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What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
Mariel Ferragamo | Council on Foreign Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
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It’s Not You, It’s CAPITALISM
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.
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G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
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NY Times Killed Investigation of Israeli Hooligans, Internal Email Reveals
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – The NYT has killed an investigation into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam. Journalist Triebert wanted to set the record straight regarding the false narrative advanced by his newspaper – that the Israeli fans were victims of mob violence motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.
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Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD/PhD | Humanity United Now -– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Conversation with Peter Koenig. Despite a leadership change, the technocratic transhumanist agenda continues. Geopolitics is not what is seems; there is more collaboration among world powers to continue digital money, digital enslavement and the rise of AI.
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Mourning in North America (Music Video of the Week)
Brother Ali | Rhymesayers Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
A critique of US culture of death and murder–from actual war zones around the world to our inner cities that rival war zones—and of our national hypocrisy regarding violence. We have a zero-tolerance of violence committed against us, but a lot more lenient and patient with our violence against others.
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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.
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Let’s Join Our Hands to Speed Up the Demise of the US-led Imperialist World
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – I can’t tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful and the law and institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
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Are Netanyahu and Gallant Immune from ICC Arrest Warrants under International Law?
Sondos Asem | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – The short answer is no. But states have previously flouted their obligations to surrender leaders like Vladimir Putin and Omar al-Bashir to the ICC by invoking immunity.
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Brazil Police Formally Accuse Bolsonaro of Alleged Coup Plot [Trump Redux]
Amy Walker | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused of allegedly plotting a coup, after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
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Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance, than Rebecca Solnit.
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Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States
Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Since the formation of the ASS in 2023 France, the US and their surrogates have sought to undermine their political and economic objectives. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain targets of the western capitalist mining firms and their state sponsors.
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In 14-1 UN Security Council Vote, Lone US Veto Kills Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The U.S. government, said one human rights lawyer, “proves once again to the world that it is fully committed to the continuation of the genocide in Palestine.”
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COP29: The Dictatorship of the Petroletariat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – The world’s oil addiction began here in Baku where in 1846 the first industrial oil well was drilled. As in 1848 Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto reminded workers that they had nothing to lose but their chains, humanity was busily chaining itself to fossil fuels.
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Here We Go
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Soap Opera Continues…
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The Collapse of Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
What we most loved about these countries despite their bloody colonial history is a character that is now being destroyed: freedom of thought and action that allowed for expansion of human knowledge, logic, and development unencumbered by dogma and narrow interests.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Nov 2024
The Intercept’s Lawsuit against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
Shawn Musgrave | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – In an order today, a federal court rejected OpenAI’s effort to toss a lawsuit filed by The Intercept over using its journalists’ work to train ChatGPT without permission or credit.
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Recognizing Complicity in Ensuring Beneficial Disaster for Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Possibility of Eliciting Insight from Polycrises with AI Assistance – The question here is whether various roles and functions in society could be creatively framed in the light of the disastrous consequences they engender for the many.
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The Gaza Genocide May Not Be in the News, but It Hasn’t Stopped
Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024 – Israel continues to systematically exterminate Palestinians in Gaza through relentless attacks and starvation. As the world’s attention focuses on US politics and looking at media headlines, one would think the genocide has stopped, but it hasn’t.
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Guardian Will No Longer Post on Elon Musk’s X from Its Official Accounts
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – The news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.
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‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’—Exploring the ‘Trumpquake’
Pepe Escobar | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park. With no fraud, Trump wins.
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Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood
Marija Šarić, Siniša Sajević and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Coming of Age During and After the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina – The journey of child soldiers after war is fraught with different challenges.
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The Jabalia Doctrine: Genocide as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Raja Abdulhaq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Historically, Israel has tried to control Palestinians by isolating insurgents from their communities. After the humiliation of 7 Oct, the aim is now to eliminate them both.
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(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
The Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, was for the in-group only. But today we are ever more one big in-group. Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.
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Henry Kissinger, Johan Galtung and the Nobel Peace Prize
Prof. Syed Sikander Mehdi | Pakistan Horizon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
20 Aug 2024 – The following discussion on the life and works of Henry Kissinger and Johan Galtung attempts to understand why Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and Galtung was denied the same.
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Israel Convicted of Genocide at People’s Tribunal–Parallel to G20–in Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Melito | Brasil de Fato/Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Israel was convicted of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza yesterday by the People’s Tribunal, which brought together jurists, lawyers, and activists to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Zionists in Amsterdam
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Zionist Israel lost, lost big in Amsterdam. The horror it has made of itself is now plain for the world to see.
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2084
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – The World as It Might Be (or Do I Mean Might Have Been?) – What would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?
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We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers
Jørgen Johansen | Irene Publishing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
‘We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers–Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the UN,’ edited by Caroline Hunt-Matthes – The authors peel back international diplomacy to reveal a truth in a code of silence.
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A Lighthouse for Dark Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
It is during phase transition that the system is most pliant, most possible. This chaos of particles that liquefies solids and vaporizes liquids is the creative force by which the new order of a more stable structure finds itself. The world would not exist without these discomposing transitions when everything seems to be falling apart and entropy has the last word.
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China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – China is the most advanced solar society in the world with over 600 gigawatts of installed solar capacity. In comparison, the US only has about 130 GW of solar.
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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Meanwhile, in the old US of A
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My 94th Birthday amid Rubble and Precious Life
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
My poem on navigating the narrowing channel between personal happiness and public gloom. November 13, 2024.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Nov 2024
Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years today.
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How Can BRICS Reshape a Polycentric World Order?
Ezra Nnko | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – It was the 16th official BRICS Summit with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates attending for the first time as official members. BRICS: 37.4 percent of the global GDP; 1/4 of global exports of goods; 45 percent of the world population.
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UNCTAD, COP29, They Did It again: Digital Tyranny Beyond the Worst Imaginations of George Orwell 1984
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – For those who understand what full digitization of everything means, it is clearly pointing the way to digital tyranny, to a digital Gulag – promoted by UNCTAD, a UN organization, well-aware of what they are doing.
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How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero
Yasemin Saplakoglu | Quanta Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.
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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese did not mince her words at the UNGA on 29 Oct: “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathise with the Palestinians? Those of you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room.”
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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump.
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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Novembre 2024 – Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.
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Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 3): Is the Genocide a Lie?
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
24 Oct 2024 – In light of the conclusion reached in Part II, what then are we to make of the title of the Corbett Report video – The Rwanda Genocide Is A Lie? Whether or not the video title is accurate depends on what Corbett means by “lie”.
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Israeli Hooligans Storm through Amsterdam Chanting “F*ck You Palestine”
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024 – There are 15,000 Jews living in Amsterdam. They seemed to be just fine until some Israeli hooligans showed up…. The media’s version of events is skewed in favor of the perpetrators. None of the mainstream coverage can be trusted. But you already knew that.
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The Gaza Tribunal: Law, Conscience, and Compassion
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – The Gaza Tribunal, of which I am president, had a successful launch meeting with many members of its Advisory Policy Council. As the article below in the Palestine Chronicle notes, the aim of the Tribunal is to legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.
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How the UN Can Be Liberated from Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – Interview conducted in October by Daniel Falcone with Hans von Sponeck and myself on our collaborative book, Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope. Since then Donald Trump has been elected President of the US, which would augur bad news for the UN.
→ read full articleWhat about Palestinian Hostages???
Mark Albert | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The numbers tell a different story about the justification for genocide against Palestinians by Zionist Israel.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – North Carolina: The raging floods were triggered by unprecedented rainfall and winds. On Sept 27, when the floods hit, evacuation orders were issued to residents near a number of critical dams due to their reported “imminent failure” or “catastrophic collapse.”
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The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The very need for forgiveness springs from “the irreversibility and unpredictability of the process started by acting” — a process fundamental to what it means to be alive.
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(Italiano) Gaza e Libano: rovesciare il paradigma
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
43.000 morti a Gaza, alcune migliaia tra morti e profughi in seguito ai raid israeliani in Libano, assalti all’Unifil, l’Unwra, agenzia delle Nazioni Unite, accusata di appoggio al terrorismo e messa in condizione di non poter più intervenire in soccorso alle popolazioni civili martoriate dai bombardamenti e assediate nella prigione a cielo aperto di Gaza…
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Tackling Corruption
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – We must challenge corruption and greed that lead to war and conflict. We see both large scale greed and corruption: Trump, Biden/Harris, the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, General Sisi of Egypt, and our own corrupt Palestinian “leaders”.
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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
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Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – Only after 11 full paragraphs of transmitting the Israeli line did Kershner manage to insert the disclaimer that “the Israeli claims could not be independently verified.” But by that time, of course, the damage had been done, the reader having already been persuaded that south Lebanon was one big Hezbollah military installation.
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – A report from Haaretz published today detailed the situation. There is no longer a single house people can live in, and the Israeli military fires artillery rounds to ensure that any remaining civilians leave.
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Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Nov 2024
USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
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After Their Son Came Out, This Conservative Christian Couple Went into a Closet of Their Own
John Blake | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – The moving story of a gay boy and his conservative parents. “There is no hate like Christian love.”
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Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”
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The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Democracy in the USA
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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
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This Is Why I Am Releasing the Epstein-Trump Tapes
Michael Wolff | Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
2 Nov 2024 – The Predator and the President: The author of Fire and Fury has caused shockwaves with his recordings of Epstein talking about Trump. Here is their true story.
→ read full articleRwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 2): What Really Happened in 1994
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The Standard Official Narrative is that Rwandan Tutsis were brutally set upon by the majority Hutus whose ethnic hatred for the minority Tutsi group found spontaneous expression in a frenzied bloodlust that left close to a million, mostly Tutsis, dead.
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
→ read full articleComprehending Connectivity between Logic, Emotion, Intuition and Practice
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Strategic Implications of the Relationship between Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities – The condition of society is complex and confusing, even “surreal.” It is questionable whether strategic initiatives like the UN’s Pact for the Future or the Sustainable Development Goals engage with this complexity appropriately and credibly.
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What Drives Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024- The dehistoricizing and decontextualization of the Hamas attack of Oct 7 was spread around the world by the most influential global media platforms and political leaders, and led to widespread sympathy for Israel and tolerance of their response despite its legally and ethically unacceptable character.
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UN General Assembly Renews Long-Standing Call for End to US Embargo against Cuba
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
30 Oct 2024 – The UNGA today overwhelmingly urged the USA to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, a demand it makes since 1992.
(In favor: 187; Against: 2 [USA, Israel]; Abstention: 1 [Moldova])
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Of all the writers who have kept a journal as a creative catalysis and a salve for self-doubt, no one has confronted those psychic hindrances between the talented and the fruition of their talent more pointedly than Franz Kafka.
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The Earth Constitution Emerging in Surprising Ways
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The Earth Constitution has been getting an unusual attention, both good and “bad,” omens of its growing geopolitical importance as the UN continues to flounder, unable to prevent wars or to stop Israel’s genocidal Gaza land grab by extinguishing the Palestinian people.
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For Good News Look to BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – We can look forward to more bad news. No matter who wins the election in the US, the results will be disastrous for the US empire, including Europe. And no matter who gets attacked next in Israel’s war against the world, they are likely to get more death and destruction.
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BRICS 2024: Building a New World
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – The 16th BRICS Summit held in Kazan was attended by 35 countries and six NGOs. The acronym BRICS comes from the five founding members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In 2024, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined. It became BRICS+.
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“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
9 Oct 2024 – A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at war crimes in Gaza posted in social media by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film, ‘Investigating War Crimes in Gaza,’ now available online.
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How a Secluded 1984 Conference Forged Israel’s Unprecedented Influence Over US Media
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – Exploring the 1984 conference that fortified Israel’s narrative control and highlighting the troubling dynamics between media, politics, and public perception in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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(Français) Pour de Bonnes Nouvelles, Voir les BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1er novembre 2024 – Nous pouvons nous attendre à d’autres mauvaises nouvelles. Quel que soit le vainqueur des élections aux États-Unis, les résultats seront désastreux pour l’empire américain, y compris pour l’Europe. Et quel que soit le prochain pays attaqué par Israël dans sa guerre contre le monde, il est probable qu’il subira davantage de morts et de destructions.
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Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief
Amy Pope | UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. This is an underreported conflict and we must pay it more attention. Millions are suffering and there is the possibility of igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
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South Africa Files 750 Pages of ‘Overwhelming’ Evidence in ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – “The glaring genocide in Gaza is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.”
→ read full articleMAGA House of Horror
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
This Modern World – 31 Oct 2024
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Half of Jabalia Ethnically Cleansed by Israeli Army as Schools Burned and Men Kidnapped
Lubna Masarwa and Maha Hussaini | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Palestinians have given harrowing accounts of the situation in northern parts of the enclave, where Israel shut off food and water supplies more than two weeks ago.
→ read full articleRwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 1: The Genocide’s Historical Context
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
17 Oct 2024 – This four-part piece was sparked by James Corbett’s May 2024 video about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with the eye-catching and provocative title: The Rwandan Genocide Is A Lie.
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Nihon Hidankyo’s Bittersweet Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – The 2024 NPP to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, sent waves of elation through the peace and disarmament movements worldwide. We have been nominating them for the Nobel for years.
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Kamala Harris Comes Out of the Closet on Israel
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – If she wins on Nov. 5 and a Harris administration comes to be next Jan. 20, there will be no deviation whatsoever from the Biden regime’s limitless, unconditional support for Zionist Israel’s expanding campaigns of terror in West Asia.
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The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, Kills Mayor and Aid Workers
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military is giving Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25 percent of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,” which is to say that Israel is expelling them from their homes in preparation for further military destruction.
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Empowering the UN, Disempowering Militarist Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – A review of the recently published ‘Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope’ appearing in Foreign Affairs, the most influential journal for mainstream foreign policy analysis. The book was written by Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and myself.
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Our Humble ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Home
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
By request of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, Voyager-1 looked back a last time to Earth and took this ‘food for thought’ picture revealing our real dimension in cosmic reality: practically nothing.
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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Interview by Kayhan News Agency from Iran on how the forthcoming US elections are likely to affect Iran, and the policies toward the current combat zone involving Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. X/0
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BRICS: The Most Important Financial Summit of the Year Is Taking Place in Russia
Hamish McRae | i News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A Huge Shift of Economic Power Is Taking Place
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Project 2025 Comics Group
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 28 Oct 2024
(Italiano) L’espansione della NATO nell’Indo-Pacifico è priva di legalità e buon senso
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Ottobre 2024 – Sud-Corea, Giappone, Australia, e Nuova Zelanda hanno inviato i propri ministri della difesa a una riunione NATO questo ottobre 2024, la prima volta per i ministri della difesa. Segnala che l’espansione della NATO in questa regione è un cosa seria.
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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2024 Nobel Peace Winner Has Compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza–We Must Listen to Him
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – The now elderly child survivor of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and his Hiroshima-Gaza parallel must be taken seriously. His words must be seized by the world of conscience to end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Northern Gaza: “Coffins Have Run Out”–The Holocaust of Our Time
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A campaign of mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing is underway. “The injured bleed out in the streets, coffins have run out.” Hundreds of thousands are being starved. Essential aid like food and medicine hasn’t entered the north of Gaza in three weeks. The Israeli military is burning down U.N. schools where Palestinians have been sheltering.
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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing US News
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – “Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of an Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
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2007 Open Letter to Bush, Olmert, US Congress and AIPAC Warning about the Dangers of War with Iran
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – From JAIPAC: Jewish Analysts Investigating Peace and Conflict
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(Italiano) Lavorare per chi?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Ottobre 2024 – In una recente puntata della trasmissione di ‘Presa diretta’ andata in onda su RAI3 il 22 settembre 2024, il conduttore Riccardo Iacona presenta una varietà di riflessioni sul tema sullo spopolamento del Sud d’Italia: ‘Via dal Sud’.
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