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Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream.
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The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Democracy in the USA
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Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief
Amy Pope | UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. This is an underreported conflict and we must pay it more attention. Millions are suffering and there is the possibility of igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.
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One Year of Genocide in the Books
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – These 25,500 dots represent the over 41,000 Palestinians wiped out by Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza in the past year. Every dot stands for a life erased, a family shattered, in a systematic campaign to destroy an entire people.
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks: Israeli Cabinet Members
Yaniv Cogan | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Since the start of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the US-backed army has become the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers worldwide.
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What Happened to Protest Music around the World?
Ivie Ani | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Mainstream musicians–a group once instrumental in amplifying sociopolitical causes and movements–are silent. The business of entertainment pop discourages artists from engaging in protest.
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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 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.
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Eliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
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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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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.
→ read full articleUN OCHA Gaza Strip Impact Report
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024 – Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the MoH in Gaza has fully identified as of 1 Aug out of the higher number of casualties they report.
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Pōhakuloa, Hawaii: A Land Besieged
Puanani Fernandez-Akamine | Ka Wai Ola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
1 Sep 2024 – Social justice and peace activist Jim Albertini has been an outspoken critic of the military’s misuse of Pōhakuloa for decades. According to him, millions of live rounds are fired annually at PTA and “B-52 and B-2 bombers fly non-stop missions to and from Louisiana, Missouri and Guam to drop bombs on Pōhakuloa.”
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Israel Has Unleashed a Staggering 70,000 Tons of Explosives Upon Gaza!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – Israel has launched a massive and relentless bombing campaign on Gaza, releasing over 70,000 tons of explosives into the densely populated area. Compare:
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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.
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Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said today.
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Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.
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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.
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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
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US Domestic Policies and Laws Regarding Weapons Transfers to Israel
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Irony? The same week the ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of The West Bank illegal under International Law, Netanyahu broke the record (formerly held by Winston Churchill) for the number of times a head of state addressed the US Congress.
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[No Joke] Pure Ugly Propaganda
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Tragicomedy among War Criminals
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Schizophrenia
Jehad Awrtani - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
No Comment
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OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
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.
→ read full articleMainstream Media Doing Mainstream Media Things
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Official Lies and Narratives
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Sudan Internal Displacement Set to Top 10 Million as Famine Looms: IOM
UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The UN International Organization for Migration warns that the number of displaced inside Sudan could top 10 million in coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis escalates with famine and disease added to the havoc of violence.
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The Shoah
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
11 May 2024 – There is recently published testimony that Israeli soldiers treat evacuation zones as ‘zones of extermination’ in which all Palestinians” – not just Hamas – “are considered to be legitimate targets.” Israel has also been accused of relying heavily on AI to chose targets and “kill lists.”
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Happy May Day
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
NO JOKE!
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International Legal Transgressions Committed by Israel in Gaza
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – The International Court of Justice Case 192 Summarized & Its Implications for the World.
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The Speech That I Could Not Deliver Because German Police Burst to Disband Our Palestine Congress
Yanis Varoufakis | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words (1930s style):
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VIP Memo: The French Road to Nuclear War
VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
France could be leading the USA down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in its interests–or of humanity itself, VIPS warn President Joe Biden.
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What Is UNRWA? Why Has Israel Long Sought Its Demise? What Is the US Actually Supporting in Defunding UNRWA?
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Following the 1948 War between Israel and Arab neighbors, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) on December 8th, 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. The Agency began operations on May 1st, 1950.
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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”
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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…
→ read full articleMurdering Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
12 Dec 2023 – IDF in Gaza
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
Who says no to stopping a genocide?
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The Muted Global Calls for Peace in the Middle East
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – UNICEF called the Gaza Strip “The most dangerous place on earth to be a child.” WCNSF-Wounded Child with No Surviving Family is a new medical term unforeseen in the history of human medicine. This acronym has surfaced in the first weeks of the conflict from medical personnel at Gaza hospitals.
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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.
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The Real Cost of Bottled Water
Daniel Jaffee | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.
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Selling a Genocide
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – In the mainstream western media coverage of the conflict Israel-Hamas, you will only see pictures and hear commentary approved by the State of Israel. Additionally, most reporters are reporting from Israel, not Gaza (or the West Bank).
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El Niño Expected to Last at least until April 2024
UN World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – The ongoing El Niño event is expected to last at least until April 2024, influencing weather patterns and contributing to a further spike in temperatures both on land and in the ocean, according to a new Update from the World Meteorological Organization.
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Backing Colonial Settler War Crimes & Genocide: Nothing New for the US
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Over 75% of the people in Gaza were already registered by the UN as refugees expelled from their villages in what is now southern Israel in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe).
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Media Coverage of Israel and Gaza Is Rife with Deadly Double Standards
Editorial | The New Humanitarian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘Terrorism’ vs. ‘self-defense’ – Journalism that presents Palestinians as less than human makes their killing more acceptable: Palestinians “die” while Israelis are “killed”.
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Operation False Flag to Set the Middle East on Fire
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on 7 Oct in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the 11 Sept 2001 attack in the US. The U.N. Secretary General reports that more than 35 U.N. personnel have been killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Palestine
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Israel: What Really Happened on 7th October?
Sharmine Narwani and Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
→ read full articleCan You Believe They Attacked Us?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Animals!!
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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.
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Europe’s Largest News Aggregator Orders Editors to Play Down Palestinian Deaths
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Upday, an app owned by the German media giants Axel Springer, is instructing journalists to cover the war in Gaza with a pro-Israel bent as Israeli bombing raids virtually eliminated internet access in the Gaza Strip.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – NO Joke
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A Single Morning That May Change the Middle East Forever!
Mansoor Durrani | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the first 9 months of 2023, something unprecedented happened around 6:00 a.m. local time today!
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Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023
Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Farzad Ramezani Bonesh | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Black Humor–Tragicomedy
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023 – The way the media talks about the Titian vs. how they talk about the hundreds of migrants who drowned are night and day. It reminds me a lot of how the media talked about Ukrainian refugees vs. middle eastern refugees.
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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.
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Scientists Say They’ve Finally Solved Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
Jackie Appel | Popular Mechanics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
5 May 2023 – The paradox states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever. But the laws of quantum physics dictate that information cannot be destroyed.
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Winner Takes All: John Perkins on the Global Economy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Apr 2023 – “Senate Finance Chief: Nothing Unites GOP More Than ‘Helping Rich People Cheat on Their Taxes” reads a headline on Common Dreams this morning. But actually that has been the strategy of both parties in US development programs for decades, according to John Perkins.
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Economic System in Islam Compared with Capitalism and Socialism
Abdul Husain Muhammad | World Organization for Islamic Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Abstract: This paper covers some popular Islamic Economic topics in a short and lucid style for those who want to know the basic Islamic concepts of economy. The topic, the economic system in Islam, might cause astonishment among Muslims who received Western style education.
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History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023)
Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Speech presented to the Conference, “Is our future NATO?” organized by Abbasso la Guerra Group. “The US/NATO forces have cleared corruption as a weapon of war, and wherever they have intervened to establish democracy they have left only instability and misery.”
→ read full articleThe Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Right!
→ read full articleWill the West Support Ukraine’s Attack on Crimea?
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
According to U.S. and U.N., Putin “annexed” Crimea in 2014. According to Putin, Crimea, daunted by the violence of neo-Nazis in the Maidan, had asked Putin to intervene; the subsequent referendum confirmed their approval.
→ read full articleThe Israeli Government Doing What They Do Best
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli apartheid police brutality beat Palestinian worshipers inside the sacred al Aqua mosque during Ramadan.
→ read full articleU.S. War for Oil Turned 20!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Fascism?! What?!
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Could Become the BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Capital is beginning to flee Israel in the wake of the prime minister’s judicial overhaul.
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La Grande Sortie
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The collapsing US military/economic empire is making Washington/NATO even more dangerous. The USA could not beat the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese or the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer
Daniel Ellsberg | Twitter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! — Dan
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Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi | Il Fato Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Almost six years after the British Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails, the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation–as Assange’s life hangs in the balance.
→ read full articleParade of Monsters
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – This week’s decision by Germany, US and NATO to send tanks to Ukraine has generated powerful images of the Second World War. It’s a parade of monsters.
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World’s 10 Most Peaceful Countries [2022]
Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.
→ read full articleBiden’s War (Part 2)
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
14 Jan 2023 – We tend to view our political leaders as actors in an ideological drama: beautifully attired, faces polished by make-up to look real. But we forget that they are human. Is it not possible for grown men to talk to each other from their hearts?
→ read full articleBiden’s War (Part 1)
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
Biden doesn’t want to end the war and we are supporting him. When Zelenski spoke before Congress in his green sweatshirt, he received a standing ovation three times. We are risking nuclear war while thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are dying! For what? How long is this infamy going to go on?
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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…
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Qatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Bloodied Trophy…
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
→ read full articleEnergy Flow
Anima Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Give or Take…
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Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?
Yanis Varoufakis | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – Last Thursday [29 Sep], the International Monetary Fund spooked the markets and surprised the commentariat by chiding the U.K. conservative government for fiscal irresponsibility. The shock was palpable. The rebuke for tax cuts that will “increase inequality” is probably not the come-to-Jesus moment it might seem.
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CIA Sued over Alleged Spying on Lawyers, Journalists Who Met Assange
Kanishka Singh | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
15 Aug 2022 – A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
→ read full articleNo Safe Haven: Nuclear Weapons Are Making Us Crazy
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
There are no safe havens from a nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are illegal by international law approved by 122 countries (of 197) at the UN on 7 Jul 2017; ratified by 66 countries.
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Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
→ read full articleWe Are Human, We Are Free (Music Video of the Week)
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
21 Jul 2022 – The co-founders of the nonviolent resistance movement “WAH-WAF” extend their sincere appreciation to the World Freedom Alliance Greece.
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Colombia’s First Leftist President Will Bring Historic Change, if the US Lets Him
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022 – Colombia is the latest Latin American country to turn from the right, and possibly stand up to Washington, with the inauguration of ex-guerrilla President Gustavo Petro.
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A Call to Cancel RIMPAC in Hawaiʻi
Kim Compoc and Joy Lehuanani Enomoto | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – The movement to demilitarize and deoccupy Hawai‘i is guided by kapu aloha, a code of conduct grounded in nonviolent resistance and Hawai’ian values.
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Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong – A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies or allow inflation to go unchecked.
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Portugal as an Enduring Embarrassment of the Failure of the COVID Mass Vaccination Campaign
Daniel Horowitz | Conservative Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – Portugal has the highest vaccination rate in Europe. 94 percent (including young children) have received at least one dose, and 70% have received boosters. Yet, Portugal now has the highest case rate and COVID death rate per capita in Europe and the second highest COVID fatality rate in the world. Why?
→ read full articleEscaping the Apocalypse on the Killing Fields of Ukraine
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
21 May 2022 – It’s not surprising that the threat to destroy Roe V. Wade has shown its ugly head at the same time as a desperate, bloody war and a horrible white supremacist attack in Buffalo. All three are expressions of patriarchy gone haywire as power elites strive to achieve global dominance.
→ read full articleTrue or False? – Looking for the Truth in the Ukraine War
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
The war goes on because the U.S.A., our exceptional country, wants it to continue until “that guy” Putin is removed from power and Russia is significantly weakened. At the cost of how many innocent Ukrainian lives, mostly civilians?
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Analysis of ‘The Great Reset’ Must Lead to Practical Action to Defeat It
Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
27 Apr 2022 – I encourage everyone interested in freedom to begin freeing themselves to take the actions that directly transform their lives, and give them greater functional control without asking permission from a ‘leader’, a ‘representative’ or even ‘the majority’. It’s okay to just get on with it yourself!
→ read full articleThe Righteous, the Black Sheep, and the Sacrificial Lamb
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – “Countries in the developing world with large populations like Indonesia, Brazil, and India do not support the sanctions against Russia because of the behavior of the USA, which they recognize as ‘moral hypocrisy.'” Specifically the difference between our response to the white Europeans of Ukraine and our behavior in Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Sheath the Sword Now
Katyayani Singh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Halt, Cease, and Retreat
Halt the war Comrade if you can, and speak without the sword,
Convince if you can, sans the military horde.
Obituary: How Madeleine Albright’s ‘Munich Mindset’ Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
→ read full articleWe Are All Ukrainian
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – I am of Ukrainian origin. Like many Jewish Americans, my ancestral roots reach back to Eastern Europe. My father was born in Kiev and thought he was a Russian. Other relatives lived in the Pale of Settlement created by the Tsarina Catherine the Great which was part of Ukraine. They thought they were Russian too. Even today families blend Russia with Ukraine.
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Ukraine War: Three Academic Perspectives
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The following discussion resulted from three separate interviews. There was no interaction among the three of us. I wonder whether this war is best described as ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ or simply as ‘Ukrainian War’ or ‘Russo-U.S. Proxy War.’ It seems an amalgam of all three.
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RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
13 Feb 2022 – Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this study. It is clear that there is a method behind US-NATO madness. If you were sitting in Russia’s shoes how would you react to these proposals – many of which have been or are now being implemented?
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Medical Cannabis – The Entourage Effect
Horacio Mesón | Red Humanista de Noticias en Salud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – THC is short for “tetrahydrocannabinol” or Δ9-THC, while CBD is short for “cannabidiol”. Both are components of the plant and are located in its seeds, stem and flower. Cannabis has around 100 cannabinoids and more than 400 compounds, including fatty acids, terpenes, ketones, lactones, lactones, alcohols, flavonoids, etc. This rich content explains the number of different strains that exist and the multiple effects they produce.
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Strategic Resistance to the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Gathers Pace
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. and Anita McKone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – The ‘We Are Human, We Are Free’ campaign was launched earlier this year. It is designed to enable people to participate in a grassroots nonviolent campaign to strategically resist the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ and related initiatives of the Global Elite including the transhumanist, eugenics and Cyber Polygon agendas.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
These monkey dealers are the “Terrible 10”—companies in the business of breeding, warehousing, and selling sensitive, sentient beings into painful lives of fear, torment and early death in laboratories everywhere. Suffering is the foundation of their business model. They profit from pain and commodify torment.
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Inspiring Book ‘Animalkind’—Now a Documentary!
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s inspirational book, Animalkind, is the subject of a short documentary that discusses speciesism and the astonishing lives of animals.
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Ringling’s Animal-Free Comeback Sends a Powerful Industry Message: Cruelty Has No Place in Circuses
Katherine Sullivan | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Nearly five years after PETA’s triumph over Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, they are planning their return without elephants, tigers, or any other nonconsenting animals! This sends a powerful message to the entire industry: Cruelty doesn’t belong in the circus or in any other form of entertainment.
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