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Signing and Spreading the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People’s Tribunal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

23 Jun 2025 – The Gaza People’s Tribunal, at the public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize basic rights, above all their inalienable right to self-determination. Please read, sign and spread it widely.

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“Iran Can’t Have a Nuclear Weapon,” Says Trump. Why The Hell Not?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

The question that not even Congressional opponents to a war against Iran ask: Why the Iranians can’t have a nuclear weapon if they want one? US citizens have been taught to believe that there are good and evil nations and regimes, Iran being an evil, “rogue” state that only wants nukes to destroy Israel.

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Ambivalence toward Resistance as a Human Right: Matters of Law and Policy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

16 Jun 2025 – I publish here my foreword to Shannonbrooke Murphy’s path-breaking book on the right of resistance. Murphy provides readers with a comprehensive framework for thinking about resistance to public authority in a variety of settings.

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Climate Misinformation Turning Crisis into Catastrophe, Report Says
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

19 Jun 2025 – False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.

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Climbing the Path of Self-Acceptance: An Autobiographical Narrative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

I submitted this editorial to TMS on the psychic healing process of physical injury because it seemed so congruent with healing in public spheres of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and transcendence, so brilliantly articulated by Johan Galtung throughout his long life experience.

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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

1 Jun 2025 – Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.

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SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth): Statement on Gaza Ordeal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

25 May 2025 – In this era of predatory capitalism, imperial geopolitics and surging fascism, we as a lead species, need to think, feel, and act differently to avoid catastrophe, and do so in a spirit of urgency.

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Venezuela: Pro-Government Alliance Wins Big in Legislative and Regional Elections
Ricardo Vaz | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.

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Gaza Tribunal Project: Opening Remarks
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

27 May 2025 – Opening Remarks, Richard Falk, Sarajevo Public Session of Gaza Tribunal, 26 May 2025.

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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (28 May 2025)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal, a consensus document prepared in conjunction with participants in the first of two Public Sessions of the Gaza Tribunal, was released on 28 May 2025.

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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

29 May 2025 – The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.

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Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.

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US Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

23 May 2025 – Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.

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The Gaza Ordeal: How Will It End?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy…

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Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.

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Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.

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Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

“You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

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Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Global Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – On Monday, May 5, a Forum at Columbia University will feature Jeffrey Sachs, public intellectual, and Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, in a discussion that I am also honored to take part. I hope as many of subscribers will attend online.

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A Lesson from Brazil – Where Gig Workers Have Rallied against the Right
Rodrigo Nunes | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

25 Apr 2025 – Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers.

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Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.

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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.

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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.

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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.

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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.

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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 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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Will the UN Pillory Francesca Albanese?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – This is another pivotal moment for the UN and its Human Rights Council; whether it is subject to manipulation on issues that test the UN’s political independence. Tomorrow the UNHRC will vote on whether to reappoint Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Israel Killed 15 Palestinian Paramedics and Rescue Workers One by One, Says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh and Julian Borger | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

31 Mar 2025 – Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.

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(Castellano) La gran hipocresía “verde” Norte-Sur
Bernard Duterme | Centro Tricontinental CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

4 Abril 2025 – Cuatro o cinco truismos que no están en duda, pero que nos sentimos obligados a recordar antes de proseguir. En primer lugar, la magnitud del desastre ecológico, su centralidad, su urgencia.

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We (the People) Stand United for the Common Good
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

31 Mar 2025 – Autocracy, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, despotism, monocracy, fascism – so many ways to describe the current state of the (not so) United States of America.

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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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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.

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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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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.

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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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Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime between Trump and Zelensky?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.

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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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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2025

I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.

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Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
Harvard Online - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2025

Norwegian peace/conflict theorist Johan Galtung developed a three-layered understanding of violence that represents how a confluence of factors merge to shape the conditions for the promotion and perpetuation of violence.

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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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‘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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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Rejected by Allies and Condemned as Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

26 Jan 2025 – Trump’s proposal that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip has been rejected by US allies in the region and attacked as biased, dangerous, illegal and unworkable by lawyers and activists.

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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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Fiqhi* Pathways: The Role of Islamic Jurists in Shaping Armed Group Behavior
Lakhdar Ghettas | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

This research project aims to understand the structures and roles of Islamic jurists in shaping armed group behavior in the MENA and Sahel region.

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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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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic?  I hope so.

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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.

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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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TRANSCEND Member S.P. Udayakumar receives 2025 ‘Nuclear-Free Future Award’
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

14 Jan 2025 – The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil / Germany) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.

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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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Gaza Death Toll 40% Higher Than Official Number, Lancet Study Finds
The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

10 Jan 2025 – Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza by the end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65.

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How the West Destroyed Syria
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

11 Jan 2025 – Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including as ambassador to Bahrain (1999-2003) and Syria (2003-2006).  After, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency. 

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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!

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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?

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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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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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Syria’s Fall: In-Depth Analysis
Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

10 Dec 2024 – Syria has fallen, and history will be strewn with an endless banquet of takes and interpretations as to what happened, how, and why. Here I offer one humble middle approach to piece it together, supported by facts and some deductive reasoning, rather than emotional gut reactions.

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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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(Castellano) El Surgir de la Espiritualidad Natural
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

12 Diciembre 2024 – Hay muchos que están hartos de bienes materiales y del consumismo de nuestra cultura. Como contrapunto a esta situación estamos captando la aparición del mundo espiritual, de la  espiritualidad natural, y verificamos su urgente actualidad frente a las numerosas crisis que asolan a toda la humanidad.

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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

2 Dec 2024 – The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.

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New Powder That Captures Carbon Could Be ‘Quantum Leap’ for Industry
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

29 Nov 2024 – A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use.

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Netanyahu’s Boycott of Haaretz Won’t Stop Us Reporting the Grim Truth about Israel’s Wars
Aluf Benn | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

26 Nov 2024 – Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us.

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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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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.

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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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(Português) Morre Gustavo Gutiérrez, Pai da Teologia da Libertação
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

No dia 22 de outubro de 2024, morreu em Lima, Perú, o iniciador da Teologia da Libertação com a idade de 96 anos, Gustavo Gutiérrez. Juntos, a partir dos anos 70, colaboramos para uma teologia adequada à América Latina que é feita de injustiças sociais e de pobreza aviltante.

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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history.  Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.

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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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Israel Is a Rogue Nation–It Should Be Removed from the United Nations
Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

15 Oct 2024 – One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it.

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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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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere.  Thoughts that think us.  To dismiss them, however, is a mistake. 

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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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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

7 Oct 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.

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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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October’s Surprise Party
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?

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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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(Português) Um Mundo que Perdeu o Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

6 out 2024 – Acompanhando o curso do mundo, notamos um verdadeiro tsunami de ódio, mentiras, exclusões, verdadeiros genocídios e extermínios em massa como na Faixa de Gaza, que nos deixa perplexos. Até onde pode chegar a maldade humana?

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EU President Demands Globalist Control over All Information
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addressed elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 16 Jan 2024 calling for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.

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Clair de Lune (Music Video of the Week)
Maria João Pires | Jardin Musical – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

Author: Claude Debussy – Piano Magnifique

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Israel Strikes Lebanon and Yemen: What We Know So Far
Jonathan Yerushalmy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s military has struck more targets in Yemen and Lebanon, including a strike on central Beirut for the first time since 2006, in the wake of Friday’s [27 Sep] killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

21 Sep 2024 – Kris Kristofferson, a man of deep soul and poetic genius, is eighty-eight years-old, an elderly man who has come a long way down life’s road. His songs keep echoing in my mind, and I am sure in the minds of millions of others.

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