Articles by The Cradle
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UN Troops to ‘Stay in All Positions’ Inside Lebanon Despite Israeli Threats
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations confirmed yesterday that the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon would “stay in all its positions” after Israeli attacks injured at least five blue helmets.
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US Arms Dealers Witness ‘Record Profits’ from Israel’s Year-Long Genocide in Gaza, War on Lebanon
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US and Israel’s ongoing military escalation across West Asia has helped the aerospace and defense industry outperform expectations.
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New Israeli Massacre in Central Gaza as Jets Flatten Residential Block
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Dozens are trapped under the rubble of homes bombed by Israeli warplanes in Al-Bureij refugee camp.
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UN Overwhelmingly Votes to Sanction Israel, Impose Arms Embargo
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The UN General Assembly voted yesterday overwhelmingly in favor of applying sanctions to Israel and ending its illegal occupation of the West Bank.
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Israel Tasks US Congress with Pressuring South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
9 Sep 2024 – South Africa has until 28 October to submit its arguments for continuing its case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
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ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him over Israel Arrest Warrants
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The International Criminal Court judges have yet to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister four months after prosecutor Karim Khan requested them.
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Meta’s Role in Israel’s Digital Proxy War on The Cradle
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – The banning of The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram shows a troubling alliance with Israeli-linked groups to silence voices critical of the occupation state, especially those media outlets covering its adversaries’ narratives.
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France Slaps Telegram CEO with 12 Criminal Charges after Israel Calls Platform ‘Uncooperative’
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – Billionaire Russian born Telegram founder Pavel Durov is being held in custody by French authorities as part of a cyber-criminality investigation. Telegram has been the ‘least cooperative’ among the social media sites in responding to Israeli censorship requests during its genocide in Gaza.
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Meta Permanently Bans The Cradle in Latest Attack on Free Speech
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The social media giant has singled out an independent West Asian media outlet, as it intensifies its crackdown on Palestinian and regional voices, both on its platforms and among its employees.
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EU Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Sanctions against Israeli Ministers for ‘Incitement to War Crimes’
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024 – Josep Borrell said yesterday that the bloc must impose sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for “incitement to war crimes.” He called Smotrich’s comments on starving two million Gazans by withholding aid “sinister.”
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Inside Israel’s Torture, Rape, and Dehumanization Centers [Sickening]
Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.
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Palestinian Prisoners Endure ‘Guantanamo-like’ Conditions in Israeli Torture Camps: Report
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – A new report from The Washington Post published today details Israel’s torture, starvation, and killing of Palestinians in its prison system in a manner resembling the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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False Flag? Syria Attributes Deadly Golan Strike to Israel, Denounces Attempts to Expand War
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
28 Jul 2024 – Damascus said Tel Aviv is using the incident to ignite the region, warning that the people of the Golan Heights ‘will not be fooled.’
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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
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Spain Becomes First EU State to Back ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – Spain has been a strong supporter of Palestinians, calling Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide and recognizing Palestine as a state.
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Colombia to Open Embassy in Occupied West Bank
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Bogota recently cut ties with Israel over the genocidal war in Gaza and has been working with other Latin American nations to grant Palestine full UN membership. The Colombian government announced on 22 May plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.
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The Russia–Iran–China Search for a New Global Security Order
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
3 May 2024 – While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
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UN Report Demolishes Israeli Propaganda Campaign against UNRWA
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Israel has waged a multi-year campaign against the UN aid group for Palestinian refugees in hopes of eradicating the right of return.
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Israeli Reserve Soldiers Refuse to Fight in Gaza
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
18 Jan 2024 – Half a brigade was released from duty after complaining of poor training and lack of weapons before deployment to Gaza.
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Gaza: A Pause Before the Storm
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
23 Nov 2023 – The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos.
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Iran-Russia Set a Western Trap in Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The only country that could possibly distract the West from Ukraine is Israel. But the US and its allies are walking into an existential trap if they think a West Asian victory will be more easily won than a European one.
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Israel: What Really Happened on 7th October?
Sharmine Narwani and Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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No Respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ Rises
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
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Israel’s Bloodcurdling ‘Poison Policy’ to Replace Palestinians with Jewish Settlers
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – A shocking document last September revealed that, during the 1948 Nakba, Zionist militias engaged in a wide-ranging chemical and biological warfare campaign to expel indigenous Palestinian communities from their lands, slow the advance of intervening Arab armies, and poison citizens of neighboring states.
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Sudan: The New Geopolitical Battlefield between East and West?
Matthew Ehret | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – The potential outbreak of a civil war sparked by a factional fight within Sudan’s military government poses a destabilization threat beyond the nation’s borders – into Africa, West Asia, and the emerging multipolar order. This suits the West just fine.
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Why China’s Belt and Road Initiative-BRI Is Back with a Bang in 2023
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
6 Jan 2023 – As Beijing’s BRI enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.
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Everybody Wants to Hop On the BRICS Express
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Eurasia is about to get a whole lot larger as countries line up to join the Chinese and Russian-led BRICS and SCO, to the detriment of the West.
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Asia’s Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific.
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Six Months into Ukraine’s Collapse, the World Has Changed Forever
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
24 Aug 2022 – The inevitable transfer of power away from the west is leading to a surge in state-sponsored terrorism, but this will do little to reverse the trend. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the (new) world begins, not with a whimper but a bang.
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Washington Steals over 80 Percent of Syria’s Oil Output Per Day
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Syrian Oil Ministry released a statement yesterday accusing US forces occupying Syria of being responsible for the theft of most of the country’s oil. The losses incurred by the trafficking campaign surpass US$100 bn, according to Syria’s oil ministry.
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
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From Balkh to Konya: Discovering Rumi’s Spiritual Geopolitics
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – While the mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist and thinker Jalal al-Din Rumi is synonymous with Islamic mysticism, a deeper dig brings to light the West Asian political changes and upheavals that shaped his world and other-worldly view.
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The Multipolar “Iran-Russia-Turkey Troika” Overshadows “Unipolar Joe Biden” in West Asia
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022 – The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Their Presidents convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria and wholesale rejection of the “war on terror” exceptionalist unipolarity that once ruled West Asia, as key talking points.
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Life Is Not a Game…
The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
The Medium Is the–Wrong–Message
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Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Let’s cut to the chase and roll in the Putin Top Ten of the New Era, announced by the Russian President live at the St. Petersburg forum for both the Global North and South. The future world order, already in progress, will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There’s no turning back.
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Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
28 Jun 2022 – The West is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.
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St. Petersburg Sets the Stage for the War of Economic Corridors
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
18 Jun 2022 – In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way.
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Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent.
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Russian Geoeconomics Tzar Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
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Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
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Follow the Money: US Sanctions–Will Russia Be Able to Bypass Western Economic Warfare?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.
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Iran-Russia Hit Maximum Strategy
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Three ain’t a crowd: The Iran-Russia summit this week, concurrent with RIC military drills in the Sea of Oman, in advance of a Xi-Putin meeting in two weeks, suggests a rapidly-advancing strategic vision for the three Eurasian powers.
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Will the Islamic World Save Afghanistan?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
21 Dec 2021 – Between the complex internal dynamics of the Taliban and the western trick of conditional aid, it is the Muslim world that must act to save Afghanistan.
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From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
21 Oct 2021 – Asia’s powerbrokers dropped an Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: ‘The country’s reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.’
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Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
27 Aug 2021 – The Kabul Airport bombing shows there are shadowy forces in Afghanistan, willing to disrupt a peaceful transition after US troops leave. But what about US intel’s own ‘shadow army,’ amassed over two decades of occupation? Who are they, and what is their agenda?
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