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Clarifying a Two-state Pattern Language of 64 Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024 – This is written in a period in which there are major ongoing conflicts, most obviously with respect to Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas. Citizens of other countries are being advised to leave Lebanon in anticipation of major conflict and its probable escalation in the Middle East. Developing an AI-enabled Methodology to Reframe Binary Bias
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The Path Forward
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
11 Aug 2024 – We are 15 million indigenous Palestinians, over 8 million of us are intentionally made refugees or displaced. So far, over 250,000 Palestinians were killed or perished prematurely thanks to genocidal policies since 1948. A million were injured and another million imprisoned since 1948 by Zionists.
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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said.
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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 79th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
6 Aug 2024 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read today by Hiroshima’s Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 79 years since the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city.
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What Makes Life Alive: Vassily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
“Every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life,” William Blake wrote in an era when science first began raising questions with spiritual undertones: What is life? Where does it begin and end? What makes it alive?
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Venezuela: An Attempted Coup by Any Other Name
María Páez Victor | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack.
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Paris Olympics 2024: Céline Dion Sings l’Hymne À L’amour (Music Video of the Week)
Eurosport - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
26 Jun 2024 – Céline Made History at the Top of the Eiffel Tower
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Purpose
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
We can help without interfering
In the fate unfolding
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Aug 2024
(Italiano) Sudan. Un genocidio periferico che non interessa nessuno
Gianni Tognoni | Volere la Luna - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 ago 2024 – RSF era la milizia del genocidio, che è stata ribattezzata Janjawee, e finanziata dall’UE con milioni di euro, per fungere da lupi che proteggono i rifugiati africani dal raggiungere l’Europa cristiana bianca, dopo il genocidio del Sudan del Sud.
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Maga-Man and Fertility Lad
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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US Elites Fail to Sink Chinese Swimmers
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – US political and media elites tried but failed to sink the Chinese swimming team that performed well despite the increased stress caused by media-induced rumors of “Chinese doping” at the Paris Olympics. Now, the tables are being turned as the US anti-doping regime is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism.
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Lytton’s Disciple: Sorcerer Behind Ripper Murders
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
While the Ripper murders were underway, D’Onston was a patient in London’s Whitechapel Hospital during the total duration of the killings; he began writing articles on the topic of the killer’s identity for his long-time employer The Pall Mall Gazette (for whom he worked since 1869).
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Rethinking Conflict: The Cultural Approach
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Conflict is a complex human phenomenon and should by no means be confused with violence. Although conflicts may lead to violence, they are totally different conceptually. At the root of a conflict there is always an incompatibility, a contradiction, between goals.
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Palestinian Prisoners Endure ‘Guantanamo-like’ Conditions in Israeli Torture Camps: Report
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – A new report from The Washington Post published today details Israel’s torture, starvation, and killing of Palestinians in its prison system in a manner resembling the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
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Between Killing with Nukes and the Possibility of a Nonkilling Global Society
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. | Center for Global Nonkilling, India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – 79 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the risk of killing directly and indirectly with nukes remains tangible. When I say directly, I mean at any time; nuclear weapons can be used by accident, miscalculation or by the willingness of nuclear states.
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(Italiano) LA PACE E’ POSSIBILE. Sant’Anna di Stazzema 12 agosto 2024 ore 15:00
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Incontro a cura dei Camminatori per la Pace e il Disarmo.
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‘Another Day of Horror’: UN Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes at Gazan School
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
10 Aug 2024 – The UN Human Rights Office condemned today the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.
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Beautiful Encounter
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
10 Aug 2024 – These days I am living in a big city—Toronto–in Canada. I have come to this large city from India, which is having quite a warm and uncomfortable season.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years. It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.
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Western Ambassadors to Skip Nagasaki Memorial after Israel Snub
Channel News Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
7 Aug 2024 – Ambassadors from Western countries including the United States will skip a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was snubbed, officials said today.
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Human Rights World Report 2024: Israel and Palestine
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
In 2023, civilians were targeted, attacked, and killed at a unprecedented scale in the recent history of Israel and Palestine.
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Torture, Abuse and Humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli Prison ‘Hell’
Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha, Bethan McKernan, and Quique Kierszenbaum | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
5 Aug 2024 – Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation in ‘torture camp’ jails presided over by Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace. Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.
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Pakistan: Let the Nation Be Free of Criminals
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Looking Beyond the Obvious Political Lens
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Hiroshima: The Unknown Images
La 2de Guerre Mondiale – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
29 Jun 2024 – On 6 Aug 1945 at 8:15 a.m., a bright flash set the sky over Hiroshima ablaze as a gigantic column of smoke rises above the city. The first nuclear bomb in history has just been dropped on one of the largest metropolis in Japan. This new documentary shows this tragedy from the inside using photos taken that day.
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World-Ending Maneuvers?
Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
7 Aug 2024 – Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today – The Pentagon’s $2 trillion plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines, which benefits contractors such as Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.
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Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – “Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic.
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And Out of the Ashes
Farah Habad | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Out of the ashes,
rose a helicopter.
An unwelcome phoenix.
Gaza: Thousands on the Run again Following New Israeli Evacuation Order
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
8 Aug 2024 – Thousands of people in Gaza have been fleeing west toward Al Mawasi after the Israel military issued a new evacuation order today, UN humanitarian partners on the ground have reported.
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Experts Hail ICJ Declaration on Illegality of Israel’s Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “Historic”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Israel and other UN Member States must immediately comply with the authoritative determination by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, independent human rights experts said today.
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Three Israeli Army Refusers: ‘We Will Not Participate in Genocide’
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.
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The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
The book, The Edge of the Sea, was an ambitious guide to the seashore — the place where Carson found “a sense of the unhurried deliberation of earth processes that move with infinite leisure, with all eternity at their disposal.”
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The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aviva Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Getting Beyond the Stereotypes from Colombia to the US to Gaza – 9 Aug is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as the UN declared in 1994, the day the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations had its initial meeting in 1982.
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Israeli Military in Spotlight over ‘Incommunicado’ Detention, Torture of Palestinians
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – A new UN Report published today into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of Palestinians detained by the Israeli authorities since the genocide erupted in Gaza last October has documented a range of serious violations and torture.
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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.
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“Welcome to Hell”: U.S. Silence on Israel’s Network of Torture Camps
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
8 Aug 2024 – Palestinian solidarity activists are focusing on presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris, who opted not to preside over Netanyahu’s recent address to a joint session of Congress. Activists disrupted her speech in Detroit chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.”
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The Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Will Only Embolden Resistance
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran. Israel has proven it can kill massive numbers of Palestinian civilians and assassinate political leaders, but it has been unable to defeat an armed insurgency in Gaza.
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A Whirlwind Visit to Beijing for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
27 Jul 2024 – Let me take you on a swirling trip to Beijing – to a unique conference, to people, institutions, fun and beauty, street views, media, dinners and more.
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The Victims’ Pact: Rwanda and Israel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – Rwanda (Kagame) weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just as Israel (Netanyahu) weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Starvation–No Food or Medical Supplies Are Entering Gaza–the Casualty Rate Is a Mere Fraction of the Death Rate
Paul Larudee | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in much larger numbers from starvation and disease than from Israeli weaponry as no food or medical supplies are getting into Gaza. Even the handcarried supplies that outside medical personnel used to bring in are now prohibited and confiscated.
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The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also Killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.
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The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
“No one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” Because the beach is where the body meets the sea, it is a place of encounter with the native poetry of the soul.
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How Israeli Soldiers Film Their War Crimes for Social Media
Charles Villa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
5 Jul 2024 – Must Watch
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False Flag? Syria Attributes Deadly Golan Strike to Israel, Denounces Attempts to Expand War
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
28 Jul 2024 – Damascus said Tel Aviv is using the incident to ignite the region, warning that the people of the Golan Heights ‘will not be fooled.’
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Does Israel Really Believe It Can Win a War Against Hezbollah?
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Amal Saad, a leading expert on the Lebanese resistance movement, says all-out war could lead to Israel’s downfall.
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Olympic Boxing Controversy: Gender-Bending Is the New Doping
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
3 Aug 2024 – The Paris Olympics triggered culture warriors by dumping drag queens all over the opening ceremony. Is it time to make DNA and other tests to ascertain athletes’ gender as important as drug screenings?
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‘An Entirely Preventable Disaster’: Health Officials Warn of Catastrophic Polio Epidemic in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – In July health officials in Gaza detected the polio virus in the water. Now, the threat of a polio outbreak has been declared an epidemic, and officials are demanding an immediate ceasefire and vaccination campaign “before it’s too late.”
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79 Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
The upcoming 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on 6 and 9 Aug 1945, remains a grim reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapons. The US bombings killed an estimated 90,000 to 210,000.
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Israel: It’s Time for All of Us to Divest
Scott Plous | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – You may be profiting financially from the war in Gaza. It’s easier than you think to change that.
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(Italiano) La sentenza della Corte Internazionale di Giustizia sull’occupazione israeliana della Palestina è importante
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Luglio 2024 – Questo livello di consenso giudiziario, in un’atmosfera così politicamente polarizzata, depone a favore della considerazione della sentenza della Corte internazionale di giustizia come autorevole quando si tratta di valutare il comportamento di Israele come potenza occupante in relazione al diritto internazionale umanitario.
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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.
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On Greatness, MAGA
Ireland for Peace in Palestine | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
No Comment
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(Français) Projet d’un Manifeste 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Août 2024 – Le blog précédent proposait de reprendre le Manifeste 2000 là où il s’était arrêté, de le renommer Manifeste 2025, de recueillir à nouveau des signatures et de lancer des actions.
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – Fans of capitalism say it is democratic and supports democracy. Some equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably; it is simply not true and never was. It is more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites.
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UN Report on Arbitrary Detention and Abhorrent Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners
Talia Mullin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – A new 23-page report has been released from the UN Human Rights department detailing the arbitrary detention, abuse, mistreatment, humiliation, torture, and prolonged incommunicado sentences of thousands of Palestinians including sexual abuse and deaths in Israeli custody.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Many would believe that a House and a Home are the same thing. However, there is a significant difference between these two words despite the fact that it is a dwelling where a family or one or two (or more) people live together. Yet, there is a marked difference between the two terms.
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Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways to Tell Their Media about the Terror Inside Gaza
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – Israeli soldiers bask in the self-serving praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it… If you don’t care what Netanyahu is doing over there, you’d better care about what he’s doing to the US, our Congress, our tax dollars, our freedom of speech and our national security.
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Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday
Arthur Larok | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
24 July 2024 – From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Meanwhile in the US of A
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Put a Woman in Charge (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
“My mother just recently passed at the age of 91. She was smart. She was strong. She was a leader. This video is dedicated to her and amazing women everywhere that are getting the job done.” — Keb’ Mo’
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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.
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Under Israeli Law, UNRWA Is about to Become a Terrorist Organisation
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
27 Jul 2024 – The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.
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Build Stronger Track-II Networks in the Absence of Governmental Negotiations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Track-I Diplomacy are official governmental negotiations with their research and intelligence resources. Track-II “back channels” of informal contacts are non-official efforts, usually by NGOs with backup resources from academic institutions.
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Starvation in Sudan
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate – Sudan should simply no longer be callously ignored.
→ read full articleAfter the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
The successor system to the US empire will be neither a hegemony run by one big actor like China or the EU, nor globalization run by the TNCs, but a world of regions. A global common currency may come but the regions will dominate as the state system is fading.
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Despite ‘Tough’ Talk on Netanyahu, US Enforces Israeli Aggression
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – As US officials have quietly acknowledged, the US is not defending Israel from any threats, but Israel’s right to threaten everyone else – what the New York Times described as Israel’s “aura of power.” Blocking multiple diplomatic opportunities, the US and Israel threaten new regional escalation.
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Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up
Hugh Turley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century. He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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Invitation to the Memorial Gathering for Johan Vincent Galtung in Hardanger, Norway
Susanne Urban - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Dear friends of Johan Galtung and his great and persistent impulse for peace until he died on 17 Feb this year, aged 93. We invite you to a gathering in Jondal to commemorate the extensive work of the father of peace research.
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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – While the world is absorbed in the U.S. election drama, the derivatives time bomb continues to tick menacingly backstage. Warren Buffet famously labeled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” in 2002. Twenty years later, financial commentators have put it as high as $3.7 quadrillion.
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The Uncounted Gaza Victims: Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Being Allowed to Die
Eva Bartlett | – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
23 Jul 2024 – The Lancet published an article estimating that the number of Palestinian civilian deaths could be five times higher than the official death toll. “Up to 186 000 or even more; this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”
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Growing Demands for Peace in Ukraine as the Kiev Regime Criminalizes 7 Million Ukrainian Men Refusing to Join the War
Dmitri Kovalevich | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
As of mid-July, widely-read bloggers begun to advocate an early cessation of hostilities and several legislators voiced support. Vladyslava Rogovenko on Instagram, 8 Jul: “Let the clown [Zelensky] go and negotiate peace. Enough of innocent deaths and this horror! How long will this continue? My anger has no limit!”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 5 Aug 2024
If Only
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Violence and killing
Originating multifariously
In lethal minds
Nagasaki Excludes Israel from Nuclear Bombing Memorial
Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – The Japanese city of Nagasaki will not invite Israel to its annual ceremony for the victims of the US 1945 nuclear attack on 9 Aug, the city’s mayor announced today. He said the decision stems from a desire for peace during the ceremony.
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Venezuelans Re-Elect President Maduro Despite U.S. Organized Coup Attempt
Gloria Guillo | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change. It is also committing racketeer-level crimes against its people.
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Draft for a Manifesto 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Aug 2024 – The previous blog proposed taking up the Manifesto 2000 where it left off, renaming it the Manifesto 2025, gathering signatures once again and initiating action.
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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy. To consider this overdue act ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’ is to rob those precious words of their proper meaning. Harris seems to have handled the political [Netanyahu] situation in an encouragingly skillful manner.
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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.
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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
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Israel’s Bombing of Gaza 4.6 Times Stronger in Total Explosive Force Than Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing
TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Israel has dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Palestine’s Gaza since 7 Oct, exceeding World War II bombings of Dresden, Hamburg and London combined, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
→ read full articleReframing “Two-state” Possibilities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to “the” Israel-Palestine “two-state” solution.
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Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.
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Anti-Zionist Rabbi Calls for Continued Boycott of Companies Backing Israel
MalaysiaNow - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss has called on opponents of the Zionist state to continue boycotting companies allied to Israel when asked about the Putrajaya’s deal with a company owned by US fund manager BlackRock.
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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.
→ read full articleNonkilling Political Science, Human Rights, and the Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
First, I will briefly define the terms non-killing, nuclear weapons, and human rights. Second, I will discuss how the concept of non-killing relates to human rights and how activists and scholars from these two areas can work together to eliminate the nuclear weapons threat.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.
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My Thoughts on Biden Dropping Out
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, Joe Biden’s billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature. The Democrats gave us Trump in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.
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Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by “heavy shooting” from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.
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US Domestic Policies and Laws Regarding Weapons Transfers to Israel
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Irony? The same week the ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of The West Bank illegal under International Law, Netanyahu broke the record (formerly held by Winston Churchill) for the number of times a head of state addressed the US Congress.
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Israel Destroys Gaza and Palestine and Arab Leaders Lost the Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth
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Cry, the Beloved World
Gus Speth | Democracy Collaborative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – Occasional reflections on the systemic crisis and the next system.
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[No Joke] Pure Ugly Propaganda
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Tragicomedy among War Criminals
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Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel’s Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
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Footsteps in the Sand: Gaza Antiwar/Peace/Protest Songs (Music Video of the Week)
Jazz Attack | Vision Music Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jan 2024 – The hope for Peace and Reconciliation, return of the hostages, and the despair especially of the children.
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Humiliation Upon Request
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all. Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.
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Burning Injustice: Activists Battle to Shut Down California’s Toxic Incinerator
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – A powerful short documentary of the fight against one of the last trash incinerators in California. The film exposes the devastating health consequences of pollution and highlights their tireless efforts to close the facility for good.
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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, …
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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.
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