Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service

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In Gaza Genocide, US Defends Israel’s ‘Aura of Power’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – As South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in The Hague, the Biden administration endorses Israel’s bid to sow “fear” in Gaza’s defenseless civilians.

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A Shift Against Impunity for Genocide
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

3 Jan 2024 – Officials who supplied, incited or cheered on Israel’s monstrous atrocities in Gaza face legal actions with South Africa’s reference to the International Court of Justice. In the UK, Sunak, Cleverly and Shapps could be in the Old Bailey dock for genocide.

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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.

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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 86: Israel Falls in ‘Serious Strategic Trap’ in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight ‘for Months’
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

31 Dec 2023:
• 21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.
• 316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.

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‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story

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Why the U.S. Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow?
Noam Chomsky | Free Will – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Noam Chomsky on Israel

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Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazi’s depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear. Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities, sanitation, access to clean water. Block shipments of food and fuel. Unleash indiscriminate violence to kill and wound hundreds a day. Let starvation and epidemics turn Gaza into a mortuary.

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Joint Statement by Multiple Resistance Factions: Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, DFLP, and PFLP-GC
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

28 Dec 2023 – Palestinian resistance factions held a meeting in Beirut to discuss the ongoing Zionist aggression on our land, people and holy sites, especially in the Gaza Strip, West Bank and Al-Quds, with the following results.

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Agony of the Past and Ecstasy of the Future: War or Peace, Welcome 2024
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

“The Search for the Elusive Peace is striving with patient persistence and perseverance, coupled with realistic agony and expectant ecstasy.  This is indeed the hallmark of the righteous humanity, in its efforts to achieve global, sustainable peace, in the 21st century.”

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Nearly Two Million Crowd Into Gaza’s South as Israeli Airstrikes Continue
BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

26 Dec 2023 – Gemma Connell of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said what she had seen at the Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza yesterday was “absolute carnage”. Many severely injured people could not be treated because the hospital was “absolutely overloaded”, she said.

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Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide. The General Assembly also has an option left.

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37 Global 2024 Predictions
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

I do not pretend my predictions are scientific or based on a sophisticated social science methodology. They are intuitive and hypothetical, based on my knowledge and experience on international affairs over more than four decades. You may say they grow out of a Wright Mills-like sociological – and peace research – imagination.

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Stunning Atrocities in Gaza Funded by US Taxpayers
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

26 Dec 2023 – The US Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax.” The atrocities are being recorded by drones and by brave Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israeli army. Over 66 journalists have been slain by the IDF so far in Palestine.

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Meet the Companies Profiting from Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

20 Dec 2023 – As global resistance to war and apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible.

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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

24 Dec 2023 – Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. This war must end,” said the head of the UN agency where one of the victims worked.

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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.

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How the Hell Did We Get Here?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

27 Dec 2023 – Caitlin reminds us what a more mature human family could look like. We’re killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it’s antisemitic to oppose an active genocide.

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We Are All Palestinian (Music Video of the Week)
Mistahi Corkill - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Dec 2023 – This song goes out to all human beings worldwide who support the historical just cause for a free Palestine.

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US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

26 Dec 2023 – In the past 20 years, every US foreign policy objective has failed. The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Post-Saddam Iraq is dependent on Iran. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad stayed in power. Libya fell into a protracted civil war after Gaddafi. Ukraine was bludgeoned by Russia in 2023 as the US secretly scuttles a peace agreement Russia-Ukraine in 2022.

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In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation with Israel
David Ignatius | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

16 Dec 2023 – For three days this past week, I traveled the West Bank from Hebron in the south to Nablus in the north. What I saw was a pattern of Israeli abuse that makes daily life a humiliation for many Palestinians — and could obstruct the peaceful future that Israelis and Palestinians both say they want.

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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.

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Let’s Hope for a Happier New Year!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – Dear friends, I hope that you, your family and friends have a Happy New Year of 2024. But to be candidly honest, I have my doubts.

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The Enlightenment Sutra
Buddhism Study and Practice Group - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

In so far as the Buddha’s disciple, they should read day and night piously and earnestly the following eight precepts leading the followers of Mahayana Buddhism to attain the state of enlightenment:

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Choose Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
— Leo Tolstoy

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John Pilger, on the Betrayers of Julian Assange
John Pilger | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

More than a decade on from his forced asylum and subsequent torture in 2012 at the hands of British and US authorities, Julian Assange remains abandoned by his own government and the media.

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Prof. Galtung: Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | University of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Apr 2016 – The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp–UCSIA

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Nazism & Zionism: Oppressed Turned into Oppressors
Martin Luther King, Jr - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Remember Hitler, Nazism, Holocaust and the ‘good Germans?’
Holocaust Redux with Netanyahu, Zionism and the ‘good Jews.’

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Movements Around Us
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

We live in a world where there is movement all around us. The movement can be on the ground or in air — the latter is called flying. In water, movement is generally known as swimming.

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South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention against Israel
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – South Africa becomes the first country to approach the International Court of Justice and invoke the Genocide Convention with regard to Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.

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The Unbridgeable Gulf between Israeli Politicians’ Rhetoric and the Reality in Gaza
Amos Harel | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

24 Dec 2023 – The Israeli army is planning stage three of the atrocities, but – unusually – it is facing no pressure to meet a timetable ■ Hamas’s Sinwar is in no hurry to make another hostage deal.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence – Palestine, 1 Jan 2024 – (Un)Happy New Year!

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Israel’s War Crimes
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Every time the UN can get more aid into Gaza, the Israeli bombardment of civilian areas intensifies, and the civilian deaths increase.

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‘Are We the Baddies?’ Western Support for Genocide in Gaza Means the Answer Is Yes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

27 Dec 2023 – Western leaders have not only backed genocide by Israel on Gaza, but provided diplomatic cover, weapons and other military assistance. The West is fully complicit in the ethnic cleansing of two million Palestinians and the killing of more than 20,000 and the injuring of many tens of thousands more, a majority of them women and children. 

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Drug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Do expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistleblowers rather than honest mea culpas. It is up to consumers of toxic substances to do the research themselves, for they may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons.

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Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

22 Dec 2023 – Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-950), Islamic scientist, philosopher, mathematician and musical theorist, lived at the golden age of Islamic civilization. The medieval Latin world knew him as Magister Secundus: the second greatest teacher of philosophy after Aristotle. Al-Farabi should be heeded as the quintessential philosopher of civilization, built under the aegis of truth, virtue and compassion.

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas!!

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The World Has Lost John Pilger (9 Oct 1939 – 30 Dec 2023) RIP
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of any generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday 31 Dec.

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Grant Report: TRANSCEND International–Hawaii 
Pua’Ena Burgess - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

28 Nov 2023 – Mahalo TRANSCEND International-Hawaii for the generous funding of Hawaii Literacy and our Waianae Summer Fun Program which made it possible to continue this popular program that seeks to connect ‘opio with impactful learning experiences beyond the school environment.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 79: Bethlehem Cancels Christmas Celebrations as Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

24 Dec 2023 – Palestinian pastor Munther Issac says, “If Jesus was born today, he’d be born under the rubble of Gaza” as Israeli forces flattens entire neighborhoods to create buffer zones in north, east, and south of the Gaza Strip.

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.

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Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – This Declaration calls not only for the denunciation of Israel’s genocidal assault but also for taking effective action to permanently prevent its repetition. The urgency of the moment obliges global intellectuals to stand against the ongoing horrific ordeal of the Palestinian people and, most of all, to implore action by those who have the power, and hence the responsibility, to do so.

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Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming.

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Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to What End?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Cognitive Clarification Enabled by ChatGPT in Eliciting Strategic Coherence

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Yemen’s Houthis in Defense of Gaza
Huseyin Vodinali | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – Zionazis massacre children, women, babies, elderly journalists and doctors without showing the slightest sign of humanity. 70 days have passed since the massacre started on 7 Oct and at least 25 thousand Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, at least 22 thousand of them civilians, and most of the civilians children and babies.

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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security

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Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Alfons Pérez and Nicola Scherer | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?

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Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza—How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent?
Amira Hass | Haaretz/Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Fall 2023 – The Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure?

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“Big Money” Behind the Genocide: Israeli Settlers Plan ‘Dream Beach Houses’ in Gaza
Marc Vandepitte | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – The advertisement reads: “We are working to prepare the ground for the return to Gush Katif. Our employees are working on the rehabilitation of the region, cleaning up waste, and deporting the occupiers (Palestinians). We hope that in the near future, the kidnapped and our soldiers will somehow return to their homes, and we can start construction in the entire Gush Katif area in the Gaza Strip.”

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The Forgotten (Part 6): The Pillars of Peace Propagators, from Yajnavalkya in Antiquity to Johan Galtung Today
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – Yajnavalkya and Johan Galtung have lived millennia apart but their discourses on ethical lifestyle coupled with Peace Propagation are available and applicable to the miscreant humanity and its wickedness, in all its glory, in the 21st century.

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Why Empathy Constitutes the Ultimate Leadership Skill
Dr. Julia Milner | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Managers rated ‘expressing empathy’ as the most challenging communication skill, above ‘asking questions’ and ‘providing feedback’. The trend appears to be linked to a number of old-school thinking errors.

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Boycotts and Protests – How Are People Around the World Defying Israel?
Alia Chughtai, Marium Ali and Delaney Nolan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – Al Jazeera takes a look at the movements against Israel and illegal settlements in Palestine.

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O Holy Night (Music Video of the Week)
Libera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Merry Christmas!

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Poetry Bleeds from the Shattered Normal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – It seems more relevant than ever, as innocent blood flows in the wars being waged by military-political bureaucracies across the planet. How many more stunned facial expressions will I see on YouTube, of parents who have just lost their children, their spouse, their siblings?

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Hamas ‘Mass Rape’ Claim Lacks Evidence–but It’s Being Used to Justify Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – The Western Media’s Refusal to Investigate What Happened on October 7 – Journalists are suppressing evidence from the Israeli military on its killings of many citizens, including the charred remains cited as proof of barbarism by Hamas.

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas

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Human Rights Groups Demand ICC Issue Arrest Warrants on Israeli Officials
People's Dispatch | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – A joint letter sent to the International Criminal Court also demands an urgent investigation into the allegations of war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.

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False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences is a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten.  It shows how a worthless activity can provide assurance that something worthwhile was done.  Always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists.

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Can the US-led Maritime Force Stop Yemen’s Houthi Attacks During Gaza War?
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The Houthis say they won’t stop attacking ships unless Israel stops its attacks on Gaza. So far, the shipping industry doesn’t appear convinced the task force can halt them.

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David Krieger (27 Mar 1942 – 7 Dec 2023): A Life of Dedication to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Although David Krieger devoted his professional life to anti-nuclear scholarship and activism, his underlying motivations were for a world anchored in dignity for all, respect for international law, and a robust UN. Remembering my long, close, cherished friendship reinforces my sense of loss resulting from David’s death. RIP

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UN Security Council Adopts Resolution on Gaza Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – The UNSC has adopted a resolution on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, with 13 votes in favour, and the US and Russia abstaining. Among other points, it demands immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale directly to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.

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Unusual Events
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

A series of unusual events have recently taken place in the state of  Uttarakhand in India. This state is near to the Himalayas where it is generally cold and is snow covered for a large part of the year. It also has some hills and  up and down topography with some natural tunnels and winding pathways.

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In Unprecedented Slaughter of Gaza Civilians, US Claims Israel Is the “Victim”
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2022 – As the death toll in Gaza tops 20,000, Israeli-US lies about Al-Shifa hospital are newly exposed.

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The Cost of Bearing Witness
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

23 Dec 2023 – There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.

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COP28 a “Tragedy for the Planet” as Stockholm Syndrome Took Hold
David Spratt and Ian Dunlop | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – Up to 100,000 people from climate-related politics, advocacy and business flew into Dubai for the UN COP28 climate policy-making event. And the result? An unmitigated disaster: unfair, inequitable “business as usual” that did not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UNGA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

United Nations General Assembly – Tenth Emergency Special Session
Resolution A/ES-10/L.27 – Adopted 12 Dec 2023

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Injured Patients ‘Waiting to Die’ in Northern Gaza as Last Hospital Shuts Down, Amid Rising ‘Catastrophic’ Hunger Levels
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – There are no functioning hospitals in the north of Gaza and injured patients who need surgery and cannot be moved are “waiting to die”, the UN health agency said today, in a plea for a ceasefire to allow more aid into the shattered enclave.

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The Great Taking
David Rogers Webb - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

9 Dec 2023 – The shattering documentary produced by former hedge fund manager and author David Rogers Webb alerts us all to the privately controlled Central Banks’ preparations for the inevitable financial collapse.

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25-31 December 2023

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Hospital Bulldozed and Shelled: Kamal Adwan Was Only Hospital in Northern Gaza
Tareq Abou Azzoum | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

16 Dec 2023 – Days of intensive Israeli bombardment of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have left it barely functional. It was the only working hospital in the North of Gaza.

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Mao and Gandhi: Comparing Two Giants
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Two important anniversary messages: One, anniversary of the Chinese Revolution, guided by Mao, violently, on 1 Oct. The other: anniversary of Gandhi, restoring India to its people, nonviolently, on 2 Oct.

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Murdering Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – IDF in Gaza

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Dec 2023

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The Companies Profiting from Israel’s 2023 Attack on Gaza
Quakers/American Friends Service Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its so-called “Swords of Iron” attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria during October-December 2023.

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That Can’t Be True about Israel
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Israel’s actions are so horrific and depraved I keep thinking I must be misinterpreting what I’m reading or disregarding a claim as over the top, only to find out it’s true.

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A Desperate Plea from Palestinians: Drop Your Nuclear Bomb on Gaza–and Exterminate Us
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – The unrestrained destruction of Gaza and the disproportionate killings of over 20,000, mostly civilians, in retaliation for 1,200 killings and 120 hostages by Hamas, have left the Palestinians in a state of deep isolation and a feeling of being deserted by the world at large.

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Twenty More Countries Have Applied to Join BRICS
Chris Devonshire-Ellis | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – BRICS Ambassador Anil Sooklal stated that, “over 20 countries have formally applied to join BRICS, while the same number have expressed interest. This is affirmation that BRICS is playing an important role in championing emerging and developing economies.”

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Iran Threatens to Shut Strait of Gibraltar as Tensions Ramp Up
Jörg Luyken | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

23 Dec 2023 – Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea unless Israel stops bombing Gaza. Tehran issues warning on the day tanker is struck by drone in Arabian Sea.

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Fredrik S. Heffermehl (11 Nov 1938 – 23 Dec 2023)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Fredrik S. Heffermehl was a member of the TRANSCEND Network, ex-Vice President of the International Peace Bureau, and founder of Nobel Peace Prize Watch. He died on 23 Dec 2023 at the age of 85. The world lost an exemplary human being and a courageous activist for disarmament and the abolition of war. RIP

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 72: Israeli Forces Kill Palestinians in Church, UNRWA Warns of Mass Flight to Egypt
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

From 7 Oct to 17 Dec 2023:
– 18,800+ killed and more than 51,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip
– 297 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
– 450 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 1,682 injured

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Regenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – Industrial agriculture sees the world as a machine, not as a self-organized living system, and has created devastation contributing to climate change. Our latest report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop28 in Dubai, analyzes the causes of climate change and the regenerative solutions vis-a-vis the false solutions by polluters.

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How to Assess the Carbon Footprint of a War
Benjamin Neimark | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – The US military alone contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than over 150 countries. There are tepid attempts by militaries to green their war machines–electric tanks or ships run on biofuels–yet there is practically no discussion of how they contribute to climate change, especially during war.

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West Sabotaged Ukraine Peace Deal with Russia, Admit Zelensky Official and Germany’s Ex-Leader
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

4 Dec 2023 – Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.

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Sustainable Development Goals through Self-reflexive Root Cause Analysis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Strategic Clarifications from Experimental Interaction with ChatGPT

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‘Like We Were Lesser Humans’: Gaza Boys, Men Recall Israeli Arrest, Torture
Linah Alsaafin and Maram Humaid | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured while detained.

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US Blocks Gaza Peace Proposal at UN for 3rd Time, Holding World Hostage
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

10 Dec 2023 – The USA voted alone against the rest of the world preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the UNSC. Meanwhile, Washington [the Good Guys] continues giving weapons to Israel [the other Good Guys] to commit genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza [the Bad Guys]. Tragicomic.

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The Forgotten (Part 5): The First Nations–Indigenous Tribes of Canada
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Indigenous cultures’ languages, traditions and values are endangered entities about to become totally extinct and forgotten in the present world of materialism.

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Big Oil Wins Big at COP28 in Dubai
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

14 Dec 2023 – COP29 next year will be in Azerbaijan, another repressive petrostate where on 5 Dec six journalists were arrested. Petrostates like the UAE and Azerbaijan play predictable roles in protecting the status quo, but it’s the world’s biggest petrostate that brandishes the most power inside the COPs: the United States.

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Getting Serious about Halting Israeli Genocide
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

13 Dec 2023 – World’s efforts to halt the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza: we examine the UN Resolutions, the roles of international courts, the Genocide Convention, and the compromised positions of some countries that have made strong statements but need to back strong words with stronger actions.

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A Study in Contrasts: Palestine – Israel
Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Winter 2023 – Two choirs, one Israeli, one Palestinian. Judge for yourself.

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TRANSCEND Member Dr David Krieger Passes Away
Bill Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

David Malcom Krieger, man of peace, died on 7 Dec 2023 and left the world with one less champion. Krieger was co-founder and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

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The Weapons Israel Tests on Palestinians Will Be Used Against All of Us
The Chris Hedges Report | Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.

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How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Every once in the bluest moon, if you are lucky, you encounter someone with such powerful and generous light in their eyes that they rekindle the lost light within you and return it magnified.

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The List of Shame: Countries Supporting the Genocide of Palestinians
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

17 Dec 2023 – Which 10 countries voted against a Gaza ceasefire in the United Nations? Which 23 abstained?

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This Is Not a War against Hamas
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – The events of the past week should obliterate any doubt that the war against the Palestinians of Gaza is a joint U.S.–Israeli operation. The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false.

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World Peace Is a Possibility
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Being on Earth is like being on a plane. We are all transients sharing a temporary flight. We may not have the best seats but will be landing somewhere else, so why quarrel? Those who have the best seats–fancy houses, wealth, prestige–will also have to give them up when the flight is over, at death.

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CNN Goes to Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – Watching the sloppy propagandistic spin of the western press reminds me of how grateful I am for all the journalists in Gaza who’ve been doing the heavy lifting while their lives are in serious danger. CNN’s Clarissa Ward became the first western journalist to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since 7 Oct.

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Wikipedia and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Dec 2023 – Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert propaganda platform? The basics…

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Highly Instructive
Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

This cartoon is from 2018. What has changed since?

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Merchants of Death…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

… are Making a Killing in Gaza, Ukraine, …

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