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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – As the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intensifies the offensive after capturing Aleppo, Washington distances itself from the attack although its complicity was laid bare in leaked cables: Al-Qaeda “is on our side in Syria.”
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Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza and the growing threat of a major regional war.
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Food NOT Bombs!
Submitted by James Albertini | Malu Aina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
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Armed Conflict in Syria again: Outcome Uncertain
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Conflicts in Syria involve a large number of different armed groups who are known to have changed sides since the armed conflicts began in 2011 in Deraa with police repression of students. It is a situation to watch as closely as possible and to put forward proposals for a ceasefire and serious negotiations.
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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy.
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’” – Eduardo Galeano
Syria War Live News: Al-Assad in Russia; Search for Detainees at Sednaya Prison
Stephen Quillen and Umut Uras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow; has been granted asylum. Israeli forces seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights and carried out dozens of air strikes across Syria. UNSG Antonio Guterres: “After 14 years of brutal war and the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity to build a stable and peaceful future.”
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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
7 Dec 2024 – Article 106 of the UN Charter provides for a Transition from armed peace to a disarmed peace. Political scientist Quincy Wright (1890-1970) wrote about the transition: “The activities of the transitional period should be guided by four preeminent purposes:
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Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
Robert Scheer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – “The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It’s omnicide. It’s not war.”
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Tearing Down Our Emotional Walls
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dec 2024 – War, war and more war. It’s possible because of the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. Is there a way to get things to change?
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Mapping Who Controls What in Syria
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize control of large parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities.
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Forced Recruitment Causing Serious Problems in Ukrainian Society
Lucas Leiroz | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – Ukraine’s unpopular mobilization measures are causing serious problems in the country and worsening internal tensions. Ukrainians have spoken about conscription, revealing the brutal reality behind the Kiev’s army.
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Racism
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against Palestinians. The US and Britain are co-belligerents in atrocities of the most heinous kinds. Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon.
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(Français) 25e Anniversaire de la Déclaration et du Programme d’Action des Nations Unies sur Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1er décembre 2024 – En septembre 1999, l’Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies a adopté cette Déclaration, que beaucoup ont comparée à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme. Ayant été profondément impliqué dans sa préparation, j’ai pensé qu’il serait approprié d’en fournir les détails historiques.
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Over 100 Countries Want an Ambitious Plastics Treaty as Oil-producing Nations Are Getting in the Way
Joseph Winters | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”
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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database of War Crimes in Gaza
Nadav Rapaport and Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – Internationally recognised Israeli historian Lee Mordechai concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting war crimes.
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No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear–>Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Often, the pulse-beats of chaos that feel most unsurvivable are those which artists must most urgently interpret in order for us to indeed survive. It’s the task of the artist as a grounding and elevating force in turbulent times.
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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
One Direction – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Forever Young is the first song that One Direction sang in studio. I hope this video will give you good feelings and good memories of our boys. Enjoy!
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The End of the EU and Euro
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – German government has collapsed and the far-right party AfD-Alternative für Deutschland, gaining support and seats, pledged that Germany will withdraw from the EU, the Euro, the Paris Agreement on climate change, end sanctions and resume imports of oil and gas resources from Russia.
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Genocide and Coloniality
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – I am frequently asked about the future. To answer pragmatically and logically requires a sober assessment of the variables towards a sustainable future. You do not have to be a researcher to realize that our species is in deep trouble.
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‘No Food, No Water’ – UNRWA Warns Besieged in Northern Gaza ‘Will Die of Hunger’
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
5 Dec 2024 – Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that has been ongoing for more than 60 days. “This is an absolutely unprecedented level of tragedy. It’s an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” said Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA’s Senior Director of Communications.
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6th International Conference for World Balance
Submitted by Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
Following the high level of attendance at the 2023 edition – over 1,100 delegates from 89 countries – the José Martí International Solidarity Project announces the planned holding of the 6th International Conference FOR WORLD BALANCE, in Havana on January 28-31, 2025.
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(Italiano) Le sfide della riconversione
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
6 Dicembre 2024 – Nell’articolo precedente si è rivolta l’attenzione soprattutto a sottolineare la crescente militarizzazione nel mondo e nel nostro Paese, e ad alcune conseguenze che ciò porta al mondo del lavoro.
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Beyond Trump and Nukes: Unmaking War, Remaking Men
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – Trump as a macho warrior. What if his “machismo” is a psychological trait which increases the likelihood that he will impulsively order a nuclear strike to prove that he (the U.S.) is “the boss”?
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25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – In September 1999, the UNGA adopted this Declaration, which many have compared to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Having been involved in its preparation, I provide the historical details.
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(Italiano) Riscaldamento globale: 12 approcci
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Si fa un gran parlare di riscaldamento globale, giustamente. Ma servono idee concrete per passare dalle parole ai fatti, magari con preoccupazioni che fan capolino in fondo alla mente:
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The United States Raises a Middle Finger to the International Criminal Court
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the US confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
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A Tale of Two Summits
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – Two global summits were held in November, with two completely different results. One [G20] was held in a country of the global south seeking independence from northern domination. The other [COP29] was hosted by a country profiting from the sales of oil and was dominated by the interest of the US and Europe.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Novembre 2024 – Negli ultimi 20 anni – grazie al lavoro appassionato e scrupoloso di studiosi, attivisti e giornalisti – è stato possibile fornire al pubblico notizie sempre più accurate e puntuali sui flussi di denaro che in Italia e nel mondo accompagnano la costruzione e la realizzazione di politiche aggressive e violente.
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Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza Tells UN: ‘Palestinians Don’t Need Our Pity’
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Tanya Haj Hassan, a pediatric intensive care MD, addressed the UNGA on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tue 26 Nov 2024, sharing the harrowing realities faced by Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
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In Besieged Beit Lahiya, Rubble and Decomposing Corpses Line the Streets
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Thousands of Palestinians in the city are facing relentless bombardment and famine as the Israeli army ramps up efforts to ethnic-cleanse northern Gaza.
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Stripped and Held at Gunpoint, Gaza Schoolboys ‘Forced to Be Israel’s Human Shields’
Bel Trew | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Palestinians as young as 12 describe how they, dressed in military fatigues, were forced to inspect houses and roads to look for tunnels and militants, in a practice an Israeli NGO warns is ‘broadly used’ and ‘systemic.’
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New Powder That Captures Carbon Could Be ‘Quantum Leap’ for Industry
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use.
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ChatGPT Turns 2: Evolution of Groundbreaking AI Chatbot
Muhammed Yasin Güngör | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Launched on 30 Nov 2022, ChatGPT reached 1 million users within five days and surpassed 100 million in just two months. On Oct 2024 it had 200 million weekly active users worldwide. ChatGPT Plus has around 10 million paying subscribers.
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Rogue Israel Destroys 37 Towns, over 40,000 Houses in Deadly Onslaught on Lebanon
Ahmed Asmar | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
1 Dec 2024 – More than 3,000 people killed, 13,500 injured in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanese authorities.
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Understanding ICC’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazis to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated, to Israel’s in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
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Cuba Expresses Solidarity with Venezuela and Condemns New US Sanctions
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – This statement comes against a background of growing tension between Venezuela and the United States, where sanctions have been seen as an attempt to destabilize the Maduro government.
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The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Hans Christian Andersen Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Many years ago there was an Emperor so exceedingly fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on being well dressed. He cared nothing about reviewing his soldiers, going to the theatre, or going for a ride in his carriage, except to show off his new clothes.
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Biden’s Last Hurrah against Russia and Putin
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Frustration Escalates for the Lame Duck US President – He is no longer talking about his failed policy in the Middle East, though US bombs still flow to Israel for deadly use. Biden is now trying to stem the losses in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
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(Français) Pollution de l’air à Delhi : un révélateur des inégalités
Aurélie Leroy | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – A Delhi, les niveaux de pollution ont atteint des seuils alarmants ces derniers jours, supérieur aux normes de l’OMS. La quatrième phase du Plan d’urgence: fermeture des écoles, l’arrêt des chantiers, l’interdiction de circulation des camions et la suspension des activités industrielles.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
This Editorial was originally published on 22 Mar 2010 – #105. We are reposting for its significance as USA/NATO hint of a nuclear war–State terrorism par excellence.
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Conscientious Objectors Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Army: “Get Out of Gaza Now!”
Mesarvot | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – “Human lives are equally valuable, no matter the ethnic or political line we were born on. We all want and deserve peace, quiet, and security. For over a year the IDF has conducted widespread military operations in the dense Gaza strip. For the sake of humanity and of all, this must stop.”
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Touting Ceasefire in Lebanon, Biden Shares “Vision” for Permanent US-Israeli Aggression
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – As Israel and Hezbollah reach a 60-day truce, Biden’s commitment to Israeli occupation ensures long-term carnage.
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ICC Application for an Arrest Warrant in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
ICC International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Statement from International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC
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Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on BRICS if They Act to Undermine US Dollar
Fatima Hussein | AP/Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
30 Nov 2024 – His threat was directed at nine countries in the BRICS alliance: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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Internet Quick Ones…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
How do trees get on the Internet?
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Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – We are experiencing times of global transition. Where we have been is self-evident. Where the world is headed remains obscure. Some states are implacably resisting that transition; others strive to foster a modified international system that conforms to emerging realities.
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Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Dostoyevsky contemplates the paradox of people-pleasing: ‘I am interested only in the question, is it, or is it not, good that I have pleased everybody?’ Under the heading “On the Subject That We All Are Good Fellows,” he discusses our deepest goodness.
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Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime (Music Video of the Week)
The Korgis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
From the album Dumb Waters 2018
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UN: Israel Denied 90 Percent of Aid Deliveries to North Gaza in November
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – Israel “outright denied” 82 out of 91 attempts since 26 Oct 2024 to deliver aid to besieged areas in northern Gaza, said the UN humanitarian office in Gaza. The Israeli army is accused of allowing criminal gangs in Gaza to steal aid as Palestinians continue to starve.
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Netanyahu’s Boycott of Haaretz Won’t Stop Us Reporting the Grim Truth about Israel’s Wars
Aluf Benn | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us.
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Duty Free: Life and Luxury beyond the Nation-State
Vanessa Ogle | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
What globalization has come to look like for the rich.
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Sudan’s ‘Invisible Crisis’ – Where More Children Are Fleeing War Than Anywhere Else
Lyse Doucet | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Nearly five million Sudanese children have lost everything, pushed from place to place in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Famine has been declared and, on the brink of starvation, they don’t know where their next meal will come from.
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Perpetual Peace by Johan Galtung
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Perpetual peace advocates for conflict resolution, transformation, and management through peaceful and prosperous means. The aim of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Professor Johan Galtung and his efforts towards achieving perpetual peace.
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Ensuring the Security of Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Since Israel has killed most of Hezbollah’s military leaders in attacks since September this year and has destroyed many of its military bases, including its arsenal, it asked the United States and Russia to mediate the ceasefire.
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Swimming in Mud in the Fifth Circle of Hell
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
14 Nov 2024 – Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the ‘far right of a special type’ – a right that is intimately tied to liberalism – cultivates a politics of anger.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 2 Dec 2024
Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
24 Nov 2024 – The marketing of a new military tech tool powered by Meta’s artificial intelligence is “irresponsible” and “clumsy,” experts said.
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The True Scale of Modern Nuclear Weapons
Science Time – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Oct 2024 – The terrifying true scale of modern nuclear weapons is beyond what most people can imagine. Nuclear weapons today are far more powerful than those used in World War II. For example, the B83 nuclear bomb, …
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United States Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The USA today vetoed a UNSC draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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Digging Up the Roots of Human Culture
Deborah Barsky | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories of this process?
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‘Genocide’ vs ‘Bigger Genocide’ in Gaza: Time to Decolonize Our Minds
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
30 Nov 2024 – It is time to abandon our colonial past, or present, where western leaders are masters and our peoples mere subjects struggling to survive. Fanon discovered the cure: “We must clinically detect and remove the rot, not only from our land but from our minds as well.”
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60-Day Ceasefire Starts in Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – The ceasefire between Israeli troops and the Hezbollah militia is good news in an area deep in armed conflicts. Urgent measures needed to make it permanent.
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How Does War Make Money?
Global Affairs Explained - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
There are large profits to be made from armed conflict, but how? How do wars make money? Well, we’ll tell you…
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The U.S. National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
Matthew Guarigliae | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
White House: The national security state is expected to take up a leadership position by poaching great minds from academia and the private sector and leveraging private AI models for US national security objectives.
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Mexico’s President Hits Back at Trump’s Threat with Fiery Letter, Blames U.S. for Arming Criminals
Alex Griffing | Mediaite - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pulled no punches today replying to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a sweeping 25% tariff on her country unless she stops illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the U.S.
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The BRICS Effect
Brahma Chellaney | The Strategist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
21 Oct 2024 – A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming increasingly multipolar, countries are jostling to establish their positions in the emerging order.
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Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in Their Own Defense
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.
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Kenya High Court Strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its Legal Immunities and Tax Exemptions
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – The High Court of Kenya struck a blow against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suspending controversial legal immunities and privileges awarded to it. The ruling raises important questions about the power and privileges wielded by super-wealthy philanthrocapitalists operating in developing countries.
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Solidarity with Imran Khan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses total solidarity with detained former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been imprisoned since August 2023 by a military regime with a civilian facade in Islamabad.
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Ukrainians and North Americans Are Done with This War, but It Keeps Escalating Anyway
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
And we were told this war was all about protecting democracy.
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From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.
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A Holiday Message: Thanksgiving Day 2024
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – This year Thanksgiving Day assumes an especially problematic character, not because of the past but because of the present. For me it is better observed in the spirit of A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND REMORSE.
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Strategic Paralysis through Ignoring Higher Dimensional Articulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024 – AI Assistance in Engaging Meaningfully with Complexity Beyond Oversimplification – The future may characterize the present period as one of strategic paralysis in the face of a polycrisis.
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Gaza Bombardment Worsens Superbug Outbreaks
Misbah Khan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections.
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ICC Rejects Israel’s Challenges to Jurisdiction and Issues Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.
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‘I Would Have Dropped Three Nuclear Bombs’
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – Talking to Israelis about the War in Gaza
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Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship while the President’s Brain Is Missing?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese.
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Palestinian Surgeon Brutalized before Being Killed in Israeli Prison, Says Eyewitness
Sky News/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – During the Israeli military’s siege of al-Shifa Hospital, surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was detained and taken to Ofer Prison, where he was beaten and tortured to the extent that he could not go to the bathroom unaided. “He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body. The prison guard threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there.”
→ read full articleThe ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Winning the Legitimacy War
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
The ICC delayed the issuance of ‘arrest warrants’ for Israeli leaders directing the genocide in Gaza for six months although it responded to a request involving Putin’s criminality in Ukraine in less than a month. Double standards to be sure…
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous US Secretary of State
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Trump’s nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and the many reasons it would be a disastrous choice for the US and the world.
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Now What?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
US of A – 18 Nov 2024
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Facing Genocide while Disabled
Yousef Aljamal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. Palestinians with disabilities have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the collapse of the healthcare system.
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The Bodhisattva Poem
Shantideva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
By the virtue amassed by all that I have done,
May the pain of every being be completely healed.
May I be doctor and medicine, and may I be nurse,
For all sick beings in the world, till all are well.
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
Mariel Ferragamo | Council on Foreign Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
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Rwanda, DRC and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 4): Africa’s Israel and the BRICS/NATO Punch and Judy Show
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
27 Oct 2024 – The early formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as an underground movement was as close in character to a mafia family as it was to a political and military movement. Members took an oath on joining.
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Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – “US policy towards Europe will be anchored in the attempt to make Europeans feel insecure about Russia. I think it’s going to create major internal societal upheavals within European society.”
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Organized Oblivion
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to protect memory.
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It’s Not You, It’s CAPITALISM
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.
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G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
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Progress in the Overall Solution of the Middle East Problems
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
Attempts centered on the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah (Lebanon), are progressing further. Russia and Iran are being invited into the ceasefire and reconciliation negotiation.
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The Real Israel
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – One of the very few good [if painful] things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
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The Effects of Israeli Barbarity
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Reporting from Lebanon
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NY Times Killed Investigation of Israeli Hooligans, Internal Email Reveals
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – The NYT has killed an investigation into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam. Journalist Triebert wanted to set the record straight regarding the false narrative advanced by his newspaper – that the Israeli fans were victims of mob violence motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.
→ read full articleTranshumanist Technocracy Continues
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD/PhD | Humanity United Now -– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Conversation with Peter Koenig. Despite a leadership change, the technocratic transhumanist agenda continues. Geopolitics is not what is seems; there is more collaboration among world powers to continue digital money, digital enslavement and the rise of AI.
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Mourning in North America (Music Video of the Week)
Brother Ali | Rhymesayers Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
A critique of US culture of death and murder–from actual war zones around the world to our inner cities that rival war zones—and of our national hypocrisy regarding violence. We have a zero-tolerance of violence committed against us, but a lot more lenient and patient with our violence against others.
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Let’s Join Our Hands to Speed Up the Demise of the US-led Imperialist World
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – I can’t tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful and the law and institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.
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Are Netanyahu and Gallant Immune from ICC Arrest Warrants under International Law?
Sondos Asem | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – The short answer is no. But states have previously flouted their obligations to surrender leaders like Vladimir Putin and Omar al-Bashir to the ICC by invoking immunity.
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Brazil Police Formally Accuse Bolsonaro of Alleged Coup Plot [Trump Redux]
Amy Walker | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused of allegedly plotting a coup, after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
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