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Heroes of Human History (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Ft Mai Khalil – Please click on Watch on YouTube
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Human Security and Its Dimensions
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.
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Biden or Trump, US Latin American Policy Remains Contemptible: Migration, Drugs, Tariffs
John Perry and Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
30 Jan 2025 – With Donald Trump, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. We look at some of the speculation and address three instances of how the US’s policy may be viewed from a progressive, L.A. perspective.
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Chess Prodigy at Three: He’s Internationally Ranked but Is Confused and Scared by the Limelight
Dipanjan Sinha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Anish Sarkar began playing chess on a train and now practices eight hours a day after becoming the world’s youngest ever FIDE-rated player.
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(Français) Culture Médiatique de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 janvier 2025 – Étant donné que les médias d’information donnent quotidiennement des informations sur les nombreuses guerres qui se déroulent, il est facile de dire qu’ils font partie de la culture de la guerre. Je suppose que CNN a un département spécial pour les informations de fond sur les guerres présentes et futures, tout comme les nécrologies des personnes célèbres pour être prêtes à l’avance lorsque leur décès survient.
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Is It High Time to Phase Out Int’l Laws, Conventions, Accords, Summits…?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – On 10 Dec 1948, the UNGA adopted a Declaration setting out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that should to be universally protected. Born from the atrocities of WW II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the world’s first such declaration. Available in 577 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.
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Fathoms
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons
And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft…
Exhausted Palestinians Arrive in Gaza City to No Homes, Killed Family
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the second day, walking kilometres to reach home. In the crowds is a man with a white beard walking with determination. In one hand, he holds onto his adult son, who has Down Syndrome.
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Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 – 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.
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The Western Wild West
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – “Americans conquered the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions out of poverty, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens. There is nothing we cannot do, no dream we cannot fulfil.” — Trump’s inaugural address
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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Replicate Itself — A Milestone That Has Experts Terrified
Owen Hughes | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
25 Jan 2025 – Scientists say AI crossed a critical “red line” by replicating itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.
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Never Again
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“Never again” means never again for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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New BRICS Banking System Would Render Sanctions Useless, ex-Chancellor Warns
The BRICS Chairmanship - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Lord Lamont of Lerwick, a former chancellor of the Exchequer, has warned that a plan by BRICS countries to create a rival banking payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ and render international sanctions useless.
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War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Since war broke out in Sudan, one million people fled into Chad. Nine out of ten are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence including torture, rape and sexual slavery.
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After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Turns Its Firepower on the West Bank
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel’s military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 3 Feb 2025
What DeepSeek Says about Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War
Cathy Vogan | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
1 Feb 2025 – What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out.
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They Don’t just Tell Us What to Think, They Train Us HOW to Think
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – And this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things.
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The Christian Zionist Leading the International Court of Justice
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
24 Jan 2025 – Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Now the court’s new president, the Ugandan judge plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories.
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Trump’s Hidden Multipolarism
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Trump had begun to express North Americanism, such as the recapture of the Panama Canal and the proposal to annex Canada, before taking office. His repeated statements show that Trump is serious about Americanism, one way of responding to the emerging multipolarity in the world order.
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Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – Not only Israel failed to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon according to ceasefire agreement, it also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109, some in critical condition.
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How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.
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Barbarity vs Civilization [Redux?]
René Georges Hermann-Paul | Le Cri de Paris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“It’s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of “Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it’s a necessary blow for civilization.” –> Costumes & Mores – Ring any bells?
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‘From Ground Zero–Stories from Gaza’: An Appreciation of the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – This extraordinary film, on the 2024 Oscar shortlist for documentaries, consists of 22 episodes stitched together by Palestinian film director Rashid Masharawi but without any effort to curate a narrative experience of the Gaza ordeal now in its 15th month.
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Eliciting Insight within Complex Polyhedral Configurations of Concepts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The future may note the tendency to articulate matter of importance as checklists with some clustering of items. This is evident in declarations such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the regional charters of human rights.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Address to the Nation
Educational Video Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his televised Farewell Address to the Nation. This speech is known for his coining of the term “Military Industrial Complex”.
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A Bedouin Village Was Razed by Israel–Guess Who Gets the Land at Bargain Prices
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – According to Israel, a ‘Local Resident’ of the Negev desert – qualified for subsidized land prices – is not a displaced Bedouin, whose village was destroyed, but rather settlers from the West Bank.
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Rejected by Allies and Condemned as Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Trump’s proposal that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip has been rejected by US allies in the region and attacked as biased, dangerous, illegal and unworkable by lawyers and activists.
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Leaked Documents Expose Deep Ties between Israeli Army and Microsoft
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – Since 7 Oct 2023, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.
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Before, With and After Johan Galtung
Prof. Tiziano Telleschi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
An (almost) Case Study: Symbolic Violence at the Restaurant
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Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” Speech Origins and Significance
US National Archives - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address, on the “military-industrial complex,” was nearly two years in the making. Newly discovered papers reveal that he was deeply involved in crafting the speech, which was to become one of the most famous in U.S. history.
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New Realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Update of an interview with Mohammad Ali Haqshenas, a journalist with the International Quran News Agency, published on 22 Jan 2025.
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(Italiano) Civiltà come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Sei civiltà definiscono 15 muri, religiosamente-filosoficamente ed economicamente-politicamente, come modelli di sviluppo. Lo scontro principale è l’Occidente contro il resto. Colonialismo, imperialismo. La soluzione: vincere, dominare. Ci sono altri modi: compromesso, trascendenza, nuove civiltà.
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Military Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
– that everybody seems to love.
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UN Special Rapporteurs on Palestine Talk Truth to Power as Trump Takes Over the US Government
Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – The first episode of a new podcast initiated by Junaid Ahmed and Paulina Chan, under SHAPE auspices, featuring the three most recent UN Special Rapporteurs on Occupied Palestine.
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Fiqhi* Pathways: The Role of Islamic Jurists in Shaping Armed Group Behavior
Lakhdar Ghettas | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
This research project aims to understand the structures and roles of Islamic jurists in shaping armed group behavior in the MENA and Sahel region.
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E-mails from Palestine: “Are You Okay, Jane?” NO, I Am NOT Okay
Jane Stillwater - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – “Never visit the Holy Land,” people told me before I came here. “It’s not safe.” Actually, it really is perfectly safe here — but only for us tourists.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us Less Intelligent?
Felipe Zamana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – The emergence of AI is calling into question what it means to be intelligent. However, the problem may not lie in tech vs. humans, but instead in our very definition of it.
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Gaza Ceasefire: Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025
Roundtable on the Gaza ceasefire with former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project, Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, and journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News.
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Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
Robert Inlakesh | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – The wave of Israeli attacks in the West Bank this week following Trump’s lifting of settler sanctions and the role of U.S. donors in enabling messianic-settler genocidal extremism.
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(Castellano) Educación, Patrimonio y Cultura de Paz
Fernando Montiel T. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Hablar de patrimonio es hablar de todo aquello con lo que se cuenta, y en este sentido, el tema obliga también a considerar todo lo que se perdió, ya por descuido, por saqueo o por destrucción, y en esa línea de pensamiento no hay carencia de ejemplos en la historia y la geografía.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Jan 2025
Germany’s Reckoning with the Past Is No Longer a Model
Elias Feroz interviews Enzo Traverso | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – In the 1980s, German institutions began to seriously confront their country’s past, but their reactions to the destruction of Gaza show that they failed to draw the right lessons. Both the Holocaust and the Nakba tragedies should be acknowledged and respected. A struggle against antisemitism grounded on the denial of the Nakba is both unethical and ineffective.
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(Italiano) Nucleare silenziato… ma non domato
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Il 22 gennaio 2025 si festeggia il quarto anniversario dell’entrata in vigore del Trattato sulla Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari: armi immorali, illegittime e illegali. Ebbene: nonostante l’evidenza che le armi nucleari costituiscono una minaccia crescente per l’umanità.
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Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
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The West’s Dominance Is Over! On Gaza, Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO Shift
Prof. Jan Oberg | SaltCubeAnalytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Peace researcher Jan Oberg on the unraveling of Western dominance. From NATO’s aggressive expansion to its role in global instability, to the devastation in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and Sweden’s controversial move into NATO.
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The Choice Is Ours?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or will we have peace?
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A Day That Many of Us Have Dreaded
Bernie Sanders | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, Inauguration day. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is one of the most pivotal and difficult moments in the history of our country. What happens in the next few years will impact this country and the world for decades. Despair is not an option. We must aggressively educate and organize and go forward together.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
“Human beings make metaphors as naturally as bees make honey,” Adam Gopnik wrote in his wondrous love letter to winter, and no one has honeyed the spirit with more splendid metaphors wrung from winter than Henry David Thoreau.
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Which Genocide Are You On?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” -– Voltaire
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Israel Holds Multiple Palestinian Doctors Captive–Some Are already Dead
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of many unlawfully imprisoned medical professionals, reportedly tortured and abused in detention.
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The Media Navigator (2025)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – The Media Navigator classifies 72 leading media outlets based on their political stance and their establishment bias. In many cases, the latter is more significant.
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Biden Commutes Sentence for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier
Colleen Long, et al. | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence today.
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January 20, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The tone for Trump’s inauguration was set on Fri 17 Jan, when he launched his own cryptocurrency. By Sun morning, it had made more than $50 billion. A financial asset that didn’t exist on Fri today accounts for 89% of Trump’s net worth.
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Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, plan and justify wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but they mostly provide analyses that neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).
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The Return
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Déjà-Vu…
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The Dismal Pseudo-Science
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Economists claim their discipline is a science. If so, it is an odd one. For the deeper you probe its foundations, the shakier its superstructure looks. Modern-day economics is built on two convenient untruths.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 3): The Dangerous Delusion that Governments, including BRICS, are Sovereign and Can Stop the Technocratic Takeover
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
As the geopolitical order is being rapidly reshaped to better serve Elite interests, most analysts writing on the subject are being suckered into perceiving the BRICS as some sort of ‘alternative’.
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Palestinian Prisoner Release
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – The International Movement for a Just World shares the joy expressed by many Palestinians over the release from Israeli jails of 90 Palestinian prisoners.
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People in Syria Are Afraid
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Interview by Rick Sterling with a high-level translator and university professor who lives in Damascus on 15 Jan. Qusay is not his real name.
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President Trump: Act Two
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
What is sure for peacebuilders and citizens of the world is that we stand on the verge of four more years of serious challenges. Thus, there is a need for cooperative and courageous action.
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How to Base Human Institutions on Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – The Necessary Failure of Trumpism and Fascism
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Say You Want an Evolution
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 Anglo America…
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – I am very pleased to announce the release of the statement below, initiated by my friend and colleague, Roy Eidelson, President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence.
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Rwanda Advances toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The US and EU have collaborated with Rwanda’s colonization project since it first invaded DRC, at that time Zaire, in 1996. The minerals traffic is so profitable that the European Commission shocked Congolese in Feb 2024 by announcing a “Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains ” between the EU and Rwanda.
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Functional Coexistence in Socio-political Conflict: Enabling Social Change across Decades
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – Book Launch, Webinar Announcement
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In the Thick of It
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Here in the thick of it,
our eyes full of pixels and our veins full of microplastics,
out here with the child amputees in Gaza
and the frightened street schizophrenics in Los Angeles
Megadroughts Are on the Rise Worldwide
Carolyn Gramling | ScienceNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Megadroughts are increasing worldwide–and they’re also becoming both hotter and drier. A most extreme one has helped fuel California’s wildfires.
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Ly O Lay Ale Loya [Circle Dance] (Music Video of the Week)
Cipi Crisan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Native American Song – It conveys the stories, legends and plight of the Native Americans by combining sampled chants of the Navajo, Pueblo and Sioux tribes.
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Old Story – New Twist
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
At Trump’s inauguration, the billionaires were in the front row while his picks for secretaries were behind them. This image sums the momentous transformations gripping our planet.
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‘I Felt like a Nazi’: Zionists Admit Genocide
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – On 23 Dec 2024, Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza.
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Says Ceasefire Deal Allows a ‘Return to Fighting under U.S. Guarantee’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement today that the Gaza ceasefire deal will allow “Israel to return to fighting under American guarantee.” It was a response to Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, who threatened to quit the coalition government if the ceasefire deal is approved.
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The Ceasefire Charade
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
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Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza
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Israeli Government Approves Hostage/Ceasefire Deal, to Take Effect Sun 19 Jan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Netanyahu told his Security Cabinet he will not allow the agreement to end the attacks on Gaza.
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What We Don’t Know about the US Presidents We Elect
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Notes on the Occasion of an Inauguration
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
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Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.
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The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
The introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Agreement: Key Points and Steps Toward Reconstruction
Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, set to unfold in three stages, establishes steps for military cessation, detainee exchanges, and humanitarian relief, ultimately aiming for Gaza’s reconstruction and lasting peace. Below are the confirmed details.
→ read full articleThe Conflagration
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 in the old US of A
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: ‘This Is the Last Phase of Zionism’
Anealla Safdar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – Pappe talks on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.
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Ukrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Why it is still the key to peace, just as when Ukraine negotiated a peace agreement with Russia in 2022, which the USA tragically rejected and blocked.
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Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
In January 1963, as Central Europe was entering its harshest winter in eighty years, Dervla Murphy mounted her bicycle named Roz and left Ireland for India, by way of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
IPS | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates, who participate as ‘guests,’ most of them working for big business corporations.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA GENOCIDE 20 Jan 2025
Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – The BND operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. It provides a unique, innovative model.
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Happy 1984!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today’s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense…
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‘Far too Little, far too Late,’ Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba from Terror List
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – In a move likely to be reversed by Trump, Biden today notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a designation politically motivated and meritless.
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The UN Can End the Middle East Conflict by Welcoming Palestine as a Member
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – The UN’s 80th birthday in 2025 can be the occasion for a solution to the conflict in the ME by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The UN Conference on Palestine, on June 2025, can be a turning point.
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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.
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Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”
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Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
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US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
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Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
Human Wrongs Watch | International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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First Ceasefire Then Palestinian Liberation
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Today, after 15 months of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, supported and enabled by the U.S.A., a 42-day ceasefire was reported. We hope for a halt to military bombardments, an end to the starvation of Palestinians, and the return of hostages from Israel and Gaza to their families.
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – This is an official statement of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, and does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.
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Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.
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‘Major Blow to Freedom of Expression’: US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – The US Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok if its Chinese parent company does not sell the popular social media app by Sunday [19 Jan]. One ACLU campaigner blasted the justices for “giving the executive branch unprecedented power to silence speech it doesn’t like.”
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Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Dialogue between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
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