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U.S. School Shootings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The latest list of shootings in US schools shows that in 2024 there is a new record: 83. What is the cause of this violence? The list from 2008 to 2024.
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Syria “Liberated” by Its Own Destroyers
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
14 Dec 2024 – Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler in Damascus, began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in 2013.
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In Praise of Anger
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Anger is a normal human emotion as any other: affection, combativeness, protectiveness, sorrow; but it gets a bad press. That is especially true in intellectual circles and among the self-consciously virtuous/goodhearted in general.
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‘Dying Hungry and in Pain’: an Increasingly Likely Outcome in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The head of the UN aid coordination office in Gaza, Georgios Petropoulos, issued a harrowing update on the dire situation in the enclave today, describing it as “the most dangerous place on earth right now.”
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Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1957, Albert Camus became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Strength of character, taste, the ‘world,’ classical happiness, severe pride, the cold frugality of the wise. More than ever, these virtues are necessary today.”
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Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact with al-Qaeda-linked HTS
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Is Designated by the US as a Terrorist Organization
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Nuclear Nobels
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year on Human Rights Day. December 10 is the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
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Syria Looks to Freedom and Stability
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Towards the Future of a New Syria – Syria becomes a new nation free of bloody authoritarian dictatorship lasting over 54 years. The Arab-Muslim world lacks capacity to imagine this unthinkable change.
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Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 — Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling as the winter season brings heavy rains, causing floods in their tents and exposing them to the cold and wind.
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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.
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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The US initiative to create a specialized Palestinian Authority security force to carry out military assaults like the one now in Jenin, is focused on suppressing Palestinian opposition to Washington’s agenda and is paving the way for Israeli control by crushing grassroots resistance.
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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The CEO Murder…
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Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Letters and excerpts from Albert Einstein’s writings (1932-1949) in which he repeatedly reiterated his opposition to the creation of a state for Jews, preferring the formation of a simple spiritual and cultural centre to serve the Jewish world and all humanity.
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‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child.
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Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
17 Dec 2024 – The Council of the European Union approved the new sanctions yesterday. The EU is willing to continue destroying its own industries by persisting on the economic warfare despite the boomerang effects.
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Syria’s Fall: In-Depth Analysis
Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Syria has fallen, and history will be strewn with an endless banquet of takes and interpretations as to what happened, how, and why. Here I offer one humble middle approach to piece it together, supported by facts and some deductive reasoning, rather than emotional gut reactions.
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The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
Adrienne LaFrance | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does the US owe Hawai‘i now? – At the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, you find the compound of the self-appointed President of the Nation of Hawai‘i.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Dec 2024
A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”
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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc.
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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.
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Faith as a Path to Peace–How Love of God Can Lead to Peace
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – We all want peace in the world, and we all want peace and happiness on an individual level. The problem is that we don’t know how to achieve peace, either collectively or individually.
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Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.
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Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.
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Which Rogue State? Israel and the New Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Russia invading Ukraine in the name of protecting its security interests from perceived threats on its border = wrong, evil, worst thing ever.
Israel invading Palestine, Lebanon, Syria…
Gideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza, Israeli Sanctions against Haaretz: “Israel Wants Wars”
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy takes a look at the mood within Israel with Israelis “sour” about what is seen as a premature deal. “They would like to see more blood, more destruction in Lebanon,” says Levy. “Israel wants wars.”
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Myanmar’s War Has Forced Doctors and Nurses into Prostitution
Sui-Lee Wee | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 – Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.
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Use of “Sunrise” and “Sunset” as Harmful Misinformation or Disinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Complicity of Science in Unquestionable Dissemination of Harmful “Fake News” – There is considerable confusion about how “harmful” is to be understood globally, as with the distinction between “misinformation”, “disinformation” and “fake news” in that regard.
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Eye-Witness Syria: The Last 12 days
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. He was born and grew up in Aleppo and is a translator and university professor. He personally witnessed events in Damascus where he still is. What Qusay told me about events in Syria the past 12 days.
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Educating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.
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Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination.
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Meditations on a Six-Year-Old Amputee Crawling through Gaza with the Help of a Roller Skate
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – This genocide has been going on so long that the child amputees who live all over Gaza are learning strategies to get through life without their limbs.
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Celebrating Biodiversity in India: Vasundhara Festival 2024
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Nov 2024 – Global leaders at COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan proposed solutions with top-down, corporate-driven frameworks— carbon credits and the digitalization of nature—which are part of a continuation of the colonial legacy of bio-imperialism. Critical analysis in our fact sheet: Understanding Biodiversity Credits.
→ read full articleEnduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.
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Gaza Aid Hits Crisis Point Despite US Demands on Israel: Famine Spreads
Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – Gazans endure extreme food scarcity as looters and IDF attacks on Palestinians guarding convoys choke off supplies. While the US issues warnings to Israel through the media, the occupation continues to delay and obstruct aid.
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Craig Murray | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – Speaking from Beirut, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.
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Special Gaza: Israeli Impunity–Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Dec 2024 – Israel has pummeled Gaza since 7 Oct 2023, displacing 90% of its population and causing a ‘man-made famine.’ The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced a death toll of over 42,000 but the real number could be four times as high, says The Lancet. Join us as we take a look at Gaza over the last year.
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Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy takes a look at the mood within Israel with Israelis “sour” about what is seen as a premature deal. “They would like to see more blood, more destruction in Lebanon,” says Levy. “Israel wants wars.”
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Elderly Populations
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – India has a population of about 1.35 billion, the world’s second highest after China: about 1.4 billion. We may exceed them and equal 1.5 billion by 2030. What measures India can take for the population growth to slow down?
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The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture
Prof Anuradha Chenoy | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The BRICS difference can be read as decolonised multilateralism with intent and behaviour as an interdependent, plural grouping, committed to development linked to the global South.
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Nuclear Nobels on Human Rights Day
Cartoon Submitted by Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize ceremony is held on 10 Dec 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on 10 Dec in Oslo, Norway.
The UN Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 Dec 2024 worldwide.
Gaza: ‘Devastation Is Absolutely Staggering’, Says Senior WFP Official
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Describing the level of devastation across the Gaza Strip as “absolutely staggering”, the representative of the World Food Programme said that civilians are desperate for lifesaving aid and there’s a growing risk of widespread famine.
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Sign WEF Treaty Introducing ‘Age of Death’ Laws in West
The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The World Economic Forum has instructed world governments to dismantle age of consent laws and introduce something more sinister: “Age of Death” laws. This is not science fiction; it’s being planned behind closed doors.
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(Italiano) Opposizione e visione di futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dicembre 2024 – Come organizzare forme efficaci di opposizione? I cambiamenti sociali e politici più rilevanti sono stati iniziati da frange marginali che hanno saputo aggregare e coinvolgere. Bisogna esserne consapevoli e, poi, costruire una visione di futuro…
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
March 1947 – George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist. “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” In this vigorous essay, he derides the captivity of the Party line.
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US Backs Israel’s Land Grab in Syria
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The US State Department framed Israel’s incursion into Syrian territory as ‘self-defense.’
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(Italiano) La geopolitica della follia delle élite
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Mentre il mondo si trova contemporaneamente sull’orlo di una guerra nucleare in Asia centrale per la geopolitica della follia delle élite, manda in frantumi ogni residuo senso di “giustizia internazionale” non intraprendendo alcuna azione efficace per fermare il genocidio televisivo in Palestina…
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Whistleblower Daniel Hale Interviewed by Lee Camp
Dangerous Ideas with Lee Camp - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Hale’s first interview since release from prison.
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Syria Is Absorbed into the US Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Bashar al-Assad fled Syria to Moscow, receiving asylum from Russia. Al-Qaeda affiliates declared victory for the “mujahideen.” Biden and Netanyahu took credit for the regime change, and Turkey’s Erdogan deserves a share of credit as well.
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French Court Convicts French-Cameroonian Journalist Charles Onana for Speech Crime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – A French criminal court has convicted a journalist for writing dissident history about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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From Tyrant to Tyrant?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – Assad’s fall didn’t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It’s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.
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(Italiano) Per una formazione etica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Bambini e ragazzi sono sempre più esposti alle attenzioni del mondo militare, impegnato a promuovere delle scuole opportunità di studio e di esperienze per orientare i giovani verso gli ideali e le carriere militari.
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Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria in Two Days Following Assad’s Fall
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The Israeli military announced today the heaviest Israeli bombing of Syria in history. The IDF is said to be only 25km from Damascus.
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How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called It Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” In our age, it is Israel and the U.S. that make a desert and call it peace, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine.
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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Dec 2024
The Kakistocracy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Still Trump…
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(Castellano) El Surgir de la Espiritualidad Natural
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Diciembre 2024 – Hay muchos que están hartos de bienes materiales y del consumismo de nuestra cultura. Como contrapunto a esta situación estamos captando la aparición del mundo espiritual, de la espiritualidad natural, y verificamos su urgente actualidad frente a las numerosas crisis que asolan a toda la humanidad.
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Report from the Nordic Delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, 7-15 Sep 2024
Jan Oberg, et al. | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The initiative for the “Nordic Delegation to China” was from the Norwegians. Journalist Arild Vollan wanted to investigate claims in the media about an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China.
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How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. The current debt trajectory is clearly unsustainable, but what can be done about it?
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Over the Hill (Music Video of the Week)
Loudon Wainwright III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Duet with Kate McGarrigle (w/Lyrics)
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US Bombs over 75 Targets in Syria after Assad Falls
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The U.S. launched dozens of airstrikes on more than 75 targets in Syria yesterday amid ongoing Israeli and Turkish military attacks on the nation’s population. “The Western press are waxing lyrical about the new Syria being born—but not a word on the U.S. and Israeli bombs falling from the sky,” said Yanis Varoufakis.
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Let Yourself Be Shattered by Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – These last 14 months have shattered me. Shattered me beyond the power of recollection. But sometimes it’s good to be shattered.
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In Memoriam: Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. (13 Dec 1947 – 2 Nov 2024)
University of Hawaii News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
TRANSCEND and University of Hawaii’s Trailblazing Cultural Psychology Leader
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The Hidden Meaning of the Martial Law in South Korea
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol declared martial law on the night of 3 Dec 2024, but six hours later, in the early hours of 4 Dec, it was overturned by the Parliament and forced to be retracted. Did Yoon consult with the US government beforehand? Probably he did.
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LAST Fundraising Appeal: Make It or Break It…
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
16 Dec 2024
Since 2008, TMS has been promoting Johan Galtung’s legacy of Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism–Peace by Peaceful Means. The end? We have faith…
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Letter to Refaat Alareer
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
A year ago, on 6 Dec 2023, Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity.
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From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Corporate media is heralding the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as Syria’s new leader, despite his ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from the Daily Telegraph UK suggesting he will construct a new Syria.
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(Italiano) A proposito di informazione. Un caso-studio: le Olimpiadi 2026
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
La tragedia che osserviamo rispetto alle Olimpiadi 2026, in un contesto come Milano dove ci sono dei movimenti che si danno da fare (comitato insostenibili Olimpiadi, …) è che di fronte a questo «treno in corsa», le Olimpiadi che stanno arrivando, quasi non si muove foglia.
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(Indonesian-bahasa Indo) Mengapa Elite Melakukan Great Reset Menghancurkan Dunia? Bagaimana Melawannya?
Robert J. Burrowes | Bergelora - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Sejak awal peradaban manusia 5.000 tahun yang lalu, orang-orang biasa seperti Anda dan saya telah terlibat dalam perjuangan tanpa henti untuk melawan upaya para elit, baik lokal, nasional, internasional atau global, untuk menegaskan kendali penuh atas kita dan sumber daya di sekitar kita.
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Syria Now
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.
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Mysterious Global Hotspots
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models are thrown into a tizzy.
→ read full articleYin/Yang: China
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Talk at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sep 2010. Others have much to learn, as China from others, for mutual and equal benefit–the essence of positive peace.
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The Wound Is the Gift: David Whyte on the Relationship between Anxiety and Intimacy
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
It takes a long time to know a person — to unbutton the costume of personality and unlace the corset of coping mechanisms in order to touch the naked soul. It is a process delicate and difficult, riven by anxiety and absolutely terrifying to both.
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In Syria’s Dirty War, “Our Side” Has Won
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – The overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his replacement by the leader of an “Al Qaeda spin-off” fulfills a more than decade-long US-led regime change campaign.
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The Overthrow of Assad Is as Seismic as the Fall of the Shah
Patrick Cockburn | inews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Islamist rebels captured Damascus on Sunday [8 Dec] after astonishingly feeble resistance from the Syrian armed forces. A former member of al-Qaeda will take power – and nobody knows what will happen next.
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The Day the Media Decided Militant Jihadism Was Respectable
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, hypocritical western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists and Islamic nationalists.
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Our Right to Sing — and Create the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs fell, children died. What if “freedom from war” were a human right?
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Meetings at The Hague Reveal Crisis and Turmoil, as State Representatives Grapple with Israeli Warrants
David Kattenburg | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – At a recent convening at The Hague, state representatives to the ICC agonized over the disastrous implications for the international rules-based order should Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant evade accountability for war crimes in Gaza.
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Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself
Uriel Araujo | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Donald Trump stated on 9 Dec that Ukraine lost around 400,000 soldiers in its armed conflict with Russia: “This is a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”
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US Hypocrisy Reaches a New Level: Israel’s Occupation of Syria Is ‘Security,’ Russia’s Moves in Ukraine Are ‘Aggression’
Nadezhda Romanenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Netanyahu’s reasoning for his latest land grab lays bare the stark hypocrisy of his Western supporters.
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The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – A seismic change is happening very fast–a devil’s bargain: Turkey and the Gulf States accept the annihilation of the Palestinians for a Greater Israel, vis-a-vis the annihilation of Syria’s and Lebanon’s Shia minorities and the imposition of Salafism, which spells also the end of Christian communities.
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Syria: Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – It looks like Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on his way out, to be replaced by a US puppet regime, whether the nation maintains its borders or is carved up into separate states. The evil empire notches another win.
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Doomsday Glacier Collapse–Time for MORE Human Intervention??
Just Have a Think - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Five meters sea level rise! The West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we’ve got a problem!
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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – The Path to Disaster – What is the future likely to bring? Try to look at the human species from the outside. Imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer trying to figure out what’s happening here or imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now.
→ read full articleVisualizing the Coherent Configuration of Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
AI-Assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Faced with the challenges of the times, many initiatives could be claimed to be “logical” or “rational”. Many initiatives of the past were held to be rational and appropriate, although history now calls such appreciation into question.
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The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – Over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.
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We the People: Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the United Nations
Jorgen Johansen | Irene Publishing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – The United Nations internal justice system ignores or harms the vast majority of its whistleblowers, sobering new book documents.
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China Bans Export of Critical Minerals to US as Trade Tensions Escalate
Amy Lv and Tony Munroe | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – China today banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington’s latest crackdown on China’s chip sector.
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(Italiano) A lode del non-allineamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dicembre 2024 – Questo editoriale è stato originariamente pubblicato il 22 marzo 2010 – #105. Lo riproponiamo per la sua rilevanza in quanto allusione a USA/NATO come terrorismo di stato da guerra nucleare per eccellenza.
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Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, et al. | International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
In collaboration with the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, PeaceMOMO, and an international group of scholars and peace leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the U.S., and Europe, we are proud to share this Report.
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Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel like You Are Subhuman’ – This report documents Israel’s actions during its offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip from 7 Oct 2023.
→ read full articleAny War Any Time
Lena Herzog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 -Though one can debate the reasons, statistics and precedent of nuclear war, what is often left out of the conversation is the reality of it: destruction of the world as a whole. Lena Herzog throws this reality literally right in the faces of viewers.
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Who Are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – If and when the military conflicts and civil wars in Syria, Myanmar, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will be the world’s arms manufacturers. Revenues by the top 100 companies reached $632 billion in 2023. Homo Sapiens? Think again.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 1): Teetering on the Brink of Armageddon
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war in Central Asia, shatters ‘international justice’ by not halting the televised genocide in Palestine, and runs into the technocracy, the bulk of the human population yawns while scrolling the latest entries in chat groups on their phone.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Dec 2024
(Castellano) Reseña: Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung
Beatriz Martínez Pérez | Dykinson Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Cosmología, Conflicto, Violencia y Paz – Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung by Beatriz Martínez Pérez; Dykinson Books; ISBN 9788410707252; 181 pp; Madrid 2024
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Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Trump told reporters that the appointment of El Chapo was consistent with his policy of surrounding himself with “only the best people.” When asked about El Chapo’s ten felony convictions, he said, “I wish he had more, but I still think he’s qualified.”
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I Have Learned a few Things
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
7 Dec 2024 – I have learned a few things in my time on this earth. Not many, but a few. I have learned that western regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous…
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War on Humanity: Gaza Tells Horrors of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The Gaza genocide is happening alive on screen in daily media coverage because there are no Arab or Muslim leaders to challenge the Israeli myth of being a Middle East superpower. The Arab -Muslim leaders do not exist on this planet except being after dinner jokes across the Western world.
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