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Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism – In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.
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AI-enabled Mapping and Animation of Learning Pathways
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Use of Polyhedra in Configuring Memorable Integrative Frameworks – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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Legal Consequences of the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The International Court of Justice has today given its Advisory
Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
US President Joe Biden Drops Out of the Presidential Race, VP Kamala Harris Announces Her Candidacy
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week. Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.
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(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Luglio 2024 – L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?
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170 Years of U.S. Aggression against Nicaragua
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – When the Monroe Doctrine was declared, in 1823, it was aimed at European colonial powers to butt out: the US “sphere of influence” included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. During the past two centuries, virtually all of them had to endure US intervention and interference in their internal affairs.
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New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.
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What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.
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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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(Français) Un Manifeste Pour l’action
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 juillet 2024 – Le blog du mois dernier sollicitait vos suggestions sur la manière de relancer un mouvement mondial pour la culture de la paix. Vous avez répondu généreusement et 10 suggestions sont imprimées au bas du blog.
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ICJ Says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal and Must End
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The UN highest court argued that Israel’s large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. It also voted for Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.
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Israel’s Invitation to This Year’s Atomic Bomb Commemorations in Japan Has Sparked a Controversy over Double Standards
Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza.
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When Einstein Called “Fascists” Those Who Rule Israel
Giorgos Mitralias | CADTM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Netanyahu and his government are fully confirming what Einstein publicly denounced in 1948: Likud members are “fascists”, “racists”, “criminals” and “terrorists” who will inevitably lead Israel to its “final destruction”.
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Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Nicky Reid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts…
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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.
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Rule by Militia
Joshua Craze | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.
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My Chance
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
I am waiting for a chance whereby I can post some messages that would have cultural or spiritual values. The reason I am looking for such messages is that there is violence around me everywhere — near where I live and around me.
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Jesus Taught Bhakti Yoga
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
By studying the teachings that are ascribed to Jesus, we can easily recognize that the essence of what Jesus taught was an elementary level of the Vedic process of bhakti-yoga and karma-yoga.
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Important 4-min Exposition
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.
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He Called the Dog Habibi
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
He called the dog “habibi” — my darling — as it mauled him to death while his family listened nearby.
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PLEASE DONATE – Partner with Our Mission: Peace Journalism
TRANSCEND Media Service team,
22 Jul 2024
THANK YOU to all supporters/friends who recognize the value of our Peace Work and donate regularly–unfortunately, no longer enough.
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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Shocking Attempt at Former President’s Life
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Two North Americans Walking Down the Street and Talking about Politics
Tim Foley reads Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
“Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky,” said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest.
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With Media Enamored by US Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – “We must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to get even worse,” said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Peace Mantra – Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Music Video of the Week)
Tina Turner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Video for the Hindu Mantra recorded by Tina Turner with footage from the documentary ‘Children Beyond’ released in 2011.
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Pakistan–Where Conspirators Become Leaders
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – History Lessons for Pakistani Generals and Political Conspirators – Pakistan is fast getting entrapped into internal intrigues, political chaos and failing systems of governance, public institutions, legal justice and accountability.
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‘A World without Borders’: Revolutionary Love and Solidarity for Palestine
Samah Jabr, MD | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Revolutionary love is not just an abstract concept. It is a transformative force that challenges the status quo and fuels the fight for justice, equality and human dignity. In supporting the Palestinian people, you not only aid our struggle, you enrich your own lives by connecting with a deeper sense of purpose and humanity.
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Project 2025: What Is It?
Presidential Transition Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training. It is not enough for conservatives to win elections.
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The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more.
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Israeli Strikes in Southern, Central Gaza Kill More Than 60 Palestinians, Including in ‘Safe Zone’
Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into yesterday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.
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Settled
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory
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To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble
Bill Hatch | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – “Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones.”
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Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza Hidden from Western Publics
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded
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(Italiano) Genova 2001-2024. Luglio 2024. Le Iniziative
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Launch of the Genova 2024 events.
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A Manifesto for Action
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Last month’s blog requested your suggestions on how to relaunch a global movement for the culture of peace. You responded handsomely and there are 10 suggestions printed at the bottom of the blog.
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Trump Got a Bloodied Ear–US ‘Political Violence’ Poses a Far Bigger Danger to the Rest of Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Jul 2024
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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UNRWA Headquarters “Flattened” as Destruction of Gaza Continues
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – The massacres of Palestinian civilians by Israel over the weekend continues. Artillery, drone and airstrikes were launched. Flaunting its genocidal intentions, the IDF levelled the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA.
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Implosion and Rebuilding
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The “Israeli” Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian State in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors.
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NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
20 Jul 2024 – On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.
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A Grieving Heart
Ambreen Alam | CNKD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
28 Jun Global Nonkilling Day
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AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics
Anne Toomey McKenna | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – A Legal Scholar on the Security Boon and Privacy Nightmare – The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing closer but it’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence systems will be conducting a pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during and after the Games.
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Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 US Presidential Race
US President Joe Biden - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – My fellow Americans…
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The Truth Lover’s Prayer
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
May I see the truth, especially the truth I don’t want to see.
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The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Realising that spirit, recognising my own inner consciousness, the psyche, so clearly, I cannot understand time. It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly floats in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?
Walden Bello | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The crisis of U.S. hegemony may lead to a deeper crisis or to opportunity. Like Ulysses, we cannot avoid the dangerous passage between Scylla and Charybdis to get to the promised safe harbor.
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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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Zelensky Says Russia Should Attend Next Ukraine Summit
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russian representatives should attend the next international summit on the Ukraine war. The comments marked a shift for him.
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UN Human Rights Report 2023
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Foreword by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – As I reflect on 2023, a milestone anniversary year for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the impression remains of a year battered by multiple, intersecting crises, refusing to release their grip.
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My Thoughts on the Attempted Trump Assassination
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists…
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‘Shocking and Brutal Massacre’: World Reacts to Israel’s Al-Mawasi Attacks
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Outrage: The UN and countries across the Middle East have denounced Israel after its military attacked a designated humanitarian safe zone in Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding 300 others.
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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024 – The true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. The official toll according to Gazan government is 37,396 but this figure reflects neither the thousands buried under the rubble nor the countless deaths caused by the destruction of Gaza’s food distribution, healthcare and sanitation systems.
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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.
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Facilitating Global Dialogue with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Potential Implications for International, Interfaith, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Discourse – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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AOC Files to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito
Sharon Zhang | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against the two supreme court justices in the boldest move yet to resolve the court’s “unchecked corruption crisis” as it radically reshapes the U.S. government for worse.
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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.
May He Live
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
I reflect on these horrors. I reflect on Western (US, Germany, UK, Australia, etc) collusion and collaboration with an ongoing genocide and ongoing process of ethnic cleansing. I reflect on hypocrisy and on cowardice. I reflect on racism and hate.
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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.
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USA: A “Culture of Violence”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
This “culture of violence” is generated, sustained, and promoted by acts that arise from individual and collective impulse and intent, and that too often find tier tolerance and approval across political, economic, educational, military, and moral policies of institutions.
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The Buddha’s Last Teaching: Be Your Own Island, Your Own Refuge
The Dewdrop - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
“Be your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge, with no other refuge.” – Sakyamuni Buddha
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Israel Bombs Gaza School Killing 30 Palestinians as Truce Talks Continue
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – Israel ramped up attacks on Gaza killing at least 77 Palestinians, including dozens at a school. Mounting attacks come as mediators travel to Qatar to try and end the bloody conflict.
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Jonathan Cook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media’s differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do.
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Genocide Joe (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – Lowkey releases his new track ‘Genocide Joe’ featuring Mai Khalil.
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A New Israeli Massacre and Why the End Is Near
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Israel slaughters 71 civilians and injures 289 others in Al-Mawasi tent city near Khan Younis, to where Israeli authorities had asked Gaza residents to move to as a “safe place.”
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Rwanda’s Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – Rwanda’s Economic Miracle Is a Lie – On July 15, Rwandan President Paul Kagame will be “re-elected” in a sham process. He is well-known for ruling with an iron fist and keeping challengers from even entering the race against him.
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The Vacancy
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
No Comment
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War on Palestine: Western Leaders Destroying Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – Western Leaders Forge Animosities but Seek Peace
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What the Movement for Divestment Misses
Scott Plous - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The option for individuals to divest their own finances from companies involved in the Gaza genocide: Here’s how.
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NATO Summit: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
Chris Wright | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between the West and the Rest pulling humanity back from the brink.
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(Italiano) Religioni: in tutte c’è una garbata saggezza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Le religioni sanno essere dure, e morbide e garbate, e ogni religione è tessuta di fili duri e morbidi, dove i fondamentalisti agiscono sui duri. Religare suona bene. Ma come?
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Letting the Cruelty of the World Break Our Hearts Together
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024 – Let’s Allow the Cruelty of the World to Break Our Hearts, Kind Friend
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The End of Obama’s War on Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – Lesson to be learned from Syria: never participate in any U.S. [proxy] war abroad using terrorists as assets.
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X Days Since the Genocide Began
Edward Salem | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
I couldn’t see it but I knew,
as if it had been whispered in my ear,
there were no Palestinians in hell.
Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism: A Story of Moral Injury and Moral Courage
Kari James | New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – ‘The truth will out’, the saying goes. The question is, how much injury – moral and otherwise – is suffered by the courageous men and women trying to expose it? Psychologist and researcher Kari James explores that answer.
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Peace Shuttle: The Big Picture Behind ‘Viktor the Mediator’
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. It’s Unipolar Order vs. Multipolar, Multi-Nodal Order.
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Why the US Let Assange Go
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison.
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We Can Defeat the Israeli Lobby
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The sight of the children buried under the rubble, salvaged by older children, is enough for me and, I am sure, for anyone who was ever silenced by the lobby, not to cave in but to overcome any hurdles they put in our way of speaking truth to power.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts/humanities as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation–a thesis, a text, a painting-sculpture, a piece of music–when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
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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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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 15 Jul 2024
How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky | The MIT Press Reader - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” on Noam Chomsky’s early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.
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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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Gender and Diversity in Research
Elsevier - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Elsevier’s 2024 Gender Report tracks and analyzes data across 18 countries and 2 regions (EU 27 and the world) examining women’s performance in research and innovation across disciplines and career stages. Our Report provides new insights and also alternative metrics including policy and media citations.
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The NATO Declaration and the Deadly Strategy of Neoconservatism
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – For the sake of security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence. NATO has just done the opposite.
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China’s Soft Power
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – It is of extreme importance to understand the concept and motivation of soft power by China – the most rising emerging market power today and already the first export nation with the second-largest economy in the world.
→ read full articleUnusual Means of Travelling
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
We are aware of different types of travel around us. Here I am going to talk of different type of vehicles — bikes or cars or carts that are common place in today’s conditions in India.
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The US Came Close to Having TWO Presidential Candidates with No Brain
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The western political-media class hasn’t been this sympathetic and supportive toward Trump since he bombed Damascus. Seems like everyone’s got a theory about what happened and why right now. As of this writing I’m content to just sit back and not know until more information comes in.
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Wars, Militarism and Arms Trade – What Peace Activists Can Do
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – One of the most pressing issues of our time is the prevalence of wars, militarism and thriving arms trade–three scourges blighting our humanity. What can we do to contain and eventually abolish war and suffering of people?
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NATO Summit: Not a Shield but a Bloodied Sword
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – When leaders of the military pact’s member states pontificate about its invaluable role in defending democracy, you can almost hear history guffawing in the background.
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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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Prof. John Mearsheimer on the Catastrophic Outcomes of the Ukraine and Middle East Armed Conflicts
The Strategist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
2 Jul 2024 – NATO’s actions and escalation in Ukraine, the risk of nuclear conflict, the influence of Israeli lobby, the potential war with Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia, the outcomes of the war in Gaza, the impact of the US election results, and Biden vs. Trump foreign policy.
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The Biden Administration Has Exposed the Brain Rot of Western Liberals
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
At the NATO summit in Washington on 11 Jul 2024, Biden referred to Zelensky as “President Putin”, to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”, and said he is “following the advice of my commander-in-chief.” This man’s brain clearly does not work. Dementia has sunk in the rear naked choke, and Joe Biden’s neurology is tapping.
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Hundreds of Scientists Urge Biden to Cancel $100 Billion Nuclear Weapons Boondoggle
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – More than 700 scientists today called for an end to the US nuclear weapons program set to be replaced by the Pentagon despite soaring costs. “There is no sound technical or strategic rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars building new nuclear weapons,” an expert said.
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As Ukraine’s Largest Children’s Hospital Is Hit, Anger Towards Russia Rages
Mansur Mirovalev | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – Moscow denies targeting the civilian site as its forces bombard cities across the country, killing more than 30 people.
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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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Genocide on Gaza: Did We Learn Nothing from the Srebrenica Genocide?
Nadina Ronc | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – The Srebrenica Memorial Center conceals a horrific history. Here lie the remains of Bosnian Muslims brutally murdered in Jul 1995 under the command of the now-convicted Serbian war criminal General Ratko Mladic. This tragic legacy must serve as a call to action to shape a more compassionate world that does not stand by as Israel annihilates the Palestinians.
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Elections
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Cliché – Ring any bells?
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