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(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].
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New UK MP George Galloway on the Next Era of Politics
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Upending the “West’s Dictatorship”
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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect! Go beyond state-territorial and national-cultural borders, and transcend those jealously guarded borders in the mind, between disciplines and religions.
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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.
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The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and Its Religious Identity
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems.
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The Legacies of David Krieger and Robert Oppenheimer: Iconic Signatures of the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
I stress the comparison between Oppenheimer, the film, and Krieger, the civil society star anti-nuclear activist as well as the personae of these two extraordinary individuals.
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Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
The politico-legal aspects of Transitional Justice are a complex final stage in conflict transformation by peaceful means to identify the truths of victims and perpetrators. It encompasses two interconnected components: truth-seeking and judicial accountability.
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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)
Alondra de la Parra | WDR Klassik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on 27 Jan 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Absolutely Beautiful!
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How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti
Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Interview Jake Johnston | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
12 Mar 2024 – A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears significant responsibility for Haiti’s ongoing instability.
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The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024 – Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power.
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Starvation Camp in Poland, 1941–>Fast-forward to Gaza, 2024
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
A Cry from the Szebnie Concentration Camp, 1941, Poland
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UNRWA Report Says Israel Coerced Some Agency Employees to Falsely Admit Hamas Links
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.
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Haiti: Efforts for Stability and Hope for the Future
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024 – The interaction between political leaders, criminal gangs and voodoo religious leaders is not new in Haiti as was seen by the paramilitary killers, Les Tontons Macoutes, during the presidencies of Papa Doc and Baby Doc in the 1960s-70s. Action Needed
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Ego Is the Enemy
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
It is not enough to have an understanding of things or to criticize. It is not enough to protest or resist the evil that surrounds us. It is important to envision a better future AND WORK FOR IT. I am grateful that I am surrounded by groups of educated young people who share a vision of sustainable human and natural communities locally and globally.
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Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid—>Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid
Phyllis Bennis | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
• 31,645+ killed and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
• 435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024 – A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
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African Stream
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.
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Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023
Pieter D. Wezeman, et al. | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
On 11 March the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its latest report on the arms trade with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years.
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Life Is like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
The meaning of life has been contemplated by just about every thinking, feeling, breathing human being, and memorably so by a number of cultural icons, including…
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests
Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.
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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.
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On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.
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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis
Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.
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Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine
Majken Jul Sørensen | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Mar 2024 – To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else.
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Religions, Global Gods and Peace Propagation: An Overview of Multiple, Human Behavioral Orders
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
“Human behaviour, from the time of evolution, is influenced and governed by some overarching tenets of a religious belief. This belief is in the unseen, unsubstantiated and not understood, force of a superior kind. This force is called by different didactic terminologies, ultimately leading to the creation of global Gods. Some humans even use Lucifer as a such a force…”
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Engels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution
Marnie Holborow | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
March 2024 – It is surprising how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked. He is dismissed for being deterministic, overly economistic, even un-Marxist. Heather Brown’s key work on Karl Marx and gender sees Engels as crudely mechanical compared to Marx.
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Names for Babies
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
I wish to inform that I am offering you in this list many names that can be given to new born babies. The names are both for female as well as male babies. The names are suitable for babies in India.
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Seeing the Divinity in Everyone
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
In essence, we are all consciousness in material forms. Consciousness cannot be destroyed. It is the essence of God in each of us. We are all spiritual beings, reflections of the Divine. We are not our beliefs, our cultures, or our minds and bodies. We are all divine souls on a wondrous journey through Truth. We have all manifested from God, the Supreme Truth, and we are all evolving back to God.
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(Italiano) Coordinamento per l’etica della ricerca
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Marzo 2024 – Il 24 maggio 2023, ospitato in un’aula dell’Università di Torino, si era svolto un incontro organizzato da CERTO (Coordinamento per l’etica nella ricerca) – un gruppo di docenti dell’Università e del Politecnico di Torino…
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Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
15 Mar 2024 – Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?
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Here’s What Pramila Patten’s UN Report on Oct 7 Sexual Violence Actually Said
Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Mar 2024 – The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility.
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World Politics 2024
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
World Leaders ‘Solutions’
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Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’–Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
15 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza has left a staggering 23 million tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave.
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Time after Time
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Progressing…
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 156: Israel Deploys 15,000 Troops in West Bank as Ramadan Starts
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024 – Ceasefire talks falter as Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson says Israel is using “deception and evasion.” Israel deploys thousands of troops in the West Bank and Jerusalem ahead of plans to restrict access to Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Professor Johan Galtung in Memoriam 24.10.1930-17.2.2024
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Johan døde i Bærum lørdag 17. februar 2024. Han var 93. RIP kjære venn og mentor. Vi snakket sist sammen på telefon i oktober 2023 da han var i Alicante i Spania.
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Einstein’s Postwar Campaign to Save the World from Nuclear Destruction
Lawrence S. Wittner | FPIF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – The scientist’s efforts helped create the movement for arms control and disarmament.
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The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
5 Mar 2024 – The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself and has existed for thousands of years. An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians.
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(Italiano) Aaron Bushnell e Johan Galtung: in lutto per due oppositori di principio della guerra
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Di recente il mondo ha perso due grandi oppositori della guerra, ma in circostanze drasticamente diverse. Johan Galtung è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni. Il sociologo norvegese era conosciuto come il padre degli studi sulla pace e ha trascorso la sua vita a ricercare i conflitti e a promuovere il dialogo per la pace. Aaron Bushnell aveva solo 25 anni. Era un membro in servizio attivo dell’aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti.
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Scientists form a Global Anti-War, Anti-Genocide Network: From Hiroshima to Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – This is a slightly edited text of a keynote address to an organizational meeting for establishing a worldwide network of Scientists against War and the Destructive Use of Science as stimulated by the Israeli genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.
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South Africa Requests ICJ Emergency Orders to Halt “Unspeakable” Gazan Genocide
John Menadue | Pearls and Irritations - TRANSCEND Media Serviceer,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – Describing the situation in Gaza as “now so terrifying as to be unspeakable,” Pretoria is asking the World Court to take further measures to stop Israel’s genocide.
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H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and the Dawn of a New Age
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
27 Feb 2024 – Hidden Hand Behind UFOs (part 2)
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
31,045+ killed* and at least 72,645 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
423+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the extensive rubble.
Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 July 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
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Desperate to Escape Gaza Carnage, Palestinians Are Forced to Pay Exorbitant Fees to Enter Egypt
Khalid Mohammed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – With almost no options for escape, people in Gaza are increasingly paying thousands of dollars to fixers connected to the Egyptian government.
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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5”
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Haiti Crisis: Is a Gang-led Coup Next?
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
5 Mar 2024 – Haiti is in chaos after a massive prison break and gangs calling for the resignation of its prime minister. How did it get here?
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The Anti-Sex League
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
This Modern World in the old US of A
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The Night of Peace Propagation: Maha Shivatri in Hinduism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Hinduism, with its diverse beliefs and practices, emphasises pluralism, karma, and the pursuit of liberation (moksha), impacting global culture through unique practices such as yoga, meditation, interfaith dialogue, renunciation, as well as fostering a tolerant and inclusive worldview, as a major global religion.
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3 Things to Know about the Current Crisis in Haiti
Eyder Peralta | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city’s prisons releasing thousands of inmates. The country’s airport is under siege, and on Monday, 4 Mar, evening, it was still not clear whether Haiti’s prime minister had made it back into the country.
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Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” Dies at 93
Right Livelihood Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has developed an academic understanding of peacebuilding, passed away on 17 Feb 2024. A recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 1987, Galtung was a dedicated peace advocate whose influence extended far beyond national borders.
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Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
5 Mar 2024 – Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the UN the starting, not the ending point. The two-state solution is enshrined in international law and is the only viable path to a long-lasting peace.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Israel is celebrating its 76th anniversary of David Ben Gurion’s unilateral declaration of independence. And the bill for shoa is increasingly placed at the feet of Arabs in general, the Palestinians in particular, starting with al naqba, the horror of 711,000 chased out of their homes in Palestine, to camps, diasporas. To death. [Leading to the 2024 Genocide.]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” Dies at 93
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
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The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey governor. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials.
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I Don’t Need Guns I Need Fire Extinguishers
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Pointing pistols as the man burns, as Gaza burns, as civilization burns, as the planet burns. I don’t need guns I need fire extinguishers.
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May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Solitude is the seedbed of creativity. Living alone can be deeply rewarding and challenging. It is not for everyone. It is not for those who romanticize its offerings of freedom and focus, but excise its menacing visitations of loneliness and alienation.
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The Orphans of Gaza: How Can We Help?
Elizabeth West – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – The official death toll in Gaza is now above 30,000. Of that figure, accrued in just 22 weeks, about 70% were women and children, and a goodly portion of the rest were non-combatant males. Just under half the population of Gaza—prior to the current massacre—were kids.
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Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.
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Hypocrisy: Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – “It is absurd and hypocritical to publicly profess horror at Netanyahu’s inhumane war,” US Sen. Bernie Sanders said on the Senate yesterday, “while…we ship tens of thousands of bombs to his army. It is absurd to criticize Netanyahu’s war and provide him another $10 billion to continue that war.”
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The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? 2.3 million defenseless Palestinians in Gaza have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
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The Biden Doctrine in Gaza: Bomb, Starve, Deceive
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – At his State of the Union yesterday, Pres. Biden announced that the US military will install a pier in Gaza to deliver emergency aid to the enclave. In reality, the emergency project underscores Biden’s real priority: to prolong Israel’s rampage in Gaza, the US is even willing to deploy its own military for face-saving public relations stunts.
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Romance – Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Romance d’Amour on Spanish Classical Guitar – Delightful!
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European Parliament Finally Calls for a Gaza Ceasefire but Rejects Arms Embargo against Israel
Global News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – The major sponsors of Israel in the U.S. and Europe continue to support the slaughter and the escalation of the conflict in the entire West Asia region. The European Parliament was able to call for a permanent, immediate, and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza only on 28 Feb, more than 140 days after the genocidal war began.
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Remembering Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Magnus Haavelsrud, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
He was 93 years old. We miss a great man, who broke down the walls between university disciplines in a constant search to understand people and society from a perspective from below and from within.
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Pakistan: The Elite Who Betrayed the Nation
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Corrupt Elite Is Always Self-Deceptive and Fearful
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The West’s Reckoning?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities.
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The Power Behind the Throne and the Bankers’ Forever Wars
Alex Krainer | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
3 Mar 2024 – In untangling the causal factors behind the many crises we face today, the trail of breadcrumbs always leads to the international banking cartel which appears to have the determining influence shaping the system of governance under which our societies operate.
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Canada and Sweden Restore UNRWA Funds as Report Accuses Israel of Torturing Agency Staff
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – The governments of Canada and Sweden have announced they will resume funding for the UN’s agency that provides humanitarian aide and protection to Palestinians. A move that other powerful nations, including the US, continue to refuse.
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A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024): The Man for Just Peace
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“USA? I love the Republic, but I hate the Empire.” Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.
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Not So Special
Richard J. Evans | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
During WWII and afterwards, historians of modern Germany focused on one question: how did Nazism, with its negation of freedom and democracy, its aggressive commitment to war and conquest, its creation of a totalitarian state, and its visceral and genocidal antisemitism, take hold in Germany but not elsewhere in Europe? Review of:
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000, by David Blackbourn. Liveright, 774 pp., July 2023
US Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come before the Election
Aaron R. Day | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Central Bank Digital Currencies threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable government tokens. Your financial choices could be suppressed and privacy eliminated and this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics.
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International Women’s Day 2024 – UNSG Antonio Guterres Message
António Guterres, UN Secretary General - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women and girls around the world, and we applaud all they have achieved in the fight for equality. They have made great gains – demolishing barriers, dismantling stereotypes and driving progress towards a more just and equal world…
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(Italiano) Johan Galtung: Pace con mezzi pacifici (parti da 2 a 5)
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
(Parte Seconda) Analisi della Violenza
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Tell the Truth about Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on 29 Feb 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city. And yet, Western media headlines went out of their way to obscure and protect the perpetrators of this awful crime.
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Spin Cycle
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Western Civilization… as Gandhi said, ‘It Would Be a Great Idea’
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Contemporary Conflict Resolution Processes: Diagnoses and Therapies
Fabio Fossati – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
31 Dec 2023 – The empirical evidence shows that since 1989 many conflicts have crystallized incompatibilities among different nations and/or civilizations, and that many conflicts have degenerated into wars. These conflicts may be defined as ‘cultural’ because they involve collective identities along ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages.
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The Tears of War Belong to All of Us
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! Now you can kill as many of them as you want.
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How the ‘Fight against Antisemitism’ Became a Shield for Israel’s Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.
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(Português) Os Novos Bárbaros: A Comunidade Europeia e os EUA
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
5 Mar 2024 – A guerra de extermínio que Israel está perpetrando contra os mais de dois milhões de palestinos da Faixa de Gaza, apoiado pelos EUA, pela inteira Comunidade Europeia e pela NATO, nos legitima de chamá-los de novos bárbaros.
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(Italiano) 11 marzo 2011 – Incidente di Fukushima. Chi se lo ricorda?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Marzo 2024 – Tra pochi giorni ricorrerà l’anniversario dell’incidente di Fukushima. Sono già passati 13 anni, e probabilmente non ci saranno grandi manifestazioni di ricordo… la tecnologia ha fatto grandi passi avanti, e la possibilità di sfruttare in piena sicurezza le potenzialità dell’energia nucleare è ormai alle porte. Questo – almeno – è il messaggio trasmesso dal recente film di Oliver Stone, Nuclear Now:
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Genocide in Numbers
Human Rights Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Despicable, Abject Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
As most people know, the place Rajghat is associated with Mahatma Gandhi. This place is in central part of New Delhi and is understood to comprise the life, thoughts and feelings of Gandhi – ji.
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Gaza: The Wider Context
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 149: Palestinian Children Die of Malnutrition as Israel Blocks Aid into Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
3 Mar 2024 – U.S. airdrops of food and aid in Gaza have been described as “performative BS” that “fools no one.” Meanwhile, Hamas’s delegation has arrived in Cairo for ceasefire talks as Ramadan is due to start next Sunday [10 Mar].
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Eliciting a Pattern that Connects with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Experimental Exchange with ChatGPT in Quest of Memorable Integrative Configuration – At the moment, there is a real risk that more and more countries end up in a lose-lose situation, which is no longer about who gains more, but only about who loses less.
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(Italiano) Trasformazione del conflitto come modalità di vita
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
l conflitto è il nostro destino. Come lo sono i microrganismi, allora meglio imparare a maneggiare tali situazioni. L’esporsi al conseguimento di obiettivi bloccati dal conseguimento di altri obiettivi si può superare se la nostra capacità di resistenza è sufficiente, come un’infezione si può superare con il sistema immunitario.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – Ann Garrison spoke to Eritrean British attorney Feven Yemane regarding attacks on Eritrean diaspora festivals and gatherings and the investigations underway.
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How the West Robbed and Abused the Best Figure Skater in the World While Provoking the War in Ukraine
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
On 7 Feb 2022, after the Russians had won the team skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, news emerged that one of the Russian skaters, the brilliant young Kamila Valieva, had tested positive for a banned substance. The charges created one of the biggest international sport controversies of the past 50 years.
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(Italiano) Mattatoio Gaza
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
29.02.2024 – Oltre 100 uccisi e 700 feriti nel campo di sterminio di Gaza-sud, in una fila di disperati in attesa (quanto spesso frustrata) di rimandare la morte per sfinimento (fame, sete, freddo, ferite, malanni antichi e nuovi): fila composta ma intollerabilmente vicina a corazzati IDF e dunque minacciosa! Altra mossa spudorata dei terroristi di stato israeliani nel dispiegarsi sapiente e rigoroso della Soluzione Finale sion-nazista, di fronte a un Occidente in coma pre-elettorale para/pre-bellico.
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The Role of Vision in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
We are entering an era of economic and political contradictions that will lead to revolutionary change. Capitalism, clothed in its cover of bourgeois democracy, is crumbling. This is already evident with the rejection of traditional establishment political candidates.
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Collective Israeli Tyranny and Peace Disruption in the Occupied Territories
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The fallacy of the international community in accepting that the Palestinians in the occupied territories are safe is denial of the truth because the tentacles of operation of the oppressive apparatus of Israel are being deployed through the services of the Israeli settlers in the ongoing harassment, oppression, violent attacks, stealing and expropriation of their property.
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(Italiano) In morte di Johan Galtung (Parte Prima)
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Questo volume è il manuale universitario di Johan Galtung, lo studioso norvegese (vikingo, dice lui), matematico e sociologo, iniziatore degli Studi per la Pace contemporanei, decano dei peace researchers, docente in molte università ai quattro angoli del pianeta, direttore di Transcend (www.transcend.org; transcend@transcend.org), rete di studiosi e attivisti per la trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti.
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John Scales Avery–One of the Greatest Intellectuals of Our Time Passes Away
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
I’m informed of the passing of [TRANSCEND Member] John Scales Avery (26 May 1933 – 4 Jan 2024). He was 91. He was also a fierce peace activist. John was part of Pugwash Conferences that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was also chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
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Dengue Fever Surges by 400% in Brazil after Bill Gates-Backed Gene-Edited Mosquitos Released
Jamie White | Infowars - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Money and Weaponized Mosquitos: The dramatic spike in dengue cases has prompted Brazil to purchase millions of doses of the dengue vaccine.
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