Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
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Israel’s Bombing of Gaza 4.6 Times Stronger in Total Explosive Force Than Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing
TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Israel has dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Palestine’s Gaza since 7 Oct, exceeding World War II bombings of Dresden, Hamburg and London combined, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
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Reframing “Two-state” Possibilities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to “the” Israel-Palestine “two-state” solution.
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Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.
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Anti-Zionist Rabbi Calls for Continued Boycott of Companies Backing Israel
MalaysiaNow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss has called on opponents of the Zionist state to continue boycotting companies allied to Israel when asked about the Putrajaya’s deal with a company owned by US fund manager BlackRock.
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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.
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Nonkilling Political Science, Human Rights, and the Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
First, I will briefly define the terms non-killing, nuclear weapons, and human rights. Second, I will discuss how the concept of non-killing relates to human rights and how activists and scholars from these two areas can work together to eliminate the nuclear weapons threat.
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My Thoughts on Biden Dropping Out
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, Joe Biden’s billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature. The Democrats gave us Trump in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.
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US Domestic Policies and Laws Regarding Weapons Transfers to Israel
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Irony? The same week the ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of The West Bank illegal under International Law, Netanyahu broke the record (formerly held by Winston Churchill) for the number of times a head of state addressed the US Congress.
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Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by “heavy shooting” from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.
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Israel Destroys Gaza and Palestine and Arab Leaders Lost the Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth
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Cry, the Beloved World
Gus Speth | Democracy Collaborative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – Occasional reflections on the systemic crisis and the next system.
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[No Joke] Pure Ugly Propaganda
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Tragicomedy among War Criminals
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Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel’s Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
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Footsteps in the Sand: Gaza Antiwar/Peace/Protest Songs (Music Video of the Week)
Jazz Attack | Vision Music Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jan 2024 – The hope for Peace and Reconciliation, return of the hostages, and the despair especially of the children.
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Burning Injustice: Activists Battle to Shut Down California’s Toxic Incinerator
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – A powerful short documentary of the fight against one of the last trash incinerators in California. The film exposes the devastating health consequences of pollution and highlights their tireless efforts to close the facility for good.
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Humiliation Upon Request
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all. Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.
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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, …
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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.
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China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – There can hardly be a better place to track the four-day, twice-a-decade plenum of the Communist Party of China than dynamic, “one country, two systems” Hong Kong.
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Unacceptable
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – No Comment
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Water War Crimes: How Israel Has Weaponized Water in Its Military Campaign in Gaza
Oxfam International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – This report presents a detailed analysis of how the Government of Israel has systematically weaponized water against the Palestinians in its latest assault on Gaza, raising grave concerns of human rights violations and breaches of international law.
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The Palestine/Israel Conflict
Chomsky's Philosophy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
From 2016 – Parts I & II
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Europe’s Path to War and Self-Destruction
Fabian Scheidler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Brussels is working hard to boycott Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s EU Council Presidency. His trips to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing to negotiate a ceasefire are infuriating EU leaders and the governments in Berlin, Paris and other capitals.
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Encountering the Bhakt: Transformation in Religious Thought
Abinash Dash Choudhury | The India Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
Two examples from mediaeval Odisha’s bhakti tradition show how debates and differences about the sacred were part of devotional practice, and not forced onto us after the institutionalisation of modern, secular, and democratic visions.
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ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Joe Slater, James Humphries & Michael Townsen Hicks | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information.
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School Students
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
Sometimes I try to teach a few topics to students on the road itself. I think that students enjoy themselves when I teach them — it is a novelty for them.
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Johan Galtung: Positive and Negative Peace
Baljit Grewal | School of Social Science, University of Auckland - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
In the present essay, the word peace is the central focus. It is often stated that the word peace is very often used and abused and that since it lacks an agreeable definition and difficult to conceptualise, it is unreal and utopian.
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UN Needs the Earth Constitution to Deal with World Criminals
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – As we watch helplessly, violators of international law go free, unable to be arrested by the UN, the ICJ (World Court), or the ICC. Leaders of Bully nations break the Law with impunity. There is no world federal enforcement to protect the citizenry.
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Palestinian Factions Sign Beijing Agreement but Deep Obstacles Remain
Omar Karmi | Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Palestinian factions in Beijing signed yet another unity agreement to overcome 17 years of internal division between the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah.
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The Money War: How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe
Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – The US imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country, targeting a third of all nations with financial penalty on people, properties or organizations. Sanctions have emerged as the key instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
If you spend just a few minutes checking out ‘The Great Reset’ website of the World Economic Forum, which includes a copy of what it calls ‘The Great Reset Transformation Map,’ you will quickly recognize that the WEF intends imposing profound changes to about 200 areas of human life by 2030.
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Transformation of BRICS: From Symbolic Power to a Real Financial Pole in the Modern World
Dr. Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – This year, Russia will be hosting the BRICS summit in October in Kazan. Our governmental circles, our ministries and our NGOs are all preparing for the summit. It is considered the key foreign policy event in Russia this year.
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(Italiano) Camminata per la Pace e il Disarmo 6-12 agosto 2024
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
28 Lug 2024 – Da Pian di Venola a Sant’Anna di Stazzema – Camminare è (una) azione nonviolenta. Un atto politico. Una buona pratica.
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Science Must Protect Thinking Time in a World of Instant Communication
Editorial | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – Emails and instant messaging are core to research — but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they can claw back time to concentrate.
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Project 2025
Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
A New Pax Romana
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Tribute to Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Jake Lynch | International Journal of Communication Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
A Personal Recollection – A tribute to one of the founders of peace journalism whose death in February 2024 went largely unnoticed by the Western corporate media.
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Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism – In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.
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AI-enabled Mapping and Animation of Learning Pathways
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Use of Polyhedra in Configuring Memorable Integrative Frameworks – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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Legal Consequences of the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The International Court of Justice has today given its Advisory
Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
US President Joe Biden Drops Out of the Presidential Race, VP Kamala Harris Announces Her Candidacy
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week. Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.
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(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Luglio 2024 – L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?
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170 Years of U.S. Aggression against Nicaragua
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – When the Monroe Doctrine was declared, in 1823, it was aimed at European colonial powers to butt out: the US “sphere of influence” included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. During the past two centuries, virtually all of them had to endure US intervention and interference in their internal affairs.
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New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.
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What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.
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Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The ICC would be widely viewed as a weak institution by not obtaining participation or cooperation of states such as USA, Russia, China, Israel. It was most unfavorably compared to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to which all members of the UN were automatically parties.
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(Français) Un Manifeste Pour l’action
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 juillet 2024 – Le blog du mois dernier sollicitait vos suggestions sur la manière de relancer un mouvement mondial pour la culture de la paix. Vous avez répondu généreusement et 10 suggestions sont imprimées au bas du blog.
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ICJ Says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal and Must End
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The UN highest court argued that Israel’s large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. It also voted for Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.
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Israel’s Invitation to This Year’s Atomic Bomb Commemorations in Japan Has Sparked a Controversy over Double Standards
Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza.
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When Einstein Called “Fascists” Those Who Rule Israel
Giorgos Mitralias | CADTM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Netanyahu and his government are fully confirming what Einstein publicly denounced in 1948: Likud members are “fascists”, “racists”, “criminals” and “terrorists” who will inevitably lead Israel to its “final destruction”.
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Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Nicky Reid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts…
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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.
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Rule by Militia
Joshua Craze | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
I am waiting for a chance whereby I can post some messages that would have cultural or spiritual values. The reason I am looking for such messages is that there is violence around me everywhere — near where I live and around me.
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Jesus Taught Bhakti Yoga
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
By studying the teachings that are ascribed to Jesus, we can easily recognize that the essence of what Jesus taught was an elementary level of the Vedic process of bhakti-yoga and karma-yoga.
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Important 4-min Exposition
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.
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He Called the Dog Habibi
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
He called the dog “habibi” — my darling — as it mauled him to death while his family listened nearby.
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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Shocking Attempt at Former President’s Life
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Two North Americans Walking Down the Street and Talking about Politics
Tim Foley reads Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
“Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky,” said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest.
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With Media Enamored by US Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – “We must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to get even worse,” said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Peace Mantra – Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Music Video of the Week)
Tina Turner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Video for the Hindu Mantra recorded by Tina Turner with footage from the documentary ‘Children Beyond’ released in 2011.
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Pakistan–Where Conspirators Become Leaders
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – History Lessons for Pakistani Generals and Political Conspirators – Pakistan is fast getting entrapped into internal intrigues, political chaos and failing systems of governance, public institutions, legal justice and accountability.
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Project 2025: What Is It?
Presidential Transition Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training. It is not enough for conservatives to win elections.
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‘A World without Borders’: Revolutionary Love and Solidarity for Palestine
Samah Jabr, MD | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Revolutionary love is not just an abstract concept. It is a transformative force that challenges the status quo and fuels the fight for justice, equality and human dignity. In supporting the Palestinian people, you not only aid our struggle, you enrich your own lives by connecting with a deeper sense of purpose and humanity.
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The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more.
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Israeli Strikes in Southern, Central Gaza Kill More Than 60 Palestinians, Including in ‘Safe Zone’
Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into yesterday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.
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Settled
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory
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Israeli Soldiers Tell Story of Savage Cruelty in Gaza Hidden from Western Publics
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – Women and children are being targeted intentionally, say Israeli whistleblowers. From ground troops to commanders, the rules of war have been shredded
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To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble
Bill Hatch | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – “Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Genova 2001-2024. Luglio 2024. Le Iniziative
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Launch of the Genova 2024 events.
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A Manifesto for Action
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Last month’s blog requested your suggestions on how to relaunch a global movement for the culture of peace. You responded handsomely and there are 10 suggestions printed at the bottom of the blog.
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Trump Got a Bloodied Ear–US ‘Political Violence’ Poses a Far Bigger Danger to the Rest of Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Jul 2024
Heavenly Problems
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple was involved in a fatal car accident and found themselves waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven.
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UNRWA Headquarters “Flattened” as Destruction of Gaza Continues
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – The massacres of Palestinian civilians by Israel over the weekend continues. Artillery, drone and airstrikes were launched. Flaunting its genocidal intentions, the IDF levelled the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA.
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Implosion and Rebuilding
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The “Israeli” Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian State in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors.
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NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
20 Jul 2024 – On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.
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A Grieving Heart
Ambreen Alam | CNKD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
28 Jun Global Nonkilling Day
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Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 US Presidential Race
US President Joe Biden - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – My fellow Americans…
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AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics
Anne Toomey McKenna | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – A Legal Scholar on the Security Boon and Privacy Nightmare – The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing closer but it’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence systems will be conducting a pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during and after the Games.
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The Truth Lover’s Prayer
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
May I see the truth, especially the truth I don’t want to see.
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The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Realising that spirit, recognising my own inner consciousness, the psyche, so clearly, I cannot understand time. It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly floats in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?
Walden Bello | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The crisis of U.S. hegemony may lead to a deeper crisis or to opportunity. Like Ulysses, we cannot avoid the dangerous passage between Scylla and Charybdis to get to the promised safe harbor.
→ read full articleZionism: The End of an Illusion
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
The question remains: what does Zionism have to do with Judaism? The answer is to be found in history rather than in sacred texts.
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Zelensky Says Russia Should Attend Next Ukraine Summit
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russian representatives should attend the next international summit on the Ukraine war. The comments marked a shift for him.
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UN Human Rights Report 2023
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Foreword by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – As I reflect on 2023, a milestone anniversary year for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the impression remains of a year battered by multiple, intersecting crises, refusing to release their grip.
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The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists…
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‘Shocking and Brutal Massacre’: World Reacts to Israel’s Al-Mawasi Attacks
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Outrage: The UN and countries across the Middle East have denounced Israel after its military attacked a designated humanitarian safe zone in Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding 300 others.
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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024 – The true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. The official toll according to Gazan government is 37,396 but this figure reflects neither the thousands buried under the rubble nor the countless deaths caused by the destruction of Gaza’s food distribution, healthcare and sanitation systems.
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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Potential Implications for International, Interfaith, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Discourse – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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AOC Files to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito
Sharon Zhang | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against the two supreme court justices in the boldest move yet to resolve the court’s “unchecked corruption crisis” as it radically reshapes the U.S. government for worse.
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Biden’s Escapist Vision & Democratic Party’s Evasive Electoral Campaign
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – My dissatisfaction with Biden’s stubborn resolve to challenge Trump despite his impaired capabilities, his woeful foreign policy toward Ukraine and Gaza, and wooly-headed optimism about the future of the US and his ability to lead the world.
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Assessing the Punitive ‘Release’ of Julian Assange
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
1- What do you make of the plea deal between the US and Assange?
His release was long overdue, although it would have been more widely welcomed at this time if it had not been achieved within the framework of a plea bargain.
May He Live
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
I reflect on these horrors. I reflect on Western (US, Germany, UK, Australia, etc) collusion and collaboration with an ongoing genocide and ongoing process of ethnic cleansing. I reflect on hypocrisy and on cowardice. I reflect on racism and hate.
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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.
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USA: A “Culture of Violence”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
This “culture of violence” is generated, sustained, and promoted by acts that arise from individual and collective impulse and intent, and that too often find tier tolerance and approval across political, economic, educational, military, and moral policies of institutions.
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