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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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Gaza: Journalists under Fire
Brave New Films – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jun 2025

19 May 2025 – Official Trailer – Since 7 Oct 2023, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both World Wars combined. Robert Greenwald exposes Israel’s crimes against journalism and humanity.

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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 News from Glox
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jun 2025

May 26 2025 – In a Galaxy very, very, very far away…

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The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence
Greenpeace International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

28 Apr 2025 – Every time we ask a question to #ChatGPT, is it harming our planet? 🌍 Each ChatGPT query consumes at least 10 times more power than a simple Google search.

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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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A Modest Proposal to Address Collective Suffering Pragmatically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

1 Jun 2025 – Clarifying the Response of the International Community to the Unacceptable – It is somewhat amazing, in this period of tragic suffering in many parts of the world, to recognize the extraordinary resemblance to the conditions in Ireland in the 18th century.

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SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth): Statement on Gaza Ordeal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

25 May 2025 – In this era of predatory capitalism, imperial geopolitics and surging fascism, we as a lead species, need to think, feel, and act differently to avoid catastrophe, and do so in a spirit of urgency.

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‘Diplomatic Tsunami’ Nears as Europe Begins to Act against Israel’s ‘Complete Madness’ in Gaza
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

22 May 2025 – Citing the ‘unbearable’ Gaza crisis, European leaders are warning of sanctions against Israel. Netanyahu’s limited aid move has failed to ease concerns, with one diplomat calling it a ‘disaster.’ An expert said the steps further isolate Israel as a pariah state misaligned with EU values.

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Remembering the Nakba while Witnessing a Genocide
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

19 May 2025 – As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.

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Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six Decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

31 May 2025 – Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.

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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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How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

22 May 2025 – Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.

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A Talmudic Prescription for Collective Safety and Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World)
Diane Perlman | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

28 May 2025 – In the face of Israel’s infliction of unimaginable suffering and genocide upon Palestinians, I have been pondering a Talmudic text as I struggle daily with the daunting challenge of my responsibilities as a Jew and as a clinical and political psychologist.

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Sharing Chopsticks?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

29 May 2025 – China is presented with the same fundamental dilemma as is Russia. There are some noteworthy situational differences, though. Here is a summary denotation of both.

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Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to Call for Arms Embargo on Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – Gaza, “a Gaping Wound on Humanity” – Delegations from 20 countries met yesterday in Madrid in a push to pressure Israel to halt its total war on Gaza and to establish a Palestinian state.

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Shadowy Israeli-U.S. Aid Plan Is Weapon in “Netanyahu’s War of Annihilation” in Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

29 May 2025 – “The point of this is to lure Palestinians as though they’re animals going into a cage, lure them with the bait of promise of aid, and then entrap them in the south of Gaza.”

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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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Days of Terror in Gaza’s ‘Block 76’
Ruwaida Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

21 May 2025 – My family clung to our hometown of Al-Fukhari for as long as we could, until Israel’s evacuation orders and new assault left us with no choice.

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Fasting for Gaza’s Children
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

I have recently finished a 40-day fast and prayer for the children of Gaza and
Others parts of the world where children
Are being massacred by gov polices of cruelty militarism and war.

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Trump Is Already Secretly Anti-American
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

From my point of view, these are the “results” of Trump’s diversion tactics. While appearing to be fighting on the surface, Trump maintains close relations with the leaders of Russia, China, and Israel.

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Is Simplicity Killing Creativity?
Felipe Zamana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

22 May 2025 – Unfortunately, we live in a world that idolizes simplicity. The mantra is always the same: make it clear, make it fast, make it scalable.

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Why Is an 83-Year-Old Vietnamese Woman Fighting against Agent Orange and US Corporations in a French Court?
Tom Fawthrop | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

27 May 2025 – Vietnam is still plagued by the toxic legacy of the US chemical warfare.

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Peace and War 2025: The Hot Chips and Cold Wars (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

The Chip Is Gold, the Chip Is Power, the Chip Is the Future, and the Chip Is Nonedible: Who Has the Best Chip Controls the Universe 

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Syria: The Catastrophic Fall of Bashar al-Assad
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

1 Jun 2025 – How a Bloodthirsty Al-Nusra Butcher, Jolani, Usurped Power in Syria

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Terrorism Charges for Telling the Truth: How Britain Is Silencing Journalists Who Report on Palestine
Sara Chessa | The Anti-Inhumanist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

28 May 2025 – Since August 2024, an alarming pattern of detentions, arrests and legal intimidation targeting independent journalists and activists has emerged in Britain despite condemnation by international institutions.

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How KU Leuven Has Become a Laughing Stock: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – When institutional arrogance and academic self-preservation become so blatant, the appropriate response is to expose them. KU Leuven, once a symbol of academic excellence, has now positioned itself as a textbook example of how not to respond to paradigm-shifting research in a time of escalating polycrisis.

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Trump’s Utterly Cruel and Inhuman Immigration Policy Targetting Haitians
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

For justice to be done, Haitians must be able to return to a country freed from the violence imposed by decades of US-backed anti-democratic rule.

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I Remember
William H. McRaven | The Atlantic/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – A Poem – “I remember the weight of life and death at the end of our guns.”

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Fasting for Gazans
Kathy Kelly | Bar Crawl Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

Since 22 May 2025, several peace activists have been fasting–for 40 days–in front of the United States Mission to the UN. They demand an end to US support of Israel’s military and urge the US government to pressure Israel to open the Gazan borders to humanitarian aid.

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The Legacy of Empire. Britain. Then and Now
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

Laudabiliter was a Papal Bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, born in England. He and current Pope Leo are the only ones born in an English speaking country. The Papal Bull was directed to The King of England Henry II to invade Ireland, take control of the governance, and reform in the name of the Catholic Church.

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(French) Un Match à Sens Unique : Le PSG Flamboyant Face à une Inter Pathétique
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

1er juin 2025 – Le PSG Écrase l’Inter Milan en Finale de la Ligue des Champions : Une Victoire Éclatante, une Hypocrisie Française Dévoilée et une Italie Raillée sans Raison

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Venezuela: Pro-Government Alliance Wins Big in Legislative and Regional Elections
Ricardo Vaz | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

26 May 2025 – Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.

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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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Rule of Law vs. Rule of Mediation
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

A fresh wind of a culture of mediation is blowing all over Latin America, more than in any other continent. All over there are huge conferences, workshops and training in family mediation, between neighbors, communal mediation, in work relations; less so at the inter-nation and inter-state levels.

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Ho’oponopono: The Hawaiian Method of Conflict Resolution
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

How Hawaiian Tradition Sorts Out Family Disputes

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South Sudan: Continued Disintegration
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

On 23 May 2025, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk stated that “The escalating hostilities in South Sudan portend a real risk of further exacerbating the already dire human rights and humanitarian situation.” 

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Gaza Tribunal Project: Opening Remarks
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

27 May 2025 – Opening Remarks, Richard Falk, Sarajevo Public Session of Gaza Tribunal, 26 May 2025.

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

Example: Peace through War

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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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The Scoundrel as an Ideal: Why Neoliberalism Rewards Those Who Despise Others
Daniel Seara | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

25 May 2025 – We live in a society where being a caring person is not valued. It is suspicious. It is “soft.” And the algorithm, like the market, penalizes tenderness and rewards backstabbing.

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The Transatlantic Split Myth: How U.S.-Europe Militarization Thrives behind the Rhetoric
Nel | Worldlines – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

23 May 2025 – Synchronized defense budgets, shared doctrines, and welfare cuts expose the fiction of a ‘rift’—while citizens foot the bill for perpetual war readiness.

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Imagine! Foes as Friends and the Lost Arab World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

History Will Hold Arab-Muslim Leaders Responsible for Inaction

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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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Displacement Orders Are “Psychological and Physical Warfare” in Israel’s Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Médecins Sans Frontières - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

27 May 2025 – Israel continues to use last-minute displacement orders as a violent tool, turning Gaza into hell on earth. Incessant bombing, blockade of aid and displacement orders are trapping hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into ever-shrinking spaces.

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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (28 May 2025)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal, a consensus document prepared in conjunction with participants in the first of two Public Sessions of the Gaza Tribunal, was released on 28 May 2025.

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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

29 May 2025 – The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.

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Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.

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Hindutva India Deporting Rohingya Refugees by Throwing Them into the Andaman Sea
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – The UN has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and put them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”

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(Castellano) Ante la Masacre de Gaza
Instituto Galtung España - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

5 de mayo de 2025 – El panorama es desolador, pero es especialmente sangrante lo que está sucediendo en Gaza, donde un estado que se dice democrático está aniquilando a una población entera ante los ojos de todos sin que nadie parezca hacer nada.

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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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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in US History
Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

22 May 2025 – House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.

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Meanwhile, Kids Die, nay Are Killed
Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

Free Palestine

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Fear in the Countryside–Continued Violence in Democratic Congo
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

22 May 2025 – The armed conflict in the eastern area of the RDC–democratic in name only–on the frontier with Rwanda, is growing more complicated and is impacting in a negative way the lives of nearly all the people.

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Eradicating Poverty beyond Growth: Reforming the Global Financial Architecture for Ecological and Social Justice
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

This report presents a scientific case that the current monetary system—built on the misrepresentation of money as both a commodity and a unit of value—is mathematically unstable, ecologically catastrophic, and inherently exploitative.

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Mapping Militarism 2025
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

22 May 2025 – World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view.

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Turning into a Global Pariah Israel Starves and Destroys Gaza
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

21 May 2025 – After more than 19 months of a brutal invasion, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out amid a renewed Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

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The US Has $36 Trillion in Debt–What Does That Mean, and Who Owns It?
Hanna Duggal and Marium Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

20 May 2025 – The US has the highest national debt in the world, a quarter of which is owned by other countries.

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The Austria Option for Ukraine
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

Seventy years ago on 15 May 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, signaling Austria’s latest metamorphosis into a sovereign, democratic republic, neutral in perpetuity, with its former occupiers guaranteeing the security of its borders. Could a similar destiny be in store for Ukraine?

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Rethinking US-China Relations after the Tariffs Shipwreck
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

20 May 2025 – When Trump imposed his tariffs on 2 Apr, the real aim was to weaken China by preventing it from selling to US consumers; also to isolate China through incentives to those that reduced trade with Beijing.

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“The Suffering Is beyond Description”: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

20 May 2025 – The warning comes as Israel expands its military assault with Netanyahu vowing to take control of the entire Gaza Strip.

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Life & Teaching of Mahatma Gandhi
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amir | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

Gandhi (1869–1948), a leader of India’s independence, revolutionized resistance through his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and truth-force (satyagraha). Educated as a lawyer in London, his activism began in South Africa (1893–1914).

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A Proposal to Revive the 1961 Mccloy-Zorin Plan as a Basis for Collective Security
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

24 May 2025 – Reactivation Under International Law within the Framework of Article 24 of Germany’s Basic Law and Article 106 of the UN Charter

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Global Peace Disruption: The Trump Trade Wars 2025
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

In a materialistic world, trade and economic viability thereof is of paramount importance.  Hence, government will weaponize trade to achieve neo-financial colonization.

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“Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s Latest Escalation of Gaza’s Invasion
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – “The situation, as anyone who’s following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic,” says the Middle East analyst. “There is not only an unprecedented siege, but also an unprecedented intensification of Israel’s genocidal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.”

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Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act between Overt Genocide and Maintaining Western Support
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

20 May 2025 – They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.

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BRICS: Dethroning the Dollar?
Noam Chomsky | Philosopheasy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

7 May 2025 – Is the Dollar Dying? – Noam Chomsky unveils the hidden dynamics driving global currency wars, impacting economies & geopolitics worldwide.

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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 Defense Department Accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s Use
Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press/AP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

21 May 2025 – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said today, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.

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Trump’s Retaliatory Sanctions over Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Halt Work of International Criminal Court
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – The Trump administration sanctioned the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes. The measures by this ‘Rogue States Syndicate’ have greatly weakened the International Criminal Court’s ability to function.

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Arab Leaders Seek Protection from New Imperialism
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – History repeats itself and a favorite perversion is at work. Opportunist European imperialists fighting their nationalistic Two World Wars used colonized Arabs to divide and fight their wars with two million or more lost lives.

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The Politicization, Coercion and Disabling of the International Criminal Court
Alfred de Zayas and Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

23 May 2025 – This is the body of a response by Alfred De Zayas to an inquiry he has received on how to contact the ICC. Alfred clearly outlines the difficulties one faces in attempting to contact it, pointing to the political nature of the Court.

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Pursuing Peace with Justice: Five Years after the Murder of George Floyd
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

Recognizing that the concerns expressed here are not unique to peace psychologists alone, our Society welcomes support and endorsement of this statement from other American Psychological Association divisions and allied groups.

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Promises Made, Promises Kept
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – At the White House of Horrors

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AI’s Prime Directive: Stunning Realization from ChatGPT Itself
Patrick Wood - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – I recently interviewed the professional version of ChatGPT. My intent was to put a crosshair on the functional uses for AI, but I got a totally new and profound view.

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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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The Mouse Is Dreaming
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

In a dark hole behind the washing machine the house-mouse is dreaming.

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How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa
Sisonke Msimang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

21 May 2025 – Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House. Rather than rage against Trump, South Africans have opted to laugh.

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New Study Reveals Changing Attitudes to Female Genital Mutilation among Sudanese Communities in Egypt
Equality Now - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

13 May 2025 – Since Sudan’s devastating war erupted in April 2023, over a million people have fled to neighbouring Egypt. Both countries have laws banning FGM, but despite this Sudan and Egypt have some of the highest rates of FGM globally.

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India-Pakistan Escalation of Conflict: Promoting Positive Peace Through a Bottom-up Approach
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

15 May 2025 – Since the partition from India in 1947, Pakistan has been engaged in around a dozen significant and minor conflicts with India. Wars and negotiations are carried out based on the interests and directives of the respective central governments.

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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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(Italiano) Perché tutta quella violenza oggigiorno?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Lo troviamo ovunque, come le uccisioni di massa in relazione agli attacchi degli Stati Uniti e/o dei suoi alleati [NATO] contro Iraq, Libia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ucraina, il genocidio israeliano dei palestinesi, Sudan, Myanmar… – 22 conflitti armati in corso nel 2025.

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The Gaza Ordeal: How Will It End?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy…

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Norway: Decline and Fall
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

The Norway I was born into 80 years ago and grew up in the 20 years that followed is hopefully still there, sedimented in the archeology of recent history.  But there is an overlayer of something alien, distinctly not Norwegian…

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Peace Symbolism: Icons and Iconography Post 19th Century (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

10 May 2025 – As stated in Part 1 of the series on Peace Symbolism, in the 21st century, the term icons conjure up images of computer software or branding for the younger generation.

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Trump II: The Macro View
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Chomsky acknowledges the U.S. Constitution as a framework that limits democratic responsiveness, with institutions like the Senate, Electoral College, and campaign finance system skewing power toward wealthy, white, and rural constituencies.

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The Human Cost of Syria Sanctions
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – On May 13,  U.S. President Trump announced  he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria.

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Human Rights Foundation Launches First-ever AI for Individual Rights Initiatives
Bereket Alemayehu | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

15 May 2025 – The Human Rights Foundation announced that the program is the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence, used as tools of repression, to support open-source for those under tyranny.

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Transgenic, Transgender, Transhuman: Techno-obsessive Agenda of the “Less Than Human”
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – The techno-obsessive trend of this time is the new pandemic, designed like its predecessor, to derail the human race.

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Autumn Lullaby
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

In her hand she held,
a green leaf from her Tutu’s kukui nut tree.

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Growing Tensions in the Taiwan Strait
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – Even before Taiwanese elected Lai Ching-te as president in Jan 2024, Chinese officials voiced opposition, calling him “a separatist” and “an instigator of war.” Chinese officials attacks have become even harder, calling him a “destroyer of cross-Strait peace.”

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A Win-Win Solution to the Flying Palace Problem
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – Applying Johan Galtung’s TRANSCEND Method of Conflict Transformation

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The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

13 May 2025 – Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.

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Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.

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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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Peace Disruption: The Neo Exodus, in the 21st Century, of the South African, White Afrikaners to the US
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

The morphological diversity, within the human race, from evolution, is so multifaceted that it is often hard to believe that all humans belong to the same species of Homo sapiens, sapiens.

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Haiti: Restitution and Reparations
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Since November 11th travel to and from Haiti has become difficult. A shooting at the capital’s airport triggered an immediate ban by the US government on all US flights. Our border with the Dominican Republic has been closed for over a year. 

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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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(Italiano) Incidenti Nucleari: Dalla Cronaca ai Dettagli
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Riflessioni a partire dal libro di Serhii Plokhy, Atomi e cenere. Dall’atollo di Bikini a Fukushima, storia di sei disastri nucleari, Le scie, Mondadori, Milano 2024.

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