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Mainstream Media Doing Mainstream Media Things
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Official Lies and Narratives
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Why Academic Scholarship on Israel and Palestine Threatens Western Elites
Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus. The gap is most apparent in the US but also in the UK and France.
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The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
17 Jun 2024 – While enabling Israel’s annexation of territory and shielding it from accountability, the U.S. has guarded its role as a supposed mediator, preventing the UN and other countries from acting to enforce international law.
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93 Countries Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges of War Crimes in Gaza
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – A joint statement calls on “all States to ensure full co-operation with the Court for it to carry out its important mandate of ensuring equal justice for all victims of genocide, war crimes, [and] crimes against humanity.”
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The Decline of the West–The G7 “War Summit”
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The idyllic staging with which this Summit was presented cannot hide the fact that it is a war summit. The USA signed a 10-year military pact with Ukraine, and the G7 granted a $50 billion loan to help it buy more weapons, a loan that will be repaid using interest accrued on $300 billion in Russian assets deposited in European banks and frozen.
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Palestine: Moral Test of Our Time
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – Why Palestine matters: The most important moral test of our time.
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Why Does the US Government Borrows when It Can Print?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the first seven months of FY 2024, net interest on the US federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). The interest tab also exceeded all the money spent on veterans, education, and transportation combined.
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Netanyahu’s False Flag Is a Copy/Paste of the 1962 Operation Northwoods of Pentagon against Cuba
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
“Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”
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In Our Make-Believe Politics, the Strings Pulled by the Super-Rich Are All Too Visible
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars. The elites may be just out of view, but the strings they pull are all too visible. Time to cut ourselves loose.
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Israel Is a Core Pillar of U.S. Dominance
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – Over the last eight months, Israel’s genocide has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. In the face of all this horror, many of us are asking ourselves: How could the U.S. government continue to support this?
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Upside Down World: Elections
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The Embarrassing 2024 US Empire Debate
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Full Text of Russia-North Korea Strategic Agreement
The Intel Drop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Full translation of the DPRK-Russia Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un in the state visit of the Russian president to North Korea.
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US Air Force Engineer Resigns: Dissent against Gaza War Slowly Spreads within Military
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – “Utterly Dismayed–I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”
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UN Warns Companies That Sell Arms to Israel about Complicity in Genocide
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Today, experts from the UN warned that corporations selling arms and ammunition to the Zionist state may become complicit in violations of human rights and international law. They should stop transfers of war materiel “even if they are executed under existing export licenses”.
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The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Pakistan in Search of New Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – Evil is evil if not stopped, it becomes a habit then a tradition, so is the trajectory of military coups, if not stopped and reformed then one coup is an enticement to another coup.
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Israeli Occupation Launches Deadly Attacks on UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – At least five Palestinians were killed and seven others injured after Israel bombed the headquarters of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East in Gaza, as confirmed by the Zionist army and Palestinian media.
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Israel’s Actions in Gaza ‘Intentional Attack on Civilians’: UN Inquiry
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – New report says Israeli military and Palestinian groups committed war crimes and rights abuses since October 7.
→ read full articleHumans Fiddle as Humanity Burns: Will It Be Near-term Death or Transhuman Slavery?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
Confronted by a multidimensional, highly coordinated attack on our humanity – our identity as Homo Sapiens, our freedom and even our existence – most humans retreat in fear. And, in this state, people are incapable of resisting.
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Blinken’s Lies about Hamas Rejecting a Ceasefire Reveal the Biden Administration’s True Intentions
Mitchell Plitnick | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Biden administration is playing a shell game with the Gaza ceasefire that aims to trick the Democratic base into thinking meaningful action is taking place to end fighting while still allowing Israel to continue its genocidal campaign.
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Three Lessons I Learned on My Visit to Cuba
Amanda Yee | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The Cuban revolution offers key lessons for progressive people in the United States about how to organize society in a way that favors the majority, and not an elite few.
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Five Decades On, Cambodia Is Taking Ownership of Its Troubled Past
Peter Maguire | The Diplomat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the mid-1970s, Pol Pot’s black-clad armies turned the country into a byword for man-made horror. Now the country is moving on – in its own fashion.
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Tutto Passa – A Tribute to Napoli (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
22 May 2024 – From the new Coldplay album, Moon Music, to be released in October.
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Unveiling New Caledonia’s Strife: A Current Misrepresented Anti-Colonial Struggle
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – New Caledonia, an archipelago near Australia, has been experiencing significant unrest recently. Media coverage has often framed the situation simplistically as an anti-white conflict, but the reality is far beyond a racialized friction. To truly understand…
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The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Its First Consequence for Global Politics: Making the U.S. a Global Empire
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The focal slogan of the Monroe Doctrine – “America to Americans” inspired U.S. colonial imperialism and became “Americas to the U.S.A.”. President Monroe promulgated his doctrine as an opportunity for the special geopolitical role of Washington in the Americas from Alaska to Patagonia.
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If You Have a Problem, Kill It
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – The term is “banal militarism” – that is to say, violence and the preparation for violence so utterly commonplace that most people don’t even notice. Banal militarism is as Anglo American as apple pie. It’s also global in scope.
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Questions
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
“Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks: is it political?
→ read full articlePalestine-Israel: Beyond One-State/Two-State Solutionism – Deeper Thoughts
Diane Perlman, et al. | The New View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
This conversation goes deeply beyond the simplistic debate between one-state (1SS) versus two-state (2SS) “solutions.” We also compare with historical examples of processes towards statehood over many decades or centuries.
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Advertisements
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
There was a time when some newspapers did not carry Ads— at least not on the front pages of the newspaper.
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The Del Monte Deaths: Shocking Claims of Violence at Pineapple Plantation
Edwin Okoth, Matthew Chapman and Emily Dugan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
When we first published the litany of allegations against Del Monte’s security guards last June, the company committed to investigating what had happened. Kenya’s human rights commission started investigating. Some supermarkets were appalled enough to stop stocking canned pineapple from the farm.
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Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – For goodness’ sake, negotiate!
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Nero’s Guests
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
16 Jun 2024 – I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig’s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza.
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Cognitive Implications of Going Strategically Sessile
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Towards Comprehension of Detachment in Anticipation of Catastrophe – Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile.
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AI: An Exciting and Fearsome Tool
Pope Francis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Pope Francis to G7 Summit in Puglia, Italy 14 Jun 2024: “AI Is ‘neither Objective nor Neutral” – I address you today, the leaders of the Intergovernmental Forum of the G7, concerning the effects of artificial intelligence on the future of humanity.
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The Grab – Official Trailer (Must Watch)
Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
THE GRAB is a global thriller and hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Quietly and out of sight, governments, private investors and mercenaries are working to seize food and water resources at the expense of entire populations. Opening 14 Jun 2024.
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(Italiano) Il boicottaggio: uno strumento di lotta nonviolenta alla portata di tutti
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Giugno 2024 – In senso lato si può definire il boicottaggio come una forma di non collaborazione che si pratica per isolare a livello sociale, sottrare consenso a livello politico o danneggiare a livello economico persone, aziende o istituzioni responsabili di comportamenti illegittimi.
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The Day the West Defined the Massacre of 270 Palestinians, 700 wounded, as a ‘Success’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
On 8 Jun 2024, an Israeli military operation to free four Israelis from Hamas resulted in the massacre of hundreds of women and children. Israelis dance in the streets, the White House hails a ‘daring’ operation, Rishi Sunak expresses relief. How carnage and genocide in Gaza have become the new normal.
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Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
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Daylight Comes to Chiquita’s Use of Colombian Death Squads
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – A federal court in Miami rendered a $38 million verdict against the multinational Chiquita Brands International for funding paramilitary death squads in Colombia, which killed thousands of banana workers there over the last century.
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Unabated Efforts: Cambodia Continues Push to Help Resolve Myanmar Conflict
Hang Punreay | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – As the conflict in Myanmar continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the Foreign Affairs Ministry says Cambodia is committed to pushing for the implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point Consensus and the ability to hold talks with ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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D-Day 2024
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Ceremonies were held last week commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Anglo-American landing on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. For the very first time, the Russians were ostentatiously not invited to take part in the ceremonies.
→ read full articleKeeping Contact
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Life changes — your methods of keeping contact also are changing.
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Here Is the Vision! A Global Movement for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Two weeks ago we said “Here are the people.” And we asked, “Where is the vision?” And now, as if in response, the UN has declared that the official theme for this year’s International Day of Peace is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace.”
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Rachmaninoff Symphony #2 (Music Video of the Week)
Hauser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
2 May 2024 – The Rebel with a Cello and the London Symphony Orchestra
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(Français) Voici la Vision ! Un Mouvement Mondial Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 juin 2024 – Il y a deux semaines, nous avons dit : « Voici le peuple ». Et nous avons demandé : « Où est la vision ? » Et maintenant, comme en réponse, les Nations Unies ont déclaré que le thème officiel de la Journée internationale de la paix de cette année est « Cultiver une culture de la paix ».
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On Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Henry Miller on the Measure of a Life Well Lived
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NAM and Group of 77 Demand the Exclusion of Cuba from the List of Terrorism Sponsors Countries
Alvaro Cuesta | teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China, through their Joint Coordinating Committee, demanded “the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.”
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Fake Climate Solutions Spread Across Latin America
Humberto Márquez | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Government and private initiatives and programmes to address the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean are in fact a vast array of fake solutions, according to a new regional map made by environmental organisations.
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Inside the Nuseirat Massacre: This Is the Carnage I Saw During Israel’s 4-Hostage Rescue
Shrouq Aila | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Eyewitness: I was on the road to the camp when Israel launched its raid — and saw the aftermath in a nearby hospital.
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UNSC Resolution Gaza Ceasefire 10 Jun 2024
UN Security Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Resolution 2735 (2024)
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Global Peace Index 2024
Institute for Economics & Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
The Global Peace Index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace since 2007, it is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness that launches in June each year.
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The Partisan Psychiatrist
Arvin Alaigh | Dissent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 17 Jun 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Student Writing
Lisa Lieberman | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
7 Jun 2024 – It was getting toward the end of this recent semester, and I was at a loss. Either my freshman-composition students’ writing had gotten mysteriously, miraculously, markedly better, or a large minority — easily one-third — of them were using AI to write their papers.
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‘We’re All at Risk’: Doctors Evacuate Rafah’s Last Hospitals
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza’s southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel’s attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
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Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
Bidisha Biswas | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries.
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94% of North Americans Want to End Ukraine War but US Rejects China Peace Deal, Opposes Talks with Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Polling shows 94% of people in the US and 88% in Western Europe want a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine, but NATO opposes a peace proposal made by China and Brazil, and refuses to invite Russia to talks in Switzerland.
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UEFA Euro 2024: Full Football Match Schedule, Start Times, Format and Teams
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – All you need to know about the 2024 European Football Championships in Germany ahead of the June 14 tournament kick off.
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Global Solidarity on Haiti’s Flag Day to Stop Foreign Intervention
Haiti Action Committee | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – May 18 marked Haitian Flag Day, commemorating the day in 1803 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and created the Haitian flag. Flag Day signifies Haitian sovereignty and commemorates ancestors who died fighting for freedom.
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Reaching Our Fullest Potential with Vedic Spirituality
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
These days fewer people are interested in taking up anything that they cannot immediately apply to their lives. The common question is: “What is this going to do for me?” Or “What am I going to get out of this?”
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Saving Gaza Is about more Than Saving Gaza–It’s also about Saving Ourselves
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – Saving ourselves as individuals. Saving ourselves as a society. Saving ourselves as a species. Saving ourselves from what we’ll become if we just watch this happening right in front of our…
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
How do Human Rights stand up as a discourse? Incorporated in the French constitution of 1789 and reformulated as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is a major human achievement, close to a world constitution. It is not international law, but the Covenants of 16 Dec 1966 — civil-political, economic-social-cultural — are.
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A Mother’s Plea for Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – To all the people of Gaza I send you my deepest love and sympathy on the death of your beloved family and friends who have been murdered by the Israeli military in its ongoing war on Gaza.
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US Terrorism Operations
Submitted by Robert Markstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
2023 USA: Boots on the Ground in 9 Countries–Special Ops in 78 (!!)
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(Italiano) 28 maggio 1974 – 28 maggio 2024. Cinquantesimo anniversario della strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Italy, Lombardia, Brescia, Piazza Loggia, oggi martedì 28 maggio 2024 – Parte seconda –
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Trump Felony Conviction Talking Points
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Guantanamo & WikiLeaks
CN Live | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – Journalist Andy Worthington, author of ‘The Guantanamo Files’ and research collaborator on WikiLeaks’ ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, shines a light on the bleak and blunderous history of the US torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.
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Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 Issue – Ariel Sharon withdrew over eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population increased. But also to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do with settlers there.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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Cuba Advocates for Peace at BRICS Meeting
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – Cuba’s Foreign Minister arrived in Moscow with a message of peace and the common purpose with the member states–Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran–to defend multilateralism and show respect for diversity.
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Naomi Klein and VV Ganeshananthan Win Women’s Prize Literary Awards
AP | The New Indian Express – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Both winners referenced the conflict-clouded international situation, at a time when the arts world is grappling with divisions over the Israel-Hamas war and corporate sponsorship of the arts.
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Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Fallacy of the Peace Resolutions and Gaza
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Their Rules-Based International Order Is the Rule of the Mafia
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – In defiance of the International Court of Justice, Israel continues to bomb Gaza. Like the United States, Israel refuses to abide by international law, exposing the hypocrisy of the ‘rules-based international order’.
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The Seven Hermetic Principles
Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
24 May 2024 – What are them?
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When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’
Robin Andersen | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – As the world watched on social media and responded in outrage, US corporate media, once again, provided cover for the perpetrators of Israel’s genocide.
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Baby Ahmad Was Beheaded by Israel with a US Bomb
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
On Sunday night, May 26 2024, 1-year-old Ahmad became the symbol of the unspeakable horror of genocide in Gaza after Israel bombed his family tent in north Rafah.
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Israel Kills Over 200 Palestinians to Rescue 4 Captives; U.S. Allegedly Involved in Operation
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – At least 210 Palestinians were killed and 400 others were injured in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday [2 Jun] after Israeli forces carried out a “rescue operation” to retrieve four captives. Reports of U.S. involvement in the operation have sparked backlash.
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The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Jeffrey St. Clair | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – People were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel al-Sultan in southern Gaza, where thousands had fled from the Israeli invasion of Rafah. They were told by the Israelis this was a safe zone, a secure place to shelter their children and grandparents.
→ read full articleExperimental AI Meta-analysis of an Academic Journal Issue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
2 Jun 2024 – This exploration emerged from comparative use of the facilities of ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3 (Opus variant) in summarizing the themes evoked in a set of 35 AI-related articles presented on this site over the past year.
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Hardliner on the Hill: Senator Bob Menendez and US-Cuba Policy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández’s sets out to find out how Senator Robert Menendez so adamantly opposes better relations with Cuba and whether or not his constituents agree with him.
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End of an Era: What the Shifting Discourse on Palestine Teaches Us about the Future of Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
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A New Chinese Exclusion Act
Jake Werner | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and provides a convenient rationale for unfettered Pentagon profiteering.
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Landfill Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia
and the blown out hospitals in Gaza.
The garbage plays in the wind like children.
The exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses.
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus against Lebanon
Carlos Cabrera | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Today, HRW denounced the use of white phosphorous shells against residential buildings south of Lebanon by the Israeli army. The NGO has been able to verify its use against at least 17 Lebanese locations.
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The Perils and Promise of the Emerging Multipolar World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The world economy is experiencing a process of economic convergence; regions that once lagged the West in industrialization are catching up in a post-hegemonic, multipolar world fraught with challenges where several nuclear powers may compete—in vain—for hegemony.
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‘We Want Peace’: Spain Applies to Join ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Spain’s foreign minister announced today his country applied to join the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, a week after formally recognizing a Palestinian state alongside other European countries.
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Latest EU Election Results on Europe Level and in All 27 Member States
Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – As millions of voters cast their ballots in the 2024 European Elections, the stakes are high. Catch real-time updates, comprehensive data, and visualizations of the election results.
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A Gaza Twins’ Desperate Fight for Survival
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Gaza, the most densely-populated place on Earth, “the world’s largest open-air prison,” has become a hellish cauldron of human suffering. The Gaza Strip is entering the ninth month of military onslaught that has killed over 36,500 people, 15,000 children – believed to be a gross underestimate.
→ read full articleLegal/Political Implications of Trump’s Conviction – Prof. John Mearsheimer on Israel, Ukraine–and More
Glenn Greenwald | System Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
System Update #275
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The French Connection: Knights of Malta, Scottish Rite & the Rise of the Mafia Brotherhoods (Part II)
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Zapata’s description of this criminal society that was known as the Compagnia della Garduna, was one of the earliest descriptions of this criminal brotherhood. More enduring than “the principality of Venice,” its traditional date of origin has been established by 19th century scholars as having begun in 1417.
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Sudan Internal Displacement Set to Top 10 Million as Famine Looms: IOM
UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – The UN International Organization for Migration warns that the number of displaced inside Sudan could top 10 million in coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis escalates with famine and disease added to the havoc of violence.
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Christianity’s Similarities with Hinduism
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Over the centuries, numerous historians and sages have pointed out that not only has Hinduism had a predominant influence on Christianity, but that many of the Christian rites could be directly borrowed from ancient Hindu (Vedic) India.
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Start to Dangerous Regression of Liberty in Georgia
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Despite strong protests from Georgian NGOs and street protests for three weeks in the capital Tbilisi, the Parliament adopted on 3 Jun 2024 the controversial law on “foreign influence.”
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Meanwhile, in the old US of A
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The Future of the UN Relief and Works Agency and Hamas in Gaza
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Peter Ford has an extensive career in the UK diplomatic service, including as UK Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria. He served for many years as Special Representative to the Commissioner General of UNRWA. In this interview, he discusses the background, importance, and how Israel wants to “replace” UNRWA.
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Defying Angola and Interpol, Isabel dos Santos Entrenches Herself on Dubai Waterfront
Nicole Sadek, Scilla Alecci and Karrie Kehoe | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The eldest daughter of Angola’s former autocrat has found cover in the United Arab Emirates, where she, her mother and a business associate are linked to multiple properties, Dubai Unlocked reveals.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocities, a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses? A sledgehammer for a toothache? Déjà vu.
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More Than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the atrocities in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 Oct, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said today.
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The Brutalization of Israel Is Well Underway–Collapse Is only a Matter of Time
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Haaretz Editorial 7 Jun 2024: Brutality is no longer confined to the margins or to the settlements and settlement outposts; it has spread in every direction. Terrifyingly, it has even penetrated the military, the Knesset and the cabinet.
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Collateral Genocide in Nuseirat
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
On 8 Jun 2024, the Israeli military slaughtered 274 Palestinians and wounded 700 more in a raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Four Israeli captives were rescued during the assault, which sent Israeli social media into a jubilant tizzy of self-congratulation and genocidal fanfare.
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