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Trump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

Trump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of  the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.

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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.

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Nemesis
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

25 Mar 2025 – The convulsions wracking the US body politic impact the nation’s foreign relations. The USA today defies all conventional categories. Its leader(s) are abnormal, its government is abnormal, its conduct is abnormal – and, perhaps, its society itself is abnormal. 

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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.

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The Trump Assault on Government and the US Need for a New Progressive Program
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Progressives in the United States need to put aside their justifiable detestation of Donald Trump long enough to answer this question: What’s the most important difference between MAGA Republicans and Democrats?

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On Stupidity
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Denouncing China as US’ enemy on whom it plans to impose severe economic sanctions and then beseeching Beijing for assistance in keeping the dollar the global currency by ending its sale of U.S. securities; and then demanding that China slow its economic growth… – that’s stupid.

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Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

7 Mar 2025 – I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel’s response to October 7 in Gaza as ‘genocide.’

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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: Closing the Enforcement Gap
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

8 Mar 2025 – Israel’s Recourse to Genocide: Overt yet Denied

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USAID “Marxists”? Once again Elon Musk Displays His Invincible Ignorance
 Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

King Donald and Prince Elon (or do I have their titles reversed?) have begun to treat the thousands working in foreign aid with a cruel contempt that reflects their true feelings about all workers other than those wearing MAGA hats.

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The Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

30 Jan 2025 – My latest attempt to express support for the Gaza Tribunal Project seeking civil society enforcement of international law given the neutering of the global normative order.

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AI Going DeepSeek
Michael Roberts | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

28 Jan 2025 – DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released a model called R1 comparable to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but at a radically lower cost. What are the consequences and the possibilities in comparison to the capitalist version of AI?

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“Scorecard, Scorecard, You Can’t Tell al-Queda without a Scorecard”
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

2 Feb 2025 – U.S. tax dollars, errantly or not, poured into the hands of jihadists, al-Queda consorts, motley adventurers and soldiers of fortune, with the end of ousting Assad. The CIA — is still the CIA. It scored big in Syria.

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US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

27 Jan 2025 – The Story behind Today’s Stock Market Tank – Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China’s DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.

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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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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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UN Special Rapporteurs on Palestine Talk Truth to Power as Trump Takes Over the US Government
Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

25 Jan 2025 – The first episode of a new podcast initiated by Junaid Ahmed and Paulina Chan, under SHAPE auspices, featuring the three most recent UN Special Rapporteurs on Occupied Palestine.

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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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The Dismal Pseudo-Science
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – Economists claim their discipline is a science. If so, it is an odd one. For the deeper you probe its foundations, the shakier its superstructure looks. Modern-day economics is built on two convenient untruths.

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Political Taboos and the Failures of Conflict Resolution
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

Thirty-five years ago, the great American peacemaker Elise Boulding offered a group of scholars and activists essential advice on how to practice effective conflict resolution.  Envision as wide an array as possible of proposed solutions to the problems generating the conflict, she said,…

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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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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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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.

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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

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.  

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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.

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Drones and Mass Hysteria: An Inquest
Michael Tracey - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Friday night [13 Dec 2024] I went out driving to see if I could get a look at one of these darned mystery drones for myself. Let me first acknowledge that I could easily be suffering from a variant of the syndrome commonly known as confirmation bias.

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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?

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In Praise of Anger
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – Anger is a normal human emotion as any other: affection, combativeness, protectiveness, sorrow; but it gets a bad press. That is especially true in intellectual circles and among the self-consciously virtuous/goodhearted in general.

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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.

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‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child.

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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc. 

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Educating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.

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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

7 Dec 2024 – Article 106 of the UN Charter provides for a Transition from armed peace to a disarmed peace. Political scientist Quincy Wright (1890-1970) wrote about the transition: “The activities of the transitional period should be guided by four preeminent purposes:

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Racism
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

2 Dec 2024 – Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against Palestinians. The US and Britain are co-belligerents in atrocities of the most heinous kinds. Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon.

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Dilemmas
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

26 Nov 2024 – We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure. Some states are implacably resisting that transition; others strive to foster a modified international system that conforms to emerging realities.

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A Holiday Message: Thanksgiving Day 2024
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

28 Nov 2024 – This year Thanksgiving Day assumes an especially problematic character, not because of the past but because of the present. For me it is better observed in the spirit of A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND REMORSE.

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The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Winning the Legitimacy War
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

The ICC delayed the issuance of ‘arrest warrants’ for Israeli leaders directing the genocide in Gaza for six months although it responded to a request involving Putin’s criminality in Ukraine in less than a month. Double standards to be sure…

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Moral Suicide
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

18 Nov 2024 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – in the name of supporting Jews. 

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Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood
Marija Šarić, Siniša Sajević and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

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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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

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?

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My 94th Birthday amid Rubble and Precious Life
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

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

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“It’s the System, Stupid!” – The Underlying Causes of Trump’s Victory
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

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.

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The Gaza Tribunal: Law, Conscience, and Compassion
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

5 Nov 2024 – The Gaza Tribunal, of which I am president, had a successful launch meeting with many members of its Advisory Policy Council. As the article below  in the Palestine Chronicle notes, the aim of the Tribunal is to legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.

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How the UN Can Be Liberated from Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

8 Nov 2024 – Interview conducted in October by Daniel Falcone with Hans von Sponeck and myself on our collaborative book, Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope. Since then Donald Trump has been elected President of the US, which would augur bad news for the UN.

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This Is Why I Am Releasing the Epstein-Trump Tapes
Michael Wolff | Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

2 Nov 2024 – The Predator and the President: The author of Fire and Fury has caused shockwaves with his recordings of Epstein talking about Trump. Here is their true story.

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What Drives Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

29 Oct 2024- The dehistoricizing and decontextualization of the Hamas attack of Oct 7 was spread around the world by the most influential global media platforms and political leaders, and led to widespread sympathy for Israel and tolerance of their response despite its legally and ethically unacceptable character.

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Sinews of Peace
Michael Brenner, Vladimir Putin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

29 Oct 2024 – This is a highly classified transcript of remarks made by Vladimir Putin to a select audience of Russian elites at the Kremlin.  The secret conclave was held in Jun 2021 on the eve of his meeting with Joe Biden.

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Empowering the UN, Disempowering Militarist Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

22 Oct 2024 – A review of the recently published ‘Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope’ appearing in Foreign Affairs, the most influential journal for mainstream foreign policy analysis. The book was written by Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and myself.

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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

23 Oct 2024 – Interview by Kayhan News Agency from Iran on how the forthcoming US elections are likely to affect Iran, and the policies toward the current  combat zone involving Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. X/0

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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform (Part II)
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

Indeed, “understanding the role of the Earth Constitution in human affairs requires seeing it within the context of several principles concerning our human situation that have emerged since the early 20th century.

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What Is Israel Doing in Lebanon? War with Iran? Expansionism? Deterrence by State Terror? Netanyahu’s CV
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

16 Oct 2024 – The regional spillover of violence linked to the Gaza Genocide and arousing concerns of starvation and disease. Major states in Europe are threatening Israel with an arms embargo if it does not accept a ceasefire.

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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform (Part I)
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

19 Oct 2024 – I am one of the original signatories of the Earth Constitution, presented in Innsbruck, Austria in 1977 and proposed by the World Constitution and Parliament Association.

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October 7: A Grim Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

6 Oct 2024 – Israel has been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behavior toward the Palestinians. Its greatest triumph is the manner with which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 in North America and Europe.

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Militarism and Genocide in Gaza: The Bloody Signature of Western Decline
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

9 Oct 2024 – The Palestinian ordeal is not a consequence of the inadequacy of legal norms or mechanisms. The primary obstacle is one of political will, especially of the Global West, and of leading Arab neighbors, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt.

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Israel’s Bloody Endgame
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

4 Oct 2024 – The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a widening onslaught against Hezbollah as tensions mount with Iran. Such developments have affected the US relation to the conflict.

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Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.

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Reflections on October 7
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

For the several months after 7 Oct 2023, Israel’s public discourse allowed it to carry out the genocidal assault on Gaza with little diplomatic friction in the West but growing discontent among progressive sectors of civil society.

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Looking Up
Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

I realized recently
That
If you look up at a pine tree
From a certain angle

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Circumstantial Evidence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing. One day, while he was taking a nap on shore, the wife took their fishing boat to explore the lake.

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Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

26 Sep 2024 – No strategy to the war game, no accounting to our economy, we have fumbled and stumbled to the precipice of global war, now led by a Democratic Administration.

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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

24 Sep 2024 – “You will find diseases of the heart, kidney, thyroid, diabetes, liver, skin, eyes, blood, nerves, systemic diseases, brain, lungs”. — Professor Masayasu Inoue, Osaka City University School of Medicine

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Two for the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

An armed robber held up a convenience store.

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The EU Must Change Course on Ukraine or Risk Breaking Itself Apart
Michael von der Schulenburg and Ruth Firmenich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

7 Sep 2024 – Whereas an increasing majority of Europeans reject further weapon deliveries to Ukraine and demand a negotiated solution, the EU Parliament has just adopted an extreme pro-war resolution.

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Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
Prof. Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, speaks about the significance of the International Court of Justice’s decision. “Israel will pay a high price whether or not they comply.”

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Israel Exposes Its Political Agenda: ‘Land’ not ‘Security’–Gaza as Prelude, West Bank as Prize
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

31 Aug 2024 – The concerted Israeli military operation extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.

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Artificial Intelligence – Eureka!
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

27 Aug 2024 – AI promises all sorts of wondrous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average.

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I Was Arrested at Heathrow Airport as a “Terrorist” for My Journalism
Richard Thomas Medhurst - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

20 Aug 2024 – “I was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act because of my reporting. Six police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft. I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under the UK Terrorism Act and feel that this is a political persecution that hampers my ability to work as a journalist.”

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How Germany Could Preserve World Order
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Today it is impossible for any one nation to effect positive change. No single nation can bring peace to the world. But a single nation can start a war. But why not the other way around? Historically, the first attempt to abolish war as an institution dates back to the Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907.

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The Responsibility of Western ‘Liberal Democracies’ for Gaza Catastrophe
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – This is certainly either gross incompetence on Israel’s part or a deliberate effort to provoke a wider war. And a shady effort by Israel to compel the engagement of the US in its multiple struggles in the region.

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The Criminal Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – None of the countries involved in the conflict with Israel–-Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen–-seek a wider war. Only Israel approaches this prospect favorably. This cycle of provocative acts and retaliations initiated by Israel have their own escalating momentum that is difficult to control.

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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said. 

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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 79th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

6 Aug 2024 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read today by Hiroshima’s Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 79 years since the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city.

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(Italiano) La sentenza della Corte Internazionale di Giustizia sull’occupazione israeliana della Palestina è importante
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

29 Luglio 2024 – Questo livello di consenso giudiziario, in un’atmosfera così politicamente polarizzata, depone a favore della considerazione della sentenza della Corte internazionale di giustizia come autorevole quando si tratta di valutare il comportamento di Israele come potenza occupante in relazione al diritto internazionale umanitario.

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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – Fans of capitalism say it is democratic and supports democracy. Some equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably; it is simply not true and never was. It is more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites.

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Growing Demands for Peace in Ukraine as the Kiev Regime Criminalizes 7 Million Ukrainian Men Refusing to Join the War
Dmitri Kovalevich | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

As of mid-July, widely-read bloggers begun to advocate an early cessation of hostilities and several legislators voiced support. Vladyslava Rogovenko on Instagram, 8 Jul: “Let the clown [Zelensky] go and negotiate peace. Enough of innocent deaths and this horror! How long will this continue? My anger has no limit!”

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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jul 2024 – Glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy. To consider this overdue act ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’ is to rob those precious words of their proper meaning. Harris seems to have handled the political [Netanyahu] situation in an encouragingly skillful manner.  

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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.

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Humiliation Upon Request
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all.  Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.

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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.

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ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Joe Slater, James Humphries & Michael Townsen Hicks | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information.

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Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – The ICC would be widely viewed as a weak institution by not obtaining participation or cooperation of states such as USA, Russia, China, Israel. It was most unfavorably compared to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to which all members of the UN were automatically parties.

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Heavenly Problems
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident and found themselves waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven.

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Zionism: The End of an Illusion
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

The question remains: what does Zionism have to do with Judaism? The answer is to be found in history rather than in sacred texts.

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Biden’s Escapist Vision & Democratic Party’s Evasive Electoral Campaign
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – My dissatisfaction with Biden’s stubborn resolve to challenge Trump despite his impaired capabilities, his woeful foreign policy toward Ukraine and Gaza, and wooly-headed optimism about the future of the US and his ability to lead the world.

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Assessing the Punitive ‘Release’ of Julian Assange
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

1- What do you make of the plea deal between the US and Assange?
His release was long overdue, although it would have been more widely welcomed at this time if it had not been achieved within the framework of a plea bargain.

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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented If the UN Charter Had Been Observed
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – We must once again ask ourselves the most important question for a peaceful future for humanity: can there be a world in which peace and an international order can be guaranteed by joint agreements between states, or only if it is enforced by a militarily, economically and politically dominant hegemonic power?

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(Italiano) Israele a Gaza: l’incrinatura ebraica col sionismo
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Quando si diradi il fumo a Gaza, ci si accorgerà che i soli non “investiti” sono i proprietari e gestori del complesso militar-industriale USA e i politici che li hanno messi in condizione di fare il proprio gioco. Che conteranno i propri soldi, si presenteranno alla rielezione, e programmeranno la prossima guerra. Che non sarà no un incidente.

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Hegemony or Bust
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Hegemony. The term holds a central place in the present discourse about the United States’ place in the world: what it has been, its sustainability, and alternative ways of formulating the country’s national interests.

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Israel in Gaza: The Jewish Break with Zionism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

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.

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‘Occupied’ Palestine: Jerusalem Annexed, Gaza Genocide, West Bank Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

20 Jun 2024 – The UN has lacked the ability or political will to implement its own recommendations in compliance with international humanitarian law. That which is humanly necessary seems politically impossible; the result is a moral scandal of global significance and a human tragedy by unspeakable and persistent criminality.

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Netanyahu’s False Flag Is a Copy/Paste of the 1962 Operation Northwoods of Pentagon against Cuba
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

“Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”

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US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

4 Jun 2024 – Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight and his passport confiscated yesterday in the US government’s drive to silence critics of foreign policies, as it supplies $ billions in arms to war on Russia, attacks on Gazans, and for war with China over Taiwan.

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Nuclear War: Still Unthinkable?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

8 Jun 2024 – The United State’s provocative actions are the principal reason the “unthinkable” possibility is becoming ever more likely.

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(Italiano) ICJ, ICC, Società Civile (Tribunali Popolari): chiarificazione di un tessuto giudiziario
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

31 Maggio 2024 – Un curioso spettacolo collaterale durante i sette mesi di selvaggia violenza genocida contro la popolazione palestinese intrappolata [a Gaza] di 2,3 milioni stimati è stata l’attenzione prestata al diritto internazionale e alle relative procedure disponibili per la sua interpretazione ed applicazione.

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Maung Zarni: What’s Next for Myanmar Crisis?
Suthichai live – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

27 May 2024 – “Everything I have learned as a radical, a peace and rights activist, and a scholar on my country’s affairs. What is wrong with Burma/Myanmar and her people, incapable of building a peaceful and stable human community for the last nearly 80 years?”

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When a Lie Becomes the Truth: “Israel Is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression” -ICC
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

26 May 2024 – Outright Fraud: The Criminalization of International Law – According to the ICC, “There Is No Genocide”

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Sold!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

Three men, selling bibles door to door, bet who will sell the most in a day. They meet at end of the day.

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Israel Stands Increasingly Isolated
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – Its Genocidal Actions Must Be Stopped and Brought to Account – The widespread activism in solidarity with Gaza in so many institutions of higher learning in the US, Europe and beyond is a source of inspiration. Such nonviolent activism has become a moral imperative.

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Why the ICC’s Prosecutor’s Recommendation to Arrest Israeli and Hamas Leaders May Be Historic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – Ironically, the misplaced rhetoric of outrage from Israel and its allies has endowed the ICC’s pronouncements with an importance that the institution never before possessed.

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(Italiano) Arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas: decisione storica della Corte Penale Internazionale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 Maggio 2024 – Ironia della sorte, la retorica fuori luogo dell’indignazione di Israele e dei suoi alleati ha conferito ai pronunciamenti della Corte penale internazionale sull’arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas un’importanza che l’istituzione non aveva mai avuto prima.

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For Muslims in the Global South, US Hostility Began in 1979
Michael Charney | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – If anyone wonders why the USA has backed off so far (and beyond) from responding to humanitarian catastrophes, presented as security operations, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the Palestinians in Gaza, they do not understand the structure of the contemporary world–since 1979.

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