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Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science
Lily Hu | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

6 May 2024 – Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.

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Hawaii: Calming Scenic Relaxation (Music Video of the Week)
Scenic Relaxation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

Hawaii is one of the world’s most beautiful places. Enjoy this visual journey across the island of Oahu (Honolulu). Meditate and immerse yourself in the beauty of Hawaii.

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Abandoned by the State, Palestinian Citizens of Israel Face Record Crime Wave
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

30 May 2024 – Amid a proliferation of weapons and worsening police negligence, violence by criminal organizations in Arab towns has reached historic levels.

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The Flower and the Meaning of Life: Emily Dickinson, Michael Pollan, and The Little Prince
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

“To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “is profound Responsibility.” A century later, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his hero’s central preoccupation the responsibility for a single flower — the Little Prince’s beloved rose.

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Israel Is a Rogue State – Who Will Stop Them?
The Wire - Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

On 26 May 2024, the Israeli military carried out an unspeakable massacre in a humanitarian zone in Rafah, bombing tent camps filled with displaced men, women, and children, and killing at least 45 Palestinians. Hundreds of others were wounded. The images from that night will never leave us.

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The Enlightenment Sutra
Buddhist Sutras – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

In so far as the Buddha’s disciple, they should read day and night piously and earnestly the following eight precepts leading the followers of Mahayana Buddhism[2] to attain the state of enlightenment.

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On Johan Galtung’s Approach to Peace Studies
Burak Ercoşkun | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

Peace studies and research are fascinating because they delve into some of the quintessential questions concerning human relations, behavior, cooperation, and conflict. So how should we define peace at this point?

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 3 Jun 2024

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Let’s Get Rich!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

No Comment

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When a Lie Becomes the Truth: “Israel Is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression” -ICC
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

26 May 2024 – Outright Fraud: The Criminalization of International Law – According to the ICC, “There Is No Genocide”

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Sold!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

Three men, selling bibles door to door, bet who will sell the most in a day. They meet at end of the day.

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Three Evils: Occupation, Apartheid, Genocide
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

My Heart Makes My Head Swim – A short primer on why these three terms are accurate and at the heart of the situation in Gaza, despite the baseless claim that using them is tantamount to antisemitism.

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BRICS: Important Announcement about the New Currency of the Union
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

23 May 2024 – BRICS is actively seeking to establish a new currency on the world stage to challenge the dominance of the US dollar. This initiative comes amid concerns about the impact of US sanctions on countries such as Russia and other emerging economies.

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The US Empire Isn’t a Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s a Nonstop War That Runs a Government
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

1 Jun 2024 – It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations; it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.

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After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware – Now He’s the King of Israeli AI
Georgia Gee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

23 May 2024 – Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.

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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russian Nuclear Defenses with US Weapons
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

31 May 2024 – Any of these three new developments has the potential to lead to unpredictable events which spiral out of control into a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation, which would be the single worst thing that could possibly happen on planet Earth.

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A Short Overview of the 2014 Crimean Crisis
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

28 May 2024 – The international crisis over the Crimean Peninsula was in Feb-Mar 2014 when the peninsula returned to Russia from Ukraine. The Western Russophobic narrative immediately accused Russia of illegitimate annexation along with the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine.

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Israelism (Full Documentary)
Controverso – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

28 Apr 2024 – The rift among Jews regarding Palestine, especially young people’s increasing criticism of Israel and Zionism. This divide is driven by firsthand accounts of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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There Was a Time
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

It’s hard to believe there was a time when I didn’t know what a child’s insides look like. That I didn’t know how limp babies’ limbs go when they are dead, when they are missing parts of their body, missing their head, limbs dangling lifeless as parents hold…

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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on Palestine-Israel
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

20 May 2024 – Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 230: Israel Lashes Out at West Bank in Wake of ICC Request
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – Airstrikes continue across the Gaza Strip; Israeli ground invasion continues in Jabalia and Rafah, displacing thousands; Israeli army launches a wide-ranging invasion of Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, killing 12 people.

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On-the-record Update on Situation in Gaza, Palestine
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – From Suze van Meegen, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head of operations in Gaza: “The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions.”

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Food for Starving Gazans Rots in the Sun as Israeli Military Keeps Rafah Crossing Shut
Stuti Mishra | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

26 May 2024 – Aid Monitor Warns of Imminent Famine in Parts of Palestinian Territory

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Israel Stands Increasingly Isolated
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – Its Genocidal Actions Must Be Stopped and Brought to Account – The widespread activism in solidarity with Gaza in so many institutions of higher learning in the US, Europe and beyond is a source of inspiration. Such nonviolent activism has become a moral imperative.

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How Two Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on 7 Oct Fueled a Global Dispute over Israel-Hamas Atrocities
Tia Goldenberg and Julia Frankel | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

More evidence of false narratives: False flag.

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‘Nobody Is Above the Law’: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israel, Hamas Leaders
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

20 May 2024 – Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.”

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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

22 May 2024 – Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

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Why the ICC’s Prosecutor’s Recommendation to Arrest Israeli and Hamas Leaders May Be Historic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – Ironically, the misplaced rhetoric of outrage from Israel and its allies has endowed the ICC’s pronouncements with an importance that the institution never before possessed.

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Renowned Burmese Genocide Scholar & Rights Activist Sounds Rohingya Genocide Warning on BBC
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Dr Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND and Nobel Peace Prize nominee) told the BBC World Service Newsday on 22 May 2024 that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.

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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians

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Netanyahu’s Response to the ICC Invokes Another Genocidal Biblical Reference
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – Netanyahu’s rant against the ICC quoted a biblical verse that warns against the dangers of not completely wiping out your enemy’s society. It doesn’t take much to figure out what this means for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. 

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South Sudan Government and Rebel Groups Sign ‘Commitment’ for Peace in Kenya Talks
Evelyne Musambi | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

16 May 2024 – The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups today signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya.

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Iran Deaths: New Elements in the Troubled Middle East
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – On 19 May, the helicopter with President Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and the governor of the East Azerbaijan Province crashed into a mountain near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. They had attended a ceremony to mark the start of a joint Azerbaijan-Iran dam project.

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(Italiano) Arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas: decisione storica della Corte Penale Internazionale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 Maggio 2024 – Ironia della sorte, la retorica fuori luogo dell’indignazione di Israele e dei suoi alleati ha conferito ai pronunciamenti della Corte penale internazionale sull’arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas un’importanza che l’istituzione non aveva mai avuto prima.

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For Muslims in the Global South, US Hostility Began in 1979
Michael Charney | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – If anyone wonders why the USA has backed off so far (and beyond) from responding to humanitarian catastrophes, presented as security operations, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the Palestinians in Gaza, they do not understand the structure of the contemporary world–since 1979.

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Israel Carries Out Six Massacres in Gaza in the Last 24 Hours
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – Israeli occupation forces in the past 24 hours killed 57 civilians and injured 93 in Gaza. Many are trapped in the rubble or scattered on the roads, inaccessible to rescue services and ambulances. Since 7 Oct 2023, the number of Palestinians killed has grown to some 35,857 plus 80,293 injured.

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Indeed, There Is No Comparison: Israel’s Crimes Are Far Worse Than Hamas’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as “absurd and false” the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here’s why.

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Palestinian Resistance Denounces U.S. Floating Pier in Gaza
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

22 May 2024 – The pier, built at a cost of $320 million, is part of the enormous $26 billion in additional aid to Israel that Biden recently approved as part of the supplemental aid package. That package was a public statement of complete support for genocide in Gaza. 

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Congo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

22 May 2024 – Morehouse College professors protested US complicity in Congo Genocide by unfurling a Congolese flag behind Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class. A brief, quixotic coup took place in Congo on the same day. 

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Clarifying a Judicial Web: ICJ, ICC, Civil Society (Peoples Tribunals)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

A curious sideshow during the seven months of savage genocidal violence against the entrapped Palestinian population of an estimated 2.3 million has been the attention given to international law and the international procedures available for its interpretation and enforcement.

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ICJ: South Africa’s Urgent Request for Additional Measures on the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
International Court of Justice ICJ - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

10 May 2024 – In its new request, South Africa states that the provisional measures previously indicated by
the Court “are not capable of ‘fully address[ing]’ the changed circumstances and new facts on which
[its] Request is founded”.

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The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”

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Movements Around Us
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

All sorts of movements take place around us and give us pleasure and the feeling as to what would happen if there was no movement.

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The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and Its Political Consequences
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict

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Israeli Government Seizes AP’s Media Equipment in Latest Act of Censorship
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – The Associated Press called it “an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law.”

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Assange Wins Right to Appeal on 1st Amendment Issue
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

20 May 2024 – The High Court in London ruled today that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S. on the grounds that he is being denied his First Amendment rights. 

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Voices from Gaza’s Rubble Call Global Humanity to Rescue
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Silent Voices of Victims Waiting to Be Rescued from the Rubble

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Life in a Dystopian Satire
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

 Evidence that we are living in a dystopian satire written by an utter hack.

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A Human Approach to World Peace
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere. Even in these modern times it is clear that one’s precious life is not safe.

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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

21 May 2024 – The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.

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Breaking Ranks with Biden, on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – Another protest movement has emerged: dissenters within the U.S. government who offer a behind-the-scenes critique of U.S. policies devastating Gaza. Despite this wave of informed dissent, Biden continues to provide arms and diplomatic cover to Israel.

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Gaza
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

May 2024

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Top UN Court Orders Israel to Immediately Halt Rafah Assault in Landmark Ruling
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – The International Court of Justice aims to protect over a million people in the Southern Gaza city from the Israeli offensive.

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And Now, BRICS Eyes Creation of a Central Bank for Currency Issue
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – China, with backing from Russia and South Africa, is introducing a new currency to be issued by a proposed BRICS Central Bank that would combine the strengths of the respective currencies of the five BRICS countries in the economic forum.

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The UK Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window into Big Pharma’s ‘Business with Disease’
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

24 May 2024 – From 1970s to 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK received blood transfusions contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. Authorities covered up; Bayer and Armour Pharmaceuticals knowing that treatments were infected continued to sell them anyway. The profit-driven nature of big pharma’s ‘business with disease.’

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Hawaii: The Origin of the Shaka Hand Sign
Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi | Hawaiian Airlines - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Hawaii’s Symbol of Aloha Traces Its Roots Back to the Early 1900s – “Hang loose” “Right on” “Thank you” “Things are great” “Take it easy” – in Hawaii, the Shaka sign expresses all those friendly messages and more–a lot of aloha.

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Israel Infuriated by Ireland, Spain, and Norway’s Recognition of a Palestinian State
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

22 May 2024 – Ireland, Spain and Norway announced today that they would recognise a Palestinian state on May 28, prompting an angry response from Israel which said this amounted to a “reward for terrorism” and recalled its ambassadors from the three capitals.

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Colombia to Open Embassy in Occupied West Bank
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Bogota recently cut ties with Israel over the genocidal war in Gaza and has been working with other Latin American nations to grant Palestine full UN membership. The Colombian government announced on 22 May plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 27 May 2024

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Hind’s Hall (Music Video of the Week)
Macklemore - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

All Proceeds to UNRWA

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Myanmar: Probability of Return to Peace and Restoration of Human Rights
Taing Rinith interviews Maung Zarni | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

23 May 2024 – Maung Zarni, Myanmar peace activist and 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talks about peace and human rights.

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‘Extremely Harrowing’: British Surgeon’s Gaza Testimony Buried by the ‘MSM’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

20 May 2024 – When Genocide Is Merely ‘War’ – Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement.

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In Gaza, the Genocide Convention Has Been ‘Bent to the Will of Powerful States’
Michelle Chen | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

8 May 2024 – An Interview with Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, activist and human rights scholar from Myanmar who founded the Free Burma Coalition. In 2024, Zarni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire for his work with the Rohingya in Myanmar.

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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

15 May 2024 – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s genocide on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 people, the majority women and children. But it is still cruel and heartless. It is also another way we are being gaslit by the pro-Zionist US establishment.

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Israel Descends into Barbarism
Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness, it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism because cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behavior has become state policy in Israel. Let’s review the signs of this meltdown.

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Envisaging a Game of Subtlety Enabling New Global Dynamics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Design Implications from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective

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Greater Israel, the Maximal Zionist Imaginary, and Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

19 May 2024 – Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank amid Genocide in Gaza – The WB has posed the biggest challenge to the Zionist settler movement’s pursuit of a “Greater Israel.”

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De-Dollarization Bombshell: The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem.

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Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous physicist and celebrated scientist, had fled Nazi Germany for the US where he became a citizen in 1940. But for the FBI Einstein remained a dangerous and Un-American figure, threatening the security of the US by his very presence.

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Dear Brother, Dear Sister
Christian Egge - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

No matter whether you speak Hebrew or Arabic
it is of no consequence to me
I only see
a human being

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Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs,” Joan Didion wrote in her timeless essay on self-respect.

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Peace Researcher Johan Galtung’s Human Rights Violated as He Approached Death
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

17 May 2024 – Johan Galtung – my dear mentor, colleague, TFF Associate and friend over 50 years – died on February 17, this year in Norway, his native country. Now his caring daughter needs your help.

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What to Expect at Julian Assange’s Appeal Hearing on 20 May 2024
Assange Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Today, 20 May 2024, the UK High Court decides whether Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal the decision allowing his extradition before the UK Courts.

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The US State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid–Videos Show the Opposite
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

18 May 2024 – From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.

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Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan Does World a Favor by Making Plain Israel’s Doomed-to-Fail Strategy
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

14 May 2024 – Likud’s tactical approach relies entirely on the U.S. for Israel’s security, as the sole blocking force in a world community that is increasingly united and aghast at massive Israeli war crimes. How much longer can they carry on this way?

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Campus in Crisis
Eli Valley | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

On the US Media’s ‘Unbiased’ Reporting… 3 May 2024

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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

The Normative Current of Peace
(AAPI) Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence

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Eyeless on Gaza
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Denial of civil liberties, punishment for exposing those violations, and the grotesque, brutal suppression of free speech on US university campuses is the iron fist of autocracy to intimidate, to hurt, to deter those who question the right of the powers-that-be to impose their concocted version of the truth on the public.

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BRICS Bank Announces Investment to Rebuild South of Brazil
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

14 May 2024 – The president of the New Development Bank of the BRICS group, Dilma Rousseff, reported today that the entity will allocate US$ 1,115 million for the reconstruction of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, devastated by the worst floods in history.

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Israel’s Willing Executioners
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population [2M] took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook.

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New Brand
Rob Kall - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

No Comment

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The Heroism of David McBride
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

16 May 2024 – By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential Australian war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked, and other soldiers wrongly accused. On 14 May he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

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Biden’s Genocide on Gaza Is Now a War on Truth and the Right to Protest
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

10 May 2024 – The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed.

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The Writing Was on the Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners
Janan Abdu | The Landline/+972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

14 May 2024 – The government has ensured that horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics.

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Gandhian Spherons: India/Nepal Return to the Varnas Peace World Leadership
Bishnu Pathak, at al. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Abstract – This paper summarizes 16 years of research by the Gandhian Global Harmony Association’s humanities scientists in the field of the genetic thermodynamic cybernetic social structure of nonviolence spherons and its empirical verification by world statistics.

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Slain Slovak Prime Minister’s Opposition to Arming Ukraine
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

18 May 2024 – The attack on Slovak Premier Robert Fico, who has been pushing for peace in Ukraine, came amid active preparations by Western countries to directly participate in the Ukraine conflict. The shooting in Slovakia “coincided with some other events indicating war preparations.”

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The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe.” Israel’s genocidal mass slaughter in Gaza must end immediately. It’s not good for Israel or its national security. It’s devastating for Palestinians. It’s illegal and immoral.

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Inspired
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

19 May 2024 – We had positive vibes in every one of these engagements and also grew ourselves with knowledge, new friends (thousands), and energy (spiritual and mental and physical- good food for heart, spirit and even stomach) and we thank all hosts and organizers for exceptional arrangements.

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Gaza Lost Much More Than a Hospital When It Lost Al-Shifa
Dr. Bahzad Al Akhras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

15 May 2024 – The medical complex destroyed by Israel was the beating heart of Gaza, and a symbol of our hopes for the future.

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(Italiano) Una soluzione a cinque stati per l’Asia occidentale
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Prendiamo spunto dall’idea di Galtung e immaginiamo una soluzione a cinque stati in una comunità dell’Asia occidentale. Abbandoniamo l’obsoleto termine eurocentrico di “Medio Oriente” e nominiamo questo gruppo di Stati in base alla loro posizione geografica.

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US Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Ryan Grim and Hind Khoudary | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – Upward of 20 US doctors and medical workers are trapped in Gaza because of Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt; the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.

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Sixty Years after the 1968 Convention Riots, the Democrats Return to Chicago
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Is This a Problem?

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The Arsenal of Genocide: U.S. Weapons Are Destroying Gaza
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

14 May 2024 – U.S. weapons are destroying Gaza and its people despite Biden postponing a planeload of bombs and issuing a report that fails to hold either the U.S. or Israel accountable for their war crimes.

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Finding Our Values in Peacebuilding
Michaelina Jakala, Miho Taka, Kyoko Okumoto and Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

16 May 2024 – Over the years and through varied experiences as peace researchers and practitioners, we have developed an interest in understanding what values (as well as ethics and morals) motivate us in our work and how these values can lead to or sabotage trust.

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World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

9 May 2024 – Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 20 May 2024

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Shameless: Active Participants in Genocide
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

13 May 2024 – For spurious and sinister reasons, the Western political and media classes are isolating themselves from public opinion and international law on the Gaza genocide in ways hard to believe. Here are a few examples among myriad.

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What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

9 May 2024 – For overwhelming Western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc., the disappearance of the USSR in 1990/91 was symbolized overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall… This geopolitical change called for a new world order in international relations

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Automated Apartheid: Walking through Hebron Smart City | Documentary
Mnar Adley | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

7 May 2024 – MintPress director Mnar Adley walks us through the city of Hebron dubbed by Israel as ‘Hebron Smart City’ due to the Draconian surveillance technology on the Palestinian population as part of what is called the Wolfpack surveillance system.

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Fanon the Universalist
Susan Neiman | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

6 Jun 2024 Issue – Edward Said said that Fanon’s radical hopefulness freed him from Michel Foucault’s relentless pessimism. But Shatz asks whether Fanon was naive to hope for a radical universalism minus the hollowness of the French (and American) versions. Fanon lived in more hopeful times.

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