Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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New Israeli Report Alleging ‘Systematic and Intentional Rape’ by Hamas Relies on Debunked Western Media Reports
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – Hoax: The contents of the Israeli paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports, especially a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.
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After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – The U.S. decision to block the neutrality agreement of Mar 2022 between Russia and Ukraine, thus favoring a long war with Russia, and how this led to a brutal war with over half a million casualties. The U.S. policy is overshadowed by the risk of nuclear war.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Casualties:
29,606+ killed* and at least 69,737 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*The death toll number is over 38,000 accounting for those dead under the rubble.
I’ve Seen That Face Before – Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Grace Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Composed in 1981
Live Basel 2009
With Lyrics
Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
24 Feb 2024 – How can I hold the knowledge of my own so-called government, via named and nameless maleficent megalomaniacs, facilitating unspeakable horrors far away and not take the first flight to my nation’s capital and hurl buckets of blood at the White House?
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Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hospitals have become battlegrounds.
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The Fates of Gaza and Julian Assange Are Sealed Together
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – Were they being properly reported, two critically important court hearings this week, in London and The Hague, would expose the US ‘rules-based order’ as a hollow sham
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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5”
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
If you cannot remove conflict, why not adjust your thinking about it? Why not try and see conflict as the salt of life, the big energizer, the tickler, the tantalizer, rather than as a bothersome nuisance, as noise in perfect channel, as disturbing ripples in otherwise quiet waters?
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(Castellano) Johan Galtung (24 Octubre 1930 – 17 Febrero 2024)
Gianmarco Pisa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – Con el fallecimiento de Johan Galtung, toda la comunidad de hombres y mujeres que aman la paz, y la «paz con justicia», y dentro de ella la comunidad de pacificadores y pacificadoras, en todas las latitudes, se encuentra, a partir de hoy, más sola.
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The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today in protest of the genocide in Gaza. A police officer showed up pointing a gun at the man’s burning body; I guess that’s just what American cops do when they aren’t sure what to do. UPDATE: The protester has died. His name was Aaron Bushnell.
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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.
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As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – “We should ask ourselves: How many innocent lives must be sacrificed before the council deems it necessary to call for a cease-fire?” said the Algerian envoy to the UN.
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Lula Withdraws Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel and Asks His Colleague to Leave the Country
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – Brazil severed all diplomatic relations with Israel, expelled Israel’s ambassador as persona non grata, and recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv announced today Pres. Lula da Silva who compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust.
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In Memoriam, Johan Galtung: ‘Put Peace before Victory’
Susanne Urban – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – The world’s first professor of peace research, Norwegian born Johan Galtung, has died, aged 93. Thus, Norway and the world have lost a person completely out of the ordinary. Johan, we shine PEACE over your memory.
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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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The Show Trial against Julian Assange
Fabian Scheidler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – How US and British Authorities Are Bending the Law and Undermining Press Freedom – The key witness for the espionage charge was the notorious fraudster and convicted paedophile Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, who admitted in 2021 that he had lied on behalf of the FBI and had been granted immunity from prosecution.
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Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Moral Leader of All Civilized Humanity
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
24 Feb 2024 – Brazil’s president repeats his recent assertion that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in Gaza, braving the repercussions that have come to affect his country’s ties with the Israeli regime and its main ally, the US.
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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.
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Father of Peace Journalism Passes Away, Leaves Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism.
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Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – Rwanda’s M23 militia and Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the DRC. I had a Zoom conversation with Congolese journalist Akilimali Saleh, who is based in Goma.
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Global Humanity and Unending War on Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
We, the People and Political Wickedness
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A Condolence Message on the Passing of Prof. Johan Galtung
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Prof. Galtung was a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970. He also founded the Peace Research Journal (1964), Transcend International, Transcend Media Service, and Transcend Peace University.
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First Iran-India Joint Working Group Meeting on Agriculture Held in Delhi
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – The first joint working group meeting on agriculture took place between Iran and India. The officials of the ministries of agriculture of both countries emphasised increasing cooperation in the field.
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New Time Pieces
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
The above pattern is a basic pattern of most round shaped watches. Modifications of the basic pattern are also available especially in those watches that are sold in the market.
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UN Experts Condemn ‘Credible’ Reports of Executions, Sexual Assault by Israeli Soldiers
Nick Robertson | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – A group of UN human rights experts denounced the Israeli military today for “credible” allegations of execution and sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza.
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Dialogue on Hatred: A Peacebuilder’s Perspective
Tatsushi Arai, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – TRANSCEND Member Prof. Tatsushi Arai, a peacebuilding scholar-practitioner with twenty-five years of international experience, reflects on the sources and nature of hatred in the context of identity-based conflict.
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(Italiano) Johan Galtung (24 ottobre 1930 – 17 febbraio 2024)
Gianmarco Pisa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
17 Febb 2024 – Con la scomparsa di Johan Galtung, l’intera comunità degli uomini e delle donne amanti della pace, e della «pace con giustizia», e al suo interno la comunità, di elaborazione e di pratiche, degli operatori e delle operatrici di pace, a tutte le latitudini, è, da oggi, più sola.
→ read full articleMairead Maguire and Dr. Aisha Jumaan: Gaza, Yemen, and Endless Wars
merchantsofdeath | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – Facilitated by Kathy Kelly – A fascinating dialogue with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and the Director of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Dr. Aisha Jumaan.
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Prof. Johan Galtung Left Us
Hoosen and Vanessa Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – A sad day, indeed! We are distraught at being informed, a short while ago, on the passing on of Professor Johan Galtung. Thank you for so thoughtfully letting us be part of your lives and sharing with us his sad departure, now that his beautiful soul has passed on and is with the Divine.
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Evil Silence
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
See no evil…
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I’m an American Doctor Who Went to Gaza: What I Saw Wasn’t War – It Was Annihilation
Dr. Irfan Galaria | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt to volunteer in Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation.
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Elite Fear of the Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored–or suppressed.
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Johan Galtung: Macrohistorian, Futurist, Peace Theorist
Sohail Inayatullah – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
When I first heard Galtung speak on his structural theory of imperialism, I immediately understood why the poor–those in the periphery–related more to the elite, the center within their own regions, than with the periphery, and the periphery of the periphery, the downtrodden globally.
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(Italiano) Un ricordo di Johan Galtung
Fabio Fossati - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Galtung è morto il 17-2-2024 a 93 anni. Egli era nato nel 1930, e proveniva da una famiglia della bassa aristocrazia norvegese. Nel 1951 fece l’obiettore di coscienza e passò sei mesi in carcere.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung’s Longevity: 93 Years
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Inspired by His Creative Humanizing Dignifying Harmonizing Longevity
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World Court to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – 52 Countries to Take Part in Hearings on Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Unification and Integration Framed Coherently Otherwise
→ read full articleIn Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West Is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
30 Jan 2024 – Israel has long plotted the downfall of the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people.
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Genocide Accelerates while Elites Prosper
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Day 130 of the genocide: Total killed 28,340 (+some 7,000 under the rubble) and injured 67,984. 72% are women and children. Plus thousands dead from lack of food, clean water, medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e lavoro sui conflitti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
L’Occidente ha respinto la religione nell’illuminismo-modernità-secolarismo, e sta adesso assistendo a una qualche rinascita religiosa. Allora la spiritualità entra come concetto sovrordinato, basato su elementi della maggior parte delle religioni e su valori laici.
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An Open Letter from Editors and Publishers on Julian Assange –> Publishing Is Not a Crime
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – The following is a letter from the Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel urging the U.S. government to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets.
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Johan Galtung: The Greatest Living Thinker Ceased to Think
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The great hope is a dream.
Though he is gone,
vision blows
A world without wars is a dream.
Everywhere.
Confront the Principle, Not Episode
Mohammed Elnaiem | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.
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Crocodile Tears over Navalny while Ignoring Assange
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – If you’re in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, then you can go ahead and shut the fuck up about Navalny.
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Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024 – The Nation Lost Time and Opportunities for Political Change
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Who’s the Real A$$hole?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…
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(Castellano) Profesores e Investigadores del Ámbito de la Comunicación Lanzan un Manifiesto en el Que Reivindican Unos Medios de Comunicación al Servicio de la Paz
Presentado por Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
El contenido de dicho manifiesto urge a medios de comunicación y representantes políticos a cuidar las representaciones que se ofrecen de los conflictos y a dar pasos firmes para actualizar el sistema de medios en beneficio de su resolución pacífica y justa.
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The TrueLove
David Whyte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially…
Burma’s Crumbling Junta
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Burma, now renamed Myanmar after 1988, faces two basic and related issues: the installation of a democratic government and a constitutional system which grants real autonomy to the minority peoples. There is little democratic tradition or ethos upon which to structure a democratic government.
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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
South Africa lodged an urgent complaint on Monday [12 Feb] at the ICJ against Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees, have been pushed by the Israeli military.
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Global Evils Today (Part 1): Media Mis-Reporting Bias Generates Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
“The War On Gaza has unearthed numerous anomalies of The System and His Master’s Voice, which has penetrated far and deeply. It even influences reputable Governments, Organisations, Institutes, and has a long lasting, profound influence on the slaves of The Master, globally. This Dark, Evil and Covert Force of The Master encourages the development of conformity consensus in order to further the aims and goals of The System in its eternal quest for world dominance in which the Slaves, ultimately, do not matter.”
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How the CIA Destabilizes the World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international or U.S. laws. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous.
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Pathetic State of Our World
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – We look around our world that is sinking in a spiral of violence and wonder why we humans cannot learn the way of peace, harmony, and coexistence. What are the main factors that lead to such a situation?
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.
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Dilemmas around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part Two)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – When conducting peacebuilding training workshops, facilitators/trainers often encounter ethical dilemmas. How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings?
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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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IDF Torture of Palestinian Prisoners Is Turned into Entertainment for Israeli Viewers
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – “They Brought Israeli Civilians to Watch Our Nude Torture”
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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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US Seizes Plane That Iran Sold to Venezuela–Imperialism at Its Best
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – The US claims Iran violated its sanctions when it sold the jumbo jet to Venezuela.
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Some Wisdom…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
“Being strong does not mean that one never falls down–but that one always gets up again after falling down.”
→ read full articleMemorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.
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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security
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EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: ‘Stop Saying Please’ and Cut Off Arms to Israel
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – “If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Johan Galtung “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books written in 60 years, +++). RIP
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Professors and Researchers in the Field of Communication Launch a Manifesto Calling for the Media to Serve Peace
Submitted by Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024 – The signatory associations call on the academic community, communication and journalism professionals, media, associations, institutions, and anyone who shares the principles and proposals of the initiative to join through the website where you can find the complete manifesto and a form to sign up.
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Nicaragua Formally Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – The government of Nicaragua has filed a formal application with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel.
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Taylor’s Mission
Tom Tomorrow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Mission: Impossible
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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us, war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
→ read full articleRam Ram
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
India is a nation of many religions and faiths. The largest is Hinduism or the Hindu faith. The second largest is Islam or the Muslim Faith. There are also other religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Baha’i faith, zorasterism, and other smaller faiths.
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BRICS, Backbone of Emerging Multipolar World, Lavrov Says
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – “Today BRICS is one of the “backbones” of the emerging multipolar world. We are doing our utmost to ensure that after its expansion the association further strengthens its position as a reliable and effective promoter of the interests of the World Majority.” — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India
Tatiana Bokova | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Feb 2024
With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – While pushing its tired narrative about Biden “losing patience,” the White House remains dedicated to Israel’s war on Gaza.
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The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Worng-Puc
Sramana Da-Hsiu Cheng-Nien | Sung Dynasty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The great Dhyana Master admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever. He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.
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Scientists Create Artificial Worm Gut That Breaks Down Plastic
Paige Bennett | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – News of plastic-eating enzymes and insects have been making headlines. Take, for example, fungi that digests plastic in coastal salt marshes, or the greater wax moth caterpillar that can live on polyethylene in its larval stage. However, scientists need to be able to breed them in large numbers.
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The Ukraine War Could Come to an Unexpected End
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – Even if there is still fighting at the front, recent developments in Ukraine would suggest that the war could end in a way that is completely unexpected in the West – with a Ukrainian-Russian agreement. It all has to do with the fact that the war may now be decided in Kiev rather than on the front line.
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Over 30 Countries Queue Up for BRICS Membership
Jai Hamid | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – This surge in interest reflects a growing disillusionment with traditional economic models and a collective quest for more equitable international relations.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 127: Growing International Alarm Over Israeli Plans to Invade Rafah
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
11 Feb 2024 – Israel has announced its intention to push ahead with its plans to invade Rafah in the southernmost Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering. Rafah’s mayor, Ahmed al-Sufi, warns any military action there would result in a “massacre”.
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Netanyahu’s War on Truth
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
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龍 年 吉 祥 – Auspicious Year of the Wood Dragon
Fred Dubee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – New Year’s greetings and warmest wishes for the Year of the Wood Dragon overflowing with harmony, good fortune and accomplishments. As the Lunar New Year commences today, this enchanting combination promises a year marked by growth, vitality and the blossoming of wisdom.
→ read full articleDilemmas Around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part One)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings? Such a research theme was explored in a workshop called “Workshop on Values, Ethics, and Trust in a Peacebuilding Network.”
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Grim Milestone: Over 100,000 Killed, Wounded, Missing in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – More than 100,000 Palestinians are either dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead in the besieged Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization has announced. This follows more than three months of intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave.
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A “False Flag” Operation to Justify the Israel-U.S. Genocide of the People of Palestine
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – From the outset on October 7, 2023, “A Tissue of Lies” has served to justify the killings in the Gaza Strip of more than 30,000 civilians, of which 70% are women and children. The atrocities committed against the People of Palestine are beyond description. At the time of writing, at least 13,000 children have been killed.
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Gaza ‘Buffer Zone’ Possible War Crime: UN Human Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Israel’s reported attempt to create a “buffer zone” with Gaza could constitute a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned today.
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Pushing Gazans into Rafah and Then Attacking Rafah, Killing UNRWA Funding without Evidence
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
10 Feb 2024 – The IDF has been packing the population of Gaza into the southernmost part of the enclave like toothpaste toward the end of a tube, and now they’re going to attack that southernmost part, but it’s totally not genocide and you’re an evil Nazi if you say it is.
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Suzanne Hammad on Embedded Palestinian Resistance in Bil’in in West Bank: Rooted in Land and Home
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – I wanted to share a foreword that I wrote to an exceptional ethnographic study of everyday resistance by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, quite near Ramallah, based on the Suzanne Hammad three years of residence and informed observation.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Feb 2024
At least 28,064 people have been killed and 67,611 wounded in the Gaza Strip*
More than 380 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties with Israel Arms Maker
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Itochu Corporation, a major Japanese industrial conglomerate, is cutting ties with Israeli arms maker Elbit, citing the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. Its aviation division will terminate the partnership by the end of February.
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(Italiano) La Politica Non Violenta Mondiale Oggi
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Sessanta anni fa il cammino storico dell’umanità ha incontrato la minaccia del suicidio nucleare; ma non ha saputo porre mano a questo male ultimo; e anche oggi vengono evitate le decisioni coraggiose su altri problemi simili, che nel frattempo sono sopraggiunti.
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Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Jim Naureckas | Fair Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
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Gaza and the Dilemmas of Genocide Scholars
Prof. Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself, as well as the very act of genocide prevention.
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Shocking Spike in Use of Unlawful Lethal Force by Israeli Forces against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out unlawful killings, including by using lethal force without necessity or disproportionately during protests and arrest raids, and denying medical assistance to those injured.
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The Staged Sarajevo “Marketplace Massacre” 30 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – 30 years ago today [5 Feb 1994], the first Sarajevo “marketplace massacre” occurred, a fully staged false-flag event using actors and bodies of recently fallen soldiers. One year later, the second staged “marketplace massacre” and the Srebrenica “genocide” psyop opened NATO’s Pandora Box with its first military intervention.
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‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners
Fayha’ Shalash | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
This is a difficult, but critical read. The collective hardship experienced by Gaza’s female prisoners in Israel is unprecedented even within the tragic history of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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Fredrik S. Heffermehl (1938-2023)
Peter van den Dungen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Norwegian member of TRANSCEND, peace activist and lawyer who waged a long campaign against the Norwegian Nobel Committee for not respecting the will of Alfred Nobel.
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Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin
Tucker Carlson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Moscow, Russia, 6 Feb 2024
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China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’ with 35% of Global Output
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production – more than the 9 next largest manufacturers combined.
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
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