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Global Warming: 12 Approaches
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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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Recognizing Complicity in Ensuring Beneficial Disaster for Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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The Gaza Genocide May Not Be in the News, but It Hasn’t Stopped
Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Māori MPs Perform Haka at NZ Parliament Debate on Treaty Rights Changes
Guardian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’—Exploring the ‘Trumpquake’
Pepe Escobar | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Guardian Will No Longer Post on Elon Musk’s X from Its Official Accounts
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in “Darkest Moment” of Its 75-Year History
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Where Is the US Evil Empire Heading Now?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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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 West Buries a Genocide–Turns Israel’s Football Thugs into ‘Victims’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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The Jabalia Doctrine: Genocide as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Raja Abdulhaq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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The Attempts to Resolve the Middle East Problems Comprehensively
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Israel Convicted of Genocide at People’s Tribunal–Parallel to G20–in Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Melito | Brasil de Fato/Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Henry Kissinger, Johan Galtung and the Nobel Peace Prize
Prof. Syed Sikandar Mehdi | Pakistan Horizon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Zionists in Amsterdam
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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2084
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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?
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We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers
Jørgen Johansen | Irene Publishing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
‘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.
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The Amsterdam ‘Pogrom’ That Wasn’t: Corporate Media Fails to Tell the Whole Story
Common Dreams Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – ‘The Israeli fans instigated the violence after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match.’
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China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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A Lighthouse for Dark Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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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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Two Weeks in Beirut
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Over the Cliff
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Meanwhile, in the old US of A
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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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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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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Nov 2024
Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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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How Can BRICS Reshape a Polycentric World Order?
Ezra Nnko | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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More Than I Can Bear (Music Video of the Week)
Matt Bianco - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Official Video from 2013. Enjoy…
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The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence just Keeps Getting Darker
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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UNCTAD, COP29, They Did It again: Digital Tyranny Beyond the Worst Imaginations of George Orwell 1984
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Fundraising Appeal
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
There is no way to continue producing our TMS Weekly Digest without an increase in readers’ financial contributions. Sad reality. Since 2008 promoting Johan Galtung’s legacy of Peace by Peaceful Means – Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism. The end? I have faith…
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How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero
Yasemin Saplakoglu | Quanta Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Climate Conference Highlights Challenges to the World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.”
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The Machu Picchu Declaration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC 2024
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The APEC Leaders’ Machu Picchu Declaration
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The International System Has Shamefully Failed to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Lame Duck Biden Authorizes Ukrainian Attacks on Russia with Long-range US-made Weapons
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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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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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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These 10 Companies Run the US ‘Democracy’
Scheer Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 3): Is the Genocide a Lie?
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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”.
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Israeli Hooligans Storm through Amsterdam Chanting “F*ck You Palestine”
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
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.
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Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – a Glimpse into the Near Future
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024 – What are we trying to avert by focusing on climate change/global warming? The catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain offer a sample of how human societies will ultimately be dismantled and destroyed in the absence of a drastic action that is nowhere on the horizon.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Today, the images of war in the Middle East and Ukraine have not led to new creative literature nor to proposals for peace-making. However, the need for dialogue among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians has led to a reading of Martin Buber (1878 -1965).
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Israeli Settlers Are Coming for Gaza
Noah Samsen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – Given that they have full support from their government and military, they just might get it.
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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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Israel Keeps Trying to Devise New Ways to Play Victim while Committing Genocide
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
10 Nov 2024 – It keeps inventing new abuses to be victimized by–like the imaginary Amsterdam “pogrom” and the fake mass rape narrative months after 7 Oct–because it can’t sit comfortably in the role of victimized while on trial for genocide in international courts.
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Mark Albert | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The numbers tell a different story about the justification for genocide against Palestinians by Zionist Israel.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The very need for forgiveness springs from “the irreversibility and unpredictability of the process started by acting” — a process fundamental to what it means to be alive.
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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – North Carolina: The raging floods were triggered by unprecedented rainfall and winds. On Sept 27, when the floods hit, evacuation orders were issued to residents near a number of critical dams due to their reported “imminent failure” or “catastrophic collapse.”
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(Italiano) Gaza e Libano: rovesciare il paradigma
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
43.000 morti a Gaza, alcune migliaia tra morti e profughi in seguito ai raid israeliani in Libano, assalti all’Unifil, l’Unwra, agenzia delle Nazioni Unite, accusata di appoggio al terrorismo e messa in condizione di non poter più intervenire in soccorso alle popolazioni civili martoriate dai bombardamenti e assediate nella prigione a cielo aperto di Gaza…
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Apocalypse Now – The End (Music Video of the Week)
The Doors – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
First four minutes of the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1979). The song is “The End” by The Doors (1967).
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Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide
American Friends Service Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria since October 2023.
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Tackling Corruption
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – We must challenge corruption and greed that lead to war and conflict. We see both large scale greed and corruption: Trump, Biden/Harris, the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, General Sisi of Egypt, and our own corrupt Palestinian “leaders”.
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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
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World Peace Summit in Argentina
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Held in-person and via Zoom – Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 GMT-3
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The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
My approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues in formal and informal politics, in mediation and mediation training, in peace-keeping and peace-building operations, and in meetings.
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Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – Only after 11 full paragraphs of transmitting the Israeli line did Kershner manage to insert the disclaimer that “the Israeli claims could not be independently verified.” But by that time, of course, the damage had been done, the reader having already been persuaded that south Lebanon was one big Hezbollah military installation.
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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The Air in Gaza Smells like Corpses
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The newspapers keep saying the air in Gaza smells like corpses. Like rotting human flesh; the entire Gaza Strip. They say it emanates from the rubble. Pervades everything.
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How to Go on in a World Full of Cruelty
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
It’s not hope that keeps me going, it’s love. Love for this beautiful planet and all the weird little critters scuttling around on it, especially the fingery ape monsters walking about on their hind legs making mouth noises about their mind noises.
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Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – A report from Haaretz published today detailed the situation. There is no longer a single house people can live in, and the Israeli military fires artillery rounds to ensure that any remaining civilians leave.
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Hoax?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024
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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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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Nov 2024
USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
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How to Be Human under the Tyranny of a War Culture?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The truth is we have serious problems defining ourselves as moral beings when the on-going wars in Gaza and Ukraine and bombing and killings of innocent people create data for daily abnormal doses of humanity to be the new normal of socio-economic and political consumption.
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Obliterating Context Obliterates the Truth–Israel Detains 9,400 Hostages, Hamas Detains 111
Mark Taliano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – Western mainstream messaging has fabricated the Big Lie that somehow the Western-supported Zionist holocaust of Palestinian civilians is justified because Apartheid Israel is a victim and Hamas has Israeli hostages.
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After Their Son Came Out, This Conservative Christian Couple Went into a Closet of Their Own
John Blake | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – The moving story of a gay boy and his conservative parents. “There is no hate like Christian love.”
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The Success of Shameless Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
2 Nov. 2024 – Israel is in the final stages of both the massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. It has begun the indiscriminate killing of the remaining Palestinian citizens in the north of Gaza.
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The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Democracy in the USA
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Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”
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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
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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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Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The Standard Official Narrative is that Rwandan Tutsis were brutally set upon by the majority Hutus whose ethnic hatred for the minority Tutsi group found spontaneous expression in a frenzied bloodlust that left close to a million, mostly Tutsis, dead.
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
2 Nov 2024 – Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates. The rise of the BRICS is therefore not merely a rebuke to the U.S., but also a potential opening for a far more peaceful and secure world order.
→ read full articleComprehending Connectivity between Logic, Emotion, Intuition and Practice
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Strategic Implications of the Relationship between Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities – The condition of society is complex and confusing, even “surreal.” It is questionable whether strategic initiatives like the UN’s Pact for the Future or the Sustainable Development Goals engage with this complexity appropriately and credibly.
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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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UN General Assembly Renews Long-Standing Call for End to US Embargo against Cuba
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
30 Oct 2024 – The UNGA today overwhelmingly urged the USA to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, a demand it makes since 1992.
(In favor: 187; Against: 2 [USA, Israel]; Abstention: 1 [Moldova])
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Of all the writers who have kept a journal as a creative catalysis and a salve for self-doubt, no one has confronted those psychic hindrances between the talented and the fruition of their talent more pointedly than Franz Kafka.
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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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The Earth Constitution Emerging in Surprising Ways
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The Earth Constitution has been getting an unusual attention, both good and “bad,” omens of its growing geopolitical importance as the UN continues to flounder, unable to prevent wars or to stop Israel’s genocidal Gaza land grab by extinguishing the Palestinian people.
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Perpetual Peace Plan for the Russia-Ukraine War
Dr. Bishnu Pathak, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – The Russia-Ukraine war is the most destructive and contentious since WWII. The involvement of the USA with financial aid, strategic defense guidance, and military supplies to Ukraine has transformed it into a war between the USA and Russia.
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For Good News Look to BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – We can look forward to more bad news. No matter who wins the election in the US, the results will be disastrous for the US empire, including Europe. And no matter who gets attacked next in Israel’s war against the world, they are likely to get more death and destruction.
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A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Green Party candidate Jill Stein: “Our day-one agenda includes telling Netanyahu that our proxy war is over. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end this in the blink of an eye. That’s day one.” Meanwhile, neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.
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BRICS 2024: Building a New World
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – The 16th BRICS Summit held in Kazan was attended by 35 countries and six NGOs. The acronym BRICS comes from the five founding members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In 2024, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined. It became BRICS+.
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“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
9 Oct 2024 – A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at war crimes in Gaza posted in social media by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film, ‘Investigating War Crimes in Gaza,’ now available online.
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BRICS Is Ready for a Multipolar World
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
The BRICS countries (for the time being) completed the process of building their own economic system that is not dependent on the United States and the United Kingdom. The Summit Declaration includes the construction of a multi-sectoral economic system.
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Over The Hill (Music Video of the Week)
Loudon Wainwright III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Duet With Kate McGarrigle
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Israel’s War on Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic.
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How a Secluded 1984 Conference Forged Israel’s Unprecedented Influence Over US Media
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – Exploring the 1984 conference that fortified Israel’s narrative control and highlighting the troubling dynamics between media, politics, and public perception in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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