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The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Worng-Puc
Sramana Da-Hsiu Cheng-Nien | Sung Dynasty – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

The great Dhyana Master admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever. He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.

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Gaza ‘Buffer Zone’ Possible War Crime: UN Human Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – Israel’s reported attempt to create a “buffer zone” with Gaza could constitute a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned today.

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Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties with Israel Arms Maker
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – Itochu Corporation, a major Japanese industrial conglomerate, is cutting ties with Israeli arms maker Elbit, citing the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. Its aviation division will terminate the partnership by the end of February.

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Fredrik S. Heffermehl (1938-2023)
Peter van den Dungen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Norwegian member of TRANSCEND, peace activist and lawyer who waged a long campaign against the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not respecting the will of Alfred Nobel.

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A Few for the Road
Country Living – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Just try to keep a straight face at these one-liners:

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The ICJ’s ‘Plausibility Test’ Undermines the Crime of Genocide
Sana Khan | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – The fact that the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case ordered an immediate cease-fire yet did not impose one in the Gaza conflict in the South Africa v. Israel case presents a quandary.

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NATO, Germany’s Role and the Russia-Ukraine War
Jenny Brömel | University for Peace (UN-Mandated) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

A Political Historical Analysis
First part: NATO, Germany in NATO and its emergence after WWII; reunification of Germany, today’s NATO, and the European security order.
Second part: Russia’s and Ukraine’s relations with NATO.
Conclusion: Today’s NATO vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war.

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The World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

See Accompanying Editorial, 29 Jan 2024

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Rafah Escalation Fears – Gaza Massacre Unprecedented Death Rate
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – The unprecedented population density in Rafah in southern Gaza makes it nearly impossible to protect civilians in the event of ground attacks, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned today.

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Spirituality and Conflict Work
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

The West has rejected religion under enlightenment-modernity-secularism, and is now experiencing some rebirth of religion.  Spirituality then enters as an over-arching concept, building on elements in most religions and on secular values. World power now moves from a spiritually poor Occident to a richer Orient. 

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(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Gennaio 2024 – La forza di questo forum è il suo focus sulle civiltà; usiamolo per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le forme più importanti di disordine usano la violenza; la guerra è violenza organizzata dallo stato. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, entrambi con radici di civiltà.

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U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts
Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow | Council on Foreign Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

23 Jan 2024 – Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military support. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny amid Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas.

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Will a South African Victory Stop the Gaza Genocide?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

27 Jan 2024 – As much as the ICJ may be dismissed as a collective West farce, the fact is that the ruling explicitly calls for Israel to stop the killing. Let’s cut to the chase.

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Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
UN International Court of Justice ICJ - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 January 2024 – Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures – Order

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“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

20 Jan 2024 – As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.

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Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed
UNRWA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

23 Jan 2024 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the displacement of Gaza’s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.

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UN Security Council on Palestine/Israel Crisis
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

UNSC 9534th Meeting – Streamed live on 23 Jan 2024 – Quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question”.

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Year of the Dragon: Silk Roads, BRICS Roads, Sino-Roads
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

12 Jan 2024 – China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level.

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The Power of Arts in Encountering Individual Unspoken Values within Peacebuilding
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

When we associate our values with the experiences of pain, grief, regret, guilt and trauma that we live with, many of us may try to find solace and catharsis (consciously or unconsciously) by working with others in similar contexts but without having an avenue to explore why we are doing this.

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The World beyond Global Disorder
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.

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Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

11 Jan 2024 – Israel’s legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country’s ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence”.

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There’s No Free Press without a Free Assange
David S. D’Amato | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

“The truth alone will make the people free. And for this reason, the truth must not be permitted to reach the people. The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly suppressed.” — Eugene V. Debs

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Some Perspectives on Veterans of Current Wars
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

These are not clear-cut good wars of Good against Evil. The goals of USA-West, beyond suppressing “insurrection”, include revenge, paranoia, economic interests, getting bases for future wars far from “good”. The goals of an enemy defined by US-West as Evil, are often badly understood or not at all.

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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.

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The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
Matthew Ehret | Rising Tide Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – I would like to go a little deeper into the history that shapes our age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria and at some remarkable and unknown examples of inter-religious collaboration.

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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.

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Prof. Galtung: Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | University of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Apr 2016 – The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp–UCSIA

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Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

22 Dec 2023 – Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-950), Islamic scientist, philosopher, mathematician and musical theorist, lived at the golden age of Islamic civilization. The medieval Latin world knew him as Magister Secundus: the second greatest teacher of philosophy after Aristotle. Al-Farabi should be heeded as the quintessential philosopher of civilization, built under the aegis of truth, virtue and compassion.

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False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences is a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten.  It shows how a worthless activity can provide assurance that something worthwhile was done.  Always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists.

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UN Security Council Adopts Resolution on Gaza Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – The UNSC has adopted a resolution on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, with 13 votes in favour, and the US and Russia abstaining. Among other points, it demands immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.

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COP28 a “Tragedy for the Planet” as Stockholm Syndrome Took Hold
David Spratt and Ian Dunlop | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – Up to 100,000 people from climate-related politics, advocacy and business flew into Dubai for the UN COP28 climate policy-making event. And the result? An unmitigated disaster: unfair, inequitable “business as usual” that did not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UNGA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

United Nations General Assembly – Tenth Emergency Special Session
Resolution A/ES-10/L.27 – Adopted 12 Dec 2023

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Injured Patients ‘Waiting to Die’ in Northern Gaza as Last Hospital Shuts Down, Amid Rising ‘Catastrophic’ Hunger Levels
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – There are no functioning hospitals in the north of Gaza and injured patients who need surgery and cannot be moved are “waiting to die”, the UN health agency said today, in a plea for a ceasefire to allow more aid into the shattered enclave.

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Mao and Gandhi: Comparing Two Giants
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Two important anniversary messages: One, anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, guided by Mao, violently, on 1 Oct. The other: anniversary of Gandhi, restoring India to its people, nonviolently, on 2 Oct.

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Merchants of Death…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

… are Making a Killing in Gaza, Ukraine, …

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Dr Mahathir on Euro-North American Imperialist Crimes and the Need for Cooperation against Climate Change
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

9 Dec 2023 – Former two-time Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad (98) shared his no-hold-barred reflections on the sordid state of the world, still in the grip of the Euro-North American powers.

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COP28 UAE – Joint Statement on Climate, Nature and People
UN COP28 UAE - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

9 Dec 2023 – {From TMS Editor: Key terms and themes not addressed, conspicuously left out: Fossil Fuel, Energy, Oil, Gasoline, Petrol, Petroleum, Methane, Air Pollution, Marine Pollution, CO2, Deforestation, Pentagon/Military Footprint, US Wars, Billionaires’ airplanes/yachts (did I miss anything?)}

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ Urgent Letter to UNSC over Gaza
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

6 Dec 2023 – I am writing under Article 99 of the UN Charter to bring to the attention of the Security Council a matter that may aggravate existing threats to the maintenance of international peace and security. More than eight weeks of hostilities in Gaza and Israel have created appalling human suffering, physical destruction and collective trauma across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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COP28: Methane Pledge by the ‘Giants Behind the Climate Crisis’ Falls Short, Says Guterres
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

3 Dec 2023 – UN Secretary-General António Guterres today sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: the pledges made at COP28 in Dubai fall well short of what’s needed to meaningfully tackle the climate crisis.

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Palestine-Israel Crisis: Gaza City a ‘Ghost Town’, Reports UN Aid Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – Amid hopes of a deal to extend the pause in Gaza bombing today, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees reported that humanitarian assistance had reached its shelters in northern Gaza for first time since atrocities erupted last month.

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The Real Cost of Bottled Water
Daniel Jaffee | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.

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(Italiano) Come finiscono le guerre?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Sparavano sulla Colonna nemica da dietro steccati, alberi, granai, muri, da dentro le case, poi ricaricavano, avanzavano in fretta e sparavano di nuovo. Uno strano tipo nuovo di guerreggiare per i britannici senza esperienza né addestramento in merito. A loro pareva disonorevole, nascondersi e sparare a uomini allo scoperto che non potevano neppure vedere i propri nemici. Come scrisse una Giubba Rossa alla famiglia: Non ci combattevano da esercito regolare, solo come selvaggi”.

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“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.

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Galtung on Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.

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The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’

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Besieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

14 Nov 2023 – The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis.

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The Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

7 Nov 2023 – How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War – A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022

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Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.

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UN Experts Call on International Community to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 Nov 2023 – Grave violations committed by Israel in Gaza point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of genocidal incitement, intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba,’ and the use of powerful weaponry resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.

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How Do Wars End?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

They would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, neither experienced nor trained for it.  To them it seemed dishonorable, hiding and shooting at men in the open who could not even see their enemies.  A Redcoat wrote his family: “They did not fight us like a regular army, only like savages.”

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.

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El Niño Expected to Last at least until April 2024
UN World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

8 Nov 2023 – The ongoing El Niño event is expected to last at least until April 2024, influencing weather patterns and contributing to a further spike in temperatures both on land and in the ocean, according to a new Update from the World Meteorological Organization.

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Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?

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Genocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.

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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.

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Japan, G-7 on Different Pages Regarding Middle East Conflict
Shino Matsuyama and Akira Nemoto | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

Despite being its chair, Japan was “excluded from the G-7.” On 22 Oct Biden held talks with the leaders of the G-7 nations, except for Japan, and the six leaders issued a joint statement in support of Israel’s right to self-defense. Japan has long supported the two-state solution, in which Israel and Palestine coexist as independent nations.

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Genocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.

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Rise in Intimidation, Settler Violence in the West Bank, Warns the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

1 Nov 2023 – More than 820 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced amid settler violence and increased movement restrictions since the Hamas attacks of 7 October and the start of Israel’s slaughter on Gaza, the OHCA said today.

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A Divided European Union Can’t Even Agree on Need for Ceasefire in Israeli Aggression against Gaza
Marc Martorell Junyent | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

24 Oct 2023 – The European Union’s initial response to the Israel-Gaza atrocities has been chaotic. Shortly after the Hamas attack in Israel, the European Commission announced the suspension of “all payments” to the Palestinians. The EU is the biggest donor of aid to Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio di Israele a Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

Gli USA e Israele sono nati allo stesso modo, come popolo eletto di Dio con tanto di terre promesse, ricorrendo al sociocidio e al genocidio (gli USA). Senza cambiar politica possono declinare e cadere anche allo stesso modo. E magari presto.

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(Italiano) Palestina e Israele: come sarebbe la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

Le visioni/intuizioni di Galtung son quanto mai rilevanti oggi in vista della pulizia ernica degli abitanti di Gaza da parte IDF, debitamente disinfettata, banalizzata, normalizzata dalle narrazioni dei telegiornali mondiali. Il riferimento a Hamas del presidente Biden come ‘l’altra squadra’ rivela le loro mentalità: si tratta di una partita, non una faccenda di vita e di morte per i 2 milioni d’abitanti di Gaza massacrati mentre ne parliamo. È tragico che le guerre vincano le elezioni nelle (cosiddette) democrazie dell’Occidente.

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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.

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US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023 – The US vetoed today a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave.

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What Must Be Said
Gunter Grass, Nobel Literature Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

The Nobel Laureate’s controversial poem about Israel may have lacked elegance, but it was also a dire warning about war with Iran that has irritated, provoked and outraged people everywhere.

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The US/NATO/EU World Now Accepts Defence through Genocide
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

21 Oct 2023 – In civilisational terms war is a backward, primitive thing that solves no conflicts and creates no security. It’s a system of structural evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is the black-and-white, simplified narrative that there is only one evil party: Gazans/Hamas.

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Palestine/Israel: What Peace Would Look Like
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

Johan Galtung’s insights are crucially relevant today in view of the ethnic cleansing of Gazans by the IDF—duly sanitized, trivialized, normalized by TV News Media narratives. Pres. Biden’s reference to Hamas as ‘the other team’ reveals their mindsets: it’s a game, not a matter of life and death for the 2 million being massacred as we speak. It is tragic that wars win elections in the (so called) democracies of the West.

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Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics
Karuna Mantena | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

Abstract: The contemporary literature on nonviolent politics relies upon a sharp distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence. Gandhi and King are associated with the latter, defined as a strict moral commitment to nonviolence that both scholars and activists view as unnecessary for the successful practice of nonviolent politics. I argue the distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence is misleading.

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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
Stephen Sefton | Kawsachun News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

7 Oct 2023 – From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily by US and Canadian troops and by the MINUSTAH, always under the clear direction of the governments of the USA, Canada and France.

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Israel’s Sociocide, Genocide, Ecocide in Gaza
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

Sociocide is the killing of a society’s capacity to survive, to reproduce itself, a crime against humanity. The USA and Israel were born the same way, as God’s chosen people with promised lands, using sociocide and genocide (the USA).  With no policy change they may also decline and fall the same way.  Even soon.

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Palestine: The Resistance Rises toward Revolution, Return and Liberation
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

As the morning dawns on 7 Oct 2023, the resistance rises throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza, confronting the occupier by land and air, taking control of Palestinian land, seizing occupation settlers and soldiers, and launching thousands of missiles as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.

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A Single Morning That May Change the Middle East Forever!
Mansoor Durrani | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

7 Oct 2023 – After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the first 9 months of 2023, something unprecedented happened around 6:00 a.m. local time today!

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US Weapons to Ukraine Sold through Back Door to Terrorists
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes to resell Western weapons on the black market.

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Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Which one fits your personal story?

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Israeli Settlements ‘Systematically Erode’ Viability of Palestinian State
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

27 Sep 2023 – The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process today expressed deep concern over the relentless expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.

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Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Prof. Antonino Drago | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Abstract: The present paper compares Galtung’s theory of conflict resolution with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. The basic notions of this comparison are the “adjunction” and the transference. Freud’s description of the inner conflict resolution is first interpreted by the adjunction of one person (Analyst) to the patient.

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What Constitutes an “Ungood” Person?
Author Unknown, 11 Sep 2023

There are several signs that someone may not be a good person. Here are a few, to be aware of:

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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace
Vedabhyas Kundu | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.

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A Bad One
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

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Haiti Violence: ‘Carnage Needs to Stop’ Says UN Relief Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

1 Sep 2023 – Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there.

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(Italiano) Spiritualità e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

30 Agosto 2023 – Il nostro mondo manca chiaramente di qualcosa, anzi molto, nei propri sforzi di conseguire la pace. E fra questo c’è quanto espresso dalla parola “spiritualità”, abusata all’incirca quanto la parola “pace”, proprio perché entrambe incarnano tanti nostri sogni.

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(Un)Consciousness
Carl Jung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

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BRICS Will Change the Power Balance in the Global Energy Market
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

28 Aug 2023 – BRICS Will Make Up nearly 40% of Global Economy – The 11 BRICS countries will account for 48.5 million square kilometers or 36% of the world’s land area. The combined population will amount to 3.6 billion, 45% of the globe’s total.

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Six Years After Their Darkest Hour, the Rohingya Have Been Abandoned
Raïss Tinmaung | Ottawa Citizen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Aug. 25 marks the sixth anniversary of the last massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Half of their villages were exterminated and 800,000 people fled to Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, they remain in the refugee camps and apartheid villages.

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Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked into Online Criminality Across SE Asia
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

29 Aug 2023 – Criminal gangs in southeast Asia are using torture and abuse to force hundreds of thousands of people into an online scam operation which generates billions of dollars per year, the UN rights office said today.

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The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?
James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy | Columbia University - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Suspicion that we are headed into climate territory not seen in the past million years is fueled by the large Earth’s Energy Imbalance. EEI is the proximate cause of global warming: as long as more energy comes in than goes out, we must expect global warming to continue.

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Uncle Sam’s Classroom
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

School Begins

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The Doctrine of ‘Just War’
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

Let it be clear that the present author is against war, there being no “but”. War as an institution is an abomination, like slavery and colonialism. The key word is institution, legitimized by social norms and mores. A doctrine of just war is designed to offer a legitimization by seeing the evil of war as something that can be outweighed by possible positive outcomes.

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Spirituality and Peace
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

28 Aug 2023 – Our world is clearly missing much in its efforts to achieve peace. It is expressed by the word “spirituality”, as overused as the word “peace” precisely because both embody so many of our dreams. Tell me your spirituality, and I will tell how much peace there is in you.

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Weapon Transfers, Including Banned Cluster Munitions, Spike in Ukraine
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – Arms and ammunition transfers to Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent months, alongside concerning reports of deliveries of banned cluster munitions, the UN’s top disarmament official told the Security Council today.

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Bid3 and Counter Militarism Mapping
Ahmed Isam | Chaos Communication Camp 2023 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

Sudan Civic Map is a Counter-Militarisation project, a political statement that challenges the dominant narrative of the Sudan conflict. By foregrounding the experiences of civilian-led movements, the project aims to shift the focus from military-centric news towards the humanitarian efforts of these actors. The project asserts the importance of non-combatant actors, subverting the conventional portrayal of the conflict as a two-party war.

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Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

“It is time for all of us, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, to intensify the struggle against the U.S. blockade and mobilize international cooperation with the island that dared to conquer its independence and sovereignty against the most powerful and genocidal empire in the history of mankind.” — Frei Betto

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Assange Be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

17 Aug 2023 – In the proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown its vengeful impulses. Given the 17 charges he faces from the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.

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The US Will Strengthen Its Occupation of Syria, while Plundering Oil Resources
Steven Sahiounie interviews Prof. Glenn Diesen | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

11 Aug 2023 – The main reason behind the US invasion and occupation of Syria, now lasting eight years, was to prevent Syrians from accessing their own oil wells–and steal it. Due to US sanctions, Syria can’t buy energy products, having a chronic shortage of gasoline, diesel and almost no electricity.

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Syrian Civilians Struggle between Deadly Israeli Air Strikes and Equally Deadly US Sanctions
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

8 Aug 2023 – Israeli airstrikes on Syria have become routine and deadly.

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Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s for Once Try Talking to Each Other
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

25 Jul 2023 – In the UN Human Rights Council, the blaming game is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States “naming” possessed a higher moral authority over the “named;” as if blaming could contribute to dialogue and compromise.

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Palestine: Unsettling Israeli Settlers Severely Damaging the USA
Dan Lieberman | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “There have been 570 attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of 2023; three attacks a day.” 2010-2019: 3,000 settler attacks, 22 Palestinians killed, 1,258 injured.

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Militarization of AI Has Severe Implications for Global Security and Warfare
Tshilidzi Marwala | United Nations University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

24 Jul 2023 – As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, the need for effective governance mechanisms to manage its use and mitigate potential hazards grows.

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Hear the Hibakusha… before It’s Too Late!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – Seventy-eight years ago, on 6 Aug 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. Testimony of Tokie Mizuno, Hibakusha of Hiroshima (Recorded in 2010).

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ASEAN and Its 50 Years of Failure in Ending Wars and Genocides
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

16 Jul 2023 – The gulf between the impact of ASEAN in Myanmar affairs and the spins – “centrality” “cohesion” “inclusive dialogue” blah blah blah – is jaw dropping.

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