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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gaza – ‘A Graveyard for Children’
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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The Name of My Country
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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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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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.”
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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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Full Steam Ahead
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Killing Democratically
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
13-19 November 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
There is a widespread sense of despair and apprehension about the future. There is frustration that earlier Track Two dialogues have not been able to move the situation forward. Thus, we are at a time when new, revitalized efforts on the part of NGOs and academic peace researchers are needed.
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The New Pandemic {no joke}
Anne Gibbons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
The world needs an Anti-Pandemic
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End The Insanity: For Nuclear Disarmament and Global Demilitarization
Eileen Crist, Judith Lipton and David Barash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
No one believed Katrina would happen before Katrina happened. No one believed Fukushima would happen before Fukushima happened. Virtually no one believes a nuclear war will happen before it happens. But a nuclear war is not a disaster: it is a holocaust.
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(Italiano) Il pianeta non può sopravvivere alla crescente corsa agli armamenti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Novembre 2023 – TNI ha da poco pubblicato uno ‘studio di caso’, mettendo in relazione le spese militari previste dalla NATO e gli obiettivi di riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra. La conclusione è netta: “il pianeta non può sopravvivere all’attuale corsa agli armamenti”.
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United Nations General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Calling for an End to Violence in Gaza
Nicolas Boeglin | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On 27 Oct the UNGA adopted a resolution entitled “Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations .” See which 14 countries voted against in the placard above.
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The Harmony Peace Prize 2023 – International Art Competition
Cristina Cabrejas-Artola – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Nov 2023 – The theme of the Harmony Peace Prize 2023 was inspired by Lorenzo de Medici, the ruler of Florence who neutralised Naples and Rome’s military threat. His approach to harmony was influenced by the writings of Plato and Plotinus, two of the most prestigious Greek philosophers.
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How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
India is a huge country with the world’s largest population of about 1.5 billion people, having recently overtaken the Chinese population–1.05 billion–and that of Europe–750 million.
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Gaza Children Buried Alive, Buried Alive, Buried Alive
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – State Terrorism: As I watch the relentless airstrikes on Gaza, I can’t stop thinking about children trapped underneath the tons of concrete rubble and buried alive. Netanyahu, his generals, and President Biden must be prosecuted by the ICC for genocide and “collective punishment” — a scholarly way of describing mass murder of civilians.
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The Math of Murder
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
On Tue 31 Oct 2023, Israel bombed a Palestinian refugee camp with 100,000 inhabitants, producing a hellscape of casualties, buildings in collapse and a massive bomb crater to kill just one single Hamas commander. This annihilation of innocent civilians bombed into “collateral damage” does not support U.S., Israel or the West’s claim for moral high ground.
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(Italiano) Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Ottobre 2023 – La storia è lo scenario nel quale si collocano e acquistano senso gli eventi dell’oggi. Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro, come ha affermato il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite, Guterres…
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Israel: Deeper into Depravity
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – The video provokes a disgust as profound as any I have ever felt. It features Israelis recording themselves sadistically ridiculing Palestinians in the most cruel manner. They imitate Palestinian children dying or starving. They apply racially offensive makeup and mock Gazans as Israel deprives them of power, potable water, food and much else.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
6 – 12 November 2023
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As the Lights Go Out in Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – A Poem
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US Stands Isolated in Backing Gaza Massacre
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – The U.S. corporate media have not helped North Americans understand how isolated our government is in its unconditional support and resupply of weapons for Israel’s genocidal military campaign, which has killed over 8,000 Palestinians, 30% of them women and 40% of them children, while destroying hospitals, apartment buildings, streets and schools.
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Operation False Flag to Set the Middle East on Fire
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on 7 Oct in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the 11 Sept 2001 attack in the US. The U.N. Secretary General reports that more than 35 U.N. personnel have been killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza.
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The Jewish-Arab Peace Song (Music Video of the Week)
Shamai Leibowitz | TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
A beautiful song with an inspiring message. There are many Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs working for peace and this Middle-Eastern jazzy song should be their hymn!
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Thou Shalt NOT Kill
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – We are cartwheeling towards a massive East v. West war with religious and ethnic overtones. This seemingly inexorable March of (nuclear) Folly, will ultimately pit the USA/NATO militarily against China, Russia and their allies. Our survival depends upon surmounting moments such as these.
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Rise in Intimidation, Settler Violence in the West Bank, Warns the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – More than 820 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced amid settler violence and increased movement restrictions since the Hamas attacks of 7 October and the start of Israel’s slaughter on Gaza, the OHCA said today.
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The House of Rothschild Money’s Prophets
atenification - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Oxford scholar Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the Jewish family’s phenomenal economic success and reveals for the first time the details of the family’s vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age.
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Israel in Search of Its Hiroshima: Massive Bomb Wipes Out 20 Apt. Buildings, Kills, Wounds 400 Civilians
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday [31 Oct 2023] bombed the Jabaliyaa refugee camp in Gaza, killing or wounding at least 400 persons and destroying the Block Six residential complex, felling 20 buildings. Many more victims are under the rubble.
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Israel’s Big Lie of “Self-Defense”
Kieran Kelly | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – An occupier does not have the right to use arms in “self-defense.” Is the mass slaughter of civilians self-defense?
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The 7 Oct 2023 Hamas Invasion of Israel: An Alternative Viewpoint on the Palestinian Genocide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
“What the Eyes perceive and the Ears hear are, at most times, incongruous.”
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The Irish Government Must Invoke Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
4 Nov 2023 – Nobel Peace Laureate called on the Irish government to trigger the Genocide Convention as a way to help halt the Israeli genocidal attack on Palestinians, in front of the American embassy in Belfast today.
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Joe Biden Gives Speech Detached from Reality Justifying U.S. Support for Ukraine and Gaza Wars
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Right out of a George Orwell Novel – As the U.S. escalates its involvement in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Joe Biden gave a speech at the Oval Office on 19 Oct trying to legitimize $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Taiwan.
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How to Stop Genocide and Prevent Atrocities
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights writes: “Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.” He explains that with Western leaders providing weapons and diplomatic cover, the only hope we have is that people around the world demand that governments stop Israel’s ongoing atrocities.
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There’s Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put on the Murder of Thousands of Children
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023 – The fact that the US and its allies are helping Israel murder children by the thousands is a giant glitch in the narrative matrix.
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(Français) Quelques Documents d’Espoir
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 novembre 2023 – Vos étudiants, comme tous les jeunes d’aujourd’hui, sont poussés au pessimisme par les médias et les déclarations de leurs gouvernements nationaux. Existe-t-il un moyen de leur donner de l’espoir pour l’avenir ? Je veux vous donner quatre documents d’espoir.
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Israel Deports Thousands of Palestinian Workers Back to Gaza’s War Zone
The Associated Press AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Israel today deported as many as 10,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory. “They had valid permits to be in Israel and work there,” said Miriam Marmur, public advocacy director at Gisha.
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Number of Planned Low-orbit Satellites Now Exceeds One Million
Arthur Firstenberg | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On Sunday [29 Oct], SpaceX launched 23 satellites from Cape Canaveral in the morning, and 22 more from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the evening. This brought the total number of operating satellites irradiating the Earth to about 8,800.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
GAZA 6 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – We — by which I mean most of humanity — are still playing with the so-called “just war theory,” the intellectual justification for war dating back to St. Augustine and the early centuries of the Common Era.
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The World Has Never Cared about Gaza’s Suffering
Ahmed Nehad | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – Gaza is being obliterated, and no global power is doing anything to stop it.
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Guernica, Revisited
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Palestine
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Nikola Tesla’s “Lost” Interview: “Visualization Is the Secret”
Be Inspired – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
25 Sep 2023 – The ideas expressed were so revolutionary that its contents were covered up and hidden for decades.
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Names Released of 7,028 Palestinians Killed after Biden Questions Death Toll
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – Health ministry says US administration ‘devoid of human standards and morals’ for ‘shamelessly’ questioning validity of figures.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Experimental Use of ChatGPT to Develop a Realistic Game
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 20: Human Rights Group Warns Israel Is ‘Using Starvation as a Weapon of War’ in Gaza
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – As Israel’s Gaza assault enters day 20, food, clean water, and fuel are running out. Oxfam warns “millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.”
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