Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Italiano) La mia visione per il Sudan
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Il mio compito al termine di questa conferenza davvero impressionante con 150 partecipanti qui a Hermannsburg nella Brughiera di Lüneburg è quello di sorvolare le scialbe, malriuscite attuazioni dei numerosi accordi di pace, riferirne le visioni e indicare le possibili soluzioni provate con successo altrove.
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas | Poets.org – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What a World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
The world that we are living in — the world we are familiar with is changing rapidly and substantially. This is happening in all spheres of our lives.
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Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – From the political point of view, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of its peoples from foreign (Spanish & Portuguese) rule started (and finished in 1826), and was over with the beginning of the Great War in Europe, 1914.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 10 Jun 2024
Why do Egomaniac Leaders Wage War on Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Leaders who could not Think as Normal Human Beings
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Is Abolishing War Possible?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – If we can end slavery — the legal “ownership” of other human beings — can’t we also end war? The reduction to good vs. evil is war’s staying power and principal talking point: War is always necessary, damnit! What matters is keeping the sanctity of war alive and well.
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Leftist Climate Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidency in Landslide
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – The close ally of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the first woman to win Mexico’s presidency.
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Scott Ritter: On My Way to Russia, I Met Big Brother
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Col. Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, is a highly visible commentator on US foreign policies. On 2 Jun he was removed from a flight to St. Petersburgh by order of the US State Department. His passport was seized and no explanation given. The arbitrary action has been largely ignored by the mainstream media and political circles.
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(Italiano) 28 maggio 1974 – 28 maggio 2024: Cinquantesimo anniversario della strage di Piazza della Loggia a Brescia
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
9 Giu 2024 – Silenzio. Un silenzio quasi irreale. Assordante. Un silenzio che colpisce per l’intensità del suo portato.
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Inspire to Action
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Keep staring…
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I Will Survive (Music Video of the Week)
Gloria Gaynor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Gloria Gaynor’s Major Hit Song
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Mexico’s Election: A Victory for Organized Crime
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – Under Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency, organized crime will likely be calling the shots.
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On Necessity
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
Why the feeling of necessity is actually a symptom of advanced life.
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USA: 42 House Dems Help GOP Pass Bill Targeting ICC Officials over Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Human rights defenders yesterday decried the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of a bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials over arrest warrants for Israeli leaders; it undermines the Court’s independence.
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The Media Skew Public Perception by Manipulating People’s Attention
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
9 Jun 2024 – “Israel Rescues 4 Hostages in Military Operation; Gazan Officials Say Scores Are Killed,” reads a New York Times headline from yesterday. It’s a very odd-looking headline even if you don’t know anything about the propagandistic tactics being employed in it.
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US Targets Journalists Who Criticize Administration’s Foreign Policy
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
4 Jun 2024 – Scott Ritter was pulled off a NY-to-Istanbul flight and his passport confiscated yesterday in the US government’s drive to silence critics of foreign policies, as it supplies $ billions in arms to war on Russia, attacks on Gazans, and for war with China over Taiwan.
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Nuclear War: Still Unthinkable?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – The United State’s provocative actions are the principal reason the “unthinkable” possibility is becoming ever more likely.
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Perspectives of AI on Psychosocial Implications of Global Modelling
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – This exploration emerged from comparative use of the facilities of ChatGPT 4 and Claude 3 in summarizing the themes evoked in a set of 35 AI-related articles presented on this site over the past year.
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People Burned Alive, Child Decapitated: Report from Rafah on Israeli Strike That Killed 45 in Camp
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
28 May 2024 – Update after an Israeli attack on refugee tent camps in what had previously been declared a “safe zone” killed at least 45 people, including women and children. “Basically, the situation is totally catastrophic,” reports Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila, from Rafah. She explains the bombs set tents, made largely of nylon, on fire.
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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 237: As Israel’s Invasion of Rafah and Northern Gaza Continues, Smotrich Calls for ‘War’ on West Bank
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for launching a “defensive war” on the West Bank in the same way that Israel is doing in Gaza.
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Refugee Experiences of Identity Documents and Digitisation in India and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | Forced Migration Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
May 2024 – Drawing on the authors’ joint activism on the rights of refugees and stateless people in India and Myanmar, this article considers how digital ID systems can be used to exclude minorities.
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Kenya’s President Ruto Defies His Own Country’s Constitution and High Court to Invade Haiti
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – I spoke to William Sakawa, a producer and reporter with the Nairobi-based media outlet African Stream, about Kenyan President William Ruto’s agreement to invade Haiti for the US.
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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business. During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.
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Here Are the People–Where Is the Vision?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Here are the people who can take advantage of the looming crash of the US empire and create a new world. We can see their faces in the streets, on the university campuses and in the city halls.
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(Italiano) ICJ, ICC, Società Civile (Tribunali Popolari): chiarificazione di un tessuto giudiziario
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 Maggio 2024 – Un curioso spettacolo collaterale durante i sette mesi di selvaggia violenza genocida contro la popolazione palestinese intrappolata [a Gaza] di 2,3 milioni stimati è stata l’attenzione prestata al diritto internazionale e alle relative procedure disponibili per la sua interpretazione ed applicazione.
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‘New Era of Struggle’: Thousands Convene to Strategize Future of Palestine Movement
BreakThrough News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – After eight months of Israel’s genocide, where does the movement for Palestine go? That was the question taken up by the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit attended by thousands from around the world.
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The Global Demand for a Gaza Ceasefire Grows, Leaving Biden Behind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israel’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has provoked unprecedented global outcry. On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah.
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North Korea: Government-sponsored Labor Migration
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Historically, migration has benefited the economies where it has happened, but it has also led to popular antagonism. The main argument is usually about the numbers arriving and the nature of the immigrants–often displaying traits of racism and ethnic contempt.
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Biden’s Rafah ‘Red Line’ Is a Green Light for ‘Death and Destruction’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – Pretending to oppose a Rafah assault, the White House facilitates a new Israeli massacre at a Gaza tent camp.
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Taiwan Continues Toward US-Engineered “Ukraine-ization”
Brian Berletic | Journal NEO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – The Chinese Island province of Taiwan continues to be targeted by the US and its political proxies through efforts to further consolidate political control over it and transform it into a geopolitical “battering ram” against the rest of China. Déjà-vu all over again.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Very high temperatures are plaguing Delhi — the capital of India. If earlier 43 or 42 degrees were considered high, this year the summer temperatures are going up to 45 or 46 degrees or more.
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UN Experts Outraged by Israeli Strikes on Civilians Sheltering in Rafah Camps
UN Human Rights Commissioner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – Israeli air strikes on a camp for civilians in Rafah claimed at least 46 lives including 23 women, children and elderly on Sunday 26 May. “Harrowing images of destruction, displacement and death have emerged from Rafah, including infants torn apart and people burnt alive,” UN experts said.
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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity and emboldened by U.S. unconditional military and diplomatic support.
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The West Is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia into Hot War
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want global conflict?
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Uncovering Fact vs Fiction on Coca-Cola’s Iconic Bottle
The Story of Stuff Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
15 May 2024 – Exposed: The Truth behind Coca-Cola’s Greenwashing Advertising
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(Français) Voici le Peuple; Ou Est la Vision?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1er juin 2024 – Voici ceux qui peuvent profiter du krach imminent de l’empire américain et créer un nouveau monde.
On peut voir leur visage dans les rues, sur les campus universitaires et dans les mairies.
As Israel Bombs Ambulances and Levels Refugee Camp, Netanyahu Receives Bipartisan Invitation to Address US Congress
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Signaling support for the genocidal Israeli onslaught, the Democratic and Republican parties issued a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday [31 May], hailing him in the fight against “terrorism” and inviting him to address the US Congress.
→ read full articleMy Vision for Sudan
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Well known African proverb: “When elephants fight, the grass suffers, and, when elephants make love, the grass suffers even more.” You have two elephants let loose, the USA and China, both oil drunk. You have their drug. Some Sudan violence is a proxy war.
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Suthichai live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – “Everything I have learned as a radical, a peace and rights activist, and a scholar on my country’s affairs. What is wrong with Burma/Myanmar and her people, incapable of building a peaceful and stable human community for the last nearly 80 years?”
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Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science
Lily Hu | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
6 May 2024 – Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.
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Hawaii: Calming Scenic Relaxation (Music Video of the Week)
Scenic Relaxation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Hawaii is one of the world’s most beautiful places. Enjoy this visual journey across the island of Oahu (Honolulu). Meditate and immerse yourself in the beauty of Hawaii.
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Abandoned by the State, Palestinian Citizens of Israel Face Record Crime Wave
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Amid a proliferation of weapons and worsening police negligence, violence by criminal organizations in Arab towns has reached historic levels.
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The Flower and the Meaning of Life: Emily Dickinson, Michael Pollan, and The Little Prince
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
“To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “is profound Responsibility.” A century later, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his hero’s central preoccupation the responsibility for a single flower — the Little Prince’s beloved rose.
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Israel Is a Rogue State – Who Will Stop Them?
The Wire - Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
On 26 May 2024, the Israeli military carried out an unspeakable massacre in a humanitarian zone in Rafah, bombing tent camps filled with displaced men, women, and children, and killing at least 45 Palestinians. Hundreds of others were wounded. The images from that night will never leave us.
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The Enlightenment Sutra
Buddhist Sutras – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
In so far as the Buddha’s disciple, they should read day and night piously and earnestly the following eight precepts leading the followers of Mahayana Buddhism[2] to attain the state of enlightenment.
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On Johan Galtung’s Approach to Peace Studies
Burak Ercoşkun | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Peace studies and research are fascinating because they delve into some of the quintessential questions concerning human relations, behavior, cooperation, and conflict. So how should we define peace at this point?
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 3 Jun 2024
When a Lie Becomes the Truth: “Israel Is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression” -ICC
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
26 May 2024 – Outright Fraud: The Criminalization of International Law – According to the ICC, “There Is No Genocide”
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Let’s Get Rich!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
No Comment
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Sold!
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Three men, selling bibles door to door, bet who will sell the most in a day. They meet at end of the day.
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Three Evils: Occupation, Apartheid, Genocide
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
My Heart Makes My Head Swim – A short primer on why these three terms are accurate and at the heart of the situation in Gaza, despite the baseless claim that using them is tantamount to antisemitism.
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BRICS: Important Announcement about the New Currency of the Union
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
23 May 2024 – BRICS is actively seeking to establish a new currency on the world stage to challenge the dominance of the US dollar. This initiative comes amid concerns about the impact of US sanctions on countries such as Russia and other emerging economies.
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The US Empire Isn’t a Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It’s a Nonstop War That Runs a Government
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations; it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.
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After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware – Now He’s the King of Israeli AI
Georgia Gee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
23 May 2024 – Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.
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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russian Nuclear Defenses with US Weapons
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – Any of these three new developments has the potential to lead to unpredictable events which spiral out of control into a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation, which would be the single worst thing that could possibly happen on planet Earth.
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A Short Overview of the 2014 Crimean Crisis
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
28 May 2024 – The international crisis over the Crimean Peninsula was in Feb-Mar 2014 when the peninsula returned to Russia from Ukraine. The Western Russophobic narrative immediately accused Russia of illegitimate annexation along with the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine.
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Israelism (Full Documentary)
Controverso – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
28 Apr 2024 – The rift among Jews regarding Palestine, especially young people’s increasing criticism of Israel and Zionism. This divide is driven by firsthand accounts of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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There Was a Time
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
It’s hard to believe there was a time when I didn’t know what a child’s insides look like. That I didn’t know how limp babies’ limbs go when they are dead, when they are missing parts of their body, missing their head, limbs dangling lifeless as parents hold…
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on Palestine-Israel
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
20 May 2024 – Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 230: Israel Lashes Out at West Bank in Wake of ICC Request
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Airstrikes continue across the Gaza Strip; Israeli ground invasion continues in Jabalia and Rafah, displacing thousands; Israeli army launches a wide-ranging invasion of Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, killing 12 people.
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On-the-record Update on Situation in Gaza, Palestine
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – From Suze van Meegen, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s head of operations in Gaza: “The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions.”
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Food for Starving Gazans Rots in the Sun as Israeli Military Keeps Rafah Crossing Shut
Stuti Mishra | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
26 May 2024 – Aid Monitor Warns of Imminent Famine in Parts of Palestinian Territory
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Israel Stands Increasingly Isolated
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – Its Genocidal Actions Must Be Stopped and Brought to Account – The widespread activism in solidarity with Gaza in so many institutions of higher learning in the US, Europe and beyond is a source of inspiration. Such nonviolent activism has become a moral imperative.
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‘Nobody Is Above the Law’: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israel, Hamas Leaders
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
20 May 2024 – Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.”
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How Two Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on 7 Oct Fueled a Global Dispute over Israel-Hamas Atrocities
Tia Goldenberg and Julia Frankel | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
More evidence of false narratives: False flag.
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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.
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Why the ICC’s Prosecutor’s Recommendation to Arrest Israeli and Hamas Leaders May Be Historic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Ironically, the misplaced rhetoric of outrage from Israel and its allies has endowed the ICC’s pronouncements with an importance that the institution never before possessed.
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Renowned Burmese Genocide Scholar & Rights Activist Sounds Rohingya Genocide Warning on BBC
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Dr Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND and Nobel Peace Prize nominee) told the BBC World Service Newsday on 22 May 2024 that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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Netanyahu’s Response to the ICC Invokes Another Genocidal Biblical Reference
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – Netanyahu’s rant against the ICC quoted a biblical verse that warns against the dangers of not completely wiping out your enemy’s society. It doesn’t take much to figure out what this means for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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South Sudan Government and Rebel Groups Sign ‘Commitment’ for Peace in Kenya Talks
Evelyne Musambi | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
16 May 2024 – The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups today signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya.
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Iran Deaths: New Elements in the Troubled Middle East
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – On 19 May, the helicopter with President Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and the governor of the East Azerbaijan Province crashed into a mountain near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. They had attended a ceremony to mark the start of a joint Azerbaijan-Iran dam project.
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(Italiano) Arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas: decisione storica della Corte Penale Internazionale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 Maggio 2024 – Ironia della sorte, la retorica fuori luogo dell’indignazione di Israele e dei suoi alleati ha conferito ai pronunciamenti della Corte penale internazionale sull’arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas un’importanza che l’istituzione non aveva mai avuto prima.
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For Muslims in the Global South, US Hostility Began in 1979
Michael Charney | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – If anyone wonders why the USA has backed off so far (and beyond) from responding to humanitarian catastrophes, presented as security operations, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the Palestinians in Gaza, they do not understand the structure of the contemporary world–since 1979.
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Israel Carries Out Six Massacres in Gaza in the Last 24 Hours
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – Israeli occupation forces in the past 24 hours killed 57 civilians and injured 93 in Gaza. Many are trapped in the rubble or scattered on the roads, inaccessible to rescue services and ambulances. Since 7 Oct 2023, the number of Palestinians killed has grown to some 35,857 plus 80,293 injured.
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Indeed, There Is No Comparison: Israel’s Crimes Are Far Worse Than Hamas’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as “absurd and false” the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides. Here’s why.
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Palestinian Resistance Denounces U.S. Floating Pier in Gaza
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – The pier, built at a cost of $320 million, is part of the enormous $26 billion in additional aid to Israel that Biden recently approved as part of the supplemental aid package. That package was a public statement of complete support for genocide in Gaza.
→ read full articleCongo “Coup” Was Reality TV; Morehouse Congo Protest Was Real
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – Morehouse College professors protested US complicity in Congo Genocide by unfurling a Congolese flag behind Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class. A brief, quixotic coup took place in Congo on the same day.
→ read full articleClarifying a Judicial Web: ICJ, ICC, Civil Society (Peoples Tribunals)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
A curious sideshow during the seven months of savage genocidal violence against the entrapped Palestinian population of an estimated 2.3 million has been the attention given to international law and the international procedures available for its interpretation and enforcement.
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ICJ: South Africa’s Urgent Request for Additional Measures on the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
International Court of Justice ICJ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In its new request, South Africa states that the provisional measures previously indicated by
the Court “are not capable of ‘fully address[ing]’ the changed circumstances and new facts on which
[its] Request is founded”.
The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”
→ read full articleMovements Around Us
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
All sorts of movements take place around us and give us pleasure and the feeling as to what would happen if there was no movement.
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The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and Its Political Consequences
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict
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Israeli Government Seizes AP’s Media Equipment in Latest Act of Censorship
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – The Associated Press called it “an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law.”
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Assange Wins Right to Appeal on 1st Amendment Issue
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
20 May 2024 – The High Court in London ruled today that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S. on the grounds that he is being denied his First Amendment rights.
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Voices from Gaza’s Rubble Call Global Humanity to Rescue
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Silent Voices of Victims Waiting to Be Rescued from the Rubble
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Life in a Dystopian Satire
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Evidence that we are living in a dystopian satire written by an utter hack.
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A Human Approach to World Peace
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
When we rise in the morning and listen to the radio or read the newspaper, we are confronted with the same sad news: violence, crime, wars, and disasters. I cannot recall a single day without a report of something terrible happening somewhere. Even in these modern times it is clear that one’s precious life is not safe.
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Breaking Ranks with Biden, on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Another protest movement has emerged: dissenters within the U.S. government who offer a behind-the-scenes critique of U.S. policies devastating Gaza. Despite this wave of informed dissent, Biden continues to provide arms and diplomatic cover to Israel.
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The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
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Gaza
Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
May 2024
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Top UN Court Orders Israel to Immediately Halt Rafah Assault in Landmark Ruling
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – The International Court of Justice aims to protect over a million people in the Southern Gaza city from the Israeli offensive.
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And Now, BRICS Eyes Creation of a Central Bank for Currency Issue
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – China, with backing from Russia and South Africa, is introducing a new currency to be issued by a proposed BRICS Central Bank that would combine the strengths of the respective currencies of the five BRICS countries in the economic forum.
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The UK Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window into Big Pharma’s ‘Business with Disease’
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – From 1970s to 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK received blood transfusions contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. Authorities covered up; Bayer and Armour Pharmaceuticals knowing that treatments were infected continued to sell them anyway. The profit-driven nature of big pharma’s ‘business with disease.’
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Hawaii: The Origin of the Shaka Hand Sign
Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi | Hawaiian Airlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Hawaii’s Symbol of Aloha Traces Its Roots Back to the Early 1900s – “Hang loose” “Right on” “Thank you” “Things are great” “Take it easy” – in Hawaii, the Shaka sign expresses all those friendly messages and more–a lot of aloha.
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Israel Infuriated by Ireland, Spain, and Norway’s Recognition of a Palestinian State
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – Ireland, Spain and Norway announced today that they would recognise a Palestinian state on May 28, prompting an angry response from Israel which said this amounted to a “reward for terrorism” and recalled its ambassadors from the three capitals.
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Colombia to Open Embassy in Occupied West Bank
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Bogota recently cut ties with Israel over the genocidal war in Gaza and has been working with other Latin American nations to grant Palestine full UN membership. The Colombian government announced on 22 May plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 27 May 2024
Hind’s Hall (Music Video of the Week)
Macklemore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
All Proceeds to UNRWA
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