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EDITORIAL

After the US Empire: A World of Regions?

[From TMS Editor: We are reposting this editorial for its immediacy. The Trump administration is accelerating the process of dissolution to a point of no return. This is a ‘thinking’ piece to aid responsible actors in planning for the next phase: regions instead of empires. Hopefully without bloodshed--as happened with the dissolution of the USSR.]

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

They Are Planning a Complete Financial Lockdown

29 Oct 2025 - Whitney Webb reports on a monetary conversion into all-digital control called Central Bank Digital Currency, which will be linked to electronic or digital IDs which, in turn, are linked to each individual’s biometrics (finger prints, face recognition, iris-scans and more). The traditional Tavistock method to keep people on their toes, obedient and submissive.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Global Gaza: The Political Economy of Genocide

4 Nov 2025 - The killing fields of Palestine, in all their debauchery, breathe new life into the prospects for capitalist expansion in the Middle East even as it offers the Palestinians and the poor majorities in the region and beyond nothing but endless accumulation of bloodshed, grief and misery. 

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

The Interrogation of Richard Falk: When Speaking Truth Becomes a “National Security Threat”

17 Nov 2025 - Author’s Note: I wrote this essay to show what really happened when Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained at the Canadian border — and to explore what it reveals about power, accountability, and the fight to speak truth to authority.

Other Commentaries

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Read Full Text of Trump’s Peace Plan to End Ukraine–Russia War

21 Nov 2025 - US President Trump's 28-point peace plan, delivered to his Ukrainian counterpart President Zelenskyy, outlines major concessions for Ukraine and has drawn strong criticism from European governments.

ENVIRONMENT

COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action

22 Nov 2025 - Offering no new plans to cut fossil fuels, the UN’s climate conference failed to produce a roadmap to stop global warming.

COP30 Cannot Meet the 1.5ºC Goal while Military Emissions Stay Uncounted

20 Nov 2025 - Militaries are major global polluters, yet they remain exempt from climate reporting, creating a blind spot that threatens the entire COP30 roadmap—and the whole world by association; a cancer.

COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership

20 Nov 2025 - The Amazon rainforest, the lungs of the planet, is teeming with life. Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, Indigenous people, have traveled to Belém, Brazil, the gateway to the Amazon, carrying their message that the rainforest is at a tipping point, but can still be saved.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

The Secret Pathway between Configurations of Otherness?

Mnemonic Geometry Clues on How to Kiss-Touch and Make-Up - Discourse between disparate domains: There is ever more indication that civilization is faced with a major difficulty in facilitating the engagement between disparate domains.

Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan: A Cruel Joke in a Conflict/Peace Illiterate World

18 Nov 2025 - The fact that the outlandish and quackish Trump “peace” plan for the genocided Gaza was passed by the UN Security Council defines the end of every understanding of true peace.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Latest Spurious Attack

18 Nov 2025 - Attorneys' old adage: “If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell!” Outside the courtroom, this tactic are the charges of “Antisemitism” from the Anti-Defamation League. 

A Culture of Peace Is Possible: Here’s How

15 Nov 2025 - World history is accelerating and this gives us a window of opportunity to change from the present culture of war to a culture of peace. Progress will come through multiple failures as the old system collapses.

Open Letter to Hawaii’s Governor and to Members of the US Congressional Delegation on Land Military Leases

17 Nov 2025 - Governor Green, we were deeply disappointed to read a recent interview where you discussed military land leases. It is hard to imagine that, in 2025, you still believe you have the authority—or the consent—to speak for the Hawaiian people on actions we have already made clear we reject.

Somalia: Farmaajo Returns

19 Nov 2025 - Farmaajo, a hugely popular Somali politician who has never been favored by the US, is widely expected to seek the presidency in Somalia’s 2026 election. 

L’Arche Facing the Artificial Intelligence: A Call to Fight AI!

ChatGPT can communicate with anyone like a human. AI can artificially imitate any human behavior and surpass it (as in chess and Go). There is no human activity that a robot cannot perform; and even do better, just as an airplane is faster than a running human. Intelligence is no longer a privilege to boast about in the presence of animals.

The Johannesburg G20 Summit Gambit: Ubuntu’s Challenge to a Fragmenting World Order

“Where is the world heading?" The seemingly disparate global conflicts and belligerence are manifestations of a single, recurring pattern, the use of orthodoxy as a tool for political control.”

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank

18 Nov 2025 - Zohran Mamdani swept into office on a platform of affordability, municipal ownership and economic justice. But his plan to fund reforms through $9 billion in new taxes on corporations and high earners is already bumping up against political and fiscal realities. 

Venezuela: What Is at Stake?

22 Nov 2025 - JUST supports the mass protests around the globe against the US for its flexing of military muscles against Venezuela. The whole world should reject this brazen, shameful act of aggression.  As human beings we have no choice but to protect our honour.

IN FOCUS

A Bold Campaign to Confront Global Crises

19 Nov 2025 - Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises are clear enough: vast slaughter in horrific wars, worldwide climate catastrophe, massive population displacement, and deepening poverty. 

Russia Reduces Its Involvement in the Middle East

In late October 2025, the Primakov Center, a Russian foreign policy research institute, held a conference in Moscow to discuss Russia's relations with the Middle East, bringing together foreign policy experts from Middle Eastern countries (excluding Israel)...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

The Matrix Is Talking to the Matrix: How AI Is Replacing Human Thought

Artificial intelligence is not evil; it is obedient. The real question is whether we will be. The temptation of automation is to let the system decide, let the code choose, let the machine remember. But each time we offload a decision, we shrink the territory of the self. The danger is not that AI will awaken. The danger is that we will fall asleep.

Chinese Hackers Attack 30 Locations with One Click: Intrusion Attempt Using AI Automation

14 Nov 2025 - It has been revealed that a hacker group suspected of being backed by the Chinese government attempted a large-scale intrusion attack using the "Claude" model from US AI startup Anthropic.

ANGLO AMERICA

The Justice of the Empire

17 Nov 2025 - While concentrating a military force against Venezuela, Trump is conducting a persecution of Venezuelan immigrants. In March, he deported 252 to a prison in El Salvador known as the ‘Terrorism Detention Centre’, claiming that they had infiltrated the US to wage an ‘irregular war’.

ASIA--PACIFIC

Japan’s Push Toward “Aggressive Militarist Ambitions” Raises Alarms for Asia-Pacific and World Peace

17 Nov 2025 - You won’t hear about it in Western mainstream media, but this is hugely important for Asia and the entire world. Furthermore, it is another US-masterminded policy change targeting China because Japan has not been allowed to have an independent foreign policy since 1945.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

What Is Really Happening in Venezuela? US Attacks and Economic Situation Explained

16 Nov 2025 - An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of US sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Trump Stealing Gaza–and UN Approves It! Colonization Coming to Fruition

18 Nov 2025 - Colonizers Will Take over 58% of Gaza [they call it Real State], the Rest Will Be Left in Ruins

How the US-Israeli ‘Peace Plan’ Will Partition Gaza

22 Nov 2025 - It is tapping into a well-known colonial strategy of isolating and fragmenting an occupied population.

Israel Launches Major Attacks Across Gaza, Killing at Least 28 Palestinians, Including Many Children

19 Nov 2025 - The Israeli military launched strikes across Gaza today, killing at least 28 Palestinians, including 17 women and children, as it continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.

Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over–It’s Been Expanded

20 Nov 2025 - Israel’s genocide isn’t over. In the days and weeks after a ceasefire was declared, many Israeli soldiers were withdrawn from Gaza — and then deployed back to the West Bank. Right now, Palestinians in the West Bank are experiencing the highest rates of settler and state violence in recent history.

New Data Reveals 98 Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Custody since October 7

17 Nov 2025 - Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians.

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime against Humanity

20 Nov 2025 - Tens of Thousands of Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Early 2025 Denied Return

UNITED NATIONS

Gaza: Displaced Palestinians Dealing with the ‘Death of Dignity’, Warns UNICEF

19 Nov 2025 - Living conditions for Gazans – particularly children – are still dire as temperatures drop and families return to bombed-out homes as the fragile ceasefire holds, UN aid workers said today.

Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Global Military Spending

18 Nov 2025 — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme.

The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s Mandate for the U.S. Colonial Administration of Gaza

19 Nov 2025 - The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide.

EDUCATION

Paulo Freire’s Criticism of Educational System

The major thrust of Freire's criticism of the educational system is that it is one of the major instruments for the maintenance of the 'culture of silence,' or the life of the poor, of the dispossessed.

MEDIA

Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Try to Justify War on Venezuela

19 Nov 2025 - Many foreign policy analysts believe that regime change in Venezuela is the ultimate goal, but the Trump administration instead claims it is fighting “narcoterrorism,” accusing Caracas of flooding the US with drugs via the Cartel of the Suns and Tren de Aragua, both designated as foreign terrorist organizations.

‘I Hurt the Oppressor’: British Journalist Sami Hamdi Recounts ICE Detention

19 Nov 2025 - British journalist Sami Hamdi, recently released from ICE detention in the US, recounted what he experienced during a discussion organized by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. "My voice was powerful enough that they couldn’t leave me alone. They had to put me in detention for two weeks."

Breaking Free of Media Groupthink Is a Scary, Lonely Journey–I Know–I Was Forced to Do It

16 Nov 2025 - The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine.

POETRY FORMAT

Treasure

The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms caused by warming waters and toxic runoff and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan from space.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

MAGA Trek

17 Nov 2025 - Going Where No Anglo American Has Gone Before...

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Une Culture de la Paix Est Possible : Voici Comment

15 novembre 2025 - L'histoire mondiale s'accélère, nous offrant une occasion unique de passer d'une culture de guerre à une culture de paix. Le progrès se fera au fil des échecs successifs, à mesure que l'ancien système s'effondrera.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan

It's estimated over a million Japanese live as "hikikomori," recluses totally withdrawn from society. While in the past the phenomenon was most commonly associated with young men, recent data has revealed a much wider demographic of people whose confidence in themselves, and in society, has been shattered.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

China Won’t Fight Europe’s War in Ukraine

"No, von der Leyen, YOU have to talk with Russia - if you have the intellect and can spell the word p-e-a-c-e. But the West no longer knows what diplomacy is and foolishly pours weapons into Ukraine to cover up the problems caused by NATO's expansion followed by Russia's law-violating invasion response."

Jan Oberg Exposes the Truth about Nuclear Weapons

18 Oct 2025 - For decades, the West has claimed that nuclear deterrence keeps the world safe. In this video, Jan Oberg delivers a powerful rebuttal to that belief.