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Religions: A Gentle Wisdom in Them All

"Best wishes for the Season and the New Year" we easily write and read these days. So let us reflect on the Season, a time for religare, reconnect between that out there, and that in here, in us, for globalizing truths on the still unborn 2026.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Venezuela/USA: War, Oil & Narcotics

29 Nov 2025 - Trump is intent upon waging war on Venezuela for allegedly supporting the trade in narcotics. Nonsense. Venezuela is the World’s Number One Oil and Gas Economy. “And we want the Oil”…  And another unspoken U.S. military agenda:  The protection of the multibillion dollar illegal trade in narcotics.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Mahatma Gandhi’s Role in Championing Human Rights and Human Dignity

Two incidents that changed the course of history of human rights movement and campaigns: (1) the eviction of Mohandas Gandhi from the train at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa (1893) and (2) Mrs. Rosa Parks’ stout refusal to vacate a seat she had occupied in a public bus in Montgomery in Alabama, USA (1956).

NOBEL LAUREATES

Assange’s Criminal Complaint against Nobel Peace Committee

17 Dec 2025 - Alfred Nobel’s endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war. Nor can it be used as a tool in foreign military intervention. Venezuela, whatever the status of its political system, is no exception. Nobel’s will of 27 Nov 1895 is binding under Swedish law.

In Support of Assange’s Criminal Complaint against Nobel Peace Prize 2025

21 Dec 2025 - I fully support this great action of Julian Assange that speaks truth to power. Indeed, Nobel’s Will is not for warmaking but for peacemaking. The Nobel Committee is acting illegally by ignoring it.

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Warmest Christmas Greetings from Portugal – Feliz Natal

We wish to all our Christian readers a Merry Christmas and to the whole world a Peaceful Holiday Season. -- Sincerely, the TMS Team

NEWS

Bill To Block Trump from Launching War with Venezuela Fails in the House

17 Dec 2025 - The House also killed a War Powers Resolution aimed at stopping Trump's bombing campaign against alleged drug boats.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Albert Einstein Foresaw the “Catastrophe” That Is Israel and Declined to Be President of Zionist Losers

18 Dec 2025 - Who in their razor sharp and ethical mind would want to be the 2nd president of the European settler colony bound to fail, despite nearly 80 years of imperialist patronage?

A Mnemonic Framework for Understanding Communication Challenges

There is no lack of recognition of the many issues with regard to information and fruitful communication. Reference is widely made to bitter disputes dividing groups, nations and even families.

The Weaponizers of Antisemitism Have Come for the American Psychological Association

18 Dec 2025 - Those psychologists who’ve spent the past two years weaponizing false charges of antisemitism to silence criticism of Israel and supporters of Palestinians are celebrating. The Republican-controlled House Committee on Education and Workforce is now officially investigating the American Psychological Association.

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power

16 Dec 2025 - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it reflects a mathematical truth. Interest on earlier interest grows exponentially.

Peace of the Festive Season and the Birth of Christ: An Interfaith Reflection

 The Prince of Peace and the Universal Shanti: An Inter-Civilizational Reflection on the Festive Season

The AI Responds to the Following Issues

On Kijuro Shidehara’s Pacifism On the Majority of the Japanese People’s Possible View Over Nuclear Armament Reasons Why the Political Leaders of the Major Powerful Countries...

The Significance of This 16th Session of the Provisional World Parliament

We are at the point of a culmination of history in which the oneness of humanity moves, on this auspicious occasion, to fulfill itself in a singular diversified order of law and justice. We are at a moment of great transition in which the nihilism of the present world disorder takes important steps toward a great affirmation.

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

A World in Chaos

Nuclear disarmament should be the first step in unraveling the chaos.

Why Hiroshima Isn’t Labeled a War Crime

On 6 August 1945, the world changed in a flash above Hiroshima. That day marked a grim milestone in military history, yet the act itself sidesteps the designation of a war crime. Here we unpack the complex interplay of legal standards and ethical debates.

IN FOCUS

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza

15 Dec 2025 - Despite possessing no mines, Israel is a major player in the world’s diamond business, buying up across Africa and selling them to the West, netting billions. Diamonds are Israel’s most important export, and directly bankroll the country’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Exploring the dark world of Israeli blood diamonds.

Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide

15 Dec 2025 - Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia yesterday, in order to obscure Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza.

ANGLO AMERICA

‘We Want It Back’: Trump Asserts U.S. Claims to Venezuelan Oil and Land

17 Dec 2025 - Trump’s order of a blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela claiming that Caracas stole “oil, land and other assets” from the US mark a significant escalation of his unrelenting campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

Judge, Jury, and Executioner: On U.S. Assassination Policy 1975-2025

17 Dec 2025 - Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called “imperial presidency” when the executive acts as judge, jury, and executioner. Trump has recently leaned on Article II of the U.S. Constitution to justify the murder of Colombian and Venezuelan seamen. However, Article II has a narrower legal avenue and his powers will continue to deteriorate.

Everything the Trump Administration Is Doing in Venezuela Involves Oil and Regime Change—Even if the White House Won’t Admit It

14 Dec 2025 - The White House emphasizes national security over drug trafficking and immigration as it bombs boats and kills more than 80 people in legally questionable actions, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Regime change opening Venezuelan oil to more U.S. investment could lead to greater oil flows.

ASIA--PACIFIC

Genocide Emergency: Xinjiang, China 2025

Since the 1990s, millions of Han Chinese have been resettled in Xinjiang under the "Big Development of the Northwest Plan." The CCP has detained millions of Uyghurs in "reeducation" camps, forcibly placing Han Chinese monitors in Uyghur homes to suppress independence movements. Officials justify these policies as “counterterrorism” measures.

EUROPE

An Open Letter to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Security Is Indivisible–and History Matters

17 Dec 2025 - Chancellor Merz, You have spoken repeatedly of Germany’s responsibility for European security. That responsibility cannot be discharged through slogans, selective memory, or the steady normalization of war talk. Security guarantees are not one-way instruments. They go in both directions.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Operation Condor: Transnational Murder Syndicate

16 Dec 2025 - The repressive secret police forces of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered in Santiago for a covert three-day summit where the quintet of US-sponsored fascist juntas forged ‘Operation Condor.’ Over the next eight years it blazed a gruesome trail of repression, torture, and murder throughout the hemisphere and beyond.

Pirates of the Caribbean: US Moves unto Piracy to Enforce Sanctions against Venezuelans

16 Dec 2025 - Escalation of Economic and Military Campaign? - The seizure of the Skipper marks the opening of a new and perilous chapter in the US bullying pressure campaign.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Rebranding Genocide

15 Dec 2025 - The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it... This is not the end of the nightmare. It is the beginning.

Provisional Bondi Beach Truths: Containment, Power, and the Struggle to Name Palestine on Wikipedia

17 Dec 2025 - The reasons why disputes on Israel/Palestine on Wikipedia don’t end are the same ones the conflict endures without closure. As soon as language sharpens or clarity emerges, a procedural mechanism intervenes to pull it back. Instead of a resolution, the result is managed equilibrium — a pause that holds only until the next event, challenge, naming war.

The Noose of Ben-Gvir: Why only Israel’s Narrative of Annihilation is Actionable

18 Dec 2025 - Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli narrative of domination and genocide.

We Now See the Ugly Face of Gaza’s ‘New Normal’

14 Dec 2025 - Israel’s genocidal campaign has left behind a reality that our starved bodies cannot survive.

Israel’s Biggest Con Trick

12 Dec 2025 - Hiding the True Numbers It Has Killed in Gaza

EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS

Israeli ‘Predator’ Smartphone Spyware Exposed

11 Dec 2025 - Israeli Intellexa’s menacing technology allows government customers to access target smartphones’ cameras, microphones, encrypted chat apps, emails, GPS locations, photos, files, browsing activity, and more.

UNITED NATIONS

Peace: A Steadfast Mission at the United Nations

16 Dec 2025 - Since 2023 and for the third time, the UN, with the support of dedicated NGOs, organized a two-day meeting with some of the main peacemaking non-governmental organizations.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

In Trump’s Peace, US Firms Will Help Israel Spy on and Target Gazans

10 Dec 2025 - The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide.

Killer Robots: The Terrifying Rise of Algorithmic Warfare

17 Dec 2025 - Machines with no conscience are making split-second decisions about who lives and who dies. This isn’t dystopian fiction; it’s today’s reality. In Gaza, algorithms have generated kill lists of up to 37,000 targets. The technology can’t be uninvented, but it can still be controlled.

EDUCATION

Education for Peace and Prosperity: Retrospect and Prospect

Problems Created by Present Education

MEDIA

Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered after Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking

10 Dec 2025 - On 10 Dec 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”

REVIEWS

The Spheral AI (SAI) Superiority from the Spheral Thinking Perpetual Peace Science. Primer. Peace Science and SAI

Developed over 20 years by the Gandhian Global Harmony Association Peacemaking Volunteer Academy with input from over 700 co-authors from 50 countries, including five Nobel laureates and the President of India, Abdul Kalam, this science of holistic, spheral thinking uncovers the objective laws governing the internal harmony of Earth's three spheres.

ANALYSIS

A Chronicle of Predictions That Charted the Ukraine War’s Inevitable Path

Diran Noubar’s Foresight Unveiled

POETRY FORMAT

Three Poems of Struggle against ‘The Dying of the Light’

15 Dec 2025 - A humble seasonal offering that is both alarmed by the ambience of darkness and encouraged by glimmers. Poetry is also my mode of speaking when normal language is stymied by unspeakable happenings.

OBITUARIES

Sister Stella Goodpasture (30 Aug 1930 – 13 Dec 2025), a Rebel in Nun’s Clothing

Another Giant of Justice Joins the Ancestors

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The News Cycle

The Saga Continues...

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Castellano) Un fantasma recorre España. ¿Qué hacemos?

Una fantasma viene de Estados Unidos a dominar España. A veces se deja ver, a veces se oculta, y otras, se hace pasar por humano. Pero es un chupóptero de minerales y combustibles fósiles que está sediento de agua, hambriento de luz, y ávido de envenenar el aire y generar residuos.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Struggling for Sovereignty: Sudan after Two Years of Civil War

17 Dec 2025 - After two years of civil war, Sudan is now the site of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. However, as in most conflicts in the Global South, colonial and neocolonial history are a large part of the (hi)story.

A Carol for Another Christmas

21 Dec 2025 - If you are a fan of the television series The Twilight Zone, then you must watch Rod Serling’s 1964 TV movie a Carol for Another Christmas, a modernization (with a Cold War/Nuclear Age twist) of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)

Playing For Change and Buddy Guy united to record and film his anthem, “Skin Deep” across the USA. The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast featuring Buddy Guy, Tom Morello, Billy Branch, Chicago Children’s Choir, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi.