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Peace Disruptions: The Hidden Contexts of Assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
“The 21st Century is typified by the global community experiencing unbridled violations of civil rights, especially by the guardians of the so-called free spirit of democracy. This erosion of civil rights is witnessed in freedom of speech rhetoric and religious association, regularly, with no substantive progress in remedying the malady.
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Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence: Technological Promises and Practical Realities
Vladislav Chernavskikh | SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Sep 2024 – Recent advances in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have increased state interest in leveraging AI for military purposes. Given the current and relatively early stage of military adoption of advanced AI, the exploration of these factors lays the groundwork for further consideration of the likely realities of integration and of potential transparency measures and governance practices at the AI–nuclear nexus.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking His support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Stephanie Nolen | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.
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Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
Harvard Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Norwegian peace/conflict theorist Johan Galtung developed a three-layered understanding of violence that represents how a confluence of factors merge to shape the conditions for the promotion and perpetuation of violence.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2025
Dear friends, finally, I am back on my feet. I thank wholeheartedly all messages of encouragement, support and good wishes I received in the last three weeks and extend my gratitude to one and all (read on…).
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Political Psychoanalysis of Donald J. Trump’s Presidential Election Victory
Claude R. Shema – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2025
Jan 2025 – Why did Prof. Lichtman’s “Predicting the next president” model get it wrong? One of the most controversial presidential candidates in history, Trump secured his second victory in the 2024 US presidential race. A jury convicted, indicted by courts and sentenced felon [Trump] versus a prosecutor, attorney, senator, sitting vice-president [Kamala Harris].
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Malvin Gattinger - TMS webmaster,
17 Feb 2025
We do not have any new articles and there is no Weekly Digest for this week.
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Note from TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor | TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
With a heavy heart I inform you that I have been knocked down by some virus; five days in bed unable to perform the most basic tasks. Apologies. Pain from scoliosis has increased with the muscle pains. I go to hospital today. But this is a walk in the park compared with the inconceivable suffering imposed on millions around de world by the human virus Genocide. (…)
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Dialogue with 2024 Right Livelihood Awardee Issa Amro on Palestine/Israel
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations – “Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron.
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Donald Trump’s Trade Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Explained Visually
Hanna Duggal and Marium Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
4 Feb 2025 – The three countries account for more than 40 percent of total goods traded with the United States.
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80 Years after Auschwitz: Milk the Holocaust while Ignoring Nakba, the Israeli Genocide
Maung Zarni | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
3 Feb 2025 – Zionists are unleashing the same horrors on Palestinians that the Nazis once heaped on the Jewish people.
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Stop Trump: Fascist Felon
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
2 Feb 2025 – Put People and Planet over Billionaire Profits! Trump’s first weeks in office:
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Our Story So Far
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
3 Feb 2025 – More Trump Stuff…
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
King Donald and Prince Elon (or do I have their titles reversed?) have begun to treat the thousands working in foreign aid with a cruel contempt that reflects their true feelings about all workers other than those wearing MAGA hats.
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Thirty Years of Middle East Lies just Keep Coming Back to Haunt Us
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
30 Jan 2025 – The West’s ‘war on terror’ was built on a series of deceptions to persuade us that our leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
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The Deep State of the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony: A Material, Cultural, and Racial Trilogy
Linjie Chou Zanadu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Galtung (1990) identified the concept of cultural violence, which teaches us to see exploitation or repression as normal and natural: religion, language, ideology, and even formal science can all be used as tools for cultural violence.
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Against All Enemies
Meidas Touch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
6 Aug 2024 – Full Movie – Why would US military veterans take up arms against the country they swore an oath to protect? Against All Enemies goes deep inside the violent extremist movement in the US, alongside the Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, and with never-before-seen footage of the Oath Keepers.
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Trump Collaborates on the Eradication of Palestine
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
US President Donald Trump, concerned about the living conditions of the Palestinians living among the rubble mountains in Gaza, repeatedly stated that the Gaza residents should be relocated to Egypt or Jordan as a humanitarian relief measure, and requested the cooperation from Egypt and Jordan.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 10 Feb 2025
Israeli Military Blows Up Neighborhood in West Bank’s Jenin Refugee Camp
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
On Sunday [2 Feb 2025], the Israeli military blew up a neighborhood in the Jenin refugee camp as its assault on the West Bank city continues. At least 20 residential buildings were destroyed in the blast, which also damaged a hospital.
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Palestine Will Never Die (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Lowkey’s Track Featuring Mai Khalil
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Trump’s Role in the Fall of the U.S. Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
1 Feb 2025 – Searching for an answer to the question “Which emperor contributed the most to the fall of the Roman Empire?” I found the following which is slightly abbreviated.
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Declaration of the Independence of the Mind
Rolland Romain | L’Humanité/Art Lantern – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
16 Jun 1919 – Signed, among others, by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse.
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(Français) Le Rôle de Trump Dans la Chute de l’Empire des États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
1er février 2025 – À la recherche d’une réponse à la question « Quel empereur a le plus contribué à la chute de l’Empire romain ? », j’ai trouvé la réponse suivante, légèrement abrégée.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Hva kommer etter USAs imperium?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
En nøkkelhypotese i The fall of the US empire – and then what? er at etterfølgersystemet til det amerikanske imperiet verken vil være et hegemoni drevet av en stor aktør som Kina eller EU, eller globalisering drevet av transnasjonale selskaper, men en verden av regioner med regionale valutaer.
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Renaming and Reframing Continually in the Face of Hubris
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
3 Feb 2025 – Playing Creatively Along with Trump and Musk or Being Played – A feature of this period is renaming and the pressures to do so. Readers are free to amend the questions asked or to frame other questions — whether with the same AIs, with others, or with those that become available in the future.
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The Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
30 Jan 2025 – My latest attempt to express support for the Gaza Tribunal Project seeking civil society enforcement of international law given the neutering of the global normative order.
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Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism, and the New Cold War
Yanis Varoufakis | DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025
Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek—a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.
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AI Going DeepSeek
Michael Roberts | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released a model called R1 comparable to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but at a radically lower cost. What are the consequences and the possibilities in comparison to the capitalist version of AI?
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The Western Way of Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
1 Feb 2025 – The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – Yesterday, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, founded in 1995 to prevent deadly conflict, issued its “Watch List” of 10 countries at risk of deadly conflict or of escalation of ongoing ones.
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The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker
Mark Goodwin | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Mythologized as created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its companies were birthed out of the national security apparatus of the USA. What appeared as a guiding light towards free speech and financial freedom is Uncle Sam’s boot making its next step.
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(Italiano) Geopolitica della follia dell’Elite (Parte 3): La pericolosa fissa che i governi, BRICS compresi, siano sovrani e possano fermare la presa di potere tecnocratica
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Gennaio 2025 – Mentre l’ordine della geopolitica viene rapidamente riplasmato per meglio servire gli interessi dell’Elite, gran parte degli analisti che scrivono in merito vengono indotti a percepire i BRICS come una sorta di ‘alternativi’.
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Congo’s War: From Genocide to Living by Genocide
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Rwanda –> the Israel of Africa – The Democratic Republic of Congo remains one of the most volatile regions in the world, plagued by persistent conflict, exploitation, and foreign interference.
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In Historic Return March, Thousands of Palestinians Arrive in Northern Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – Late today, 300,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians returned to Gaza City and northern Gaza for the first time since the start of Israel’s genocidal military attacks.
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The Mad King’s Court
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Meanwhile, in the [White] House of [Black] Horrors…
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Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – The UN Security Council has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court, despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Since the news media give daily headlines from the many wars taking place, it is easy to say that they are part of the culture of war. I suppose CNN has a special department for background information on present and future wars, just as obituaries for famous people to be ready in advance when their deaths occur.
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“Scorecard, Scorecard, You Can’t Tell al-Queda without a Scorecard”
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
2 Feb 2025 – U.S. tax dollars, errantly or not, poured into the hands of jihadists, al-Queda consorts, motley adventurers and soldiers of fortune, with the end of ousting Assad. The CIA — is still the CIA. It scored big in Syria.
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US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – The Story behind Today’s Stock Market Tank – Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China’s DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.
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How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt behind Holocaust Day Remembrance
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year’s Auschwitz commemorations.
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Heroes of Human History (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Ft Mai Khalil – Please click on Watch on YouTube
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Human Security and Its Dimensions
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.
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Biden or Trump, US Latin American Policy Remains Contemptible: Migration, Drugs, Tariffs
John Perry and Roger D. Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
30 Jan 2025 – With Donald Trump, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. We look at some of the speculation and address three instances of how the US’s policy may be viewed from a progressive, L.A. perspective.
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Chess Prodigy at Three: He’s Internationally Ranked but Is Confused and Scared by the Limelight
Dipanjan Sinha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Anish Sarkar began playing chess on a train and now practices eight hours a day after becoming the world’s youngest ever FIDE-rated player.
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(Français) Culture Médiatique de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 janvier 2025 – Étant donné que les médias d’information donnent quotidiennement des informations sur les nombreuses guerres qui se déroulent, il est facile de dire qu’ils font partie de la culture de la guerre. Je suppose que CNN a un département spécial pour les informations de fond sur les guerres présentes et futures, tout comme les nécrologies des personnes célèbres pour être prêtes à l’avance lorsque leur décès survient.
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Fathoms
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons
And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft…
Is It High Time to Phase Out Int’l Laws, Conventions, Accords, Summits…?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – On 10 Dec 1948, the UNGA adopted a Declaration setting out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that should to be universally protected. Born from the atrocities of WW II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the world’s first such declaration. Available in 577 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.
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Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 – 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.
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Exhausted Palestinians Arrive in Gaza City to No Homes, Killed Family
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the second day, walking kilometres to reach home. In the crowds is a man with a white beard walking with determination. In one hand, he holds onto his adult son, who has Down Syndrome.
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The Western Wild West
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – “Americans conquered the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions out of poverty, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens. There is nothing we cannot do, no dream we cannot fulfil.” — Trump’s inaugural address
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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Replicate Itself — A Milestone That Has Experts Terrified
Owen Hughes | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
25 Jan 2025 – Scientists say AI crossed a critical “red line” by replicating itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.
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Never Again
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“Never again” means never again for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
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New BRICS Banking System Would Render Sanctions Useless, ex-Chancellor Warns
The BRICS Chairmanship - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Lord Lamont of Lerwick, a former chancellor of the Exchequer, has warned that a plan by BRICS countries to create a rival banking payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ and render international sanctions useless.
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War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Since war broke out in Sudan, one million people fled into Chad. Nine out of ten are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence including torture, rape and sexual slavery.
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After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Turns Its Firepower on the West Bank
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
28 Jan 2025 – Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel’s military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 3 Feb 2025
What DeepSeek Says about Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War
Cathy Vogan | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
1 Feb 2025 – What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out.
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They Don’t just Tell Us What to Think, They Train Us HOW to Think
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – And this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things.
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The Christian Zionist Leading the International Court of Justice
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
24 Jan 2025 – Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Now the court’s new president, the Ugandan judge plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories.
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Trump’s Hidden Multipolarism
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Trump had begun to express North Americanism, such as the recapture of the Panama Canal and the proposal to annex Canada, before taking office. His repeated statements show that Trump is serious about Americanism, one way of responding to the emerging multipolarity in the world order.
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How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.
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Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
27 Jan 2025 – Not only Israel failed to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon according to ceasefire agreement, it also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109, some in critical condition.
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Barbarity vs Civilization [Redux?]
René Georges Hermann-Paul | Le Cri de Paris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
“It’s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of “Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it’s a necessary blow for civilization.” –> Costumes & Mores – Ring any bells?
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‘From Ground Zero–Stories from Gaza’: An Appreciation of the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – This extraordinary film, on the 2024 Oscar shortlist for documentaries, consists of 22 episodes stitched together by Palestinian film director Rashid Masharawi but without any effort to curate a narrative experience of the Gaza ordeal now in its 15th month.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The future may note the tendency to articulate matter of importance as checklists with some clustering of items. This is evident in declarations such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the regional charters of human rights.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Address to the Nation
Educational Video Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his televised Farewell Address to the Nation. This speech is known for his coining of the term “Military Industrial Complex”.
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A Bedouin Village Was Razed by Israel–Guess Who Gets the Land at Bargain Prices
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – According to Israel, a ‘Local Resident’ of the Negev desert – qualified for subsidized land prices – is not a displaced Bedouin, whose village was destroyed, but rather settlers from the West Bank.
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Rejected by Allies and Condemned as Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Trump’s proposal that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip has been rejected by US allies in the region and attacked as biased, dangerous, illegal and unworkable by lawyers and activists.
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Leaked Documents Expose Deep Ties between Israeli Army and Microsoft
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – Since 7 Oct 2023, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.
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Before, With and After Johan Galtung
Prof. Tiziano Telleschi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
An (almost) Case Study: Symbolic Violence at the Restaurant
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Eisenhower’s “Military-Industrial Complex” Speech Origins and Significance
US National Archives - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address, on the “military-industrial complex,” was nearly two years in the making. Newly discovered papers reveal that he was deeply involved in crafting the speech, which was to become one of the most famous in U.S. history.
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New Realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Update of an interview with Mohammad Ali Haqshenas, a journalist with the International Quran News Agency, published on 22 Jan 2025.
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(Italiano) Civiltà come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Sei civiltà definiscono 15 muri, religiosamente-filosoficamente ed economicamente-politicamente, come modelli di sviluppo. Lo scontro principale è l’Occidente contro il resto. Colonialismo, imperialismo. La soluzione: vincere, dominare. Ci sono altri modi: compromesso, trascendenza, nuove civiltà.
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Military Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
– that everybody seems to love.
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UN Special Rapporteurs on Palestine Talk Truth to Power as Trump Takes Over the US Government
Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – The first episode of a new podcast initiated by Junaid Ahmed and Paulina Chan, under SHAPE auspices, featuring the three most recent UN Special Rapporteurs on Occupied Palestine.
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E-mails from Palestine: “Are You Okay, Jane?” NO, I Am NOT Okay
Jane Stillwater - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – “Never visit the Holy Land,” people told me before I came here. “It’s not safe.” Actually, it really is perfectly safe here — but only for us tourists.
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Fiqhi* Pathways: The Role of Islamic Jurists in Shaping Armed Group Behavior
Lakhdar Ghettas | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
This research project aims to understand the structures and roles of Islamic jurists in shaping armed group behavior in the MENA and Sahel region.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Make Us Less Intelligent?
Felipe Zamana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
23 Jan 2025 – The emergence of AI is calling into question what it means to be intelligent. However, the problem may not lie in tech vs. humans, but instead in our very definition of it.
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Gaza Ceasefire: Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025
Roundtable on the Gaza ceasefire with former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project, Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, and journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News.
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Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
Robert Inlakesh | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – The wave of Israeli attacks in the West Bank this week following Trump’s lifting of settler sanctions and the role of U.S. donors in enabling messianic-settler genocidal extremism.
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(Castellano) Educación, Patrimonio y Cultura de Paz
Fernando Montiel T. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Hablar de patrimonio es hablar de todo aquello con lo que se cuenta, y en este sentido, el tema obliga también a considerar todo lo que se perdió, ya por descuido, por saqueo o por destrucción, y en esa línea de pensamiento no hay carencia de ejemplos en la historia y la geografía.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Jan 2025
Germany’s Reckoning with the Past Is No Longer a Model
Elias Feroz interviews Enzo Traverso | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – In the 1980s, German institutions began to seriously confront their country’s past, but their reactions to the destruction of Gaza show that they failed to draw the right lessons. Both the Holocaust and the Nakba tragedies should be acknowledged and respected. A struggle against antisemitism grounded on the denial of the Nakba is both unethical and ineffective.
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(Italiano) Nucleare silenziato… ma non domato
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Il 22 gennaio 2025 si festeggia il quarto anniversario dell’entrata in vigore del Trattato sulla Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari: armi immorali, illegittime e illegali. Ebbene: nonostante l’evidenza che le armi nucleari costituiscono una minaccia crescente per l’umanità.
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Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
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The West’s Dominance Is Over! On Gaza, Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO Shift
Prof. Jan Oberg | SaltCubeAnalytics – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Peace researcher Jan Oberg on the unraveling of Western dominance. From NATO’s aggressive expansion to its role in global instability, to the devastation in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and Sweden’s controversial move into NATO.
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The Choice Is Ours?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – Both Netanyahu and Trump have visions of building empires and discarding the remnants of international law and the UN. Will they succeed to lead us to a World War or will we have peace?
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A Day That Many of Us Have Dreaded
Bernie Sanders | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025, Inauguration day. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is one of the most pivotal and difficult moments in the history of our country. What happens in the next few years will impact this country and the world for decades. Despair is not an option. We must aggressively educate and organize and go forward together.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
“Human beings make metaphors as naturally as bees make honey,” Adam Gopnik wrote in his wondrous love letter to winter, and no one has honeyed the spirit with more splendid metaphors wrung from winter than Henry David Thoreau.
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Which Genocide Are You On?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
24 Jan 2025 – “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” -– Voltaire
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The Media Navigator (2025)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – The Media Navigator classifies 72 leading media outlets based on their political stance and their establishment bias. In many cases, the latter is more significant.
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Israel Holds Multiple Palestinian Doctors Captive–Some Are already Dead
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of many unlawfully imprisoned medical professionals, reportedly tortured and abused in detention.
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Biden Commutes Sentence for Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier
Colleen Long, et al. | AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence today.
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January 20, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The tone for Trump’s inauguration was set on Fri 17 Jan, when he launched his own cryptocurrency. By Sun morning, it had made more than $50 billion. A financial asset that didn’t exist on Fri today accounts for 89% of Trump’s net worth.
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Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, plan and justify wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but they mostly provide analyses that neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).
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The Return
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
20 Jan 2025 – Déjà-Vu…
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The Dismal Pseudo-Science
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – Economists claim their discipline is a science. If so, it is an odd one. For the deeper you probe its foundations, the shakier its superstructure looks. Modern-day economics is built on two convenient untruths.
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