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Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.
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The Forgotten (Part 1): Kashmir, Heaven on Earth, Turned Hell on Earth by 21st Century India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
“The Mughal Emperor Jahangir described the region of Kashmir as “Heaven on Earth” when he first set his eyes there, forgotten today and occupied by the ethnophobic Indian Army ensuring ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region.”
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The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’
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Long Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
From Lowkey’s Soundtrack to the Struggle 2
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Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.
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Thousands Trapped as Israeli Forces Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The IDF have raided al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. It said it was carrying out an “operation against Hamas in a specified area” at al-Shifa and that the raid was based on Israeli and US intelligence.
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Besieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis.
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Europe-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – all in the name of supporting Jews.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
GAZA 20 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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The Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War – A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022
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Special Delivery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Diplomacy? No Joke…
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My Tense Exchange on a Train with US Sen. Chris Coons over Gaza
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – After questioning Sen. Chris Coons about his opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, I was removed from a train heading to DC. A recap of our viral exchange and a response to false media coverage of it.
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Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
How to Be a Living Poem
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Hey Joe
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Peace through Horror
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Gaza: War on We, the People, and Arab-Muslim’s Shame
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Conscientious scholars and realist humanistic leaders highlight the current catastrophic war on Gaza as “The Horror is beyond words and beyond imagination. The Horror is of blood and shredded children. The Horror is of maybe hundreds of thousands dead bodies disintegrating in the rubbles of indiscriminately IDF-bombed hospitals, apartment buildings, mosques.”
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
20-26 November 2023
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‘The Hinge of History’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
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South Africa Asks ICC to Investigate Israeli Crimes in Gaza
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – SA President Cyril Ramaphosa today called on the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip. “We join many other countries and organizations in asking the ICC to investigate what is happening and, in fact, we can see with our own eyes in Israel,” he said.
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Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.
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A Framework for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – This peace would not be the result of direct Israel-Palestine negotiations but instead be secured through the powers of the UNSC and UN General Assembly.
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Working Children in Rural and Urban Areas
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
We know that many children in the age group of about 5 to 15 years work in rural and urban areas today.
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Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries.
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UN Experts Call on International Community to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – Grave violations committed by Israel in Gaza point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of genocidal incitement, intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba,’ and the use of powerful weaponry resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
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Bill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society
Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028.
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Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population’s minimum needs.
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‘Are Hamas a Terror Group? Are They a Terror Group? Answer the Question!’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – The actual meaning of ‘terrorism’ was explained by Noam Chomsky: ‘It’s very simple: if “they” do it, it’s terrorism; if “we” do it, it’s counterterrorism. That’s a historical universal.’ In reality, ‘terrorism’ is a propaganda label that is slapped solely on Official Enemies and never ‘us’.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
They would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, neither experienced nor trained for it. To them it seemed dishonorable, hiding and shooting at men in the open who could not even see their enemies. A Redcoat wrote his family: “They did not fight us like a regular army, only like savages.”
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CRUDE: Wentworth Community vs Big Oil
Greenpeace International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – This documentary details the shocking knock-on impact of air pollution caused by big oil in the South African township Wentworth – including chronic poverty, gender-based violence and epigenetic changes which make community members prone to certain illnesses.
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Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony.
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Will Palestine Ever Be Free? Understanding Elite Strategy in the Global Context
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – How the genocidal assault on Gaza and the ongoing military attacks on the occupied West Bank constitute a fundamental threat to the people of Palestine while at the same time they are only a local manifestation of the wider assault on humanity.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 37: Al-Shifa Hospital No Longer Functioning as Israeli Ground Troops Surround the Hospital
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
12 Nov 2023 – Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
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Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – “Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility,” said a group of doctors in Gaza.
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Does the Truth Matter?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – The Israeli government just downgraded the number of killed in Oct 7 to 1200 from 1400. George Galloway wrote: “The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies have been downscaled to one, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.” The truth matters because lies are being used to justify an ongoing genocide.
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The Horror, The Horror
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Israel’s genocidal attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.
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The Ten Dumbest Things We’re Being Asked to Believe about Israel’s War on Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – Here they are, in no particular order.
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What the Mainstream Media Fail to Tell You about the 7 Oct Hamas Incursion
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day. And Israel’s actions – from bombing Palestinian families to starving them of food and water – has the blessing of every major western politician.
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We Are Spartacus
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
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The Right of Self-Defence
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – The only unique factor about Israel here is that it is the only country to have been found by the International Court of Justice specifically to have abused and exceeded the concept of right of self-defence, in its treatment of the Palestinians.
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Can Crimes of Resistance Ever Justify Genocide? The Tragic Reality of Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Israel has seized this opportunity to fulfill Zionist territorial ambitions amid “the fog of war” by inducing one last surge of Palestinian catastrophic dispossession. Whether it is called “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” is of secondary importance; it qualifies as the predominant humanitarian catastrophe of the 21stcentury.
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World Health Organization Says 160 Children Are Killed in Gaza Every Day
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – The WHO said today that more than 11,000 people, approximately 0.5% of the Gaza Strip’s population, have been killed in the region and that, on average, 160 children die every day. There have been 102 attacks on health services in Gaza, 121 in the West Bank by the IDF.
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Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.
On Gaza
Phil Wilayto | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 marked 106 years since one Englishman, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, gave another Englishman, Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, the right to establish a “homeland” for his people. The land targeted in the Balfour Declaration was in the Middle East and it already was home to millions of Palestinians.
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U.S. Nurse Who Got Out of Gaza Describes Desperation She Saw
CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – Emily Callahan, a US nurse with Doctors Without Borders, gives a harrowing description of what she witnessed in Gaza as she was attempting to get out of the area.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Can Still Become Our Rescue
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A History of Squandered Opportunities’ by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 2023, 406 pp. –
Address by the author at book launch, 11 Nov 2023
El Niño Expected to Last at least until April 2024
UN World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – The ongoing El Niño event is expected to last at least until April 2024, influencing weather patterns and contributing to a further spike in temperatures both on land and in the ocean, according to a new Update from the World Meteorological Organization.
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An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.
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Recovering from Complex Trauma: Exploring Rage as the Missing Piece
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
From one perspective, whatever we name this experience, trauma or something else, it does not matter. What matters is that one can open up a space within oneself to open both arms with humility, love and sensitivity, and allow one’s memories and one’s physical pain to fall.
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89 UN Staff Members Killed in Gaza in Israeli Attacks to Date
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is the lead UN agency operating in the Gaza Strip, where its schools are currently hosting nearly 725,000 displaced Palestinians.
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Militarism vs. Our Shared Humanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – If you don’t care about the victims, the dehumanization process kicks in and, if you’re reading about it on the Internet or watching it on TV, it starts morphing into a video game. Crash, boom, hooray! This is war and we’ve got no choice but to win, no matter the cost.
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Dr. Gabor Mate on Gaza: This Is Genocide
The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023 – Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author Gabor Maté offers his reflections on Israel’s gruesome military operation in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Human Rights: Advances in Neurotechnology Lead to Calls for Protection against Abuse of ‘Brain Data’
Sara Chessa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
26 Oct 2023 – The possible new human rights that we might need in order to defend the mental privacy and the mental integrity of the individuals in front of certain uses of the neuro-technologies.
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US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet ‘All Materials’ from Embedded Reporters in Gaza
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for “all materials and footage” recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.
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Spiritual Enlightenment: What It Is
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
There are many explanations of what is enlightenment; many are unclear or misleading. I offer something that is more apparent and direct. Enlightenment is a goal of yoga and meditation, and we should know something of what we are trying to attain.
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The Dangers of ‘Minstrel Diplomacy’
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III | The Seattle Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Black faces are being used by the failing empire to sell failed racist, neocolonial militarism.
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Letter to the Children of Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Dear child. We have failed you. This is the awful guilt we carry. We tried. But we did not try hard enough. We will write and film. This is what we do. It is not much. But it is something. We will tell your story again. Maybe it will be enough to earn the right to ask for your forgiveness.
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In Love
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
A young man wrote to his girlfriend the following love letter.
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West Asian Governments Take Assertive Stances against Israeli Occupation and Its Crimes
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – A large number of Arab and other West Asian countries have defied the US pressures and openly taken a stand against the Israeli war in Gaza for the first time in decades.
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Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Israel’s murderous bombardment of Gaza was described by the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen as Israel ‘still pushing forward’. Bowen noted: ‘Palestinians call this genocide’. It is not just the Palestinians though, as Bowen well knows.
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Will David again Slay Goliath?
Steve Corbett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Lambs being led to the slaughter, these and countless other children need all the good shepherds we can provide to protect them before desperation and suffering drive them to kill in the name of the free Palestine they deserve. Peace, not war, is always worth the effort.
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The Greatest Threat to World Peace? A Review of Daniele Ganser’s ‘USA: The Ruthless Empire’
Marilyn Langlois - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – If you regard the United States as perhaps flawed but overall a force for good in the world, here is a volume that will clear the air and paint an honest picture of the significant, not-so-rosy impact US foreign policy and actions have had in the world around us.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Today´s existential threats to humanity might perhaps be classified in four categories. Let this be the offer of one among many ways to classify existential threats, followed by ten theses for discussion.
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Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading
Ari Paul | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and invasion of Gaza, US media ponder how this impacts Jewish people. The way this is framed completely mischaracterizes Jewish opinion, falsely acting as if it is unquestionably unified in support of Israeli military attacks.
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Mainstream Media Kills Truth
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – We in the West Bank witness this genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and know we are next. Already 163 Palestinians were murdered by the army and settlers since 7 Oct. Israel blocked our cantons and arrested/kidnapped over 2500 more Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Samaria
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
In Solidarity with Palestine – 11 Nov 2023
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War on Gaza Signals Insanity Replacing Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Global citizens aspiring conventional wisdom question the tyranny of war and speak of humanitarian international law, crimes against humanity and protection of civilians in conflict zones as granted values of international systems of civilized governance. But…
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Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” Milton wrote centuries before modern science came to illuminate how the mind renders reality — the mind, this sole lens we have on what the world is and what we are.
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Backing Colonial Settler War Crimes & Genocide: Nothing New for the US
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Over 75% of the people in Gaza were already registered by the UN as refugees expelled from their villages in what is now southern Israel in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe).
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Reflections on Evil
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – In light of current events, I am posting my exploration of evil, written 15 years ago.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Recently a debate, almost a controversy, has started about the name of my country — India. The word Bharat is an ancient name in Sanskrit and earlier languages for the region.
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The ICC Must Investigate the Crime of Genocide in Gaza
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – We need a ceasefire. The existence of the Palestinian people is at stake.
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Bachke O Bachke (Music Video of the Week)
Eros Now Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
This song is from the Bollywood movie Aladin. Enjoy.
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Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?
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The Geopolitics of Defining Genocides, Massacres, Targeted Extrajudicial, State Sponsored Murders and Ethnophobia
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
“Everything in life is a question of perspective. The oppressor, perpetrator and the cabal of planned mass killing will classify it as “The Final Solution” while the oppressed will call the targeted killings as Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide. History will be the Judge, but History itself is written by the Victors.”
→ read full articleGenocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
13-19 November 2023
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Full Steam Ahead
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Killing Democratically
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Who Are Israeli Settlers, and Why Do They Live on Palestinian Lands?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – As many as 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank as settler violence surges. So, who are the settlers and where exactly do they live?
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(Português) O Genocídio Israelense: Suprema Expressão do Paradigma Moderno?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
9 nov 2023 – Vamos direto ao assunto. A retaliação do estado de Israel ao ato de terror pelo Hamas foi profundamente desproporcional. Tinha o direito de autodefesa, mas a pretexto de caçar e matar terroristas acionou seu sofisticado arsenal bélico. Foram destruídos centenas de edifícios, assassinados milhares de crianças, mulheres e civis. Não se trata de uma guerra, mas de um verdadeiro genocídio e limpeza étnica.
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Media Coverage of Israel and Gaza Is Rife with Deadly Double Standards
Editorial | The New Humanitarian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘Terrorism’ vs. ‘self-defense’ – Journalism that presents Palestinians as less than human makes their killing more acceptable: Palestinians “die” while Israelis are “killed”.
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The Think Tank Racket
Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Managing the Information War with Russia
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Being “Pushed Out of Paradise” in Their Homeland
Adam Yamaguchi and Kerry Bree | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
4 Nov 2023 – Doreen Hall is among the thousands of native Hawaiians who decided to leave the state with her family because of rising prices. Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians leave for the US mainland. There are fears that rebuilding from the wildfires from Maui will lead to even more displacement.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 29: Israel Hits Hospitals, Ambulances, and Schools Across Gaza
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – Israel targeted an ambulance convoy at al-Shifa hospital, while other schools and hospitals were targeted as Israel doubles down on lifesaving civilian infrastructure. Meanwhile, Palestinian workers from Gaza return, recounting torture.
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Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International Law and Responsible Statecraft
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of norms.’ International Law Professor Richard Falk says Western leadership becomes “self-righteous” to enforce international law “when it’s in their interest” while in other cases, they remain silent.
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Gaza in Real Time: Geopolitics vs Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Israel has long been a master of what is called in Hebrew hasbara–the spinning, manipulating and distorting of public discourse so that it either justifies what Israel is doing or diverts attention from the message of critics and skeptics to the supposedly questionable credibility of the messenger. ‘The weaponizing of antisemitism’ is a cynical example of the deployment of hasbara.
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(Italiano) L’uomo allo specchio: Uno sguardo al cuore e alla mente dietro TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Rincantucciati in un appartamentino all’ottavo piano di un caseggiato non lontano dal fiume Douro a Porto, in Portogallo, ci sono uno scrittoio, due computer laptop e una poltrona ortopedica. “Questo è il TMS!” proclama Antonio, l’uomo allo specchio, con ostentazione.
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Letter to the World (from Palestine)
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – I will start by saying THANK YOU on behalf of all Palestinians. Thank you for keeping your humanity. Thank you for not succumbing to the lies and distortions from corrupt politicians and media. Do not underestimate your individual power to act. Millions went to the streets in the last few days in this global uprising.
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Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – When Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists, religious zealots, ultranationalists and crypto-fascists in the apartheid state of Israel say they want to wipe Gaza off the face of the earth, believe them.
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Why Israel Wants to Erase Context and History in the War on Gaza
Ilan Pappé | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza.
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How Artificial Is Human Intelligence — and Humanity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – Consideration of AI Safety versus Safety from Human Artifice
→ read full articleConvention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.
New Document Leak on Plan to Expel Gaza Population
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023 – A leaked document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence to an Israeli news site today lays out a plan to transfer more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai desert. [Moses, 13th century BCE, Redux]
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Gaza & Palestine – Selected News & Comments
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – As Israel’s war against the people of Gaza rages on, Palestinians elsewhere under its control have not escaped retribution.
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Japan, G-7 on Different Pages Regarding Middle East Conflict
Shino Matsuyama and Akira Nemoto | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Despite being its chair, Japan was “excluded from the G-7.” On 22 Oct Biden held talks with the leaders of the G-7 nations, except for Japan, and the six leaders issued a joint statement in support of Israel’s right to self-defense. Japan has long supported the two-state solution, in which Israel and Palestine coexist as independent nations.
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US House Passes $14.3 Billion in Military Aid for Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – The US Congress today passed a bill to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in military aid, a strong show of support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed over 9,000 Palestinians in last 26 days.
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Come Back, just Come Back!
Refaat in Gaza | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Oh Rascal Children of Gaza.
→ read full articleGenocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Iran-Russia Set a Western Trap in Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The only country that could possibly distract the West from Ukraine is Israel. But the US and its allies are walking into an existential trap if they think a West Asian victory will be more easily won than a European one.
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Debate Palestine-Israel: Noam Chomsky & Rudy Rochman (must watch)
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Noam Chomsky Destroys Israel
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Some Documents of Hope
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – Your students, like all young people today are pushed towards pessimism by the mass media and the pronouncements of their national governments. Is there some way that we can give them hope for the future? I want to give you four documents of hope.
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Where Is the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Gaza?
Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Yesterday’s proponents of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine are today’s biggest supporters of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
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