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Blinken Marks Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Even as US Finances Genocide of Palestinians
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – The US secretary of state’s genocide memorial tweet is a Zombie-esque, self-unaware act of supreme hypocrisy.
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Israel Says US Shipments of Arms, Equipment During Gaza Massacre Top 50,000 Tons
Emanuel Fabian | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Five hundred transport planes and 107 ships have delivered more than 50,000 tons of armaments and military equipment from the US to Israel since the start of the war [genocide], the Defense Ministry says.
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Mozart Piano Concerto Nº 21 (Music Video of the Week)
Herbert von Karajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
In C major, K 467. II. Andante
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The Haditha Massacre Photos That the US Military Didn’t Want the World to See
Madeleine Baran | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.
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Nuclear Civilization for Peace Science in a Harmonious Multipolar Future
Bishnu Pathak, Mairead Maguire, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
30 Aug 2024 – From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Western and Alternative Globalization – This paper, by coauthors from the Gandhian Global Harmony Association, commemorates the 79th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
Before we set foot on the Moon and sent rovers to Mars, before we built supercolliders to search for the “God particle” and heard the sound of spacetime in a gravitational wave, marine biologist N.J. Berrill took up the eternal question of how to harmonize our cosmic smallness with the immensity of our creaturely experience.
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How Exxon Chases Billions in US Subsidies for a ‘Climate Solution’ That Helps It Drill More Oil
Andy Rowell | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – Climate experts raise red flags as oil giant spends millions lobbying while touting ‘underperforming’ carbon capture.
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What They Talk about When They Talk about War
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – How reporting, and the way the US government speaks about the wars it sponsors, has changed between the Bush and Biden administrations.
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Pōhakuloa, Hawaii: A Land Besieged
Puanani Fernandez-Akamine | Ka Wai Ola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
1 Sep 2024 – Social justice and peace activist Jim Albertini has been an outspoken critic of the military’s misuse of Pōhakuloa for decades. According to him, millions of live rounds are fired annually at PTA and “B-52 and B-2 bombers fly non-stop missions to and from Louisiana, Missouri and Guam to drop bombs on Pōhakuloa.”
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Justice Delayed, Not Yet Denied: An Update on the ICC Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
David Kattenburg | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant has been mired in attempts to shield Israel from accountability since May, but this soon could change.
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Suspending Israel from the UN
Anton Ferreira | PassBlue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Members could employ the same mechanism used in 1974 to freeze apartheid South Africa out of the General Assembly.
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France Slaps Telegram CEO with 12 Criminal Charges after Israel Calls Platform ‘Uncooperative’
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – Billionaire Russian born Telegram founder Pavel Durov is being held in custody by French authorities as part of a cyber-criminality investigation. Telegram has been the ‘least cooperative’ among the social media sites in responding to Israeli censorship requests during its genocide in Gaza.
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Jewish Terror Has Exploded and Nothing Is Standing in Its Way–It May Bring Israel Down
Editorial | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
25 Aug 2024 – The letter sent by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to the prime minister, cabinet members and the attorney general, in which he warns that Jewish terror is a danger to the state’s existence, constitutes a flashing warning light.
→ read full articleConflict Transcendence as Driving Force in History
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
The mediation theory of TRANSCEND opens for five possibilities for simple conflicts and much more for more complex conflicts; but they are hidden in history. To transcend is to go beyond, into a new reality accommodating opposed theses, also such as the goals of actors.
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A Brief Guide to Israel’s Cultural Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Since its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza began, the Israeli military has destroyed hundreds of historical and religious sites, and centers of culture and learning like libraries, archives, and museums.
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Israel and U.S. Plan to Destroy Palestine as Arab Leaders just Wait for the End Game
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – The Israeli-U.S. fraudulent scenario of a ceasefire ended at Cairo without any agreeable outcome. Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice and Humanitarian Values
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Toronto Again
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – I have been living in Toronto — the important and popular city of Canada, for about a month now and plan to stay here for about ten days more before returning to India.
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Geopolitics of Natural Resources and the Ukrainian Conflict
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Geopolitics is an approach to politics that stresses the features imposed on foreign policy by geographical location, environment, and natural resources. As a discipline, it contributes to the emphasis on continuity in contemporary political realism.
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US Rushes Weapons Shipments to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – The US has been rushing weapons shipments to Israel since the end of July, Haaretz reported today, citing open-sourced aviation data.
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Israel Launches Largest Occupied West Bank Offensive since Second Intifada
Fayha Shalash and Huthifa Fayyad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Drones Bomb Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas as the Military Begins Major Assault
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COVID Vaccines: Japan Declares State of Emergency after ‘Nanobots’ Found in 96 million Citizens
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
10 Aug 2024 – Japan has issued an apology to its citizens for the disastrous consequences of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and has launched far-reaching scientific inquiries and criminal investigations to establish the truth and punish the perpetrators.
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War Crimes: Does The Talmud Explain Why Jews Have Openly Murdered 17,000 Children?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | The Intel Drop/DWF News- – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
23 Aug 2024 – This brief snapshot of ideology found in the Talmud needs an explanation from theological experts. That is not this author. But in view of the accusations of genocide, might Jewish religious extremism in Israel be partly to blame?
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Of Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
When I die, bury my ashes in my town
Joining my memory with that of beloved soil
that gave us life, education, and love
In Palestine
Achieving Peace in the New Multipolar Age
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – The US “unipolar” moment was short-lived. US geopolitical dominance ended with the rise of China, the recovery of Russia from the Soviet collapse, and the rapid development of India. We have arrived at a new multipolar age. The US still fights to remain world hegemon, but this is delusional and doomed to fail.
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BRICS Model for a New World Order
Amb. Evgeny Tomikhin | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – BRICS is an innovative format of interaction rather than a union of individual states. Partnership is based on sovereign equality, respect for individual paths, consideration of each other’s interests, and a common effort for the realisation of developing countries’ aspirations.
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Janmashtami in Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
Sunita Viswanath | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Krishna was born in a prison in Mathura, and while his evil uncle Kamsa planned to kill him, the guards fell asleep and the prison doors mysteriously opened. Krishna’s father Vasudeva carried him across the Yamuna River to safety in Gokul. Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest open air prison” by the UN and Human Rights Watch.
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The US Is Israel’s Accomplice, Not a Ceasefire Mediator
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Washington is purposefully dragging out negotiations to enable Israel’s pursuit of its genocidal goals.
→ read full articleMirages
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
30 Aug 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his presidential campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him. His trust in Trump is naïve in the extreme.
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Entire Kennedy Family Changes Last Name
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Declaring that “enough is enough,” the entire Kennedy family is changing its last name, a spokesman for the former Kennedys announced today.
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Artificial Intelligence – Eureka!
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – AI promises all sorts of wondrous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average.
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Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Dr. Khaled Alser was held for at least three months at notorious Sde Teiman detention/torture camp and remains “forcibly disappeared,” according to colleagues.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Calls West Bank Invasion ‘a War in Every Sense’
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – The Israeli army’s large-scale assault on the northern West Bank has entered its second day. During a battle in Nur Shams refugee camp, the Israeli army killed wanted resistance fighter Muhammad Jaber “Abu Shuja’,” leader of the Tulkarem Brigade.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 2 Sep 2024
Israel Has Unleashed a Staggering 70,000 Tons of Explosives Upon Gaza!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – Israel has launched a massive and relentless bombing campaign on Gaza, releasing over 70,000 tons of explosives into the densely populated area. Compare:
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I Was Arrested at Heathrow Airport as a “Terrorist” for My Journalism
Richard Thomas Medhurst - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – “I was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act because of my reporting. Six police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft. I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under the UK Terrorism Act and feel that this is a political persecution that hampers my ability to work as a journalist.”
→ read full articleAbout Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
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How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – If AI creates the content, who owns the work? Answering this complex question is crucial to understanding the legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content.
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Journalist Richie Medhurst Arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under ‘Terrorism Act’
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The British journalist revealed on X his treatment by the authorities after being arrested under Section 12 of the U.K.’s Terrorism Act.
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Mpox: What You Need to Know about the Latest Public Health Emergency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the Mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week.
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US: Democratic National Convention Fiddles while the World Burns
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.
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Bombed Hospitals, Buried Children: We Have Become Numb to Gaza’s Destruction
Hala Alyan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization.
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Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan & Bangladesh Warrant UN Attention
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan in Pakistan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.
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The Ukrainian War Prolongs the U.S. vs. Non-U.S. Divide
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024 – On August 6, Ukrainian troops crossed the border into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. As of August 13, the Ukrainian army had violated the border by 40 kilometers and occupied an area 12 kilometers from the border with 6,000-10,000 troops. This invasion has caused 180,000 Russians to become refugees.
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Why We Fight Wars? Can a Culture of Peace Revolution Work Towards Their End?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
The reasons for war are complex and multifaceted, often involving a mix of political, economic, social, and psychological factors. Nations have fought over territory, resources, ideological differences, and power… War is an archaic and barbaric practice that modern society should outgrow.
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Nagasaki Day Panel Presentation
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – On Friday, August 9, the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, I was honored to present as an expert panelist for this dialogue organized by the Earth Constitution Institute.
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John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Receives Star-Studded Olympics Tribute at Paris 2024 (Music Video of the Week)
Eurosport - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Defence Correspondents: The Journalistic Wing of the UK Military?
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – There are stenographers – and then there are UK defence correspondents. An analysis of broadcasters’ coverage of defence shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities. This isn’t journalism but public relations.
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Why Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Is it really so bad that the US could collapse in the not-so-distant future? Isn’t it acting like the worst of empires? Isn’t it wreaking havoc on the world? Is it not a good thing that it collapses internally and spares the world from further wars?
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Sudan Peace Agreement: Still a Long Way to Go
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – U.S.-sponsored talks began in Geneva on 19 Aug 2024 to address the ongoing conflict in Sudan, which has been devastating the country for more than 16 months. The representatives of the Regular Sudanese Army are not participating in the talks, so little progress is expected.
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Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
TRANSCEND Method: To prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. At the root of the method is the understanding of conflict as incompatible goals, meaning as a problem to be solved; not as incompatible parties.
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Meta Permanently Bans The Cradle in Latest Attack on Free Speech
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The social media giant has singled out an independent West Asian media outlet, as it intensifies its crackdown on Palestinian and regional voices, both on its platforms and among its employees.
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How Germany Could Preserve World Order
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Today it is impossible for any one nation to effect positive change. No single nation can bring peace to the world. But a single nation can start a war. But why not the other way around? Historically, the first attempt to abolish war as an institution dates back to the Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907.
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Krishna Appears on Earth 5,252 Years Ago–Today
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
26 Aug 2024 Sri Krishna Janmastami (appearance: 3,228 BC): Why Lord Krishna Descends into This World
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 26 Aug 2024
French Police Arrest Telegram Founder Durov
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
24 Aug 2024 – The Russian founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on a private jet, local broadcaster LCI has reported.
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Johan Galtung’s (1930-2024) Contributions to Peace Research and Practice
Tatsushi Arai | Peace in Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Excerpt of Tatsushi Arai’s presentation from a virtual panel organized by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Genocide on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.
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Neruda’s Beautiful, Humanistic Nobel Literature Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
On 13 Dec 1971, Pablo Neruda took the podium in Stockholm to deliver an extraordinary acceptance speech that begins with a lyrical recollection of his 1948 escape to Argentina when Chile’s dictatorial government issued an order for his arrest.
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USA: Revised Campaign Slogans
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Trump 2024
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
There are different types of persons with differing bodily characteristics in the world but who have a broad sameness in terms of their physical structures.
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Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. We present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
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US Military Base in Bangladesh at the Heart of a Revolution
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has a shocking accusation against the US: “I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed the U.S. to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal.”
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Why AI Models Are Collapsing and What It Means for the Future of Technology
Bernard Marr | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything, giving us tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which can generate human-like text or images. But there’s a problem that could undermine all of AI’s achievements known as “model collapse.”
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Weep
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Weep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull,
for the other child burned alive,
for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies,
and the piles of unrecognizable carnage.
‘An Entire Generation Is at Risk’: Aid Agencies Warn of Mass Polio Outbreak in Gaza
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – “Without an immediate cease-fire and access to vaccines and humanitarian aid across the strip, the people of Gaza are facing a public health disaster.”
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Contemplation
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Thoughts of life and death
past, present, and yet to be
somehow, somewhere, sometime
Old Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Jan 1862 Issue – “Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”
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Existential Struggle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Now the numbers killed in the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza exceeded 40,000 registered deaths (72% of them women and children). But the number of deaths could be many folds more (at least ten thousand under the rubble, many thousands died for lack of food or medical care, etc.).
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The Responsibility of Western ‘Liberal Democracies’ for Gaza Catastrophe
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – This is certainly either gross incompetence on Israel’s part or a deliberate effort to provoke a wider war. And a shady effort by Israel to compel the engagement of the US in its multiple struggles in the region.
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Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.
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The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, which has long been a battleground for various forces, shows no signs of abating. Instead, it is intensifying, drawing in both regional and global powers in a struggle that is as much about resources as it is about ideology and control.
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He Had Two Babies
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024 – He had two babies. Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl, and a loving wife. An Israeli airstrike killed both his babies, and their mother, and their grandmother, while he was out collecting their birth certificates. There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream.
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(Italiano) Spiare per gli USA – e per la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Esporre i crimini di guerra agghindati da “segreti” è un servizio per la pace. Ellsberg ha avuto il Premio Nobel Alternativo per la Pace. E così sarà per Assange.
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US Approves $20 Billion Arms Deal for Israel
Natalie Venegas and Jon Jackson | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – The United States today approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel. Reuters reported that the move was approved by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The deal reportedly includes F-15 fighter jets.
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‘Words like Slaughter:’ A Comparative Study of The New York Times Reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
Writers Against the War on Gaza | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.
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Why Have Religion when We Can All just Be Spiritual?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
My Defense of Institutional Religion
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The International Court of Justice Finds That BDS Is Not Merely a Right, but an Obligation
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – In its historic ruling, the ICJ found that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza is entirely unlawful, that Israel practices apartheid and racial segregation, and that all states are under a duty to help bring this to an end, including by cutting off all economic, trade and investment relations with Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Billionaire Politics: A Danger to Democracy
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Donald Trump was “interviewed” this week on X by owner Elon Musk, whose questions were so deferential that End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission. An instance of the power of billionaires attempting to hijack the political process for their own ends.
→ read full articleFreedom of Expression vs. Freedom from Humiliation
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Of course we can indicate our doubts without humiliating. And of course we can be respectful without submitting. But do so in the spirit of dialogue, not in that continuation of war by verbal means known as a debate. And explore the answers together.
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(Italiano) Dopo l’impero statunitense: Un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Un’ipotesi chiave è che il sistema che ci sarà dopo l’impero statunitense non sarà né un’egemonia gestita da un unico grande attore come la Cina o l’UE, né la globalizzazione gestita dalle TNC, ma un mondo di regioni. Potrebbe arrivare una moneta comune globale. Ma le regioni domineranno, il sistema statale sta svanendo.
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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.
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EU Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Sanctions against Israeli Ministers for ‘Incitement to War Crimes’
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024 – Josep Borrell said yesterday that the bloc must impose sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for “incitement to war crimes.” He called Smotrich’s comments on starving two million Gazans by withholding aid “sinister.”
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Turkey and Syria Both Want the US Military Out of Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Removing foreign troops from occupation can be done peacefully through diplomatic negotiations in which each side benefits. Or, it can be achieved through violent attacks on the occupation forces in order to make them decide to leave on their own.
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A Farewell to Truth
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
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The Fajr Massacre: Every 70 Kg Bag of Human Remains Is Considered a Martyr
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.
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Russia, China and Iran Coordinate Their Support to Palestine Through BRICS
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Those countries have also committed to a future long-term plan to the infrastructure economic and political reconstruction of the occupied territories.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship.
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We Are the Bad Guys
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024 – When I was reprimanded and officially told that receipt of intelligence from torture in the “War on Terror” was approved by the Prime Minister, it became clear to me that there was a deliberate promoting of false intelligence narratives through torture to justify military policy in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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A Just and Sustainable Peace in Sudan Is Possible
Hussein Awad Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The shortest path to ending this war is through ending the support the RSF receives from certain regional powers.
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“Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Health officials in Gaza said today that the official death toll from Israel’s 10-month genocide has topped 40,000–though that is believed to be a vast undercount–just days after the Biden administration greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel.
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2023 – Opposing genocide is a moral not a political choice.
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Israelis Use the Same Tactics of the Nazis During WWII
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Probe Confirms Israeli Military Using Palestinians as Human Shields – Despite global condemnation, the Haaretz investigation found that the technique is nonetheless a recurrent element of the IOF’s operating routines.
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WHO Declares Mpox Virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024 – The chief of the World Health Organization declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, following advice from members at today’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting.
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O Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Your sisters stayed in their palaces
With golden chains and shameless lies
Some grinned and aided criminals…
How to Unmask the Insanity of War on Gaza and Arab-Muslim Leadership Complicity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Global Leadership Failure to Stop the Insanity of War
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
This Modern World
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(Italiano) Il nuovo mondo del (1984) 2030: “Non si possiederà nulla. E si sarà felici”.
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
5 Agosto 2024 – Se impegnate giusto qualche minute a controllare il sito web ‘The Great Reset’ del Forum Economico Mondiale, che comprende copia di quanto chiama ‘La mappa di trasformazione del Gran Reset’ vi accorgerete presto che il WEF intende imporre il nuovo mondo, profondi cambiamenti a circa 200 aree della vita umana entro il 2030.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
17 Aug 2024 – These days I am living in Toronto, Canada which has a population of about 40 million.
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The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
18 Aug 2024 – This article is a synopsis of some of Chomsky’s responses to questions, and it includes third-party supporting facts surrounding his statements about the two biggest risks to humanity’s continual existence.
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Inside Israel’s Torture, Rape, and Dehumanization Centers [Sickening]
Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.
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