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A Redcoat wrote his family: "They did not fight us like a regular army, only like savages." 0 comments Read more... TRANSCEND VIDEOS Galtung on Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service Pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world. 0 comments Read more... FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER The Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service 7 Nov 2023 - How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War - A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022 0 comments Read more... Other Commentaries SPECIAL FEATURE Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words (II) Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service GAZA 20 Nov 2023 - Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence 0 comments Read more... CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION Are We already in World War III? Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - Can a Roadmap for Peace Change Culture of War to Culture of Peace? 0 comments Read more... A Framework for Peace in Palestine and Israel Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - This peace would not be the result of direct Israel-Palestine negotiations but instead be secured through the powers of the UNSC and UN General Assembly. 0 comments Read more... TRANSCEND MEMBERS What Israel Wants? Why Genocide? Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service 16 Nov 2023 - As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext. 0 comments Read more... US Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance. 0 comments Read more... Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Expelled: International Action Needed René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service 16 Nov 2023 - The authorities of Pakistan are proposing to expel the majority of Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan where they face grave danger. The Hazara are largely Shi'a in religion but are considered as non-Muslim infidels or as heretics by the Taliban. There are some two million refugees who may be expelled. 0 comments Read more... “One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world. 0 comments Read more... Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured. 0 comments Read more... The Forgotten (Part 1): Kashmir, Heaven on Earth, Turned Hell on Earth by 21st Century India Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service "The Mughal Emperor Jahangir described the region of Kashmir as “Heaven on Earth” when he first set his eyes there, forgotten today and occupied by the ethnophobic Indian Army ensuring ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region.” 0 comments Read more... Working Children in Rural and Urban Areas Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service We know that many children in the age group of about 5 to 15 years work in rural and urban areas today. 0 comments Read more... Will Palestine Ever Be Free? Understanding Elite Strategy in the Global Context Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service 17 Nov 2023 - How the genocidal assault on Gaza and the ongoing military attacks on the occupied West Bank constitute a fundamental threat to the people of Palestine while at the same time they are only a local manifestation of the wider assault on humanity. 0 comments Read more... IN FOCUS Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure. 0 comments Read more... Gaza: War on We, the People, and Arab-Muslim’s Shame Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - Conscientious scholars and realist humanistic leaders highlight the current catastrophic war on Gaza as “The Horror is beyond words and beyond imagination. The Horror is of blood and shredded children. The Horror is of maybe hundreds of thousands dead bodies disintegrating in the rubbles of indiscriminately IDF-bombed hospitals, apartment buildings, mosques." 0 comments Read more... ACTIVISM The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service 8 Nov 2023 - Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’ 0 comments Read more... ANGLO AMERICA Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service 13 Nov 2023 - We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S.--and its allies and proxies like Israel--war crimes: illegal uses of military force to remove governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military atrocities justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities. 0 comments Read more... My Tense Exchange on a Train with US Sen. Chris Coons over Gaza Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - After questioning Sen. Chris Coons about his opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, I was removed from a train heading to DC. A recap of our viral exchange and a response to false media coverage of it. 0 comments Read more... Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service 11 Nov 2023 - Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony. 0 comments Read more... BRICS South Africa Asks ICC to Investigate Israeli Crimes in Gaza teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service 16 Nov 2023 - SA President Cyril Ramaphosa today called on the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into Israel's war crimes in the Gaza Strip. "We join many other countries and organizations in asking the ICC to investigate what is happening and, in fact, we can see with our own eyes in Israel," he said. 0 comments Read more... EUROPE Europe-Jews-Muslims Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way - all in the name of supporting Jews. 0 comments Read more... PALESTINE - ISRAEL 18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media Service Humanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more. 0 comments Read more... ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service 19 Nov 2023 - Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza - A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the "humanitarian" route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem. 0 comments Read more... Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 - The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision. 0 comments Read more... The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service 11 Nov 2023 - A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war. 0 comments Read more... Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests by Talking Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - How the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking. As Maya Angelou said, 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.' 0 comments Read more... Thousands Trapped as Israeli Forces Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service 15 Nov 2023 – The IDF have raided al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. It said it was carrying out an “operation against Hamas in a specified area” at al-Shifa and that the raid was based on Israeli and US intelligence. 0 comments Read more... Besieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis. 0 comments Read more... ‘The Hinge of History’ Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - Palestine and the New World Order - Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings. 0 comments Read more... Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service 14 Nov 2023 - Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population's minimum needs. 0 comments Read more... WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory in Gaza The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service 17 Nov 2023 - Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries. 0 comments Read more... MEDIA Disingenuous BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service The devil is in the details... 0 comments Read more... ‘Are Hamas a Terror Group? Are They a Terror Group? Answer the Question!’ Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service 17 Nov 2023 - The actual meaning of ‘terrorism’ was explained by Noam Chomsky: ‘It’s very simple: if “they” do it, it’s terrorism; if “we” do it, it’s counterterrorism. That’s a historical universal.’ In reality, ‘terrorism’ is a propaganda label that is slapped solely on Official Enemies and never ‘us’. 0 comments Read more... UNITED NATIONS UN Experts Call on International Community to Prevent Genocide in Gaza UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service 16 Nov 2023 – Grave violations committed by Israel in Gaza point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of genocidal incitement, intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba,’ and the use of powerful weaponry resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure. 0 comments Read more... GREAT RESET Bill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service 8 Nov 2023 - On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028. 0 comments Read more... HISTORY This Week in History Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service 20-26 November 2023 0 comments Read more... Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared. 0 comments Read more... POETRY FORMAT Gaza Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service 17 Nov 2023 - From Bethlehem 11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children But the victim we are told is the villain... ... No poin… truncated (2,003 more characters in archive)