH: US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – Video of UNSC meeting Thu [18 Apr] when the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech.
→ read full articleColleagues…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Comedy Hour
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Germany Bans Yanis Varoufakis from Entering the Country
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
13 Apr 2024 – The German Ministry of the Interior has issued a ban against DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis including online participation at political events in the country after the police shut down the Palestine Congress to take place from April 12 to 14 in Berlin.
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(Italiano) Dopo Impero USA: un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Nonviolenza, sofisticazione, mondo, e norme di traffico domestiche/nazionali anziché interminabile interventismo per qualunque scopo. Possa l’attuale miscela asiatica di antica saggezza ed energia giovanile ispirare un mondo saturo di pessimismo e paura.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Aprile 2024 – C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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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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United Nations Continues to Face Aid Access Denials in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in Geneva. “They deny and that is it, and it ends there. We do not get an explanation,” he said.
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Arakan Army Leadership Displays Deep-Seated Genocidal Racism Towards Rohingya in Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists display–-their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity–appears to be their Achilles’ heel.
→ read full articleJesus, Judas and Che Guevara
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
There is an exercise called Western Civilization, and a dramatic narrative at the center of that exercise with two persons in the key roles, Jesus and Judas. Easter times, now, are here to remind us of the drama.
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(Italiano) Ritorno di Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Oltre l’immane tragedia umana in svolgimento nell’atrocità di Gaza, prende forma una domanda: i dirigenti israeliani, politici e militari, hanno perso del tutto il lume della ragione? Un maglio per un mal di denti, quelle punture d’ago di razzi lanciati per rabbia, 8 uccisi – e allora ne uccidono 800?
→ read full articleGaza: World Court Issues Fresh Measures for Israel as Crisis Deepens
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
28 Mar 2024 – The International Court of Justice today issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.
→ read full articleBold Action Needed Now to Address ‘Cataclysmic’ Situation in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
28 Mar 2024 – Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti, the UN Human Rights Office said in a report issued today.
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Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
21 Mar 2024 – Exploring the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces, in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines.
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Israel’s Conscientious Objectors Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Ariel Gold | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
“Slaughter cannot solve slaughter,” 18-year-old Israeli-American Tal Mitnick said in Dec 2023 before receiving his first 30-day prison sentence for refusing to join Israel’s military.
→ read full articleAfter the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Nonviolence, sophistication, world, and domestic traffic rules as opposed to endless interventionism for whatever purpose. May the current Asian blend of age-old wisdom and youthful energy inspire a world filled with pessimism and fear.
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(Italiano) Globalizzare Dio: Religione e pace nelle scienze sociali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Le letture arcigne portano all’intolleranza o alla tolleranza malmustosa. Quanto mai necessari: rispetto e curiosità; dialogo e reciproco apprendimento. C’è tanta saggezza! La si selezioni! Si estrapoli conciliando! Si vada oltre i confini territoriali di stato e culturali di nazione, e di trascendano quelli mentali gelosamente protetti, fra le discipline e le religioni.
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“Never Again”: Arundhati Roy on Palestine at Delhi Press Club
Arundhati Roy | The Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Public meeting held at the New Delhi Press Club to voice opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Arundhati Roy’s statement is titled, “Never Again”.
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With Its Role in the Ukraine War the European Union May Risk Its Own Political Future
Michael von der Schulenburg and Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – The deteriorating military situation in Ukraine and the United States increasing withdrawal from it created a situation in which the EU is now pushed into the forefront in dealing with this problem.
→ read full articleGaza Redux
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung wrote this seminal Editorial in 2009 and is being republished to offer a context to Gaza 2024. What has changed? What remains the same? What devolved? What if…? Israel, beware the grave you are digging for yourself.
→ read full articleIsrael Tells UN It Will Reject UNRWA Food Convoys into Northern Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
24 Mar 2024 – Israeli authorities informed the United Nations today that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.
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(Deutsch) Mit ihrer Rolle im Ukrainekrieg könnte die Europäische Union ihre eigene politische Zukunft riskieren
Michael von der Schulenburg und Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Die für den Westen sich verschlechternde militärische Lage in der Ukraine und der zunehmende Rückzug der USA aus diesem Krieg haben eine Situation entstehen lassen, in der die EU nun aufgerufen ist, eine Führung bei der Lösung dieses Krieges zu übernehmen.
→ read full articleBlame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
No kidding…
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].
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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]
→ read full articleGlobalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect! Go beyond state-territorial and national-cultural borders, and transcend those jealously guarded borders in the mind, between disciplines and religions.
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On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.
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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis
Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.
→ read full articleGaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’–Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
15 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza has left a staggering 23 million tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Israel is celebrating its 76th anniversary of David Ben Gurion’s unilateral declaration of independence. And the bill for shoa is increasingly placed at the feet of Arabs in general, the Palestinians in particular, starting with al naqba, the horror of 711,000 chased out of their homes in Palestine, to camps, diasporas. To death. [Leading to the 2024 Genocide.]
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A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024): The Man for Just Peace
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“USA? I love the Republic, but I hate the Empire.” Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.
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International Women’s Day 2024 – UNSG Antonio Guterres Message
António Guterres, UN Secretary General - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women and girls around the world, and we applaud all they have achieved in the fight for equality. They have made great gains – demolishing barriers, dismantling stereotypes and driving progress towards a more just and equal world…
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Tell the Truth about Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on 29 Feb 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city. And yet, Western media headlines went out of their way to obscure and protect the perpetrators of this awful crime.
→ read full article(Italiano) Trasformazione del conflitto come modalità di vita
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
l conflitto è il nostro destino. Come lo sono i microrganismi, allora meglio imparare a maneggiare tali situazioni. L’esporsi al conseguimento di obiettivi bloccati dal conseguimento di altri obiettivi si può superare se la nostra capacità di resistenza è sufficiente, come un’infezione si può superare con il sistema immunitario.
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John Scales Avery–One of the Greatest Intellectuals of Our Time Passes Away
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
I’m informed of the passing of [TRANSCEND Member] John Scales Avery (26 May 1933 – 4 Jan 2024). He was 91. He was also a fierce peace activist. John was part of Pugwash Conferences that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was also chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
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Rohingya, the Palestinians of Southeast Asia: A Forgotten Genocide
Maung Zarni | VOICESEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
27 Feb 2024 – A talk with Maung Zarni, a scholar of genocide who explains the context in which Rohingya people are so marginalised and vulnerable that they have no choice but to seek asylum in neighboring countries. How can solidarity among people of the world advocate for the human rights of victims of genocide, people fleeing political persecution, conflicts, and other human rights violations?
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Who’s Brain-Dead Now, Macron?
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – Macron wants to start World War Three based on sheer lies and vanity. He’s not only brain-dead. He’s soul-dead too.
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US Airman Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The live-streaming of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on 25 Feb 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the genocide by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people. 30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.
→ read full articleBurma Undergoes Quasi-Balkanization and the Embattled Junta Resorts to Mass Conscription
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.
→ read full articleConflict Transformation as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
If you cannot remove conflict, why not adjust your thinking about it? Why not try and see conflict as the salt of life, the big energizer, the tickler, the tantalizer, rather than as a bothersome nuisance, as noise in perfect channel, as disturbing ripples in otherwise quiet waters?
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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.
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Father of Peace Journalism Passes Away, Leaves Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism.
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Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
L’Occidente ha respinto la religione nell’illuminismo-modernità-secolarismo, e sta adesso assistendo a una qualche rinascita religiosa. Allora la spiritualità entra come concetto sovrordinato, basato su elementi della maggior parte delle religioni e su valori laici.
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Confront the Principle, Not Episode
Mohammed Elnaiem | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.
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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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Nicaragua Formally Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – The government of Nicaragua has filed a formal application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel.
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