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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Any flower would have been a fitting emblem for the poet who believed that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” but none more than a flower she had pressed into her poems, enchanted by its “almost supernatural” appearance.
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Iran’s Bomb Is Real–and It’s Here
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.
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A Nonviolent Resistance Movement Is at Work in Palestine–Activists Say It’s the Only Way Forward
Ken Butigan | America Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the military operations in the occupied West Bank are a seething cauldron of escalating violence. But a movement of courageous nonviolent resistance is at work in the Palestinian territories—which activists say is the only effective way toward peace.
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The American Psychological Association Is Abandoning Its Commitment to Human Rights by Refusing to Speak Out on Palestine
Roy Eidelson | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The American Psychological Association claims to “prioritize human rights advocacy,” but if its leaders want to truly honor that commitment they must recognize and address the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today.
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New York Times Attacks “Peace-peddling” Jill Stein as the Presidential Race Comes Down to the Wire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The New York Times scapegoats Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein as polls indicate a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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BRICS Expands to 13 ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
27 Oct 2024 – BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.
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The Gaza Catastrophe–Checking Israeli and Western Elites
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
26 Oct 2024 – Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their homes. Many who have chosen to stay behind have been killed.
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‘War’ by Bob Woodward
Simon Henderson | The Georgetowner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – If newspapers are the first draft of history, the books of Bob Woodward can claim to be the second draft. “War,” his new book on the inner workings of the Biden White House, is a worthy second draft, although it should been better entitled “Wars” with an “s.”
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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.
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Resistance and Colonization
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Zionist leaders wish for us Palestinians a fate similar to that of the Lakota Nation in what became the United States of America. As the Polish new tough-man who received the torch from Hitler said: “You have to keep beating them and killing them so hard that they never rise.”
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How India and China Pulled Back from a Border War–and Why Now
Federica Marsi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – The agreement allows the resumption of patrols along the disputed border in the Ladakh region, easing tensions before the BRICS summit. But experts caution against concluding a deeper thaw in ties.
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Enhancing Diplomatic Negotiations with Logical Connectives
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – The world is faced with an unprecedented array of conflicts that may escalate further increasing the fatalities and environmental degradation. Indicative reframing of intractable dialogues by AI: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, China-USA.
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(Italiano) L’Islam e l’Occidente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Ci siamo già passati, molte volte. Per l’Occidente, invadere le terre islamiche era parte di un massiccio esercizio noto come colonialismo.
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What Is Israel Doing in Lebanon? War with Iran? Expansionism? Deterrence by State Terror? Netanyahu’s CV
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The regional spillover of violence linked to the Gaza Genocide and arousing concerns of starvation and disease. Major states in Europe are threatening Israel with an arms embargo if it does not accept a ceasefire.
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Israel Is a Rogue Nation–It Should Be Removed from the United Nations
Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it.
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Israel Is Turning Northern Gaza into a Killing Cage
Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.
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We Really Are the Bad Guys and This Really Is the Evil Empire
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – It takes some learning and insight to understand that Western civilization really is the absolute worst. Ours is the most savage and thuggish civilization on this planet, and it’s not even close.
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Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The West’s dominant media tell us little about Hamas’ history or ideology, relying instead on “terrorist” clichés. This new book cuts through them to explain.
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Israel’s War on the United Nations
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – The UN is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and hatred briefly stemmed.
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Noam Chomsky on How the US Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky | Literary Hub - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of US Hegemonic Foreign Policy
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Gaza Burns as Wall Street Booms
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – Palestinians are being burned alive by Israeli bombs. U.S.-based defense contractors and big banks’ profits soar. Yesterday morning, 500 Jews and allies shut down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the U.S. stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.
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Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran
Connor Freeman | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Leaked top secret documents from the Pentagon and the National Security Agency outline Israeli preparations for a major attack against Iran, CNN reported today, the leak coming from a US intelligence source.
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Psychopathy Incorporated
Koenraad Priels | Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative structural analysis of capitalism to be defined as a “psychopathic system.” Its inherent structural dynamics violently centralize and concentrate wealth and ideological and political power in the hands of a “psychopathic ruling class.”
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Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
In 1982, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and interviewer Bill Moyers traveled to Texas countryside to discuss the ugliest aspects of human nature at a conference titled Facing Evil.
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Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – “Everyone Is Malnourished, Everyone Is Immunocompromised”
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(Français) BRICS et Afrique: nouveau partenariat «win-win» ou «colonialisme newlook»?
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
8 octobre 2024 – Pour de larges segments du monde politique et de la société civile en Afrique, les BRICS+ constituent une alternative salutaire à la domination occidentale, en proposant de nouveaux partenariats plus équitables, plus respectueux des souverainetés nationales et davantage centrés sur les priorités de développement national.
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USA-Israel-Palestine: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The Israelis are not at war with the Palestinians of Gaza, just as the Reich was not at war with the Jews of Europe. Genocide is something different. “The truth is like the sun.. It always comes out.”
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BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Understanding Russia’s Proposal
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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Down the Memory Hole
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.
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Celebrating Multilateralism
Gert Grobler | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – In the run-up to the summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct 22 to 24, BRICS implement intra-BRICS cooperation under three pillars: political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.
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Israel’s Proxy War with Iran Leaves Young Children in Gaza and Lebanon Burned from Head to Toe
Debora Patta and Agnes Reau | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Displaced Gazans in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital woke up Tue 15 Oct to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. Residents and rescue workers scrambled to rescue people from the flames, but they could not save Shaaban Al-Dalou, who was burned alive.
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Greek Piraeus Port Dockworkers Block 21 Tons of Ammunition Cargo to Israel
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Dozens of Greek dockworkers blocked the loading of ammunition destined for Israel in protest against the Gaza genocide, coast guard and union officials said today.
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Han Kang’s Nobel Literature Prize Is a Cry for Palestine
K.J. Noh | Hollywood Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
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A Window into a Fascist Engine: Arbitrary Abuse, Population Control, and Israel’s Impossible Destruction of Palestinians
Rajiv Sinha | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Part of a multifaith human rights delegation to Palestine, I was refused entry to the West Bank by Israel, detained, questioned, my laptop and phone confiscated. I was screamed at, laughed at, not allowed to the bathroom, labelled a public security threat, fingerprinted and expelled to Jordan with my phone blocked and my bank card not working. I am now back home in London.
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On Sisters and Personal Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
I usually try to relay situations on the ground that are missing from the manipulated/controlled western “mainstream” media.
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In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
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A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.
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Prof. Johan Galtung: Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Johan Galtung was a professor of Peace Studies worldwide who mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His unique imprint on the study of Conflict and Peace stems from scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics. His TRANSCEND motto: Peace by Peaceful Means.
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‘Slow Torture’: Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“Female journalists, completely stripped, blindfolded, beaten, and tortured, with the sounds of dogs threatening to maul them on one side, while a male interrogator threatens them with rape on the other. What humanity can we speak of in the face of such horror?”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
* Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
* LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 21 Oct 2024
Is Political West Bailing Out Due to ‘Real and Increasing Ukraine Fatigue’?
Drago Bosnic | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The term “Ukraine fatigue” is not new but its latest usage breaks off from the usual pattern and may indicate that the world’s most aggressive power pole is looking for ways to leave the Neo-Nazi junta to fend for itself.
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USA [aka evil empire] Deploys THAAD Missile System and 100 Troops to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
13 Oct 2024 – The Pentagon announced today it is deploying a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, a strong show of support for attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; part of the US and Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’
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Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
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October 7: A Grim Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Israel has been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behavior toward the Palestinians. Its greatest triumph is the manner with which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 in North America and Europe.
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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat
Aluf Benn | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure – After a year of war, the long-term threats to Israel’s democracy are graver than ever.
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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine Is More Dangerous Than Ever — But It’s the Only Way Forward
Sami Awad | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – We are not going to build a better future for all people in this land by killing or dominating each other. We need a proactive nonviolent movement with vision and strategy.
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Cash Will Soon Flow: The New Climate Colonialism
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) – The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
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Powerlessness over Genocide
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
US political elites are not powerless to restrain the rogue Israeli regime: They are powerless to act against the grotesque lobby—AIPAC–to which they have sold themselves, their souls, their country.
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Nuclear Weapons: The Price
W.J. Hennigan | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US is set to spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to revamp its nuclear arsenal. The spending spree is underway in at least 23 states and follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. Along with the subs, a new fleet of bomber jets, land-based missiles and thermonuclear warheads.
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The Astonishing Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
No Kidding…
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – The UN has just approved an historic Pact for the Future and a Declaration for Future Generations on the occasion of its Summit of the Future. The use of “connectives” in debate — whether logical, emotional, “spiritual”, or action-oriented — is necessarily fundamental to the articulation of coherent strategy.
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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.
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How Blinken Turned the US Diplomatic Corps into a Wing of the Military
Ted Snider | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. U.S. officials have echoed that approach. In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.
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Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision made by the UN General Assembly linked to the violence and wars that mark our present moment in history.
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New Documentary on Who Profits from US Deportations & Border-Industrial Complex
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
17 Sep 2024 – ‘Borderland: The Line Within’ explores the human impact of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and border militarization. The film tells the stories of asylum seekers fleeing violence in their home countries…
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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin on the meaning of solidarity–the culmination of his studies of the cooperation networks of social insects and his outrage at the destructive power structures of human society.
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Militarism and Genocide in Gaza: The Bloody Signature of Western Decline
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The Palestinian ordeal is not a consequence of the inadequacy of legal norms or mechanisms. The primary obstacle is one of political will, especially of the Global West, and of leading Arab neighbors, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt.
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One Year of Genocide in the Books
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – These 25,500 dots represent the over 41,000 Palestinians wiped out by Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza in the past year. Every dot stands for a life erased, a family shattered, in a systematic campaign to destroy an entire people.
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One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – One: Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful agency.
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks: Israeli Cabinet Members
Yaniv Cogan | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Since the start of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the US-backed army has become the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers worldwide.
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What Happened to Protest Music around the World?
Ivie Ani | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Mainstream musicians–a group once instrumental in amplifying sociopolitical causes and movements–are silent. The business of entertainment pop discourages artists from engaging in protest.
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US-Israeli Rampage in the Middle East: Barreling Towards WWIII
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins Abby Martin to talk about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Nasrallah, and the potential for war with Iran.
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IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
Mick Hall | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel continues to isolate itself diplomatically. A diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers.
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11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live by
David Fenton | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Advice Learned through 50 Years of Progressive Media Activism
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Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide.
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Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven (Music Video of the Week)
Trio Sōra | Philharmonie de Paris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Sōra: A bird that sings while taking flight (Amerindian name)
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 14 Oct 2024
Speaking Truth to Power
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
All Said…
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Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Jin Yanagawa | Asahi Shimbun/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “In Gaza, we are not simply treating children with war wounds, but wounded children who are dehydrated, under-nourished, who have lost everything they knew of safety, who are so psychologically traumatized by displacement and loss that some plead with our medics to just let them die.”
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Iran’s Missile Attack on Israel: Explained
Glenn Greenwald | System Update – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Glenn Greenwald uses the mainstream media coverage of the recent Iranian aerial attack on Israel to highlight the contradictions in their reporting.
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“Escalate to De-escalate”: What Led Iran to Attack Israel
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Yesterday evening, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missile attacks striking sites throughout Israel, in retaliation for its recent assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan.
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Israel’s Bloody Endgame
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a widening onslaught against Hezbollah as tensions mount with Iran. Such developments have affected the US relation to the conflict.
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The Chaos Israel Is Sowing Across the Middle East Will Come Back to Haunt It
David Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – A ritual is performed every time Israel starts another war and the white phosphorus rains down. It’s called the ceasefire ritual – an abject public display of hand-washing, most of it choreographed.
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Reframing Challenges of Governance of SDGs through Music
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Rendering Comprehensible the 16 Logical Connectives of Discourse with AI Assistance – Despite the insights offered and suggested by logic and rationality, it is evident that these are called into question by emotions and spirituality.
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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.
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(Italiano) Più creatività, per favore!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Le istituzioni latin-americane domani possono diventare quelle dell’Asia Orientale, entrambe ispirate da e ispirazione per l’Unione Africana e soprattutto dalla madre delle Unioni, quella Europea, persa nel divario fra il desiderio di essere emulata e la paura d’irritare i nordamericani.
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Happy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.
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Macron Calls for Arms Embargo against Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – France Asserts Itself against Netanyahu over Lebanon
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Need for Action
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Zionism forcefully transformed a multi-ethnic/cultural/religious/lingual country called Palestine into a “Jewish state of Israel.” There are 15 million Palestinians, 8 million refugees, and millions living in reservations/ghettos/bantustans/concentration camps being subjected to brutal daily attacks and torture for 76 years.
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Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law, I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Julian Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Full text of Julian Assange’s remarks to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today on the plea deal, WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, C.I.A.’s retribution, repression of journalism, and his responses during Q&A.
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Pavel Durov, the Superfluous Man–“He Will Share Data about His Telegram Users”
Stephen Karganovic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Contrary to Durov’s initial assurances that he would never betray the trust of his users or renege on his commitment to freedom of expression, he has in fact conceded to the authorities’ key demand and will share data about his users with one or more of the interested governments.
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Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military announced early today that its ground invasion of Lebanon has started, confirming earlier reports. The US says it was informed of the Israeli plans ahead of the invasion.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Speak Out against Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Dialogue with Prof. Alex Hinton, a leading anthropologist of genocides at Rutgers Univ.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?
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Remarks for the International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Text of my remarks at UNESCO during a meeting organised by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee with the support of the Association of Former UNESCO Staff Members and the French Commission for UNESCO.
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Inside the US State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
Brett Murphy | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 –
*Ambassador Jack Lew urged Washington to give thousands more bombs to the Israelis because they have a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.
*After State Department officials spent months working through weekends and after hours on arms sales, the Israelis sent cases of wine to them just before Christmas.
Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.
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Eliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
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Reflections on October 7
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
For the several months after 7 Oct 2023, Israel’s public discourse allowed it to carry out the genocidal assault on Gaza with little diplomatic friction in the West but growing discontent among progressive sectors of civil society.
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New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries
BioDB | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
27 Sep 2024 – The Nature Conservation Index: Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide
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BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps
Marco Fernandes | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – What the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Can Do for the Global South – In the last two years, BRICS have experienced a popularity hitherto unseen in their existence.
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
True curiosity is an open wonderment at what something is and how it works without emotional attachment to the outcome. “Life! who knows what it is, what it does?” Thoreau exclaimed on the pages of his journal.
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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships with Them
Marjorie Hecht | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient.
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmentalist, physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, food sovereignty advocate, and an anti-globalization author of more than 20 books and 500 papers.
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Looking Up
Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
I realized recently
That
If you look up at a pine tree
From a certain angle
(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: una rete impalpabile o una insostenibile ragnatela?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 settembre 2024 – Si moltiplicano le ricerche e le applicazioni pratiche dell’IA. Un aspetto sorprendente è la vastità di temi e problemi che vedono sempre più l’IA protagonista di cambiamenti radicali nei nostri modi di vivere, di muoverci, di interagire, di interpretare il mondo.
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