Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italiano) Famiglia Scuola Lavoro: bullismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
24 Dicembre 2024 – I tre pilastri delle nostre società, la Famiglia che passa figli ragionevolmente socializzati alle Scuole, che a loro volta passano studenti ragionevolmente istruiti al Lavoro, che a sua volta passa cittadini inutili alla pattumiera detta Pensionamento – questi pilastri sono carichi di violenza.
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On Mitigating Ageing: An Advertisement for Myself
Richard Falk, Margaret W. Crane | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Nonagenarian Richard Falk’s Long, Fruitful Post-Retirement – ‘With some embarrassment, and a bit of pride, I publish Margaret Crane’s interview for her newsletter on ageing. I thought that being asked what it means to be THIS old, I would learn something about my state of mind and of being-in-the-world.’
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 2): Criando Eretz Yisrael para Remodelar a Ordem Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
À medida que o programa multifacetado das Elites para remodelar a ordem mundial, capturar a propriedade e o controle de todos os recursos-chave, matar uma proporção substancial da população humana, e impor uma ditadura tecnocrática sobre os “transumanos” que sobraram vivos, avança rapidamente.
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Preparing for the Emergence of Collective Awareness
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Emergency Preparedness Understood Otherwise with AI Assistance – There is currently an unusual degree of global focus on emergency preparedness. This extends beyond the long-standing concerns with national security.
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Yanis Varoufakis: What to Watch for in 2025 – Trump, the US Dollar, China
DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
31 Dec 2024 – Yanis Varoufakis dives into the key global trends and challenges shaping 2025 and breaks down what these developments mean for the world economy and politics.
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The Promethean Power of Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In every creative life there comes a time when the animating spark grows dim and the muscle of motivation slackens, you feel benumbed to beauty, suffocating in the exhaust fume of your own exertion, ossified with the tedium of being yourself. We call those moments burnout.
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Zuckerberg and Musk Have Shown that Big Tech Doesn’t Care about Facts
Jasper Jackson | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The online information ecosystem has been in critical condition, but the prognosis is more dire. The two billionaires, who between them control a huge chunk of our communications infrastructure, have made it clear that they are not interested in the truth. Ahead of Trump’s second term, 2025 will herald a new era of disinformation.
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No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: Arbitrary Killings & Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
23 Dec 2024 – ‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the Neztarim corridor is shot to death, counting as a terrorist–even if just a child.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 13 Jan 2025
31 Surefire Ways to Make Me Lose Interest in Your Thoughts about the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – I have learned that there are many people who just aren’t going to have anything worthwhile to say, because their worldviews are too clouded with confusion and bullshit for them to offer a lucid perspective on much of anything.
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Genocide: The New Normal
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.
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Canada: Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down
Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada and as the leader of the Liberal Party took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa.
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Trumpian North Americanism
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – At the end of 2024, Donald Trump made a statement to the effect that Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal should become part of the US territory.
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Palestine: Why Context Is Important
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The genocide in Gaza has entered its 15th month. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed so far by Israel. 17,000 of them are children. This is the largest number of children killed in a genocide over a fourteen-month period.
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A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Ehud Shapiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – The sheer majority of people in the Middle East, and in the world, yearn for peace. Yet a violent extremist minority, in Israel and the Arab world, commits the region to endless war. The key to peace is the security of all states and peoples in the region.
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Gunfire Near Presidential Palace in Chad Sparks Confusion and Media Frenzy
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – A series of gunshots rang out near the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, on the evening of January 8. Initial reports from various sources put forward scenarios from an attempted coup to an attack by members of the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Studio B | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Maria Ressa speaks to computer scientist Prof. Mike Wooldridge about the promise and the dangers of AI. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her investigative journalism on corruption in the Philippines.
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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”
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The Columnist
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Fact Checking
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Which Is the Best Winner?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Compare
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Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung’s conflict theory.
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Fire Weather
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
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Dr Abu Safiya Symbolized Humanity in Gaza–Israel and the West Are Destroying It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – Israel isn’t eradicating ‘the terrorists’. It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
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The U.S. and Humor from Hell
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good to fellow citizens if chosen for leadership.
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Gaza Death Toll 40% Higher Than Official Number, Lancet Study Finds
The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza by the end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65.
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Shambhala Prophecy Fulfilled?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – “Every day, Israel is killing 50 to 100 or more Palestinians in Gaza, who are already enduring unbearable suffering. 70% of those killed are women and children, which reflects the composition of the population.
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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq… into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of their military power serves as the primary target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure.”
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How the West Destroyed Syria
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
11 Jan 2025 – Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including as ambassador to Bahrain (1999-2003) and Syria (2003-2006). After, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
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US Homegrown Terrorism!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – On New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets: one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas.
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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!
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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Peace
Jerome Gavin | Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – The use of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, potentially offering a unique opportunity for peacebuilders.
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What’s Next for Youth Engagement in Disarmament?
Robin Geiss and Melissa Nyoni | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In the lead up to the Summit of the Future, more than 1,500 youth attended the Action Days. Young leaders from all over the world made recommendations, which were presented to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General for youth affairs.
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Strategic Goals to Halt the Genocide in Gaza and Liberate Palestine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
If the genocide in Gaza is to be halted and the occupation of Palestine ended, it will require a substantial mobilization of people to participate in a comprehensive strategically-oriented campaign that precisely identifies the tactics to be undertaken (not just a random list of actions) and, as the historical record demonstrates, not by using secrecy and sabotage in their execution.
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Ireland Formally Joins ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – Ireland has submitted a declaration to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide.
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Billionaires Dangle Free Speech like a Bauble–We Gawp like Open-Mouthed Babes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires.
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(Italiano) Bollettino da uno zoo nucleare…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Leggendo l’articolo emerge l’idea che un deposito nucleare possa essere paragonato a uno zoo che ospita animali da compagnia: un luogo tranquillo, ben custodito ma sicuro, da visitare con curiosità e interesse. Il potere delle parole!
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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?
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‘Famine Conditions Are Spreading’ as Sudan’s Crisis Worsens: UN Security Council
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 -Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Six civilizations define 15 walls, religiously-philosophically and economically-politically, as development models. The major clash being the West against the Rest. Colonialism, imperialism. The solution: winning, dominating. There are other ways: compromise, transcendence, new civilizations.
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A World’s Soul in Tatters
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent in Gaza. An increasingly normalized genocide . . .
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Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – Troops beat Hussam Abu Safiya and kidnapped him alongside other doctors, leaving northern Gaza without any health services.
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The Three Voices of Poetry
T. S. Eliot | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
April 1954 Issue – The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is his voice addressing an audience. The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse.
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 1): Oscilando à Beira do Armagedom, o Perigo da Guerra Nuclear
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Praticamente todos os grupos de bate-papo, como as “notícias” distribuídas pela mídia corporativa via televisão, rádio e jornais, encontram uma sequência infinita de questões inconsequentes para distrair as pessoas da realidade. E assim nossa morte ou escravidão transumana nos aguarda.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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A Remembrance of Jimmy Carter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – A recollection of my only meeting with the former president at the Carter Center, a minor event, although in the context of repeated mistakes by the ‘political realists’ who continue to shape US foreign policy, perhaps of some interest.
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Awakening from Empire Propaganda Starts with One Small Act of Heresy
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – It is like escaping from a cult: it starts with one tiny heresy. One small, secret thought that goes against all your indoctrination.
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Closing Your Heart & the Path to Self-Annihilation
Chris Hedges and Dr. Gabor Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Gabor Maté discusses how the subjugation of a people can lead them to close their hearts, enabling moral contradictions but also violent resistance.
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Tributes to TRANSCEND Media Service by ChatGPT and Claude 3.5
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – Claude and ChatGPT composed formal tributes to TMS trying to capture the essence of TMS’ mission and achievements and highlight its role in peace research, independent analysis, and global understanding. Enjoy!
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Heavy Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill more than 90 Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Attacks Included a Strike on Tents in the Al-Mawasi ‘Safe Zone’
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World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – A member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a Ukrainian Jewish American, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
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U.S. Veterans: Major Source of Domestic Terrorists
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – The two men who carried out terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had been trained by the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon.
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(Français) Quelques Prédictions Possibles pour 2025 et Une Perspective Apocaloptimiste
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 janvier 2025 – Déjà en 2024, nous voyons les électeurs du monde entier rejeter la démocratie capitaliste, la forme de gouvernement par laquelle les capitalistes deviennent milliardaires tandis que les travailleurs sombrent dans la pauvreté.
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Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond
Mary Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
So heavy
is the long-necked, long-bodied heron,
always it is a surprise
Six Scenarios for Syria
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
29 Dec 2024 – It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place–as it is. The situation resembles the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen. However, the next phase will not be peaceful.
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Remaking Contacts to End Violent Conflicts
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – In many Middle East conflicts there were no contacts to be cut. The process of creating contacts must start from point zero. Resolving armed conflicts and lowering persistent tensions involves a change in attitudes. We work to create possibilities for dialogue and confidence-building so as to increase mutual trust.
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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” (sometimes known as genocide).
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Under Cover of Sanction
Seth Meldon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – The degree of restraint and investigative rigor employed by Washington, NATO, and their media allies when ascribing guilt to Russia for any indiscretion bears little relation to how NATO’s actions are assessed.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.
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Age of Anxiety
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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Powerful 5-Min Speech
Arundhati Roy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Dec 2024 – Arundhati Roy delivers a passionate critique of the oppression faced by Palestinians: historical context and ongoing violence from Israel’s occupation.
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20 Years after His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In Aug 1996, Webb penned a series for the Mercury News documenting how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the CIA-backed mercenary army perpetrating a terrorist war against Nicaragua.
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The Avenging Heroes among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
It helps to remember this diversity of heroisms, because it saves us from imprisoning our heroes in the expectation that everyone contribute to the shared cause — the great project of human flourishing — in the same way. The protest marcher and the poet are very different kinds of heroes.
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Sudan: Inside the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Marc Español | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of victims, with extreme malnutrition and famine in certain regions, have left the country on the brink of catastrophe after more than a year and a half of war.
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(Castellano) Guerras, Militarización y Resistencia
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Enero 2025- Debemos replantearnos las cuestiones de la violencia y la seguridad. Frente a un enfoque que esencializa los conflictos armados, es preciso identificar sus dinámicas, causas y responsables, restablecer la primacía de la política sobre lo militar y poner fin a la normalización de la violencia.
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A TMS Interview with Dr. Jan Oberg (TFF) – Nuclear Proliferation
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Nuclear proliferation, the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield, NATO, and the complete abolishment of nuclear weapons for a sustainable peace.
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Sudan’s War Came to Represent the Worst of Humanity
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
26 Dec 2024 – The African Union has a responsibility to intervene to protect civilians.
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“Global Warming” Is a Really Stupid Issue
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan. 2025 – The “anthropogenic global warming theory” that carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning petroleum gas and other fuels is warming the Earth is considered to be an indisputable fact. However, in reality, the anthropogenic theory has no solid basis.
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Shocking Statistics
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – On the 450th consecutive day of the genocide on the Gaza Strip, please read and disseminate that Israeli occupation forces (with US taxpayers’ money and munitions, and to a lesser extent other countries) did this:
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WikiLeaks Has Just Put All Its Files Online–It’s All There!
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
4 Jan 2025 – It’s all there: Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCain’s guilt, the Vegas shooting perpetrated by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs’ letter on HIV, Pedo Podesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Israel, the military-financial complex, the mafia/mafias, CIA agents arrested for rape, conspiracies, CIA false-flag attacks, the WHO pandemic, etc.
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Some Possible Predictions for 2025 and an Apocaloptimist Perspective
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025- Already in 2024 we see voters around the world rejecting capitalist democracy by which capitalists become billionaires while working people sink into poverty. Instead, guided by a mass media controlled by these capitalists, voters choose fascism over socialism.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.
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Poem of the Atoms | Sufi Mysticism (Music Video of the Week)
Rumi | Who Am I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
A Poem That Speaks to the Soul – Rumi was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, which formed the basis for the Whirling Dervishes, after his death.
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Genocide Emergency: Gaza and the West Bank 2024
Grace Condon, et al. | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – The IDF intentionally target schools, homes, hospitals, designated humanitarian zones, and use 2000-pound bombs leveling entire apartment buildings. Of 163,778 buildings in Gaza, 52,564 have been destroyed and 18,913 severely damaged. Two-thirds of the dwellings are uninhabitable.
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One Day They’ll Wake Up
Bob Minor | Scraps from the Loft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Bob Minor’s 1925 cartoon predicts the fall of Western imperialism as China, India, Africa, and Russia rise, shifting global power away from U.S. and British dominance.
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MIT Science for Genocide
MIT Coalition for Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
10 Dec 2024 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributes to the Gaza Genocide and Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine in at least two distinct ways.
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Oblivion Culture: Countering the German Taboo on Palestinian Trauma
Sarah El Bulbeisi | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
The Holocaust and the Nakba—expulsion of Palestinians from historical Palestine, ongoing since 1947—are deeply intertwined. The Nakba is a direct consequence of the Holocaust. Yet it is excluded from German collective memory, its relationship to Israel as a safe haven for Jews.
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1,000 Children Have Undergone Amputations without Anesthesia in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – Some 1,000 children have had limbs amputated without anesthesia in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its brutal bombing, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 6 Jan 2025
BBC Staffers Reveal Editor’s ‘Entire Job’ Is to Whitewash Israeli War Crimes
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are ‘watered down’ or ignored.
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US Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid since October 2023
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – According to data from SIPRI, US weapons now account for 78% of Israel’s arms imports.
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The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship
J.C. Hallman | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
27 Dec 2024 – A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old Indian chess champion.
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US Helps Syria’s Ruling Al Qaeda Offshoot while Punishing Its People
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – The new Syrian government is a designated terrorist organization. The HTS ruler, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, aka Ahmed al-Shara, has a $10 million US bounty on his head. The US ignores its own terrorist designation and maintains sanctions that devastate ordinary Syrian civilians.
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When Burning Hospitals Are No Longer News
Dr Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide.
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Act Now against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – Below is a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR: 2025
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
6 Jan 2025
TMS wish you—one and all—a 2025 with plenty of blessings to our tortured planet and its suffering inhabitants. May we, Homo Sapiens, make an effort to deserve the pompous label, living up to it and practicing Peace by Peaceful Means, or accept the more appropriate Homo Barbaricus.
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Architectura Socio-Ecologika: Evidence Base
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
24 Dec 2024 – Empirical Evidence of Systemic Fraud and Deception – Can banks individually create money out of nothing? The theories and the empirical evidence.
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A Reflection on 2024 and a Call for Peace in 2025
David Andersson | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Time Magazine should have named WAR instead of Donald Trump as “Person of the Year.” In 2024, war propaganda took center stage in political and international relations, dominating the discourse and shaping global actions.
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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.
→ read full articleConfiguring the Paradoxical Insights of 48-fold and 100-fold Sets of Koans
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals at the Summit of the Future was previously explored through a series of interactions with AI.
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This Festive Season, Gaza Is Starving
Esraa Abo Qamar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Winter has made life amid genocide all the more miserable for us.
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‘Godfather of AI’ Makes Chilling Prediction for Future of Humanity and It Could Happen Very Soon
Mia Williams | LadBible - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is worried that systems are growing ‘much faster than expected’, after making a ‘scary’ admission about the threat to humanity. An AI expert, he says he feels some ‘regret’ for his role in developing Artificial Intelligence.
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We Can Do Better–>We Must Do Better
Bernie Sanders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Important Message
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The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.
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Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all in agreement about the genocide, although it has become just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages.
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The End of Organized Humanity
Noam Chomsky | The Poetry of Predicament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Noam Chomsky, at a video conference in 2023, offers his truth-telling to the center of our global self-terminating culture. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has taken in.
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Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Staff, Reporters
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which opened a luxurious rest area for IDF soldiers in northern Gaza. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed by Israeli forces that stormed the hospital and forced hundreds of patients into the streets.
→ read full articleA Voice from Syria on Christmas Day: “All of Us Are Lost”
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024 – Following are some key points from a discussion with my friend in Damascus. He is a translator and university professor. The situation in Syria continues to evolve.
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