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The Man in the Mirror: A Glimpse at the Heart and Mind behind TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
After spending a year of military service guarding the Brazilian President in Brasilia, he was arrested and tortured by agents of the 1964 coup d’état regime who suspected him of being a Communist based on a membership card to the Brazil-Russia Cultural Union. The 20-year-old had joined to learn how to play chess… Antonio told me he felt rage, powerlessness and the urge for revenge… But he found another way.
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Joe Biden’s Armageddon, from Gaza to Ukraine
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – The White House newly prioritizes hegemony over humanity.
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The Future of TRANSCEND
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
30 Oct 2023 – It is high time to plan for the future of TRANSCEND. Johan just turned 93. A few weeks ago, Antonio C. S. Rosa, Marilyn Langlois and I spent precious time together in Portugal where Antonio lives. There is minimal awareness and understanding of the field of “conflict resolution.” Here are some ideas.
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Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress
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30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – In 2019, GPT-2 could not reliably count to ten. Only four years later, deep learning systems can write software, generate photorealistic scenes, advise on intellectual topics, and combine language and image processing to steer robots. In this short consensus paper, we outline risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. We examine large-scale social harms and malicious uses.
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Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza Must End
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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White House Says Continued Civilian Slaughter “Is Going to Happen” in Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press on Tuesday [24 Oct] that the continued killing of civilians in Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza “is going to happen”.
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It’s a Little Bit Bomby in Gaza Today
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
It’s a little bit bomby in Gaza today,
at least that’s what the news men say.
(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio di Israele a Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Gli USA e Israele sono nati allo stesso modo, come popolo eletto di Dio con tanto di terre promesse, ricorrendo al sociocidio e al genocidio (gli USA). Senza cambiar politica possono declinare e cadere anche allo stesso modo. E magari presto.
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Israel’s Ambassador Calls for UN Chief to Resign after Comments about Gaza Massacre
SBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan: “I think that the Secretary General must resign.” He was referring to Guterres’ speech to the UNSC yesterday, when he said it was ‘important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum’ and that the Palestinian people had been ‘subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.’
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The Final Scene
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The USA–its vassal train in tow–is committing moral suicide in Palestine. The political consequences will be profound, and as enduring as the complete discrediting of the country’s standing as a positive presence in world affairs.
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(Italiano) Palestina e Israele: come sarebbe la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Le visioni/intuizioni di Galtung son quanto mai rilevanti oggi in vista della pulizia ernica degli abitanti di Gaza da parte IDF, debitamente disinfettata, banalizzata, normalizzata dalle narrazioni dei telegiornali mondiali. Il riferimento a Hamas del presidente Biden come ‘l’altra squadra’ rivela le loro mentalità: si tratta di una partita, non una faccenda di vita e di morte per i 2 milioni d’abitanti di Gaza massacrati mentre ne parliamo. È tragico che le guerre vincano le elezioni nelle (cosiddette) democrazie dell’Occidente.
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Confessions of a Think Tank Junkie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Expanding on Caitlin Johnstone’s Brilliant Analysis
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Whiter Shades of Pale (Music Video of the Week)
Bevox – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Exquisite!!
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
30 Oct – 5 Nov 2023
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Richmond, California Becomes First U.S. City to Declare Support for Palestinians Amid Israel-Gaza Massacre
Katie Lauer | The Mercury News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Nearly five hours of public testimony preceded the 5-1 vote yesterday night.
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We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
NO Joke
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Karma of the Nation
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
We must remember that karma is actually a law of physics. Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale it is also a natural law, only it is called the law of karma. Individuals acquire karma as a result of their good or bad activities.
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(Português) A Desumanidade Atual: Perdeu-se a Humanidade do Ser Humano?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 out 2023 – Nietzsche repetiu muitas vezes que o desumano pertence também ao humano dado a nossa condição humana ser simultaneamente racional e irracional, caótica e harmoniosa. O que as maiorias da humanidade desejam desesperadamente é um mundo onde todos possam caber em paz, com o suficiente e o decente para todos, na mesma Casa Comum, agora em guerra e sob o fogo.
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All of Palestine Is under Attack
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine the scale of death and destruction in Gaza. Let us be clear: This is genocide. This isn’t a war on Hamas. It’s a war on the Palestinian people.
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The Lights Are Off – Here’s What We Know about Life and Death Inside Gaza
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – In a chilling interview on this week’s “Deconstructed,” Ryan Grim speaks with Maram Al-Dada, who has been in regular touch with his family in Gaza as they’ve been killed one after the other.
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Igniting a Peace Fire, Even as War Rages
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Here’s some advice about parenting: Write your child’s name on his or her leg or stomach, so that when your building is bombed, the child can be identified from the rubble. Mothers in southern Gaza are doing this now.
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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.
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Israeli Airstrike on Gaza City Hospital Kills at Least 500 People
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – An Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has killed more than 500 people. “This is genocide. This is a war crime,” a Red Crescent Society representative said.
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The Roots of Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Israel has always chosen occupation and supremacy over peace and security.
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Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – As Israel intensifies its brutal response to Hamas’ 7 Oct attacks, it is important to hear from those at the target end of the weapons – from both sides of the conflict. The mainstream media in the US consistently brings us only the voices of Israelis who have suffered violence.
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Europe’s Largest News Aggregator Orders Editors to Play Down Palestinian Deaths
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Upday, an app owned by the German media giants Axel Springer, is instructing journalists to cover the war in Gaza with a pro-Israel bent as Israeli bombing raids virtually eliminated internet access in the Gaza Strip.
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Optimistic Day 16
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023 – I remain optimistic on day 16 of the horrific onslaught on the people of Gaza; optimistic that we can stop large scale US/Israeli genocide in Gaza. But most of all I am optimistic because the Zionist onslaught (targeting hospitals, schools, universities, bakeries, residential buildings, mosques, churches, wiping out whole families) has ignited the global uprising that I and others have been calling for and predicting for a long time.
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US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – The US vetoed today a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave.
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Western Media’s Parroting of Official Lies Is Paving Way to Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – How did we get to the point where Israel can order half of Gaza’s population – more than one million people – to move from the north of their tiny prison to the south of their tiny prison? Catastrophe looms because journalists have failed to hold both Israel and their own governments to account.
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Saving Israel and Palestine through the United Nations
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Following Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians, Israeli military strategists are threatening the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. This would be another Nakba, akin to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. If Israel commits war crimes in Gaza in the face of global calls for restraint, Israel would put its fundamental national security at risk.
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Palestine/Israel: A Textbook Case of Genocide
Raz Segal | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans and expel them into Egypt is another chapter in the Nakba where 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes for the creation of the State of Israel. The assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide.
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Gaza in the Interest of Humanity: “Stop This Insanity!”
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The Israeli government is committing war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. They are breaking international law, which prohibits the collective punishment of civilian populations. For peace, an immediate ceasefire, dialogue and negotiations in Gaza!
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – NO Joke
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The Truth about Gaza
Norman Finkelstein | The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Here’s What You Need to Know about Gaza’s History
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Hamas-Israelis: Is Mediation Possible?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – As the Israeli-Hamas conflict intensifies, the situation looks as if it were on a downward spiral. There seems to be little possibility for mediation, but we must keep our eyes open as the non-governmental avenue may be the most likely for progress.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict: Saga of Peacemaking, Equal Rights and Two States
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
History Offers Lessons for Change, Human Equality and Peacemaking – We, the People of globe, ask the global conscientious leaders to avoid the upcoming epicenter of cataclysm and listen to voices of reason for an immediate ceasefire.
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Instagram/Facebook Censored Image of Gaza Hospital Bombing, Claims It’s Too Sexual
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – In responses to users who tried to post pictures of the Gaza hospital bombing, Instagram and Facebook said they violated guidelines for sexual content or nudity.
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A Blow to the Strategy of Power
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Fifty years after the surprise of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel has once again been taken by surprise. Israel’s fundamental security conception – based solely on its military superiority vis-à-vis its enemies – has received a crushing blow. Peace is essential to our ability to survive in the Middle East.
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Israel’s Culture of Deceit
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
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What Must Be Said
Gunter Grass, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
The Nobel Laureate’s controversial poem about Israel may have lacked elegance, but it was also a dire warning about war with Iran that has irritated, provoked and outraged people everywhere.
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G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles.
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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story.
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Dr. Gabor Maté on Israel and Palestine: A Must-Watch Discussion
Dr. Gabor Maté - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Dr. Gabor Maté, a famous psychologist and author, goes deeply into the complex and long-standing Israel/Palestine issue and provides a unique viewpoint on this important global issue for you to be informed, enlightened, and inspired.
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Nonviolence Is the Missing Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Ali Abu Awwad | Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – I’m a Palestinian nonviolence leader for my people’s freedom and I will never be a victim of the Israeli occupation or a prisoner of hate.
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The Mask Is Off: Gaza Has Exposed the Hypocrisy of International Law
Wesam Ahmad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The mask that has long obscured the true nature and purpose of “international law” is finally off. The sinister truth: international justice is used as a tool to advance imperial interests, and not justice.
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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the crime of genocide by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, but the gravity of the current situation demands it. 791 Signatories
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Let Them Eat Cement
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023 – Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. The U.S. and its Western allies are as morally bankrupt and as complicit in genocide as those who witnessed the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and did nothing.
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Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire Are Keys to Universal History
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
I would like to go a little deeper into the longer wave of history shaping our presently confused age by taking a look at the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria (8-11th century CE).
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Israel and the Weaponization of Empathy
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Selective empathy is not empathetic at all.
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Atrocity Propaganda
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – Israel and its supporters in the West are helping to provide psychological cover for an ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians.
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Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations because the UN Charter is wrong. The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.
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Stunning US State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk
Akbar Shahid Ahmed | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, in messages circulated today US State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm,” according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.
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Former Ambassador and Assange Advocate Craig Murray Detained under UK Terror Laws
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs.
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Bare Bones
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestine Israel
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (170 books written in 60 years, +++).
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Struggles for a Just Multipolar World: Obstacles and Opportunities
Prof. Joseph A. Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and I, in an attempt to constructively react to a changing international landscape, invite you to a conversation with four leading thinkers from China, Iran, Russia and the United States on Sunday, 29 Oct 2023. Please see flyer enclosed for full details.
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Israel Either/Or, or Not
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
In the USA, a Fox poll asked, “In Middle East conflict, who do you side with more—Israelis or Palestinians?” ‘Side with’ means to have an opinion on who is in the right. Either Palestinians are right to strike against a repressive settler state, or Israelis are right to repress dangerous Palestinians. Pick one.
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The US/NATO/EU World Now Accepts Defence through Genocide
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
21 Oct 2023 – In civilisational terms war is a backward, primitive thing that solves no conflicts and creates no security. It’s a system of structural evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is the black-and-white, simplified narrative that there is only one evil party: Gazans/Hamas.
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‘Al-Aqsa Flood Operation’ Day 13: Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Stalls as Israel Renews Airstrikes
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Johan Galtung’s insights are crucially relevant today in view of the ethnic cleansing of Gazans by the IDF—duly sanitized, trivialized, normalized by TV News Media narratives. Pres. Biden’s reference to Hamas as ‘the other team’ reveals their mindsets: it’s a game, not a matter of life and death for the 2 million being massacred as we speak. It is tragic that wars win elections in the (so called) democracies of the West.
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Reporters without Borders Launches Global ‘Collateral Damage’ Campaign
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – Developed in partnership with the French advertising agency BETC, the campaign depicts Assange with his facial features made up of the logos of media organisations that initially ran stories based on WikiLeaks in 2010.
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Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics
Karuna Mantena | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Abstract: The contemporary literature on nonviolent politics relies upon a sharp distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence. Gandhi and King are associated with the latter, defined as a strict moral commitment to nonviolence that both scholars and activists view as unnecessary for the successful practice of nonviolent politics. I argue the distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence is misleading.
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Damning Evidence of War Crimes as Israeli Attacks Wipe out Entire Families in Gaza
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023 – As Israeli forces continue to intensify their cataclysmic assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has documented unlawful Israeli attacks, including indiscriminate attacks, which caused mass civilian casualties and must be investigated as war crimes.
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Women Facing Discrimination
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
In India and several Southern countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives and several countries of South Africa and South America, women generally face discrimination and get less regard and recognition in comparison to men.
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Teachers for the United Nations and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Dedicated to the United Nations Day, 24 October
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The Religious Transformative Odyssey of Bharat (Part 2): Manipur
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Propagation of Hindu Nationalism with Destruction of Democracy and Systematic Erosion of Human Rights
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White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023 – Today, the Biden administration rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. White House officials say over $50 billion will go to US weapons manufacturers.
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How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right than understand — the situation, the context, the motives and vulnerabilities behind the actions, the basic fact of the other.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 93rd birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOHAN!
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
23-29 October 2023
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(Italiano) Questione arabo-ebraica in Palestina
M. K. Gandhi | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Un articolo che Gandhi scrisse per il giornale «The Harijan» e pubblicato il 26 novembre 1938, quanto mai attuale in questi giorni e quanto mai non compreso, allora, purtroppo.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 3: Israeli Defense Minister Orders Full Siege of Gaza “No Power, No Food, No Gas”
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau | TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Fighting between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas in Gaza, continued into their third day today, as Israel declared a complete siege of Gaza.
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The Religious Transformative Odyssey of Bharat (Part 1): Nationalism or Democracy
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
“The Government of Bharitiya Janata Party, in India, is practicing Islamic cleansing and Hindu Nationalism under the guise of a pseudo-democracy on 1.3 billion citizenry resulting in significant Peace Disruption.”
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CNN Interview Cuts Through Pro-Israel Propaganda on Gaza
Fareed Zakaria | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Barghouti argues that Hamas’ attack on Israel was a response to the Israeli occupation, and that Palestinians, like Ukrainians, are fighting for their freedom.
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Hell Is Not Predestined
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – Humanity’s cancer in Israel and Palestine: Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands die, many of them (oh God, of course) children. Israeli Defense Minister declares: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. . . . We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza; no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything will be closed.”
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European Leaders Pledge Support for Israel, Condemn Hamas and Halt Palestinian Aid
Fatima Al-Kassab | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Landmark buildings around Europe, including 10 Downing Street in London and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, have lit up with the Israeli flag — and some cities have seen pro-Palestinian protests — as governments across the continent convened emergency meetings to respond to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Sahara Desert, and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
In Dec1940, two years before he created ‘The Little Prince’ and four years before he disappeared over the Bay of Biscay, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began writing ‘Letter to a Hostage’ while waiting in Portugal for admission into the USA.
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Conservative Jones and the Mystery of the Recalcitrant Democrats
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 This Modern World
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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
Stephen Sefton | Kawsachun News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily by US and Canadian troops and by the MINUSTAH, always under the clear direction of the governments of the USA, Canada and France.
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India’s Case against Arundhati Roy Is a Big Red Flag for Free Speech
Karin Deutsch Karlekar | MSNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – In the absence of free expression, other freedoms are quick to die.
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Enough Is Enough, and Not Enough
Udaya R. Tennakoon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
What a terrible world,
Innocents’ dreams murder,
where and who a human being lives, so-called
How does the Earth bear?
It’s Not the ‘Israel-Hamas War’, It’s the Israel-Gaza Massacre
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Calling it the Israel-Hamas war creates the false impression that this is a war that is directed exclusively at Hamas when it’s really an ethnic purge that’s directed at all Palestinians in Gaza.
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History of the Gaza Strip
Maha Nassar | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – Why the History of the Densely Populated Enclave Is Key to Understanding the Current Conflict
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What Is the White Phosphorus That Israel Is Accused of Using in Gaza?
Areesha Lodhi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Human Rights Watch says the Israeli military recently used white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon and Gaza. This wax-like, toxic substance burns at temperatures high enough to melt metal.
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(Italiano) Ultimo atto di una tragedia: Chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Il brutale attacco terroristico di Hamas contro civili israeliani suscita orrore e non può che essere condannato senza se e senza ma. Per capire, non certo per giustificare, proviamo a riassumere i dati salienti, partendo dai fatti degli ultimi giorni, ma allargando lo sguardo ad un contesto più ampio che aiuti, per quanto possibile, a decifrarli.
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This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
14 Oct 2023 – Washington and European governments are cheerleading Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence throughout the region.
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The Traits That Make Us Human
Piero P. Giorgi, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – The article touched many aspects of the relationship between artificial intelligence and creativity except those that characterise Homo Sapiens, that is “the traits that make us human”, so well stated in the title but so badly ignored in the text. Lack of academic rigour?
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Ari Ben-Menashe on Israeli Black Operations
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Oct 2023 – Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli military intelligence operative, revealed how Israel used proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran to finance black operations and false flag terrorism.
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US Military to Move a Carrier Strike Group in Support of Israel
Tara Copp | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group will sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to assist Israel. The Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, its 5,000 sailors, deck of warplanes, cruisers and destroyers represent a show of force ready to respond to anything.
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Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the Israeli occupier.
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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.
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(Italiano) Gaza–Uscire dalla reciproca morte
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Anche oggi un continuo fluire di notizie dolorose e di commenti ambivalenti, gli uni incitano la guerra, altri soffrono e cercano appigli per la vita.
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The Savagery of the War against the Palestinian People
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children that will have hidden in their homes listening to the sounds of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer.
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Enough!
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – Mother Palestine
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change
Gloria Guillo | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement?
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Muslims in Narendra Modi’s India
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Hindu nationalist B.J.P. encourages young Hindu men to physically attack Muslims by brandishing their patriotism and faith. Even a rumour that a Muslim family ate beef for dinner or a Muslim man ferried a cow to a slaughterhouse can prove fatal in the hinterlands today.
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Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
16-22 October 2023
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(Italiano) Immoral Code: militarizzazione delle tecnologie informatiche e rischi nucleari
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Immoral Code è una video-indagine in cui viene chiesto ad alcun* rappresentanti della società civile di esprimere il loro parere su situazioni in cui è, o potrebbe essere considerato moralmente e socialmente accettabile uccidere altri esseri umani.
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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – After Hamas launched a surprise attack, Israeli Defense Forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people but Western media have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as spokespersons for IDF.
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