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Australia Ignoring Moral Red Lines with Unregulated AI Warfare
Matilda Byrne | Declassified Australia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026 – With Australia failing to acknowledge the humanitarian risks of weaponising AI, the Australian government seems unwilling to place any limits on devastating autonomous weapons.
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Geopolitical Breach of Commitment in the Light of Divorce, Pederasty and Pedophilia
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
Collective Implications of Practices Dating from Ancient Greece and Rome
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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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Libya: The Difficulties of Renewal and Reform
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
On 3 Feb 2026, Saif Al-Islam Kadafi was killed by four men whose identity and precise motivations are not known. However, the killing is one more sign of the difficulties of establishing a stable government in Libya since the violent death of his father Mouammar Kadafi in 2011.
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The Legal Fight to Open Gaza to Foreign Press Has Failed–It’s Time to Change Course
Amos Brison | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026 – As Israel’s Supreme Court continues enabling the government’s foreign media ban, Palestinian journalists are paying the price. Further legal efforts are futile.
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U.S. Envoys Refused to Report “Apocalyptic” Conditions in Gaza – Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed
Jonathan Whittall | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026 – The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
Fred Pearce | Yale Environment 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
26 Jan 2026 – With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
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He Must Know…
Elon Musk | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
Breaks my heart…
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Meditations on a Delivery Robot Steering to Avoid a Homeless Man on the Sidewalk
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026 – This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civilization as it gets. This is who we are. This is where we’re at. Might as well have giant letters with a big red arrow saying “YOU ARE HERE” overtop it.
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Conflicts and Persistent Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Other Regions
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and by survivors who, in many cases, have no access to medical or psychological care.
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A Major Problem That Economics Has Avoided All Along
Takayuki Nakamura – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
The “Overly Important Perspective” Lost in a Society that Evaluates Its People Solely on Their Productivity
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Starvation by Design: How Israel Turned Food into a Weapon of Genocide in Gaza
Mohammad Mansour | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Analysis: From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of aggression, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025.
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What Will the Future Look Like in the New World Order?
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – With John Mearsheimer – Donald Trump believes that U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to become a benign dictator and achieve unilateral control over USA’s allies — what will the effects of this policy be?
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Mediators Propose Framework for Crucial Iran-US Talks This Week
Virginia Pietromarchi | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026 – Mediators from Qatar, Turkiye and Egypt have presented Iran and the US with a framework of key principles to be discussed in talks on Friday [6 Feb], including a commitment by Iran to significantly limit its uranium enrichment.
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(Français) Les Véritables Enjeux de l’Élection Présidentielle Portugaise : Une Danse Politique Sous la Pluie de la Tempête Marta
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
8 février 2026 – Ce n’est à n’importe quel scrutin auquel on assiste au Portugal : un duel épique entre António José Seguro, le socialiste modéré, et André Ventura, le leader de’extrême droite qui crie “Assez !” comme si elle avait inventé le slogan.
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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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The only Remaining US-Russia Nuclear Treaty Expires This Week
Tilman Ruff | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
1 Feb 2026 – The New START treaty, the last remaining agreement constraining Russian and US nuclear weapons, is due to lapse on February 4. Could a New Arms Race Soon Accelerate?
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Carney and the Selective Death of the Rules-Based Order
Ramzy Baroud | Arab News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026 – While Carney pays lip service to international courts, his government in November filed a motion to dismiss a landmark court case seeking to hold Ottawa accountable for its failure to prevent Israel’s genocide arguing that the court has no jurisdiction over the “political questions” of foreign policy.
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Truth, Love & Humanity Are NOT “Western Values”: From Israel, Epstein Files and Human Rights Watch to Elite Euro-Americans
Maung Zarni | Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026 – It is rich for the White Men (& Women) who cry “our shared ‘Judaeo-Christian Civilization,” in their savage wars for land and loot while lying their way to wealth & power.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
Imagine if the IOC had applied the same standards used to condemn Russia today to the US over the last 80 years for its repeated belligerence that flagrantly undermines Olympic values of harmonious development, peaceful societies and preservation of human dignity.
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Across the West, Speaking for Palestine Is Now a Crime
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
25 Jan 2026 – Exactly a year ago today, I was abducted from a Zurich street by plainclothes police, bundled into an unmarked car and taken to prison. I was walking with one of my hosts toward a venue where I was scheduled to speak at an event organized by Swiss activists about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Iran, China and Russia Sign Trilateral Strategic Pact
Ranjan Solomon | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026 – In a dramatic geopolitical development today, Iran, China and Russia formally signed a comprehensive strategic pact, marking one of the most consequential shifts in 21st-century international relations, a cornerstone for a new multipolar order.
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Shine
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
Smoke and sky spiders fill the air
as missiles smash into Gaza
and powerful men drive needles
into the flesh of young girls.
US Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love
Chris Jeske | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
While it’s hard to take Musk and Hegseth seriously when they talk about making Star Trek real, I don’t doubt for a minute that they can find many new ways to violate our rights and destroy what we love about the natural world.
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I Have Seen the Collapse of an Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
In the final years of the 20th Century I was a witness to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Having spent up to six months at a time on many occasions from 1973 to 1986 in the Soviet Union, I saw how a great empire with alliances in most continents, came to crash from within.
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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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On the Road to Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
On 27 Jan 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation. This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it.
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UK: Acquittals Demolish Lies about Palestine Action Activists
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.
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Inside a Coordinated, Multi-Village Settler-Soldier Pogrom in Masafer Yatta
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
30 Jan 2026 – As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.
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The Materialist Mind Is Trying to Resolve an Existential Crisis
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026 – We are at a crossroads of civilization, facing contradictions that cannot be solved by the same logic that created them. We are attempting to answer the future of humanity with a mindset inherited from the past.
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Meet the World’s Best Known “Antisemites”
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
2 Feb 2026 – I thank Dr Zachary Foster for this compilation, as well as his moral courage and intellectual integrity to speak truthfully about the Cancer of Jewish Supremacy, with a strain of White Supremacy.
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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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A Brief History of the Enduring [66 Years] US Embargo against Cuba
Birsen Filip | Mises Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
US policies have focused on ensuring that Cuba is a closed commercial state, with the intent of bringing about its government eventual collapse. In that event, the US will be able to reestablish the control that it previously exerted over the island before the Cuban Socialist Revolution prevailed on 1 Jan 1959.
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BlackRock Is Buying Up the World’s Infrastructure to Serve Billionaire Oligarchs
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
The Real Deal Behind the Panama Canal & Greenland: The World Economic Forum’s Global Model “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy”
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Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Gaza Teaches Us That only Some Lives Are Worth Talking About
Sylvia Monkhouse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, Israel has killed over 500 Palestinians. But these lives – according to western media and politicians – are not worth talking about.
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Michael Parenti: The War on Drugs Is a Cover for Imperialism and the CIA’s Own Drug Dealing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026 – Michael Parenti’s legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.
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When a Backup Steals Your Life’s Work: My Experience with pCloud on macOS
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Our readers are not used to seeing this type of article. The experience involved starting up my Mac and finding only empty folders on its desktop, i.e. the sudden loss of nearly 100,000 documents and files accumulated over decades.
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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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The Eternal Waltz of Ukrainian Graft: A Symphony of Scandals since the So-called Maidan “Revolution”
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
8 Feb 2026 – The Maidan “Revolution” of 2014 – that glittering spectacle of Western-orchestrated idealism, where brave souls toppled a regime only to usher in a fresh cadre of opportunists, their pockets lined with the same old promises of transparency.
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Don’t Blame the UN for the World’s Problems
Thomas Fazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
1 Feb 2026 – The UN is weaker and more delegitimized than ever, but it would be a mistake to blame the institution for the world’s problems: the UN simply mirrors our fractured geopolitical reality.
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The Greatest Gift, a More Human Face: Bantu Stephen Biko’s Prescription for a Divided, Selfish World in the 21st Century
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
“Steve Biko 1977–2026: Truth, Suppression, and the Resurrection of Justice” from Martyrdom to Legal Memory: The Reopened Inquest into Steve Biko’s Death”
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Idea Porfolios (Intro) How Governments and Citizens Can Stop the Trump Regime’s World-Threatening Designs
Jan Oberg, Biljana Vankovska, Pascal Lottaz, Annette Schiffmann and Christina Spannar | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Introduction to TFF’s Forthcoming Five Idea Portfolios of Diplomatic and Nonviolent Resistance
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Complementarity of 64-fold Sets as an Elusive Rosetta Stone?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Circumventing irresponsible authoritarian imposition of incoherent patterns of connectedness.
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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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Despite Ceasefire, Israel’s Siege Allowing Only a Trickle of Aid into Gaza
Ahmed Ahmed | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
26 Jan 2026 – Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.
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Exclusive: Leaked “Board of Peace” Resolution Outlines U.S.-Led Plan to Rule Over Gaza
Jonathan Whittall | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
26 Jan 2026 – The draft framework, obtained by Drop Site, would bestow sweeping authority on Trump to determine all aspects of Gaza’s governance and future.
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(Castellano) Espectáculo trumpista de la violencia en las pantallas para la nueva fabricación del consentimiento
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
24 enero 2026 – ¡Es la economía, estúpido! Pero también ¡es la cultura, estúpido! Es la producción de beneficios económicos y la reproducción de la cultura gánster. Es el espectáculo de la mentira para justificar la verdad sanguinaria del imperialismo y es el espectáculo de la verdad de la violencia para ocultar la verdad del imperio que se desangra.
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Idea Portfolios (1) Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now: Part 1/5
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
20 Jan 2026 – Media, Culture and Information Sovereignty – This is the first of five idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the US and help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to the Trump administration’s confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies.
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Self-determination of Peoples: A Possibility through Democratic Set-up
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Self-determination is concerned with real freedom. There is no real freedom, since men are determined by circumstances. The freedom means simply the absence of determination by anything outside, the presence of determination by oneself inside.
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Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn’t Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience
Tim Hjersted - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
27 Jan 2026 – If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we’d be finished—violence is what they’re begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they’re forced to concede.
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(Italiano) N… come Non violenza
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
22 Gennaio 2026 – L’insegnamento della non violenza, parola a doppia negazione, sintetizza tutta la seconda tavola ricevuta da Mosé, cioè i sei comandamenti sociali, anche essi a doppia negazione (ad es. “Non uccidere”).
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Portugal Will only Join Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ under Certain Conditions, Says Foreign Minister
Algarve Daily News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
27 Jan 2026 – Portugal will only join the Peace Council created by the US president if the organisation’s remit is strictly limited to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said today.
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Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Dans le paysage intellectuel français, où les voix sur les questions géopolitiques et diasporiques se multiplient, un nom s’impose avec une autorité croissante : Tigrane Yégavian. Journaliste, essayiste, chercheur et professeur…
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Map Shows What Would Happen to Gaza Under the US ‘Master Plan’
Mohammed Haddad and Mohammad Mansour | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
27 Jan 2026 – The plan treats Gaza as vacant beachfront property, a real state, proposing glass towers and industrial zones over historic sites.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
In his reflections on the nature of political ethics in the middle of the Second World War, the U.S. theologian Reinhold Niebuhr stressed the need for a universalist ethic and the difficulty of achieving it.
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Iran’s Velvet Revolution: Where Mullahs Preach Love, the People Cheer, and the West Weeps in Confusion
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Iran – that enigmatic pearl of the Middle East, where the air is thick with the scent of saffron, revolution, and just a hint of Western bewilderment. In these trying times, as headlines scream of impending doom and “regime change” fantasies dance in the eyes of distant pundits, …
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What Is the Most Basic, Most Severe Violation of Freedom?
Alejandro A. Tagliavini - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Violence is equivalent to taking away freedom, diverting the intrinsic development—against one’s will— of a being. Therefore, violence and freedom are logical opposites. Logic is a science, not my opinion.
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Lula Sets Conditions for Brazil to Join Trump’s Board of Peace
Renan Truffi and Sofia Aguiar | Valor International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
27 Jan 2026 – Brazilian president says group must focus on Gaza and include Palestine.
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UN Resolution 2803, the Board of Peace, and the Limits of Transition in Gaza
Safia Southey | American Society of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
The Security Council as Architect? On 17 Nov 2025, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2803, endorsing what Trump has termed his “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.” It authorizes two novel institutional mechanisms: a Board of Peace…
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Collective Rationality and Human Self-Realization
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
27 Jan 2026 – Envisioning Our Common Human Future
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WE, The Peoples, Time and Earth are Victims of Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Global Leadership Failure to Understand the Logic of Time, Peace and War
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Replicating the Behavior of One’s Persecutor
Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
13 Jan 2026 – Israeli culture mimics the genocidal mindset of Nazi-era Germans who once targeted them.
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Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
29 Jan 2026 – With today’s update, the Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight, 4 seconds closer than last year, when it was set at 89 seconds to midnight. It is now: 23.58.35
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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 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
30 Jan 2026 – For half-a-century, Harn Yawnghwe has been pushing for federalism based on ‘ethnic group equality and inclusive society’ as the only twofold viable solution for peace and reconciliation in his native Myanmar.
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Myanmar Genocide Emergency 2026
Jeanne Macé | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
In 2026, Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State are still being systematically attacked, displaced, and killed by both the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw, which have been fighting each other since 2018 for control of Rakhine. The Arakan Army terrorizes the Rohingya population.
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The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking US’ Financial Plumbing
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
We subsidize the banks’ safety, underwrite their liquidity, and reward them for sitting on assets, without requiring them to invest in communities, build public wealth, or serve any public purpose. It all seems pretty outrageous; but as it turns out, the banks are doing what U.S. corporate law requires them to do.
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Visa bans, Sanctions, escalation, and the quiet reordering of a world no longer waiting for Western permission.
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“Join ICE” (Music Video of the Week)
Jesse Welles | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated tune from his latest EP, ‘No Kings.’ LIVE on The Late Show
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Trump’s Board of Peace: Not an Anti-UN
Pascal Lottaz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
20 Jan 2026 – Never have I seen the blueprints of an International Organisation so reminiscent of a feudal kingdom. If it weren’t so tragically linked to one of the worst genocides in my lifetime, it would almost be funny what Trump is doing with his “Board of Peace.”
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The Spirit of the Mahatma in 2026 – An Introspection
Vivek Umrao Glendenning | Ground Report India - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
30 Jan 2026 – The observance on 30 Jan 2026, is far more than a scheduled national event in India; it is a date charged with profound moral, historical, and existential gravity, marking the seventy-eighth year since the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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Viewpoints
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
What is your angle?
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Understanding Fair Start Movement
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
The FSM advocates for justice by focusing on children’s rights, birth equity, and ecological sustainability as the basis for legitimate governance. Its main principle is that every child deserves a fair start in life, rejecting inequalities based on caste, class, race, religion, gender, and wealth.
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Patrice Lumumba: How to Kill a Man, Dissolve His Body, and Still Fail to Erase His Ideas
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Lumumba was not assassinated because he hated Belgium. He was assassinated because he loved Congo too much—and loved it publicly, eloquently, and without apology. In the political etiquette of empire, that is an unforgivable crime. Let us rewind.
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USA 2026
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
26 Jan 2026 – How Naive Was George Orwell…
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Trump’s “Board of Peace” Is an Institution for Israeli Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
23 Jan 2026 – US President Trump announced on 16 Jan 2026 the creation of a “Board of Peace” as the second phase of a ceasefire plan for the Gaza genocide. The concept of the BoP began in September of last year.
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N… for Non-Violence
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
The teaching of non-violence, a double-negative word, summarizes the entire second tablet received from Moses, namely the six social commandments, also double-negative (e.g., “Thou shalt not kill”).
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Covenantal Abrahamic Peace and Dharmic Non Violence: Toward a Unified Framework for Global Harmony
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2026
Integrating Abrahamic sacred law and dharmic ethical principles for 21st‑century peace, policy, and planetary care integrating tablets of stone and hearts of compassion:
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‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
24 Jan 2026 – It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
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The Full Text of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Charter
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Board of Peace charter hands US president broad powers, and links countries’ membership to large financial contribution. Middle East Eye obtained a copy of the charter and is publishing it here in full:
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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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11 Wounded in IDF Raid on West Bank University–Vice President Detained
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – The raid at Bir Zeit University occurred during a student rally in support of Palestinian prisoners. The IDF fired live ammunition and tear gas. ‘Raids of the university have become commonplace, but this time they crossed all the lines,’ the university president said.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
In Quest of Coherent Insights for Peaceful Governance – The point is often made that mathematics has many highly specialized branches and few of the people associated with any particular one have any interest in other branches or in mathematics as a whole.
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Israeli Ban on 37 Aid Organizations Expected to Have Devastating Impacts across Palestine
Qassam Muaddi and Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026 – Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah.
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Imperial Boomerang
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
25 Jan 2026 – The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.
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What Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Who Has Joined So Far?
Menna Alaaeldin and Alexander Cornwell | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Trump has invited dozens of world leaders to join his Board of Peace. While some traditional allies responded cautiously, in a few cases rejecting, others such as Belarus have accepted.
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Davos: World Economic Forum – Board of Peace
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Marx once quipped “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” and Hegel stated that “what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Each reflects on their time.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – No Joke
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Returner til Avsender (et dikt)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Et dikt
Hvis «demokrati» kommer
Dundrende inn over himmelen
Som et F-35 over Ørland,
Pakket i ild,
Merket humanitær med rød tusj—
Returner til avsender.
Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – Trump’s Board of Peace for the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise questions. The US president would be the helmsman of an outfit of selected corporate overseers tilling the soil for The Donald’s posterity fund. But to what end?
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There Is another War Israel Is Waging – One That Is Not Making Headlines
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – As the US protracts Israel’s genocide in Gaza through the theatrics of a ceasefire, another war is taking place in the West Bank where Israel has mobilised all military and settler-colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible.
→ read full articleUnderstanding 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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The US-Israel Hybrid War against Iran
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – The question is not if the US and Israel will attack Iran, but when. They are waging war against Iran through crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyber warfare, stoking unrest, and unrelenting misinformation campaigns. It is called “hybrid warfare.”
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‘The Weak Must Suffer’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026 – The Eternal Fiction of the ‘International Rules-Based Order’ – These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe.
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Getting Even over a Coveted but Denied Nobel Peace Prize, Plus…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Infantile Bullying: I’ll Show You! Letter the US president sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre.
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What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.
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Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps
B'Tselem - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
The abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody since 7 Oct 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held and released, almost all with no charges. The transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prisons, military and civilian, into de-facto torture camps where every inmate is subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering as a matter of policy.
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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 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – The story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s 50-year exilic politics and the failed democratic transition that the Feb 2021 coup derailed.
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A Red Heifer and Zionists’ Bovine Excrement
Fritz Pointer | – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
21 Jan 2026 – It is important for us to remember that for the Israelis and the North Americans, the conflict in the Middle East (West Asia) is not just a geopolitical rivalry, it is also an eschatological war. That is a war relating to the end of the world.
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Reclaiming Peace against Procedural Capture: A Manifesto for a Civic Board of Peace
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
In the wake of a highly publicized announcement by Trump on what has been called the “Board of Peace”, one is forced to confront and contest not only what is being proposed, but who gets to define peace and on whose terms.
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