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EDITORIAL

Global Warming: 12 Approaches

There is much talk about global warming, and rightly so. But we need concrete ideas about moving from talk to action, possibly with two concerns lurking in the back of the mind:

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These 10 Companies Run the US ‘Democracy’

1 Nov 2024 - Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but there is only one group that matters: the “titans of capital.” Dr. Peter Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy elites.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Henry Kissinger, Johan Galtung and the Nobel Peace Prize

20 Aug 2024 - The following discussion on the life and works of Henry Kissinger and Johan Galtung attempts to understand why Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and Galtung was denied the same.

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood

13 Nov 2024 - Coming of Age During and After the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina - The journey of child soldiers after war is fraught with different challenges.

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Nov 2024

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible

15 Nov 2024 - Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years today.

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Recognizing Complicity in Ensuring Beneficial Disaster for Humanity

18 Nov 2024 - Possibility of Eliciting Insight from Polycrises with AI Assistance - The question here is whether various roles and functions in society could be creatively framed in the light of the disastrous consequences they engender for the many.

Where Is the US Evil Empire Heading Now?

7 Nov 2024 - I keep the faith. This Evil Empire too has its own expiry date. Take the long view, if you feel dejected by the Second Coming of Trump. Genocide Joe and thick-headed, unprincipled Kamala Harris, who went to the same elementary school as my daughter, are also not good for humanity. Ask the Palestinians. 

Climate Conference Highlights Challenges to the World Society

14 Nov 2024 - The Climate Conference (COP 29) organized from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan is held at a time of armed conflicts in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine.

A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries

I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

“It’s the System, Stupid!” – The Underlying Causes of Trump’s Victory

Let’s be clear about this.  The historic oppression of some groups, continuing into the present, is a fact.  It is also a fact that systemic oppression to some extent benefits everyone who is not a member of the most oppressed group.

POETRY FORMAT

My 94th Birthday amid Rubble and Precious Life

My poem on navigating the narrowing channel between personal happiness and public gloom. November 13, 2024.

IN FOCUS

Israel Convicted of Genocide at People’s Tribunal–Parallel to G20–in Rio de Janeiro

16 Nov 2024 - Israel was convicted of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza yesterday by the People’s Tribunal, which brought together jurists, lawyers, and activists to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2084

12 Nov 2024 - The World as It Might Be (or Do I Mean Might Have Been?) - What would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?

ACTIVISM

Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left

16 Nov 2024 - The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.

AFRICA

Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 3): Is the Genocide a Lie?

24 Oct 2024 - In light of the conclusion reached in Part II, what then are we to make of the title of the Corbett Report video – The Rwanda Genocide Is A Lie? Whether or not the video title is accurate depends on what Corbett means by “lie”.

ANGLO AMERICA

Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?

13 Nov 2024 - Based on Trump’s nominations to his foreign policy team and the catastrophic legacy of Biden's policies, there is some hope for peace in Ukraine but peace in the Middle East is more distant than ever.

‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’—Exploring the ‘Trumpquake’

9 Nov 2024 - On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park. With no fraud, Trump wins.

The Attempts to Resolve the Middle East Problems Comprehensively

14 Nov 2024 - Since Donald Trump's victory in the Presidential Election, various attempts have been underway to resolve all hostilities in the Middle East.

Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East

13 Nov 2024 - Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump. 

MILITARISM

Lame Duck Biden Authorizes Ukrainian Attacks on Russia with Long-range US-made Weapons

17 Nov 2024 - President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US-manufactured long-range missiles into Russian territory, two U.S. top officials and a source familiar with the decision said today.

ASIA--PACIFIC

The Machu Picchu Declaration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC 2024

16 Nov 2024 - The APEC Leaders’ Machu Picchu Declaration

ENERGY

China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility

15 Nov 2024 - China is the most advanced solar society in the world with over 600 gigawatts of installed solar capacity. In comparison, the US only has about 130 GW of solar.

BRICS

How Can BRICS Reshape a Polycentric World Order?

13 Nov 2024 - It was the 16th official BRICS Summit with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates attending for the first time as official members. BRICS: 37.4 percent of the global GDP; 1/4 of global exports of goods; 45 percent of the world population.

EUROPE

Zionists in Amsterdam

12 Nov 2024 - What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Zionist Israel lost, lost big in Amsterdam. The horror it has made of itself is now plain for the world to see.

The Amsterdam ‘Pogrom’ That Wasn’t: Corporate Media Fails to Tell the Whole Story

9 Nov 2024 - 'The Israeli fans instigated the violence after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match.'

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Two Weeks in Beirut

13 Nov 2024 - In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

The Gaza Genocide May Not Be in the News, but It Hasn’t Stopped

14 Nov 2024 - Israel continues to systematically exterminate Palestinians in Gaza through relentless attacks and starvation. As the world’s attention focuses on US politics and looking at media headlines, one would think the genocide has stopped, but it hasn’t.

The Jabalia Doctrine: Genocide as a Counterinsurgency Policy

1 Nov 2024 - Historically, Israel has tried to control Palestinians by isolating insurgents from their communities. After the humiliation of 7 Oct, the aim is now to eliminate them both.

The International System Has Shamefully Failed to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

3 Nov 2024 - The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide.

SPORTS

The West Buries a Genocide–Turns Israel’s Football Thugs into ‘Victims’

11 Nov 2024 - If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities.

Israeli Hooligans Storm through Amsterdam Chanting “F*ck You Palestine”

11 Nov 2024 - There are 15,000 Jews living in Amsterdam. They seemed to be just fine until some Israeli hooligans showed up…. The media’s version of events is skewed in favor of the perpetrators. None of the mainstream coverage can be trusted. But you already knew that.

UNITED NATIONS

The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in “Darkest Moment” of Its 75-Year History

13 Nov 2024 - The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is enduring its ‘darkest moment’ as Israeli laws threaten operations, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said today, pointing to legislative, operational and security challenges.

UNCTAD, COP29, They Did It again: Digital Tyranny Beyond the Worst Imaginations of George Orwell 1984

12 Nov 2024 - For those who understand what full digitization of everything means, it is clearly pointing the way to digital tyranny, to a digital Gulag – promoted by UNCTAD, a UN organization, well-aware of what they are doing.

End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?

Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese did not mince her words at the UNGA on 29 Oct: “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathise with the Palestinians? Those of you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room.”

REVIEWS

We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers

‘We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers--Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the UN,’ edited by Caroline Hunt-Matthes - The authors peel back international diplomacy to reveal a truth in a code of silence.

MEDIA

Guardian Will No Longer Post on Elon Musk’s X from Its Official Accounts

13 Nov 2024 - The news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.

The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence just Keeps Getting Darker

13 Nov 2024 - News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world.

INSPIRATIONAL

A Lighthouse for Dark Times

It is during phase transition that the system is most pliant, most possible. This chaos of particles that liquefies solids and vaporizes liquids is the creative force by which the new order of a more stable structure finds itself. The world would not exist without these discomposing transitions when everything seems to be falling apart and entropy has the last word.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero

18 Oct 2024 - Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!

The Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, was for the in-group only. But today we are ever more one big in-group. Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.

(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini

12 Novembre 2024 - Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Over the Cliff

Meanwhile, in the old US of A

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS

12 Nov 2024 - The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Māori MPs Perform Haka at NZ Parliament Debate on Treaty Rights Changes

14 Nov 2024 - At New Zealand’s parliament, a vote on a controversial bill was suspended by a haka (Māori war dance) led by MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, joined by opposition parties and the public gallery. The bill proposed changes to a 200-year-old treaty guaranteeing Māori rights.

More Than I Can Bear (Music Video of the Week)

Official Video from 2013. Enjoy...