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A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”
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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc.
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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.
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Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.
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Which Rogue State? Israel and the New Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Russia invading Ukraine in the name of protecting its security interests from perceived threats on its border = wrong, evil, worst thing ever.
Israel invading Palestine, Lebanon, Syria…
Myanmar’s War Has Forced Doctors and Nurses into Prostitution
Sui-Lee Wee | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.
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Use of “Sunrise” and “Sunset” as Harmful Misinformation or Disinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Complicity of Science in Unquestionable Dissemination of Harmful “Fake News” – There is considerable confusion about how “harmful” is to be understood globally, as with the distinction between “misinformation”, “disinformation” and “fake news” in that regard.
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Educating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.
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Celebrating Biodiversity in India: Vasundhara Festival 2024
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Nov 2024 – Global leaders at COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan proposed solutions with top-down, corporate-driven frameworks— carbon credits and the digitalization of nature—which are part of a continuation of the colonial legacy of bio-imperialism. Critical analysis in our fact sheet: Understanding Biodiversity Credits.
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Craig Murray | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – Speaking from Beirut, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.
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The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture
Prof Anuradha Chenoy | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The BRICS difference can be read as decolonised multilateralism with intent and behaviour as an interdependent, plural grouping, committed to development linked to the global South.
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(Italiano) Opposizione e visione di futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dicembre 2024 – Come organizzare forme efficaci di opposizione? I cambiamenti sociali e politici più rilevanti sono stati iniziati da frange marginali che hanno saputo aggregare e coinvolgere. Bisogna esserne consapevoli e, poi, costruire una visione di futuro…
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
March 1947 – George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist. “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” In this vigorous essay, he derides the captivity of the Party line.
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US Backs Israel’s Land Grab in Syria
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The US State Department framed Israel’s incursion into Syrian territory as ‘self-defense.’
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(Italiano) La geopolitica della follia delle élite
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Mentre il mondo si trova contemporaneamente sull’orlo di una guerra nucleare in Asia centrale per la geopolitica della follia delle élite, manda in frantumi ogni residuo senso di “giustizia internazionale” non intraprendendo alcuna azione efficace per fermare il genocidio televisivo in Palestina…
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French Court Convicts French-Cameroonian Journalist Charles Onana for Speech Crime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – A French criminal court has convicted a journalist for writing dissident history about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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From Tyrant to Tyrant?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – Assad’s fall didn’t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It’s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.
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(Italiano) Per una formazione etica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Bambini e ragazzi sono sempre più esposti alle attenzioni del mondo militare, impegnato a promuovere delle scuole opportunità di studio e di esperienze per orientare i giovani verso gli ideali e le carriere militari.
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Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria in Two Days Following Assad’s Fall
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The Israeli military announced today the heaviest Israeli bombing of Syria in history. The IDF is said to be only 25km from Damascus.
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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Dec 2024
The Kakistocracy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Still Trump…
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Report from the Nordic Delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, 7-15 Sep 2024
Jan Oberg, et al. | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The initiative for the “Nordic Delegation to China” was from the Norwegians. Journalist Arild Vollan wanted to investigate claims in the media about an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China.
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How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. The current debt trajectory is clearly unsustainable, but what can be done about it?
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US Bombs over 75 Targets in Syria after Assad Falls
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The U.S. launched dozens of airstrikes on more than 75 targets in Syria yesterday amid ongoing Israeli and Turkish military attacks on the nation’s population. “The Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born—but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky,” said Yanis Varoufakis.
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From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Corporate media is heralding the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as Syria’s new leader, despite his ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from the Daily Telegraph UK suggesting he will construct a new Syria.
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(Italiano) A proposito di informazione. Un caso-studio: le Olimpiadi 2026
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
La tragedia che osserviamo rispetto alle Olimpiadi 2026, in un contesto come Milano dove ci sono dei movimenti che si danno da fare (comitato insostenibili Olimpiadi, …) è che di fronte a questo «treno in corsa», le Olimpiadi che stanno arrivando, quasi non si muove foglia.
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(Indonesian-bahasa Indo) Mengapa Elite Melakukan Great Reset Menghancurkan Dunia? Bagaimana Melawannya?
Robert J. Burrowes | Bergelora - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Sejak awal peradaban manusia 5.000 tahun yang lalu, orang-orang biasa seperti Anda dan saya telah terlibat dalam perjuangan tanpa henti untuk melawan upaya para elit, baik lokal, nasional, internasional atau global, untuk menegaskan kendali penuh atas kita dan sumber daya di sekitar kita.
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Syria Now
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.
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Mysterious Global Hotspots
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models are thrown into a tizzy.
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The Wound Is the Gift: David Whyte on the Relationship between Anxiety and Intimacy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
It takes a long time to know a person — to unbutton the costume of personality and unlace the corset of coping mechanisms in order to touch the naked soul. It is a process delicate and difficult, riven by anxiety and absolutely terrifying to both.
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The Overthrow of Assad Is as Seismic as the Fall of the Shah
Patrick Cockburn | inews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Islamist rebels captured Damascus on Sunday [8 Dec] after astonishingly feeble resistance from the Syrian armed forces. A former member of al-Qaeda will take power – and nobody knows what will happen next.
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Our Right to Sing — and Create the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs fell, children died. What if “freedom from war” were a human right?
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Meetings at The Hague Reveal Crisis and Turmoil, as State Representatives Grapple with Israeli Warrants
David Kattenburg | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – At a recent convening at The Hague, state representatives to the ICC agonized over the disastrous implications for the international rules-based order should Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant evade accountability for war crimes in Gaza.
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Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself
Uriel Araujo | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Donald Trump stated on 9 Dec that Ukraine lost around 400,000 soldiers in its armed conflict with Russia: “This is a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”
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US Hypocrisy Reaches a New Level: Israel’s Occupation of Syria Is ‘Security,’ Russia’s Moves in Ukraine Are ‘Aggression’
Nadezhda Romanenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Netanyahu’s reasoning for his latest land grab lays bare the stark hypocrisy of his Western supporters.
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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – The Path to Disaster – What is the future likely to bring? Try to look at the human species from the outside. Imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer trying to figure out what’s happening here or imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now.
→ read full articleVisualizing the Coherent Configuration of Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Faced with the challenges of the times, many initiatives could be claimed to be “logical” or “rational”. Many initiatives of the past were held to be rational and appropriate, although history now calls such appreciation into question.
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The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – Over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.
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China Bans Export of Critical Minerals to US as Trade Tensions Escalate
Amy Lv and Tony Munroe | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – China today banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington’s latest crackdown on China’s chip sector.
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We the People: Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the United Nations
Jorgen Johansen | Irene Publishing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The United Nations internal justice system ignores or harms the vast majority of its whistleblowers, sobering new book documents.
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(Italiano) A lode del non-allineamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dicembre 2024 – Questo editoriale è stato originariamente pubblicato il 22 marzo 2010 – #105. Lo riproponiamo per la sua rilevanza in quanto allusione a USA/NATO come terrorismo di stato da guerra nucleare per eccellenza.
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Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, et al. | International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
In collaboration with the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, PeaceMOMO, and an international group of scholars and peace leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the U.S., and Europe, we are proud to share this Report.
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Who Are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – If and when the military conflicts and civil wars in Syria, Myanmar, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will be the world’s arms manufacturers. Revenues by the top 100 companies reached $632 billion in 2023. Homo Sapiens? Think again.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Dec 2024
(Castellano) Reseña: Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung
Beatriz Martínez Pérez | Dykinson Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Cosmología, Conflicto, Violencia y Paz – Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung by Beatriz Martínez Pérez; Dykinson Books; ISBN 9788410707252; 181 pp; Madrid 2024
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Food NOT Bombs!
Submitted by James Albertini | Malu Aina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – As the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intensifies the offensive after capturing Aleppo, Washington distances itself from the attack although its complicity was laid bare in leaked cables: Al-Qaeda “is on our side in Syria.”
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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy.
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’” – Eduardo Galeano
Syria War Live News: Al-Assad in Russia; Search for Detainees at Sednaya Prison
Stephen Quillen and Umut Uras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow; has been granted asylum. Israeli forces seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights and carried out dozens of air strikes across Syria. UNSG Antonio Guterres: “After 14 years of brutal war and the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity to build a stable and peaceful future.”
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Tearing Down Our Emotional Walls
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – War, war and more war. It’s possible because of the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. Is there a way to get things to change?
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Forced Recruitment Causing Serious Problems in Ukrainian Society
Lucas Leiroz | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – Ukraine’s unpopular mobilization measures are causing serious problems in the country and worsening internal tensions. Ukrainians have spoken about conscription, revealing the brutal reality behind the Kiev’s army.
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(Français) 25e Anniversaire de la Déclaration et du Programme d’Action des Nations Unies sur Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1er décembre 2024 – En septembre 1999, l’Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies a adopté cette Déclaration, que beaucoup ont comparée à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme. Ayant été profondément impliqué dans sa préparation, j’ai pensé qu’il serait approprié d’en fournir les détails historiques.
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Over 100 Countries Want an Ambitious Plastics Treaty as Oil-producing Nations Are Getting in the Way
Joseph Winters | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”
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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database of War Crimes in Gaza
Nadav Rapaport and Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – Internationally recognised Israeli historian Lee Mordechai concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting war crimes.
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No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear–>Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Often, the pulse-beats of chaos that feel most unsurvivable are those which artists must most urgently interpret in order for us to indeed survive. It’s the task of the artist as a grounding and elevating force in turbulent times.
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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.
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Genocide and Coloniality
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – I am frequently asked about the future. To answer pragmatically and logically requires a sober assessment of the variables towards a sustainable future. You do not have to be a researcher to realize that our species is in deep trouble.
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The Holocaust of Our Time
Susan Abulhawa | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Servic,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – If the world were watching the livestreamed systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le sfide della riconversione
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dicembre 2024 – Nell’articolo precedente si è rivolta l’attenzione soprattutto a sottolineare la crescente militarizzazione nel mondo e nel nostro Paese, e ad alcune conseguenze che ciò porta al mondo del lavoro.
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Beyond Trump and Nukes: Unmaking War, Remaking Men
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Trump as a macho warrior. What if his “machismo” is a psychological trait which increases the likelihood that he will impulsively order a nuclear strike to prove that he (the U.S.) is “the boss”?
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25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – In September 1999, the UNGA adopted this Declaration, which many have compared to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Having been involved in its preparation, I provide the historical details.
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(Italiano) Riscaldamento globale: 12 approcci
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Si fa un gran parlare di riscaldamento globale, giustamente. Ma servono idee concrete per passare dalle parole ai fatti, magari con preoccupazioni che fan capolino in fondo alla mente:
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The United States Raises a Middle Finger to the International Criminal Court
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the US confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lavorare per la guerra?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Novembre 2024 – Negli ultimi 20 anni – grazie al lavoro appassionato e scrupoloso di studiosi, attivisti e giornalisti – è stato possibile fornire al pubblico notizie sempre più accurate e puntuali sui flussi di denaro che in Italia e nel mondo accompagnano la costruzione e la realizzazione di politiche aggressive e violente.
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In Besieged Beit Lahiya, Rubble and Decomposing Corpses Line the Streets
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Thousands of Palestinians in the city are facing relentless bombardment and famine as the Israeli army ramps up efforts to ethnic-cleanse northern Gaza.
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Stripped and Held at Gunpoint, Gaza Schoolboys ‘Forced to Be Israel’s Human Shields’
Bel Trew | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Palestinians as young as 12 describe how they, dressed in military fatigues, were forced to inspect houses and roads to look for tunnels and militants, in a practice an Israeli NGO warns is ‘broadly used’ and ‘systemic.’
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ChatGPT Turns 2: Evolution of Groundbreaking AI Chatbot
Muhammed Yasin Güngör | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Launched on 30 Nov 2022, ChatGPT reached 1 million users within five days and surpassed 100 million in just two months. On Oct 2024 it had 200 million weekly active users worldwide. ChatGPT Plus has around 10 million paying subscribers.
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New Powder That Captures Carbon Could Be ‘Quantum Leap’ for Industry
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use.
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Understanding ICC’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazis to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated, to Israel’s in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
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Rogue Israel Destroys 37 Towns, over 40,000 Houses in Deadly Onslaught on Lebanon
Ahmed Asmar | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – More than 3,000 people killed, 13,500 injured in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanese authorities.
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Biden’s Last Hurrah against Russia and Putin
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Frustration Escalates for the Lame Duck US President – He is no longer talking about his failed policy in the Middle East, though US bombs still flow to Israel for deadly use. Biden is now trying to stem the losses in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
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(Français) Pollution de l’air à Delhi : un révélateur des inégalités
Aurélie Leroy | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – A Delhi, les niveaux de pollution ont atteint des seuils alarmants ces derniers jours, supérieur aux normes de l’OMS. La quatrième phase du Plan d’urgence: fermeture des écoles, l’arrêt des chantiers, l’interdiction de circulation des camions et la suspension des activités industrielles.
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Conscientious Objectors Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Army: “Get Out of Gaza Now!”
Mesarvot | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – “Human lives are equally valuable, no matter the ethnic or political line we were born on. We all want and deserve peace, quiet, and security. For over a year the IDF has conducted widespread military operations in the dense Gaza strip. For the sake of humanity and of all, this must stop.”
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Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on BRICS if They Act to Undermine US Dollar
Fatima Hussein | AP/Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
30 Nov 2024 – His threat was directed at nine countries in the BRICS alliance: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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Internet Quick Ones…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
How do trees get on the Internet?
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Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Dostoyevsky contemplates the paradox of people-pleasing: ‘I am interested only in the question, is it, or is it not, good that I have pleased everybody?’ Under the heading “On the Subject That We All Are Good Fellows,” he discusses our deepest goodness.
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Netanyahu’s Boycott of Haaretz Won’t Stop Us Reporting the Grim Truth about Israel’s Wars
Aluf Benn | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us.
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Duty Free: Life and Luxury beyond the Nation-State
Vanessa Ogle | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
What globalization has come to look like for the rich.
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Sudan’s ‘Invisible Crisis’ – Where More Children Are Fleeing War Than Anywhere Else
Lyse Doucet | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Nearly five million Sudanese children have lost everything, pushed from place to place in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Famine has been declared and, on the brink of starvation, they don’t know where their next meal will come from.
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Swimming in Mud in the Fifth Circle of Hell
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
14 Nov 2024 – Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’ – a right that is intimately tied to liberalism – cultivates a politics of anger.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 2 Dec 2024
Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
24 Nov 2024 – The marketing of a new military tech tool powered by Meta’s artificial intelligence is “irresponsible” and “clumsy,” experts said.
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Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
Deborah Barsky | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?
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‘Genocide’ vs ‘Bigger Genocide’ in Gaza: Time to Decolonize Our Minds
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
30 Nov 2024 – It is time to abandon our colonial past, or present, where western leaders are masters and our peoples mere subjects struggling to survive. Fanon discovered the cure: “We must clinically detect and remove the rot, not only from our land but from our minds as well.”
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The U.S. National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
Matthew Guarigliae | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
White House: The national security state is expected to take up a leadership position by poaching great minds from academia and the private sector and leveraging private AI models for US national security objectives.
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Mexico’s President Hits Back at Trump’s Threat with Fiery Letter, Blames U.S. for Arming Criminals
Alex Griffing | Mediaite - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pulled no punches today replying to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a sweeping 25% tariff on her country unless she stops illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the U.S.
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The BRICS Effect
Brahma Chellaney | The Strategist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
21 Oct 2024 – A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming increasingly multipolar, countries are jostling to establish their positions in the emerging order.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.
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Kenya High Court Strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its Legal Immunities and Tax Exemptions
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – The High Court of Kenya struck a blow against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suspending controversial legal immunities and privileges awarded to it. The ruling raises important questions about the power and privileges wielded by super-wealthy philanthrocapitalists operating in developing countries.
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Solidarity with Imran Khan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses total solidarity with detained former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been imprisoned since August 2023 by a military regime with a civilian facade in Islamabad.
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From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.
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A Holiday Message: Thanksgiving Day 2024
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – This year Thanksgiving Day assumes an especially problematic character, not because of the past but because of the present. For me it is better observed in the spirit of A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND REMORSE.
→ read full articleStrategic Paralysis through Ignoring Higher Dimensional Articulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024 – AI Assistance in Engaging Meaningfully with Complexity Beyond Oversimplification – The future may characterize the present period as one of strategic paralysis in the face of a polycrisis.
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Gaza Bombardment Worsens Superbug Outbreaks
Misbah Khan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections.
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‘I Would Have Dropped Three Nuclear Bombs’
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – Talking to Israelis about the War in Gaza
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Now What?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
US of A – 18 Nov 2024
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Facing Genocide while Disabled
Yousef Aljamal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. Palestinians with disabilities have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the collapse of the healthcare system.
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Rwanda, DRC and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 4): Africa’s Israel and the BRICS/NATO Punch and Judy Show
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
27 Oct 2024 – The early formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as an underground movement was as close in character to a mafia family as it was to a political and military movement. Members took an oath on joining.
→ read full articleTrump Will Exploit Fear of Russia to Dominate Europe’s Security Policies, Says Academic Maung Zarni
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – “US policy towards Europe will be anchored in the attempt to make Europeans feel insecure about Russia. I think it’s going to create major internal societal upheavals within European society.”
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