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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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Big Pharma Is a Big Menace to Global Health
Daniel Finn interviews Nick Dearden | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – Pharmaceutical companies claim their profits are necessary for vital medical research, but it’s public investment that funds the research before private firms gobble up the benefits through patent monopolies.

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UN OCHA Gaza Strip Impact Report
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

11 Sep 2024 – Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the MoH in Gaza has fully identified as of 1 Aug out of the higher number of casualties they report.

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Snowden on Durov
Edward Snowden | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

Ditto!

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

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

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

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

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‘There Was No Mercy, Even on Children’: Trauma in the West Bank after Israeli Raids
Julian Borger and Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

31 Aug 2024 – Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territory.

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How Exxon Chases Billions in US Subsidies for a ‘Climate Solution’ That Helps It Drill More Oil
Andy Rowell | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

29 Aug 2024 – Climate experts raise red flags as oil giant spends millions lobbying while touting ‘underperforming’ carbon capture.

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Mirages
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

30 Aug 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his presidential campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him.  His trust in Trump is naïve in the extreme.

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

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

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Bombed Hospitals, Buried Children: We Have Become Numb to Gaza’s Destruction
Hala Alyan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

19 Aug 2024 – As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization.

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Why AI Models Are Collapsing and What It Means for the Future of Technology
Bernard Marr | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

19 Aug 2024 – Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything, giving us tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which can generate human-like text or images. But there’s a problem that could undermine all of AI’s achievements known as “model collapse.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of U.S. Voters
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.  It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.

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Torture, Abuse and Humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli Prison ‘Hell’
Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha, Bethan McKernan, and Quique Kierszenbaum | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

5 Aug 2024 – Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation in ‘torture camp’ jails presided over by Itamar Ben-Gvir.

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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.

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

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

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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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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In the Material World, the Search for the Spiritual World
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Jun 2024 – Many are fed up with material goods and the consumerism of our culture. As a counterpoint, I want to place spiritual goods in the dramatic, dangerous and hopeful context in which humanity currently finds itself, especially the humiliated and offended Global South.

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

Zionism as Ethnic Chauvinism – When the smoke clears in Gaza, the only people not “run over” are the owners and managers of the U.S. military-industrial complex.  They will be counting their money, running for reelection, and planning the next war.  And that will be no accident.

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Occupied Palestinian Territory News and Update
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

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

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(Português) No Mundo Material, a Busca do Mundo Espiritual
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

25 Jun 2024 – Muitos estão fartos de bens materiais e do consumismo de nossa cultura. Quero situar o tema dos bens espirituais no contexto dramático, perigoso e esperançador, em que se encontra atualmente a humanidade, especialmente, a humanidade humilhada e ofendida que vive no Sul Global.

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Meanwhile, in Wall Street…
Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

… the Oppressed Minority Reacts

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

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

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(Português) Do caos planetário atual é possível uma nova ordem?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

17 Jun 2024 – A crise sistêmica e generalizada dá prenúncios apocalípticos que vêm sob o nome do antropoceno (o ser humano é o grande ameaçador da vida), do necroceno (morte massiva de espécies), e do piroceno (os grandes incêndios em várias regiões da Terra).

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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”

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Cuba Advocates for Peace at BRICS Meeting
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

11 Jun 2024 – Cuba’s Foreign Minister arrived in Moscow with a message of peace and the common purpose with the member states–Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran–to defend multilateralism and show respect for diversity.

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‘We Want Peace’: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

6 Jun 2024 – Spain’s foreign minister announced today his country applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries.

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The Future of the UN Relief and Works Agency and Hamas in Gaza
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

4 Jun 2024 – Peter Ford has an extensive career in the UK diplomatic service, including as UK Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria. He served for many years as Special Representative to the Commissioner General of UNRWA.  In this interview, he discusses the background, importance, and how Israel wants to “replace” UNRWA.

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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business.  During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Clarifying a Judicial Web: ICJ, ICC, Civil Society (Peoples Tribunals)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

A curious sideshow during the seven months of savage genocidal violence against the entrapped Palestinian population of an estimated 2.3 million has been the attention given to international law and the international procedures available for its interpretation and enforcement.

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Greater Israel, the Maximal Zionist Imaginary, and Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

19 May 2024 – Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank amid Genocide in Gaza – The WB has posed the biggest challenge to the Zionist settler movement’s pursuit of a “Greater Israel.”

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Sixty Years after the 1968 Convention Riots, the Democrats Return to Chicago
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Is This a Problem?

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Finding Our Values in Peacebuilding
Michaelina Jakala, Miho Taka, Kyoko Okumoto and Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

16 May 2024 – Over the years and through varied experiences as peace researchers and practitioners, we have developed an interest in understanding what values (as well as ethics and morals) motivate us in our work and how these values can lead to or sabotage trust.

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Can the ICC Finally Gain Credibility?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

13 May 2024 – I want to call more explicit attention to the crude efforts by Netanyahu to call openly for the exertion of pressure on the ICC by the USA and other ‘democracies,’ seeking to induce the ICC rejection of this Global South attempt to criminalize Israel’s use of a genocidal force.

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Oxford Faculty on the Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment
University of Oxford Faculty & Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

6 May 2024 – As members of faculty and staff of the University of Oxford, we stand firmly in support of the encampment to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and from Israel’s apartheid regime against Palestinians and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.

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(Português) A conta chegou: a tragédia climática no Rio Grande do Sul
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

8 maio 2024 – As intensas chuvas e as catastróficas enchentes, com as águas invadindo cidades  inteiras, destruindo-as em parte, deslocando centenas de famílias, causando milhares de refugiados ou de desaparecidos e mortos, nos fazem pensar.

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Palestine, Iran, and Populist Resistance: The Limits of Law, Morality, and the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

3 May 2024 – The Palestinian struggle, connected with wider regional and global conflict patterns, is giving rise to worldwide student protests against genocide and complicity with genocide, as well as a tidal wave of global consciousness sweeping away the cobwebs of political and moral complacency.

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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

2 May 2024 – To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians.  It also refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the weak by the strong, such as the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians by the Israel government.

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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

April 2024 – Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced.

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Governing Gaza after Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

Q: Israeli officials are weighing sharing power with Arab states in postwar Gaza. How do you see that?
A: Such a format seems like nothing more than a cover for continued Israeli governance of Gaza. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are more opposed to Hamas (and Iran) than to Israel, fearful of their own stability.

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US Defense Industry Size & Share Analysis – Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 – 2032)
Mordor Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

The US Defense Market size is estimated at USD 309.77 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 367.30 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 3.58% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

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Netanyahu Failed in Gaza, Tries to Widen War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

20 Apr 2024 – It now seems either that the US reaction to the Damascus attack or the concerns of the Netanyahu war cabinet rejected the temptations of a wider war. Iran as well seemed to accept an outcome of its retaliation directed at Israel, resulting in neither death nor damage, was nevertheless sufficient for its purposes.

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Israel/Iran Tensions: Provocation, Retaliations, Wider War Option/Fears
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

25 Apr 2024 – The focus is on the Israeli April 1st attack on Iran’s Damascus consulate, and the international law implications of Iran’s retaliation against Israeli targets on April 13, followed a week later by Israel’s second drone attack on a military base not far from Isfahan, which both countries somewhat downplayed. Israel seemed to have given up the wider war option at least for the present in response to diplomatic pressures from allies to deescalate regional tensions.

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Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

15 Apr 2024 – What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.

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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

18 Apr 2024 – April 1st Pivot from Gaza: Damascus Massacre, Al Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Attack, the Biden/Netanyahu Diplomatic Dance, and Iran’s Retaliation – Developments arising from these convergent incidents on 1 Apr continue to reverberate, making updating a high priority.

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(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.

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Gaza Ceasefire Petition by International Lawyers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

This petition offers international lawyers to show solidarity with the grave plight of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza that is continuing to endure daily onslaught by Israel that causes widespread suffering so far supported to varying degrees by the leading liberal democracies of the West.

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Destroy Hamas? No! End the Gaza War and Begin the Peace Process!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

In Northern Ireland Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists learned to share power even though organizations like the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defense Alliance had both massacred “enemy” civilians. Black and white South Africans agreed on a new political order even though militants of the African National Congress and the National Party had terrorized each other for decades…. Destroying Hamas, it seems clear, is not the road to peace.

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(Português) O Silêncio de Deus e a Morte dos Inocentes: Deus Por Que Te Calas?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

10 abril 2024 – Vivemos globalmente num mundo trágico, cheio de incertezas, de ameaças e de perguntas para as quais não temos respostas. Para onde estamos indo? para o prolongamento do atual modo de habitar a Terra, devastando-a para um maior enriquecimento de poucos, ou mudaremos de rumo?

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Gaza Destroyed, Aid Workers Murdered: A Deliberate Israeli Strategy?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

8 Apr 2024 – The missile attack on WCK was a war crime; a crime against humanity and part of a genocidal Likud plan to eliminate Gazans from the Mediterranean coastline that they have occupied for a thousand years.

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Israel’s UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood
Bradford Betz | Fox News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

8 Apr 2024 – Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)

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Regressive Populism and the Resilience Imperative: Evading Global Challenges
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

This is the foreword I wrote to a recent book on the rise of ultra-nationalist populism around the world by the distinguished British author and historian, Deepak Tripathi. What is depicted in the book is emblematic of the populist and inter-governmental myopia that has become a menacing characteristic of the global setting.

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Dahiya Doctrine: Justifying Disproportionate Warfare—A Prelude to Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

1 Apr 2024 – This essay originated from my responses to questions from a journalist preparing an article on the Dahiya Doctrine. It led me to consider the relevance of the doctrine and link it to the events in Gaza, the Hannibal Directive, antisemitism, and genocide.

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