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What Do You Think?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2026
Success vs Success
→ read full articleInterrogating 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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From the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2026
Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
Our Weekly Digest today is again cut to a minimum. I am still unwell and unable to do my work.
A Note from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
16 Mar 2026 – With a heavy heart, I acknowledge that our Weekly Digest today is shorter and lacking, and I explain.
I Am Ashamed to Be an American
Lee Siegel | The New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026 – It shames and enrages me to hear Pete Hegseth, the sycophantic Secretary of War, cry that “America is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.” I am ashamed, as a Jew, to be associated with Israel in any way. For years, I bridled at the anti-Zionism that, almost always, concealed an anti-Semitism to some degree. No more.
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Remembering Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette (29 Jul 1940 – 5 Mar 2026)
Kazu Haga | Waving Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – Civil rights legend Dr. Bernard LaFayette helped reshape the course of the nation. But what I remember most was his joy and unwavering hopefulness.
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We Have a Dream…
ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Where they belong: In the dock…
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World’s Road to Hell Is Paved by Crusading US White Christians and Genocidal Messianic Israeli Jews
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026 – ALL faiths are susceptible to being weaponized for the savage ends of genocides, racist violence and wars of material gains.
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UAE Billionaire to Trump: Who Authorized You to Turn Our Region into a War Zone?
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.
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The Brave New War Machine
Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from an offhand outburst, his statement reflects a broader ethos taking hold in Silicon Valley’s military-tech sector.
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These Targeted Attacks – Minab among Them
Elaheh Pooyandeh | TRANSNATIONAL Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
TFF plans to publish more texts and pictures from Iran, to give you the sense of its civilisation, beauty – to put a human face on the USraeli barbarism.
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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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The New Barbarians
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
The barbarians are among us; they are not confined to any particular country or culture or religion. The USA and UK and Israel remain the vanguard of the natural history of destruction – the title of a book about their favourite activity: killing and destroying from the sky above. Luftkrieg und Literatur; (Air war and literature).
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The Good War Business Model: How to Sell Destruction, Call It Security, and Send the Invoice Later
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
In the next “Good War,” whose economy will rise… and whose cities will burn? Because empires never send themselves into the meat grinder. They outsource. The business model works until it doesn’t. And then the invoice comes due for everyone.
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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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“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare.
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A World without Illusions–An Interview with Celso Amorim
Phenomenal World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – The Chief Advisor to Brazilian President Lula discusses the assault on Iran, the concept of multipolarity, and how Brazil can defend its sovereignty in an age of imperial conflict.
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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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Peace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Imagine a blackout on medical practice, therapies, cures. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail. That journalism would be disease-oriented, the journalist being a disease journalist. There is not, yet, a tradition of “peace journalism” whereas “war and violence journalism” seem to be in good standing. But what could be that concept of peace journalism?
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Why Gandhi Matters?
K. V. Raghupathi, PhD | Erothanatos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Einstein absolutely venerated Gandhi. When Einstein moved to Princeton in 1935, from Berlin, he added Gandhi to his three portraits: Newton, Faraday and Clerk Maxwell. He said that the Mahatma was the “greatest man of our age. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”.
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With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank
Theia Chatelle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026 – The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.
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Spain Stands Up: Toward the Internationalization of ‘No a la Guerra’
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026 – President Sánchez’s voice has been the bravest in Europe. His peace communication and action have the potential to disarm the authoritarian brutality of war as events in Iran and the Middle East grip the hearts and minds of the peoples of the world.
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Sustained Indigenous Languages and Peace: The Mandela–Ubuntu–Language Interactivity Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
“Peace speaks many languages, but it is heard most clearly in the mother tongue.”[2]
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Iran
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – How do you sort through lies in the fog of a regional war that is likely going to lead to a global war? More importantly how do you get crucial information that helps you act to stop the madness devastating people and our environment.
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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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MAGA End-times from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Exploration of Neglected Implications with AI Assistance – There is considerable focus on the person and psychology of Donald Trump in provoking unpredictable change globally and evoking controversial reactions — with the support of a power base identifying with the MAGA slogan.
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The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – We suggest a US exit strategy from this war that could finally begin to turn the page on decades of US and Israeli aggression and occupation in the Middle East.
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Mad Dog
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – Trump’s USA is like a rabid dog prowling the globe. It strikes ferociously at whomever gets in its way or encroaches on its deranged mental space or simply is available to satisfy its lusts. If the Middle East is your neighborhood, you live in dread of the equally depraved, murderous mongrel in Jerusalem. How can you deal with its menace?
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ASIL’s Statement Regarding the Use of Force against Iran
American Society of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – The Trump Administration has once again demonstrated its disregard for international law, violating the U.N. Charter’s prohibition on the use of force by launching an unprovoked military attack against Iran—less than two months after an unprovoked military attack on Venezuela.
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This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is also an Assault on the United Nations
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – Let us be clear about what the US and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the North American people but global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail.
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Schools, Hospitals, Playgrounds: Iran’s Civilian Sites Hit by US-Israeli Strikes
Katherine Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – Since the launch of the US-Israeli onslaught on Iran, the country’s schools, hospitals and even playgrounds have come under attack. A 12,000-seat stadium, UNESCO world heritage site, is among places attacked last week.
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The War for Greater Israel
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come. None of this is going to be good for anyone.
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A Gateway to Hell
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – How the War against Iran Will Harm the West
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UN Says Israel Has Suspended Humanitarian Movements into Gaza
Merve Aydogan | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – The UN said yesterday that Israel has closed all crossings into the Gaza Strip and suspended humanitarian movements in and near areas where Israeli forces remain deployed.’It is imperative that all crossings be reopened as soon as possible,’ says spokesperson.
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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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Under the Shadow of the Iran War, Israel Finds another Way to Punish Gaza
Ohood Nassar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – The curbing of NGO operations and the blocking of aid due to closure of the border crossings are meant as another collective punishment.
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(Italiano) I frutti avvelenati della violenza–Come uscire dall’impotenza?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Marzo 2026 – La mattina del 28 febbraio è avvenuto il temuto attacco di Israele e Stati Uniti contro l’Iran, in aperta violazione della legalità internazionale. Un ulteriore, pericolosissimo passaggio, verso il caos e la guerra permanente…
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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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Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela also No Criticism of the Illegal War on Iran
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – Here is exactly what the EU should have stated…
→ read full articleInternational Law, Peace Journalism, Incendiary Truths
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
In Times of Wars and Coloniality – In the face of the very real possibility of a world war wherein nuclear sable-rattling gets louder by the day, I have started to feel unbearably light and insignificant in seeking to uphold professional conventions of how to do things, what language and tone are appropriate in our articulations. When do lawyers, writers, peace journalists bin their craft and “fight”? What does their fight look like? Well, that’s for each to decide.
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Iran, Epstein and Human Sacrifice
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu regime, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. The modern punishments of Impeachment and trial by the Hague are insufficient to deal with beings such as Trump and Netanyahu..
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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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Iran, Israel, and the United States: A Path to De-escalation and Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – The basic needs of the conflict parties, the likely scenarios of further escalation, and a possible path toward de-escalation and resolution to avert undesirable outcomes.
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Israel Puts a Target on the Back of the Rules-Based Order
Jonathan Whittall | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – Israel’s foreign ministry suggests in a recent tweet that those seeking to enforce international law on Gaza will meet the fate of a destroyed Iranian warship.
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How Perceptions Shape Creativity
Felipe Zamana | Creativity & Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Creativity is rooted in sociocultural constructs, like other broad concepts such as beauty or justice; its interpretation may differ from culture to culture. If the expression and evaluation of creativity depend on context, then aren’t measures of creativity always, at least partly, measures of perception?
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With West Bank under Total Israeli Closure, Settlers Are Seizing the Moment
Oren Ziv and Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.
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Palestinian Historian and Academic Walid Al-Khalidi (16 Jul 1925 – 8 Mar 2026) Dies Aged 99
The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi passed away today in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Jerusalem-born scholar leaves behind a legacy spanning decades of research and writing on the question of Palestine. RIP
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Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty, Truth, and the Responsibility of the State
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
In an era of global power rivalries and information warfare, sovereignty is tested not only by military threats but by the state’s ability to act with clarity, truth, and responsibility.
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Cooperative Peacebuilding Efforts Urgently Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – At this time when there is armed conflict and strong political tensions in the world society, broadly-based efforts are needed to develop a harmonious political culture based on world law.
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War in West Asia: Iran, Israel, the United States and the Rothschilds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Understanding Conflict – Why did the US want to ‘take out 7 countries’? Why does the US and Israel still want to ‘take out’ Iran? When tackling conflict at this level, it is imperative to understand the ‘conflict configuration’ as a preliminary step in addressing key elements of the conflict.
→ read full articleThe Small Bodies of Minab: Da’amīs al-Jannah
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Some children die
as tragedies.
Others die
as footnotes.
Quite symbolic: the entity’s first strike
falls on the children
When Escalation Becomes Norm: Why Our Moment Requires Metamorphosis
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – When the use of force becomes normalized as routine policy rather than exceptional measure, the challenge is no longer confined to addressing crises. It concerns the structure of the order producing them. The recent U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is not simply another confrontation in a volatile region.
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International Law Needs International Enforcement
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling.
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Israel and the United States Cannot Win the War of Deception against Iran
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – In the middle of negotiations, the United States and Israel launched a new attack against Iran based on an old, and false, argument: that Iran was going to build nuclear weapons.
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Selective Justice and the Crisis of International Law
Irshad Ahmad Mughal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – Observers across the world have begun to question whether the principles of international law are applied equally to all nations. The realities of contemporary geopolitics increasingly suggest that these principles are often interpreted through the lens of power and strategic interests rather than justice and consistency.
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USA’s Abyss of Uselessness
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The ‘indispensable nation‘ marches on, toward a sinkhole of crashed empires, killing and maiming along the way. How many deaths? Wrong question–irrelevant.
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The EU in a World of Wars
Michael von der Schulenburg MEP and Ruth Firmenich MEP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The recent declaration by Macron, Merz, and Starmer, portraying the attacked state of Iran as the aggressor and even threatening it with military action, risks a reasonable European response. The EU must anchor its policies in principles of international law and the Charter of the UN. For this reason, we respectfully request that you convene a special session of the European Parliament.
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Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz & Strikes U.S. Bases
Jackson Hinkle interviews Ray McGovern | Legitimate Targets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – In a moment of cascading escalation — with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region — former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides a sobering assessment of what he described as “uncharted territory.”
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Humanity Is One Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – Humanity is one reality. The transcendental unity of consciousness is the same in all of us. We are gifted with language, and their universal intelligibility makes them translatable into one another. The solution to our human problems involves an awakening to the transcendental unity of consciousness that makes us all human and all “the same.”
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Collateral Benefit: US and Israel Aid Sudan by Attacking Iran
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – The US and Israel’s wholly unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Iran–and its retaliation–has given Sudan a hand in their own battle for sovereignty, as the retaliation prevents UAE from supplying the RSF that has been committing widespread atrocities there.
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Manohari (Music Video of the Week)
Lahari Music Telugu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Full Video Song from Tollywood Movie Baahubali – The Beginning
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Explainer: How Important Is the Strait of Hormuz?
Xinhua - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – Following the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on Sat 28 Feb, attention has turned to the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran warned it would disrupt transit through this vital waterway in retaliation, sending shock waves through international markets.
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Class, Struggle, and the Theft of March 8
Biljana Vankovska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Born into socialism and raised with the natural conviction that women and men are equals, I now find myself in a “democratic” world sinking deeper into decadence, militarism, and machismo. Every year, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, I wade through an avalanche of messages oscillating between banality and hypocrisy.
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Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers
Nick Turse | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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‘The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning’: While Bombing Iran, Trump Tells Weapons Contractors to Boost Production
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – The president and Lockheed Martin said that the expansion began months ago, but his comments followed a White House meeting held amid a US-Israeli assault on Iran and mounting threats against Cuba.
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100 Days from the World Cup, an International Coalition Is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games from the U.S.
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The U.S. Is Unsafe for Non-Europeans and Is Operating as a Rogue State
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7 Countries in 5 Years
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
I was especially struck by the lack of western coverage of the bombing Sat 28 Feb of an elementary school in Iran that killed over 100 girls. The sight of a father going trough the bloodied backpack of his daughter made me cry so much. Till when are we going to put up with this genocidal maniac regime?
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The Foundations of Communal Peace: Sustaining Threatened Languages as Peace Infrastructure Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Every enduring peace begins long before a treaty is signed. It begins in the words a child first hears, in the proverbs a grandparent treasures, in the rhythm of prayer and poetry that teach a people how to speak gently, even when they disagree.
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Iran Confirms Khamenei Killed In US-Israel Strikes, Announces 40-Day Mourning
News18 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – A photograph of Khamenei’s body was shown to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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USraeli Attack on Iran: At Least 148 Girls Killed in Strike on Elementary School
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Eyewitness say that girls 7 to 12 years old lied dead across their school.
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Going to War, again, for Israel
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Once again, the US is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including US service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, …
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Trump Starts a Major Regime-Change War with Iran, Serving Neoconservatism and Israel
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – This is the definitive war of choice. It is the exact type of war that Trump and his movement spent a decade vowing to end. And the potential for destruction is infinite.
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Hearing Coherently the Diversity of Contrasting Voices
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
24 Feb 2026 – Cognitive and Strategic Implications of Numerically Articulated Sets – The following extensive interaction with AI provides an explanation for the methodology of the argument made separately (Nasruddin Walks the Coaction Cardioid as a Triptych of Geopolitical Crises, 2026).
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The USrael Attack on Iran on the 40th Anniversary of the Murder of Olof Palme
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Today, USrael attacked Iran for the second time in one year. It also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme who condemned the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, and revealed the places where crimes were committed up till then. He paid a price for it: his life.
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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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How the U.S. Military (Pentagon, NATO) Is Destroying the Planet
Abby Martin | BreakThrough News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Abby Martin discusses her new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, which exposes how the U.S. military — “the army of fossil fuel companies” — drives global climate destruction.
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Legal Sovereignty in the Face of Orbital Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty. The confrontation is not simply Brazil versus Musk. It is the symptom of a global dilemma: who governs digital space when key infrastructure belongs to private actors with transnational ambitions?
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APA’s Council Meeting: Human Rights Win, Fear Loses
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – Last weekend, the 180-member governing Council of the American Psychological Association held its annual meeting. In a series of crucial votes, human rights were pitted against fear. Defying the odds, human rights remarkably won out every time.
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Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – Proponents of foreign intervention in Iran are unlikely to get the sudden rupture and regime change they hope for.
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Iran: 100 Years of Foreign Interference
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
From the British invasion of neutral Persia during both WWI and WWII; to the CIA-directed overthrow of the first democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953 due to oil interests…
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‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon Doesn’t even Know What to Do with Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
26 Feb 2026 – Trump is pushing for another $500 billion for the Pentagon as he moves the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. But Pentagon officials are reportedly uncertain about where to put the money, “because the amount is so large.”
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From Midnight Hammer to Midnight Nightmare
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
In history, empires on last legs are run by delusional imbeciles, too drunk on the swagger of invincibility & uber-greed, like teenagers on dance floor, not knowing or caring self-destructive risks.
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Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – In front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Feb 25, the second anniversary of what Aaron called his “extreme protest” against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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What Life Has Taught Me
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
History’s great minds teach us that greatness is not measured by applause, but by fidelity to truth under pressure. Albert Einstein warned that blind obedience to authority is the enemy of truth, reminding us that silence in the face of wrongdoing is itself a moral failure.
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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
21 Feb 2026 – Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.
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The Williams Brothers: Afro-Basque Hybridity
Joan Pedro-Carañana, Toby Miller and Israel V. Márquez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Most black immigrants come to Spain for work. The majority in low-paid jobs or outside formal labor and education. Two-thirds are Muslim. A quarter experience discrimination. They are routinely stopped and searched by police without reason—at higher levels than the rest of the population.
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TRUMP DECLARES WAR: Major US Military Combat Operations Begin in Iran
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Trump’s announcements: major U.S. military combat against Iran as “imminent threat” to US national security and global allies. The U.S. military is currently engaged in a massive operation to dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, neutralize its naval capabilities, and destroy its long-range missile industry. Ultimatum to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard: surrender or face “certain death.”
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
Alphaville – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
(Official Video HD) – 2024
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War Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious; the only one international in scope. A racket is not what it seems. Only a small “inside” group knows it, for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
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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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After Greenland, Antarctica?
Jun Ohashi and Takashi Yamaguchi | TBS News Dig (Japan) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
24 Feb 2026 – The U.S. ‘Diplomacy’ Heads for Southern-Edge of Argentina, Ushuaia City, the “Gateway to Antarctica”
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Iran’s Missiles Smash US Bases, Trump-Israeli War Backfires
Elijah Magnier & Mohammad Marandi | Danny Haiphong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026
The US and Israel launched strikes into Iran in the early hours of February 28. Iran has already retaliated in a massive way, leaving several US bases and Israel itself under heavy fire. War correspondent Elijah Magnier joins the show to break it all down.
→ read full articleEmpire Has an Identity Crisis — and the Global South Has a Memory
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
If you missed the speech by Marco Rubio, here is the short version: the West must be restored, civilization must be defended, and naturally, the US should lead the parade. Preferably with Europe marching in step. He rose to defend “Western civilization” — that sacred, endangered species that somehow only becomes visible when its dominance is challenged.
→ read full articleHistory Is No Longer Decorative–It’s a Debt
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
A court in Niger just billed Europe €115 billion for uranium, coercion, and a century of organized extraction. While Western leaders escalate tensions with Iran in the name of “international order,” the colonized are asking who ordered the order.
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Should Billionaires Have It All?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Oxfam: One-fourth of the world’s population is afflicted by hunger and nearly half live in poverty. Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 percent in 2025 to $18.4 trillion―its highest level in history. The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity, over four billion people.
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(Italiano) I Giochi Olimpici Invernali di Milano-Cortina 2026: Un Trionfo Italiano che Ha Illuminato il Mondo!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Milano-Cortina 2026 non sono stati solo Giochi: sono stati un’ode all’Italia, un trionfo che ha unito sport, cultura e umorismo in un pacchetto irresistibile. Con entusiasmo dico: bravi tutti!
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How to Imagine a World of Peace and Human Unity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Ignorant and Egoistic Leaders are a Menace to Peace and World Order
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The Global Geometry of Peace: From Triangles to Trinity to Transcendence, a Peace Convergence: When Science, Spirit, and Story Become One (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Peace as Humanity’s Missing Frequency. Human aggression comes from biophotonic disruption and reptilian-brain dominance.
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Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Public banks — local and national — are not alternatives to the private sector. They are the missing infrastructure that makes the private sector work.
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Remarks on the Palestinian-Israeli Issue by Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong at the UN Security Council
Ambassador Fu Cong - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
19 Feb 2026 – China firmly supports the just cause of the Palestinian people in restoring their legitimate national rights. We will continue to work with the international community to promote a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, alleviate the humanitarian crisis, …
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