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The Ceasefire Charade
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
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Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza
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What We Don’t Know about the US Presidents We Elect
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Notes on the Occasion of an Inauguration
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Israeli Government Approves Hostage/Ceasefire Deal, to Take Effect Sun 19 Jan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Netanyahu told his Security Cabinet he will not allow the agreement to end the attacks on Gaza.
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
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Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.
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The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
The introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Agreement: Key Points and Steps Toward Reconstruction
Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, set to unfold in three stages, establishes steps for military cessation, detainee exchanges, and humanitarian relief, ultimately aiming for Gaza’s reconstruction and lasting peace. Below are the confirmed details.
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: ‘This Is the Last Phase of Zionism’
Anealla Safdar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – Pappe talks on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.
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The Conflagration
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 in the old US of A
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Ukrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Why it is still the key to peace, just as when Ukraine negotiated a peace agreement with Russia in 2022, which the USA tragically rejected and blocked.
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Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
In January 1963, as Central Europe was entering its harshest winter in eighty years, Dervla Murphy mounted her bicycle named Roz and left Ireland for India, by way of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
IPS | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates, who participate as ‘guests,’ most of them working for big business corporations.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA GENOCIDE 20 Jan 2025
Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – The BND operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. It provides a unique, innovative model.
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Happy 1984!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today’s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense…
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‘Far too Little, far too Late,’ Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba from Terror List
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – In a move likely to be reversed by Trump, Biden today notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a designation politically motivated and meritless.
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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.
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The UN Can End the Middle East Conflict by Welcoming Palestine as a Member
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – The UN’s 80th birthday in 2025 can be the occasion for a solution to the conflict in the ME by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The UN Conference on Palestine, on June 2025, can be a turning point.
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The Worldwide “TRANSCEND International” Network
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”
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Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
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US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
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Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
Human Wrongs Watch | International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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First Ceasefire Then Palestinian Liberation
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – Today, after 15 months of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, supported and enabled by the U.S.A., a 42-day ceasefire was reported. We hope for a halt to military bombardments, an end to the starvation of Palestinians, and the return of hostages from Israel and Gaza to their families.
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Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – This is an official statement of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, and does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.
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‘Major Blow to Freedom of Expression’: US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – The US Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok if its Chinese parent company does not sell the popular social media app by Sunday [19 Jan]. One ACLU campaigner blasted the justices for “giving the executive branch unprecedented power to silence speech it doesn’t like.”
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Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Dialogue between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
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Five-Year-Old Kindergarten Children Play Dovorzak (Music Video of the Week)
Izumi Kindergarten, Tokyo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Symphony No.9 – “From the New World”
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Donald the Dove Takes Office on 20 Jan 2025!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Trump conducted more drone strikes in one term than Obama (the “Drone Warrior in Chief”) in two terms, removed the reporting requirements on future drone attacks, attempted a coup in Venezuela, and assassinated Qassem Soleimani from Iran…
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Thirty-five years ago, the great American peacemaker Elise Boulding offered a group of scholars and activists essential advice on how to practice effective conflict resolution. Envision as wide an array as possible of proposed solutions to the problems generating the conflict, she said,…
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Dolphins in the Military
Dolphins World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
It might seem from a Hollywood movie, but dolphins are trained to work for the military. It has nothing to do with their normal behavior, but their learning abilities and intelligence makes them perfect to be used for specific purposes. The USA and Russia have turned these cetaceans into authentic soldiers.
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What Is Time? And when Is Time Up?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – All we know is that the times they are a-changin’ constantly. So here are some thoughts about history, micro and macro time, productive time, ageing with joy toward the end of time – and why the future is more important than the past…
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Brazil-USA: A Tale of Two Caudillos
Omar G. Encarnación | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Like Trump, Bolsonaro Waged War on Democratic Institutions—but in Brazil, the Institutions Are Winning
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Never Mind the Propaganda, the World Should Know about the U.S. Countless Wars
Chaitanya Davé | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Throughout history, U.S. Administrations, for one fictitious reason or another, go to wars against weaker countries. The real reason is their insatiable appetite for other countries’ lands and resources. They don’t have permanent friends; they have permanent interests only.
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BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population by Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
19 Jan 2025 – BRICS added Nigeria with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP.
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Israelis-Palestinians: From a Ceasefire to Negotiations in Good Faith
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
17 Jan 2025 – On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, starts the implementation of the agreement between the authorities of Israel and Hamas concerning the Gaza Strip and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. This agreement is a critical first step.
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What Do Greenland and Macedonia Have in Common?
Biljana Vankovska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
15 Jan 2025 – At first glance, the answer to what a distant, massive island and a small landlocked country have in common seems simple: absolutely nothing! Except that both territories are part of the NATO family—Greenland through Denmark, and Macedonia, after selling its name, identity, and culture to gain NATO membership.
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The Idea That the World Will Change when Trump Returns to Power
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan. 2025 — With Donald Trump returning to the US Presidency at the inauguration on 20 January 2025, some pieces of the political expectancy are being made, including “many major conflicts in the world will be resolved.”
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In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
16 Jan 2025 – The fires burning Los Angeles have drawn renewed attention to the writings of Octavia Butler, a black woman science fiction writer. As early as 1993, she saw the threat of climate change as her prophetic book is set in the years 2024 through 2027.
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TRANSCEND Member S.P. Udayakumar receives 2025 ‘Nuclear-Free Future Award’
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil / Germany) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.
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(Italiano) 1421 – 1434
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Nel 1421 i cinesi viaggiarono nelle Americhe. Arrivarono, videro, non conquistarono, molti rimasero. A differenza dell’Occidente, nessun impero, nessun tentacolo succhiante. Inoltre, a differenza dell’Occidente, impararono e conservarono molto di ciò che avevano imparato. Il centro del mondo ora si sposta verso la Cina.
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(Italiano) I tre temi scottanti nucleari
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
3 Gennaio 2025 – I tre temi sono disarmo-proliferazione, uso militare e uso teologico delle armi nucleari. Tutti piuttosto intrattabili.
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(Italiano) Famiglia Scuola Lavoro: bullismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
24 Dicembre 2024 – I tre pilastri delle nostre società, la Famiglia che passa figli ragionevolmente socializzati alle Scuole, che a loro volta passano studenti ragionevolmente istruiti al Lavoro, che a sua volta passa cittadini inutili alla pattumiera detta Pensionamento – questi pilastri sono carichi di violenza.
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On Mitigating Ageing: An Advertisement for Myself
Richard Falk, Margaret W. Crane | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Nonagenarian Richard Falk’s Long, Fruitful Post-Retirement – ‘With some embarrassment, and a bit of pride, I publish Margaret Crane’s interview for her newsletter on ageing. I thought that being asked what it means to be THIS old, I would learn something about my state of mind and of being-in-the-world.’
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 2): Criando Eretz Yisrael para Remodelar a Ordem Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
À medida que o programa multifacetado das Elites para remodelar a ordem mundial, capturar a propriedade e o controle de todos os recursos-chave, matar uma proporção substancial da população humana, e impor uma ditadura tecnocrática sobre os “transumanos” que sobraram vivos, avança rapidamente.
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Preparing for the Emergence of Collective Awareness
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – Emergency Preparedness Understood Otherwise with AI Assistance – There is currently an unusual degree of global focus on emergency preparedness. This extends beyond the long-standing concerns with national security.
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Yanis Varoufakis: What to Watch for in 2025 – Trump, the US Dollar, China
DiEM25 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
31 Dec 2024 – Yanis Varoufakis dives into the key global trends and challenges shaping 2025 and breaks down what these developments mean for the world economy and politics.
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The Promethean Power of Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In every creative life there comes a time when the animating spark grows dim and the muscle of motivation slackens, you feel benumbed to beauty, suffocating in the exhaust fume of your own exertion, ossified with the tedium of being yourself. We call those moments burnout.
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Zuckerberg and Musk Have Shown that Big Tech Doesn’t Care about Facts
Jasper Jackson | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The online information ecosystem has been in critical condition, but the prognosis is more dire. The two billionaires, who between them control a huge chunk of our communications infrastructure, have made it clear that they are not interested in the truth. Ahead of Trump’s second term, 2025 will herald a new era of disinformation.
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No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: Arbitrary Killings & Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
23 Dec 2024 – ‘Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members’: IDF soldiers tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the Neztarim corridor is shot to death, counting as a terrorist–even if just a child.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 13 Jan 2025
Genocide: The New Normal
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.
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31 Surefire Ways to Make Me Lose Interest in Your Thoughts about the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – I have learned that there are many people who just aren’t going to have anything worthwhile to say, because their worldviews are too clouded with confusion and bullshit for them to offer a lucid perspective on much of anything.
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Palestine: Why Context Is Important
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – The genocide in Gaza has entered its 15th month. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed so far by Israel. 17,000 of them are children. This is the largest number of children killed in a genocide over a fourteen-month period.
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Canada: Why Justin Trudeau Had to Step Down
Adam Gopnik | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – The resignation of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada and as the leader of the Liberal Party took place this morning in front of the Prime Ministerial residence in Ottawa.
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Trumpian North Americanism
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – At the end of 2024, Donald Trump made a statement to the effect that Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal should become part of the US territory.
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A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Ehud Shapiro – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – The sheer majority of people in the Middle East, and in the world, yearn for peace. Yet a violent extremist minority, in Israel and the Arab world, commits the region to endless war. The key to peace is the security of all states and peoples in the region.
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Gunfire Near Presidential Palace in Chad Sparks Confusion and Media Frenzy
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – A series of gunshots rang out near the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, on the evening of January 8. Initial reports from various sources put forward scenarios from an attempted coup to an attack by members of the terrorist group Boko Haram.
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Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Studio B | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Maria Ressa speaks to computer scientist Prof. Mike Wooldridge about the promise and the dangers of AI. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her investigative journalism on corruption in the Philippines.
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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”
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The Columnist
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Fact Checking
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Which Is the Best Winner?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Compare
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Fire Weather
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
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Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung’s conflict theory.
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Dr Abu Safiya Symbolized Humanity in Gaza–Israel and the West Are Destroying It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – Israel isn’t eradicating ‘the terrorists’. It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
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The U.S. and Humor from Hell
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good to fellow citizens if chosen for leadership.
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Gaza Death Toll 40% Higher Than Official Number, Lancet Study Finds
The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza by the end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65.
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Shambhala Prophecy Fulfilled?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
9 Jan 2025 – “Every day, Israel is killing 50 to 100 or more Palestinians in Gaza, who are already enduring unbearable suffering. 70% of those killed are women and children, which reflects the composition of the population.
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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq… into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of their military power serves as the primary target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure.”
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How the West Destroyed Syria
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
11 Jan 2025 – Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including as ambassador to Bahrain (1999-2003) and Syria (2003-2006). After, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!
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US Homegrown Terrorism!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – On New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets: one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Peace
Jerome Gavin | Vision of Humanity - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – The use of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow at a rapid pace, potentially offering a unique opportunity for peacebuilders.
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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
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What’s Next for Youth Engagement in Disarmament?
Robin Geiss and Melissa Nyoni | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In the lead up to the Summit of the Future, more than 1,500 youth attended the Action Days. Young leaders from all over the world made recommendations, which were presented to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General for youth affairs.
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Strategic Goals to Halt the Genocide in Gaza and Liberate Palestine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
If the genocide in Gaza is to be halted and the occupation of Palestine ended, it will require a substantial mobilization of people to participate in a comprehensive strategically-oriented campaign that precisely identifies the tactics to be undertaken (not just a random list of actions) and, as the historical record demonstrates, not by using secrecy and sabotage in their execution.
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Ireland Formally Joins ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – Ireland has submitted a declaration to join South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of genocide.
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Billionaires Dangle Free Speech like a Bauble–We Gawp like Open-Mouthed Babes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires.
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(Italiano) Bollettino da uno zoo nucleare…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Leggendo l’articolo emerge l’idea che un deposito nucleare possa essere paragonato a uno zoo che ospita animali da compagnia: un luogo tranquillo, ben custodito ma sicuro, da visitare con curiosità e interesse. Il potere delle parole!
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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?
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‘Famine Conditions Are Spreading’ as Sudan’s Crisis Worsens: UN Security Council
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 -Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Six civilizations define 15 walls, religiously-philosophically and economically-politically, as development models. The major clash being the West against the Rest. Colonialism, imperialism. The solution: winning, dominating. There are other ways: compromise, transcendence, new civilizations.
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A World’s Soul in Tatters
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent in Gaza. An increasingly normalized genocide . . .
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Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – Troops beat Hussam Abu Safiya and kidnapped him alongside other doctors, leaving northern Gaza without any health services.
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The Three Voices of Poetry
T. S. Eliot | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
April 1954 Issue – The first is the voice of the poet talking to himself—or to nobody. The second is his voice addressing an audience. The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse.
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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 1): Oscilando à Beira do Armagedom, o Perigo da Guerra Nuclear
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Praticamente todos os grupos de bate-papo, como as “notícias” distribuídas pela mídia corporativa via televisão, rádio e jornais, encontram uma sequência infinita de questões inconsequentes para distrair as pessoas da realidade. E assim nossa morte ou escravidão transumana nos aguarda.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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A Remembrance of Jimmy Carter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – A recollection of my only meeting with the former president at the Carter Center, a minor event, although in the context of repeated mistakes by the ‘political realists’ who continue to shape US foreign policy, perhaps of some interest.
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Awakening from Empire Propaganda Starts with One Small Act of Heresy
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – It is like escaping from a cult: it starts with one tiny heresy. One small, secret thought that goes against all your indoctrination.
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Closing Your Heart & the Path to Self-Annihilation
Chris Hedges and Dr. Gabor Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Gabor Maté discusses how the subjugation of a people can lead them to close their hearts, enabling moral contradictions but also violent resistance.
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Tributes to TRANSCEND Media Service by ChatGPT and Claude 3.5
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – Claude and ChatGPT composed formal tributes to TMS trying to capture the essence of TMS’ mission and achievements and highlight its role in peace research, independent analysis, and global understanding. Enjoy!
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Heavy Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill more than 90 Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Attacks Included a Strike on Tents in the Al-Mawasi ‘Safe Zone’
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World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – A member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a Ukrainian Jewish American, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
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U.S. Veterans: Major Source of Domestic Terrorists
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – The two men who carried out terror attacks on New Year’s Day — killing 15 people by plowing a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans, and detonating a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas — both had been trained by the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon.
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(Français) Quelques Prédictions Possibles pour 2025 et Une Perspective Apocaloptimiste
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 janvier 2025 – Déjà en 2024, nous voyons les électeurs du monde entier rejeter la démocratie capitaliste, la forme de gouvernement par laquelle les capitalistes deviennent milliardaires tandis que les travailleurs sombrent dans la pauvreté.
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Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond
Mary Oliver – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
So heavy
is the long-necked, long-bodied heron,
always it is a surprise
Six Scenarios for Syria
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
29 Dec 2024 – It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place–as it is. The situation resembles the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen. However, the next phase will not be peaceful.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – In many Middle East conflicts there were no contacts to be cut. The process of creating contacts must start from point zero. Resolving armed conflicts and lowering persistent tensions involves a change in attitudes. We work to create possibilities for dialogue and confidence-building so as to increase mutual trust.
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Under Cover of Sanction
Seth Meldon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – The degree of restraint and investigative rigor employed by Washington, NATO, and their media allies when ascribing guilt to Russia for any indiscretion bears little relation to how NATO’s actions are assessed.
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