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Israel Uses Foreign Mercenaries in Gaza
Steven Sahiounie | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – The international community is not only silent about Israel’s genocide but also sends foreign mercenaries to fight alongside IDF in Gaza. The US are trying to make the Kurds partners with Israel but many Kurds take the side of the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.
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Official Lies and Narratives
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – On tonight’s ‘BBC News at Ten,’ the narrative about the campus protests moved even deeper into the realms of mendacious fiction.
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Education and Dialogue vs Militarism
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – ‘ Education and dialogue’ has been taught since the late and great Johan Galtung invented ‘Peace Studies.’ Nothing will change until the peace lobby understands that politicians are not magicians. People accept the armed forces, thousands of men and women we train in the art of fighting, killing and destruction.
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AI, Big Tech Seek to Consolidate Hold on Journalism
Patrick Boylan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 -“Can Journalism Survive AI?” was the provocative title of one of the key presentations at the recent Perugia International Journalism Festival (April 17-21). Young activists from the Perugia Social Center “Turba” say no, it cannot.
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The West vs. the Rest
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Is the West launching an all-out war against global ‘South,’ against the BRICS – plus, against the ‘other’? Are we in the first stages of a civilizational struggle initiated by the U.S.-led assemblage we call the “collective West”? That would have seemed an absurd idea until very recently.
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Sensible Responses
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
…to Bothersome Student Protesters
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Israel’s Defenders Talk So Much about Feelings Because They Can’t Talk about Facts
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
4 May 2024 – Their position is so gross and indefensible that all they have left is babbling about some select people having upset feelings and holding those feelings as more important than stopping an active genocide.
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The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence
Dustin Ells Howes | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Although pacifism and nonviolence bear a close relationship to one another historically, pacifism is the ideological assertion that war and violence should be rejected in political and personal life, whereas nonviolence refers to a distinct set of political practices.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Hans Küng gives a number of examples of misguided policies by the present US and Israeli administrations. Not difficult to agree. But something even more basic than a new ethos also has to happen, like coming to terms with conflicts where the USA is involved. And exactly with the term conflict, how to think about conflict, let alone solving it.
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(Français) La Démocratie Peut-Elle Survivre ? Peut-Être en Afrique et en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1er mai 2024 – Il y a quelques mois, j’affirmais sur ce blog que nous assistions « au début de la fin de la démocratie bourgeoise ». J’étais pessimiste quant à la possibilité que la démocratie survive sous une autre forme.
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A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
How astonishing to remember that nothing has inherent color, that color is not a property of objects but of the light that falls upon them, reflected back. So too with the light of the mind — it is attention that gives the world its vibrancy, its kaleidoscopic beauty.
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Profs Urge NYT to Probe False Oct. 7 Rape Story
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
29 Apr 2024 – To Remove ‘Cloud of Doubt,’ Journalism Professors Urge Review of NYT Story on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence – More than 50 journalism professors call for an independent review into the debunked NYT story “Screams Without Words.” Nothing can “reverse the damage done to Palestine and to Palestinians,” said the professors.
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Enforcing Silence on Genocide
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
4 May 2024 – The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza but Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege – Video
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Sat 27 Apr as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged ships under pressure from Israel and the United States.
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War, Money and Universities
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the planet around one primary principle: the existence of an enemy.
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US Defense Industry Size & Share Analysis – Growth Trends & Forecasts (2024 – 2032)
Mordor Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
The US Defense Market size is estimated at USD 309.77 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 367.30 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 3.58% during the forecast period (2024-2029).
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Campus Protests, Press Freedom and Palestine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – World Press Freedom Day comes this week amidst Gaza solidarity protests on campuses across the world. In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
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50 Years: Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 April 1974: what began as a military coup led by young officers who had participated in Portugal’s colonial wars became a revolution of the people. Red carnations were placed by people in the barrels of the insurgents’ guns.
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Implication of Mathematics in Human Experience from an AI Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
29 Apr 2024 – From Sexual Attraction to Existential Preoccupations of Discipline Practitioners – Scientists (and notably mathematicians) pride themselves on their objectivity and tend systematically to deprecate anything characterized as subjective or experiential.
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The Rise of an Artificial Intelligence Messiah
Eric Herter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
I asked Claude 3, a low-level no-cost AI available from anthropic.com, to outline a video series on the rise of an AI Messiah. Claude 3 did so in less than ten seconds, coming up with the dramatic and nuanced plot-sequence below.
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Netanyahu Failed in Gaza, Tries to Widen War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – It now seems either that the US reaction to the Damascus attack or the concerns of the Netanyahu war cabinet rejected the temptations of a wider war. Iran as well seemed to accept an outcome of its retaliation directed at Israel, resulting in neither death nor damage, was nevertheless sufficient for its purposes.
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Israel Just Launched a Brutal Attack on Rafah. “Beyond Shame, Beyond Crime…”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Brutality, atrocity no end.
Horrendous indiscriminate firebombing of Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.
We know Netanyahu does not move a finger without Washington’s OK.
What We Are Seeing in Gaza Is a ‘Repeat of Auschwitz,’ Says Genocide Expert
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – What Israel is doing in Gaza is ‘simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,’ says human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni, [a member of TRANSCEND]. ‘This is a collective white imperialist man’s genocide,’ Nobel Peace Prize nominee says.
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Israel/Iran Tensions: Provocation, Retaliations, Wider War Option/Fears
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – The focus is on the Israeli April 1st attack on Iran’s Damascus consulate, and the international law implications of Iran’s retaliation against Israeli targets on April 13, followed a week later by Israel’s second drone attack on a military base not far from Isfahan, which both countries somewhat downplayed. Israel seemed to have given up the wider war option at least for the present in response to diplomatic pressures from allies to deescalate regional tensions.
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Medea Benjamin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
23 Apr 2024 – The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be ready for every possibility,” our trainers insisted.
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US Campus Protests against Israel’s Genocide on Gaza Going Global
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – From France to Australia, university students are part of pro-Palestine protests as Columbia students continue encampments.
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DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request to Arrest Students
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
27 Apr 2024 – The Washington, D.C. police turned down a request by GWU president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus.
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Palestinian Genocide: Worse Than You Can Imagine
Craig Murray | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.
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UK and Others Cut Funding to UNRWA but Israel Gave NO EVIDENCE of Terror Links
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – An independent report has just exonerated the UN relief agency that is the main channel of humanitarian support to Palestinians across the Middle East. The report by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said Israel has yet to provide any supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UNRWA are members of terrorist organisations.
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The World Dumps 2,000 Truckloads of Plastic into the Ocean Each Day: Here’s Where a Lot of It Ends Up
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
23 Apr 2024 – The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There’s a majestic underwater world to explore, too. But it’s impossible to surf or snorkel without running into plastic water bottles, single-use cups and food wrappers.
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‘The Soldiers Opened the Way for the Settlers’: Pogroms Surge Across West Bank
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
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Revolt in the US Universities
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.
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Complexity in Modern Lifestyles
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
The world that we see around us is complex and trying to live meaningfully in it, is not easy both physically and mentally.
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The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet–a first.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
NO JOKE!
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Howard Richards (10 Jun 1938 – 7 Apr 2024) RIP
Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Dr. Howard Richards was a member of the TRANSCEND Network and a philosopher of social science based in Chile, working also in South Africa. He was a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College in Indiana, a Quaker school where he taught for thirty-five years. Howard will always be in our hearts as one of our most brilliant thinkers. RIP
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Gaza Genocide: The Abysmal Moral Failure of the ‘West’
Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – There is little that could be more uncivilized, cruel and barbarous than the crimes Israel is committing or more morally depraved than the complicity of the governments helping it along.
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Police Brutally Break Up Peaceful Anti-Genocide Demonstration in Berlin
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – The storming of the Palestine Congress on April 12 was the prelude to an escalation of police violence and the suppression of democratic rights in Germany on an enormous scale.
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Poison Ivy
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Not necessary any comment…
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In This Dystopia, Opposing a Genocide Is Considered Worse Than Committing One
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – That’s how crazy they need us to be to keep us supporting a globe-spanning empire that literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny.
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Arab Leadership Complicity to Support the US-Israeli War on Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Palestinians in Search of Global Humanity! – Once a people or a nation colonized by European imperialists, it remains colonized and subjugated by the Masters forever.
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Israel Is Turning Hospitals into Mass Graves While the West Fixates on ‘Antisemitism’
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
23 Apr 2024 – The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses.
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Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to US Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 29 Apr 2024
War & Genocide on Earth Day
Melissa Garriga | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – On Earth Day, Mon 22 Apr, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers about their love for the planet. U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security.
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Senior UN Aid Official Urges Comprehensive Response to Haiti Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme official said today.
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Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Reaches Way Beyond West Asia
Pepe Escobar | Sputinik International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2014 – A Holy of the Holies was shattered in the Holy Land as Iran staged a quite measured, heavily choreographed response to the Israeli terror attack against its consulate/ambassador residence in Damascus, a de facto evisceration of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity.
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UN Report Demolishes Israeli Propaganda Campaign against UNRWA
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Israel has waged a multi-year campaign against the UN aid group for Palestinian refugees in hopes of eradicating the right of return.
→ read full articleThe Johan Galtung Approach to Taboo Topics
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
A topic that is virtually never allowed to be addressed within the hallowed halls of academia is any suggestion that the official narrative of 9/11 may not be entirely true. Self-respecting professors will avoid this topic like the plague, fearing they could be stigmatized as a “conspiracy theorist” by association.
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US Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – “What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads a sign that greets students at the University of Texas–Austin. But a photo shows the sign in front of a row of state troopers in riot gear to disperse students protesting genocide in Gaza. Armed with semi-automatic rifles and mounted on horseback, they proceeded to violently arrest at least 50 students, including a journalist.
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How Banksters and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Laurel Sutherlin | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation.
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Massive Study of 99M COVID Vaccinated People “Exposes the Lies They Told Us”
Clayton Morris, Dr. Peter McCullough | Redacted - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
“This COVID study is MASSIVE and exposes the LIES they told us.”
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Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Are the Largest Known Contributors of Branded Plastic Waste, Study Finds
The Amp Media - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
28 Apr 2024 – Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have been identified as the top two contributors to global plastic pollution, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
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United Nations World Book Day on 23 April
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – I wish all the book lovers and readers of all over the world a very Happy UN World Book-Day.
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Somewhere in Time (Music Video of the Week)
Maksim Mrvica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Composed by John Barry in 1980 – A Classic
Soothing – Relaxing
United States Hypocrisy – Again
Robert Fantina | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
24 Apr 2024 – On 18 Apr, a proposal was submitted to the UNSC to admit Palestine as a full member. Of the fifteen members, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the USA opposed it after frantic lobbying to convince at least one of them to align, so it would not stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.
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A Gift to Cat-Lovers and Soul Mates: A Poem of T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
The Naming of Cats
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Gen Z just Might Save the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
28 Apr 2024 – There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.
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An Entirely Avoidable Humanitarian Crisis—US Embargo Continues to Inflict Immense Suffering on Cuba
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Cuba is an inspiring example of a small country whose doctors have reached difficult areas of human distress and disasters to provide free medical services. What is the reward? Cubans cannot get essential services and medical equipment due to the embargo imposed by the USA for over six decades.
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The Years 1968 and 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – In 1968, the Vietnam War was the decisive moral issue of the time. In 2024, Israel’s genocidal warfare in Gaza is the decisive moral issue. The likelihood of an ugly Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza will lead to additional Palestinian deaths and to increased fury at home and abroad.
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Sermon for Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.
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‘Barbaric’ Sexual Violence in Sudan
UNOCHA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Reports of sexual violence reveal the war’s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls – especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan – continue to be recorded.
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The Human Animal
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Just Another Type of Savagery
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The Truth in History Is Not So Simple
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
28 Apr 2024 – Jewish People, Nazis, Muslims and Other People During WWII and in the Contemporary Age
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Art… Signs of the Times
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Reverse Inspiration
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Selling Weapons ‘like Vacuum Cleaners’
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Photographer’s Look at the Bizarre World of Global Arms Fairs: No Blood, No Bodies
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Citizenship: Concept and Consequences
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
In principle, social science is concerned with the concept of citizenship mainly as an “imagined construction” that is applied in social life. According to a short definition and understanding of citizenship, it is juridical status, granting a sum of rights and duties to members of a specific political entity (state).
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How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”
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Mathematical Modelling of Silo Thinking in Interdisciplinary Contexts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – AI Perspectives on Balancing Integration and Identity Faced by Strategic Complexity – Mathematics, notably through the complexity sciences, is upheld as vital to insightful understanding of complexity. Governance of global society is faced with complexity. A question of interest is whether there are mathematical insights of great potential relevance that are a challenge to comprehension.
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Likud Party Charter (1977) – Eretz Israel
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) – Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.
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Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.
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US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained.
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US & UK Again Fail Palestine
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – The Two Powers That Have Done the Most to Wreck the Middle East – Both are currently actively backing Israel in its horrific genocide of Gaza.
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Transitional Justice (Part 57): Six-Pillar of Transitional Justice
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Transitional justice is to address past atrocities by bridging the gap between old and new regimes during democratic transitions. It signifies the shift from conflict to peace and political reforms through peaceful means.
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On the Ideological Battlefield for the European Parliament Elections
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Currently in most of the states of Western Europe, political debate is often related to the 9 June 2024 elections to the European Parliament. There is a certain irony in the fact that the representatives of narrow nationalist parties are among the most active in these discussions.
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Germany Confirms Its Collaboration with Genocide
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
A three-day Palestine conference in Berlin was forcibly shut down after three hours on Friday [12 Apr]. Electricity was abruptly terminated in the midst of the presentation by Salman Abu Sitta, the 87 year old author of the authoritative “Atlas of Palestine.”
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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – April 1st Pivot from Gaza: Damascus Massacre, Al Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Attack, the Biden/Netanyahu Diplomatic Dance, and Iran’s Retaliation – Developments arising from these convergent incidents on 1 Apr continue to reverberate, making updating a high priority.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
When some unusual problems arise, many peace loving people and governments come together to follow dynamic principles of peace justice and harmony by overcoming economic or religious constraints.
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Google Contract Shows Deal with Israel Defense Ministry
Billy Perrigo | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Google provides cloud computing services to the IDF and has negotiated deepening its partnership during Gaza’s genocide. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to computing infrastructure that allows the ministry to access AI services–Project Nimbus.
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Yale Students Launch Hunger Strike Over School’s Connection to Gaza
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – Fourteen student activists at Yale University are on a hunger strike over the school’s connection to arms manufacturers currently supplying Israel with weaponry. They have been pushing the school to divest from Israeli human rights abuses for months, but the administration has ignored their demands.
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(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Apr 2024
Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Nominates Burmese Activist Maung Zarni for 2024 NPP
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia and the Free Rohingya Coalition jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades.” Both are members of the TRANSCEND Network.
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 1)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
In Germany, people are currently forced to choose between two critical and profound commitments: to accept their government’s complicity in the mass murder of civilians or to be accused of antisemitism.
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(Italiano) La Valle Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele
Enrico Peyretti - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Recensione del libro di Raniero La Valle, “Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele”. La Valle ha esposto il contenuto del suo libro il 3 aprile, nella moschea Taiba, la maggiore moschea della città di Torino.
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The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.
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Death and Dying in the Vedic Tradition
Giriraj Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
In 1969, when I was a student of psychology at Brandeis University, I met my spiritual teacher, Srila Prabhupada. In 1970, after studying with him for a year and a half, I went with him to India, and I was based there for the next thirty years. And in 1977 he taught us by his example how to leave the world in proper consciousness.
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Dead on Arrival
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed…
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What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we have been — those vessels of personhood stacked within the current self.
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The Staged “Boston Marathon Bombing” 11 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – 11 years ago today, the staged “Boston Marathon bombing” took place. A fully staged event involving two Hollywood-style smoke bombs, several civilian and military amputee actors, large amounts of stage blood, and photorealistic silicone wounds.
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The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
Roger D. Harris | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”
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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.
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“Land of Israel” and Palestine: The First Phase of the Creation of Der Judenstaat
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the Palestinians.
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Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities Off the Map’ in the West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, Israeli soldiers have either passively watched or participated in the uprooting of at least seven communities in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
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How Do You Define Peace? — Johan Galtung
The Stream | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Is the USA global dominance in decline? Discussing the future of geopolitics with the father of Peace Studies, Prof. Johan Galtung. Interview from 26 Apr 2012 [Please read a note from TMS Editor]
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WATCH: US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – Video of UNSC meeting Thu [18 Apr] when the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech.
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A Brief History of Kill Lists from Langley to Lavender
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – On Israel’s use of AI-generated kill lists in the Gaza genocide, and the CIA’s kill lists of thousands in country after country. How Israel’s Lavender is just the latest of the U.S. and its allies’ ever-increasing use of information technology to automate mass murder.
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Gaza Ceasefire Petition by International Lawyers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
This petition offers international lawyers to show solidarity with the grave plight of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza that is continuing to endure daily onslaught by Israel that causes widespread suffering so far supported to varying degrees by the leading liberal democracies of the West.
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Some Thoughts on Peace from Blue Danube
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
May peace flow from the Danube River, from the Motoyasu River, and from the Urakami River to every corner of the world!
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Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne (5 Nov 1931 – 16 Apr 2024)
Bill Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lanka’s great Gandhian nonviolent peace builder, passed away at age 92. He was the founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement.
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