Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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D-Day 2024
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Ceremonies were held last week commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Anglo-American landing on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. For the very first time, the Russians were ostentatiously not invited to take part in the ceremonies.
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Keeping Contact
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Life changes — your methods of keeping contact also are changing.
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Here Is the Vision! A Global Movement for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Two weeks ago we said “Here are the people.” And we asked, “Where is the vision?” And now, as if in response, the UN has declared that the official theme for this year’s International Day of Peace is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace.”
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Rachmaninoff Symphony #2 (Music Video of the Week)
Hauser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
2 May 2024 – The Rebel with a Cello and the London Symphony Orchestra
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(Français) Voici la Vision ! Un Mouvement Mondial Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 juin 2024 – Il y a deux semaines, nous avons dit : « Voici le peuple ». Et nous avons demandé : « Où est la vision ? » Et maintenant, comme en réponse, les Nations Unies ont déclaré que le thème officiel de la Journée internationale de la paix de cette année est « Cultiver une culture de la paix ».
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On Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Henry Miller on the Measure of a Life Well Lived
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NAM and Group of 77 Demand the Exclusion of Cuba from the List of Terrorism Sponsors Countries
Alvaro Cuesta | teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China, through their Joint Coordinating Committee, demanded “the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.”
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Fake Climate Solutions Spread Across Latin America
Humberto Márquez | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Government and private initiatives and programmes to address the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean are in fact a vast array of fake solutions, according to a new regional map made by environmental organisations.
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Inside the Nuseirat Massacre: This Is the Carnage I Saw During Israel’s 4-Hostage Rescue
Shrouq Aila | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Eyewitness: I was on the road to the camp when Israel launched its raid — and saw the aftermath in a nearby hospital.
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UNSC Resolution Gaza Ceasefire 10 Jun 2024
UN Security Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Resolution 2735 (2024)
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Global Peace Index 2024
Institute for Economics & Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
The Global Peace Index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace since 2007, it is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness that launches in June each year.
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The Partisan Psychiatrist
Arvin Alaigh | Dissent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 17 Jun 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Student Writing
Lisa Lieberman | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
7 Jun 2024 – It was getting toward the end of this recent semester, and I was at a loss. Either my freshman-composition students’ writing had gotten mysteriously, miraculously, markedly better, or a large minority — easily one-third — of them were using AI to write their papers.
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‘We’re All at Risk’: Doctors Evacuate Rafah’s Last Hospitals
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza’s southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel’s attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
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Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
Bidisha Biswas | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries.
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94% of North Americans Want to End Ukraine War but US Rejects China Peace Deal, Opposes Talks with Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Polling shows 94% of people in the US and 88% in Western Europe want a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine, but NATO opposes a peace proposal made by China and Brazil, and refuses to invite Russia to talks in Switzerland.
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UEFA Euro 2024: Full Football Match Schedule, Start Times, Format and Teams
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – All you need to know about the 2024 European Football Championships in Germany ahead of the June 14 tournament kick off.
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Global Solidarity on Haiti’s Flag Day to Stop Foreign Intervention
Haiti Action Committee | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – May 18 marked Haitian Flag Day, commemorating the day in 1803 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and created the Haitian flag. Flag Day signifies Haitian sovereignty and commemorates ancestors who died fighting for freedom.
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Reaching Our Fullest Potential with Vedic Spirituality
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
These days fewer people are interested in taking up anything that they cannot immediately apply to their lives. The common question is: “What is this going to do for me?” Or “What am I going to get out of this?”
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Saving Gaza Is about more Than Saving Gaza–It’s also about Saving Ourselves
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – Saving ourselves as individuals. Saving ourselves as a society. Saving ourselves as a species. Saving ourselves from what we’ll become if we just watch this happening right in front of our…
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
How do Human Rights stand up as a discourse? Incorporated in the French constitution of 1789 and reformulated as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a major human achievement, close to a world constitution. It is not international law, but the Covenants of 16 Dec 1966 — civil-political, economic-social-cultural — are.
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A Mother’s Plea for Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – To all the people of Gaza I send you my deepest love and sympathy on the death of your beloved family and friends who have been murdered by the Israeli military in its ongoing war on Gaza.
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US Terrorism Operations
Submitted by Robert Markstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
2023 USA: Boots on the Ground in 9 Countries–Special Ops in 78 (!!)
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(Italiano) 28 maggio 1974 – 28 maggio 2024. Cinquantesimo anniversario della strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Italy, Lombardia, Brescia, Piazza Loggia, oggi martedì 28 maggio 2024 – Parte seconda –
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Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Trump Felony Conviction Talking Points
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Guantanamo & WikiLeaks
CN Live | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – Journalist Andy Worthington, author of ‘The Guantanamo Files’ and research collaborator on WikiLeaks’ ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, shines a light on the bleak and blunderous history of the US torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.
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Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 Issue – Ariel Sharon withdrew over eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population increased. But also to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do with settlers there.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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Cuba Advocates for Peace at BRICS Meeting
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – Cuba’s Foreign Minister arrived in Moscow with a message of peace and the common purpose with the member states–Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran–to defend multilateralism and show respect for diversity.
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Naomi Klein and VV Ganeshananthan Win Women’s Prize Literary Awards
AP | The New Indian Express – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Both winners referenced the conflict-clouded international situation, at a time when the arts world is grappling with divisions over the Israel-Hamas war and corporate sponsorship of the arts.
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War on Palestine: A Challenge to Global Humanity, Peace and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Fallacy of the Peace Resolutions and Gaza
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Their Rules-Based International Order Is the Rule of the Mafia
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – In defiance of the International Court of Justice, Israel continues to bomb Gaza. Like the United States, Israel refuses to abide by international law, exposing the hypocrisy of the ‘rules-based international order’.
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The Seven Hermetic Principles
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
24 May 2024 – What are them?
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When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’
Robin Andersen | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – As the world watched on social media and responded in outrage, US corporate media, once again, provided cover for the perpetrators of Israel’s genocide.
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Baby Ahmad Was Beheaded by Israel with a US Bomb
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
On Sunday night, May 26 2024, 1-year-old Ahmad became the symbol of the unspeakable horror of genocide in Gaza after Israel bombed his family tent in north Rafah.
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
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Israel Kills Over 200 Palestinians to Rescue 4 Captives; U.S. Allegedly Involved in Operation
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – At least 210 Palestinians were killed and 400 others were injured in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday [2 Jun] after Israeli forces carried out a “rescue operation” to retrieve four captives. Reports of U.S. involvement in the operation have sparked backlash.
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Experimental AI Meta-analysis of an Academic Journal Issue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
2 Jun 2024 – This exploration emerged from comparative use of the facilities of ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3 (Opus variant) in summarizing the themes evoked in a set of 35 AI-related articles presented on this site over the past year.
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Hardliner on the Hill: Senator Bob Menendez and US-Cuba Policy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández’s sets out to find out how Senator Robert Menendez so adamantly opposes better relations with Cuba and whether or not his constituents agree with him.
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End of an Era: What the Shifting Discourse on Palestine Teaches Us about the Future of Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
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A New Chinese Exclusion Act
Jake Werner | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and provides a convenient rationale for unfettered Pentagon profiteering.
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Landfill Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia
and the blown out hospitals in Gaza.
The garbage plays in the wind like children.
The exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses.
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus against Lebanon
Carlos Cabrera | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Today, HRW denounced the use of white phosphorous shells against residential buildings south of Lebanon by the Israeli army. The NGO has been able to verify its use against at least 17 Lebanese locations.
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The Perils and Promise of the Emerging Multipolar World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The world economy is experiencing a process of economic convergence; regions that once lagged the West in industrialization are catching up in a post-hegemonic, multipolar world fraught with challenges where several nuclear powers may compete—in vain—for hegemony.
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‘We Want Peace’: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Spain’s foreign minister announced today his country applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries.
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A Gaza Twins’ Desperate Fight for Survival
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Gaza, the most densely-populated place on Earth, “the world’s largest open-air prison,” has become a hellish cauldron of human suffering. The Gaza Strip is entering the ninth month of military onslaught that has killed over 36,500 people, 15,000 children – believed to be a gross underestimate.
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Latest EU Election Results on Europe Level and in All 27 Member States
Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – As millions of voters cast their ballots in the 2024 European Elections, the stakes are high. Catch real-time updates, comprehensive data, and visualizations of the election results.
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Glenn Greenwald | System Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
System Update #275
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Sudan Internal Displacement Set to Top 10 Million as Famine Looms: IOM
UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The UN International Organization for Migration warns that the number of displaced inside Sudan could top 10 million in coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis escalates with famine and disease added to the havoc of violence.
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The French Connection: Knights of Malta, Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods (Part II)
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Zapata’s description of this criminal society that was known as the Compagnia della Garduna, was one of the earliest descriptions of this criminal brotherhood. More enduring than “the principality of Venice,” its traditional date of origin has been established by 19th century scholars as having begun in 1417.
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Start to Dangerous Regression of Liberty in Georgia
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Despite strong protests from Georgian NGOs and street protests for three weeks in the capital Tbilisi, the Parliament adopted on 3 Jun 2024 the controversial law on “foreign influence.”
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Christianity’s Similarities with Hinduism
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Over the centuries, numerous historians and sages have pointed out that not only has Hinduism had a predominant influence on Christianity, but that many of the Christian rites could be directly borrowed from ancient Hindu (Vedic) India.
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The Future of the UN Relief and Works Agency and Hamas in Gaza
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Peter Ford has an extensive career in the UK diplomatic service, including as UK Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria. He served for many years as Special Representative to the Commissioner General of UNRWA. In this interview, he discusses the background, importance, and how Israel wants to “replace” UNRWA.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Meanwhile, in the old US of A
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Defying Angola and Interpol, Isabel dos Santos Entrenches Herself on Dubai Waterfront
Nicole Sadek, Scilla Alecci and Karrie Kehoe | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The eldest daughter of Angola’s former autocrat has found cover in the United Arab Emirates, where she, her mother and a business associate are linked to multiple properties, Dubai Unlocked reveals.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocities, a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses? A sledgehammer for a toothache? Déjà vu.
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More Than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the atrocities in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 Oct, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said today.
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The Brutalization of Israel Is Well Underway–Collapse Is only a Matter of Time
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Haaretz Editorial 7 Jun 2024: Brutality is no longer confined to the margins or to the settlements and settlement outposts; it has spread in every direction. Terrifyingly, it has even penetrated the military, the Knesset and the cabinet.
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Collateral Genocide in Nuseirat
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
On 8 Jun 2024, the Israeli military slaughtered 274 Palestinians and wounded 700 more in a raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Four Israeli captives were rescued during the assault, which sent Israeli social media into a jubilant tizzy of self-congratulation and genocidal fanfare.
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(Italiano) La mia visione per il Sudan
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Il mio compito al termine di questa conferenza davvero impressionante con 150 partecipanti qui a Hermannsburg nella Brughiera di Lüneburg è quello di sorvolare le scialbe, malriuscite attuazioni dei numerosi accordi di pace, riferirne le visioni e indicare le possibili soluzioni provate con successo altrove.
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas | Poets.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What a World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The world that we are living in — the world we are familiar with is changing rapidly and substantially. This is happening in all spheres of our lives.
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Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – From the political point of view, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of its peoples from foreign (Spanish & Portuguese) rule started (and finished in 1826), and was over with the beginning of the Great War in Europe, 1914.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 10 Jun 2024
Why do Egomaniac Leaders Wage War on Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Leaders who could not Think as Normal Human Beings
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Leftist Climate Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidency in Landslide
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – The close ally of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the first woman to win Mexico’s presidency.
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Is Abolishing War Possible?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – If we can end slavery — the legal “ownership” of other human beings — can’t we also end war? The reduction to good vs. evil is war’s staying power and principal talking point: War is always necessary, damnit! What matters is keeping the sanctity of war alive and well.
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Scott Ritter: On My Way to Russia, I Met Big Brother
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Col. Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, is a highly visible commentator on US foreign policies. On 2 Jun he was removed from a flight to St. Petersburgh by order of the US State Department. His passport was seized and no explanation given. The arbitrary action has been largely ignored by the mainstream media and political circles.
→ read full article(Italiano) 28 maggio 1974 – 28 maggio 2024: Cinquantesimo anniversario della strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
9 Giu 2024 – Silenzio. Un silenzio quasi irreale. Assordante. Un silenzio che colpisce per l’intensità del suo portato.
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I Will Survive (Music Video of the Week)
Gloria Gaynor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Gloria Gaynor’s Major Hit Song
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Inspire to Action
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Keep staring…
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On Necessity
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Why the feeling of necessity is actually a symptom of advanced life.
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Mexico’s Election: A Victory for Organized Crime
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – Under Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency, organized crime will likely be calling the shots.
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USA: 42 House Dems Help GOP Pass Bill Targeting ICC Officials over Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Human rights defenders yesterday decried the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials over arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; it undermines the Court’s independence.
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The Media Skew Public Perception by Manipulating People’s Attention
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
9 Jun 2024 – “Israel Rescues 4 Hostages in Military Operation; Gazan Officials Say Scores Are Killed,” reads a New York Times headline from yesterday. It’s a very odd-looking headline even if you don’t know anything about the propagandistic tactics being employed in it.
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US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight and his passport confiscated yesterday in the US government’s drive to silence critics of foreign policies, as it supplies $ billions in arms to war on Russia, attacks on Gazans, and for war with China over Taiwan.
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Nuclear War: Still Unthinkable?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – The United State’s provocative actions are the principal reason the “unthinkable” possibility is becoming ever more likely.
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Perspectives of AI on Psychosocial Implications of Global Modelling
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – This exploration emerged from comparative use of the facilities of ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3 in summarizing the themes evoked in a set of 35 AI-related articles presented on this site over the past year.
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People Burned Alive, Child Decapitated: Report from Rafah on Israeli Strike That Killed 45 in Camp
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
28 May 2024 – Update after an Israeli attack on refugee tent camps in what had previously been declared a “safe zone” killed at least 45 people, including women and children. “Basically, the situation is totally catastrophic,” reports Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, from Rafah. She explains the bombs set tents, made largely of nylon, on fire.
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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 237: As Israel’s Invasion of Rafah and Northern Gaza Continues, Smotrich Calls for ‘War’ on West Bank
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for launching a “defensive war” on the West Bank in the same way that Israel is doing in Gaza.
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Refugee Experiences of Identity Documents and Digitisation in India and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | Forced Migration Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
May 2024 – Drawing on the authors’ joint activism on the rights of refugees and stateless people in India and Myanmar, this article considers how digital ID systems can be used to exclude minorities.
→ read full articleKenya’s President Ruto Defies His Own Country’s Constitution and High Court to Invade Haiti
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – I spoke to William Sakawa, a producer and reporter with the Nairobi-based media outlet African Stream, about Kenyan President William Ruto’s agreement to invade Haiti for the US.
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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business. During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.
→ read full articleHere Are the People–Where Is the Vision?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Here are the people who can take advantage of the looming crash of the US empire and create a new world. We can see their faces in the streets, on the university campuses and in the city halls.
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(Italiano) ICJ, ICC, Società Civile (Tribunali Popolari): chiarificazione di un tessuto giudiziario
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 Maggio 2024 – Un curioso spettacolo collaterale durante i sette mesi di selvaggia violenza genocida contro la popolazione palestinese intrappolata [a Gaza] di 2,3 milioni stimati è stata l’attenzione prestata al diritto internazionale e alle relative procedure disponibili per la sua interpretazione ed applicazione.
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‘New Era of Struggle’: Thousands Convene to Strategize Future of Palestine Movement
BreakThrough News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – After eight months of Israel’s genocide, where does the movement for Palestine go? That was the question taken up by the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit attended by thousands from around the world.
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The Global Demand for a Gaza Ceasefire Grows, Leaving Biden Behind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israel’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has provoked unprecedented global outcry. On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah.
→ read full articleNorth Korea: Government-sponsored Labor Migration
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Historically, migration has benefited the economies where it has happened, but it has also led to popular antagonism. The main argument is usually about the numbers arriving and the nature of the immigrants–often displaying traits of racism and ethnic contempt.
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Biden’s Rafah ‘Red Line’ Is a Green Light for ‘Death and Destruction’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – Pretending to oppose a Rafah assault, the White House facilitates a new Israeli massacre at a Gaza tent camp.
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Taiwan Continues Toward US-Engineered “Ukraine-ization”
Brian Berletic | Journal NEO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – The Chinese Island province of Taiwan continues to be targeted by the US and its political proxies through efforts to further consolidate political control over it and transform it into a geopolitical “battering ram” against the rest of China. Déjà-vu all over again.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Very high temperatures are plaguing Delhi — the capital of India. If earlier 43 or 42 degrees were considered high, this year the summer temperatures are going up to 45 or 46 degrees or more.
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UN Experts Outraged by Israeli Strikes on Civilians Sheltering in Rafah Camps
UN Human Rights Commissioner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – Israeli air strikes on a camp for civilians in Rafah claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and elderly on Sunday 26 May. “Harrowing images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn apart and people burnt alive,” UN experts said.
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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity and emboldened by U.S. unconditional military and diplomatic support.
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The West Is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia into Hot War
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want global conflict?
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Uncovering Fact vs Fiction on Coca-Cola’s Iconic Bottle
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
15 May 2024 – Exposed: The Truth behind Coca-Cola’s Greenwashing Advertising
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1er juin 2024 – Voici ceux qui peuvent profiter du krach imminent de l’empire américain et créer un nouveau monde.
On peut voir leur visage dans les rues, sur les campus universitaires et dans les mairies.
As Israel Bombs Ambulances and Levels Refugee Camp, Netanyahu Receives Bipartisan Invitation to Address US Congress
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Signaling support for the genocidal Israeli onslaught, the Democratic and Republican parties issued a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday [31 May], hailing him in the fight against “terrorism” and inviting him to address the US Congress.
→ read full articleMaung Zarni: What’s Next for Myanmar Crisis?
Suthichai live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – “Everything I have learned as a radical, a peace and rights activist, and a scholar on my country’s affairs. What is wrong with Burma/Myanmar and her people, incapable of building a peaceful and stable human community for the last nearly 80 years?”
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Well known African proverb: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers, and, when elephants make love, the grass suffers even more.” You have two elephants let loose, the USA and China, both oil drunk. You have their drug. Some Sudan violence is a proxy war.
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