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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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Imagine a Falling Empire…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

“A falling tree makes more noise than a whole forest growing.”

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Pakistan: The Generals Plan Fraudulent National Elections
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – Pakistan is in the midst of fraudulent national elections. Progressive nations produce new, educated and intelligent young people for progress in future-making. But Pakistanis are stuck to fight the old bags and few inept generals for their survival and future-making.

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Four Months of Gaza Onslaught
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – What is the bottom line after 4 months of onslaught following the initial October 7 Gaza Ghetto Uprising? Where are we?

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Words That Kill: How Western Spin Doctors Dehumanize Select Peoples to Justify War
Chay Bowes | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

6 Feb 2024 – With Israel’s punitive operation against Gaza in its fourth month, it’s impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality being applied to Israel. Carefully chosen words and turns of phrase serve as lubricant for US-backed military machines.

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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed. 

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(Italiano) Perché il fascismo sta crescendo? Come possiamo fermarlo?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

5 Febbraio 2024 – Per comprendere perché il fascismo sta crescendo attraverso l’emergere e la crescita dei partiti di estrema destra in tutto il mondo, e soprattutto in Europa, dobbiamo tornare indietro alla fine della Prima guerra mondiale e analizzare il corso turbolento della democrazia liberale da allora.

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Red Sea Tensions Increase
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – Tensions increase in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

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11,500 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

5 Feb 2024 – Horror of This Scale Has No Explanation – No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up this horror. It would be best if Israel’s propaganda machine didn’t even try to.

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The ICJ’s ‘Plausibility Test’ Undermines the Crime of Genocide
Sana Khan | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

7 Feb 2024 – The fact that the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case ordered an immediate cease-fire yet did not impose one in the Gaza conflict in the South Africa v. Israel case presents a quandary.

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The Forgotten Bedouin Palestinian Herders
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Indigenous communities are being marginalized and face imminent extinction. This is the reality facing the Palestinian Bedouin Herders who have to confront the challenges of the 21st century upon their traditional lifestyle and also the Jewish settlers invading their lands for Israeli new settlements.

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NATO, Germany’s Role and the Russia-Ukraine War
Jenny Brömel | University for Peace (UN-Mandated) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

A Political Historical Analysis
First part: NATO, Germany in NATO and its emergence after WWII; reunification of Germany, today’s NATO, and the European security order.
Second part: Russia’s and Ukraine’s relations with NATO.
Conclusion: Today’s NATO vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war.

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The World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung & Keil Eggers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

See Accompanying Editorial, 29 Jan 2024

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The Biden-Schumer Plan to Kill More Ukrainians
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – The $61 billion will make no difference on the battlefield except to prolong the war, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the physical destruction of Ukraine.

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I Am just a Child from Gaza
Jayanta Guha - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

I don’t hear the birds singing
Except the whine
Of the drones
And the missiles
Coming at us in fury

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The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence.  This may seem like a truism…

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(Italiano) Donne, scienza e visioni del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Febbraio 2024 – “Le affermazioni scientifiche descrivono il mondo. E nel mondo là fuori ci sono i fatti, fenomeni che esistono indipendentemente da noi che decidiamo di studiarli. Lo scopo della scienza è di conoscere queste cose in sé, cercando di rendersi indipendenti da chi le studia e garantire così l’obiettività dell’impresa scientifica”.

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Beautiful Relaxing Music (Music Video of the Week)
Healing Soul – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Stop Overthinking, Relieve Stress, Dream…

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China Builds as the USA Bombs: This Study Proves It
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructures as the US promotes freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons. Remember George Orwell? “War is peace. Ignorance is strength.” Reality is easily turned upside down.

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U.S. Chooses Genocide Over Diplomacy in the Middle East
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – The Expanding U.S.-Israeli Atrocities in the Middle East and Their Rejection of Diplomacy to End the Genocide in Gaza

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Rafah Escalation Fears – Gaza Massacre Unprecedented Death Rate
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – The unprecedented population density in Rafah in southern Gaza makes it nearly impossible to protect civilians in the event of ground attacks, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned today.

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Let Them Eat Dirt
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – The final stage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, an orchestrated mass starvation, has begun. The international community does not intend to stop it.

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Spiritual vs Materialist Theories of Science
Matthew Ehret and Marc Solar | Canadian Patriot Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – We discuss whether or not modern science allows for a spiritual/psycho-physical substrate guiding the whole, if there is meaning in the universe, and what the “right” way of thinking is.

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Goa — Special Features
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Goa is located on the west coast of India. It is located south from Bombay on the west coast — the Arabian Sea and its distance from Bombay (Mumbai) by road is about  600 km.

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The Void
Ben Okri | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

I was talking to a builder
of bridges and asked
how he built the structure
that brings two warring elements
together. This was his answer.

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Can Vedic Dharma Bring Peace to the World?
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

The spiritual principles in the Vedic tradition teaches us to embrace all human beings and all living entities of all species. It sets aside false pride, and the sense of superiority. This is our spiritual quality as the outcome of a noble life that knows no distinction of rich and poor, or the high and low. This is our ideal culture.

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Winners and Losers
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

2 Feb 2024 – Spineless World Justice and Civil Society

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Why Is Fascism Growing? How Can We Stop It?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Z – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

28 Jan 2024 – To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and analyze the turbulent course of liberal democracy since then.

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Spirituality and Conflict Work
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

The West has rejected religion under enlightenment-modernity-secularism, and is now experiencing some rebirth of religion.  Spirituality then enters as an over-arching concept, building on elements in most religions and on secular values. World power now moves from a spiritually poor Occident to a richer Orient. 

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Hamas Lost – Its Way Wins
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Let’s assume that the goals against Hamas–elimination of its military/governmental capacity and its leaders–will be achieved, then Israel’s refusal of peace will obligate the Palestinians to return to the path of Hamas, even if under a different name.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel Kills More Than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ Ruling – U.S. Bombs Yemen
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

4 Feb 2024- Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near the Egyptian border, as an Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” from Gaza. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Casualties: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip.

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Fake Justice at The Hague: The ICJ “Appoints” Netanyahu to Prevent and Punish Those Responsible for Genocidal Acts
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – While the ICJ has rejected Israel’s attempt to dismiss South Africa’s assertions, the Judgment –which is full of contradictions– is ultimately supportive of the Likud government. Moreover, no ceasefire was declared by the ICJ with a view to saving lives.

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Israel Cannot Hide from the International Court of Justice
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Jan 2024 – It is easy to be cynical about the international rule of law. When the ICJ declared that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, the U.S. State Department said, “We continue to believe that allegations of genocide are unfounded and note the court did not make a finding about genocide or call for a ceasefire in its ruling…”

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Wealth of Five Richest Men Doubles Since 2020 as Five Billion People Made Poorer in “Decade of Division,” Says Oxfam
OXFAM International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

15 Jan 2024 – * Fortunes of five richest men have shot up by 114 percent since 2020. *
* The world could have its first-ever trillionaire in a decade; it would take over two centuries to end poverty.  *
* A billionaire is running or the principal shareholder of 7 out of 10 of the world’s biggest corporations.

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Emergency London Conference to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

27 Jan 2024 – Prof. Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel

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Psychosocial Geometry and Dynamics of Collective Memory
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Coherent Configuration of Knowledge Through Architectural Metaphors

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Proposal to Award Johan Galtung the Freedom of Expression Foundation Honorary Award
Randi Rønning Balsvik, Magnus Haavelsrud and Nils Vidar Vambheim – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

15 Dec 2023 – Letter to the Norwegian Foundation Freedom of Expression – It is no exaggeration to say that Johan Galtung started modern peace studies and contributed through tireless work for half a century to making this study a respected academic discipline

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(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Gennaio 2024 – La forza di questo forum è il suo focus sulle civiltà; usiamolo per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le forme più importanti di disordine usano la violenza; la guerra è violenza organizzata dallo stato. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, entrambi con radici di civiltà.

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‘False’, ‘Outrageous’, ‘Antisemitic’: ICJ Ruling Infuriates Israeli Officials
Defend Democract Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

26 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s commitment to international law is unwavering. Equally unwavering is our sacred commitment to continue to defend our country and defend our people,” Netanyahu said after the world’s top court ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza.

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For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.

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NASA Goes Nuclear
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – Nuclear Industry Takes Control of NASA

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‘We Are Dying Slowly:’ Palestinians Are Eating Grass and Drinking Polluted Water as Famine Looms Across Gaza
Fadi Shana and Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient.

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After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Tanupriya Singh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

26 Jan 2024 – Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.

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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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Act Now Against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People
Palestinian BDS National Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Below is a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!

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Reflections on the Holocaust and the Parallels between Nazi Brutality and Israeli Atrocities
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

“At the end of World War II an august body, the United Nations, was formed as a global organization based on the horrors of the Nazi Regime against the Jews of Europe, a tragedy called The Holocaust.  A unanimous resolution was made by world leaders at the time, Never Again, yet the same human catastrophe is being reenacted in the atrocities on Gaza by the Zionist Regime of Israel as a neo imperialist force.”

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U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts
Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow | Council on Foreign Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

23 Jan 2024 – Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military support. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny amid Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas.

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The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. “Stake Holder Capitalism” and the New World Order
Rick Thomas | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

21 Jan 2024 – In 2011, the Great British Class Survey was conducted in collaboration with the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that they would attempt something of this nature.

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Yemen’s Houthis on U.S. Attacks and Their Blockade of Israel
MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Jan 2024 – Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansar Allah, discusses the blockade and Yemen’s escalating tensions with the United States.

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Israeli Police Repressing Anti-war Protests with ‘Iron Fist,’ Say Activists
Oren Ziv | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

24 Jan 2024 – Since 7 Oct, Israel’s police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army’s assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.

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(Italiano) Conflitti armati e catastrofe climatica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Gennaio 2024 – Due pubblicazioni recenti documentano – o almeno cercano, in parte, di farlo  – i danni ambientali provocati da due conflitti armati che in questo periodo richiamano più di altri l’attenzione pubblica.

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Negative and Positive News
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – 2,269 massacres committed by Israeli occupation army; 33,751 martyrs and missing persons (26,751 arrived in hospitals); 11,500 child martyrs. These are not numbers. These were people with dreams and aspirations and no different than any other area on earth where indigenous people also struggled to stay on their lands.

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ICJ on Gaza: Acting against Israel
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – We should not be surprised that Israel has defied the International Court of Justice. It has defied it before. Israel has nothing but contempt for international law. It sees itself as above the law.

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream
Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

28 Jan 2024 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history.

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Don’t Let Zionists Weaponize Jewish Suffering
Shane Burley | Yes! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

22 Jan 2024 – By framing Palestinians as Amalek, two things are accomplished. First, those being occupied are positioned not just as enemies, but as inescapable and eternal ones, poisoned at the core and whose anger is, by definition, irrational and without merit. Second, they are diagnosed incurable, so the only treatment possible is eradication.

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Everything Is Great!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

USA 2024 – Everybody Happy!!

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Genocide, Sex Extortion, and People Movement
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

28 Jan 2024 – What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it?

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Threading Peace Together
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – This is to confirm and assert that there exist strong motivations, real opportunities and adequate means to embark on the transition toward an International Peace based on Justice and Order.

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(Italiano) Intelligenza artificiale e pace
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

La scienza moderna è nata con la rivoluzione copernicana che ha rotto il cosmo chiuso e finito dell’antichità per lanciare la Terra in una corsa infinita in un Universo infinito. Poi la scienza con la tecnologia ha fatto superare ogni limite.

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Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli Summit Envisions Gaza Resettlement
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders made plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza in a “Conference for Israel’s Victory” at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. Thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs.

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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Tim Ferris is the amicable, quick-witted, high-energy writer, adventurer, and interviewer devoted to optimizing human performance on physical and mental health. But in addition to nearly dying at birth and growing up with no material luxury, Tim survived a period of suicidal depression that nearly claimed his life

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence –
5 Feb 2024, GAZA and WEST BANK: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Some rights groups put the death toll at more than 35,000.

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State Department Declares “Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Won’t Say the Same about Israel’s War in Gaza
Ryan Grim and Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

4 Feb 2024 – The U.S. risks complicity with Israeli atrocities, experts say.

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Bayer Ordered to Pay $2.25 Billion after Jury Links Herbicide Roundup to Cancer
Frances Vinall | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

27 Jan 2024 – A jury handed down the verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto-Bayer, to a man who developed cancer from the company’s weed killer, Roundup.

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Will a South African Victory Stop the Gaza Genocide?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

27 Jan 2024 – As much as the ICJ may be dismissed as a collective West farce, the fact is that the ruling explicitly calls for Israel to stop the killing. Let’s cut to the chase.

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The Return of Bipolarity: Tom Friedman Prophesies a New Round of Global Conflict (and Mostly Gets It Wrong)
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

To those who remember the Cold War, this good guy/bad guy “analysis” will be familiar. We – the “Free World” – strong and virtuous, were the party of free politics, free enterprise, and free fire zones. They – the Commie Conspirators – stood for nothing except unfreedom. We were the progressive future.

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Murder Most Foul (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

2019 – Bob Dylan drops his first new song in eight years. In ‘Murder Most Foul,’ a 17-minute epic, the Shakespeare of our times not only turns the assassination of President Kennedy into a narrative device, he also rightly depicts it as the defining event that set this country on in its downward spiral.

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The ICJ Ruling and the Aftermath for Palestine
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Jan 2024 – Many Western analysts are hailing the ICJ ruling as a historic victory, many Palestinians don’t agree. The ruling issued by the ICJ ordered six provisional measures including for Israel to refrain from acts under the Genocide convention.

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On Arab Culture and Its Crucial Characteristics
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Jan 2024 – Understanding Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern region of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Nevertheless, all people in the region are not Arabs, such as Turks, Jews, some North African tribes, or Iranians.

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‘Legal’ Genocide?
Ahmad Qaddura Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

That’s what it seems: a ‘normalized’ genocide–a TV entertainment–to a desensitized, idiotic public worldwide. Violence made in USA-Israel-NATO proves highly profitable. Poor UN, vilified, helpless, hopeless, useless!

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Five Variables Defining Our Future
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

25 Jan 2024 – For Germany it was a question of ‘organizing Europe’. The USA must ‘organize’ the world. Face to face with the volcanic eruption of US imperialism. Under some pretext, it will intervene in the clash to maintain its world dominion.

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US Strikes in Iraq and Syria Kill about 40, Including Civilians
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

3 Feb 2024 – A massive US bombing campaign struck scores of targets in Iraq and Syria with over 100 bombs, leaving about 40 people dead, including civilians. President Joe Biden ordered the strikes as tensions in the Middle East are rapidly escalating.

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Cutting Aid to Refugees, US Advances Israel’s War on Palestinian Existence
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – While rushing weapons to the Israeli government’s assault on Gaza, the Biden administration embraces Israeli allegations about UNRWA without bothering to investigate them.

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(Français) La Culture de la Guerre A-t-elle Changé ? Est-Ce Toujours le Monopole de L’état ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 février 2024 – Je maintiens la conclusion suivante de mon livre de 2009, « L’histoire de la culture de la guerre », mais il y a eu des changements importants comme je l’expliquerai ci-dessous.

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St. Francis Prayer for Peace (three languages)
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

(English, Arabic and Hebrew)

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BRICS+: An Impressive Enlargement
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – The BRICS+ 10 countries represent 45% of the world’s population with 3.5 billion people, a third of the Earth’s solid surface, 44% of total global oil production, and 1/3 of global GDP of 29 trillion dollars, surpassing in purchasing power the G7.

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Has the Culture of War Changed? Is It Still the Monopoly of the State?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – Will the US empire finish its time without destroying the planet with a nuclear war? Will it be succeeded by a new culture of war based in the Global South and led by China? Or will we be able to reform the UN to be based on ‘We the People’ instead of the nation-states of the world?

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Pakistan: The US Toppling of Imran Khan
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

1 Feb 2024 – Covert regime-change strikes again. This time in Pakistan.

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Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

Anya Parampil’s book tells the story of US hybrid warfare on Venezuela and of the tectonic social and economic shifts reshaping the world today.

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Defunding UNRWA Is Worse Than Collective Punishment
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Cutting funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at this time means furthering the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

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Nuclear Industry Takes Control of NASA
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – There has long been an attempt by the nuclear industry to move into space due to the profits of linking atomic age with space race. The Pentagon has developed nuclear devices to power military satellites and accidents happened. Then NASA put deadly plutonium-238 on interplanetary space missions.

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The Silence of the Damned
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This exposes their hypocrisy and complicity.

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Animals as Pets
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

A dog is an animal that frequently becomes part of a family in most parts of the world. It is a useful animal in many ways — it protects the family from theft. A dog is useful in other ways too .

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Emergency London Conference of Global Conscience (on #Palestine)
Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

Watch via X: Prof. Richard Falk, Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu, and British MP Jeremy Corbyn – Global Intellectuals of Conscience – 27 Jan 2024

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Why International Law Matters even if Israel Refuses to Comply with ICJ Provisional Measures Ruling
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – How should we interpret the South Africa allegation that Israel’s military operations in Gaza violate the country’s obligations under the United Nations Genocide Convention and that its actions constitute genocide?

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 114: UN Chief Urges Western Countries to Restore Funding to UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

28 Jan 2024 – Casualties:
• 26,422+ killed(*) and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 557 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 3,221 injured.
(*) Some rights groups put the death toll number CLOSER TO 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

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Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

22 Jan 2024 – Conventional Dependence on “Flat Earth” Thinking Ignoring Insights of Mathematics and Physics

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It May Be Genocide, but It Won’t Be Stopped
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ruling by the International Court of Justice was a legal victory for South Africa and the Palestinians, but it will not halt the slaughter.

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Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
UN International Court of Justice ICJ - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 January 2024 – Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures – Order

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The Hague: South Africa v. Israel – ICJ Order
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

The International Court of Justice delivers its order in South Africa v. Israel – Streamed live on 26 Jan 2024

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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, ‘Never Again’ Is Now
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

27 Jan 2024 – Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread — all of it turned to ash by Zionist IDF forces.

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Whose Child Is This?
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

Whose Child is This? Whose child is this? Is this child an Iraqi . . . an Israeli . . . a Chechnyan . . . an Afghani . . . a Kurd . . . a Nigerian? Is she or he English, Indonesian, Spanish, Lebanese, Turkish, Congolese, Bosnian, Persian? Does it matter? Is this child not a daughter or son to each of us?

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Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – In accordance with its long-planned, detailed and comprehensive blueprint labeled ‘The Great Reset’, the Global Elite is currently implementing its program to reshape world order, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, enclose the Commons ‘forever’, transfer all remaining wealth to the Elite and enslave those left alive in one of their technocratic ‘smart city’ prisons.

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Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia, and the US/EU/NATO
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.

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“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

20 Jan 2024 – As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.

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Reality and Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

25 Jan 2024 – Day 110 of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza

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False Messiahs
Barnett R. Rubin | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

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Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed
UNRWA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

23 Jan 2024 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the displacement of Gaza’s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.

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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

“Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension between city and soul, “give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”

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Cobalt Red: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in ‘Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.’ His book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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