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New York Times Report Demolishes the Narrative of the “Unprovoked War” in Ukraine
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Nearly every reference in the US media to the Feb 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been preceded by an obligatory word—“unprovoked.” However, the NYT just published a lengthy article revealing that the invasion was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression on the part of the CIA-USA.

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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

We call this consciousness, this higher unity of personhood, soul.

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Changing the World with Fire and Love
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Up to 3 Mar 2024 Casualties:
20,410+ killed* and at least 71,700 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 35,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under extensive rubble.

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The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict over East Galicia in 1918−1919
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The Eastern Portion of Europe and the End of WWI

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Haiti a Paradise for State Crime–Unspoken Agenda: Offshore Natural Gas
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – Haiti is by far the poorest country in all Latin America according to official UN/World Bank indices. Haiti is also one of the world’s richest countries, per capita, judged by available natural resources, oil and gas.

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Quantum Mechanics and Its Vedic Influence
Prof. C.P. Girija Vallabhan | Sanskriti Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Erwin Schrodinger, discoverer of wave mechanics, was deeply influenced by the philosophical wisdom of the Hindu scriptures Vedanta and Upanishads. He also wrote about “The Basic view of Vedanta” by expounding advaitha and non-dualism.

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Forward, into the Breach
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The USA used 9/11 to further a hidden agenda with catastrophic results. Not only did we lose blood and treasure, we lost whatever moral high ground we once had. Israel needs to learn from our mistakes.

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Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The world lost two principled opponents of war. Johan Galtung died on 17 Feb at the age of 93; known as the father of peace studies, he spent his life researching for peace. Aaron Bushnell was just 25 years old, a member of the US Air Force. On 25 Feb he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

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Nicaragua Hits Germany with ICJ Case for Aiding Israel in Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – Nicaragua today launched a case against Germany at the International Court of Justice, accusing the nation responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust of helping Israel commit genocide in the Gaza Strip over the past five months.

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Who’s Brain-Dead Now, Macron?
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Macron wants to start World War Three based on sheer lies and vanity. He’s not only brain-dead. He’s soul-dead too.

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US Airman Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The live-streaming of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on 25 Feb 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the genocide by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people.  30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.

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Palestine Lights the Way Forward
Walden Bello | FPIF – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

22 Feb 2024 – In these worst of times, still there is hope.

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Remembering Johan Galtung, the ‘Father of Peace Studies’
Prof. Kelly Rae Kraemer | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29 Feb 2024 – Our world lost a giant of peace research last weekend. Johan Galtung, “the father of peace studies,” author of more than 160 books and 1,700 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on Feb. 17, at age 93. A prolific author, educator and practitioner, Galtung had a unique brand of genius that will continue to inspire a world hungry for peace.

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Tell the Truth About Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide.

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The USA Supports Israeli War Beyond Gaza onto the Arab World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

U.S. and Israel Aligned to Challenge Global Humanity

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Israel Defying ICJ Ruling to Prevent Genocide by Failing to Allow Adequate Humanitarian Aid to Reach Gaza
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply, Amnesty International said today.

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The US Must Stop Arming Israel’s Assault on Hospitals
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – If we can’t find the morality to stop, we may find we have created a world in which no one can count on upholding basic human rights.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN Experts Call for Arms Embargo
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

25 Feb 2024 – Israel bombs near Egypt’s fortified wall with Rafah as talks resume to reach a captive exchange with Hamas. UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel and say states supplying weapons, ammunition or intelligence risk violating international law.

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Burma Undergoes Quasi-Balkanization and the Embattled Junta Resorts to Mass Conscription
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

23 Feb 2024 – No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.

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Rugs, Cosmetics, Motorbikes: Israeli Soldiers Are Looting Gaza Homes en Masse
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza atrocities, with minimal pushback from IDF commanders or anybody else.

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(Italiano) Memoriale del Prof. Johan Galtung
Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Articoli Vari

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What’s the ICJ Case against Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – The International Court of Justice will hear 52 countries on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Here’s all you need to know about the case:

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(Italiano) Johan Galtung, il mio maestro
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

18 Febbraio 2024 – Il 17 febbraio, intorno alle 8 del mattino, si è spento serenamente Johan Galtung dopo una vita straordinaria, animata da uno spirito di missione a cui non è mai venuto meno, neppure negli ultimi giorni.  Aveva 93 anni.

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PRIO on Johan Galtung’s Passing
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Saturday, 17 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung passed away this morning. He was born in 1930 on 24 October, the same day that 15 years later would see the founding of the United Nations. There is something symbolic about having the same birthday as the UN. As a researcher, Galtung’s orientation was unusually international. An excellent linguist, he was well-travelled and made his home in several countries.

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At ICJ Hearing, Global South Countries Call for End to Occupation of Palestine; US and Allies Back Israel
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

25 Feb 2024 – The ICJ is conducting hearings before giving an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The US and its allies have asked the court to not demand an end to the occupation.

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Global Evils Today (Part 2): Misinformation, Disinformation and Media Propaganda Demystified
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

The system controls and manipulates the media in whatever form it deems necessary. Ethics, morality and subversion are of no consequence, as long as the tenets of the system are propagated and totally subscribed to by the subjugated citizenry.

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Dilemmas around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part Three)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

When conducting peacebuilding training workshops, facilitators/trainers often encounter ethical dilemmas. How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings?

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In Memory of Prof. Johan V. Galtung
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

A friend, a father, a mentor to many,
His wisdom transcended, like a beacon, so plenty.
As the founding father of Peace studies,
He nurtured minds, spreading love and unity.

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The Mongol Eurasian Empire 1206−1405: The Greatest Continental State in World’s History
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

History remembers the Mongols as a pastoral nomadic people from Central Asia who made a significant impression on the world’s history. In essence, the Mongol territorial occupation was of a scope and range never equaled.

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When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation through Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

In every life, there comes a time when we are razed to the bone of our resilience by losses beyond our control — lacerations of the heart that feel barely bearable, that leave us bereft of solid ground. What then?

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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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In Memory of Johan Galtung: An Inspiration for Fundamental Peace and Happytalism
Luis Gallardo - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung, often hailed as the father of Peace Studies, left behind a rich legacy that continues to inspire and guide those committed to understanding and fostering peace worldwide.

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Passing Away of Prof. Johan Galtung
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Galtung had enriched knowledge with practical solutions which impacted directly upon the lives of ordinary people. In that sense he helped ease the pain and suffering of his fellow human beings. May his soul repose among the righteous.

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The Peace Trinity (In Memory of Prof. Johan Galtung)
S. P. Udayakumaran, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Trinity holds sway on the Earth,
Of examples there’s no dearth.
Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
Anitya, Duhkha, Anatman course,
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva here

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New Israeli Report Alleging ‘Systematic and Intentional Rape’ by Hamas Relies on Debunked Western Media Reports
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – Hoax: The contents of the Israeli paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports, especially a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.

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After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – The U.S. decision to block the neutrality agreement of Mar 2022 between Russia and Ukraine, thus favoring a long war with Russia, and how this led to a brutal war with over half a million casualties. The U.S. policy is overshadowed by the risk of nuclear war.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Casualties:
29,606+ killed* and at least 69,737 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*The death toll number is over 38,000 accounting for those dead under the rubble.

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Gaza Is DR Congo, Gaza Is Haiti
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

24 Feb 2024 – How can I hold the knowledge of my own so-called government, via named and nameless maleficent megalomaniacs, facilitating unspeakable horrors far away and not take the first flight to my nation’s capital and hurl buckets of blood at the White House?

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I’ve Seen That Face Before – Libertango (Music Video of the Week)
Grace Jones – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Composed in 1981
Live Basel 2009
With Lyrics

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Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hospitals have become battlegrounds.

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The Fates of Gaza and Julian Assange Are Sealed Together
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

23 Feb 2024 – Were they being properly reported, two critically important court hearings this week, in London and The Hague, would expose the US ‘rules-based order’ as a hollow sham

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Conflict Transformation as a Way of Life
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

If you cannot remove conflict, why not adjust your thinking about it? Why not try and see conflict as the salt of life, the big energizer, the tickler, the tantalizer, rather than as a bothersome nuisance, as noise in perfect channel, as disturbing ripples in otherwise quiet waters?

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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5” 

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The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today in protest of the genocide in Gaza. A police officer showed up pointing a gun at the man’s burning body; I guess that’s just what American cops do when they aren’t sure what to do. UPDATE: The protester has died. His name was Aaron Bushnell.

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(Castellano) Johan Galtung (24 Octubre 1930 – 17 Febrero 2024)
Gianmarco Pisa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

17 Feb 2024 – Con el fallecimiento de Johan Galtung, toda la comunidad de hombres y mujeres que aman la paz, y la «paz con justicia», y dentro de ella la comunidad de pacificadores y pacificadoras, en todas las latitudes, se encuentra, a partir de hoy, más sola.

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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.

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As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – “We should ask ourselves: How many innocent lives must be sacrificed before the council deems it necessary to call for a cease-fire?” said the Algerian envoy to the UN.

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Lula Withdraws Brazil’s Ambassador to Israel and Asks His Colleague to Leave the Country
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

23 Feb 2024 – Brazil severed all diplomatic relations with Israel, expelled Israel’s ambassador as persona non grata, and recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv announced today Pres. Lula da Silva who compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust.

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In Memoriam, Johan Galtung: ‘Put Peace before Victory’
Susanne Urban – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

17 Feb 2024 – The world’s first professor of peace research, Norwegian born Johan Galtung, has died, aged 93. Thus, Norway and the world have lost a person completely out of the ordinary. Johan, we shine PEACE over your memory.

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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…

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The Show Trial against Julian Assange
Fabian Scheidler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

23 Feb 2024 – How US and British Authorities Are Bending the Law and Undermining Press Freedom – The key witness for the espionage charge was the notorious fraudster and convicted paedophile Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, who admitted in 2021 that he had lied on behalf of the FBI and had been granted immunity from prosecution.

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Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Moral Leader of All Civilized Humanity
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

24 Feb 2024 – Brazil’s president repeats his recent assertion that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in Gaza, braving the repercussions that have come to affect his country’s ties with the Israeli regime and its main ally, the US.

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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.

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Father of Peace Journalism Passes Away, Leaves Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism.

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Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – Rwanda’s M23 militia and Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the DRC. I had a Zoom conversation with Congolese journalist Akilimali Saleh, who is based in Goma.

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First Iran-India Joint Working Group Meeting on Agriculture Held in Delhi
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – The first joint working group meeting on agriculture took place between Iran and India. The officials of the ministries of agriculture of both countries emphasised increasing cooperation in the field.

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A Condolence Message on the Passing of Prof. Johan Galtung
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Prof. Galtung was a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. He was the main founder of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in 1959 and served as its first director until 1970. He also founded the Peace Research Journal (1964), Transcend International, Transcend Media Service, and Transcend Peace University.

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Global Humanity and Unending War on Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

We, the People and Political Wickedness

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New Time Pieces
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

The above pattern is a basic pattern of most round shaped watches. Modifications of the basic pattern are also available especially in those watches that are sold in the market.

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UN Experts Condemn ‘Credible’ Reports of Executions, Sexual Assault by Israeli Soldiers
Nick Robertson | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – A group of UN human rights experts denounced the Israeli military today for “credible” allegations of execution and sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza.

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(Italiano) Johan Galtung (24 ottobre 1930 – 17 febbraio 2024)
Gianmarco Pisa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

17 Febb 2024 – Con la scomparsa di Johan Galtung, l’intera comunità degli uomini e delle donne amanti della pace, e della «pace con giustizia», e al suo interno la comunità, di elaborazione e di pratiche, degli operatori e delle operatrici di pace, a tutte le latitudini, è, da oggi, più sola.

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Dialogue on Hatred: A Peacebuilder’s Perspective
Tatsushi Arai, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – TRANSCEND Member Prof. Tatsushi Arai, a peacebuilding scholar-practitioner with twenty-five years of international experience, reflects on the sources and nature of hatred in the context of identity-based conflict.

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Mairead Maguire and Dr. Aisha Jumaan: Gaza, Yemen, and Endless Wars
merchantsofdeath | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

18 Feb 2024 – Facilitated by Kathy Kelly – A fascinating dialogue with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and the Director of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Dr. Aisha Jumaan.

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Prof. Johan Galtung Left Us
 Hoosen and Vanessa Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

17 Feb 2024 – A sad day, indeed! We are distraught at being informed, a short while ago, on the passing on of Professor Johan Galtung. Thank you for so thoughtfully letting us be part of your lives and sharing with us his sad departure, now that his beautiful soul has passed on and is with the Divine. 

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Evil Silence
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

See no evil…

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I’m an American Doctor Who Went to Gaza: What I Saw Wasn’t War – It Was Annihilation
Dr. Irfan Galaria | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

16 Feb 2024 – In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt to volunteer in Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation.

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Johan Galtung: Macrohistorian, Futurist, Peace Theorist
Sohail Inayatullah – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

When I first heard Galtung speak on his structural theory of imperialism, I immediately understood why the poor–those in the periphery–related more to the elite, the center within their own regions, than with the periphery, and the periphery of the periphery, the downtrodden globally.

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(Italiano) Un ricordo di Johan Galtung
Fabio Fossati - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Galtung è morto il 17-2-2024 a 93 anni. Egli era nato nel 1930, e proveniva da una famiglia della bassa aristocrazia norvegese. Nel 1951 fece l’obiettore di coscienza e passò sei mesi in carcere.

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Elite Fear of the Public: Ukraine, Gaza and Assange
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

22 Feb 2024 – It is a historical fact that powerful elites do not wish to be diverted from pursuing their selfish interests by the public. Minimal, unthreatening expressions of dissent may be tolerated. But public opinion needs to be managed, manipulated or, if necessary, simply ignored–or suppressed.

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Johan Galtung’s Longevity: 93 Years
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Inspired by His Creative Humanizing Dignifying Harmonizing Longevity

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World Court to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

16 Feb 2024 – 52 Countries to Take Part in Hearings on Occupied Palestinian Territory

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Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

Unification and Integration Framed Coherently Otherwise

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In Waging War on the UN Refugee Agency, the West Is Openly Siding with Israeli Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – Israel has long plotted the downfall of the United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency, aware that it is one of the biggest obstacles to eradicating the Palestinians as a people.

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Genocide Accelerates while Elites Prosper
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

13 Feb 2024 – Day 130 of the genocide: Total killed 28,340 (+some 7,000 under the rubble) and injured 67,984. 72% are women and children. Plus thousands dead from lack of food, clean water, medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip.

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(Italiano) Spiritualità e lavoro sui conflitti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

L’Occidente ha respinto la religione nell’illuminismo-modernità-secolarismo, e sta adesso assistendo a una qualche rinascita religiosa. Allora la spiritualità entra come concetto sovrordinato, basato su elementi della maggior parte delle religioni e su valori laici.

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An Open Letter from Editors and Publishers on Julian Assange –> Publishing Is Not a Crime
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

18 Feb 2024 – The following is a letter from the Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel urging the U.S. government to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets.

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Confront the Principle, Not Episode
Mohammed Elnaiem | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

12 Feb 2024 – It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.

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Johan Galtung: The Greatest Living Thinker Ceased to Think
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

The great hope is a dream.
Though he is gone,
vision blows
A world without wars is a dream.
Everywhere.

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Crocodile Tears over Navalny while Ignoring Assange
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

17 Feb 2024 – If you’re in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, then you can go ahead and shut the fuck up about Navalny.

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Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

15 Feb 2024 – The Nation Lost Time and Opportunities for Political Change

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(Castellano) Profesores e Investigadores del Ámbito de la Comunicación Lanzan un Manifiesto en el Que Reivindican Unos Medios de Comunicación al Servicio de la Paz
Presentado por Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

El contenido de dicho manifiesto urge a medios de comunicación y representantes políticos a cuidar las representaciones que se ofrecen de los conflictos y a dar pasos firmes para actualizar el sistema de medios en beneficio de su resolución pacífica y justa.

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Who’s the Real A$$hole?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…

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The TrueLove
David Whyte – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

There is a faith in loving fiercely
the one who is rightfully yours,
especially if you have
waited years and especially…

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Burma’s Crumbling Junta
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

Burma, now renamed Myanmar after 1988, faces two basic and related issues: the installation of a democratic government and a constitutional system which grants real autonomy to the minority peoples. There is little democratic tradition or ethos upon which to structure a democratic government.

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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

South Africa lodged an urgent complaint on Monday [12 Feb] at the ICJ against Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees, have been pushed by the Israeli military.

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Global Evils Today (Part 1): Media Mis-Reporting Bias Generates Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

 “The War On Gaza has unearthed numerous anomalies of The System and His Master’s Voice, which has penetrated far and deeply.  It even influences reputable Governments, Organisations, Institutes, and has a long lasting, profound influence on the slaves of The Master, globally.  This Dark, Evil and Covert Force of The Master encourages the development of conformity consensus in order to further the aims and goals of The System in its eternal quest for world dominance in which the Slaves, ultimately, do not matter.”

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How the CIA Destabilizes the World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

12 Feb 2024 – There are three basic problems with the CIA: its objectives, methods, and unaccountability. Its operational objectives are whatever the CIA or the President defines to be in the U.S. interest at a given time, irrespective of international or U.S. laws. Its methods are secretive and duplicitous.

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Pathetic State of Our World
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

18 Feb 2024 – We look around our world that is sinking in a spiral of violence and wonder why we humans cannot learn the way of peace, harmony, and coexistence. What are the main factors that lead to such a situation?

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China in Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.

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Dilemmas around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part Two)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – When conducting peacebuilding training workshops, facilitators/trainers often encounter ethical dilemmas. How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings?

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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide. 

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IDF Torture of Palestinian Prisoners Is Turned into Entertainment for Israeli Viewers
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

14 Feb 2024 – “They Brought Israeli Civilians to Watch Our Nude Torture”

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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

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Some Wisdom…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

“Being strong does not mean that one never falls down–but that one always gets up again after falling down.”

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US Seizes Plane That Iran Sold to Venezuela–Imperialism at Its Best
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

13 Feb 2024 – The US claims Iran violated its sanctions when it sold the jumbo jet to Venezuela.

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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?

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Memorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.

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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security

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EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: ‘Stop Saying Please’ and Cut Off Arms to Israel
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

12 Feb 2024 – “If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.

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