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The US Targets Colombians by Sanctioning Gustavo Petro
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – As part of his escalating aggression toward Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil, Trump sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his wife, his son, and his Interior Minister for drug trafficking offenses.
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Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967
Francesca Albanese | UN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
20 Oct 2025 – Report of the Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
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Istanbul Final Statement: Gaza Tribunal Concludes, the Gaza Genocide Continues
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
2 Nov 2025 – We call on people of conscience everywhere to intensify their efforts for justice for Palestinians by isolating the Israeli regime and to hold it to account through boycotts, divestment, sanctions, military embargoes, criminal prosecutions of perpetrators, civil actions, education of our neighbors, public protest and civil disobedience, and calls for a free Palestine.
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Renewed Appeal for Mediation in Sudan Civil War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
30 Oct 2025 – A civil war has gone on since Apr 2023 in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. Each created militias that rob, torture, rape, and use child soldiers in violation of U.N. treaties. It has led to some 150,000 killed and 10 million displaced.
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The Death House
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
30 Oct 2025 – The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.
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Human Rights for Development and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
The mother of peace is justice which is yet to be born. Let the mother of peace i.e. justice take birth, peace will naturally come out. But we see everywhere there is injustice, exploitation, oppression and violation of human rights.
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Where Faith and Diversity Unite: Southeast Asia’s Lesson for the World
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST/International Forum on Buddhist Muslim Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
31 Oct 2025 – The recent ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, on the theme “Resilient Together, Prosper Together,” served as a reminder of a regional truth: Southeast Asia’s shared diversity, when guided by compassion, is its greatest strength.
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They Want You Relying on Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. What they are offering you is so very, very inferior to the immense treasure trove that you are swimming in just by existing as a human being on this planet.
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When Sovereignty Becomes a Threat
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – For decades, the United States has punished nations that dared to act independently. From Venezuela to the Sahel, a new generation is rejecting the old empire’s script.
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Status Report
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Can you believe it?…
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Obligations of Israel to the UN in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
The Hague, 22 Oct 2025 – Obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third states in and in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleThe Verdict of Conscience from the Gaza People’s Tribunal & a Way Forward
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
The images of 2025 Gaza resemble more ruined Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing than a site of urban warfare in a densely populated cityscape. The Jury’s verdict noted that Israel’s onslaught exceeded the Israeli Defence Force’s military objective of defeating the armed Palestinian resistance and destroying their physical infrastructure
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They Want Our Rhythm, but Not Our Presence
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
21 Oct 2025 – There were twelve thousand ships. Twelve thousand vessels that crossed the Atlantic, carrying twelve and a half million Africans to the Americas. And yet, I grew up knowing the names of the Mayflower and the Titanic.
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Trump’s Military Pressure on Maduro Evokes Latin America’s Coup-Ridden Past—Made in USA
Robert Tait | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, echoing past US coups and assassinations across the region.
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Reported Massacre at Hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher Leaves 460 Dead
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.
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(Italiano) Tribunale di Gaza: una dichiarazione storica all’insegna delle testimonianze
Tribunale di Gaza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 ottobre 2025 – Guidato dal Prof. Richard Falk, ex Relatore Speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui Diritti Umani nei Territori Palestinesi, la storia si è svolta in tempo reale. Dopo mesi di udienze, il Tribunale ha ora emesso la sua sentenza definitiva, che giunge alla coscienza del mondo.
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Call for Essays: New Books on Nonkilling Literature and Nonkilling & Nuclear Disarmament
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
20 Oct 2025 – The CGNK is preparing two new scholarly publications: A collection of essays on ‘Nonkilling Literature’ and an edited volume on ‘Nonkilling Activism and Nuclear Disarmament.’ Details below for potential contributors to contact the editors proposing a chapter.
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The Gaza Tribunal Charts a New Path
Gaza & the World | Just World International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
28 Oct 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk reflected on the final session of the Tribunal held in Istanbul and described how it began in London, continued in Sarajevo, and gathered evidence and testimonies from witnesses and experts to document the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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The World Confronts the Genocide Washington Is Trying to Bury
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
Trump’s Plan to Turn the Page on the Gaza Genocide and Rehabilitate Israel – On 4 Oct 2025 Trump stressed that his main goal behind the Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back.”
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In a West Bank ‘Firing Zone,’ Palestinians Are Erased as Jewish Settlers Lay Down Roots
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – While settlers’ concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.
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Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, MLK, and RFK
Elizabeth Woodworth | Integrate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Why has the public lost so many of its cherished humanitarian leaders to assassination? Bringing new research to light, this gripping book is a gift to our needed understanding of this phenomenon. A Review, by Elizabeth Woodworth
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UN Committee Adopts Resolution to Keep Human Control of Nuclear Weapon Systems
Japan Broadcasting Corporation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – A UN General Assembly committee that deals with disarmament has adopted a resolution to keep nuclear weapon systems under human control in a bid to prevent artificial intelligence from using the weapons in an unintended way.
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Still Sleepwalking into the Elite’s New World Order: Gaza as the Vision of our Technocratic and Transhuman Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
2 Nov 2025 – With the transformative program of the Global Elite now advancing rapidly, only a small number of analysts are paying close attention to understand the significance of this phalanx of threats. For most people, fundamental questions about what must be done to defeat these interrelated threats do not even arise.
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It’s Just Wall-to-wall News Stories about the US and Its Allies Abusing the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – The US and its allies are terrorizing the world. They make threats, impose sanctions, amass war machinery, and when the US is serious about attacking a country, it starts churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream war media.
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The Beinart Notebook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
26 Oct 2025 – On the Trump Plan – Our guest is Gaza-born political analyst Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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Pogrom Redux on West Bank
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
Jewish Settlers Violence
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‘No Restrictions’ and a Secret ‘Wink’: Inside Israel’s Deal with Google, Amazon
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.
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(Français) Le pari gazier de l’UE : sacrifier l’Arménie pour un rêve de pipeline – encore une fois
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
2 nov 2025 – Le député européen polonais Tomasz Froelich lâche une bombe de vérité qui fait grincer les dents des Arméniens jusqu’à la poudre. Remontons la bande de cette farce, voulez-vous ? Retour rapide aux belles années de l’Union soviétique, quand l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan n’étaient que des voisins gênants partageant une maternelle appelée URSS.
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The Gaza Tribunal Hears Evidence of Systematic Destruction of Health Care in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
24 Oct 2025 – “Genocide Is far from Over” – The Gaza Tribunal’s final session continued today at Istanbul University, with expert testimony asserting that Israel deliberately dismantled Gaza’s health care and systems as a policy of “mass harm to civilians.”
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Orban, the Only Statesman in Europe?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
2 Nov 2025 – How Budapest Is Dismantling the EU and NATO’s House of Cards
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Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids the Gaza Genocide
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza genocide.
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Philosophy of Peace in the Life of Maharishi Valmiki–The Sage from the Anthill to Spiritual Metamorphosis
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
” Maharishi Valmiki’s greatness stems from a different, equally powerful source: his own spiritual transformation (sadhana) from a fallen state of a criminal, to the highest state of enlightenment. He is a Swayambhu (self-manifested) sage in the sense that he achieved his status through his own efforts, not by being born, as a pre-ordained divine incarnation.”
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Rwandan Prisoner of Conscience Victoire Ingabire
Ann Garrison | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated to commemorate her Oct 2010 arrest. Rwanda has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, ranking in the top three countries per capita.
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A World on Fire: Breaking the Cycle of Endless Wars
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – Flames of war scorch the earth, devour homes, uproot families, and spread despair. From Gaza to Ukraine, from Sudan to Yemen, from the scars of Iraq to Afghanistan, our world burns–fed by greed, nationalism, the relentless pursuit of power, and by militarism that thrives on human suffering for material gain and profit.
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Why Federalism Cannot Exist without Democracy
Manuel Galiñanes, Glen T. Martin, and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Why a genuine world federation cannot coexist with authoritarianism, and why democracy must remain the cornerstone of any just and sustainable global order.
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The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – A behind-the-scenes portrait of Betar USA, the militant Zionist street group that claims credit for guiding the Trump administration’s jailing and attempted deportation of pro-Palestine student activists.
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From ‘Never Again’ to Again and Again: How the World Enabled Gaza’s Destruction
Javed Akbar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s rare voice of conscience amid its faltering moral architecture, has delivered a searing indictment — not only of Israel but of the global order that enables it.
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Nearer My God to Thee (Music Video of the Week)
André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
22 Nov 2024 – From the album ‘The Sound of Heaven’
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – To expose the truth that emerges from respecting reality and evidence is necessary because of state propaganda and a filtered, biased media that either hides or slants the truth, even to the extent of punitive and lethal action against independent journalists and dismissing as irrelevant the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 3 Nov 2025
Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2025
26 Oct 2025 – The Nobel Peace Prize has long lost any credibility. With María Corina Machado’s award, it followed a tradition of aligning with Western foreign policy. And more predictable was the corporate media advancing its war and regime-change propaganda against Venezuela.
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The Gaza Peoples’ Tribunal: Exploring Palestinian Erasure
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – By rewarding impunity for genocide, Trump’s ceasefire proves why a civil society-led tribunal is needed to uphold accountability and document Palestine’s fight for justice.
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They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. Hell, the most abusive Muslim states are US partners in crime like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Last night I had gone to bed with, and woke up this morning thinking about, the image of Gaza, I saw at the Archaeological Museum. That is, the Gaza battle scene on the sarcophagus named Alexandar, yes, that Macedonian empire-builder remembered as Alexandar the Great.
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Complexity of Interaction with a Configuration of Cognitive Mirrors
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
As a continuation of the exchanges with AIs with respect to Gaza, the complexity of such a mirror can be exploratively modelled in greater detail as a strange nexus for coherent comprehension in a period of chaotic fragmentation.
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Israel’s Physical and Ecological Destruction of Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it “unlivable.”
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
On 15 Oct 2025, the Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a statement of solidarity with Venezuela at their meeting in Uganda, the current chair of the Non-Aligned Movement. Time for positive action is now, before greater tensions develop.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
A fundamental principle of conflict resolution is “Multiply the options for agreement.” To maximize the chances of achieving sustainable peace, the parties need to consider the widest possible range of choices. In practice, however, …
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
20 Oct 2025 – The Pantomime Continues
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Trump Orders CIA to Attack Venezuela: US Military Kills Innocent People Based on Lies
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans on boats in international waters, which UN experts have condemned as “extrajudicial executions.” Among the victims have been fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago, whose families were interviewed by The Guardian.
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Global Pariah: The True Cost of the Gaza Genocide Revealed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
No amount of money, newspaper coverage, or Netflix specials can ever successfully polish the image of a state that has so openly committed a genocide, one of the most thoroughly documented in recorded history.
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Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025 – The ICJ issued an advisory opinion yesterday branding the Israeli blockade on food and medical aid into the occupied Gaza Strip illegal. I mean, surely this conclusion is simple common sense.
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Turning Back from the Brink of Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025 – Legislators in the U.S. Congress and Senate introduced resolutions for the U.S. government to lead an effort to halt the nuclear arms race. Russia and the US, which together possess 87 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, have scrapped nearly all their nuclear arms control agreements.
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Gaza Tribunal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Led by Prof. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, it was history unfolding in real time. After months of hearings, the Tribunal has now delivered its final judgment — which lands in the conscience of the world.
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The 2025 Integrity Media Awards Goes to Julian Assange
The Information Rights Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Julian Assange was awarded the 2025 inaugural Courage in Journalism Award. His brother, Gabriel Shipton, accepted the award on Julian’s behalf.
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A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025 – The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue.
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Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina’s Corrupt Leader Javier Milei with $40 Billion
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Trump is using $20 billion of US government money plus $20B more in private loans to bail out Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, meddling in the South American nation’s election.
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From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025 – Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby.
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A Ceasefire of the Perpetrators: How the West Repackaged Occupation as Peace
Javed Akbar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Trump is being lavishly credited with ending Israel’s massacre of Gaza’s population. We are told he persuaded both Netanyahu and Hamas into accepting his “deal.” In truth, Hamas had consented to nearly identical terms more than a year ago. It was Israel that torpedoed the effort.
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(Français) L’Arménie en Voie de Tyrannie
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
26 octobre 2025 – Pashinyan, le Petit Jupiter du Caucase, et sa Croisade contre les Cloches d’Echmiadzin – Ah, l’Arménie ! Cette nation antique, berceau du christianisme et rempart contre les invasions ottomanes.
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Two Conferences in Shanghai: Reflections on Discourse, Dialogue, and the Non-Studies of Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
In October 2025, I attended two major academic conferences in Shanghai. What unfolded was a journey through two distinct but interwoven events—each offering a lens into China’s intellectual landscape and its evolving role in the world.
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‘I Have Seen the Unthinkable, the Inhumane’: Dr Mimi Syed’s Testimony at Gaza Tribunal
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
“The children of Gaza, with their eyes wide open and full of innocence, have been subjected to horrors that no child should ever face. I have seen them murdered, starved and denied the most basic of human rights.”
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UN Report Lists Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide: Which Are Them?
Federica Marsi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.
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Democracy and Education for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective caste, creed, colour. Rousseau asserts, “Man is born free”, but he realized and said also, “that he is everywhere in chains.”
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Reversing the Truth: The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ and British Complicity in Genocide
David Edwards | Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Competition for this year’s Peace Prize was fierce. Time magazine’s cover greeted the latest pause in Israel’s US-armed genocide in Gaza with a portrait of self-proclaimed Nobel front-runner Donald Trump: ‘HIS TRIUMPH’
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Political Insanity Drives Aggressive Wars in Palestine and Ukraine: How to Make Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Few against Many and Insanity without Borders
→ read full articleFrance in Free Fall: Macron, the French, and Their Dance Macabre
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
26 Oct 2025 – France! The cradle of liberty, the homeland of the Enlightenment that under Macron resembles more a dusty Molière comedy: a blend of arrogance, absurdity and tragedy, where the actors—the French—lament while applauding their own shipwreck.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Oct 2025
The Pact of Betrayal: Sarkozy, Gaddafi and NATO’s War on Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
In 2007, the Libyan leader was received in Paris with red carpets and diplomatic smiles. His tent was pitched on the Champs-Élysées, a symbol of renewed Franco-African friendship. Behind the velvet words, however, a secret deal was already being written — one that would stain both men forever.
→ read full articleInside Israel’s War of Imprisonment against Palestinians (PODCAST)
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – Palestine Behind Bars – What can the release of Palestinian detainees tell us about the ceasefire and the future of Israeli occupation? Please click and listen to horror stories:
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Expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine: The Greatest Strategic Error
Imran Hossain | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – In the game of geopolitics, the most important rule is ‘self-interest first’. In Rakhine, every actor sought their own interest, making a complex situation for the Rohingya. But ‘expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine’ was the biggest strategic miscalculations by the junta and the civilian govt.
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Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Johan was born in Oslo, Norway on 24 Oct 1930. 15 years later, the UN would come to existence on the same day—an omen of sorts? He received his first Ph.D. in mathematics at age of 25 and would become a sociologist, political scientist, mediator, and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies, among numerous other attributions and qualifications.
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Environmental Destruction and Endless Wars versus One Human Reality—Now or Never
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Seeking a new paradigm is not so much a matter of looking for ideas that have not previously been found, for a new paradigm has already emerged during the last century that is entirely adequate to what is needed.
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Which Countries Owe the IMF the Most Money in 2025?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – From Argentina to Egypt, at least 86 countries collectively owe the International Monetary Fund more than $162bn.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Expands Israel’s Middle East Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
On 14 Oct, the Gaza War came to an end. Hamas returned all 20 remaining hostages and the bodies of the dead ones (the rest are buried under rubble). Israel lavishly praised Trump for achieving the ceasefire. However, fighting has since resumed.
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The Ramayana as a Treatise on Peace and Social Harmony
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
An Analysis (Template) of Duty, Sacrifice, and Resilience in the Present Era – “When the path of dharma (duties) is clouded by despair, devotion lifts mountains.”
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Somewhere Only We Know (Music Video of the Week)
Keane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
The Classic from 2009 with Lyrics
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My Friend Johan and I: Slices of a Transcendent Reality
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
I met Prof. Johan Galtung when I was an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu in 1986. He had a personal way of dealing with his students: at the end of each semester Johan would host a small reception in his house. I hardly knew that I was getting a lifelong best friend, well-wisher, employer, and above all–a mentor.
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The Disarming Force: Why Active Nonviolence Is Not the Same as Non-Violence
Ángel Sanz Montes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – In light of the Sumud Global Flotilla, it makes sense to question the real power of unarmed resistance in the face of overwhelming force. Beyond the specific act, whose humanitarian value is unquestionable, this journey is a potent symbol of a tradition that underpins it: active nonviolence.
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Creation of Unified BRICS Currency Threatens Dollar Supremacy in International Trade
Mix Vale | BRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – Emerging nations are uniting to question the dollar’s reign. The BRICS bloc, along with new members, is intensifying discussions on a unified currency. This proposal gains traction amid geopolitical tensions and economic sanctions exposing vulnerabilities in the current system.
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UN Rights Office Sounds Alarm over ‘Skyrocketing’ Israeli Settler Violence During Olive Harvest
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in violence and restrictions by Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinian farmers, as the crucial olive harvest season gets underway.
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Something Happened on the Way to Heaven…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
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The Masks Have Come Off
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story.
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Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – What to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.
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Palestinians Freed from Israeli Prisons Denied Reunion with Families, Deported Instead
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
As Trump Claims a ‘Forever’ Peace: Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deported them.
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Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025 – The imperial project to formalize occupation under international management via a transition authority would embed permanent colonial control, deepen division, and ensure that Gaza be permanently subjugated.
→ read full articleThe Impact of Nonviolent Accompaniment
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Third-party nonviolent intervention is the physical presence of a third party into an area of conflict in such a way as to reduce the level of violence. Accompaniment of persons in danger was developed as a technique in the early 1980s by Peace Brigades International, which I represented in Geneva.
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A Critique of Pure Stupidity: Understanding Trump 2.0
William Davies | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
13 Oct 2025 – Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the ICC.
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(Italiano) Pensare il conflitto
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Gli USA hanno un approccio immaturo, autistico, ai propri conflitti, da bambino viziato. Una leadership deve affrontare direttamente le radici dei conflitti – non i sintomi come l’odio e l’ostilità – ossia la contraddizione stessa, un problema in cerca di soluzione. Ed essere un bravo giocatore di squadra come sono sovente gli statunitensi, dove la squadra è il mondo.
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Trump Approves CIA Operations in Venezuela: What We Know, and What’s Next
Elizabeth Melimopoulos and Sarah Shamim | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.
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A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians…
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Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
Dan Steinbock | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – Amid its lethal bombarding campaign, Israel awarded licenses for gas exploration in offshore Gaza, which is not under its sovereignty. Hence, the ceasefire smokescreen to disguise the struggle for the gas reserves. Making Gaza safe for US capitalism.
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Increase by Record Amount in 2024
World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – CO2 levels in the atmosphere soared to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the WMO.
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Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
Sunjeev Bery | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment. The long-term implications of the “peace plan” appear startlingly similar to the goals that US white settlers had for Native Americans.
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Wish You Were Here (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
A Classic from 1975 – Lost Souls and War (with lyrics)
→ read full articleDr. Denis Mukwege’s Nobel Peace Prize Brought No Peace to the Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to “the man who heals women” made Euro-Americans feel good without interrupting their catastrophic proxy war for Congo’s resources. An incisive critique of that deeply flawed institution, Oslo’s Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
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Joint Statement by International Organisations against Trump’s Attendance to ASEAN Summit
ASEAN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
We, the undersigned organisations, fully condemn Trump’s attendance at the upcoming ASEAN Summit in Malaysia. We make this condemnation based on our common stance against US imperialism which is the primary antagonist of our world today.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Is Israel/Hamas Deal for Real?
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – Judge Andrew Napolitano Interviews Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
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UN Faces ‘Race to Bankruptcy’ as Guterres Unveils Sharply Reduced 2026 Budget
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.
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