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Interrogating the Iran War as a ‘War of Choice’: Political Realism vs Peace Journalism
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2026

Never before have the political organs of the UN given such support to a flagrant violator of the most basic of human rights or of its core prohibition of aggression in the UN Charter, and given it by a consensus that included countries of the Global South, including regional Islamic neighbors of Israel and Iran.

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(Castellano) Los pueblos originarios: nuestros maestros y doctores
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Hoy todos nos sentimos más o menos perdidos. La situación de nuestra civilización, así nos parece, ha llegado a su límite. Perdida en las contradicciones que ella misma creó, se da cuenta de que el cuerpo de conocimientos y el arsenal de técnicas que ella misma produjo no ofrecen soluciones capaces de sacarnos de los graves problemas que enfrentamos.

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Quit ChatGPT: Right Now! Your Subscription Is Bankrolling Authoritarianism
Rutger Bregman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

4 Mar 2026 – As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley.

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Dismay as Ancient Heritage Sites across Iran Damaged in US-Israel Bombing
Julian Borger and Deepa Parent | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

12 Mar 2026 – Golestan Palace in Tehran, a world heritage site, harmed despite UNESCO sending coordinates. “This is a declaration of war on a civilisation, an enemy that has no culture pays no heed to symbols of culture. A country that has no history has no respect for signs of history; that has no identity sets no value for identity.”

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An Unlawful War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

4 Mar 2026 – I write with a sense of urgency. The Second Iran War moves us closer to an abyss of unknowable depth. Neither the geopolitical actors, nor the UN, nor respect for law, morality, and decency are capable of resolving the multi-dimensional global crisis and promoting a justice-driven future for humanity. The alternative to struggle is despair.

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Iran in the Middle East: Persia Is Still a Great Nation
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

2 Mar 2026 – 0n 26th February at 21:38h Donald Trump launched his war against IRAN. He could not help himself.  Drunk on his power and on his self-image of invincibility, egged on by the Israeli war-criminal Netanyahu, high on their joint destruction of Gaza, Trump agreed to bomb. 

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Petition: Global Conscience Initiative
Richard Falk | Global Conscience Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

9 Mar 2026 – As the Global Conscience Initiative, we are launching a joint initiative in response to the U.S. and Israeli attacks that resulted in the deaths of 170 young girls in Minab, Iran.

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‘The River Won’: How Campaigners in Brazilian Amazon Stopped Privatisation of Waterway
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

27 Feb 2026 – Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States and a powerhouse of world trade.

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The Epstein Entrapment Network: Revelations of Crime and the Predatory Erotic Lives of the Rich and Powerful
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2026

One lesson to be learned is that money and class often speak louder than law in such high-profile situations, even in the United States where the rule of law is sanctified in public discourse.

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US Military Used Anthropic’s AI Model Claude in Venezuela Raid, Report Says
William Christou | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2026

14 Feb 2026 – Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir, was used by the US military to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.

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Whither World Order: The Lamentable Present, the Unknowable Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

20 Feb 2026 – My responses to Egyptian journalist, Muhamed Abd Elaziz on international law, Gaza, personal experience, and many other topics.

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The Rubio Doctrine and Huntington’s Ghost: Justifying Civilizational Warfare
 Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

Marco Rubio’s speech of Feb 14 to the Munich Security Conference was greeted by high praise on the right, mild criticism on the left, and sighs of relief in most European capitals. Upon receiving a standing ovation, it was clear that its real significance as a new and dangerous turn in global policy had not been recognized.

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The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

18 Feb 2026  – The Epstein files have been in the hands of the F.B.I. for eight years or more. Then why have redacted files been released just recently? Cui bono? And who is behind the release that did not occur over the course of the first Trump and the Biden administrations? Cui bono? We ain’t seen nothing yet.

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The Courage to Be: Adapting to Unknowability in a Dangerous World
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

As human beings we share deep emotional impulses to foretell the future, whether to foresee action on the basis of dread as to what the future will bring or to offer oneself and others reassurance that the future will deliver us from an ominous catastrophe or bring us the gifts of life that we most covet.

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Geopolitical Obstacles to International Law Enforcement: Deficiencies in the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

9 Feb 2026 – International law is definitely being marginalized in contemporary international relations by the rise of ultra-nationalist political leaders and authoritarian governments.

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We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate–Here Are the First Three Steps
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

12 Feb 2026 – Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp.

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World Order after 1945, after Vietnam War, and after Second Coming of Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

3 Feb 2026 – This post elaborates upon a lecture of mine on 26 Jan 2026 at a webinar in a series convened and moderated by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, which has kept alive the relevance of the Vietnam experience to current struggles.

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Don’t Join the ‘Board of Peace’
Richard E. Rubenstein | Times of Malta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

4 Feb 2026 – Malta must not dignify Donald Trump’s empire-building by adding Malta to his list of favour-seeking satellites. “The ‘Board of Peace’ is little more than a bad joke”. – Richard Rubenstein

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Global Citizens Support a World Parliament: Leaders Need to Catch Up
George Papandreou | Democracy Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

28 Jan 2026 – A new global survey delivers a message that policymakers and institutions can no longer afford to ignore: people across the world are ready to discuss the idea of a democratically elected World Parliament and many already support it.

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The Normalisation of Atrocity
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

 Our grandchildren are witnesses to the blanket bombing of Gaza and to Palestinian genocide perpetrated by the descendants of Holocaust victims. They hear the silence of our political leaders and see the active complicity of Biden, Trump and successive British governments in the genocide.

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‘I Cannot Help My Clients’: The Impossible Task of Representing Palestinian Detainees
Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – With Israel running its prisons as ‘torture facilities,’ lawyers point to the absence of state and judicial oversight allowing them to operate with impunity.

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Is a Non-UN Conflict Resolution Framework Feasible, Desirable?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

29 Jan 2026 – Trump’s Board of Peace Is an Obstacle and Warning – It deserves to fail. It insults the Palestinian people, is blind to violations of the Genocide Convention, and undermines international law and UN authority with respect to global security.

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The US Military Operation in Venezuela and the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

23 Jan 2026 – The United States attack on Venezuela on January 3 should be understood not simply as an unlawful use of force, but as part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to the imperial management of global security.

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Understanding Trump’s Interventions: How Regional Imperialism Generates World War
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Trump’s recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Iran, and the Caribbean/Pacific high seas, represents a major turn toward military intervention in his foreign policy.

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Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

12 Jan 2026 – Anything anyone can say about the demagogic Trump is true, whether from his critics, supporters, or those who look on in amazed horror that such a gross, vituperative, and openly violent creature is the president of the USA.

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Shame on the UN: Ratifying Genocide, Legitimating the Trump Plan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

7 Jan 2026 – The 3 Jan acts of US aggression against Venezuela rationalized as ‘law enforcement’ is a geopolitical expression of extra-legal prerogatives shielded from UN censure and sanctions by the veto power of the P5, and in that sense reflects the same mentality underlying the complicity with Gaza genocide.

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The Trump Doctrine Exposes the US as a Mafia State
Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

7 Jan 2026 – The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland.

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Until His Final Day, Mohammad Bakri Would Not Be Crushed by Israel
Michael Sfard | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

6 Jan 2026 – Israel’s courts, military, and mainstream media united to punish the Palestinian actor for giving voice to his people. But he remained unbroken to the end.

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The Role of Advisers in Mediating Worldview Conflicts
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

Mediation, understood as an assisted negotiation, is a complex process involving the parties in conflict, a third party (the mediator/facilitator), and a constellation of “fourth parties” who can significantly influence the course and outcomes of mediation.

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Does Israel Katz Speak for Israel? Will Trump Diplomacy Accept ‘Greater Israel’?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

27 Dec 2025 – Reading Israel Katz’s Comments on Annexation of the West Bank, Permanent Presence in Gaza, and Policies of Disproportionate Reprisal

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(Português) O Ser Humano Tem Ainda Futuro?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

29 Dez 2025 – Observamos que há uma lenta e irrefreável degradação do nosso modo de habitar a Terra. Cabe-nos mostrar amor à vida em sua majestática diversidade, ter compaixão para com todos os que sofrem, realizar rapidamente a justiça social necessária e amar a Grande Mãe, a Terra.

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Shaming the UN by Ratifying Genocide
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

24 Dec 2025 – The 15-member UNSC disgracefully voted unanimously to endorse the Trump Plan aiming to reward the perpetrators of prolonged genocide preceded by apartheid and resulting in making a wasteland of Gaza. The dynamics of power politics in the UN is still making history despite the disastrous consequences.

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How Nvidia’s Supercomputers Are Advancing AI in Advanced Military Technologies
Bernardo Palos | Palos Publishing Company - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

NVIDIA, through strategic collaborations, cutting-edge hardware and substantial investments, is enhancing worldwide military capabilities including autonomous systems (killer robots), battlefield intelligence, and secure communications.

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Whatever Happened to the “Family of Man”?
 Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

The Near Death and Possible Rebirth of Human Solidarity – In place of the human family conceived of as our primary identity group we have come to sanctify the ethnic nation. How did this happen?  What (if anything) can be done about it?  It may help to put the hope for human solidarity in historical context.

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A Carol for Another Christmas
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

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.

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Three Poems of Struggle against ‘The Dying of the Light’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

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.

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Everything the Trump Administration Is Doing in Venezuela Involves Oil and Regime Change—Even if the White House Won’t Admit It
Jordan Blum | Fortune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

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.

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Gaza and the Unravelling of the Post-1945 World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

10 Dec 2025 – The tragedy in Gaza lays bare the contradictions of a world order built to manage power, not deliver justice or enforce its legal commitments.

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‘They’re Trying to Get Rich Off It’: US Contractors Vie to Rebuild Gaza with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Team in the Lead
Aram Roston and Cate Brown | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

14 Dec 2025 – Infamous group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal.

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(Italiano) Detenuti dal Canada: un’esperienza sconcertante
Hilal Elver & Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

2 Dicembre 2025 – Detenuti dal Canada: l’accusa di minacciare la sicurezza nazionale del Canada pareva così sproporzionatamente enorme a confronto con le nostre effettive capacità lungamente dimostrate.

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Witch Hunt: The Heretic and the Inquisition–Why the West Fears Francesca Albanese
Michael Leonardi | Counterpunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

5 Dec 2025 – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories is the “witch” being hunted by the Western powers because she represents the truth of international law against the brute force of the geopolitical narrative. She dismantles the fiction that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

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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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Detained by Canada: A Puzzling Experience
Hilal Elver & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

At first, we were both amused and surprised by such a framing by the Canadian government, as the charge of threatening Canada’s national security seemed so disproportionately grandiose as compared to our long demonstrated actual capabilities or, for that matter our intentions. There is no hidden agenda. We are proud to be independent scholars…

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Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Drug Claims That Try to Justify War on Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025

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.

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Israeli Soldiers Speak Out on Killings of Gaza Civilians
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025

5 Nov 2025 – IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked, and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy. “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an IDF officer,” Daniel says. “All that’s left is shame.”

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Israel’s Underground Jail: Palestinians Held without Charge Never See Daylight
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

8 Nov 2025 – Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months.

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Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

27 Oct 2025 – To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created takes a steady hand, a hopeful heart, and a steadfast dedication to seeking truth and telling it through factually based and interwoven stories.

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(Italiano) Risoluzione dei conflitti tra tabù politici e polarizzazione
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

Un principio fondamentale della risoluzione di conflitti è “moltiplicare le opzioni per un accordo”. Per massimizzare le chance di conseguire una pace sostenibile, bisogna che le parti di gravi conflitti sociali considerino la gamma più ampia di scelte per risolverli. In pratica, però, …

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Istanbul Final Statement: Gaza Tribunal Concludes, the Gaza Genocide Continues
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

2 Nov 2025 – We call on people of conscience everywhere to intensify their efforts for justice for Palestinians by isolating the Israeli regime and to hold it to account through boycotts, divestment, sanctions, military embargoes, criminal prosecutions of perpetrators, civil actions, education of our neighbors, public protest and civil disobedience, and calls for a free Palestine.

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Trump’s Military Pressure on Maduro Evokes Latin America’s Coup-Ridden Past—Made in USA
Robert Tait | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

1 Nov 2025 – US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, echoing past US coups and assassinations across the region.

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The Final Statement of the Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

29 Oct 2025 – To expose the truth that emerges from respecting reality and evidence is necessary because of state propaganda and a filtered, biased media that either hides or slants the truth, even to the extent of punitive and lethal action against independent journalists and dismissing as irrelevant the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

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Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

26 Oct 2025 – The Nobel Peace Prize has long lost any credibility. With María Corina Machado’s award, it followed a tradition of aligning with Western foreign policy. And more predictable was the corporate media advancing its war and regime-change propaganda against Venezuela.

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The Gaza Peoples’ Tribunal: Exploring Palestinian Erasure
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

21 Oct 2025 – By rewarding impunity for genocide, Trump’s ceasefire proves why a civil society-led tribunal is needed to uphold accountability and document Palestine’s fight for justice.

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How Political Taboos Subvert Conflict Resolution and Produce Radical Polarization
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

A fundamental principle of conflict resolution is “Multiply the options for agreement.”  To maximize the chances of achieving sustainable peace, the parties need to consider the widest possible range of choices.  In practice, however, …

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Reversing the Truth: The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ and British Complicity in Genocide
David Edwards | Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

21 Oct 2025 – We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Competition for this year’s Peace Prize was fierce. Time magazine’s cover greeted the latest pause in Israel’s US-armed genocide in Gaza with a portrait of self-proclaimed Nobel front-runner Donald Trump: ‘HIS TRIUMPH’

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The Masks Have Come Off
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

16 Oct 2025 – If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story.

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Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

17 Oct 2025 – What to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.

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A Critique of Pure Stupidity: Understanding Trump 2.0
William Davies | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

2 Oct 2025 – If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?

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Palestinian Statehood and the Winding Road to Palestinian Self-Determination
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

29 Sep 2025 – My responses to a Brazilian journalist to questions about the recent diplomatic surge of recognitions of Palestinian statehood.

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Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Interception Triggers Protests, Diplomatic Expulsions and Calls for Strikes
Jonathan Yerushalmy, Carmela Fonbuena, Sam Jones and Lisa O’Carroll | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

2 Oct 2025 – Israel’s long-anticipated interception of the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla has prompted criticism and condemnation around the world, triggering mass demonstrations, diplomatic rebukes and retaliation, and the threats of massive labour strikes.

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Assessing Israel’s Attack on Hamas Negotiating Team in Doha: Defying Law, Morality, and Prudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025

23 Sep 2025 – Israel’s Qatar Strike Undermines Sovereignty and International Law – In the aftermath of this Israel-Qatar attack that seemed at first to threaten the Western interests in the Middle East, is a strange combination of verbal denunciation of Israeli violation of Qatari sovereignty with a political status quo in play.

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A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025

It’s a sentiment more and more people can identify with as dark, dangerous, and duplicitous news reports loot the public’s mind of any sense of logical understanding by presenting stories that contradict themselves, while inducing great anxiety.

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What Is ‘Antifa’ and Why Has Trump Branded It a ‘Terrorist Organization’?
Tess Owen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025

23 Sep 2025 – There is no such formal entity called antifa, yet the US president has designated it an ‘anarchist enterprise’, raising concerns from civil liberties experts.

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Iraq Invades the United States
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

And Other Headlines from an Upside-Down History of the U.S. Military and the World

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Beneath the Rubble
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

Daily atrocities
in distant lands
numb our attunement
taint our souls

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The Gaza Tribunal as a Response to the Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

The Gaza Tribunal is a civil society initiative for justice-driven outcomes to wrongdoings not addressed by national governments or international institutions. A peoples’ tribunal was first undertaken during the Vietnam War by two intellectuals, Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Israel is Inventing the “Concentration Camp” for Gaza
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

25 Aug 2025 – It begs belief! Israel’s defense minister outlined plans to create a concentration camp where he intends to herd two million Palestinian citizens of Gaza …. The ones whom the Israeli army have not yet killed.

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‘We Took the Gloves Off’: Ex-IDF Chief Confirms Gaza Casualties over 200,000
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

12 Sep 2025 – A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.

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‘Humanitarianism’ in Gaza Distracts from Getting Justice
Anthony Hayward | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025

19 Aug 2025 – The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed.

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Genocide Prevention: What Can Be Done Should Be Done by Persons, Governments, and the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025

How can Israel and Netanyahu be stopped at this moment? This question has haunted the world for the past two years and worried peace and justice activists for a much longer time. The most obvious issue is how to persuade the US and EU governments to withdraw their support to Israel.

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Trump, Tyranny, and the Need for a People’s Program
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025

If Donald Trump is a genuine tyrant or is determined to become one, we should probably not be talking openly about trying to defeat him in the next election.  We should be working to depose him “by any means necessary,” as Malcolm X used to say.

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‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michael and Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

21 Aug 2025 – In recent weeks, through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw was of catastrophic proportions. 

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Alligator Alcatraz’ to Be Vacated in Compliance with Court Order to Shut It
Richard Luscombe and AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

27 Aug 2025 – Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed.

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Palantir’s Tools Pose an Invisible Danger We Are Just Beginning to Comprehend
Juan Sebastian Pinto | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

24 Aug 2025 – Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work.

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The Western Liberal Media New Messaging on Gaza: A Critique from the Perspective of Peace and Justice Journalism
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

The conflict as has been widely observed by many close observers bears a closer resemblance to ‘a massacre’ than a war because it is so one sided with the most modern weaponry of land and air possessed on the Israeli side and primitive weaponry or none at all on the Palestinian resisting side.

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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

For the art of writing implies the art of reading. The writer creates and the reader recreates; both demand silence, the cessation of all noise that serves to prevent true thought. The machines must be turned off. “Our inventions,” Thoreau noted, “are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”

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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.

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Gaza’s Urgency and Lessons for the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Responses to questions posed by Naman Bakaç, an independent journalist in Turkey. The interview was published by FOCUS, an independent online media platform

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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.

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Observations from the West Bank: The Jewish Supremacy Monster Cannot Be Contained
Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

12 Aug 2025 – Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.

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(Português) A Paz e a Guerra sob Trump
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

“Trump já deixou claro: não irá fazer diplomacia. Atuará com a força, tanto bélica quanto econômica e comercial. Sua construção de uma nova ordem não passa pela paz mas pela capitulação do adversário”. Os acertos das tarifas são imposições dele e não frutos de negociação.

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The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists
Richard Falk interviewed by Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – The 10 Aug 2025 Israeli airstrike that killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two others in Gaza: Falk argues that discrediting truth-tellers and murdering the press is consistent with the apartheid worldview that dominates Zionist ideology.

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(Português) Alienígenas entre nós?
Avi Loeb | Harvard Astronomy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

5 agosto 2025 – Um estudo de Harvard reacendeu a hipótese dos criptoterrestres seres extraterrestres vivendo disfarçados entre nós. A teoria sugere que eles chegaram há muito tempo e observam silenciosamente nossa evolução. O tema ganhou força…

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Israel’s National Security Cabinet Approves Netanyahu’s Escalation, Hiding Defeat in the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

8 Aug 2025 – Relations with the Trump presidency seem to be finally fraying and the announced cause seems to be Israel’s stubborn refusal to allow food, water, and medicines to reach starving Palestinians rather than the controversy inside and outside of Israel to extend military operation to the yet unoccupied parts of Gaza City.

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Europe Is Going Down Like the Titanic Because It Has Learned Nothing from Its Past
Peter Noordendorp | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – Europe is repeating bad things from the past because it learned nothing from its colonial past and its warmongering on European soil. About the past of the US, it is good to say that it lost all wars from Vietnam up until Afghanistan after WW2. Ukraine is now its latest fiasco.

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A Wasteland of Rubble, Dust and Graves: How Gaza Looks from the Sky
Lorenzo Tondo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Right from the start the US colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”

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Bankruptcy Is Us
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this USA on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Trump as president (twice!) would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future.

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Countering Genocide: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

2 Aug 2025 – Interview with Mike Billington of the Schiller Institute on array of topics. Published in the  1 Aug 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

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The Mathematics of Starvation: How Israel Caused a Famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza: Palestinians cannot leave their open air prison, military attacks have annihilated farming, Israel has banned fishing. All food they need must be brought from outside–and that Israel will not allow. RIP

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Brazil Judge Hits Back at ‘Cowardly and Treasonous’ Plot Behind US Sanctions
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – US put sanctions on Judge Alexandre de Moraes as an apparent move by Trump to help his ally Jair Bolsonaro.

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Civic Responses to Gaza Genocide and Regional Nuclearism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

17 Jul 2025 – This post is in two parts. The first addresses the Gaza dimension of the current Palestinian ordeal now extended to the West Bank. The second is an early comment on the short Iran War, initiated by Israel and joined by the USA.

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Do Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

21 Jul 2025 – That the USA is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for the above-named people are very rational) person not living in what Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existential writer, called bad faith (mauvaise foi).

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The Backbone of China’s Spinal Cord
Gordon Dumoulin | China21 Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

22 Jul 2025 – Beyond Confrontation: How China Unveils the West’s Imperative to Adapt – The gloves of performative virtue are off in the West. For years, the “China threat” narrative was cloaked in moral superiority—recasting a “rules-based order,” politicizing human rights, and wielding ideology as a strategic tool.

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Global Outcry Grows over Israel’s Killing of Starving Civilians in Gaza
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

22 Jul 2025 – UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-Balah.

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The BDS Movement Turns 20–It’s an Essential Pillar of Palestinian Freedom
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

11 Jul 2025 – Do no harm, a principle associated with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has mainstreamed since its inception 20 years ago this week.

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Sanctioning Francesca Albanese Marco Rubio Tramples on Law, Justice, and Truth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

If the vindictive sanctions are implemented against this extraordinary citizen of Italy, in the face of strong UN objections, Albanese will be barred from entering the US even to discharge her annual UN duty to present a report to the General Assembly.

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When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world.

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Nothing to Say, Ma
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

Madre, I’m running out of words. Please take my sighs and make them prayers of resistance to the ruthless actors who make this earth our home a bloody shambles.

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Falcone Interviews Richard Falk, Lawrence Davidson & Stephen Zunes on Iran War and the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

The wider meanings of the aggressive attack of 13 Jun 2025 by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear sites based on claims by Israel of an Iranian threat of becoming a nuclear weapons-possessing state.

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