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EDITORIAL

The Three Nuclear Issues

The three issues are disarmament-proliferation, the military use, and the theological use of nuclear arms.  All rather untractable.

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A TMS Interview with Dr. Jan Oberg (TFF) – Nuclear Proliferation

Nuclear proliferation, the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield, NATO, and the complete abolishment of nuclear weapons for a sustainable peace.

Can We All Get Along?

22 Dec 2024 - Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity

28 Dec 2024 - An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 30 Dec 2024

HUMAN RIGHTS

‘We Will Leave When the Last Palestinian Leaves’: The Defiant Last Stand of the Doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital

25 Dec 2024 - For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army's attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the IDF steps up its attacks.

Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza

19 Dec 2024 - Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival

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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light

25 Dec 2024 - 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN's inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.  

Configuring the Paradoxical Insights of 48-fold and 100-fold Sets of Koans

AI-Assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors - The UN's ambition to "turbocharge" the Sustainable Development Goals at the Summit of the Future was previously explored through a series of interactions with AI.

A Voice from Syria on Christmas Day: “All of Us Are Lost”

27 Dec 2024 - Following are some key points from a discussion with my friend in Damascus. He is a translator and university professor. The situation in Syria continues to evolve.

The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 2): Creating Eretz Yisrael to Reshape World Order

29 Dec 2024 - The multifaceted Elite program to reshape world order, capture ownership and control of all key resources, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, and impose a technocratic dictatorship over those ‘transhumans’ left alive, advances rapidly

Personal Souvenirs of Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024)

22 Dec 2024 - I was privileged to know and work with Federico Mayor, a “thoughtful committed individual” who changed the world. He was nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize and should have received it.

OBITUARIES

Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024): A Tribute

A Legacy for Peace and Education: The former director of UNESCO (1987-1999), passed away at the age of 90. RIP

U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)

A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 - His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.

IN FOCUS

On the Necessity of a Civil Society Tribunal for the Gaza Genocide

28 Dec 2024 - Syed Sikander Mehdi on Richard Falk's Piece: Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary

Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?

All religions have certain texts declared to be "sacred." One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?

Standing in the Center of the Unknowing as the World Cries. What to Do?

An article in the New York Times, 'Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food', argues that intensified high-tech factory farming is better for the environment than regenerative, local, organic farming, and is the only way to sustainably feed the world.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

‘Godfather of AI’ Makes Chilling Prediction for Future of Humanity and It Could Happen Very Soon

28 Dec 2024 - Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is worried that systems are growing 'much faster than expected', after making a 'scary' admission about the threat to humanity. An AI expert, he says he feels some 'regret' for his role in developing Artificial Intelligence.

OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill

22 Dec 2024 - The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.

Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group

24 Dec 2024 - The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance, was the brainchild of three engineers from the IDF’s Unit 8200. The main feature of the group is its amorality. There is literally no rogue government it will not add to its lists for supply.

ANGLO AMERICA

How Fascism Came

23 Dec 2024 - US democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties that sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.

The Scene of the Crime

26 Dec 2024 - Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

Bringing Gaza Home

24 Dec 2024 - In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested for blocking the entrance to Raytheon Corp.  For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county. The same approach can be used for any city in the world.

BRICS

BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries

25 Dec 2024 - Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy

BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty

19 Dec 2024 - In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

How Arab Leaders Betrayed the Masses?

26 Dec 2024 - Western Leaders Watch the Israeli Massacres as Spectators

Gaza Ceasefire and the Resumption of the Negotiation on the Abraham Accords

19 Dec 2024 - The current situation looks like this: Israel will negotiate with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza before Donald Trump takes office. Saudi Arabia presents the ceasefire condition of the Abraham Accords,...

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

This Festive Season, Gaza Is Starving

18 Dec 2024 - Winter has made life amid genocide all the more miserable for us.

Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide–The West Yawns

25 Dec 2024 - Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all in agreement about the genocide, although it has become just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages.

For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression

20 Dec 2024 - Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.

‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?

18 Dec 2024 - Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?

SYRIA IN CONTEXT

Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It

23 Dec 2024 - Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.

Israelis Invade Syria: Who/What Will Stop Israel?

23 Dec 2024 - Israel's latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world's inability to stop Israel ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.

Manufacturing Rebels: How UK and USA Empowered Terrorists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

26 Dec 2024 - A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria today.

How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria

19 Dec 2024 - The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

JUSTICE

Good and Bad War Criminals

23 Dec 2024 - Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

SCIENCE - SPIRITUALITY

Science and Religion

This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.

INSPIRATIONAL

A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe

It may even be that music is the language of time, mathematics its alphabet. “It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical,” said cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist

23 Dec 2024 - This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.

The ‘Self-defense’ Myth

Genocide by any Other Name...

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The Exciting World of A.I.

23 Dec 2024

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Quand l’intelligence artificielle menace, l’intelligence humaine s’unit : “Greetings from la Banlieue”

22 décembre 2024 - Dans un monde de plus en plus influencé par l’intelligence artificielle (IA), il est essentiel de comprendre que cette technologie, bien qu’impressionnante, n’est pas exempte de biais ni de conséquences sociales négatives.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

The End of Organized Humanity

1 Dec 2024 - Noam Chomsky, at a video conference in 2023, offers his truth-telling to the center of our global self-terminating culture. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has taken in.

Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Staff, Reporters

27 Dec 2024 - Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which opened a luxurious rest area for IDF soldiers in northern Gaza. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed by Israeli forces that stormed the hospital and forced hundreds of patients into the streets.

Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government

21 Dec 2024 - Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

We Can Do Better–>We Must Do Better

28 Dec 2024 - Important Message

Romanza–Romance d’Amour (Music Video of the Week)

This beautiful, exquisite melody was brought to public attention by Narciso Yepes in 1952 in the French movie, Jeux Inderdits, and has gone on to inspire millions worldwide. Easy enough to play... not so easy to play well! Enjoy.