Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Hind’s Hall (Music Video of the Week)
Macklemore - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
All Proceeds to UNRWA
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‘Extremely Harrowing’: British Surgeon’s Gaza Testimony Buried by the ‘MSM’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
20 May 2024 – When Genocide Is Merely ‘War’ – Propaganda by omission is a dominant feature of the ‘mainstream’ news media. Indeed, it is a requirement.
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In Gaza, the Genocide Convention Has Been ‘Bent to the Will of Powerful States’
Michelle Chen | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
8 May 2024 – An Interview with Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, activist and human rights scholar from Myanmar who founded the Free Burma Coalition. In 2024, Zarni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire for his work with the Rohingya in Myanmar.
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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s genocide on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 people, the majority women and children. But it is still cruel and heartless. It is also another way we are being gaslit by the pro-Zionist US establishment.
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Israel Descends into Barbarism
Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness, it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism because cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behavior has become state policy in Israel. Let’s review the signs of this meltdown.
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Envisaging a Game of Subtlety Enabling New Global Dynamics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Design Implications from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective
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Greater Israel, the Maximal Zionist Imaginary, and Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
19 May 2024 – Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank amid Genocide in Gaza – The WB has posed the biggest challenge to the Zionist settler movement’s pursuit of a “Greater Israel.”
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De-Dollarization Bombshell: The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem.
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Dear Brother, Dear Sister
Christian Egge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
No matter whether you speak Hebrew or Arabic
it is of no consequence to me
I only see
a human being
Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous physicist and celebrated scientist, had fled Nazi Germany for the US where he became a citizen in 1940. But for the FBI Einstein remained a dangerous and Un-American figure, threatening the security of the US by his very presence.
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Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs,” Joan Didion wrote in her timeless essay on self-respect.
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Peace Researcher Johan Galtung’s Human Rights Violated as He Approached Death
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
17 May 2024 – Johan Galtung – my dear mentor, colleague, TFF Associate and friend over 50 years – died on February 17, this year in Norway, his native country. Now his caring daughter needs your help.
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What to Expect at Julian Assange’s Appeal Hearing on 20 May 2024
Assange Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Today, 20 May 2024, the UK High Court decides whether Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal the decision allowing his extradition before the UK Courts.
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The US State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid–Videos Show the Opposite
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
18 May 2024 – From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan Does World a Favor by Making Plain Israel’s Doomed-to-Fail Strategy
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – Likud’s tactical approach relies entirely on the U.S. for Israel’s security, as the sole blocking force in a world community that is increasingly united and aghast at massive Israeli war crimes. How much longer can they carry on this way?
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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
The Normative Current of Peace
(AAPI) Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence
Campus in Crisis
Eli Valley | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
On the US Media’s ‘Unbiased’ Reporting… 3 May 2024
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Eyeless on Gaza
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Denial of civil liberties, punishment for exposing those violations, and the grotesque, brutal suppression of free speech on US university campuses is the iron fist of autocracy to intimidate, to hurt, to deter those who question the right of the powers-that-be to impose their concocted version of the truth on the public.
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BRICS Bank Announces Investment to Rebuild South of Brazil
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – The president of the New Development Bank of the BRICS group, Dilma Rousseff, reported today that the entity will allocate US$ 1,115 million for the reconstruction of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, devastated by the worst floods in history.
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Israel’s Willing Executioners
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population [2M] took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook.
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New Brand
Rob Kall - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
No Comment
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The Heroism of David McBride
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
16 May 2024 – By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential Australian war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked, and other soldiers wrongly accused. On 14 May he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
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Biden’s Genocide on Gaza Is Now a War on Truth and the Right to Protest
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
10 May 2024 – The media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed.
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The Writing Was on the Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners
Janan Abdu | The Landline/+972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – The government has ensured that horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics.
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Gandhian Spherons: India/Nepal Return to the Varnas Peace World Leadership
Bishnu Pathak, at al. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Abstract – This paper summarizes 16 years of research by the Gandhian Global Harmony Association’s humanities scientists in the field of the genetic thermodynamic cybernetic social structure of nonviolence spherons and its empirical verification by world statistics.
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Slain Slovak Prime Minister’s Opposition to Arming Ukraine
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
18 May 2024 – The attack on Slovak Premier Robert Fico, who has been pushing for peace in Ukraine, came amid active preparations by Western countries to directly participate in the Ukraine conflict. The shooting in Slovakia “coincided with some other events indicating war preparations.”
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The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe.” Israel’s genocidal mass slaughter in Gaza must end immediately. It’s not good for Israel or its national security. It’s devastating for Palestinians. It’s illegal and immoral.
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Inspired
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
19 May 2024 – We had positive vibes in every one of these engagements and also grew ourselves with knowledge, new friends (thousands), and energy (spiritual and mental and physical- good food for heart, spirit and even stomach) and we thank all hosts and organizers for exceptional arrangements.
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Gaza Lost Much More Than a Hospital When It Lost Al-Shifa
Dr. Bahzad Al Akhras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – The medical complex destroyed by Israel was the beating heart of Gaza, and a symbol of our hopes for the future.
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(Italiano) Una soluzione a cinque stati per l’Asia occidentale
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Prendiamo spunto dall’idea di Galtung e immaginiamo una soluzione a cinque stati in una comunità dell’Asia occidentale. Abbandoniamo l’obsoleto termine eurocentrico di “Medio Oriente” e nominiamo questo gruppo di Stati in base alla loro posizione geografica.
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US Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Ryan Grim and Hind Khoudary | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Upward of 20 US doctors and medical workers are trapped in Gaza because of Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt; the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
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Finding Our Values in Peacebuilding
Michaelina Jakala, Miho Taka, Kyoko Okumoto and Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
16 May 2024 – Over the years and through varied experiences as peace researchers and practitioners, we have developed an interest in understanding what values (as well as ethics and morals) motivate us in our work and how these values can lead to or sabotage trust.
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The Arsenal of Genocide: U.S. Weapons Are Destroying Gaza
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – U.S. weapons are destroying Gaza and its people despite Biden postponing a planeload of bombs and issuing a report that fails to hold either the U.S. or Israel accountable for their war crimes.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Is This a Problem?
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World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 20 May 2024
Shameless: Active Participants in Genocide
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – For spurious and sinister reasons, the Western political and media classes are isolating themselves from public opinion and international law on the Gaza genocide in ways hard to believe. Here are a few examples among myriad.
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What Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
9 May 2024 – For overwhelming Western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc., the disappearance of the USSR in 1990/91 was symbolized overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall… This geopolitical change called for a new world order in international relations
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Automated Apartheid: Walking through Hebron Smart City | Documentary
Mnar Adley | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
7 May 2024 – MintPress director Mnar Adley walks us through the city of Hebron dubbed by Israel as ‘Hebron Smart City’ due to the Draconian surveillance technology on the Palestinian population as part of what is called the Wolfpack surveillance system.
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Fanon the Universalist
Susan Neiman | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
6 Jun 2024 Issue – Edward Said said that Fanon’s radical hopefulness freed him from Michel Foucault’s relentless pessimism. But Shatz asks whether Fanon was naive to hope for a radical universalism minus the hollowness of the French (and American) versions. Fanon lived in more hopeful times.
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Can the U.S. Afford Its Military Aid Promises?
CNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Joe Biden signed a $95 billion U.S. military aid package last April to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region. The NDAA of 2024 authorized military spending of a record $886 billion. “Most of that money will go to support US defense industries.” Lockheed Martin, RTX, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman had DoD contracts of more than $118 billion in 2022.
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Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian (Hi)story
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
“A land without a people, for a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jews was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history has been written through these eyes. This is the other side of the Palestinian (hi)story.
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A World Under Spiritual Construction
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – Recent announcement by Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia University, that it is divesting from “companies profiting from war in Palestine/Israel,” fully supporting the student encampments, and condemning arrests and police violence on the peaceful, culturally diverse protests. There’s something happening here . . .
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Home – Naive Melody (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
From the movie ‘This Must Be the Place’ (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Ganesh
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Lord Ganesh is son of Shiva and Parvati, being the Demigod of luck and of “opening the way.” That is why devotees pray to Him before starting a new project in order to proceed with as few obstacles as possible.
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If We Say Yes: On Open Letters and Campus Protests
Amia Srinivasan | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
An open letter is an unloved thing. Written by committee and in haste, it is a monument to compromise: a minimal statement to which all signatories can agree, or – worse – a maximal statement that no signatory fully believes. Some academics have a general policy against signing them.
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Can the ICC Finally Gain Credibility?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – I want to call more explicit attention to the crude efforts by Netanyahu to call openly for the exertion of pressure on the ICC by the USA and other ‘democracies,’ seeking to induce the ICC rejection of this Global South attempt to criminalize Israel’s use of a genocidal force.
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Ninth Symphony [Ode to Joy], the Choral (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
13 May 2024
Today we commemorate Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Choral, first performed in Vienna exactly 200 years ago, on 7 May 1824. It has become the Hymn (Anthem) of Europe.
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Let Israel’s Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
5 May 2024 – They cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor is it possible to blame only Hamas, even if it has a part in the crimes. We are the ones who killed, starved, displaced, and destroyed on such a massive scale. Someone must be brought to justice for this. Netanyahu is the head, of course.
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Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
While this article will focus on the genocide in Gaza, it is important to recognize that this genocide against the Palestinians – second only in its severity to the original Nakba in 1948 – is simply exploiting longstanding Zionist aspirations to play a key part in fulfilling a wider Elite program.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Enhancing Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Integration with AI – There are widespread calls for unity and unification in the face of division, fragmentation and polarization — with some endeavouring to impose particular understandings of hegemony as the only viable response.
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As Gaza Assault Intensifies, Egypt Joins ICJ Case Accusing Israel of Genocide
Olivia Rosane | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
12 May 2024 – Egypt announced today that it would join South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. “It’s a real diplomatic punch,” a former Israeli diplomat said. “Israel would have to take it very seriously.”
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“We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast until Divestment Demands Are Met
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands.
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‘The Scenes of the Nakba Are Repeating’: Rafah in Panic as Israeli Invasion Begins
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – With Israeli forces entering Gaza’s southernmost city, Palestinians describe their hardships and fears in the Strip’s last vanishing refuge.
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The Pattern of Bibi’s Desperate Proposals
Seymour M. Hersh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – What a twenty-five-year-old memo by Daniel Ellsberg says about the past failures of Lyndon Johnson and the current horrors of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Pro-Israel Literal False Flag Exposed
Briahna Joy Gray | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
24 Apr 2024 – Briahna Joy Gray delivers a radar on the media’s disingenuous coverage of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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India, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, France, Canada, USA: Pro-Palestine Protests Grow around the World
Pressenza | Redazione Italia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In the last two weeks, more than 160 actions and 125 camps in solidarity with Palestine have been registered in at least 17 countries. The common demand of the students is to divest from companies that support Israel and the Gaza genocide.
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When Students Are a Shock to the System
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young in the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture – The movement to stop Israel’s genocidal oppression of Palestinians is up against the entire murderous military-industrial-media-congressional complex.
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What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists
Catherine Kim | POLITICO Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
3 May 2024 – Over 50 schools. Nearly 2,000 arrests. One canceled graduation ceremony–so far. Leaders of campus news organizations were asked to set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media is getting wrong.
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The U.S. Ultimatum to Israel
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – “The U.S. has suspended the shipment of weapons to Israel,” US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, just told the Senate. “We are examining the short-term security support in the context of the events in Rafah; we have not yet decided how to proceed.” This is huge.
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Genocide Joe
Paul Street | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
7 May 2024 – This morning the sorry-ass arch-imperialist warmonger Genocide Joe Biden did a nationally televised address painting the US campus protests against US-backed genocide in Gaza as a “violent,” “antisemitic,” and “chaos”-causing threat to the educational process and to the “rule of law.” F’ this guy.
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(Castellano) Celebración a Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), Constructor de Paz
Alberto Andrés Aguirre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
28 abr 2024 – Al pie del monumento a las víctimas de Utoya del escultor y activista recientemente desaparecido Agustín Ibarrola, en el parque de la paz Johan Galtung de Alfàs del Pi (Alicante, España), acabamos de celebrar un acto de homenaje y reconocimiento hacia un relevante vecino de esta ciudad y ciudadano del mundo, nuestro querido maestro el profesor Galtung. Gracias, querido maestro.
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The Nation’s Conscience
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – The courageous stance of students across the US in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. The genocide has awakened a sleeping giant. Let us pray the giant prevails.
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Gazans Salute University Students’ Uprising for Palestine
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
7 May 2024 – As Israel’s invasion of Rafah begins, people in Gaza are holding out hope that international pressure will force Israel to stand down. Part of that hope is tied to the heroic actions of students across the world rising up for Palestine.
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Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Israel Uses the Holocaust as a Cover for its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza – Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
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600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Rolling its tanks into Rafah, the Israeli military moved to take control of the Palestinian side of the border crossing with Egypt, severing the only corridor to land not controlled by Israel. An Israeli tank bulldozed the “I love Gaza” monument greeting visitors as they cross into the territory from Egypt.
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Challenging Dollar’s Dominance
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Strengthening ties and cooperation with regional countries, promoting platforms like BRICS and focusing on trade in local currencies may challenge the dominance of the US dollar in the coming years on account of a changing world order.
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‘Barbaric’: Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel’s Torture of Detained Palestinians
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – Three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the notorious Sde Teiman prison offered horrifying accounts of torture, saying the facility’s doctors amputated limbs due to handcuffing injuries, allowed detainees’ wounds to rot, and carried out vicious beatings. “What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg.”
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Yanis Varoufakis Sues the German State
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – In 2024, Europe Day is marked by the violation of the fundamental rights of European citizens. In the interests of Germans and everyone else who cherishes political freedom, the German state’s slide towards lawlessness and totalitarianism must be checked.
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Western Media Ignites War on China in Sports
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Western accusations of doping by Chinese swimmers threaten to exacerbate China-US tensions, undermine the World Anti Doping Agency and seriously harm the upcoming Paris Olympics.
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Bio-Imperialism vs. Bio-Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Seeds are the connections between our lives, our food, our health and our freedom; the first link in the food chain. The cultivation of seeds and their free exchange is the foundation of our biodiversity and our food security. To have control over seeds is to have control over our lives, our food and our freedom.
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Listen to the Students!
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Hopefully, the political movement on US college campuses will be a game changer in stopping Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
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Interview: The Walls Are Closing in on the Ability to Dissent, Says Cancelled Chris Hedges
George Galloway, MP interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
5 May 2024 – “It’s clear nothing is going to impede the Israeli assault on Gaza. They’ve sold out their own hostages.”
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More Than 300,000 Displaced from Rafah, URWA Says
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
12 May 2024 – The UNRWA reported that evacuation orders in Rafah issued by the Israeli authorities forced more than 300,000 residents of the area to move anywhere as it continues to keep the Rafah crossing closed, crucial for the entry of humanitarian aid.
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Israel’s Political Position Is Now Weaker Than Before the Hamas Attack
Patrick Cockburn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – The Attack on Rafah, when It Occurs, Will Have Huge Consequences Internationally
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today. Central to humanity’s quest to grasp the nature of the universe and make sense of our own existence is zero.
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Newcastle Student Investigates Roman 12-Sided ‘Mystery Objects’
Newcastle University Press Office - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
A Newcastle University doctoral student shares her expertise on mysterious Roman artefacts called dodecahedra.
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What Choice Do the Rohingya Have?
Maung Zarni | Democratic Voice of Burma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Who will protect the Rohingya in Myanmar? This is becoming an urgent question. And yet there are no easy answers. The latest tactic by the Myanmar military is the forceful conscription of Rohingya males to fight against the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army.
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Kudos to Journalists Who Tell the Truth
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
UNESCO should be congratulated for awarding the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2024 to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza. The prize this year was announced in Santiago, Chile in conjunction with World Press Day on 3 May 2024.
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“Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship”—a Rwanda Review
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Ann Garrison continues her series of reviews of books important to understanding the Rwandan Genocide and Rwanda as it is today during this 30th anniversary year of the 1994 massacres.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring.
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Oxford Faculty on the Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment
University of Oxford Faculty & Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – As members of faculty and staff of the University of Oxford, we stand firmly in support of the encampment to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and from Israel’s apartheid regime against Palestinians and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – The usual solutions are to cut programs or raise taxes, but both approaches are facing an uphill battle. The remedy for unemployment is employment, and the remedy for the unhoused is affordable housing. An I-Bank expanded into a state-owned depository bank could provide both.
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Night’s Guardians Unveiled: The Enigmatic World of Bats
Assaf Levy | BioDB - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Every year on April 17, the world celebrates Bat Appreciation Day as a tribute and a call to recognize these nocturnal creatures’ vital roles in our ecosystems. Bats are fascinating beings that play key roles in pollination, insect control, and seed dispersal. As twilight creatures, they embody the intersection between day and night, serving as crucial contributors to the health of our planet.
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UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted today to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council.
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Israel Lost the War and the US Betrayed Humanity in Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness
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Positive Peace Report 2024: Analysing the Factors That Build, Predict and Sustain Peace
Institute for Economics and Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Peace is more than the absence of violence. Positive Peace describes the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. It is conceptually related to many aspects of social development and can be used in multiple contexts.
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Oh, Rascal Children of Gaza
Khaled Juma | Jewish Voice for Labour - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Oh rascal children of Gaza,
You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window,
Killer AI Is a Patriotic Duty? Silicon Valley Comes to Washington
Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
2 May 2024 – Yesterday’s conference showed the increasing power defense tech startups wield in the Beltway.
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination: How About a 5-State Solution for West Asia?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
The beauty of a one-state solution within a five-state community is that no one would be displaced or forced to move. All the interior borders, walls, barbed-wire fences, surveillance towers and checkpoints would be eliminated. With a robust constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all, Muslims, Christians and Jews could freely choose to live in any part of the country, from the river to the sea.
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Asymmetric Warfare
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Asymmetric warfare exists when two sides of combat forces (two states, two blocs, a state vs. one military bloc, etc.) are very or even extremely different regarding their military and other capacities to fight each other.
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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers vs. the White Coat Supremacy of Dr. Anthony Fauci
Lloyd Billingsley | Chronicles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Fauci’s favored cure for AIDS was indeed AZT, also known as azidothymidine and Zidovudine, a DNA-chain terminator found to be useless against cancer. The highly toxic drug failed to prevent or cure AIDS but Fauci inflicted AZT and other dangerous drugs on foster children in New York City.
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Opposing the War Machine Is Cool Again, and the Evil Empire’s Getting Nervous
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – US rapper Macklemore has released a single titled “Hind’s Hall”, the name given to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall by anti-genocide protesters in honor of the six-year-old Hind Rajab who was murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces.
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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Protecting and Serving WHO or WHAT Exactly?
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(Português) A conta chegou: a tragédia climática no Rio Grande do Sul
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 maio 2024 – As intensas chuvas e as catastróficas enchentes, com as águas invadindo cidades inteiras, destruindo-as em parte, deslocando centenas de famílias, causando milhares de refugiados ou de desaparecidos e mortos, nos fazem pensar.
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How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report
Steve France | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
An independent expert report lays out how Israel systematically violated U.S. and International Law in Gaza, concluding that Israel launched indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on civilian areas due to “extremely relaxed rules of engagement.”
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The Shoah
Stephanie Hiller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
11 May 2024 – There is recently published testimony that Israeli soldiers treat evacuation zones as ‘zones of extermination’ in which all Palestinians” – not just Hamas – “are considered to be legitimate targets.” Israel has also been accused of relying heavily on AI to chose targets and “kill lists.”
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The Russia–Iran–China Search for a New Global Security Order
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
3 May 2024 – While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
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Liberalism without Accountability
Gareth Fearn | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
2 May 2024 – Many of the US universities’ billionaire donors support the Israeli government and believe university students are suppressing the free speech of others. Right-wing politicians are forcing some university presidents out of their jobs for tolerance of antisemitism, while others submit to congressional demands to restrict academic freedom. This is a toxic combination.
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