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(Italiano) Opposizione e visione di futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dicembre 2024 – Come organizzare forme efficaci di opposizione? I cambiamenti sociali e politici più rilevanti sono stati iniziati da frange marginali che hanno saputo aggregare e coinvolgere. Bisogna esserne consapevoli e, poi, costruire una visione di futuro…
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
March 1947 – George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist. “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” In this vigorous essay, he derides the captivity of the Party line.
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US Backs Israel’s Land Grab in Syria
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The US State Department framed Israel’s incursion into Syrian territory as ‘self-defense.’
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(Italiano) La geopolitica della follia delle élite
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Mentre il mondo si trova contemporaneamente sull’orlo di una guerra nucleare in Asia centrale per la geopolitica della follia delle élite, manda in frantumi ogni residuo senso di “giustizia internazionale” non intraprendendo alcuna azione efficace per fermare il genocidio televisivo in Palestina…
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Whistleblower Daniel Hale Interviewed by Lee Camp
Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Hale’s first interview since release from prison.
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French Court Convicts French-Cameroonian Journalist Charles Onana for Speech Crime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – A French criminal court has convicted a journalist for writing dissident history about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Syria Is Absorbed into the US Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Bashar al-Assad fled Syria to Moscow, receiving asylum from Russia. Al-Qaeda affiliates declared victory for the “mujahideen.” Biden and Netanyahu took credit for the regime change, and Turkey’s Erdogan deserves a share of credit as well.
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(Italiano) Per una formazione etica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Bambini e ragazzi sono sempre più esposti alle attenzioni del mondo militare, impegnato a promuovere delle scuole opportunità di studio e di esperienze per orientare i giovani verso gli ideali e le carriere militari.
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From Tyrant to Tyrant?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – Assad’s fall didn’t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It’s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.
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Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria in Two Days Following Assad’s Fall
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The Israeli military announced today the heaviest Israeli bombing of Syria in history. The IDF is said to be only 25km from Damascus.
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How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called It Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” In our age, it is Israel and the U.S. that make a desert and call it peace, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine.
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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Dec 2024
The Kakistocracy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Still Trump…
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Report from the Nordic Delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, 7-15 Sep 2024
Jan Oberg, et al. | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The initiative for the “Nordic Delegation to China” was from the Norwegians. Journalist Arild Vollan wanted to investigate claims in the media about an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China.
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(Castellano) El Surgir de la Espiritualidad Natural
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Diciembre 2024 – Hay muchos que están hartos de bienes materiales y del consumismo de nuestra cultura. Como contrapunto a esta situación estamos captando la aparición del mundo espiritual, de la espiritualidad natural, y verificamos su urgente actualidad frente a las numerosas crisis que asolan a toda la humanidad.
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How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. The current debt trajectory is clearly unsustainable, but what can be done about it?
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Over the Hill (Music Video of the Week)
Loudon Wainwright III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Duet with Kate McGarrigle (w/Lyrics)
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US Bombs over 75 Targets in Syria after Assad Falls
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The U.S. launched dozens of airstrikes on more than 75 targets in Syria yesterday amid ongoing Israeli and Turkish military attacks on the nation’s population. “The Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born—but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky,” said Yanis Varoufakis.
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In Memoriam: Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. (13 Dec 1947 – 2 Nov 2024)
University of Hawaii News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
TRANSCEND and University of Hawaii’s Trailblazing Cultural Psychology Leader
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Let Yourself Be Shattered by Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – These last 14 months have shattered me. Shattered me beyond the power of recollection. But sometimes it’s good to be shattered.
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The Hidden Meaning of the Martial Law in South Korea
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol declared martial law on the night of 3 Dec 2024, but six hours later, in the early hours of 4 Dec, it was overturned by the Parliament and forced to be retracted. Did Yoon consult with the US government beforehand? Probably he did.
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LAST Fundraising Appeal: Make It or Break It…
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
16 Dec 2024
Since 2008, TMS has been promoting Johan Galtung’s legacy of Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism–Peace by Peaceful Means. The end? We have faith…
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Letter to Refaat Alareer
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
A year ago, on 6 Dec 2023, Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity.
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From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Corporate media is heralding the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as Syria’s new leader, despite his ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from the Daily Telegraph UK suggesting he will construct a new Syria.
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(Indonesian-bahasa Indo) Mengapa Elite Melakukan Great Reset Menghancurkan Dunia? Bagaimana Melawannya?
Robert J. Burrowes | Bergelora - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Sejak awal peradaban manusia 5.000 tahun yang lalu, orang-orang biasa seperti Anda dan saya telah terlibat dalam perjuangan tanpa henti untuk melawan upaya para elit, baik lokal, nasional, internasional atau global, untuk menegaskan kendali penuh atas kita dan sumber daya di sekitar kita.
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(Italiano) A proposito di informazione. Un caso-studio: le Olimpiadi 2026
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
La tragedia che osserviamo rispetto alle Olimpiadi 2026, in un contesto come Milano dove ci sono dei movimenti che si danno da fare (comitato insostenibili Olimpiadi, …) è che di fronte a questo «treno in corsa», le Olimpiadi che stanno arrivando, quasi non si muove foglia.
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Syria Now
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Talk at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sep 2010. Others have much to learn, as China from others, for mutual and equal benefit–the essence of positive peace.
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Mysterious Global Hotspots
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models are thrown into a tizzy.
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The Wound Is the Gift: David Whyte on the Relationship between Anxiety and Intimacy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
It takes a long time to know a person — to unbutton the costume of personality and unlace the corset of coping mechanisms in order to touch the naked soul. It is a process delicate and difficult, riven by anxiety and absolutely terrifying to both.
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The Day the Media Decided Militant Jihadism Was Respectable
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, hypocritical western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists and Islamic nationalists.
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In Syria’s Dirty War, “Our Side” Has Won
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his replacement by the leader of an “Al Qaeda spin-off” fulfills a more than decade-long US-led regime change campaign.
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The Overthrow of Assad Is as Seismic as the Fall of the Shah
Patrick Cockburn | inews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Islamist rebels captured Damascus on Sunday [8 Dec] after astonishingly feeble resistance from the Syrian armed forces. A former member of al-Qaeda will take power – and nobody knows what will happen next.
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Our Right to Sing — and Create the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs fell, children died. What if “freedom from war” were a human right?
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Meetings at The Hague Reveal Crisis and Turmoil, as State Representatives Grapple with Israeli Warrants
David Kattenburg | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – At a recent convening at The Hague, state representatives to the ICC agonized over the disastrous implications for the international rules-based order should Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant evade accountability for war crimes in Gaza.
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Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself
Uriel Araujo | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Donald Trump stated on 9 Dec that Ukraine lost around 400,000 soldiers in its armed conflict with Russia: “This is a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”
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US Hypocrisy Reaches a New Level: Israel’s Occupation of Syria Is ‘Security,’ Russia’s Moves in Ukraine Are ‘Aggression’
Nadezhda Romanenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Netanyahu’s reasoning for his latest land grab lays bare the stark hypocrisy of his Western supporters.
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The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – A seismic change is happening very fast–a devil’s bargain: Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinians for a Greater Israel, vis-a-vis the annihilation of Syria’s and Lebanon’s Shia minorities and the imposition of Salafism, which spells also the end of Christian communities.
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Syria: Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – It looks like Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on his way out, to be replaced by a US puppet regime, whether the nation maintains its borders or is carved up into separate states. The evil empire notches another win.
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Doomsday Glacier Collapse–Time for MORE Human Intervention??
Just Have a Think - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Five meters sea level rise! The West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we’ve got a problem!
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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – The Path to Disaster – What is the future likely to bring? Try to look at the human species from the outside. Imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer trying to figure out what’s happening here or imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now.
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Visualizing the Coherent Configuration of Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Faced with the challenges of the times, many initiatives could be claimed to be “logical” or “rational”. Many initiatives of the past were held to be rational and appropriate, although history now calls such appreciation into question.
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The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – Over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.
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We the People: Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the United Nations
Jorgen Johansen | Irene Publishing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The United Nations internal justice system ignores or harms the vast majority of its whistleblowers, sobering new book documents.
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China Bans Export of Critical Minerals to US as Trade Tensions Escalate
Amy Lv and Tony Munroe | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – China today banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington’s latest crackdown on China’s chip sector.
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(Italiano) A lode del non-allineamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dicembre 2024 – Questo editoriale è stato originariamente pubblicato il 22 marzo 2010 – #105. Lo riproponiamo per la sua rilevanza in quanto allusione a USA/NATO come terrorismo di stato da guerra nucleare per eccellenza.
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Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, et al. | International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
In collaboration with the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, PeaceMOMO, and an international group of scholars and peace leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the U.S., and Europe, we are proud to share this Report.
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Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel like You Are Subhuman’ – This report documents Israel’s actions during its offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip from 7 Oct 2023.
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Lena Herzog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 -Though one can debate the reasons, statistics and precedent of nuclear war, what is often left out of the conversation is the reality of it: destruction of the world as a whole. Lena Herzog throws this reality literally right in the faces of viewers.
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Who Are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – If and when the military conflicts and civil wars in Syria, Myanmar, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will be the world’s arms manufacturers. Revenues by the top 100 companies reached $632 billion in 2023. Homo Sapiens? Think again.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Dec 2024
The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 1): Teetering on the Brink of Armageddon
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war in Central Asia, shatters ‘international justice’ by not halting the televised genocide in Palestine, and runs into the technocracy, the bulk of the human population yawns while scrolling the latest entries in chat groups on their phone.
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(Castellano) Reseña: Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung
Beatriz Martínez Pérez | Dykinson Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Cosmología, Conflicto, Violencia y Paz – Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung by Beatriz Martínez Pérez; Dykinson Books; ISBN 9788410707252; 181 pp; Madrid 2024
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Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Trump told reporters that the appointment of El Chapo was consistent with his policy of surrounding himself with “only the best people.” When asked about El Chapo’s ten felony convictions, he said, “I wish he had more, but I still think he’s qualified.”
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I Have Learned a few Things
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
7 Dec 2024 – I have learned a few things in my time on this earth. Not many, but a few. I have learned that western regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous…
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War on Humanity: Gaza Tells Horrors of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The Gaza genocide is happening alive on screen in daily media coverage because there are no Arab or Muslim leaders to challenge the Israeli myth of being a Middle East superpower. The Arab -Muslim leaders do not exist on this planet except being after dinner jokes across the Western world.
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Armed Conflict in Syria again: Outcome Uncertain
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Conflicts in Syria involve a large number of different armed groups who are known to have changed sides since the armed conflicts began in 2011 in Deraa with police repression of students. It is a situation to watch as closely as possible and to put forward proposals for a ceasefire and serious negotiations.
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Food NOT Bombs!
Submitted by James Albertini | Malu Aina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – As the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intensifies the offensive after capturing Aleppo, Washington distances itself from the attack although its complicity was laid bare in leaked cables: Al-Qaeda “is on our side in Syria.”
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Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza and the growing threat of a major regional war.
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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy.
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’” – Eduardo Galeano
Syria War Live News: Al-Assad in Russia; Search for Detainees at Sednaya Prison
Stephen Quillen and Umut Uras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow; has been granted asylum. Israeli forces seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights and carried out dozens of air strikes across Syria. UNSG Antonio Guterres: “After 14 years of brutal war and the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity to build a stable and peaceful future.”
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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
7 Dec 2024 – Article 106 of the UN Charter provides for a Transition from armed peace to a disarmed peace. Political scientist Quincy Wright (1890-1970) wrote about the transition: “The activities of the transitional period should be guided by four preeminent purposes:
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Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
Robert Scheer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – “The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It’s omnicide. It’s not war.”
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Racism
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against Palestinians. The US and Britain are co-belligerents in atrocities of the most heinous kinds. Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon.
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Tearing Down Our Emotional Walls
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – War, war and more war. It’s possible because of the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. Is there a way to get things to change?
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Mapping Who Controls What in Syria
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize control of large parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities.
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Forced Recruitment Causing Serious Problems in Ukrainian Society
Lucas Leiroz | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – Ukraine’s unpopular mobilization measures are causing serious problems in the country and worsening internal tensions. Ukrainians have spoken about conscription, revealing the brutal reality behind the Kiev’s army.
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(Français) 25e Anniversaire de la Déclaration et du Programme d’Action des Nations Unies sur Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1er décembre 2024 – En septembre 1999, l’Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies a adopté cette Déclaration, que beaucoup ont comparée à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme. Ayant été profondément impliqué dans sa préparation, j’ai pensé qu’il serait approprié d’en fournir les détails historiques.
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Over 100 Countries Want an Ambitious Plastics Treaty as Oil-producing Nations Are Getting in the Way
Joseph Winters | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”
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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database of War Crimes in Gaza
Nadav Rapaport and Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – Internationally recognised Israeli historian Lee Mordechai concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting war crimes.
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No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear–>Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Often, the pulse-beats of chaos that feel most unsurvivable are those which artists must most urgently interpret in order for us to indeed survive. It’s the task of the artist as a grounding and elevating force in turbulent times.
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
One Direction – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Forever Young is the first song that One Direction sang in studio. I hope this video will give you good feelings and good memories of our boys. Enjoy!
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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.
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The End of the EU and Euro
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – German government has collapsed and the far-right party AfD-Alternative für Deutschland, gaining support and seats, pledged that Germany will withdraw from the EU, the Euro, the Paris Agreement on climate change, end sanctions and resume imports of oil and gas resources from Russia.
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Genocide and Coloniality
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – I am frequently asked about the future. To answer pragmatically and logically requires a sober assessment of the variables towards a sustainable future. You do not have to be a researcher to realize that our species is in deep trouble.
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‘No Food, No Water’ – UNRWA Warns Besieged in Northern Gaza ‘Will Die of Hunger’
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that has been ongoing for more than 60 days. “This is an absolutely unprecedented level of tragedy. It’s an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” said Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA’s Senior Director of Communications.
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6th International Conference for World Balance
Submitted by Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Following the high level of attendance at the 2023 edition – over 1,100 delegates from 89 countries – the José Martí International Solidarity Project announces the planned holding of the 6th International Conference FOR WORLD BALANCE, in Havana on January 28-31, 2025.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dicembre 2024 – Nell’articolo precedente si è rivolta l’attenzione soprattutto a sottolineare la crescente militarizzazione nel mondo e nel nostro Paese, e ad alcune conseguenze che ciò porta al mondo del lavoro.
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Beyond Trump and Nukes: Unmaking War, Remaking Men
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Trump as a macho warrior. What if his “machismo” is a psychological trait which increases the likelihood that he will impulsively order a nuclear strike to prove that he (the U.S.) is “the boss”?
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25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – In September 1999, the UNGA adopted this Declaration, which many have compared to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Having been involved in its preparation, I provide the historical details.
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(Italiano) Riscaldamento globale: 12 approcci
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Si fa un gran parlare di riscaldamento globale, giustamente. Ma servono idee concrete per passare dalle parole ai fatti, magari con preoccupazioni che fan capolino in fondo alla mente:
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The United States Raises a Middle Finger to the International Criminal Court
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the US confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
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A Tale of Two Summits
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Two global summits were held in November, with two completely different results. One [G20] was held in a country of the global south seeking independence from northern domination. The other [COP29] was hosted by a country profiting from the sales of oil and was dominated by the interest of the US and Europe.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Novembre 2024 – Negli ultimi 20 anni – grazie al lavoro appassionato e scrupoloso di studiosi, attivisti e giornalisti – è stato possibile fornire al pubblico notizie sempre più accurate e puntuali sui flussi di denaro che in Italia e nel mondo accompagnano la costruzione e la realizzazione di politiche aggressive e violente.
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Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Tells UN: ‘Palestinians Don’t Need Our Pity’
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care MD, addressed the UNGA on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tue 26 Nov 2024, sharing the harrowing realities faced by Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
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In Besieged Beit Lahiya, Rubble and Decomposing Corpses Line the Streets
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Thousands of Palestinians in the city are facing relentless bombardment and famine as the Israeli army ramps up efforts to ethnic-cleanse northern Gaza.
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Stripped and Held at Gunpoint, Gaza Schoolboys ‘Forced to Be Israel’s Human Shields’
Bel Trew | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Palestinians as young as 12 describe how they, dressed in military fatigues, were forced to inspect houses and roads to look for tunnels and militants, in a practice an Israeli NGO warns is ‘broadly used’ and ‘systemic.’
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New Powder That Captures Carbon Could Be ‘Quantum Leap’ for Industry
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use.
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ChatGPT Turns 2: Evolution of Groundbreaking AI Chatbot
Muhammed Yasin Güngör | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Launched on 30 Nov 2022, ChatGPT reached 1 million users within five days and surpassed 100 million in just two months. On Oct 2024 it had 200 million weekly active users worldwide. ChatGPT Plus has around 10 million paying subscribers.
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Understanding ICC’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazis to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated, to Israel’s in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
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Rogue Israel Destroys 37 Towns, over 40,000 Houses in Deadly Onslaught on Lebanon
Ahmed Asmar | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – More than 3,000 people killed, 13,500 injured in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanese authorities.
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Cuba Expresses Solidarity with Venezuela and Condemns New US Sanctions
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – This statement comes against a background of growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, where sanctions have been seen as an attempt to destabilize the Maduro government.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Hans Christian Andersen Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes.
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Biden’s Last Hurrah against Russia and Putin
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Frustration Escalates for the Lame Duck US President – He is no longer talking about his failed policy in the Middle East, though US bombs still flow to Israel for deadly use. Biden is now trying to stem the losses in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
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(Français) Pollution de l’air à Delhi : un révélateur des inégalités
Aurélie Leroy | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – A Delhi, les niveaux de pollution ont atteint des seuils alarmants ces derniers jours, supérieur aux normes de l’OMS. La quatrième phase du Plan d’urgence: fermeture des écoles, l’arrêt des chantiers, l’interdiction de circulation des camions et la suspension des activités industrielles.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
This Editorial was originally published on 22 Mar 2010 – #105. We are reposting for its significance as USA/NATO hint of a nuclear war–State terrorism par excellence.
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Conscientious Objectors Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Army: “Get Out of Gaza Now!”
Mesarvot | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – “Human lives are equally valuable, no matter the ethnic or political line we were born on. We all want and deserve peace, quiet, and security. For over a year the IDF has conducted widespread military operations in the dense Gaza strip. For the sake of humanity and of all, this must stop.”
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ICC Application for an Arrest Warrant in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
ICC International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Statement from International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC
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