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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
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How Arab Leaders Betrayed the Masses?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Western Leaders Watch the Israeli Massacres as Spectators
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The Exciting World of A.I.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024
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On the Necessity of a Civil Society Tribunal for the Gaza Genocide
Prof. Syed Sikander Mehdi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Syed Sikander Mehdi on Richard Falk’s Piece: Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024): A Tribute
UNESCO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Legacy for Peace and Education: The former director of UNESCO (1987-1999), passed away at the age of 90. RIP
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 30 Dec 2024
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity
Dr. Glen T. Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.
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Israelis Invade Syria: Who/What Will Stop Israel?
Nicolas J. S. Davies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Israel’s latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world’s inability to stop Israel ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
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Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It
Murad Sadygzade | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.
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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 2): Creating Eretz Yisrael to Reshape World Order
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
29 Dec 2024 – The multifaceted Elite program to reshape world order, capture ownership and control of all key resources, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, and impose a technocratic dictatorship over those ‘transhumans’ left alive, advances rapidly
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Good and Bad War Criminals
Mark Curtis | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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‘We Will Leave When the Last Palestinian Leaves’: The Defiant Last Stand of the Doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the IDF steps up its attacks.
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Personal Souvenirs of Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024)
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – I was privileged to know and work with Federico Mayor, a “thoughtful committed individual” who changed the world. He was nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize and should have received it.
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A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
It may even be that music is the language of time, mathematics its alphabet. “It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical,” said cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander.
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Manufacturing Rebels: How UK and USA Empowered Terrorists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria today.
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Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
All religions have certain texts declared to be “sacred.” One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?
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A TMS Interview with Dr. Jan Oberg (TFF) – Nuclear Proliferation
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Nuclear proliferation, the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield, NATO, and the complete abolishment of nuclear weapons for a sustainable peace.
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Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival
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Standing in the Center of the Unknowing as the World Cries. What to Do?
Charles Eisenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
An article in the New York Times, ‘Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food’, argues that intensified high-tech factory farming is better for the environment than regenerative, local, organic farming, and is the only way to sustainably feed the world.
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(Français) Quand l’intelligence artificielle menace, l’intelligence humaine s’unit : “Greetings from la Banlieue”
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 décembre 2024 – Dans un monde de plus en plus influencé par l’intelligence artificielle (IA), il est essentiel de comprendre que cette technologie, bien qu’impressionnante, n’est pas exempte de biais ni de conséquences sociales négatives.
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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy
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OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill
Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.
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How Fascism Came
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – US democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties that sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
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Science and Religion
Albert Einstein | Panarchy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.
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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance, was the brainchild of three engineers from the IDF’s Unit 8200. The main feature of the group is its amorality. There is literally no rogue government it will not add to its lists for supply.
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Romanza–Romance d’Amour (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
This beautiful, exquisite melody was brought to public attention by Narciso Yepes in 1952 in the French movie, Jeux Inderdits, and has gone on to inspire millions worldwide. Easy enough to play… not so easy to play well! Enjoy.
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‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.
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The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
The three issues are disarmament-proliferation, the military use, and the theological use of nuclear arms. All rather untractable.
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Bringing Gaza Home
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested for blocking the entrance to Raytheon Corp. For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county. The same approach can be used for any city in the world.
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How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?
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The ‘Self-defense’ Myth
Posted by Antonio C. S.. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Genocide by any Other Name…
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Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
21 Dec 2024 – Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.
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Gaza Ceasefire and the Resumption of the Negotiation on the Abraham Accords
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The current situation looks like this: Israel will negotiate with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza before Donald Trump takes office. Saudi Arabia presents the ceasefire condition of the Abraham Accords,…
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BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty
Udaibir Das | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.
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(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Discorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.
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Condemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.
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(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.
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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
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Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The three pillars of our societies, the Family delivering children reasonably socialized to School, which in turn delivers students reasonably educated to Work, which in turn delivers people to the garbage heap for useless citizens called Retirement, are fraught with violence.
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Drones and Mass Hysteria: An Inquest
Michael Tracey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Friday night [13 Dec 2024] I went out driving to see if I could get a look at one of these darned mystery drones for myself. Let me first acknowledge that I could easily be suffering from a variant of the syndrome commonly known as confirmation bias.
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(Italiano) Revisione: Libri-Palestina, metafora del mondo, nel dono della legge
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
L’Introduzione è intitolata L’apocalisse di Gaza. Questo libro «è un saggio di filosofia, nato durante un viaggio nella terra dove tre religioni riconoscono alle Tavole della legge mosaica un’origine divina»
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Israel, Not the ‘Liberators’ of Damascus, Will Decide Syria’s Fate
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit to Israel/US imperialism, and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked and flattened like Gaza.
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From Bethlehem, Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
All souls wondering
find peace in the place of birthing
I, a lost soul, find it here in Bethlehem
A holy place cursed now by mayhem
Scandal Deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward Staging Syria Prison Scene
Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.
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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?
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(Português) A Fé como Caminho para a Paz–Como o Amor a Deus Nos Conduz à Paz
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Todos queremos paz no mundo, e todos queremos paz e felicidade em termos individuais, não é? O problema é que as pessoas não sabem como alcançar a paz, seja em termos colectivos ou individuais.
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Technocracy Rising: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Self-serving individuals and groups have always posed as rulers, financiers, benefactors and thought leaders to steer change toward preferred outcomes, from the Pharaohs to the French Revolution. Societal transformation has been constant as one form of government replaces another.
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Gabor Maté: What Leads a People to Violent Resistance
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Victims of Trauma
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The Future of Syria and Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – The IDF bombed and invaded Syria immediately after the Al-Qaeda-affiliated HTS (Levant Liberation Organization) overthrew the Assad regime. Israel fired 350 missiles, destroying military bases and arsenals in various parts of Syria.
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Handel’s Messiah (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Choral Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
This clip features the glorious Hallelujah Chorus under the baton of music director Richard Cooke.
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‘Sickening Normalization’ of Suffering, amid Attacks on People and Aid Convoys in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – Ongoing military operations by Israeli forces in Gaza continue to cause devastation for civilians trying to escape the fighting, with mounting casualties and a critical lack of humanitarian aid for the desperate population.
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Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region
George Galloway and Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.
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Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off Nation’s Wealth after Assad
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – Sanctions-privatization-reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of US foreign policy agenda.
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U.S. School Shootings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The latest list of shootings in US schools shows that in 2024 there is a new record: 83. What is the cause of this violence? The list from 2008 to 2024.
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In Praise of Anger
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Anger is a normal human emotion as any other: affection, combativeness, protectiveness, sorrow; but it gets a bad press. That is especially true in intellectual circles and among the self-consciously virtuous/goodhearted in general.
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Syria “Liberated” by Its Own Destroyers
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
14 Dec 2024 – Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler in Damascus, began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in 2013.
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‘Dying Hungry and in Pain’: an Increasingly Likely Outcome in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The head of the UN aid coordination office in Gaza, Georgios Petropoulos, issued a harrowing update on the dire situation in the enclave today, describing it as “the most dangerous place on earth right now.”
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Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1957, Albert Camus became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Strength of character, taste, the ‘world,’ classical happiness, severe pride, the cold frugality of the wise. More than ever, these virtues are necessary today.”
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Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact with al-Qaeda-linked HTS
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Is Designated by the US as a Terrorist Organization
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Nuclear Nobels
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year on Human Rights Day. December 10 is the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
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Syria Looks to Freedom and Stability
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Towards the Future of a New Syria – Syria becomes a new nation free of bloody authoritarian dictatorship lasting over 54 years. The Arab-Muslim world lacks capacity to imagine this unthinkable change.
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Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 — Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling as the winter season brings heavy rains, causing floods in their tents and exposing them to the cold and wind.
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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.
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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The US initiative to create a specialized Palestinian Authority security force to carry out military assaults like the one now in Jenin, is focused on suppressing Palestinian opposition to Washington’s agenda and is paving the way for Israeli control by crushing grassroots resistance.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The CEO Murder…
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‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child.
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Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Letters and excerpts from Albert Einstein’s writings (1932-1949) in which he repeatedly reiterated his opposition to the creation of a state for Jews, preferring the formation of a simple spiritual and cultural centre to serve the Jewish world and all humanity.
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The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
Adrienne LaFrance | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does the US owe Hawai‘i now? – At the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, you find the compound of the self-appointed President of the Nation of Hawai‘i.
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Syria’s Fall: In-Depth Analysis
Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Syria has fallen, and history will be strewn with an endless banquet of takes and interpretations as to what happened, how, and why. Here I offer one humble middle approach to piece it together, supported by facts and some deductive reasoning, rather than emotional gut reactions.
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Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Council of the European Union approved the new sanctions yesterday. The EU is willing to continue destroying its own industries by persisting on the economic warfare despite the boomerang effects.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Dec 2024
A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”
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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc.
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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.
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Faith as a Path to Peace–How Love of God Can Lead to Peace
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – We all want peace in the world, and we all want peace and happiness on an individual level. The problem is that we don’t know how to achieve peace, either collectively or individually.
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Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.
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Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.
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Which Rogue State? Israel and the New Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Russia invading Ukraine in the name of protecting its security interests from perceived threats on its border = wrong, evil, worst thing ever.
Israel invading Palestine, Lebanon, Syria…
Gideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza, Israeli Sanctions against Haaretz: “Israel Wants Wars”
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy takes a look at the mood within Israel with Israelis “sour” about what is seen as a premature deal. “They would like to see more blood, more destruction in Lebanon,” says Levy. “Israel wants wars.”
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Myanmar’s War Has Forced Doctors and Nurses into Prostitution
Sui-Lee Wee | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Complicity of Science in Unquestionable Dissemination of Harmful “Fake News” – There is considerable confusion about how “harmful” is to be understood globally, as with the distinction between “misinformation”, “disinformation” and “fake news” in that regard.
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Eye-Witness Syria: The Last 12 days
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. He was born and grew up in Aleppo and is a translator and university professor. He personally witnessed events in Damascus where he still is. What Qusay told me about events in Syria the past 12 days.
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Educating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.
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Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination.
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Meditations on a Six-Year-Old Amputee Crawling through Gaza with the Help of a Roller Skate
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – This genocide has been going on so long that the child amputees who live all over Gaza are learning strategies to get through life without their limbs.
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Celebrating Biodiversity in India: Vasundhara Festival 2024
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Nov 2024 – Global leaders at COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan proposed solutions with top-down, corporate-driven frameworks— carbon credits and the digitalization of nature—which are part of a continuation of the colonial legacy of bio-imperialism. Critical analysis in our fact sheet: Understanding Biodiversity Credits.
→ read full articleEnduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.
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Gaza Aid Hits Crisis Point Despite US Demands on Israel: Famine Spreads
Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Gazans endure extreme food scarcity as looters and IDF attacks on Palestinians guarding convoys choke off supplies. While the US issues warnings to Israel through the media, the occupation continues to delay and obstruct aid.
→ read full articleFall of Syria Is also about Greater Israel
Craig Murray | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – Speaking from Beirut, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.
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Special Gaza: Israeli Impunity–Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Dec 2024 – Israel has pummeled Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, displacing 90% of its population and causing a ‘man-made famine.’ The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced a death toll of over 42,000 but the real number could be four times as high, says The Lancet. Join us as we take a look at Gaza over the last year.
→ read full articleGideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza, Israeli Sanctions against Haaretz: “Israel Wants Wars”
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy takes a look at the mood within Israel with Israelis “sour” about what is seen as a premature deal. “They would like to see more blood, more destruction in Lebanon,” says Levy. “Israel wants wars.”
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The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture
Prof Anuradha Chenoy | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The BRICS difference can be read as decolonised multilateralism with intent and behaviour as an interdependent, plural grouping, committed to development linked to the global South.
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Elderly Populations
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – India has a population of about 1.35 billion, the world’s second highest after China: about 1.4 billion. We may exceed them and equal 1.5 billion by 2030. What measures India can take for the population growth to slow down?
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Nuclear Nobels on Human Rights Day
Cartoon Submitted by Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize ceremony is held on 10 Dec 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on 10 Dec in Oslo, Norway.
The UN Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 Dec 2024 worldwide.
Gaza: ‘Devastation Is Absolutely Staggering’, Says Senior WFP Official
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Describing the level of devastation across the Gaza Strip as “absolutely staggering”, the representative of the World Food Programme said that civilians are desperate for lifesaving aid and there’s a growing risk of widespread famine.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Sign WEF Treaty Introducing ‘Age of Death’ Laws in West
The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The World Economic Forum has instructed world governments to dismantle age of consent laws and introduce something more sinister: “Age of Death” laws. This is not science fiction; it’s being planned behind closed doors.
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