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EDITORIAL

Israel in Gaza: The Jewish Break with Zionism

Zionism as Ethnic Chauvinism - When the smoke clears in Gaza, the only people not “run over” are the owners and managers of the U.S. military-industrial complex.  They will be counting their money, running for reelection, and planning the next war.  And that will be no accident.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Julian Assange Arrives in Australia Back from UK Prison

26 Jun 2024 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had an emotional reunion with his wife Stella and his father as he disembarks from the plane in Australia welcomed by an applauding crowd after more than five years of wrongful captivity at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in England.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study

5 Jun 2024 - New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case - The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

The Jews in Palestine

26 Nov 1938 - "And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart."

Peace Activism – Gandhi’s Path to Transformative Change

25 Jun 2024 - Transformative change through peace activism will involve significant radical changes to our actions and mindset and to voices of people who believe in the propaganda of the right wing lobby for military solutions to live in peace.

NOBEL LAUREATES

Mairead Maguire: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Policies’ Have to Change for Peace in Palestine

27 Jun 2024 - ‘You cannot build peace on a genocide,’ says Mairead Maguire, winner of 1976 Nobel Peace Prize and member of the TRANSCEND Network.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA and WEST BANK, 1 Jul 2024

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Save Ukraine from US Meddling

27 Jun 2024 - Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield, but this is not understood by Oleg Dunda, a member of Ukraine’s parliament. He believes that the U.S. will save Ukraine from Russia. The opposite is true. Ukraine actually needs to be saved from the U.S.

Why Did the Ukraine Peace Summit Fail?

23 Jun 2024 - The Global South is not buying the Ukrainian claim to colonial victimhood, and has grown more suspicious of US client states after Gaza.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

AI Commentary on an Envisaged Synthesis Dialogue

1 Jul 2024 - On the Occasion of the Proposed Summit of the Summits and Its Possible Enhancement by AI - The early web version of the program to be held in Hakone, Japan, Sep 2024, invites critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.

BlackRock: No Compromise with Evil

BlackRock has extensive investments in companies closely allied to Israel’s arms industry. It has a 7.4% stake in Lockheed Martin, a defence contractor that has played a critical role in arming the Israeli military.

A Call for Retraction: The Recent American Psychologist Article on Antisemitism

25 Jun 2024 - It is disappointing and distressing to see that the American Psychologist has published an article titled “The American Psychological Association and Antisemitism: Toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” In my view, the article should be retracted, and I will explain why.

Palestine – Israel

30 Jun 2024 - Like many Jews, I am in presumed disagreement with fellow Jews on current events. I say “presumed” because I imagine that some of us could reach common ground if true and deep dialogue was not automatically suppressed.

Ansar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad

26 Jun 2024 - US and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the US is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.

Working Men

There are all sorts of workers who can be seen working in various jobs in Delhi — capital of India. 

AFRICA

Finally, an Answer to a Mystery Surrounding These 1,000-Year-Old Trees

24 Jun 2024 - For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an existential question: Which came first?

ANGLO AMERICA

Really Think about What It Means That the US President Has Dementia

28 Jun 2024 - It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

US House Votes to Bar State Department from Citing Gazan Casualties from Health Ministry

27 Jun 2024 - If passed into law, US diplomats would be unable to discuss casualty figures from Palestinian sources that are generally considered credible.

If Gaza Opened Your Eyes to the Empire’s Depravity, Make Sure They Stay Open Forever

24 Jun 2024 - Please please please don’t let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine. Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible.

New Evidence US Blocked Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal, and a New Ukrainian Excuse for Walking Away

27 Jun 2024 - Insider accounts and leaked documents show that Ukraine and Russia were close to a peace deal in April 2022, until "alarmed" US officials intervened.

ASIA--PACIFIC

A Month Traveling in China

18 Jun 2024 - My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…

BRICS

Modi’s Moscow Mission: What the Indian PM’s Visit to Russia Signals to the West

28 Jun 2024 - The prime minister’s prompt visit to Russia after re-election sends an important message: New Delhi is committed to boost relations with its time-tested partner despite Western pressures.

China: The Game Is Up

18 Jun 2024 - Does China deserve more respect? However much Western commentators want to sustain the age of empire, a new multipolar world order has already begun to take root.

EUROPE

French Far Right Wins the First Round of the Snap Parliamentary Elections

30 Jun 2024 - Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Grouping (RN) party has won the first round of the French legislative elections, being in a position to achieve an absolute majority in the second round and appoint the Prime Minister of France.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’

27 Jun 2024 - The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza. It tries to avert a major war in the Middle East but is not making progress.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

Stories of Survival and Suffering: Inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital

28 Jun 2024 - Reem Hamadaqa spent 96 days in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza recovering from an Israeli attack that killed the rest of her family. Here are the stories of women and children she met while she was there.

Children Starving, Parents Helpless as Famine Consumes Northern Gaza

18 Jun 2024 - Famine: With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, Palestinian children are being hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.

Genocide on Gaza: Hunger ‘Worse Than Bombings’ for Starving Palestinians–Mostly Children

25 Jun 2024 - Food is scarce, spoilt and often non-existent in besieged enclave, leaving people dizzy and weak.

‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer Recounts Visit to Israeli Detention Center

27 Jun 2024 - At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.

UNITED NATIONS

Occupied Palestinian Territory News and Update

28 Jun 2024 - Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.

Israel Committed Crime of ‘Extermination’ in Gaza, Says UN Investigation

12 Jun 2024 - Israel is guilty of a committing the crime of "extermination" in Gaza, as well as the crimes of sexual violence, torture, and starvation as a weapon of war, along with other war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN investigators have found.

CAPITALISM

The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”

20 Jun 2024 - Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group, although claiming to be a “responsible corporate citizen,” shows the need for robust civil society institutions. Chiquita inspired the derogatory label, Banana Republic.

MILITARISM

Asymmetric Warfare and Its Characteristics

23 Jun 2024 - At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). Historically, there are several types of warfare:

NATO

Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?

Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?

HEALTH

Russian Health Minister Reveals Cancer Vaccine Progress

9 Jun 2024 - Russian researchers are finalizing trials on a vaccine against cancer, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko revealed yesterday. The results of preclinical trials should be ready by the end of the year, he said.

MEDIA

Did the West Provoke the Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled

26 Jun 2024 - Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system--every newspaper, website, TV channel--to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.

The End of the Biggest Press Freedom Case of the Century

25 Jun 2024 - A global effort by advocates, campaigners, journalists, organizers, and supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed President Joe Biden’s administration to finally free Assange.

Julian Assange Is Free, but Journalism Remains under Threat

27 Jun 2024 - Julian Assange is free. After a 14-year ordeal including over five years in Britain’s harsh, maximum security Belmarsh Prison, the founder of WikiLeaks agreed to a deal with the US, pleading guilty to one felony count. His sentence: Time served.

WHISTLEBLOWING - SURVEILLANCE

Assange Released from Prison after Agreeing to Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation

24 Jun 2024 - The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands.

Assange Agreed to Destroy Unpublished Classified Material

27 Jun 2024 - As part of his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange agreed to order the destruction of any unpublished U.S. material in WikiLeaks possession.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

The AI Bubble: Artificial Intelligence = Deficient Technology

24 Jun 2024 - The CEO Sam Altman from OpenAI travels the World to ask for $7 trillion for investment into AI and related technologies, including new chip factories, humongous datacenters, land, and even nuclear power to run AI’s insatiable appetite for energy. Yes, $7 trillion; more than US federal budget.

REVIEWS

The Impending Collapse of the U.S. Empire

18 Jun 2024 - The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of U.S. racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.

OBITUARIES

Chaiwat Satha-Anand (25 Jan 1955 – 27 Jun 2024)

27 Jun 2024 - It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad passing away today morning of my friend, our visionary nonkilling peace leader and CGNK Vice Chair, Dr Chaiwat Satha-Anand.

POETRY FORMAT

Listen Deeply

25 Jun 2024 - Listen deeply to the screaming mother sand the whirring of the drones. Listen deeply to the news man’s lies and the crashing of the bulldozers. Listen deeply to the tanks and missiles as they are rolled into position. Listen deeply to the dying fish and the fruit bats dropping out of trees…

INSPIRATIONAL

Between Mathematics and the Miraculous: The Stunning Pendulum Drawings of Swiss Healer and Artist Emma Kunz

As a schoolchild, she had delighted in using a pendulum to make drawings in her exercise books, but it was not until midlife that she found in this process a portal to a larger world of ideas. In 1938, using a silver pendulum with a jade end, she believed was guided by energy fields, she began making large-scale drawings.

SPIRITUALITY

In the Material World, the Search for the Spiritual World

26 Jun 2024 - Many are fed up with material goods and the consumerism of our culture. As a counterpoint, I want to place spiritual goods in the dramatic, dangerous and hopeful context in which humanity currently finds itself, especially the humiliated and offended Global South.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

War$ R U.S.

All said.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Meanwhile, in Wall Street…

... the Oppressed Minority Reacts

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Gli umani si trastullano mentre l’umanità brucia: sarà una morte a breve o schiavitù transumana?

25 Giugno 2024 - Confrontati da un attacco ben coordinato e multidimensionale alla nostra umanità – l’identità di Homo Sapiens, la nostra libertà e addirittura la nostra esistenza – la gran parte degli umani si ritrae timorosa; e in tale stato, incapace di resistere.

(Português) No Mundo Material, a Busca do Mundo Espiritual

25 Jun 2024 - Muitos estão fartos de bens materiais e do consumismo de nossa cultura. Quero situar o tema dos bens espirituais no contexto dramático, perigoso e esperançador, em que se encontra atualmente a humanidade, especialmente, a humanidade humilhada e ofendida que vive no Sul Global.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Debate Forces Corporate Media to Admit Biden’s Impairment

29 Jun 2024 - ... after Months of Lies

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Dear Child

25 Jun 2024 - Written by Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges - The film takes you on a haunting & realistic journey through Gaza today from a child’s perspective imbued with the guilt of a foreign journalist. (Arabic version below)

Stand Up for Palestine (Music Video of the Week)

21 Jun 2024 - Join legendary music legends Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yusuf Cat Stevens and iconic rapper Lowkey plus special guests for a one-off concert in aid of peace, freedom and justice for Palestine.