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EDITORIAL
Family-School-Work Bullying
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe three pillars of our societies, the Family delivering children reasonably socialized to School, which in turn delivers students reasonably educated to Work, which in turn delivers people to the garbage heap for useless citizens called Retirement, are fraught with violence.
TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service13 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.
Gideon Levy on Lebanon Ceasefire, Gaza, Israeli Sanctions against Haaretz: “Israel Wants Wars”
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service27 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.”
FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Report from the Nordic Delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, 7-15 Sep 2024
Jan Oberg, et al. | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service16 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.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Dec 2024
SPOTLIGHT
Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media ServiceLetters 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.
TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Condemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.
Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
U.S. School Shootings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service18 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.
Nuclear Nobels
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe 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.
Faith as a Path to Peace–How Love of God Can Lead to Peace
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media Service18 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.
IN FOCUS
Drones and Mass Hysteria: An Inquest
Michael Tracey - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFriday night [13 Dec 2024] I went out driving to see if I could get a look at one of these darned mystery drones for myself. Let me first acknowledge that I could easily be suffering from a variant of the syndrome commonly known as confirmation bias.
Technocracy Rising: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Dec 2024 – Self-serving individuals and groups have always posed as rulers, financiers, benefactors and thought leaders to steer change toward preferred outcomes, from the Pharaohs to the French Revolution. Societal transformation has been constant as one form of government replaces another.
In Praise of Anger
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service19 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.
ANGLO AMERICA
Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact with al-Qaeda-linked HTS
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Dec 2024 – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Is Designated by the US as a Terrorist Organization
Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service20 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.
The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNYT, 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.
HEALTH
Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?
ASIA--PACIFIC
The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
Adrienne LaFrance | RSN – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 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.
ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
Myanmar’s War Has Forced Doctors and Nurses into Prostitution
Sui-Lee Wee | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Dec 2024 – Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.
EUROPE
Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service17 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.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Israel, Not the ‘Liberators’ of Damascus, Will Decide Syria’s Fate
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Dec 2024 – Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only. Either submit to Israel/US imperialism, and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked and flattened like Gaza.
PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service16 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.
The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service18 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.
‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service20 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.
A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service19 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.”
SYRIA IN CONTEXT
Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
The Future of Syria and Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2024 – The IDF bombed and invaded Syria immediately after the Al-Qaeda-affiliated HTS (Levant Liberation Organization) overthrew the Assad regime. Israel fired 350 missiles, destroying military bases and arsenals in various parts of Syria.
Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off Nation’s Wealth after Assad
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Dec 2024 – Sanctions-privatization-reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of US foreign policy agenda.
Syria “Liberated” by Its Own Destroyers
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service14 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.
Syria Looks to Freedom and Stability
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service16 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.
Syria’s Fall: In-Depth Analysis
Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge - TRANSCEND Media Service10 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.
MEDIA
Scandal Deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward Staging Syria Prison Scene
Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Dec 2024 – Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.
UNITED NATIONS
‘Sickening Normalization’ of Suffering, amid Attacks on People and Aid Convoys in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Dec 2024 – Ongoing military operations by Israeli forces in Gaza continue to cause devastation for civilians trying to escape the fighting, with mounting casualties and a critical lack of humanitarian aid for the desperate population.
‘Dying Hungry and in Pain’: an Increasingly Likely Outcome in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service19 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.”
DEBATES ON COVID - VACCINES
Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service20 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.
SPORTS
Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.
POETRY FORMAT
From Bethlehem, Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAll souls wondering
find peace in the place of birthing
I, a lost soul, find it here in Bethlehem
A holy place cursed now by mayhem
INSPIRATIONAL
Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 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.”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Which Rogue State? Israel and the New Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceRussia 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…
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe CEO Murder…
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDiscorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.
(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.
(Italiano) Revisione: Libri-Palestina, metafora del mondo, nel dono della legge
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media ServiceL’Introduzione è intitolata L’apocalisse di Gaza. Questo libro «è un saggio di filosofia, nato durante un viaggio nella terra dove tre religioni riconoscono alle Tavole della legge mosaica un’origine divina»
(Português) A Fé como Caminho para a Paz–Como o Amor a Deus Nos Conduz à Paz
Rui Silva – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTodos queremos paz no mundo, e todos queremos paz e felicidade em termos individuais, não é? O problema é que as pessoas não sabem como alcançar a paz, seja em termos colectivos ou individuais.
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region
George Galloway and Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Dec 2024 – The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Gabor Maté: What Leads a People to Violent Resistance
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Dec 2024 – Victims of Trauma
Handel’s Messiah (Music Video of the Week)
Royal Choral Society – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis clip features the glorious Hallelujah Chorus under the baton of music director Richard Cooke.
“Capitalism and State sovereignty are goners. Bankism rules the world in all respects now.” “Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence — a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa
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