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Extermination Works. At First.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state.
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A Window into a Fascist Engine: Arbitrary Abuse, Population Control, and Israel’s Impossible Destruction of Palestinians
Rajiv Sinha | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Part of a multifaith human rights delegation to Palestine, I was refused entry to the West Bank by Israel, detained, questioned, my laptop and phone confiscated. I was screamed at, laughed at, not allowed to the bathroom, labelled a public security threat, fingerprinted and expelled to Jordan with my phone blocked and my bank card not working. I am now back home in London.
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On Sisters and Personal Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
I usually try to relay situations on the ground that are missing from the manipulated/controlled western “mainstream” media.
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In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
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War on Gaza and How the US and Israel Dehumanize Human Culture
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Today’s Humanity Is Victim of Powerful Political Cults
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Prof. Johan Galtung: Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Johan Galtung was a professor of Peace Studies worldwide who mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His unique imprint on the study of Conflict and Peace stems from scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics. His TRANSCEND motto: Peace by Peaceful Means.
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A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.
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‘Slow Torture’: Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“Female journalists, completely stripped, blindfolded, beaten, and tortured, with the sounds of dogs threatening to maul them on one side, while a male interrogator threatens them with rape on the other. What humanity can we speak of in the face of such horror?”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
* Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
* LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 21 Oct 2024
The Song Israel Doesn’t Want You to Hear (Music Video of the Week)
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – They Really Did All of This
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(Italiano) “La Guerra È Una Pazzia”
Don Mimmo Battaglia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Ottobre 2024 – Appello di Don Mimmo Battaglia ai Ministri della Difesa riuniti a Napoli in occasione della Presidenza Italiana del G7.
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Is Political West Bailing Out Due to ‘Real and Increasing Ukraine Fatigue’?
Drago Bosnic | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The term “Ukraine fatigue” is not new but its latest usage breaks off from the usual pattern and may indicate that the world’s most aggressive power pole is looking for ways to leave the Neo-Nazi junta to fend for itself.
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We Must Purge Genocide from the Marrow of Our Bones
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – This was never about freeing hostages, getting rid of Hamas, Israel’s “right to defend itself,” mass rapes, beheaded babies, or babies cooked in ovens. It was always about stealing land from the indigenous people of Palestine.
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A Gaza Development Corporation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – There is increasing discussion concerning the Gaza Strip, its relation to the West Bank, and “the day after” when there is a ceasefire, people return to their home area, and reconstruction begins.
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Deaths, Injuries as Israeli Military Bombs Displacement Tents in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – An Israeli air strike on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Hospital has killed many Palestinians, injured dozens and caused a huge fire. The attack hit tents where many displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. This is the seventh time this year Israel has targeted Al Aqsa Hospital, killing civilians who were forced to flee their homes.
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USA [aka evil empire] Deploys THAAD Missile System and 100 Troops to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
13 Oct 2024 – The Pentagon announced today it is deploying a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, a strong show of support for attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; part of the US and Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.
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Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Enters Day 372
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
12 Oct 2024 – In the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians — half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 372nd consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’
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PACE Hearing on Julian Assange’s Detention and Conviction and Their Chilling Effects on Human Rights
PACE TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Streamed live on 1 Oct 2024 – “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration, I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was.”
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Gaza: Dramatic Escalation of Humanitarian Catastrophe with Forced Mass Displacement of Civilians
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Aid Organisations Warning: Israel’s new displacement orders in northern Gaza threaten to force civilians into ever-shrinking areas and endanger aid operations.
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Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
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October 7: A Grim Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Israel has been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behavior toward the Palestinians. Its greatest triumph is the manner with which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 in North America and Europe.
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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat
Aluf Benn | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure – After a year of war, the long-term threats to Israel’s democracy are graver than ever.
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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine Is More Dangerous Than Ever — But It’s the Only Way Forward
Sami Awad | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – We are not going to build a better future for all people in this land by killing or dominating each other. We need a proactive nonviolent movement with vision and strategy.
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2024 Nobel Literature Prize: Han Kang Refuses to Celebrate Award while People Die in Wars
The Korea Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference; she cites the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine genocide.
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Powerlessness over Genocide
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
US political elites are not powerless to restrain the rogue Israeli regime: They are powerless to act against the grotesque lobby—AIPAC–to which they have sold themselves, their souls, their country.
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Cash Will Soon Flow: The New Climate Colonialism
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) – The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
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Nuclear Weapons: The Price
W.J. Hennigan | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US is set to spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to revamp its nuclear arsenal. The spending spree is underway in at least 23 states and follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. Along with the subs, a new fleet of bomber jets, land-based missiles and thermonuclear warheads.
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The Astonishing Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
No Kidding…
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Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – The UN has just approved an historic Pact for the Future and a Declaration for Future Generations on the occasion of its Summit of the Future. The use of “connectives” in debate — whether logical, emotional, “spiritual”, or action-oriented — is necessarily fundamental to the articulation of coherent strategy.
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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.
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How Blinken Turned the US Diplomatic Corps into a Wing of the Military
Ted Snider | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. U.S. officials have echoed that approach. In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.
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Palestine and the People of the World
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision made by the UN General Assembly linked to the violence and wars that mark our present moment in history.
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A Brave and Startling Truth
Maya Angelou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns…
US Arms Dealers Witness ‘Record Profits’ from Israel’s Year-Long Genocide in Gaza, War on Lebanon
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US and Israel’s ongoing military escalation across West Asia has helped the aerospace and defense industry outperform expectations.
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New Documentary on Who Profits from US Deportations & Border-Industrial Complex
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
17 Sep 2024 – ‘Borderland: The Line Within’ explores the human impact of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and border militarization. The film tells the stories of asylum seekers fleeing violence in their home countries…
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Israeli Troops Fire at 3 UNIFIL Positions in Southern Lebanon, U.N. Source Says
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon today. The source said one of the locations fired at was the main base of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon-UNIFIL at Naqoura.
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Our World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
There are different ways of helping poor people.
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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin on the meaning of solidarity–the culmination of his studies of the cooperation networks of social insects and his outrage at the destructive power structures of human society.
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Militarism and Genocide in Gaza: The Bloody Signature of Western Decline
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The Palestinian ordeal is not a consequence of the inadequacy of legal norms or mechanisms. The primary obstacle is one of political will, especially of the Global West, and of leading Arab neighbors, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt.
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(Greek-ελληνικά) Ιστορική ανάλυση της παγκόσμιας ελίτ: Λεηλασία της παγκόσμιας οικονομίας μέχρι να «μην σας ανήκει τίποτα»
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
This is a Greek translation of the two-part article, ‘Ransacking the World Economy until You’ll Own Nothing’
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UN Commission Finds War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Health Facilities and Treatment of Detainees, Hostages
UN Human Rights High Commissioner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities.
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One Year of Genocide in the Books
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – These 25,500 dots represent the over 41,000 Palestinians wiped out by Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza in the past year. Every dot stands for a life erased, a family shattered, in a systematic campaign to destroy an entire people.
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One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – One: Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful agency.
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Hibakusha Receive Nobel Peace Prize
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
On 11 Oct 2024, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, announced that it had been awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear arms organization Nikon Hidankyo for striving for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Dear Pentagon
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – As someone on the Pentagon’s mailing list, I was recently sent a question: ‘How do you think the Pentagon is faring and what suggestions do you have to improve our performance? My reply:
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks: Israeli Cabinet Members
Yaniv Cogan | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Since the start of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the US-backed army has become the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers worldwide.
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What Happened to Protest Music around the World?
Ivie Ani | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Mainstream musicians–a group once instrumental in amplifying sociopolitical causes and movements–are silent. The business of entertainment pop discourages artists from engaging in protest.
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It Is the Lack of a Two-State Solution That Most Threatens Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracized by the international community, and also faces grave economic and military threats as the regional war expands.
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IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
Mick Hall | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel continues to isolate itself diplomatically. A diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers.
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US-Israeli Rampage in the Middle East: Barreling Towards WWIII
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins Abby Martin to talk about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Nasrallah, and the potential for war with Iran.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
What happens when the US empire not only declines but falls, will we follow? Will the world poor rise against us? Who am I, with whom am I, on the right side, the wrong? How has my mother-in-law programmed her daughter for it all? A super-complex world.
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Why Is the ‘Liberal’ Media Peddling the Vilest Genocide Apologism?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Howard Jacobson’s article in today’s Observer may be one the vilest pieces of journalism in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel’s slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a “blood libel” and antisemitic.
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11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live by
David Fenton | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Advice Learned through 50 Years of Progressive Media Activism
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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
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Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide.
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Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven (Music Video of the Week)
Trio Sōra | Philharmonie de Paris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Sōra: A bird that sings while taking flight (Amerindian name)
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Israel’s Netanyahu Warns Lebanon Could Face Destruction ‘like Gaza’
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu claimed Israel has killed slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s “replacement, and the replacement of his replacement”. His remarks came as Hezbollah strikes Haifa.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 14 Oct 2024
Picking Up the Kids: by Mr. Fish and Roger Waters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish. 10 Downing Street, London:
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The Syrian Civil War Rekindled?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The war in Lebanon, which began in July this year, in which Israel has been ferociously attacking and weakening Hezbollah, is likely to rekindle the Syrian Civil War, which has been virtually over for several years.
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Speaking Truth to Power
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
All Said…
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Part of the Mechanism of Genocide in Palestine: The Complicity of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu justified Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza in a speech to US Congress in July: ‘It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization; between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.’ The BBC did not provide an editorial warning that many would find such words ‘abhorrent.’
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Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Jin Yanagawa | Asahi Shimbun/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”
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The Geopolitics of Southeast Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – A geopolitical issue of Southeast Europe became very important for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history.
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “In Gaza, we are not simply treating children with war wounds, but wounded children who are dehydrated, under-nourished, who have lost everything they knew of safety, who are so psychologically traumatized by displacement and loss that some plead with our medics to just let them die.”
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Citizenship & Genocide Cards
Natalie Brinham - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. It examines the multiple uses of state issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide.
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I Have Seen the Insides of Too Many Dead Kids
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to have any patience for status quo politics or centrist incrementalism.
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Iran’s Missile Attack on Israel: Explained
Glenn Greenwald | System Update – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Glenn Greenwald uses the mainstream media coverage of the recent Iranian aerial attack on Israel to highlight the contradictions in their reporting.
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“Escalate to De-escalate”: What Led Iran to Attack Israel
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Yesterday evening, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missile attacks striking sites throughout Israel, in retaliation for its recent assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan.
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Israel’s Bloody Endgame
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a widening onslaught against Hezbollah as tensions mount with Iran. Such developments have affected the US relation to the conflict.
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The Chaos Israel Is Sowing Across the Middle East Will Come Back to Haunt It
David Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – A ritual is performed every time Israel starts another war and the white phosphorus rains down. It’s called the ceasefire ritual – an abject public display of hand-washing, most of it choreographed.
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Reframing Challenges of Governance of SDGs through Music
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Rendering Comprehensible the 16 Logical Connectives of Discourse with AI Assistance – Despite the insights offered and suggested by logic and rationality, it is evident that these are called into question by emotions and spirituality.
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Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.
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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.
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(Italiano) Più creatività, per favore!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Le istituzioni latin-americane domani possono diventare quelle dell’Asia Orientale, entrambe ispirate da e ispirazione per l’Unione Africana e soprattutto dalla madre delle Unioni, quella Europea, persa nel divario fra il desiderio di essere emulata e la paura d’irritare i nordamericani.
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Happy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.
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We’re the Fucking Terrorists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers invading Lebanon while Israeli soldiers are killing women, children, medical staff and journalists. Guess which side the west calls terrorists. “Terrorist organization” is an arbitrary designation by western narrative to justify war and militarism.
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Macron Calls for Arms Embargo against Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – France Asserts Itself against Netanyahu over Lebanon
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Need for Action
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Zionism forcefully transformed a multi-ethnic/cultural/religious/lingual country called Palestine into a “Jewish state of Israel.” There are 15 million Palestinians, 8 million refugees, and millions living in reservations/ghettos/bantustans/concentration camps being subjected to brutal daily attacks and torture for 76 years.
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Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law, I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Julian Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Full text of Julian Assange’s remarks to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today on the plea deal, WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, C.I.A.’s retribution, repression of journalism, and his responses during Q&A.
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Pavel Durov, the Superfluous Man–“He Will Share Data about His Telegram Users”
Stephen Karganovic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Contrary to Durov’s initial assurances that he would never betray the trust of his users or renege on his commitment to freedom of expression, he has in fact conceded to the authorities’ key demand and will share data about his users with one or more of the interested governments.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Speak Out against Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Dialogue with Prof. Alex Hinton, a leading anthropologist of genocides at Rutgers Univ.
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Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military announced early today that its ground invasion of Lebanon has started, confirming earlier reports. The US says it was informed of the Israeli plans ahead of the invasion.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?
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Inside the US State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
Brett Murphy | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 –
*Ambassador Jack Lew urged Washington to give thousands more bombs to the Israelis because they have a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.
*After State Department officials spent months working through weekends and after hours on arms sales, the Israelis sent cases of wine to them just before Christmas.
The Military-Industrial Complex Explained
Mr. Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The Real Reason That the United States Is Permanently at War – Here is everything you need to know about the Military Industrial Complex.
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Remarks for the International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Text of my remarks at UNESCO during a meeting organised by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee with the support of the Association of Former UNESCO Staff Members and the French Commission for UNESCO.
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Lebanese and Syrians Suffer Loss and Displacement amid Surging Attacks
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Since a deadly escalation of the conflict in Lebanon began just over a week ago, the Government estimates that more than 1 million people have already been forced to flee their homes.
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Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.
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Eliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
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Reflections on October 7
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
For the several months after 7 Oct 2023, Israel’s public discourse allowed it to carry out the genocidal assault on Gaza with little diplomatic friction in the West but growing discontent among progressive sectors of civil society.
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Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Iran has been trying to avoid such a war and signed the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with the US, U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the EU. Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu sees his long-awaited chance to draw the US into war with Iran.
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War on Humanity: How Israel and the US Forged Deception of Collaborative Collision
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Wicked Leaders Pretend to Be Peacemakers
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New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries
BioDB | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
27 Sep 2024 – The Nature Conservation Index: Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide
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BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps
Marco Fernandes | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – What the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Can Do for the Global South – In the last two years, BRICS have experienced a popularity hitherto unseen in their existence.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
We have been there before, many times. For the West, encroaching on Islamic lands was part of the massive exercise known as colonialism.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – India is a land of many religions— Hindu, Christianity, Islam and some smaller religions and faiths — Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. All these religions and sects have distinguished leaders and believers.
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
True curiosity is an open wonderment at what something is and how it works without emotional attachment to the outcome. “Life! who knows what it is, what it does?” Thoreau exclaimed on the pages of his journal.
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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships with Them
Marjorie Hecht | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient.
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