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Lonely Baby Elephant Surrounded by Hyena Pack —Watch the Happy Ending
People & Animals - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2025
21 Nov 2025 – Something Good for a Change–Inspiring
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Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026 over Participation of Israel
Ana Vračar | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2025
5 Dec 2025 – Broadcasters from Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands plan to exit Eurovision 2026 after the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow Israel to participate.
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The Question of Palestine
UN Committee on the Exercise of Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2025
25 November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
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Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
People's Summit Towards COP30 | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2025
23 Nov 2025 – We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, on 12/16 Nov 2025, declare what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and testimonies.
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The Gaza Tribunal Verdict: A Blueprint to Shatter Israeli Immunity
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2025
6 Nov 2025 – The Gaza Tribunal thus becomes a necessary platform for casting educated, evidence-based judgment — the very judgment that should have been adopted by the ICJ and enforced by the UNSC.
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Global Pariah: The True Cost of the Gaza Genocide Revealed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
No amount of money, newspaper coverage, or Netflix specials can ever successfully polish the image of a state that has so openly committed a genocide, one of the most thoroughly documented in recorded history.
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A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians…
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Israel Attacks Another Group of Civilian Ships Bound for Gaza
Ana Vračar | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – In a new act of state terrorism, Israel has assaulted vessels from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative in international waters, abducting more than 140 crew members.
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Israel Levels 50 High-Rise Buildings in Large-Scale Gaza Occupation Campaign
Aseel Saleh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
12 Sep 2025 – Israel called the campaign “Operation Gideon Chariots II”, which Hamas said it will counter with a series of operations dubbed “Moses’ Staff”.
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China Celebrates 80th Anniversary of Victory over Japanese Occupation, Calls for an Equitable and Just World Order
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
3 Sep 2025 – The massive military parade was attended by leaders from over 20 foreign nations, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza
Wahid Ben Ali | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – The Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocide. It is composed of dozens of small civilian vessels from over 39 national delegations.
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US Lifeline Masks Israel’s Economic Freefall as Global Divestment Grows
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Now that Israel has become a bad brand, affiliated with unethical investments in the genocide and growing illegal settlements in the West Bank, the US has stepped in to fill the gaps–for how long?
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Full Text: Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
A new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken system.
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On the Long March to Sovereignty: Niger’s Revolution against French Neocolonialism Enters Third Year
Pavan Kulkarni | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025 – Enduring a financial siege by France and terror attacks by its alleged proxies, the popular military government that replaced the puppet regime in Niger enters the third year of its rule, with concrete progress to show in agriculture, education, and power-generation.
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Jew Anti-Zionist Congress: A New Era for Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
18 Jul 2025 – Future historians, remember this place and date: Vienna, 13-15 Jun 2025. This was when hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews, joined by Palestinians and other allies, gathered for the first ‘Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress.’
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In 17th BRICS Summit, Members Reiterate Commitments to Multilateralism and International Law
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – BRICS condemned Israeli-US attacks on Iran last month and criticized their attempts to “politicize and militarize” humanitarian aid in Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Hallucinations
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
30 Jun 2025 – Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves.
→ read full articleThe Illegal Attack on Iran
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – Israel’s attacks on Iran, backed by the US and EU, violate international law aiming to maintain regional dominance. Since the 2020 U.S. assassination of General Soleimani, Washington and Tel Aviv had been working to weaken Tehran. Now Israel smells an opportunity to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Big mistake.
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Trump’s Retaliatory Sanctions over Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Halt Work of International Criminal Court
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – The Trump administration sanctioned the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes. The measures by this ‘Rogue States Syndicate’ have greatly weakened the International Criminal Court’s ability to function.
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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Roger Waters | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta conference.
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Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Starts 40-day Fast for Gaza and the Worlds’ Children for Peace
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025 – Open Letter on behalf of the Palestinian Children of Gaza and children everywhere in the world suffering from the violence of hunger and war. “In the Ramadan Season, and Lent, let us join in fasting and prayer, in solidarity with a world fit for all our children. From today, I will fast and pray, fast and pray.” — Mairead
→ read full article‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?
→ read full articleWorld Leaders Sign WEF Treaty Introducing ‘Age of Death’ Laws in West
The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – The World Economic Forum has instructed world governments to dismantle age of consent laws and introduce something more sinister: “Age of Death” laws. This is not science fiction; it’s being planned behind closed doors.
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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”
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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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Israel Convicted of Genocide at People’s Tribunal–Parallel to G20–in Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Melito | Brasil de Fato/Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Israel was convicted of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza yesterday by the People’s Tribunal, which brought together jurists, lawyers, and activists to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
→ read full articleOne Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – One: Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful agency.
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Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – When asked why his latest map has erased the whole of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retorted with the most detestable answer.
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COVID Vaccines: Japan Declares State of Emergency after ‘Nanobots’ Found in 96 million Citizens
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
10 Aug 2024 – Japan has issued an apology to its citizens for the disastrous consequences of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and has launched far-reaching scientific inquiries and criminal investigations to establish the truth and punish the perpetrators.
→ read full articleEnd of an Era: What the Shifting Discourse on Palestine Teaches Us about the Future of Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
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44% of All Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 7 Are Children
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
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Extractivism
Dio Cramer | Science for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests
Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.
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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.
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At ICJ Hearing, Global South Countries Call for End to Occupation of Palestine; US and Allies Back Israel
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
25 Feb 2024 – The ICJ is conducting hearings before giving an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The US and its allies have asked the court to not demand an end to the occupation.
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After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Tanupriya Singh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
26 Jan 2024 – Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.
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‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story
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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.
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Israel’s War Crimes
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Every time the UN can get more aid into Gaza, the Israeli bombardment of civilian areas intensifies, and the civilian deaths increase.
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Human Rights Groups Demand ICC Issue Arrest Warrants on Israeli Officials
People's Dispatch | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2023
22 Dec 2023 – A joint letter sent to the International Criminal Court also demands an urgent investigation into the allegations of war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.
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Open Letter to the Irish Government to Invoke the Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
To Protect Gazans from Genocide – We, the undersigned, watch with horror the death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and believe there is an urgent need for action under the Genocide Convention. A public statement has highlighted the overwhelming evidence that the government of Israel has carried out acts of genocide against civilians in Gaza.
→ read full articleOurs Is an Indigenous Struggle: How Gaza United the World
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The consequences of this war will certainly be felt for many years to come, not only in Palestine or even the Middle East, but worldwide as well.
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West Asian Governments Take Assertive Stances against Israeli Occupation and Its Crimes
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – A large number of Arab and other West Asian countries have defied the US pressures and openly taken a stand against the Israeli war in Gaza for the first time in decades.
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Germany Bans Public Grieving and Solidarity with Palestine
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Germany is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian community, with roughly 80,000. Its criminalization of solidarity with Palestine has taken on entirely new dimensions since October 7.
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Collaboration, Not Confrontation
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Peoples Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
24 Sep 2023 – Since a defeat of one side or the other is simply not possible, the only way forward is through a diplomatic settlement. The alternative, put simply, is collective suicide as both sides move up the escalation ladder until it is too late.
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BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Economic Order in the Interest of the Majority
Abdul Rahman | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
23 Aug 2023 – Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony on the first and second days of the summit.
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Want to See How Foreign Policy Should Be Crafted? Look to Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Vietnam used to be one of the poorest and most diplomatically isolated countries in the world, but those days are gone. The neoliberal, capitalist world has been bogged down in decades of unending war. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers the world a different model of foreign policy.
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US Cluster Munitions Supply to Ukraine Will Harm Civilians the Most
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – Millions of people have been affected by the use of cluster munitions in countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, even years after the invasions and occupations by the USA. The same plight awaits Ukrainian civilians in the current East European war zone.
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At Summit, NATO Reiterates It Will Fight Russia to the Last Ukrainian
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – At the Vilnius summit, NATO assured more arms to Ukraine to fight Russians instead of Zelensky’s much-desired accession to the war alliance.
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US Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations with China and Cuba
Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023 – Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that China has plans to set up a “spy base” in Cuba to “eavesdrop” on the United States and “identify potential strike targets.”
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New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – It is the unity of those resisting on the ground, from Gaza to Nablus, and from Jenin to Sheikh Jarrah, that matters most.
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UN Expresses Concerns over Reports of US Spying on Its Top Officials
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – The classified documents leaked from the US Department of Defense recently have yet again exposed how it spies on even its close allies and violates their sovereignty to pursue its own interests.
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The Answer to ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’
Roger McKenzie | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
31 Mar 2023 – The United States is interested in safeguarding the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians around in its pockets like loose change. It demands that the world bow down to its wills and whims. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial-media complex it controls.
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UN Bureau Condemns Israeli Forces Violence against Palestinian Worshipers in Holy Sites in Jerusalem
UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 April 2023 – We condemn the raid by Israeli Forces inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on 4 Apr 2023, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian worshipers beaten, injured and detained. This violence is particularly egregious during a time of heightened religious sensitivity with the observance of Ramadan, Passover, and Easter.
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US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
U.S. Is Stirring Up Syrian Cauldron -> Washington is worried about a peace between Damascus and its estranged Arab neighbors–as well as Turkey–that is marginalizing the U.S. and its allies, the “collective West”.
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U.S. and NATO Allies Were Responsible for Nearly 65% of Global Arms Exports in 2018-22
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, had its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.
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US House of Representatives Votes to Defeat Resolution Demanding Troop Withdrawal from Syria
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – The US has built an illegal base and deployed nearly 900 soldiers in Syria, who have helped prolong the war in the country and facilitated the loot of its natural resources especially oil by the US.
→ read full articleTime for Action is Now: What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The ICJ’s opinion is very important, but without meaningful action, a legal opinion alone will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine, especially when this reality is bankrolled, supported and sustained by Washington and Israel’s other western allies.
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Wang Yi Briefs the Media on the Meeting between Chinese and U.S. Presidents and Answers Questions
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Yesterday, President Xi Jinping had a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Bali, Indonesia. After the meeting, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi briefed the media on the meeting and answered questions.
→ read full articlePalestine/Israel: Australia Hammers Final Nail in US ‘Deal of the Century’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
On 17 Oct 2022, the Australian government announced it is revoking its 2018 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Expectedly, the new decision was strongly criticized by Israel, celebrated by Palestinians, and welcomed by Arab countries. As long as Palestinians continue to resist and fight for their freedom and international solidarity continues to grow around them, the Palestinian cause will remain central to all Arabs and to all conscientious people around the world.
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UN Special Rapporteur Calls for the End of All Unilateral Sanctions against Iran
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – Alena Douhan also expressed the need to create a legal framework to prevent countries such as the US taking unilateral action against others.
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The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – This is not what Palestinians are expecting from the United Nations, an organization that supposedly exists to end armed conflicts and bring about peace and security for all.
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German Parliament Condemns Psychological Torture of Julian Assange
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
In a historic vote on July 6, the German parliament voted in favor of a petition condemning “in the strongest possible terms the psychological torture of journalist Julian Assange and the associated attack on press freedom in Germany and Europe.”
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15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022 – 15 years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting two million Palestinians to the longest and most cruel blockades in history. Inevitably, the experiment has backfired and the only way out is for the Gaza siege to be completely lifted and, this time, for good.
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Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – But for the Palestinian narrative to be truly relevant, Palestinians must indeed assume the role of the Gramscian intellectual, as “purveyors of consciousnesses” and abandon the role of the ‘victim intellectual’ altogether.
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Europe Dumps Its Climate Commitments after Facing Shortage of Russian Gas
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – The quick shift by rich European countries to “dirty” energy sources such as coal instead of managing demands raises serious concerns about the fate of global climate action and the future of the environmental movement.
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‘Rationality Is Not Permitted’: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022 – The unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative is because western governments do not want their public to know that the world is vastly changing. Ignorance might be bliss, but not in this case.
→ read full articleAngela Davis, John Pilger, Roger Waters Rave about Just-Released ‘Our Vision for Liberation’
Ilan Pappé & Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
18 May 2022 – In commemoration of the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, Professor Ilan Pappe and Dr. Ramzy Baroud announce the release of their latest book, ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out.’
→ read full articlePalestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – If Israel continues to subjugate the Palestinian people under the current system of military occupation and deepening apartheid, Palestinians will surely continue to respond until their oppressive reality is changed.
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Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission Achieves Major Milestone of Delivering 4 Million Homes
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
On 7 Apr 2022, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of a record 4 million homes to its citizens as part of a social housing program called the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela launched by Commander Hugo Chávez in 2011.
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Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
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The Belmarsh Tribunal
The People's Forum NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the late 1960s, which put the US government on trial for its war crimes in Vietnam, the Belmarsh Tribunal exposes the crimes of the so-called War on Terror 20 years after the first prisoners were brought to Guantánamo Bay — and calls for Assange’s freedom.
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Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – As the plot thickens in Eastern Europe, Russia’s move in South America promises to add a new component that would make a win-lose scenario in favor of the US and NATO nearly impossible.
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Nomination of Dr. Edward Horgan for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – Ms. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, has today nominated Dr. Edward Horgan for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
17 Nov 2021 – The truth is, for as long as Israel maintains its military occupation of Palestine, and as long as the Israeli military continues to see Palestinians as subjects in a mass ‘security experiment’, the Middle East—in fact, the entire world—will continue to pay the price.
→ read full articleMonkey Trafficking in 60 Seconds Flat
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
These monkey dealers are the “Terrible 10”—companies in the business of breeding, warehousing, and selling sensitive, sentient beings into painful lives of fear, torment and early death in laboratories everywhere. Suffering is the foundation of their business model. They profit from pain and commodify torment.
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Inspiring Book ‘Animalkind’—Now a Documentary!
PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s inspirational book, Animalkind, is the subject of a short documentary that discusses speciesism and the astonishing lives of animals.
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Ringling’s Animal-Free Comeback Sends a Powerful Industry Message: Cruelty Has No Place in Circuses
Katherine Sullivan | People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
25 Oct 2021 – Nearly five years after PETA’s triumph over Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, they are planning their return without elephants, tigers, or any other nonconsenting animals! This sends a powerful message to the entire industry: Cruelty doesn’t belong in the circus or in any other form of entertainment.
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Words without Action: The West’s Role in Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – The truth is that a thousand or a million more statements by western governments will not end the Israeli occupation, or even slow down the pace of Israeli military bulldozers as they uproot Palestinian trees, destroy homes and construct yet more illegal colonies.
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On Propaganda and Failed Narratives: New Understanding of Afghanistan Is a Must
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – Afghanistan is now in urgent need of a government that truly represents the people of that country. This is the true national narrative of Afghanistan that must be nurtured outside the confines of the self-serving Western mischaracterization of Afghanistan and her people.
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US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,”
— Jonah Goldberg quoting Michael Ledeen in The National Review, before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
How Ben & Jerry’s Has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – By calling an ice cream company ‘terrorist’ for simply adhering to international law, Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed the absurdity of the official Israeli strategy to counter the BDS movement.
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New York Times Ad: Let Cuba Live
The People's Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Urgent times call for urgent action. In just two days, over 400 prominent activists, intellectuals, scientists and artists came together to produce an Open Letter to President Biden in the New York Times. This is just the beginning.
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Say This, Don’t Say That: Time to Confront the Misleading Language on Palestine, Israel
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
On May 25, famous American actor, Mark Ruffalo, tweeted an apology for suggesting that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza. To avoid pointless social media spats, one only needs to reference the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. According to Article 2 of the 1948 Convention, the legal definition of genocide is:
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Power at Any Cost: How Opportunistic Mansour Abbas Joined Hands with Avowed ‘Arab Killers’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
7 Jun 2021 – We are led to believe that history is being made in Israel, following the formation of a government coalition that for the first time includes an Arab party, Ra’am. In truth, Mansour Abbas, a Palestinian Arab politician who is willing to find common ground with extremists and proud ‘Arab killers’, only represents himself. The future shall attest to this claim.
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AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
Pavan Kulkarni | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – Phoenix Express 2021, the AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise involving 13 countries in the Mediterranean Sea region, concluded last week. While its stated aim was to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, the US record in the region indicates more nefarious interests.
→ read full articlePalestine’s Moment: Despite Massive Losses, Palestinians Have Altered the Course of History
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
26 May 2021 – Finally, it can unequivocally be asserted that the Palestinian resistance scored a major victory, arguably unprecedented in its proud history. This is the first time that Israel is forced to accept that the rules of the game have changed, likely forever.
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Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
21 May 2021 – Speak up. Speak out. The Palestinians have risen. It is time to rally behind them.
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Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – While Palestinians remain cautious about the future of the investigation, hope is slowly rising that, this time around, things may be different and that Israeli war criminals will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. Time will tell.
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From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
7 Apr 2021 – If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well as for the current PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, such a scenario is more dangerous than another strong Hamas showing in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections.
→ read full articleThe Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel Uses ‘the Law’ to Ethnically Cleanse East Jerusalem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
24 Mar 2021 – While the Israeli State claims to play an impartial role in this scheme, it is actually the facilitator of the entire process. The final outcome manifests in the ever-predictable scene, where an Israeli flag is triumphantly hoisted over a Palestinian home and a Palestinian family is assigned an UN-supplied tent and a few blankets.
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Demolitions of Palestinian Houses Continue
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
New report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories published on Mar 16 revealed that the monthly average of demolition of Palestinian houses by the occupying Israeli authorities has increased by 65% in 2021 as compared to 2020. In the month of February alone, at least 305 Palestinians, including 172 children, lost their homes and were displaced.
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An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
March 5th is Palestine Environment Day. The Palestinian environment is being attacked from all fronts. This article is about the Environmental Nakba (catastrophe) in Palestine. ~~ Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.
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‘Freedom Is Never Voluntarily Given’: Palestinian Boycott of Israel Is Not Racist, It Is Anti-Racist
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – The boycott movement aims at holding the oppressor accountable as it places a price tag on military occupation and apartheid. Not only is the Palestinian boycott movement not racist, it is essentially a rallying cry against racism and oppression.
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Nomination of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People | Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
“My reasons for nominating them together are simple. Individually each has given countless examples of courage exposing governments’ illegal actions that caused millions of deaths, putting their own freedom and lives on the line. Collectively, their lives of self-sacrifice and selflessness constitute remarkable demonstrations of the magnificence of the human spirit. They are indeed breathtaking testimonies to the goodness inherent in the human heart.”
→ read full articleEscalating the Demographic War: The Strategic Goal of Israeli Racism in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
4 Nov 2020 – Israeli racism is the core of a sophisticated plan that aims at the political marginalization and economic strangulation of Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority within a constitutional, thus ‘legal’, framework.
→ read full articleAn Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment under Israeli Colonization
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan | Science for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
14 Oct 2020 – Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the Palestinian people, who were 85 percent Muslim, 9.2 percent Christian, and 5.3 percent Jewish.1 This structure changed radically when mostly European Jews mobilized for massive migration to Palestine and began to assume colonial control over the land.
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Richard Falk: Palestinians Are Winning the ‘Legitimacy War’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
9 Oct 2020 – According to Professor Falk, history is clearly on the side of Palestinians, who are already “winning the legitimacy war”.
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