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(Français) Remarques pour la Journée Internationale de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 octobre 2024 – Ce text est le contenu de mon discours à l’Unesco lors de la réunion organisée par le collectif des ONG partenaires officielles de l’UNESCO en coproduction avec l’Association des Anciens Fonctionnaires de l’UNESCO et le soutien de la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO.
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Israel’s Bloodbath in Lebanon
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Israel launches largest attack on Lebanon since its 2006 invasion, kills hundreds including children.
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Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – The freed publisher will appear in person in Strasbourg on 1 Oct to address the Council of Europe, WikiLeaks said today.
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Pathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Reference may be made to spiritual factors reframing ‘reasonable’ as ‘intuition’ or as “values”. That dimension may be of primary significance, taking precedence over any other and determining the nature of what is rational.
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Europeans, Arab and Muslim Nations Launch a New Initiative for an Independent Palestinian State
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that “there is a growing consensus from Western and Arab countries, and from the Global South, that we need to establish a Palestinian Authority, Government and State, which has to be recognized.”
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EU President Demands Globalist Control over All Information
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addressed elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 16 Jan 2024 calling for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.
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US Gives Israel $8.7 Billion in Military Aid for Operations in Gaza and Lebanon
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – The new aid comes as the US falsely claims it’s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon. It is actually grotesque.
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Zelensky’s Cancelled Meeting with Latin American Countries Reflects a Lack of Support for Kiev
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – The Ukrainian president cancelled a meeting with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean on the sidelines of the UNGA on 24 Sep due to low number of participants. It could also be a sign of the difficulties NATO faced in disseminating its narrative among non-Western countries, which is increasingly centered on a zero-sum logic, defending NATO’s exclusive interests in relation to Russia.
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Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds–the U.S. Is Sending More Bombs
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Weapons used in Israeli strikes into Lebanon that have killed civilians have been found to be U.S.-made.
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The Unbelievable Trump
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
With Partner James David Vance
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Clair de Lune (Music Video of the Week)
Maria João Pires | Jardin Musical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Author: Claude Debussy – Piano Magnifique
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The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
In one of the boldest and most shimmering passages in all of literature, Thoreau writes: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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Thomas Merton on US Militarism
Anthony Donovan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Our Government is facilitating mass slaughter. The two political parties running for President are complicit. The Catholic monk Thomas Merton’s writings on US militarism were censored and often forbidden. He resorted to sending his work privately, much unknown until after his assassination.
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How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
Melanie Joy | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – When I was four years old, I killed someone. And 43 years later, I received the Ahimsa Award for my work on global nonviolence… To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
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Israel Strikes Lebanon and Yemen: What We Know So Far
Jonathan Yerushalmy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s military has struck more targets in Yemen and Lebanon, including a strike on central Beirut for the first time since 2006, in the wake of Friday’s [27 Sep] killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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The Deadliest Day in Lebanon in Decades
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Monday [23 Sep] was the deadliest day in Lebanon in decades. In a single day, Israeli strikes in Beirut and across south Lebanon killed over 500 people, including at least 50 children, with countless more buried under the rubble. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the death toll continues to rise.
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Building BRICS
Ash Narain Roy | The Statesman/BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – BRICS has emerged as a powerful geopolitical entity thanks to the Global South. It is flexing economic and political muscles that no other groupings ever did. It has momentum on its side. It has surpassed the G7 and accounts for 32 per cent of global GDP in PPP terms.
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Microsoft’s CEO for Israel to Appear at Event Celebrating Israeli Military AI
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Mamram is not merely a banal IT service provider. This summer, a commander in the unit confirmed that it was providing cloud data services and artificial intelligence support for the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Got Him!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Meanwhile, in the Middle East
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Cold War II: US Congress Passes 25 Anti-China Laws in One Week, Funds Propaganda Campaign
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – In what it called “China Week,” the US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-Chinese laws in bipartisan votes. CWII fervor is reaching fever pitch in Washington.
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Hezbollah Says Israel Dropping Leaflets with ‘Very Dangerous’ Barcodes in Lebanon
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – As the death toll from the Israeli bombing of Lebanon topped 550 today, Hezbollah warned that Israel is dropping leaflets with barcodes to extract information from electronic devices. “Please do not open or circulate the barcodes.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 30 Sep 2024
Israeli Terror in Lebanon
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – What the Israeli government did to innocent civilians in Lebanon on 16 Sep 2024 was a blatant, dastardly act of terrorism. Detonation of bombs placed in pagers and other communication devices was intended to spread fear and tension, kill and maim individuals.
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Software Developers in Oakland Are Putting People Over Profit
Damon Orion | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – How coders are working on creating community participation and democratic design.
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War Forever, Everywhere
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind – US military refers to them as AXO, abandoned in places like occupied schools. Close cousins are UXO and landmines designed to explode and kill indiscriminately upon contact.
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Israeli Aggressions: ‘I’m Terrified for What Comes Next’–Chris Hedges to George Galloway
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
18 Sep 2024 – We’ve all seen the provocations by Israel, says Chris Hedges. The consequences of this latest one on people’s pagers and electronic devices could be catastrophic. Middle East war looms.
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Standing at Gaza Border Felt like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni
Amy Goodman interviews Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – TRANSCEND member Burmese scholar, dissident, and human rights activist Maung Zarni discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma’s and Israel’s human rights abuses.
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Viability of Sustainable Development as Implied by Metabolic Cycles
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Turbocharging SDGs – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals on the occasion of the 2024 Summit of the Future was previously explored through interaction with AI.
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The Pager Attack
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – What next? Is Netanyahu betting on a Hizbullah overreaction? Is he trying to open a second front and to drag Iran – and the USA – into war? Are the attacks part of his effort to return Donald Trump to the White House, or is he simply trying to stay in power with a show of military force?
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The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – Israel carried out two terrorist attacks across Lebanon this week, bringing the entire region ever closer to the brink of all out war. These are the actions of a rogue state and the direct result of a climate of total impunity.
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A Political Maturity Scale: Off the Right/Left Axis and Outside the Boxes
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – Is Going to War Politically Immature? – Right/left polarized US political dynamics provokes mass hysteria domestically, which drives foreign policies that begin, deepen and expand wars that enrich few–if unwanted by most.
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Israel’s War on the West Bank: Explainer
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – Continuing Israeli attack on locations across northern West Bank highlights Israel’s treatment of the occupied territory.
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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – Kris Kristofferson, a man of deep soul and poetic genius, is eighty-eight years-old, an elderly man who has come a long way down life’s road. His songs keep echoing in my mind, and I am sure in the minds of millions of others.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Sep 2024
End of Empire?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Let us (re)imagine and plan a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality and work extra hard to achieve it before it is too late and cockroaches inherit our planet. It is more urgent now than ever and it is an existential struggle for all humanity.
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Greenwald and Hedges on Media, Terror, Gaza, and More
Glenn Greenwald interviews Chris Hedges | Systems Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – The Security State Will Destroy You – Israel’s Terrifying Expanding War
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Crisis Intervention: Global Psychotherapy Peace Summit for World Leaders
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – As I watch the increasing threat of nuclear war due to the war in Ukraine and the nuclear arms race, in desperation I have asked myself if key world leaders need crisis intervention in the form of a special psychotherapy summit conducted by psychologists?
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In Search of the Sacred: Pico Iyer on Our Models of Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
With these human minds, arising from these material bodies, we keep trying to find heaven — to make heaven — in our myths and our mundanities, right here in the place where we are: in this beautiful and troubled world.
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The World Would Be Better Off without NATO, Revisited
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – The hyper-capitalist terror state that plots to rule the world keeps its fist in a mailed glove called NATO. But NATO is in trouble as its massive, disastrous Ukraine adventure fails and member Turkey applies to join the other side, namely BRICS.
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Is There a Post-Human Sexuality?
Slavoj Žižek | Journal of Philosophical Investigations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
7 Sep 2024 – Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which is never simply binary.
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Israeli Military Strikes Hezbollah Targets as Nasrallah Responds to Wave of Device Blasts in Lebanon
Raf Sanchez, et al. | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The attack on southern Lebanon today involved airstrikes and artillery, an Israeli official said, after two days of explosions that killed at least 37 people and injured thousands in Lebanon.
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UN’s Five Major Leaders Skip Key Summit of the Future
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The list of speakers reflects notable absentees for a high-level summit: the five permanent members of the Security Council whose representatives do not include any head of state or head of government.
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Petition (please sign): Urgent International Military Protection for Palestinians
Ousman Noor | Avaaz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – To: Leaders of Governments Worldwide
We, the undersigned, call upon the international community to take immediate and decisive action to halt the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
A Bull Market
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Happened in Anglo America
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BRICS and De-dollarization: An Alternative or Potential Disaster?
Rendy Artha Luvian | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
From 22 to 24 Oct 2024 a BRICS summit will be held, with a key agenda discussing the potential use of a gold-backed common currency. BRICS has been an important player in the global economy since its formation.
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Elon Musk Is a Threat to Brazil’s Democracy
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – Much more than a feud between a billionaire tech mogul and a Supreme Court justice, it has highlighted the hypocrisy of Musk’s absolutist discourse on free speech and exposed the immediate threat that tech leaders like him, seeing themselves above the law, pose to democracy.
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Adagio G Minor (Music Video of the Week)
Albinoni | Sungoo Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Cello: Stjepan Hauser, the Cellist of Sarajevo – Exquisite, Bello!
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Prospects for BRICS’ New Currency and New Payment System
Kester Kenn Klomegah | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
BRICS, together with new members and its partners, look forward to a new era of de-dollarizing the global economy by introducing a new currency and a new payment system at the Summit in the Republic of Tatarstan on 24 Oct 2024.
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Israel Raids and Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s Bureau in Ramallah, West Bank
Jon Gambrell | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early today, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster.
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(Italiano) Sud globale: Il cambio-marce assistito
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
18 Settembre 2024 – Arriva il Sud Globale con – o si spera senza – una voglia di rivalsa.
→ read full articleTurbocharging SDGs by Activating Global Cycles in a 64-fold 3D Array
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
AI-enabled Memorable Pattern Recognition through Colorification and Sonification – As noted in previous experimental use of AI, its possibilities might have been considered of fundamental relevance to the ambitions of the UN Summit of the Future (22-23 Sep 2024).
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The War on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
24 Aug 2024 – “Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.
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No, Israel Does Not Have a Right to Defend Itself in Gaza–But the Palestinians Do
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees.
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(Français) Opérations de maintien de la paix : entre frustration et transformation
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
À l’heure actuelle, les Nations Unies déploient onze missions de maintien de la paix dans le monde. L’architecture et le déploiement de ces opérations constituent un marqueur de la transformation des conflits armés dans le nouveau contexte géopolitique, mais aussi de la prégnance des rapports Nord-Sud.
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Beyond Palestine, International Law and White Supremacy: A Personal Reflection
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Even if the issue is organically tied to you, if you offer a perspective that challenges the White Supremacist World’s prevailing analyses and views, you would very likely find yourself swimming against the currents.
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Israel Has Built a Vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a US delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days witnessing the institutionalized textbook Lemkinian genocide. — “This is beyond what the Nazis embodied. I’ve never seen such sadistic violence.”
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Big Pharma Is a Big Menace to Global Health
Daniel Finn interviews Nick Dearden | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Pharmaceutical companies claim their profits are necessary for vital medical research, but it’s public investment that funds the research before private firms gobble up the benefits through patent monopolies.
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(Italiano) La tecnocrazia avanza: la tua auto ti spia e distrugge la tua libertà
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Settembre 2024 – Il programa dell’Elite di sterminare una vasta frazione della popolazione mondiale e schiavizzare tecnologicamente i lasciati in vita ormai avanza rapidamente.
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‘Another Unbearable and Horrific Massacre’: US-Armed IDF Kills Dozens in Tent City Bombing
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – The Israeli military bombed Gaza’s overcrowded tent city of al-Mawasi, a supposed “safe zone,” early today killing dozens. “The far-right genocidal Israeli government continues to use its one-ton Biden bombs to massacre Palestinians as if they were sheep for the slaughter.”
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How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light within Us and between Us
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Every once in the bluest moon, if you are lucky, you encounter someone with such powerful and generous light in their eyes that they rekindle the lost light within you and return it magnified.
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Why Nations Are Rushing to Join BRICS+
Monica Johnson | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Comprising in 2009 of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, BRICS added Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2024. BRICS+ now: 45% of world’s population, 25% of global trade, 40% of global oil production, 28% of world’s GDP, and more than one-third of global GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
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Germany’s Olaf Scholz Has a Sudden Moment of Clarity about Russia
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – The lame-duck chancellor appears to have had a moment of lucidity about engaging in diplomacy with Russia.
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FBI Sued for Withholding Files on Assange and WikiLeaks
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – The civil liberties organization Defending Rights and Dissent sued the FBI and US Justice Department for withholding records on WikiLeaks and Assange. “With the legal persecution of Julian Assange finally over, the FBI must come clean.”
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Planetary Cancer: US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the planet’s climate.
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Akashic Records and Quantum Physics: Exploring the Infinite Truth
North Star News | Read Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
The Akashic Records represent a cosmic repository of all human experiences and consciousness, paralleling concepts in quantum physics like the zero point field, suggesting an interconnectedness of all beings and events beyond time and space.
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Young People Will Save the World, Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
Keara Sosa | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our leaders get it right.
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South Africa to Sue US, UK for Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Al Mayadeen | Resist! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – Nearly 50 South African lawyers, led by attorney Wikus Van Rensburg, are gearing up to file a lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom, asserting their complicity in Israeli forces’ war crimes in Palestine.
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(Français) Géopolitique du commerce des armes
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
La récente décision britannique de suspendre une partie de ses ventes d’armes à Israël intervient à quelques jours du dixième anniversaire de la signature du Traité des Nations Unies sur le Commerce des Armes. L’occasion de faire le point sur la géopolitique du trafic d’armes et la législation à cet égard. Ainsi que sur la responsabilité des États.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Sep 2024
MAGA Goggles
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A
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Age of Consensual Multipolarity
Efe Can Gurcan | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – One can hardly deny that multipolarity is a defining trend in world politics today, leading the shift away from US hegemony and toward a more distributed power structure. In response, even South-South cooperation has gained momentum.
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Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer.
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Dispatch from Jenin: Resistance Swells after Israel’s Brutal Invasion
Mariam Barghouti | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
9 Sep 2024 – Ramallah-based Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti traveled to Jenin twice to cover the Israeli invasion last week. Route 60, the only road, is mostly empty save for Israeli military checkpoints dividing Palestinian districts. Soldiers and armed settlers are a source of danger delaying and harassing traveling journalists.
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The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
14 Sep 2024 – Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly those risky banks with trillions of dollars in derivatives on their books.
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James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Dies Aged 93
Graeme Baker and Thomas Mackintosh | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – U.S. actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died early yesterday [9 Sep] morning surrounded by his family.
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The UN Security Council’s Astonishing Silence on Myanmar Atrocities
Akshaya Kumar | Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the last few months starkly contrasts with the clear warnings from senior UN officials who are urgently ringing alarm bells.
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On the Need to Dismantle the Settler-Colonial Bloc at the UN
Craig Mokhiber | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – WEOG, the UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states, wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law.
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(Italiano) Trascendimento del conflitto come forza propulsiva della storia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Il Trascendimento del conflitto, la teoria di mediazione del Metodo TRANSCEND considera cinque possibili esiti per conflitti semplici e molte più variabili per conflitti complessi, nascosti nella storia.
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Israeli Society Has Truly Fallen to Cruelty, Violence and Apathy–Just Look at Us
Gideon Levy | Haaretz/After the Truth-Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – Look at what happened Fri 6 Sep in the Jenin refugee camp, in Qaryout, in Beita and in Megiddo Prison – and perhaps you will see us, finally.
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(Italiano) Libertà d’espressione vs. libertà d’umiliazione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Tesi base: Una falsa dicotomia. con un po’ d’abilità possiamo permetterci entrambe, rifiutando di farci intrappolare dai fondamentalisti dell’uno o altro fronte. Come? Beh, facciamo prima del nostro meglio per chiarire le due libertà, la libertà d’espressione e la libertà d’umiliazione.
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Buddhist Scholar Maung Zarni among Interfaith Delegation Visiting Palestine
Justin Whitaker | Buddhistdoor Global - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The delegation, organized by Rabbis for Ceasefire and Christians for Ceasefire, included Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhist scholar Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND).
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Catastrophic Hunger Doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan Worst Hit
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN today.
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Palestinians: The Final Victims of the Holocaust
Allan C. Brownfeld | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
When we discuss the Holocaust, we forget that it had other victims, the Palestinians, whose country was taken from them as the world sought a place for Jews displaced by the Nazis without inviting them into their own countries.
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Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza
Nahil Mohana | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear
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FOIA Files: How Academics Identified “Misinformation” Around COVID-19
James Rushmore | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Another 836 pages from the University of Washington shows how researchers and “power users” in media cooperated to identify “misinformation” themes.
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Abandon Biden Becomes Abandon Harris, Focuses on Battleground States
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Abandon Harris is now campaigning to defeat Kamala Harris in the battleground states, saying that genocide is a red line. A new poll shows Muslim voters evenly divided between Kamala Harris and Jill Stein.
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From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was twenty-seven when he was arrested and sentenced to death for belonging to a literary society deemed dangerous by the tsarist regime. His sentence was repealed at the last moment.
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From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance
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Meta’s Role in Israel’s Digital Proxy War on The Cradle
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – The banning of The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram shows a troubling alliance with Israeli-linked groups to silence voices critical of the occupation state, especially those media outlets covering its adversaries’ narratives.
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Snowden on Durov
Edward Snowden | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Ditto!
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Three New Kinds of Refugees in a World of Migrants
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.
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UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion,” said UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
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Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace (Music Video of the Week)
Mary McDonald | maestroz25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Northern Lights Chorale and Conductor David Phelps perform the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of thy peace.”
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Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
Prof. Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, speaks about the significance of the International Court of Justice’s decision. “Israel will pay a high price whether or not they comply.”
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Testing the Boundaries for Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Abdaljawad Omar | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – The current operation in the West Bank is meant to test the boundaries of what Israel will be allowed to get away with and is setting the stage for the forced ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The groundwork is being laid for a broader offensive.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Sep 2024
How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened
Matt Bivens, M.D. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Preying on Pain – Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction. The sociopathic push by big pharma to cash in on opiate production.
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(Italiano) Dal genocidio degli ebrei nella seconda guerra mondiale all’odio di oggi verso i palestinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
30 Agosto 2024 – Omer Bartov, scrittore e accademico israeliano, è nato nel 1954 in Israele. Suo padre, Hanoch Bartov, era un autore e giornalista i cui genitori erano immigrati nella Palestina dalla Polonia; la madre di Bartov emigrò nella Palestina dall’Ucraina a metà degli anni ’30.
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Israel Exposes Its Political Agenda: ‘Land’ not ‘Security’–Gaza as Prelude, West Bank as Prize
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – The concerted Israeli military operation extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.
→ read full articleComprehensible Mapping of the Variety of Fundamental Governance Functions
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Organization of Disparate Memes – There is no lack of recognition of the dangerously fragile condition of global civilization, epitomized by ever increasing threats of nuclear catastrophe. The period is witness to major conflicts, most obviously Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas.
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