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Transformation of BRICS: From Symbolic Power to a Real Financial Pole in the Modern World
Dr. Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – This year, Russia will be hosting the BRICS summit in October in Kazan. Our governmental circles, our ministries and our NGOs are all preparing for the summit. It is considered the key foreign policy event in Russia this year.
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Legal Consequences of the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The International Court of Justice has today given its Advisory
Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.
→ read full articleCaged in Oligarchic Contradictions
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.
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Important 4-min Exposition
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.
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NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
20 Jul 2024 – On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.
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My Thoughts on the Attempted Trump Assassination
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists…
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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024 – The true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. The official toll according to Gazan government is 37,396 but this figure reflects neither the thousands buried under the rubble nor the countless deaths caused by the destruction of Gaza’s food distribution, healthcare and sanitation systems.
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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.
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Rwanda’s Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – Rwanda’s Economic Miracle Is a Lie – On July 15, Rwandan President Paul Kagame will be “re-elected” in a sham process. He is well-known for ruling with an iron fist and keeping challengers from even entering the race against him.
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Why the US Let Assange Go
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison.
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How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky | The MIT Press Reader - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” on Noam Chomsky’s early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.
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NATO Summit: Not a Shield but a Bloodied Sword
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – When leaders of the military pact’s member states pontificate about its invaluable role in defending democracy, you can almost hear history guffawing in the background.
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Schizophrenia
Jehad Awrtani - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
No Comment
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 69 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
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Biden: ‘I’m Running the World’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
6 Jul 2024 – The comment by the sitting U.S. president in yesterday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race.
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Modi’s Moscow Mission: What the Indian PM’s Visit to Russia Signals to the West
Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – The prime minister’s prompt visit to Russia after re-election sends an important message: New Delhi is committed to boost relations with its time-tested partner despite Western pressures.
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Russian Health Minister Reveals Cancer Vaccine Progress
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
9 Jun 2024 – Russian researchers are finalizing trials on a vaccine against cancer, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko revealed yesterday. The results of preclinical trials should be ready by the end of the year, he said.
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(Italiano) Gli umani si trastullano mentre l’umanità brucia: sarà una morte a breve o schiavitù transumana?
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Giugno 2024 – Confrontati da un attacco ben coordinato e multidimensionale alla nostra umanità – l’identità di Homo Sapiens, la nostra libertà e addirittura la nostra esistenza – la gran parte degli umani si ritrae timorosa; e in tale stato, incapace di resistere.
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Mairead Maguire: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Policies’ Have to Change for Peace in Palestine
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal interviews Mairead Maguire | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – ‘You cannot build peace on a genocide,’ says Mairead Maguire, winner of 1976 Nobel Peace Prize and member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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China: The Game Is Up
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Does China deserve more respect? However much Western commentators want to sustain the age of empire, a new multipolar world order has already begun to take root.
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Assange Agreed to Destroy Unpublished Classified Material
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – As part of his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange agreed to order the destruction of any unpublished U.S. material in WikiLeaks possession.
→ read full articleAnsar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – US and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the US is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.
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Mainstream Media Doing Mainstream Media Things
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Official Lies and Narratives
→ read full articleHumans Fiddle as Humanity Burns: Will It Be Near-term Death or Transhuman Slavery?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
Confronted by a multidimensional, highly coordinated attack on our humanity – our identity as Homo Sapiens, our freedom and even our existence – most humans retreat in fear. And, in this state, people are incapable of resisting.
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If You Have a Problem, Kill It
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – The term is “banal militarism” – that is to say, violence and the preparation for violence so utterly commonplace that most people don’t even notice. Banal militarism is as Anglo American as apple pie. It’s also global in scope.
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Questions
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks: is it political?
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleHardliner 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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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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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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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.
→ 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.
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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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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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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
→ read full articleCongo “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.
→ read full articleICJ: 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”.
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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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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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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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
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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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.
→ read full articleA World Under Spiritual Construction
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – Recent announcement by Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia University, that it is divesting from “companies profiting from war in Palestine/Israel,” fully supporting the student encampments, and condemning arrests and police violence on the peaceful, culturally diverse protests. There’s something happening here . . .
→ read full articleNonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
While this article will focus on the genocide in Gaza, it is important to recognize that this genocide against the Palestinians – second only in its severity to the original Nakba in 1948 – is simply exploiting longstanding Zionist aspirations to play a key part in fulfilling a wider Elite program.
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(Castellano) Celebración a Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), Constructor de Paz
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
28 abr 2024 – Al pie del monumento a las víctimas de Utoya del escultor y activista recientemente desaparecido Agustín Ibarrola, en el parque de la paz Johan Galtung de Alfàs del Pi (Alicante, España), acabamos de celebrar un acto de homenaje y reconocimiento hacia un relevante vecino de esta ciudad y ciudadano del mundo, nuestro querido maestro el profesor Galtung. Gracias, querido maestro.
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The Nation’s Conscience
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – The courageous stance of students across the US in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails.
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Challenging Dollar’s Dominance
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Strengthening ties and cooperation with regional countries, promoting platforms like BRICS and focusing on trade in local currencies may challenge the dominance of the US dollar in the coming years on account of a changing world order.
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Listen to the Students!
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Hopefully, the political movement on US college campuses will be a game changer in stopping Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
→ read full article“Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship”—a Rwanda Review
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Ann Garrison continues her series of reviews of books important to understanding the Rwandan Genocide and Rwanda as it is today during this 30th anniversary year of the 1994 massacres.
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UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted today to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council.
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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.
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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians. It also refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the weak by the strong, such as the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians by the Israel government.
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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
April 2024 – Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced.
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‘We Must Shame Pro Genocide Israel Defenders’
Abby Martin | Katie Halper – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
27 Apr 2024 – I anchored a livestream of a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” held on Passover Tue 23 Apr night. The demonstration was held in Brooklyn hours before the Senate approved a package of $17 billion in arms and security to Israel. Hundreds of protesters were arrested.
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‘Dead Aid’: What’s Behind the West Helping Africa?
Denis A. Degterev | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Why international aid meant to help doesn’t, and what can be done about it. Western financing only worsens Africa’s development prospects. In 2009, Zambian economist and former World Bank consultant Dambisa Moyo defined such assistance as “dead aid.”
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Happy May Day
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024
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Protestors Confront White House Correspondents’ Dinner
News2Share | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
27 Apr 2024 – As corporate media members enter the venue for the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner today, anti-genocide protestors are literally in their faces over the mainstream media covering for Israel.
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Education and Dialogue vs Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – ‘ Education and dialogue’ has been taught since the late and great Johan Galtung invented ‘Peace Studies.’ Nothing will change until the peace lobby understands that politicians are not magicians. People accept the armed forces, thousands of men and women we train in the art of fighting, killing and destruction.
→ read full articleWar, Money and Universities
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the planet around one primary principle: the existence of an enemy.
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Enforcing Silence on Genocide
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
4 May 2024 – The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity.
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The Rise of an Artificial Intelligence Messiah
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
I asked Claude 3, a low-level no-cost AI available from anthropic.com, to outline a video series on the rise of an AI Messiah. Claude 3 did so in less than ten seconds, coming up with the dramatic and nuanced plot-sequence below.
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What We Are Seeing in Gaza Is a ‘Repeat of Auschwitz,’ Says Genocide Expert
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – What Israel is doing in Gaza is ‘simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,’ says human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni, [a member of TRANSCEND]. ‘This is a collective white imperialist man’s genocide,’ Nobel Peace Prize nominee says.
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DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request to Arrest Students
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
27 Apr 2024 – The Washington, D.C. police turned down a request by GWU president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus.
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Palestinian Genocide: Worse Than You Can Imagine
Craig Murray | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.
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Revolt in the US Universities
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.
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Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
NO JOKE!
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Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to US Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot.
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War & Genocide on Earth Day
Melissa Garriga | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – On Earth Day, Mon 22 Apr, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers about their love for the planet. U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security.
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United States Hypocrisy – Again
Robert Fantina | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
24 Apr 2024 – On 18 Apr, a proposal was submitted to the UNSC to admit Palestine as a full member. Of the fifteen members, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the USA opposed it after frantic lobbying to convince at least one of them to align, so it would not stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.
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Sermon for Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.
→ read full articleUS Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained.
→ read full articleThe US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.
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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.
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More Than Fifty Species of Fish Circling and Spinning until They Die
Arthur Firstenberg | Cellular Phone Task Force - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Whirling Fish, Bees, Worms, Sheep, Turtles, Penguins – No cause for this has been found. There is no evidence of a red tide, low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites in the dead fish.
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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
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World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!
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World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).
→ read full articleEric Nshimiye, Another Rwandan American Facing Trial in Another Rwandan Witch Hunt
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The totalitarian state of Rwanda is guilty of many forms of transnational repression, including the lawfare exemplified in the case of Eric Nshimiye.
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Likely Widening of Middle East War
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Is Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu moving toward “The Sampson Option”–the use of nuclear weapons (and possible WW III)–as a desperate attempt to avoid his removal as head of state and imprisonment for corruption? The protests against him inside Israel keep growing.
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Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War of Terror.
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The Death of Amr
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Amr Abdallah was one of them.
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CIA Front Companies Play Crucial Role in Arms Pipeline to Ukraine and Profit from the Human Misery it Generates
CIAGate | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – Below is a series that CIAGate published on the CIA’s involvement in the arms pipeline to Ukraine through a shadowy CIA company that supplies drones to Kyiv.
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Lisbon Airport Dance Frenzy (Music Video of the Week)
portugaldreamcoast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Flash Mob Fun at Christmas
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Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
19 Mar 2024 – During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations, but has actually upgraded it.
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A Genocide Foretold
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
30 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is the final stage of a process begun by Israel decades ago. Anyone who did not see this coming blinded themselves to the character and ultimate goals of the apartheid state.
→ read full articleThe CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word. It popped up everywhere.
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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
27 Mar 2024 – British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.
→ read full articleHow Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.
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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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Israel’s Trojan Horse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.
→ read full articlePEN America Self-Destructs
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members.
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