Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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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.
→ read full articleClarifying 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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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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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”.
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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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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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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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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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
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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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.
→ read full articleHind’s Hall (Music Video of the Week)
Macklemore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
All Proceeds to UNRWA
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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.”
→ read full articleDe-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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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
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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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.
→ read full articleWhat 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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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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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
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.
→ read full articleBiden’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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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.
→ read full articleThe 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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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.
→ read full articleSixty 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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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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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
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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Can the U.S. Afford Its Military Aid Promises?
CNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Joe Biden signed a $95 billion U.S. military aid package last April to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. The NDAA of 2024 authorized military spending of a record $886 billion. “Most of that money will go to support US defense industries.” Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman had DoD contracts of more than $118 billion in 2022.
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Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian (Hi)story
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
“A land without a people, for a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jews was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history has been written through these eyes. This is the other side of the Palestinian (hi)story.
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A 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 . . .
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Home – Naive Melody (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
From the movie ‘This Must Be the Place’ (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Ganesh
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Lord Ganesh is son of Shiva and Parvati, being the Demigod of luck and of “opening the way.” That is why devotees pray to Him before starting a new project in order to proceed with as few obstacles as possible.
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If We Say Yes: On Open Letters and Campus Protests
Amia Srinivasan | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
An open letter is an unloved thing. Written by committee and in haste, it is a monument to compromise: a minimal statement to which all signatories can agree, or – worse – a maximal statement that no signatory fully believes. Some academics have a general policy against signing them.
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Can the ICC Finally Gain Credibility?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – I want to call more explicit attention to the crude efforts by Netanyahu to call openly for the exertion of pressure on the ICC by the USA and other ‘democracies,’ seeking to induce the ICC rejection of this Global South attempt to criminalize Israel’s use of a genocidal force.
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Ninth Symphony [Ode to Joy], the Choral (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
13 May 2024
Today we commemorate Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Choral, first performed in Vienna exactly 200 years ago, on 7 May 1824. It has become the Hymn (Anthem) of Europe.
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Let Israel’s Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
5 May 2024 – They cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor is it possible to blame only Hamas, even if it has a part in the crimes. We are the ones who killed, starved, displaced, and destroyed on such a massive scale. Someone must be brought to justice for this. Netanyahu is the head, of course.
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Nonviolent 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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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Enhancing Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Integration with AI – There are widespread calls for unity and unification in the face of division, fragmentation and polarization — with some endeavouring to impose particular understandings of hegemony as the only viable response.
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As Gaza Assault Intensifies, Egypt Joins ICJ Case Accusing Israel of Genocide
Olivia Rosane | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
12 May 2024 – Egypt announced today that it would join South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. “It’s a real diplomatic punch,” a former Israeli diplomat said. “Israel would have to take it very seriously.”
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“We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast until Divestment Demands Are Met
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands.
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The Pattern of Bibi’s Desperate Proposals
Seymour M. Hersh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – What a twenty-five-year-old memo by Daniel Ellsberg says about the past failures of Lyndon Johnson and the current horrors of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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‘The Scenes of the Nakba Are Repeating’: Rafah in Panic as Israeli Invasion Begins
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – With Israeli forces entering Gaza’s southernmost city, Palestinians describe their hardships and fears in the Strip’s last vanishing refuge.
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Pro-Israel Literal False Flag Exposed
Briahna Joy Gray | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
24 Apr 2024 – Briahna Joy Gray delivers a radar on the media’s disingenuous coverage of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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