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From Planes and Trains to World Order Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

2 Dec 2023 – Two days ago, I returned from 30 days of traveling around China with my dear wife and TFF co-founder, Christina Spannar. From a visitor’s point of view, China is a service society where things work and people are remarkably kind and helpful (of course with the exception of a few who, like everywhere else, are rude, incompetent, or both).

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Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

1 Dec 2023 – The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. The Gazan concentration camp is a cacophony of explosions and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles.

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FOI Request Reveals Bellingcat Collusion with Western Intelligence
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies.

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How to Build Peace while Covering War: Peace Journalism and the Israel-Hamas Massacre
Leo Weakland | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Peace News Network spoke with three experts on Peace Journalism: Prof Jake Lynch, Prof Steven Youngblood, and Vanessa Bassil. They shared their thoughts on the current media coverage of the conflict, and how this could change to enhance the prospects for peace.

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This Simple Move by China Could Demolish the EU’s Aggressive Agenda
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – Beijing announced that the citizens of Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain will be allowed to visit China for a 15-day period visa-free. It may throw a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing.

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How to Apologize
Ellen Bass – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing

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Religions and Religious Flavours
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

As we all know there are many religions in India — Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism,  Islam, Judaism, Baha’i Faith, Zoroastrianism and some other smaller faiths such as  Dev Samaj.

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From Cambodia to Bangladesh: A Brief History of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Henry Kissinger’s War Crimes
Bevan Hurley | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

2 Dec 2023 – Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of many millions of innocents.

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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.

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Germany’s ‘Military Schengen’ Proposal Shows EU as Geopolitical Pendant of NATO
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – To Ease the Movement of NATO Troops Across the European Union

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Palestine-Israel Crisis: Gaza City a ‘Ghost Town’, Reports UN Aid Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – Amid hopes of a deal to extend the pause in Gaza bombing today, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees reported that humanitarian assistance had reached its shelters in northern Gaza for first time since atrocities erupted last month.

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Peace out of Healing within: Integrating Trauma into Peace and Conflict Studies
Deting Lu, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

11 Nov 2023 – Trauma as a root cause of conflicts: The need to address and heal trauma to prevent escalation to violence. Integrating insights from Galtung’s conflict transformation, Kingian nonviolence, and Daoist “peace out of harmonization,” I introduce the concept of ‘peace out of healing within.’

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Israel’s Savagery Is So Shocking It’s Sometimes Hard to Take in
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – If there’s anything positive to be found in this living nightmare, it’s that it’s so earth-shakingly ugly that it just might shake the world awake.

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Sutra on the Eight Realizations
Buddhism - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

This is the first of the things to remember:
Throughout all the world there is nothing that’s permanent.
Even the Earth has the nature of transience.
Bodies are centers of sorrow and emptiness.

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Trilateral Missile Defense System a Step towards Asian NATO
Jeffrey Wagner and Dae-Han Song | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – The United States, Japan and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOfication” of the three countries.

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The Forgotten (Part 3): Buddhist Directed Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

In the Buddhist Religion, Buddha, Siddhartha Gautam, achieved the awakening at Bodh Gaya, India, creating universal philosophy of Peace, seated under the Bodhi Tree, while the Buddhist monks and military junta of Myanmar are brutally killing the Rohingyas.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

GAZA 4 Dec 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence

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Media’s Fatal Compromises
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – The practice of “embedding” struck me as a repellent compromise with power. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We are on the way to huge, bloody, consequential wars fought without any witnesses.

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West Votes against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN–Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

26 Nov 2023 – The West voted [as a block] against the rest of the world on United Nations General Assembly resolutions opposing democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity, while supporting mercenaries and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).

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The Real Cost of Bottled Water
Daniel Jaffee | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.

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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!

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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Here we are, each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.

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Courtship
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Hungry?

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The Sound of Silence
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Meanwhile, in the Homo Sapiens’ 21st Century…

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

4-10 December 2023

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War on Gaza and Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Rational Questions Need Rational Answers

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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars
Michael Rivero – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Mini Documentary: What the Private Central Banks DON’T WANT YOU to Know! Truths we are not allowed to learn in school.

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Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – The US is threatening to attack any forces from neighboring countries that come to the defense of the Palestinians. Can this help to prevent a wider war, or does it only help Israel to continue the massacre and ignore global calls for a lasting ceasefire and political solution, making a wider war more likely?

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Gaza: A Pause Before the Storm
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

23 Nov 2023 – The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos.

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Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 51: Israel Fires at Palestinians Attempting to Return to Northern Gaza Amid Shaky Truce
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

26 Nov 2023:
* 15,000 killed, including 6,150 children, and 33,000 wounded in Gaza Strip
* 235 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200

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Al-Shifa Hospital, Hamas’ Tunnels, and Israeli Propaganda
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

21 Nov 2023 – As the death toll in Gaza surpasses 13,000, including more than 5,500 children, the IDF propaganda machine sought to use Al-Shifa Hospital as its main exhibit in justifying the unjustifiable. Israel simultaneously lays siege to another medical facility.

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Justifying Genocide, a Shameful Transparent Spectacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Revised version of an interview by Mohaddeseh Pakravan of Mehr News Agency published in the Tehran Times on 16 Nov 2023.

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IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ while Lying about al-Shifa
Gareth Porter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – While lying to the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5 km away.

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Coherent Reconciliation of Eastern and Western Patterns of Logic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Towards a Polyhedral Rosetta Stone in Aid of a Paradigm Shift Respecting Opposition

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29 November: UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

The United Nations General Assembly’s poignant reminder of the enduring quest for peace, justice and recognition of the Palestinian cause. This day serves as a platform to reaffirm global solidarity with the Palestinians and to renew collective efforts towards a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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Israel’s War on Hospitals
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

20 Nov 2023 – Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.

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Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

25 Nov 2023 – The ‘pause’ or ‘truce’ as it frequently called in Western media, is detached from the genocide that preceded and closely linked to the Hamas Attack of 7 Oct, which is characterized as ‘terrorism’ whereas Israeli genocidal violence is treated as Israel defending itself on target inflicting massive casualties on Palestinian civilians.

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COP28: When Is the Climate Summit and Why Is It Being Held in Dubai?
Chen Ly | New Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

World leaders, scientists, activists and more will convene at the UN climate conference in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec 2023. After a year of extreme weather and the hottest 12 months ever recorded, here’s what you need to know about it.

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Syria Is Playing the Long Game – Developing Strategy for the Potential of All-Out War
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – In-Depth Analysis of Syrian Military Developments Since 7 October

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Fake Palestinian Terrorist Arrest
FOX News/Sky News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – Fox News engaged in an elaborate theatrical play of “capturing a terrorist,” but their own footage showed the terrorist-actor putting back his pants in the same sequence.

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Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%
OXFAM - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

20 Nov 2023 – The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest.

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I Condemn Myself
Abdelfattah Abusrour, Ph.D. | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

9 Nov 2023 – A poem by a visionary arts educator from the West Bank, occupied Palestine.

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Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

22 Nov 2023 – An underground nuclear arsenal in Israel dwarfs the tunnels alleged at a Gaza hospital.

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Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached US$ 1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level (US$ 765.8 billion)
Gisela Cernadas and John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Nov 2023 – How much does it cost to maintain an empire? A stunning new analysis shows the true scale of U.S. military spending, which far outstrips conventional estimates, which use data gleaned from traditional sources.

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Activating the Genocide Convention
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

19 Nov 2023 – There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention. 

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Selling a Genocide
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – In the mainstream western media coverage of the conflict Israel-Hamas, you will only see pictures and hear commentary approved by the State of Israel. Additionally, most reporters are reporting from Israel, not Gaza (or the West Bank).

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Putin Was Declared a War Criminal for *Relocating* the Same Number of Children Netanyahu Just *Killed*
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

25 Nov 2023 – I am not interested in defending the Russian government but in opposing the murderousness of the globe-spanning US-centralized power structure I live under, and all the lies, double standards and hypocrisy used to keep the murders and infanticide going.

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My Dear Other
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,
loving the other without understanding the other,

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Agreement Reached: EU to Criminalise Severe Environmental Harms “Comparable to Ecocide”
Stop Ecocide International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

17 Nov 2023 – The EU has agreed to enshrine in law a new offence that aims to punish the most serious crimes against the environment. 

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BRICS Condemns Israel War on Gaza in Signal to the West
Shola Lawal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

21 Nov 2023 – In a virtual summit, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians within Gaza or outside the territory “war crimes.”

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

GAZA 27 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence

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On the Perpetration of Mass-Death Events
Roger Stoll – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

20 Nov 2023 – The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US/Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless.

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The Northern Ireland Peace Process as International Model
Caroline Hurley - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

22 Nov 2023 – Years of peace-making efforts culminated in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on 10 Apr 1998. The agreement that brought to an end The Troubles in Northern Ireland, a thirty-year era of violent sectarian unrest, remains an instructive initiative that secured positive change.

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New Heart
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

A patient urgently needed a heart transplant. The doctor told him,

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Thankfulness Buried in the Rubble
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

22 Nov 2023 – Much as I love Thanksgiving, I find myself struggling to let a sense of thankfulness flow, because when I do–and doing so has always been a crucial part of the holiday–my gratitude for my blessings starts to feel more like luck and, even worse, privilege. Yeah, how nice.

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Israeli Intelligence to Be Granted Full Access to National Biometric Database
Ken Macon | Reclaim the Net – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Expanding Data Collection and Use – The Israeli government is implementing significant amendments in the usage and access of biometric data that could have profound implications for privacy rights.

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U.S. Military Spending
SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

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South African Parliament Votes to Close the Israeli Embassy and Suspend Diplomatic Relations
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. It was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. “Free Palestine in Parliament” slogans were chanted.

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Shooting Gallery
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Our Holocaust Is Better than Yours!

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

27 Nov – 3 Dec 2023

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Nobel Peace Prize’s Negative Review
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

24 Nov 2023 – The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A Squandered Opportunity to Abolish War, by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 405 pp. – Alfred Nobel´s prize never happened. From Day One the Norwegian trustees of the anti-militarist prize failed Nobel and sided with the political powers Nobel intended the prize to combat.

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Israel Has Damaged Israel’s Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

26 Nov 2023 – Israel has done more to damage Israel’s image in the last seven weeks than antisemites did in the last seven decades. Hamas attacked Israel because it is a murderous and tyrannical apartheid regime that butchers children. October 7 was the echo of the violence Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for generations.

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Three US Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday — and What They Were Thankful for
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

24 Nov 2023 – All three were giving thanks for bringing the country through a major financial crisis related to war, and they achieved it through the “American system” of banking and finance.

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Ours Is an Indigenous Struggle: How Gaza United the World
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

The consequences of this war will certainly be felt for many years to come, not only in Palestine or even the Middle East, but worldwide as well.

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Searching for Spirituality in Hinduism
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

As we all know, India is a country of many religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism , Islam and some smaller religions or faiths such as Baha’i Faith  or Dev Samaj.

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The Forgotten (Part 2): The Uyghurs of Xinjiang–from Sinicization to Genocide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

“Authoritarian regimes create alibis to justify their hidden agenda of ethnic cleansing and genocide.  They institute “states of exception” and “emergency resolutions” to bypass the rule of law. Countries like China, India and Israel substitute their own self-appointed notion of “right” to regularly violate human rights doctrinal conventions.”

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Sunday Morning (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GlobalFaction – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

This song is about the loss of a child.

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Antisemitism and the War on Gaza: Trauma and Ideology
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Two weeks after the attack, it is still unclear what the alleged “Hamas apparatus” beneath the al-Shifa hospital consisted of. “Minimizing carnage” of the innocent has proved to be a pipe dream; the massacre has taken more than 13,000 Palestinian lives, some 5,000 of whom were children.

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Israel and Its Allies Are Repurposing the Goals and Lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

21 Nov 2023 – Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative.

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Emissions of Richest 1% Will Cause 1.3 Million Heat Deaths: Oxfam
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

20 Nov 2023 – “The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price.”

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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – Why Pres. Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important. There is nothing to debate unless one is some sort of intelligence operative, has an obsession, or is out to make a name or a buck.

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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

All of our creativity, all of our compulsive productivity, all of our poems and our space telescopes, are but a coping mechanism for our mortality, for the elemental knowledge that we will lose everything and everyone we cherish as we inevitably return our borrowed stardust to the universe.

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(Italiano) Come finiscono le guerre?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Sparavano sulla Colonna nemica da dietro steccati, alberi, granai, muri, da dentro le case, poi ricaricavano, avanzavano in fretta e sparavano di nuovo. Uno strano tipo nuovo di guerreggiare per i britannici senza esperienza né addestramento in merito. A loro pareva disonorevole, nascondersi e sparare a uomini allo scoperto che non potevano neppure vedere i propri nemici. Come scrisse una Giubba Rossa alla famiglia: Non ci combattevano da esercito regolare, solo come selvaggi”.

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Medical Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani on Israel’s Medical Siege of Gaza
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

24 Nov 2023 – Dr. Tarek Loubani, who treats patients in Gaza and runs the Glia Project to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and Dr. Gabor Maté break down Israel’s systematic destruction of medical practice in Gaza.

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18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel
Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Humanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

19 Nov 2023 – Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza – A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the “humanitarian” route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.

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Disingenuous
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

The devil is in the details…

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What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 Nov 2023 – As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.

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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.

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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

11 Nov 2023 – A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war.

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Mairead Maguire on Ending the Current Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

13 Nov 2023 – Making peace instead of wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

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US Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance.

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Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Expelled: International Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 Nov 2023 – The authorities of Pakistan are proposing to expel the majority of Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan where they face grave danger. The Hazara are largely Shi’a in religion but are considered as non-Muslim infidels or as heretics by the Taliban. There are some two million refugees who may be expelled.

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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

13 Nov 2023 – We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S.–and its allies and proxies like Israel–war crimes: illegal uses of military force to remove governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military atrocities justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities.

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Are We already in World War III?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – Can a Roadmap for Peace Change Culture of War to Culture of Peace?

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“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.

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Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain…
… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble

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Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests by Talking
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

14 Nov 2023 – How the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking. As Maya Angelou said, ‘when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’

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Galtung on Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

Pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.

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(Português) Os Crimes de Guerra em Gaza; a Demência da Razão e a Falta de Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 nov 2023 – Assistimos à “era da guerra eterna” pelos EUA onde vivem a ideologia do “Destino Manifesto” de serem “o novo povo de Deus”, pela democracia (burguesa), os direitos humanos (individuais, esquecendo os sociais e ecológicos) e o valor supremo do indivíduo (base da acumulação capitalista). Farão guerra para impedir a multipolaridade.

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Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

14 Nov 2023 – The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured. 

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The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’

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The Forgotten (Part 1): Kashmir, Heaven on Earth, Turned Hell on Earth by 21st Century India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

“The Mughal Emperor Jahangir described the region of Kashmir as “Heaven on Earth” when he first set his eyes there, forgotten today and occupied by the ethnophobic Indian Army ensuring ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region.”

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Long Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

From Lowkey’s Soundtrack to the Struggle 2

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Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.

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Thousands Trapped as Israeli Forces Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – The IDF have raided al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. It said it was carrying out an “operation against Hamas in a specified area” at al-Shifa and that the raid was based on Israeli and US intelligence.

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Besieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

14 Nov 2023 – The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis.

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Europe-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – all in the name of supporting Jews. 

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

GAZA 20 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence

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