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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships with Them
Marjorie Hecht | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient.
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The Loss of Hezbollah and Iran (Part 1)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – After Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah on 27 Sep, Iran retaliated by firing 180 missiles over Israel on 1 Oct. However, Iran announced that it would not send troops to Lebanon to prop up Hezbollah because it wanted stability in the Middle East, not a war with Israel.
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“Bloodied, Bruised and Broken” – More Than 690 Children Injured in Lebanon in Last Six Weeks
UNICEF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – UNICEF calls for a ceasefire to protect children as physical injuries and psychological suffering rise dramatically.
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmentalist, physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, food sovereignty advocate, and an anti-globalization author of more than 20 books and 500 papers.
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Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences.
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The 2012 Assange Interview with Nasrallah
Julian Assange | Journeyman Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2012 Interview – A freedom fighter to some, a terrorist to others, this is Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israeli military in Beirut on 27 Sep 2024. From a secret location in Lebanon, he gave Assange a rare and frank insight into his vision for the future of the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: una rete impalpabile o una insostenibile ragnatela?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 settembre 2024 – Si moltiplicano le ricerche e le applicazioni pratiche dell’IA. Un aspetto sorprendente è la vastità di temi e problemi che vedono sempre più l’IA protagonista di cambiamenti radicali nei nostri modi di vivere, di muoverci, di interagire, di interpretare il mondo.
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Looking Up
Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
I realized recently
That
If you look up at a pine tree
From a certain angle
Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism of US-Israeli Warmongering
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.
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How the US Destabilized the Horn of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – The Horn of Africa’s is the geostrategic interface between Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 2018, the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia signed a cooperation agreement, but now, six years later, it lies in tatters by destructive foreign intervention and global power competition.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 7 Oct 2024
‘Orphanage City’ Helps Children in Gaza as the Genocide Grinds On
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long Israeli assault continue to deplete the Strip.
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The Failure of Iran (Part 2)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct. 2024 – In my previous article, “The Loss of Hezbollah and Iran”, I wrote that Iran had no intention of starting a full-scale war with Israel, so that the war in the Middle East would not expand. However, I have changed my view.
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A Holistic Approach Integrating Galtung’s Theories and Linguistics
Jocelyn Wright et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
With this paper, we attempt an explicit rapprochement between the disciplinary fields by uniting Johan Galtung’s work on peace and violence with linguistics. We begin by defining key concepts related to applied linguistics and peace studies and contributing a holistic model of peace.
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Pact for the Future: A Partly Open Door for NGO-U.N. Cooperation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
3 Oct 2024 – The Pact for the Future was accepted by the U.N. General Assembly in a three-stage process. It should be seen as a springboard for action rather than as an end point. We will have to see what as NGO representatives we can make of the partly open door.
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Die with a Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Aug 2024 – Simply Delicious!…
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Circumstantial Evidence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing. One day, while he was taking a nap on shore, the wife took their fishing boat to explore the lake.
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Israel Declares UN Secretary General António Guterres Persona Non Grata
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, Nevatim. Instead, he called for a ceasefire.
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The Fragments of the World Seek Each Other
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.” These words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from his book The Phenomenon of Man, may well be worth meditating on every day. The forces of . . . love?
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(Français) Remarques pour la Journée Internationale de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 octobre 2024 – Ce text est le contenu de mon discours à l’Unesco lors de la réunion organisée par le collectif des ONG partenaires officielles de l’UNESCO en coproduction avec l’Association des Anciens Fonctionnaires de l’UNESCO et le soutien de la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO.
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Israel’s Ideology of Genocide Must Be Confronted and Stopped
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.
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(Português) Um Mundo que Perdeu o Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 out 2024 – Acompanhando o curso do mundo, notamos um verdadeiro tsunami de ódio, mentiras, exclusões, verdadeiros genocídios e extermínios em massa como na Faixa de Gaza, que nos deixa perplexos. Até onde pode chegar a maldade humana?
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Large Number of Delegates Leave UN General Assembly as Netanyahu Speaks
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly anticipated speech at the UNGA, during which he repeatedly denounced the UN as anti-Israel, was met with jeers by many delegates who walked out.
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Israel’s Bloodbath in Lebanon
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Israel launches largest attack on Lebanon since its 2006 invasion, kills hundreds including children.
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Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – The freed publisher will appear in person in Strasbourg on 1 Oct to address the Council of Europe, WikiLeaks said today.
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Message at Launching of the ‘Law of the Innocents’ in Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – Mairead addresses, among other things, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.
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Pathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Reference may be made to spiritual factors reframing ‘reasonable’ as ‘intuition’ or as “values”. That dimension may be of primary significance, taking precedence over any other and determining the nature of what is rational.
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EU President Demands Globalist Control over All Information
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addressed elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 16 Jan 2024 calling for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.
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Europeans, Arab and Muslim Nations Launch a New Initiative for an Independent Palestinian State
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that “there is a growing consensus from Western and Arab countries, and from the Global South, that we need to establish a Palestinian Authority, Government and State, which has to be recognized.”
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US Gives Israel $8.7 Billion in Military Aid for Operations in Gaza and Lebanon
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – The new aid comes as the US falsely claims it’s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon. It is actually grotesque.
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The Momentum for the Ceasefire in Ukraine Grows
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – Yesterday, French President Macron stated that Europe should improve the relations with Russia after the end of the Ukraine War. He has always been an opportunist when it comes to the relations with Russia.
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Zelensky’s Cancelled Meeting with Latin American Countries Reflects a Lack of Support for Kiev
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – The Ukrainian president cancelled a meeting with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean on the sidelines of the UNGA on 24 Sep due to low number of participants. It could also be a sign of the difficulties NATO faced in disseminating its narrative among non-Western countries, which is increasingly centered on a zero-sum logic, defending NATO’s exclusive interests in relation to Russia.
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The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy
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Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds–the U.S. Is Sending More Bombs
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Weapons used in Israeli strikes into Lebanon that have killed civilians have been found to be U.S.-made.
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On Democracy NOW!–A Tale of Two Ongoing Genocides in Israel and Myanmar
FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Israel has succeeded in establishing an ecosystem of genocidal methods. In a breach of the Genocide Convention, it has subjected Palestinian peoples to this system of depopulating to make all occupied territories Jewish Majority.
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15 Rules for Discussing Israeli Warmongering
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – It’s been a few minutes since Israel last began a new project of mass military violence, so perhaps it’s time for a refresher on the official rules on how we’re meant think and talk about such matters.
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Rogue Israel Escalates Military Attacks on Lebanon Raiding Residential Areas and Civilians
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Urgent international intervention is required to prevent the massacres being carried out by Israel in Gaza from occurring in Lebanon. Israel’s army carried out over 330 raids in over 117 Lebanese towns and cities.
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In Lebanon Carnage, Biden Deepens US ‘Obligation’ to Israeli Aggression
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, emboldening a US-backed war for hegemony in which Arab civilians are an open Israeli target.
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The Unbelievable Trump
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
With Partner James David Vance
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Clair de Lune (Music Video of the Week)
Maria João Pires | Jardin Musical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Author: Claude Debussy – Piano Magnifique
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The Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
In one of the boldest and most shimmering passages in all of literature, Thoreau writes: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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How China Broke from David Rockefeller’s Slave Labor Agenda
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Adding depth and nuance to oversimplified historical narratives of the past, present and future to avoid traps that will lead us to World War 3. The role of Henry Kissinger and how the Trilateral Commission’s designs for China came undone.
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Thomas Merton on US Militarism
Anthony Donovan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Our Government is facilitating mass slaughter. The two political parties running for President are complicit. The Catholic monk Thomas Merton’s writings on US militarism were censored and often forbidden. He resorted to sending his work privately, much unknown until after his assassination.
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How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
Melanie Joy | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – When I was four years old, I killed someone. And 43 years later, I received the Ahimsa Award for my work on global nonviolence… To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
→ read full articleStrong Measures Needed to Prevent Escalation of Israel-Hezbollah Armed Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
“Gaza is a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. Look no further than Lebanon. We should all be alarmed by the escalation. The peoples of Lebanon, of Israel, and of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.” — Antonio Guterres
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Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – No strategy to the war game, no accounting to our economy, we have fumbled and stumbled to the precipice of global war, now led by a Democratic Administration.
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UN Summit of the Future – Outcome Documents
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
*22-23 Sep 2024
*Pact for the Future
*Global Digital Compact
*Declaration on Future Generations
(Português) Declaração de Paz Global 2024
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Dia Internacional da Paz, 21 setembro 2024
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The Deadliest Day in Lebanon in Decades
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Monday [23 Sep] was the deadliest day in Lebanon in decades. In a single day, Israeli strikes in Beirut and across south Lebanon killed over 500 people, including at least 50 children, with countless more buried under the rubble. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the death toll continues to rise.
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Israel Strikes Lebanon and Yemen: What We Know So Far
Jonathan Yerushalmy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s military has struck more targets in Yemen and Lebanon, including a strike on central Beirut for the first time since 2006, in the wake of Friday’s [27 Sep] killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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Building BRICS
Ash Narain Roy | The Statesman/BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – BRICS has emerged as a powerful geopolitical entity thanks to the Global South. It is flexing economic and political muscles that no other groupings ever did. It has momentum on its side. It has surpassed the G7 and accounts for 32 per cent of global GDP in PPP terms.
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Microsoft’s CEO for Israel to Appear at Event Celebrating Israeli Military AI
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Mamram is not merely a banal IT service provider. This summer, a commander in the unit confirmed that it was providing cloud data services and artificial intelligence support for the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Israelis Will Dance Again, Vows BBC Film–Will Gaza’s Children Ever Get to Dance?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Gaza’s children have no voice. Their tears evaporate in the summer heat, and merge with the winter rain. No one comes to make a documentary about them. It says much about the institutional racism of the BBC.
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Got Him!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Meanwhile, in the Middle East
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Your Crisis of Faith Is Not My Concern (There’s a Genocide Going on)
Steve Salaita - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Zionist mentality displays a logic beyond the emotional capacity of functional human beings. House demolition. Land theft. Travel restrictions. Ecocide. Expulsion. Imprisonment. Air raids. Ground incursions. The massacre of children…
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Netanyahu Plays Chicken
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – Israel can assassinate, employ indiscriminate terrorism, bombard from the air, and it has done all these things against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. But Israel cannot destroy Hamas nor Hezbollah, cannot get back its hostages from Gaza and cannot make Northern Israel safe for settler colonialists.
→ read full articleBeyond Hegemony: A New International Order under the UN Charter
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
The Summit of the Future is a key moment for reflection and reconsideration on how to govern our new multipolar world. The world’s challenges will certainly not be solved at the September conference, but the SoF can mark a starting point for a new global governance in which all regions of the world contribute cooperatively.
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Hezbollah Says Israel Dropping Leaflets with ‘Very Dangerous’ Barcodes in Lebanon
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – As the death toll from the Israeli bombing of Lebanon topped 550 today, Hezbollah warned that Israel is dropping leaflets with barcodes to extract information from electronic devices. “Please do not open or circulate the barcodes.”
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Cold War II: US Congress Passes 25 Anti-China Laws in One Week, Funds Propaganda Campaign
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – In what it called “China Week,” the US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-Chinese laws in bipartisan votes. CWII fervor is reaching fever pitch in Washington.
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‘Everyone in Gaza Is Sick, Injured, or Both’ – Israel’s 2.1 million Victims
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – More than 70% of Gaza’s housing has been damaged, along with schools, hospitals and businesses. Israeli air strikes have left more than 42 million tonnes of debris across the Strip, enough to fill a line of trucks stretching from New York to Singapore. Most dead bodies remain under the debris.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 30 Sep 2024
Israeli Terror in Lebanon
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – What the Israeli government did to innocent civilians in Lebanon on 16 Sep 2024 was a blatant, dastardly act of terrorism. Detonation of bombs placed in pagers and other communication devices was intended to spread fear and tension, kill and maim individuals.
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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – “You will find diseases of the heart, kidney, thyroid, diabetes, liver, skin, eyes, blood, nerves, systemic diseases, brain, lungs”. — Professor Masayasu Inoue, Osaka City University School of Medicine
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Israel-Hizbullah-Nasrallah—An Analysis
Helena Cobban - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – A couple of hours ago, Hizbullah confirmed that its leader of the past 32 years, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in the massive air-raid the Israeli military launched against the Southern Beirut suburbs yesterday.
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Going from “the Civilian Buildings Are Hamas” to “the Civilian Buildings Are Hezbollah”
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – If you liked “All the civilian buildings are Khamas,” you’ll love Israel’s new hit, “All the civilian buildings are Khezbollah.” Israel has spent a year committing genocide, attacking neighbors, destroying hospitals, assassinating journalists and lying, yet next month the western political-media class is going to spend a day portraying it as a victim.
→ read full articleMore Creativity, Please!
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Latin America’s institutions can tomorrow become those of East Asia, both inspiring and being inspired by the African Union and above all by the mother of unions, the European one, lost in the gap between its desire to be emulated and its fear of irritating the North Americans.
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Software Developers in Oakland Are Putting People Over Profit
Damon Orion | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – How coders are working on creating community participation and democratic design.
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Formless
Beatrice Lamwaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Formless by Raïs Neza Boneza–Review by Beatrice Lamwaka – Boneza’s voice is confident in calling for peace and respect for human rights.
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Weaponizing Antisemitism 101: A Back-to-School Special
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – For anyone — including a Jew like myself — who hasn’t stubbornly closed their eyes and covered their ears over the past eleven months, one thing should be obvious: it’s simply absurd to label outrage, protest, and despair over the plight of Palestinians in Gaza as “antisemitism.” Period.
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War Forever, Everywhere
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind – US military refers to them as AXO, abandoned in places like occupied schools. Close cousins are UXO and landmines designed to explode and kill indiscriminately upon contact.
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Israeli Aggressions: ‘I’m Terrified for What Comes Next’–Chris Hedges to George Galloway
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
18 Sep 2024 – We’ve all seen the provocations by Israel, says Chris Hedges. The consequences of this latest one on people’s pagers and electronic devices could be catastrophic. Middle East war looms.
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Standing at Gaza Border Felt like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni
Amy Goodman interviews Maung Zarni | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – TRANSCEND member Burmese scholar, dissident, and human rights activist Maung Zarni discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma’s and Israel’s human rights abuses.
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Are You at Risk? What We Know about Electronics Makers Linked to Lebanon Blasts
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – Lebanon is reeling in the wake of 48 hours of terror attacks blamed on Israeli intelligence targeting Hezbollah through a series of coordinated explosions of electronic devices. Which companies, brands and devices are involved? Here’s what we know.
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Viability of Sustainable Development as Implied by Metabolic Cycles
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Turbocharging SDGs – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals on the occasion of the 2024 Summit of the Future was previously explored through interaction with AI.
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What is Power in Global Politics and International Relations?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Power is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather than right.
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Biden Didn’t “Fail” to Get a Ceasefire in Gaza Genocide; He Never Tried
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – He could have ended it with a phone call. The killing continued because he and his handlers wanted it to.
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New Israeli Massacre in Central Gaza as Jets Flatten Residential Block
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Dozens are trapped under the rubble of homes bombed by Israeli warplanes in Al-Bureij refugee camp.
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Israel’s Siege Now Blocks 83% of Food Aid Reaching Gaza, New Data Reveals
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024 – Joint Press Release: 15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction.
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UN General Assembly Demands Israel End ‘Unlawful Presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
18 Sep 2024 – The United Nations General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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A Political Maturity Scale: Off the Right/Left Axis and Outside the Boxes
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – Is Going to War Politically Immature? – Right/left polarized US political dynamics provokes mass hysteria domestically, which drives foreign policies that begin, deepen and expand wars that enrich few–if unwanted by most.
→ read full articleThis Is Terrorism!
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – Israel carried out two terrorist attacks across Lebanon this week, bringing the entire region ever closer to the brink of all out war. These are the actions of a rogue state and the direct result of a climate of total impunity.
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The Pager Attack
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – What next? Is Netanyahu betting on a Hizbullah overreaction? Is he trying to open a second front and to drag Iran – and the USA – into war? Are the attacks part of his effort to return Donald Trump to the White House, or is he simply trying to stay in power with a show of military force?
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Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
The ruling by the International Court of Justice in Jul 2024 states that Israel is legally obliged to end the occupation, remove all its settlers and pay restitution to everyone who has been harmed by the occupation.
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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – Kris Kristofferson, a man of deep soul and poetic genius, is eighty-eight years-old, an elderly man who has come a long way down life’s road. His songs keep echoing in my mind, and I am sure in the minds of millions of others.
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Israel’s War on the West Bank: Explainer
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – Continuing Israeli attack on locations across northern West Bank highlights Israel’s treatment of the occupied territory.
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Nine Killed and 2,750 Wounded across Lebanon as Pagers Explode
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon: Hezbollah official calls it the group’s ‘biggest security breach’ as devices were detonated in coordinated attack by Israel with injuries to the face, hands and stomach.
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Mearsheimer and Sachs on World Challenges (and Solutions?)
All-In Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024 – John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024
→ read full articleGenocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Sep 2024
End of Empire?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Let us (re)imagine and plan a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality and work extra hard to achieve it before it is too late and cockroaches inherit our planet. It is more urgent now than ever and it is an existential struggle for all humanity.
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Strengthening Liberal Totalitarianism
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – “Liberal totalitarianism” is becoming stronger in Western Europe. Liberals (leftists) and globalists have held power in many Western European countries and the upper echelons of the EU. For about 10 years, they have been actively promoting wrong policies in the name of liberalism.
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International Peace Day – Sat 21 Sep 2024
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
I would like to thank the Youth of the world for all they do to reject violence, militarism and war. I have been inspired wherever I have travelled by the imagination, courage and resistance of so many young people. They give me great hope for the future of humanity.
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Greenwald and Hedges on Media, Terror, Gaza, and More
Glenn Greenwald interviews Chris Hedges | Systems Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – The Security State Will Destroy You – Israel’s Terrifying Expanding War
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In Search of the Sacred: Pico Iyer on Our Models of Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
With these human minds, arising from these material bodies, we keep trying to find heaven — to make heaven — in our myths and our mundanities, right here in the place where we are: in this beautiful and troubled world.
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Crisis Intervention: Global Psychotherapy Peace Summit for World Leaders
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – As I watch the increasing threat of nuclear war due to the war in Ukraine and the nuclear arms race, in desperation I have asked myself if key world leaders need crisis intervention in the form of a special psychotherapy summit conducted by psychologists?
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The World Would Be Better Off without NATO, Revisited
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – The hyper-capitalist terror state that plots to rule the world keeps its fist in a mailed glove called NATO. But NATO is in trouble as its massive, disastrous Ukraine adventure fails and member Turkey applies to join the other side, namely BRICS.
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Is There a Post-Human Sexuality?
Slavoj Žižek | Journal of Philosophical Investigations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
7 Sep 2024 – Will human sexuality survive the passage to Artificial Intelligence? To answer this question properly, we should first analyze the paradoxical inner structure of sexuality itself, which is never simply binary.
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Corruption…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
… Is King
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Israeli Military Strikes Hezbollah Targets as Nasrallah Responds to Wave of Device Blasts in Lebanon
Raf Sanchez, et al. | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The attack on southern Lebanon today involved airstrikes and artillery, an Israeli official said, after two days of explosions that killed at least 37 people and injured thousands in Lebanon.
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UN Overwhelmingly Votes to Sanction Israel, Impose Arms Embargo
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The UN General Assembly voted yesterday overwhelmingly in favor of applying sanctions to Israel and ending its illegal occupation of the West Bank.
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Strings
Ruth Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
We pop into life the way
particles pop in and out
of the continuum.