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The Western Wild West
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – “Americans conquered the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions out of poverty, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens. There is nothing we cannot do, no dream we cannot fulfil.” — Trump’s inaugural address
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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Replicate Itself — A Milestone That Has Experts Terrified
Owen Hughes | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
25 Jan 2025 – Scientists say AI crossed a critical “red line” by replicating itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.
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Never Again
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“Never again” means never again for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Turns Its Firepower on the West Bank
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel’s military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 3 Feb 2025
What DeepSeek Says about Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War
Cathy Vogan | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
1 Feb 2025 – What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out.
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The Christian Zionist Leading the International Court of Justice
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
24 Jan 2025 – Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Now the court’s new president, the Ugandan judge plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories.
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How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.
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Barbarity vs Civilization [Redux?]
René Georges Hermann-Paul | Le Cri de Paris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“It’s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of “Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it’s a necessary blow for civilization.” –> Costumes & Mores – Ring any bells?
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‘From Ground Zero–Stories from Gaza’: An Appreciation of the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – This extraordinary film, on the 2024 Oscar shortlist for documentaries, consists of 22 episodes stitched together by Palestinian film director Rashid Masharawi but without any effort to curate a narrative experience of the Gaza ordeal now in its 15th month.
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Eliciting Insight within Complex Polyhedral Configurations of Concepts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The future may note the tendency to articulate matter of importance as checklists with some clustering of items. This is evident in declarations such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the regional charters of human rights.
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Rejected by Allies and Condemned as Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Trump’s proposal that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip has been rejected by US allies in the region and attacked as biased, dangerous, illegal and unworkable by lawyers and activists.
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Leaked Documents Expose Deep Ties between Israeli Army and Microsoft
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – Since 7 Oct 2023, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.
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New Realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Update of an interview with Mohammad Ali Haqshenas, a journalist with the International Quran News Agency, published on 22 Jan 2025.
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(Italiano) Civiltà come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Sei civiltà definiscono 15 muri, religiosamente-filosoficamente ed economicamente-politicamente, come modelli di sviluppo. Lo scontro principale è l’Occidente contro il resto. Colonialismo, imperialismo. La soluzione: vincere, dominare. Ci sono altri modi: compromesso, trascendenza, nuove civiltà.
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Military Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
– that everybody seems to love.
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Fiqhi* Pathways: The Role of Islamic Jurists in Shaping Armed Group Behavior
Lakhdar Ghettas | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
This research project aims to understand the structures and roles of Islamic jurists in shaping armed group behavior in the MENA and Sahel region.
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Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
Robert Inlakesh | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – The wave of Israeli attacks in the West Bank this week following Trump’s lifting of settler sanctions and the role of U.S. donors in enabling messianic-settler genocidal extremism.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Jan 2025
Germany’s Reckoning with the Past Is No Longer a Model
Elias Feroz interviews Enzo Traverso | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – In the 1980s, German institutions began to seriously confront their country’s past, but their reactions to the destruction of Gaza show that they failed to draw the right lessons. Both the Holocaust and the Nakba tragedies should be acknowledged and respected. A struggle against antisemitism grounded on the denial of the Nakba is both unethical and ineffective.
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(Italiano) Nucleare silenziato… ma non domato
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Il 22 gennaio 2025 si festeggia il quarto anniversario dell’entrata in vigore del Trattato sulla Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari: armi immorali, illegittime e illegali. Ebbene: nonostante l’evidenza che le armi nucleari costituiscono una minaccia crescente per l’umanità.
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Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
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The West’s Dominance Is Over! On Gaza, Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO Shift
Prof. Jan Oberg | SaltCubeAnalytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Peace researcher Jan Oberg on the unraveling of Western dominance. From NATO’s aggressive expansion to its role in global instability, to the devastation in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and Sweden’s controversial move into NATO.
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The Choice Is Ours?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or will we have peace?
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A Day That Many of Us Have Dreaded
Bernie Sanders | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, Inauguration day. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is one of the most pivotal and difficult moments in the history of our country. What happens in the next few years will impact this country and the world for decades. Despair is not an option. We must aggressively educate and organize and go forward together.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
“Human beings make metaphors as naturally as bees make honey,” Adam Gopnik wrote in his wondrous love letter to winter, and no one has honeyed the spirit with more splendid metaphors wrung from winter than Henry David Thoreau.
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Which Genocide Are You On?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” -– Voltaire
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Israel Holds Multiple Palestinian Doctors Captive–Some Are already Dead
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of many unlawfully imprisoned medical professionals, reportedly tortured and abused in detention.
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Biden Commutes Sentence for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier
Colleen Long, et al. | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence today.
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January 20, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The tone for Trump’s inauguration was set on Fri 17 Jan, when he launched his own cryptocurrency. By Sun morning, it had made more than $50 billion. A financial asset that didn’t exist on Fri today accounts for 89% of Trump’s net worth.
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Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, plan and justify wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but they mostly provide analyses that neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).
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The Return
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Déjà-Vu…
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Palestinian Prisoner Release
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – The International Movement for a Just World shares the joy expressed by many Palestinians over the release from Israeli jails of 90 Palestinian prisoners.
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Say You Want an Evolution
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 Anglo America…
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Rwanda Advances toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The US and EU have collaborated with Rwanda’s colonization project since it first invaded DRC, at that time Zaire, in 1996. The minerals traffic is so profitable that the European Commission shocked Congolese in Feb 2024 by announcing a “Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains ” between the EU and Rwanda.
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – I am very pleased to announce the release of the statement below, initiated by my friend and colleague, Roy Eidelson, President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence.
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Megadroughts Are on the Rise Worldwide
Carolyn Gramling | ScienceNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Megadroughts are increasing worldwide–and they’re also becoming both hotter and drier. A most extreme one has helped fuel California’s wildfires.
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Old Story – New Twist
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
At Trump’s inauguration, the billionaires were in the front row while his picks for secretaries were behind them. This image sums the momentous transformations gripping our planet.
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‘I Felt like a Nazi’: Zionists Admit Genocide
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – On 23 Dec 2024, Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza.
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Says Ceasefire Deal Allows a ‘Return to Fighting under U.S. Guarantee’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement today that the Gaza ceasefire deal will allow “Israel to return to fighting under American guarantee.” It was a response to Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, who threatened to quit the coalition government if the ceasefire deal is approved.
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Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza
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What We Don’t Know about the US Presidents We Elect
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Notes on the Occasion of an Inauguration
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Israeli Government Approves Hostage/Ceasefire Deal, to Take Effect Sun 19 Jan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Netanyahu told his Security Cabinet he will not allow the agreement to end the attacks on Gaza.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
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Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.
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The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
The introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 in the old US of A
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: ‘This Is the Last Phase of Zionism’
Anealla Safdar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – Pappe talks on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.
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Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
In January 1963, as Central Europe was entering its harshest winter in eighty years, Dervla Murphy mounted her bicycle named Roz and left Ireland for India, by way of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
IPS | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates, who participate as ‘guests,’ most of them working for big business corporations.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA GENOCIDE 20 Jan 2025
Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – The BND operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. It provides a unique, innovative model.
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Happy 1984!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today’s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense…
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‘Far too Little, far too Late,’ Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba from Terror List
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – In a move likely to be reversed by Trump, Biden today notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a designation politically motivated and meritless.
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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.
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Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
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US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
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Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
Human Wrongs Watch | International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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First Ceasefire Then Palestinian Liberation
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Today, after 15 months of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, supported and enabled by the U.S.A., a 42-day ceasefire was reported. We hope for a halt to military bombardments, an end to the starvation of Palestinians, and the return of hostages from Israel and Gaza to their families.
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Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.
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‘Major Blow to Freedom of Expression’: US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – The US Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok if its Chinese parent company does not sell the popular social media app by Sunday [19 Jan]. One ACLU campaigner blasted the justices for “giving the executive branch unprecedented power to silence speech it doesn’t like.”
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Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Dialogue between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
→ read full articleDonald the Dove Takes Office on 20 Jan 2025!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Trump conducted more drone strikes in one term than Obama (the “Drone Warrior in Chief”) in two terms, removed the reporting requirements on future drone attacks, attempted a coup in Venezuela, and assassinated Qassem Soleimani from Iran…
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Brazil-USA: A Tale of Two Caudillos
Omar G. Encarnación | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Like Trump, Bolsonaro Waged War on Democratic Institutions—but in Brazil, the Institutions Are Winning
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BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population by Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
19 Jan 2025 – BRICS added Nigeria with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP.
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Never Mind the Propaganda, the World Should Know about the U.S. Countless Wars
Chaitanya Davé | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Throughout history, U.S. Administrations, for one fictitious reason or another, go to wars against weaker countries. The real reason is their insatiable appetite for other countries’ lands and resources. They don’t have permanent friends; they have permanent interests only.
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In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – The fires burning Los Angeles have drawn renewed attention to the writings of Octavia Butler, a black woman science fiction writer. As early as 1993, she saw the threat of climate change as her prophetic book is set in the years 2024 through 2027.
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(Italiano) 1421 – 1434
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Nel 1421 i cinesi viaggiarono nelle Americhe. Arrivarono, videro, non conquistarono, molti rimasero. A differenza dell’Occidente, nessun impero, nessun tentacolo succhiante. Inoltre, a differenza dell’Occidente, impararono e conservarono molto di ciò che avevano imparato. Il centro del mondo ora si sposta verso la Cina.
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(Italiano) I tre temi scottanti nucleari
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
3 Gennaio 2025 – I tre temi sono disarmo-proliferazione, uso militare e uso teologico delle armi nucleari. Tutti piuttosto intrattabili.
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(Italiano) Famiglia Scuola Lavoro: bullismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
24 Dicembre 2024 – I tre pilastri delle nostre società, la Famiglia che passa figli ragionevolmente socializzati alle Scuole, che a loro volta passano studenti ragionevolmente istruiti al Lavoro, che a sua volta passa cittadini inutili alla pattumiera detta Pensionamento – questi pilastri sono carichi di violenza.
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On Mitigating Ageing: An Advertisement for Myself
Richard Falk, Margaret W. Crane | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Nonagenarian Richard Falk’s Long, Fruitful Post-Retirement – ‘With some embarrassment, and a bit of pride, I publish Margaret Crane’s interview for her newsletter on ageing. I thought that being asked what it means to be THIS old, I would learn something about my state of mind and of being-in-the-world.’
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 2): Criando Eretz Yisrael para Remodelar a Ordem Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
À medida que o programa multifacetado das Elites para remodelar a ordem mundial, capturar a propriedade e o controle de todos os recursos-chave, matar uma proporção substancial da população humana, e impor uma ditadura tecnocrática sobre os “transumanos” que sobraram vivos, avança rapidamente.
→ read full articlePreparing for the Emergence of Collective Awareness
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Emergency Preparedness Understood Otherwise with AI Assistance – There is currently an unusual degree of global focus on emergency preparedness. This extends beyond the long-standing concerns with national security.
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The Promethean Power of Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In every creative life there comes a time when the animating spark grows dim and the muscle of motivation slackens, you feel benumbed to beauty, suffocating in the exhaust fume of your own exertion, ossified with the tedium of being yourself. We call those moments burnout.
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Zuckerberg and Musk Have Shown that Big Tech Doesn’t Care about Facts
Jasper Jackson | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The online information ecosystem has been in critical condition, but the prognosis is more dire. The two billionaires, who between them control a huge chunk of our communications infrastructure, have made it clear that they are not interested in the truth. Ahead of Trump’s second term, 2025 will herald a new era of disinformation.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 13 Jan 2025
Canada: Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down
Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada and as the leader of the Liberal Party took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa.
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Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The genocide in Gaza has entered its 15th month. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed so far by Israel. 17,000 of them are children. This is the largest number of children killed in a genocide over a fourteen-month period.
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Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Studio B | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Maria Ressa speaks to computer scientist Prof. Mike Wooldridge about the promise and the dangers of AI. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her investigative journalism on corruption in the Philippines.
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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”
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The Columnist
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Fact Checking
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Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung’s conflict theory.
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Shambhala Prophecy Fulfilled?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – “Every day, Israel is killing 50 to 100 or more Palestinians in Gaza, who are already enduring unbearable suffering. 70% of those killed are women and children, which reflects the composition of the population.
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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq… into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of their military power serves as the primary target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure.”
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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!
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US Homegrown Terrorism!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – On New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets: one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas.
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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Peace
Jerome Gavin | Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – The use of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, potentially offering a unique opportunity for peacebuilders.
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What’s Next for Youth Engagement in Disarmament?
Robin Geiss and Melissa Nyoni | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In the lead up to the Summit of the Future, more than 1,500 youth attended the Action Days. Young leaders from all over the world made recommendations, which were presented to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General for youth affairs.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Leggendo l’articolo emerge l’idea che un deposito nucleare possa essere paragonato a uno zoo che ospita animali da compagnia: un luogo tranquillo, ben custodito ma sicuro, da visitare con curiosità e interesse. Il potere delle parole!
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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?
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A World’s Soul in Tatters
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent in Gaza. An increasingly normalized genocide . . .
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The Three Voices of Poetry
T. S. Eliot | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
April 1954 Issue – The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is his voice addressing an audience. The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse.
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 1): Oscilando à Beira do Armagedom, o Perigo da Guerra Nuclear
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Praticamente todos os grupos de bate-papo, como as “notícias” distribuídas pela mídia corporativa via televisão, rádio e jornais, encontram uma sequência infinita de questões inconsequentes para distrair as pessoas da realidade. E assim nossa morte ou escravidão transumana nos aguarda.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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A Remembrance of Jimmy Carter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – A recollection of my only meeting with the former president at the Carter Center, a minor event, although in the context of repeated mistakes by the ‘political realists’ who continue to shape US foreign policy, perhaps of some interest.
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Heavy Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill more than 90 Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Attacks Included a Strike on Tents in the Al-Mawasi ‘Safe Zone’
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World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – A member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a Ukrainian Jewish American, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
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U.S. Veterans: Major Source of Domestic Terrorists
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – The two men who carried out terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had been trained by the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon.
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(Français) Quelques Prédictions Possibles pour 2025 et Une Perspective Apocaloptimiste
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 janvier 2025 – Déjà en 2024, nous voyons les électeurs du monde entier rejeter la démocratie capitaliste, la forme de gouvernement par laquelle les capitalistes deviennent milliardaires tandis que les travailleurs sombrent dans la pauvreté.
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