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Gaza’s Hunger Games
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

29 Jun 2025 –  Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-GHF is a Mossad-funded creation of Israel’s Defense Ministry run by former members of the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. GHF is headed by Rev. Johnnie Moore, a far-right Christian Zionist with close ties to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Must Not Suffer the Fate of Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

25 Jun 2025 – Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda’s foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On 19 Jun, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda.

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USA: ICE-Watch Teams
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

There are videos online of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents claiming drivers have “swerved” toward them or have been “following” them. It is important to record and document all such interactions because ICE is the vanguard of the emerging fascism in the US.

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Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

26 Jun 2025 – Francesca Albanese joins Chris Hedges to break down the current starvation campaign in Gaza, and her upcoming report detailing the profiteering corporations capitalizing on the erasure of Palestinians.

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Einstein: Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”

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The Folly of a War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

13 Jun 2025 – Israel and its neoconservative allies in the United States have long attempted to start a war with Iran, a war that neither Israel nor the U.S. can win and will engender ferocious blowback.

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War with Iran: We Are Opening Pandora’s Box
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

22 Jun 2025 – Blinded by hubris, believing their own hallucinations, they have learned none of the lessons of the last two decades of warfare in the Middle East. A war with Iran will be a self-defeating and costly quagmire, one more nail in the rotting edifice of the empire.

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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians

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Masters of Suspicion, Truth, and the Way Forward
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2025

The “modernity” that emerged in the 20th century resulted in great measure from the immense skepticism of three key “masters of suspicion”—Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche. 

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Gaza’s Gas: The Silent Offshore Heist Exposed
TheRandomReporter - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2025

3 Jun 2025 – Gaza’s offshore gas could transform lives, but who’s really cashing in? Dive into the hidden network of exploitation.

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US Veterans Fast against Israel’s Starvation of Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jun 2025

30 May 2025 – Fasters are demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under U.N. authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

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Oliver Stone: They Always Kill the Socrates
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jun 2025

25 May 2025 – US film director Oliver Stone addresses the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day for the Allies in World War 2.

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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

1 Jun 2025 – Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.

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Trump’s Useful Idiots
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.

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Pardons for Sale
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

White House, 30 May 2025

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United Humanity: A Future beyond War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

28 May 2025 – The slaughter goes on in the name of war, which reduces human life to a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians and children are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all. How can we be more than just spectators as we learn stunning details about the hell across the planet?

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Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

28 May 2025 – Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence.

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Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (Music Video of the Week)
Mozart/Ignas Maknickas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

Ignas Maknickas plays Mozart with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic.

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Insanity…
Albert Einstein - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

Example: Peace through War

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Serbia’s Organized Chaos
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

27 May 2025 – Serbia has been racked for months by disruptive protests largely attributed to students, opposition leaders and university authorities. Are these organic protests?

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Africa Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

21 May 2025 – A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.

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Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

20 May 2025 – With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.

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US Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

23 May 2025 – Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.

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Burkina Faso’s 37-Year-Old Leader Draws US Ire
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

13 May 2025 – Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S.

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The Crisis of Truth and the MAGA Phenomenon
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – Ultimate Denial Inevitably Leading to Genocide

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India Must End Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, and Forced Returns of Rohingya Refugees
Fortify Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – Indian authorities beat, blindfold, handcuff, and forcibly return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

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Trojan Plane
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

13 May 2025 – The King of Corruption Solidifies His Title

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The New Dark Age
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.

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Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.

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Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

“You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

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The USA Crisis of Law and Human Dignity: Philosophers of Law Reveal the Deeper Issue
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

4  May 2025 – In the light of the Donald Trump administration’s disregard of the rule of law, of due-process, of the rights and dignity of citizens that the law is meant to protect, and of the US Constitution that he has sworn to uphold, it is well worth our effort to reflect on what they have to say.

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The Road to the Culture of Nonviolence
Dr. R. Vetrickarthick | The Gandhigram Rural Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

Brutal Physical Strength or Determined Mental Strength or Spirited Soul Force – Which is the strong one?

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Power Shift in the Horn of Africa: Somalia Recognizes SSC-Khaatumo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

23 Apr 2025 – Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).

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Alberto Portugheis in Baku, Azerbaijan
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

2 May 2025 – HUFUD Founder and President Alberto Portugheis has been invited to lecture at the Seminars organised by the Institute of Peace and Dialogue IPD, in Baku City, capital of Azerbaijan.

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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.

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NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

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The Secret Military History of the Internet
The Chris Hedges Report with Yasha Levine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “Surveillance Valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Apr 2025 – Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.

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On Freedom: The Vision of a Contemporary North American Political Thinker
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Freedom is being defeated in the USA for failure to discern and protect these five aspects of freedom and because it is part of a fragmented world system that structurally defeats Personal Sovereignty, Creative Unpredictability, Mobility, Factuality and Truth-telling, as well as Human Solidarity.

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US Concentration Camps
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

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Israel Is About to Empty Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

11 Apr 2025 – Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country’s atrocities illegitimacy.

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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

Iluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.

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The Persian Gulf War and the Gulf Peace Team
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

The Gulf Peace Team had its origins in the idea of sending a team to the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia as part of the struggle to prevent war in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The idea in one form or another had occurred to several people simultaneously around the end of September 1990.

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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.

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People of Conscience a Threat to US/Israel Zionist Dreams of Domination
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – As the US and Israel commit serial mass murder–Palestinian genocide–I think of how People of Conscience like Albert Einstein and Dietrich Bonhoeffer took the moral high ground. Pressure from corrupt leaders and a misguided public could not move them to sell their soul. 

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(Romanesc-Romanian) Minunata Lume Nouă din 2030: „Nu veți deține nimic. Și veți fi fericiți”
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

Dacă petreceți doar câteva minute verificând site-ul web „The Great Reset” al Forumului Economic Mondial, care include o copie a ceea ce el numește „The Great Reset Transformation Map”, veți recunoaște rapid că WEF intenționează să impună schimbări profunde în aproximativ 200 de domenii ale vieții umane până în 2030.

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Ideology and the Failure of Democracy: The Tragic Fate of the USA and Our Real Hope for the Future
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 – The horrific fate of the USA being played out in the present is the result of governance by ideology, rather than by value-informed rationality. This is the legacy of both the Democratic and Republican parties and this article describes the ideologies of each of these parties and contrasts…

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Surrendering to Authoritarianism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

24 Mar 2025 – Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception… Resistance will be left to us. Enemies of the state.

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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. I spoke to Bénédicte Njoko of ‘The Case for the Land.’

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Illusory Peace?
Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

27 Mar 2025 – CrossTalking with Mats Nilsson, Jan Oberg, and Jeremy Kuzmarov

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Growing Up with Fear and Self-Awareness
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – When I write about personal matters, I quickly stumble into one of life’s puzzling ironies: Every one of us is unique, and we’re also part of a collective whole. Self-awareness essentially means straddling that divide.

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Tyranny and “Efficiency” — How True Efficiency Empowers Our Resistance
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

25 Mar 2025 – The “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” is dismantling the US government. Why is the word “efficiency” applied to this group of institution-wreckers delegated by a tyrant?

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CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – “We must push back” —  Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.

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The Human Struggle for Positive Freedom
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Mar 2025 – Clinging to the Light in the Darkest of Times – Recently, those trying to destroy the diverse institutions of the US government, attacking multiplicity, and hence freedom, forced their way into the US Institute for Peace in Washington, DC.

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The Last Chapter of the Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

22 Mar 2025 – Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

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Bought and Sold: U.S. Leaders Pledge Allegiance to Israel
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

19 Mar 2025 – Loyalty to the US or to Israel?

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Podcasting Star Mario Nawful Talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. This is my recorded response.

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(Slovak-slovenský) Geopolitika elitného šialenstva: balansovanie na pokraji Armagedonu, nebezpečenstvo jadrovej vojny (Časť 1)
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Skspravy.sk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Keď sa svet súčasne potáca na pokraji jadrovej vojny v Strednej Ázii tým, že nepodnikne žiadne účinné kroky na zastavenie genocídy vysielanej v Palestíne väčšina ľudskej populácie zíva, zatiaľ čo si prezerá najnovšie záznamy v rôznych chatovacích skupinách na svojom telefón.

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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.

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US Gestapo —> Reasons to Mistrust Donal Trump
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

17 Mar 2025 – The Gestapo sought out those identified as ‘enemies’ within Greater Germany. These included Jewish people, Romani (Gypsies), Freemasons, communists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, and those with physical or mental disabilities.

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It’s Time!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

18 Mar 2025 – As we all knew, Bibi and Trump orchestrated a fake ceasefire to give Trump a major PR victory at the start of his administration. That ended last night when Israel unleashed hell and began to indiscriminately bomb Gaza and killing civilians, including infants and small children.

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USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.

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Ungovernable: Nonviolent Mass Solidarity against Corruption and Despotism
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Only constitutional democracy, founded on human dignity, gives us government that we are morally obligated to obey.  When such constitutional democracy is subverted, “it is our right and our duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute such government as shall effect the people’s freedom, happiness, and dignity.”

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Bertrand Russell’s Message on Palestine/Israel the Day before He Died
Bertrand Russell - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

This statement on the Middle East was dated 31 Jan 1970 and read on 3 Feb, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.

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Fighting the Shock Strategy
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – We must not let Trump and Netanyahu’s shock strategy distract us from the coup they are carrying out. Both came to power after being indicted for criminal offenses. It seems there is a kind of “legal” logic when such leaders initiate regime change to elevate themselves above the law.

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Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – Christian extremists in the US bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism.

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Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the Arrest of Former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
International Criminal Court-ICC - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – The International Criminal Court welcomes the arrest and transfer today of Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, criminally responsible for the crime against humanity, in the context of the Office’s ongoing investigation.

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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.

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Open Letter to Donald Trump
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

We could achieve real peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity if you proposed and collaborated with the rest of the planet towards the Universal Abolition of Militarism: the war industries and the Armed Forces. As one of the most pragmatic deal makers of our century, this call is yours to make!

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Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime between Trump and Zelensky?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.

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BRICS and G20 Value Platforms: A Comparative Analysis
Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

5 Mar 2025 – The BRICS declarations name the causes of many of today’s global problems associated with the inequality between the West and the Non-West, with the practices of neo-colonial exploitation that the West carries out in relation to developing countries.

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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2025

I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.

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80 Years after Auschwitz: Milk the Holocaust while Ignoring Nakba, the Israeli Genocide
Maung Zarni | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

3 Feb 2025 – Zionists are unleashing the same horrors on Palestinians that the Nazis once heaped on the Jewish people.

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Stop Trump: Fascist Felon
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

2 Feb 2025 – Put People and Planet over Billionaire Profits! Trump’s first weeks in office:

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Declaration of the Independence of the Mind
Rolland Romain | L’Humanité/Art Lantern – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

16 Jun 1919 – Signed, among others, by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse.

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AI Going DeepSeek
Michael Roberts | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

28 Jan 2025 – DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released a model called R1 comparable to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but at a radically lower cost. What are the consequences and the possibilities in comparison to the capitalist version of AI?

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The Western Way of Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

1 Feb 2025 – The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.

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(Italiano) Geopolitica della follia dell’Elite (Parte 3): La pericolosa fissa che i governi, BRICS compresi, siano sovrani e possano fermare la presa di potere tecnocratica
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

29 Gennaio 2025 – Mentre l’ordine della geopolitica viene rapidamente riplasmato per meglio servire gli interessi dell’Elite, gran parte degli analisti che scrivono in merito vengono indotti a percepire i BRICS come una sorta di ‘alternativi’.

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Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

29 Jan 2025 – The UN Security Council has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court, despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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“Scorecard, Scorecard, You Can’t Tell al-Queda without a Scorecard”
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

2 Feb 2025 – U.S. tax dollars, errantly or not, poured into the hands of jihadists, al-Queda consorts, motley adventurers and soldiers of fortune, with the end of ousting Assad. The CIA — is still the CIA. It scored big in Syria.

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US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

27 Jan 2025 – The Story behind Today’s Stock Market Tank – Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China’s DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.

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Chess Prodigy at Three: He’s Internationally Ranked but Is Confused and Scared by the Limelight
Dipanjan Sinha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

26 Jan 2025 – Anish Sarkar began playing chess on a train and now practices eight hours a day after becoming the world’s youngest ever FIDE-rated player.

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Never Again
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

“Never again” means never again for anyone, anywhere, at any time.

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What DeepSeek Says about Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War
Cathy Vogan | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

1 Feb 2025 – What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out.

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Trump Lifts Settler Sanctions, West-Bank Violence Explodes
Robert Inlakesh | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

24 Jan 2025 – The wave of Israeli attacks in the West Bank this week following Trump’s lifting of settler sanctions and the role of U.S. donors in enabling messianic-settler genocidal extremism.

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A Day That Many of Us Have Dreaded
Bernie Sanders | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

20 Jan 2025,  Inauguration day. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is one of the most pivotal and difficult moments in the history of our country. What happens in the next few years will impact this country and the world for decades. Despair is not an option. We must aggressively educate and organize and go forward together.

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Israel Holds Multiple Palestinian Doctors Captive–Some Are already Dead
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of many unlawfully imprisoned medical professionals, reportedly tortured and abused in detention.

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Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, plan and justify wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but they mostly provide analyses that neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).  

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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 3): The Dangerous Delusion that Governments, including BRICS, are Sovereign and Can Stop the Technocratic Takeover
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

As the geopolitical order is being rapidly reshaped to better serve Elite interests, most analysts writing on the subject are being suckered into perceiving the BRICS as some sort of ‘alternative’.

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How to Base Human Institutions on Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – The Necessary Failure of Trumpism and Fascism

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Rwanda Advances toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

The US and EU have collaborated with Rwanda’s colonization project since it first invaded DRC, at that time Zaire, in 1996. The minerals traffic is so profitable that the European Commission shocked Congolese in Feb 2024 by announcing a “Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains ” between the EU and Rwanda. 

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The Ceasefire Charade
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

16 Jan 2025 – Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic?  I hope so.

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Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

17 Jan 2025 – Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.

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The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

The introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.

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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.

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The Worldwide “TRANSCEND International” Network
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

12 Jan 2025 – I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”

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US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

14 Jan 2025 – That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.

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Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

13 Jan 2025 – In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.

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