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Petition (please sign): Urgent International Military Protection for Palestinians
Ousman Noor | Avaaz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
20 Sep 2024 – To: Leaders of Governments Worldwide
We, the undersigned, call upon the international community to take immediate and decisive action to halt the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
UN’s Five Major Leaders Skip Key Summit of the Future
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – The list of speakers reflects notable absentees for a high-level summit: the five permanent members of the Security Council whose representatives do not include any head of state or head of government.
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A Bull Market
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Happened in Anglo America
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BRICS and De-dollarization: An Alternative or Potential Disaster?
Rendy Artha Luvian | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
From 22 to 24 Oct 2024 a BRICS summit will be held, with a key agenda discussing the potential use of a gold-backed common currency. BRICS has been an important player in the global economy since its formation.
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Elon Musk Is a Threat to Brazil’s Democracy
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – Much more than a feud between a billionaire tech mogul and a Supreme Court justice, it has highlighted the hypocrisy of Musk’s absolutist discourse on free speech and exposed the immediate threat that tech leaders like him, seeing themselves above the law, pose to democracy.
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Adagio G Minor (Music Video of the Week)
Albinoni | Sungoo Jung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Cello: Stjepan Hauser, the Cellist of Sarajevo – Exquisite, Bello!
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Prospects for BRICS’ New Currency and New Payment System
Kester Kenn Klomegah | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
BRICS, together with new members and its partners, look forward to a new era of de-dollarizing the global economy by introducing a new currency and a new payment system at the Summit in the Republic of Tatarstan on 24 Oct 2024.
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Does the Israel/US War on Palestine Have another Name Than Insanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – How to Distinguish between Moral Beings and Beasts of War?
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Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake Wins Sri Lanka’s Presidential Elections
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Marxist candidate Aruna Kumara Dissanayake, 55, considered an alternative to the traditional parties, won yesterday’s presidential elections in Sri Lanka with 42.31% of the vote, according to the Election Commission.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
The Cold War is worth remembering. There is much to learn about conflict and meta-conflict. For West vs. Islam.
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Israel Raids and Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s Bureau in Ramallah, West Bank
Jon Gambrell | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early today, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster.
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How Did Hezbollah’s Pagers Explode in Lebanon? Explainer
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
17 Sep 2024 – Localised explosions across Lebanon open a new chapter in one of the region’s most established conflicts.
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(Italiano) Sud globale: Il cambio-marce assistito
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
18 Settembre 2024 – Arriva il Sud Globale con – o si spera senza – una voglia di rivalsa.
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Turbocharging SDGs by Activating Global Cycles in a 64-fold 3D Array
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
AI-enabled Memorable Pattern Recognition through Colorification and Sonification – As noted in previous experimental use of AI, its possibilities might have been considered of fundamental relevance to the ambitions of the UN Summit of the Future (22-23 Sep 2024).
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Armed Conflict Transformation: Our Strengths and Weaknesses
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
The United Nations system is preparing for the U.N. Summit of the Future to be held in New York on 21-24 Sep 2024. It is important that a TRANSCEND orientation be present in such discussions. We will have to see how such participation can be increased. It will be useful to have the views of our active colleagues.
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Update on Julian Assange and Our Campaign for His Pardon
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – “To gain his freedom back, he had to agree to become a convicted criminal. That has all types of restrictions on how he can make a living and support his family,” Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s brother said.
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The War on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
24 Aug 2024 – “Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.
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No, Israel Does Not Have a Right to Defend Itself in Gaza–But the Palestinians Do
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – Basic morality and simple logic dictate that the right of self-defense belongs to the Palestinian people, not to their oppressor. And international law agrees.
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(Français) Opérations de maintien de la paix : entre frustration et transformation
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
À l’heure actuelle, les Nations Unies déploient onze missions de maintien de la paix dans le monde. L’architecture et le déploiement de ces opérations constituent un marqueur de la transformation des conflits armés dans le nouveau contexte géopolitique, mais aussi de la prégnance des rapports Nord-Sud.
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Beyond Palestine, International Law and White Supremacy: A Personal Reflection
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Even if the issue is organically tied to you, if you offer a perspective that challenges the White Supremacist World’s prevailing analyses and views, you would very likely find yourself swimming against the currents.
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Fighting for Our Humanity, Fighting for Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
15 Sep 2024 – It is easy to peruse the state of human affairs and fail to perceive the catastrophic state in which we find ourselves. After all, it is the responsibility of various Elite agents and agencies to ensure that the bulk of humanity remains unaware of the state of our world.
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Israel Has Built a Vast Ecosystem of Genocidal Practices in Occupied Palestine
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – Dr Maung Zarni recently travelled to the Occupied Palestine and the occupying Israel with a US delegation of anti-Zionist Rabbis – Rabbis for Ceasefire – and spent nine intense days witnessing the institutionalized textbook Lemkinian genocide. — “This is beyond what the Nazis embodied. I’ve never seen such sadistic violence.”
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Big Pharma Is a Big Menace to Global Health
Daniel Finn interviews Nick Dearden | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Pharmaceutical companies claim their profits are necessary for vital medical research, but it’s public investment that funds the research before private firms gobble up the benefits through patent monopolies.
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(Italiano) La tecnocrazia avanza: la tua auto ti spia e distrugge la tua libertà
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Settembre 2024 – Il programa dell’Elite di sterminare una vasta frazione della popolazione mondiale e schiavizzare tecnologicamente i lasciati in vita ormai avanza rapidamente.
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UN OCHA Gaza Strip Impact Report
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024 – Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities. The fatality breakdowns currently cited are those that the MoH in Gaza has fully identified as of 1 Aug out of the higher number of casualties they report.
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‘Another Unbearable and Horrific Massacre’: US-Armed IDF Kills Dozens in Tent City Bombing
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – The Israeli military bombed Gaza’s overcrowded tent city of al-Mawasi, a supposed “safe zone,” early today killing dozens. “The far-right genocidal Israeli government continues to use its one-ton Biden bombs to massacre Palestinians as if they were sheep for the slaughter.”
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159 Countries Adopting BRICS New Payment System! What’s Next?
We Love Africa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
159 out of the 195 countries of the world have committed to this new BRICS payment system. What does that mean for the West-dominated SWIFT payment system? Which are these countries joining hands with BRICS against the West’s bullying payment system?
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How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light within Us and between Us
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Every once in the bluest moon, if you are lucky, you encounter someone with such powerful and generous light in their eyes that they rekindle the lost light within you and return it magnified.
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Mongolia’s Geopolitical Shift
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Russian President Putin’s visit to Mongolia on 3-4 Sep 2024, first in five years, is of global importance for two reasons: 1) Mongolia ignored the ICC arrest warrant against Putin, and 2) as a spinoff from that, the US’ attempt to turn Mongolia into a country hostile to Russia and China has apparently failed.
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Why Nations Are Rushing to Join BRICS+
Monica Johnson | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Comprising in 2009 of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, BRICS added Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2024. BRICS+ now: 45% of world’s population, 25% of global trade, 40% of global oil production, 28% of world’s GDP, and more than one-third of global GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
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Germany’s Olaf Scholz Has a Sudden Moment of Clarity about Russia
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – The lame-duck chancellor appears to have had a moment of lucidity about engaging in diplomacy with Russia.
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FBI Sued for Withholding Files on Assange and WikiLeaks
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – The civil liberties organization Defending Rights and Dissent sued the FBI and US Justice Department for withholding records on WikiLeaks and Assange. “With the legal persecution of Julian Assange finally over, the FBI must come clean.”
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Shame on Us
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Shame on us
for silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers
in US and much more
Planetary Cancer: US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the planet’s climate.
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You Can’t Arm a Genocidal State into Moderation. So Why Does the West Keep Trying?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Western governments will never isolate and sanction Israel. The war machine will roll on until either we stop it or its lethal games blow up in all our faces.
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On Loneliness
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Life sees and experiences various aspects of living. Some of these are:
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Akashic Records and Quantum Physics: Exploring the Infinite Truth
North Star News | Read Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
The Akashic Records represent a cosmic repository of all human experiences and consciousness, paralleling concepts in quantum physics like the zero point field, suggesting an interconnectedness of all beings and events beyond time and space.
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Young People Will Save the World, Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
Keara Sosa | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our leaders get it right.
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South Africa to Sue US, UK for Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Al Mayadeen | Resist! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – Nearly 50 South African lawyers, led by attorney Wikus Van Rensburg, are gearing up to file a lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom, asserting their complicity in Israeli forces’ war crimes in Palestine.
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(Français) Géopolitique du commerce des armes
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
La récente décision britannique de suspendre une partie de ses ventes d’armes à Israël intervient à quelques jours du dixième anniversaire de la signature du Traité des Nations Unies sur le Commerce des Armes. L’occasion de faire le point sur la géopolitique du trafic d’armes et la législation à cet égard. Ainsi que sur la responsabilité des États.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Sep 2024
The Power-Shift to the Global South
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution.
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How the Genocide on Gaza Exposed Israeli and Western Fascism
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It’s time to ask why.
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MAGA Goggles
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A
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Age of Consensual Multipolarity
Efe Can Gurcan | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – One can hardly deny that multipolarity is a defining trend in world politics today, leading the shift away from US hegemony and toward a more distributed power structure. In response, even South-South cooperation has gained momentum.
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Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer.
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Israel Tasks US Congress with Pressuring South Africa to Drop ICJ Genocide Case
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
9 Sep 2024 – South Africa has until 28 October to submit its arguments for continuing its case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
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Dispatch from Jenin: Resistance Swells after Israel’s Brutal Invasion
Mariam Barghouti | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
9 Sep 2024 – Ramallah-based Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti traveled to Jenin twice to cover the Israeli invasion last week. Route 60, the only road, is mostly empty save for Israeli military checkpoints dividing Palestinian districts. Soldiers and armed settlers are a source of danger delaying and harassing traveling journalists.
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The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
14 Sep 2024 – Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly those risky banks with trillions of dollars in derivatives on their books.
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Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Vienna Congress to WWI (1815−1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024 – The period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the Great War (1914) is labeled as the “golden age” of the European imperialistic expansion and the making of the greater national states and overseas colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
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War, Violence and Guernica
Biju Negi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
In a world shrouded by war, violence, hatred and greed, Guernica’s is the message that we need to remember and re-adhere to in this 21 Sep-2 Oct “Peace and Nonviolence.”
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3-Year-Old Barron Plays with Orchestra (Music Video of the Week)
Shirley Lo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Virtuoso baby Barron played with the orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall.
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James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Dies Aged 93
Graeme Baker and Thomas Mackintosh | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – U.S. actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died early yesterday [9 Sep] morning surrounded by his family.
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The UN Security Council’s Astonishing Silence on Myanmar Atrocities
Akshaya Kumar | Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the last few months starkly contrasts with the clear warnings from senior UN officials who are urgently ringing alarm bells.
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On the Need to Dismantle the Settler-Colonial Bloc at the UN
Craig Mokhiber | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – WEOG, the UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states, wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law.
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(Italiano) Trascendimento del conflitto come forza propulsiva della storia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Il Trascendimento del conflitto, la teoria di mediazione del Metodo TRANSCEND considera cinque possibili esiti per conflitti semplici e molte più variabili per conflitti complessi, nascosti nella storia.
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Israeli Society Has Truly Fallen to Cruelty, Violence and Apathy–Just Look at Us
Gideon Levy | Haaretz/After the Truth-Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – Look at what happened Fri 6 Sep in the Jenin refugee camp, in Qaryout, in Beita and in Megiddo Prison – and perhaps you will see us, finally.
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Israel Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?
Sam Husseini - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
1 Sep 2024 – A good tiny step, a public relations ploy given the UN’s failure to stop the carnage — or something even more sinister: “Is Israel engaging in biological warfare against the Palestinians?”
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(Italiano) Libertà d’espressione vs. libertà d’umiliazione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Tesi base: Una falsa dicotomia. con un po’ d’abilità possiamo permetterci entrambe, rifiutando di farci intrappolare dai fondamentalisti dell’uno o altro fronte. Come? Beh, facciamo prima del nostro meglio per chiarire le due libertà, la libertà d’espressione e la libertà d’umiliazione.
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ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him over Israel Arrest Warrants
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The International Criminal Court judges have yet to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister four months after prosecutor Karim Khan requested them.
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Buddhist Scholar Maung Zarni among Interfaith Delegation Visiting Palestine
Justin Whitaker | Buddhistdoor Global - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The delegation, organized by Rabbis for Ceasefire and Christians for Ceasefire, included Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhist scholar Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND).
→ read full articleSeptember Challenges
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
On Sep 22-23, the UN “Summit of the Future” where high level representatives from many countries will be present. On Sep 20-21, meetings where representatives of non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and corporations can be present.
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The Battle over Closed vs. Open Systems
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – The world is in an epoch-shifting transition, and a new system will be brought online as the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives time bomb, which has cancerously taken over the western economy, crashes. Now, this may not be a bad thing
→ read full article(Norwegian–Norsk) Vår vidunderlige nye verden (1984) 2030
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Aldous Huxley og George Orwell var godt posisjonert til å oppfatte trender i samfunnet og forutseende nok til å advare oss i romaner skrevet mange tiår før deres spådommer gikk i oppfyllelse. Dessverre dro ikke menneskeheten nytte av advarslene deres.
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Catastrophic Hunger Doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan Worst Hit
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN today.
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Palestinians: The Final Victims of the Holocaust
Allan C. Brownfeld | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
When we discuss the Holocaust, we forget that it had other victims, the Palestinians, whose country was taken from them as the world sought a place for Jews displaced by the Nazis without inviting them into their own countries.
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After Gaza, the West Bank Will Be Destroyed
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The IDF has mostly completed the destruction of Gaza and will continue to monitor it for many years to prevent the citizens from returning. That is the meaning of the new humanitarian officer. Meanwhile, the IDF has begun the final destruction of the West Bank.
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Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza
Nahil Mohana | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear
→ read full articleThe Technocracy Advances: Your Car Is Spying on You and Destroying Your Freedom
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The Elite program to kill off a proportion of the human population and technologically enslave those left alive advances rapidly. Unless you take the personal action to defend yourself/family, you cannot escape the outcome that the Elite is imposing on you.
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FOIA Files: How Academics Identified “Misinformation” Around COVID-19
James Rushmore | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Another 836 pages from the University of Washington shows how researchers and “power users” in media cooperated to identify “misinformation” themes.
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US Seizes Venezuelan Jet Plane: Confirming Who Is the Rogue Nation
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
On 2 Sep 2024 US officials seized a plane belonging to the Venezuelan government in the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida. Contrary to a false report in the NY Times, the plane was not “owned by Nicolas Maduro” but by the Venezuelan government and used for travel by the president and various Venezuelan officials.
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Conflict Dynamics and Models
TutorChase - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Conflict is a part of human society fuelled by differences in opinions, interests, and needs. To better understand these dynamics, there are various theoretical models. Two key models: Galtung’s Conflict Triangle and the Positions-Interests-Needs framework.
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Abandon Biden Becomes Abandon Harris, Focuses on Battleground States
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Abandon Harris is now campaigning to defeat Kamala Harris in the battleground states, saying that genocide is a red line. A new poll shows Muslim voters evenly divided between Kamala Harris and Jill Stein.
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The Seven Scary Stages of AI vs AGI vs ASI vs Singularity
Technomics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
We’ll start from rule-based systems and move through smart digital assistants like Siri and Google. Then, how AI has mastered complex tasks like AlphaGo and where AI gets smarter by learning from data.
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Who Wants to Kill and Die for the U.S. Empire?
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – How the U.S. policy of proxy war, relying on allies to do the killing and dying to avoid domestic political blowback over U.S. casualties, has led us to the brink of war with Russia and Iran.
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From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was twenty-seven when he was arrested and sentenced to death for belonging to a literary society deemed dangerous by the tsarist regime. His sentence was repealed at the last moment.
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Aren’t Palestinians Human?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians as Human – Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way of things. Israeli strikes killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday [1 Sep], receiving not a fraction of the attention Western officials have given six Israeli hostages.
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You Can’t Arm a Genocidal State into Moderation. So Why Does the West Keep Trying?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Western governments will never isolate and sanction Israel. The war machine will roll on until either we stop it or its lethal games blow up in all our faces.
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From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance
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Meta’s Role in Israel’s Digital Proxy War on The Cradle
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – The banning of The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram shows a troubling alliance with Israeli-linked groups to silence voices critical of the occupation state, especially those media outlets covering its adversaries’ narratives.
→ read full articleTwo for the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
An armed robber held up a convenience store.
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How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace Beginning in the Early 1990s
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
As with finance, the West was militarily dominant in the 1990s, and certainly had the means to promote strong and positive relations with post-Soviet Russia. Yet the US was far more interested in Russia’s subservience to NATO than it was in stable relations with it.
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There’s Something in the Kool-Aid
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – “Drinking the Kool-Aid,” is a now familiar and oft-used phrase to describe the naïve obedience to the will of another at the expense of one’s own well-being. Its current context stems from the 1978 “Jonestown Massacre.”
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Snowden on Durov
Edward Snowden | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Ditto!
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Beautiful Tree
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Oh you beautiful tree
With large green leaves
With birds and squirrels…
The EU Must Change Course on Ukraine or Risk Breaking Itself Apart
Michael von der Schulenburg and Ruth Firmenich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
7 Sep 2024 – Whereas an increasing majority of Europeans reject further weapon deliveries to Ukraine and demand a negotiated solution, the EU Parliament has just adopted an extreme pro-war resolution.
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UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion,” said UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
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Three New Kinds of Refugees in a World of Migrants
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.
→ read full articleHow Wars and Political Wickedness Destroy Humanity? The Case of Palestine
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Politics of Wickedness Overshadows the Meaning of Peace, Humanity and Conflict Management
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Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace (Music Video of the Week)
Mary McDonald | maestroz25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Northern Lights Chorale and Conductor David Phelps perform the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of thy peace.”
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Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
Prof. Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, speaks about the significance of the International Court of Justice’s decision. “Israel will pay a high price whether or not they comply.”
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Testing the Boundaries for Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Abdaljawad Omar | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – The current operation in the West Bank is meant to test the boundaries of what Israel will be allowed to get away with and is setting the stage for the forced ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The groundwork is being laid for a broader offensive.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Sep 2024
How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened
Matt Bivens, M.D. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Preying on Pain – Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction. The sociopathic push by big pharma to cash in on opiate production.
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(Italiano) Dal genocidio degli ebrei nella seconda guerra mondiale all’odio di oggi verso i palestinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
30 Agosto 2024 – Omer Bartov, scrittore e accademico israeliano, è nato nel 1954 in Israele. Suo padre, Hanoch Bartov, era un autore e giornalista i cui genitori erano immigrati nella Palestina dalla Polonia; la madre di Bartov emigrò nella Palestina dall’Ucraina a metà degli anni ’30.
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Israel Exposes Its Political Agenda: ‘Land’ not ‘Security’–Gaza as Prelude, West Bank as Prize
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – The concerted Israeli military operation extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Organization of Disparate Memes – There is no lack of recognition of the dangerously fragile condition of global civilization, epitomized by ever increasing threats of nuclear catastrophe. The period is witness to major conflicts, most obviously Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas.
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The Scary Different Stages between AI + AGI + ASI + Singularity
Center for Humane Technology - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
This video dives into the distinctions between Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence, and the Singularity. We’ll discuss the differences between these concepts and what they might mean for the future of humanity.
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‘There Was No Mercy, Even on Children’: Trauma in the West Bank after Israeli Raids
Julian Borger and Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Which Countries Are Constantly at War in the 21st Century?
24/7 Wall St. Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
25 Aug 2024 – War remains a persistent issue in the 21st century as many nations grapple with frequent bloodshed. The reasons for such conflicts are complex: economic interests, cultural differences, historical disputes, political challenges, and more.
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