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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” (sometimes known as genocide).
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.
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20 Years after His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In Aug 1996, Webb penned a series for the Mercury News documenting how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the CIA-backed mercenary army perpetrating a terrorist war against Nicaragua.
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Powerful 5-Min Speech
Arundhati Roy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Dec 2024 – Arundhati Roy delivers a passionate critique of the oppression faced by Palestinians: historical context and ongoing violence from Israel’s occupation.
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Age of Anxiety
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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The Avenging Heroes among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
It helps to remember this diversity of heroisms, because it saves us from imprisoning our heroes in the expectation that everyone contribute to the shared cause — the great project of human flourishing — in the same way. The protest marcher and the poet are very different kinds of heroes.
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Sudan: Inside the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Marc Español | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of victims, with extreme malnutrition and famine in certain regions, have left the country on the brink of catastrophe after more than a year and a half of war.
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(Castellano) Guerras, Militarización y Resistencia
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Enero 2025- Debemos replantearnos las cuestiones de la violencia y la seguridad. Frente a un enfoque que esencializa los conflictos armados, es preciso identificar sus dinámicas, causas y responsables, restablecer la primacía de la política sobre lo militar y poner fin a la normalización de la violencia.
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A TMS Interview with Dr. Jan Oberg (TFF) – Nuclear Proliferation
TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Nuclear proliferation, the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield, NATO, and the complete abolishment of nuclear weapons for a sustainable peace.
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Sudan’s War Came to Represent the Worst of Humanity
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
26 Dec 2024 – The African Union has a responsibility to intervene to protect civilians.
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“Global Warming” Is a Really Stupid Issue
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan. 2025 – The “anthropogenic global warming theory” that carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning petroleum gas and other fuels is warming the Earth is considered to be an indisputable fact. However, in reality, the anthropogenic theory has no solid basis.
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Shocking Statistics
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – On the 450th consecutive day of the genocide on the Gaza Strip, please read and disseminate that Israeli occupation forces (with US taxpayers’ money and munitions, and to a lesser extent other countries) did this:
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Some Possible Predictions for 2025 and an Apocaloptimist Perspective
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025- Already in 2024 we see voters around the world rejecting capitalist democracy by which capitalists become billionaires while working people sink into poverty. Instead, guided by a mass media controlled by these capitalists, voters choose fascism over socialism.
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WikiLeaks Has Just Put All Its Files Online–It’s All There!
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
4 Jan 2025 – It’s all there: Hillary Clinton’s emails, McCain’s guilt, the Vegas shooting perpetrated by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs’ letter on HIV, Pedo Podesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, Israel, the military-financial complex, the mafia/mafias, CIA agents arrested for rape, conspiracies, CIA false-flag attacks, the WHO pandemic, etc.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
→ read full articleCan We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.
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Genocide Emergency: Gaza and the West Bank 2024
Grace Condon, et al. | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – The IDF intentionally target schools, homes, hospitals, designated humanitarian zones, and use 2000-pound bombs leveling entire apartment buildings. Of 163,778 buildings in Gaza, 52,564 have been destroyed and 18,913 severely damaged. Two-thirds of the dwellings are uninhabitable.
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Poem of the Atoms | Sufi Mysticism (Music Video of the Week)
Rumi | Who Am I – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
A Poem That Speaks to the Soul – Rumi was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, which formed the basis for the Whirling Dervishes, after his death.
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One Day They’ll Wake Up
Bob Minor | Scraps from the Loft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Bob Minor’s 1925 cartoon predicts the fall of Western imperialism as China, India, Africa, and Russia rise, shifting global power away from U.S. and British dominance.
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MIT Science for Genocide
MIT Coalition for Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
10 Dec 2024 – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributes to the Gaza Genocide and Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine in at least two distinct ways.
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Oblivion Culture: Countering the German Taboo on Palestinian Trauma
Sarah El Bulbeisi | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
The Holocaust and the Nakba—expulsion of Palestinians from historical Palestine, ongoing since 1947—are deeply intertwined. The Nakba is a direct consequence of the Holocaust. Yet it is excluded from German collective memory, its relationship to Israel as a safe haven for Jews.
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1,000 Children Have Undergone Amputations without Anesthesia in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – Some 1,000 children have had limbs amputated without anesthesia in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its brutal bombing, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 6 Jan 2025
BBC Staffers Reveal Editor’s ‘Entire Job’ Is to Whitewash Israeli War Crimes
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are ‘watered down’ or ignored.
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US Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid since October 2023
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – According to data from SIPRI, US weapons now account for 78% of Israel’s arms imports.
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The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship
J.C. Hallman | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
27 Dec 2024 – A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old Indian chess champion.
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US Helps Syria’s Ruling Al Qaeda Offshoot while Punishing Its People
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
30 Dec 2024 – The new Syrian government is a designated terrorist organization. The HTS ruler, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, aka Ahmed al-Shara, has a $10 million US bounty on his head. The US ignores its own terrorist designation and maintains sanctions that devastate ordinary Syrian civilians.
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When Burning Hospitals Are No Longer News
Dr Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide.
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Act Now against These Companies Profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – Below is a detailed guide to our targeted consumer boycotts, divestment and pressure campaigns. Help us spread the word to maximize our impact!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR: 2025
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
6 Jan 2025
TMS wish you—one and all—a 2025 with plenty of blessings to our tortured planet and its suffering inhabitants. May we, Homo Sapiens, make an effort to deserve the pompous label, living up to it and practicing Peace by Peaceful Means, or accept the more appropriate Homo Barbaricus.
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Architectura Socio-Ecologika: Evidence Base
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
24 Dec 2024 – Empirical Evidence of Systemic Fraud and Deception – Can banks individually create money out of nothing? The theories and the empirical evidence.
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A Reflection on 2024 and a Call for Peace in 2025
David Andersson | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
28 Dec 2024 – Time Magazine should have named WAR instead of Donald Trump as “Person of the Year.” In 2024, war propaganda took center stage in political and international relations, dominating the discourse and shaping global actions.
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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.
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Configuring the Paradoxical Insights of 48-fold and 100-fold Sets of Koans
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals at the Summit of the Future was previously explored through a series of interactions with AI.
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This Festive Season, Gaza Is Starving
Esraa Abo Qamar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Winter has made life amid genocide all the more miserable for us.
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‘Godfather of AI’ Makes Chilling Prediction for Future of Humanity and It Could Happen Very Soon
Mia Williams | LadBible - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is worried that systems are growing ‘much faster than expected’, after making a ‘scary’ admission about the threat to humanity. An AI expert, he says he feels some ‘regret’ for his role in developing Artificial Intelligence.
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We Can Do Better–>We Must Do Better
Bernie Sanders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Important Message
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The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.
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Another Expert Report Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide–The West Yawns
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all in agreement about the genocide, although it has become just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages.
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The End of Organized Humanity
Noam Chomsky | The Poetry of Predicament – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Noam Chomsky, at a video conference in 2023, offers his truth-telling to the center of our global self-terminating culture. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has taken in.
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Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Staff, Reporters
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which opened a luxurious rest area for IDF soldiers in northern Gaza. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed by Israeli forces that stormed the hospital and forced hundreds of patients into the streets.
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A Voice from Syria on Christmas Day: “All of Us Are Lost”
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024 – Following are some key points from a discussion with my friend in Damascus. He is a translator and university professor. The situation in Syria continues to evolve.
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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.
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How Arab Leaders Betrayed the Masses?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Western Leaders Watch the Israeli Massacres as Spectators
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The Exciting World of A.I.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024): A Tribute
UNESCO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Legacy for Peace and Education: The former director of UNESCO (1987-1999), passed away at the age of 90. RIP
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On the Necessity of a Civil Society Tribunal for the Gaza Genocide
Prof. Syed Sikander Mehdi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – Syed Sikander Mehdi on Richard Falk’s Piece: Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 30 Dec 2024
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity
Dr. Glen T. Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.
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Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It
Murad Sadygzade | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.
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Israelis Invade Syria: Who/What Will Stop Israel?
Nicolas J. S. Davies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Israel’s latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world’s inability to stop Israel ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 2): Creating Eretz Yisrael to Reshape World Order
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
29 Dec 2024 – The multifaceted Elite program to reshape world order, capture ownership and control of all key resources, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, and impose a technocratic dictatorship over those ‘transhumans’ left alive, advances rapidly
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Good and Bad War Criminals
Mark Curtis | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
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‘We Will Leave When the Last Palestinian Leaves’: The Defiant Last Stand of the Doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the IDF steps up its attacks.
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Personal Souvenirs of Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024)
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – I was privileged to know and work with Federico Mayor, a “thoughtful committed individual” who changed the world. He was nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize and should have received it.
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A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
It may even be that music is the language of time, mathematics its alphabet. “It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical,” said cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander.
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Manufacturing Rebels: How UK and USA Empowered Terrorists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria today.
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Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
All religions have certain texts declared to be “sacred.” One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?
→ read full articleA TMS Interview with Dr. Jan Oberg (TFF) – Nuclear Proliferation
TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Nuclear proliferation, the Ballistic Missile Defense Shield, NATO, and the complete abolishment of nuclear weapons for a sustainable peace.
→ read full articleCan We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.
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Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Authorities’ Widespread Deprivation of Water Threatens Survival
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Standing in the Center of the Unknowing as the World Cries. What to Do?
Charles Eisenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
An article in the New York Times, ‘Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food’, argues that intensified high-tech factory farming is better for the environment than regenerative, local, organic farming, and is the only way to sustainably feed the world.
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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy
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(Français) Quand l’intelligence artificielle menace, l’intelligence humaine s’unit : “Greetings from la Banlieue”
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 décembre 2024 – Dans un monde de plus en plus influencé par l’intelligence artificielle (IA), il est essentiel de comprendre que cette technologie, bien qu’impressionnante, n’est pas exempte de biais ni de conséquences sociales négatives.
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OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill
Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
22 Dec 2024 – The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.
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Science and Religion
Albert Einstein | Panarchy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.
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How Fascism Came
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – US democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties that sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance, was the brainchild of three engineers from the IDF’s Unit 8200. The main feature of the group is its amorality. There is literally no rogue government it will not add to its lists for supply.
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Romanza–Romance d’Amour (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
This beautiful, exquisite melody was brought to public attention by Narciso Yepes in 1952 in the French movie, Jeux Inderdits, and has gone on to inspire millions worldwide. Easy enough to play… not so easy to play well! Enjoy.
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‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?
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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.
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The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
26 Dec 2024 – Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
→ read full articleThe Three Nuclear Issues
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
The three issues are disarmament-proliferation, the military use, and the theological use of nuclear arms. All rather untractable.
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Bringing Gaza Home
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
24 Dec 2024 – In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested for blocking the entrance to Raytheon Corp. For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county. The same approach can be used for any city in the world.
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How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?
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The ‘Self-defense’ Myth
Posted by Antonio C. S.. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
Genocide by any Other Name…
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Gaza Ceasefire and the Resumption of the Negotiation on the Abraham Accords
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The current situation looks like this: Israel will negotiate with Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza before Donald Trump takes office. Saudi Arabia presents the ceasefire condition of the Abraham Accords,…
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BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty
Udaibir Das | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.
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Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
21 Dec 2024 – Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.
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(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Discorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.
→ read full articleCondemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.
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(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.
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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
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Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
→ read full articleFamily-School-Work Bullying
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The three pillars of our societies, the Family delivering children reasonably socialized to School, which in turn delivers students reasonably educated to Work, which in turn delivers people to the garbage heap for useless citizens called Retirement, are fraught with violence.
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Drones and Mass Hysteria: An Inquest
Michael Tracey - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Friday night [13 Dec 2024] I went out driving to see if I could get a look at one of these darned mystery drones for myself. Let me first acknowledge that I could easily be suffering from a variant of the syndrome commonly known as confirmation bias.
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(Italiano) Revisione: Libri-Palestina, metafora del mondo, nel dono della legge
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
L’Introduzione è intitolata L’apocalisse di Gaza. Questo libro «è un saggio di filosofia, nato durante un viaggio nella terra dove tre religioni riconoscono alle Tavole della legge mosaica un’origine divina»
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Israel, Not the ‘Liberators’ of Damascus, Will Decide Syria’s Fate
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit to Israel/US imperialism, and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked and flattened like Gaza.
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From Bethlehem, Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
All souls wondering
find peace in the place of birthing
I, a lost soul, find it here in Bethlehem
A holy place cursed now by mayhem
Scandal Deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward Staging Syria Prison Scene
Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.
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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?
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Technocracy Rising: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Self-serving individuals and groups have always posed as rulers, financiers, benefactors and thought leaders to steer change toward preferred outcomes, from the Pharaohs to the French Revolution. Societal transformation has been constant as one form of government replaces another.
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(Português) A Fé como Caminho para a Paz–Como o Amor a Deus Nos Conduz à Paz
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Todos queremos paz no mundo, e todos queremos paz e felicidade em termos individuais, não é? O problema é que as pessoas não sabem como alcançar a paz, seja em termos colectivos ou individuais.
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Gabor Maté: What Leads a People to Violent Resistance
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Victims of Trauma
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The Future of Syria and Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – The IDF bombed and invaded Syria immediately after the Al-Qaeda-affiliated HTS (Levant Liberation Organization) overthrew the Assad regime. Israel fired 350 missiles, destroying military bases and arsenals in various parts of Syria.
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Handel’s Messiah (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Choral Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
This clip features the glorious Hallelujah Chorus under the baton of music director Richard Cooke.
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Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region
George Galloway and Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.
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‘Sickening Normalization’ of Suffering, amid Attacks on People and Aid Convoys in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – Ongoing military operations by Israeli forces in Gaza continue to cause devastation for civilians trying to escape the fighting, with mounting casualties and a critical lack of humanitarian aid for the desperate population.
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Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off Nation’s Wealth after Assad
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – Sanctions-privatization-reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of US foreign policy agenda.
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