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(French) La Spirale Descendante : Le Leadership de Nikol Pashinyan et la Chute de l’Arménie dans l’Abîme
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

10 août 2025 – Au printemps 2018, l’Arménie fut emportée par une vague d’optimisme lorsque des manifestations massives, surnommées la Révolution de Velours, renversèrent le gouvernement de longue date de Serzh Sargsyan. À la tête de ce mouvement se trouvait Nikol Pashinyan, ancien journaliste et figure de l’opposition.

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The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists
Richard Falk interviewed by Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – The 10 Aug 2025 Israeli airstrike that killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two others in Gaza: Falk argues that discrediting truth-tellers and murdering the press is consistent with the apartheid worldview that dominates Zionist ideology.

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Enabling Government Bipartisanship through Dual-Use Budget Items
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Expanding Interpretations of Civilian Benefit in Relation to National and Global Security – The following exploration was provoked by the widely publicized demand of the USA in July 2025 that NATO allies increase their defence spending to 5% of GDP.

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“Israel Has Succeeded in Killing Me”
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – The Israeli military just assassinated six Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike, among them beloved Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif. Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza.

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Eighty Years after Hiroshima: The American Bombs Have Turned Gaza into Hiroshima 2.0
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

7 Aug 2025 – Israel’s genocidal patron, namely the leaderships of the United States, have shown an utter and complete lack of human empathy, conscience or regard for the post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust international law, which they helped create.

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The Death of EU Values in Gaza
Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – The EU likes to think of itself as a community of values, committed to international law, peace, protecting civilians and a rules-based global order. But with the brutal destruction of Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine, these principles have become hollow rhetoric.

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(Português) Alienígenas entre nós?
Avi Loeb | Harvard Astronomy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

5 agosto 2025 – Um estudo de Harvard reacendeu a hipótese dos criptoterrestres seres extraterrestres vivendo disfarçados entre nós. A teoria sugere que eles chegaram há muito tempo e observam silenciosamente nossa evolução. O tema ganhou força…

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Myanmar Anti-Junta Opposition Plays with Fire: Dangling Rare Earth Materials before Transactional & Un-Trustworthy Washington
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

14 Aug 2025 – Myanmar’s anti-Junta opposition in the diaspora and their Western supporters are playing with fire when they reportedly dangle before Trump’s transactional administration the prospects of a fire sale of the country’s strategic natural resources for political support.

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Condemn All UN Member States: They Spend 100 Times More on Militarism Than on the Entire UN System
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – But did you know? Is this discussed now when the UN turn 80 in October? No, politicians, media and scholars generally focus on war and ignore humanity’s most important peace-maker.

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Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale Stare Down Goldfinger
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.

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Nobel Peace Prize for Trump
Marian Kamensky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

No joke…

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The End of Democracy?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – Upset by the non-violent revolutions of 1989, the Western intellectual world repeated like a childish refrain an enchanted phrase: “The fall of the Berlin Wall” and theorized the historical end of all analyses of contemporary society.

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The Significance of Holding a US-Russia Summit Now
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska on 15 Aug 2025 because a ceasefire in Ukraine appears likely. However, the situation is such that a ceasefire cannot be achieved through discussions between the US and Russian leaders.

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US-Russia Talks: The Choice between Peace and Escalation
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the chances for successful peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and prevent an ever-escalating war between the US, NATO and Russia.

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Israeli Occupation of Gaza and Who Would Be the Next King of Arabia?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – Israeli Occupation and How Leaders Mislead the Masses

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Historic Peace Summit in Alaska: Putin Emerges Victorious in Talks with Trump
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – Putin broke three years of isolation, forcing the West to engage on his timeline.  Trump hailed the talks as “productive” and noted “great progress,” but Putin made no promises, instead securing an invitation for future Moscow meetings.

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Ukraine: We Told You So!
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war *** Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible – Gallup asked that question three years ago to all Ukrainians. Then, 72% of Ukrainians wanted Ukraine to continue fighting and only 22% to negotiate an end to the war. Most recently, 24% want to continue fighting and 69% want to negotiate an end to the war.

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The War at Home
David Cole | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Red Scares in the US Past and Present

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Malnutrition Deaths Mark ‘Latest in the War on Children’ in Gaza: UNRWA Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, underscoring the need to speed up medical evacuations. – These young deaths are “the latest in the war on children and childhood in Gaza,” the head of UNRWA said today.

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The Trump–Putin Meeting in Alaska – An Opportunity also for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – This meeting comes at a time when Ukraine is facing the prospect of a devastating military defeat – one that can no longer be averted by further arms deliveries or financial aid.

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The Anxiety News Network
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Meanwhile, in the Divine Destiny country…

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Putin’s Step Back or Smart Move?
Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Ritter knows more about nukes, strategic balances, missile systems, etc. than almost anyone else, having been the first US Weapons Inspector for the enforcement of the new INF Treaty in 1988.

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Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS
Alan Macleod | MintPressNews - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

7 Aug 2025 – After reaching an agreement with Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired CBS News. He is the largest private funder of the IDF, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Netanyahu among his closest friends.

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The Responsibility to Protect and the Crisis in Gaza: A Call for Direct Nonviolent International Action
Charles Webel, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Gaza today constitutes a textbook case for invoking the United Nations’ Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine.

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From Templars to Jesuits and the Vatican: How the Occult Underground Shaped World History
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

14 Aug 2025 – You can access the transcript with images as well as the video version of the lecture.

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The Transcendental Self and Its Implications
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – What makes us human and gives us hope?

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‘Democracy’ Is the New Colonialism
Constantin von Hoffmeister | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

7 Aug 2025 – Empires have not changed, they have simply cloaked themselves in platitudes such as “resilience,” “visibility,” and “empowerment.”

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80 Years Ago, today…
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

… and a Sample of My Work on Psychology of Nuclear Dynamics – 10 Aug 2025

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Zen and the Art of Woodland Garden Maintenance with Ease and Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Oberg Photo Graphics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

12 Aug 2025 – You should tend to your garden today even if the world ends tomorrow. It’s a very healthy defiance… We do not know what a garden looks like that gives you peace, inner and outer, and is also rather easy to maintain. But we’re working on it.

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Indian Government Increases Pressure against Bengali-speakers and Other Muslims
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – Indian authorities  in recent days have expelled hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims to Bangladesh without due process, ostensibly to deter people from entering India without legal authorization. 

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People’s Inquiries: Alternatives for Seeking Justice
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – Today the Peoples’ Tribunal/Inquiry movement is part of the larger movement for building new and fair societies, creating new relations between people, and institutions alternative to those of the traditional modern state.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 18 Aug 2025

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion to ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

14 Aug 2025 – The planned construction appears to be a response to Western countries saying they will recognize a Palestinian state.

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Light of Life, the Synchronised Biophotons and Photobionts, a Novel Hypothesis (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

A Bio-philosophical narrative inspired by a visionary hypothesis on Peace, weaving together evolutionary biology, biophysics, and peace propagation in our troubled, belligerent world.

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Re-living the Past within Us
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Toshio Kojima, owner of the “Kojima Art Gallery” in a suburb of Tokyo, has been teaching me about the importance of Boro Art! “Boro-boro” is an expression meaning “worn-out.”  (Spending too much time watching US politics play out on TV, one might say, “I’m feeling boro-boro now!”)

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Two Indias: Gandhiji and Modern India
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Gandhi was killed not far from where we are right now by a Pune brahmin, Godse, and I was that 17-year-old boy in Norway who cried upon hearing the news. Something unheard of had happened.

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From Silence to Accountability: Why the United Nations Must Break with Complicity
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – The UN today sits at a crossroads. On paper, it remains the custodian of universal human rights, peace, and sustainable development. In practice, large parts of it now function in structural complicity with forces perpetrating crimes against humanity, systemic ecocide, and the mass impoverishment of billions.

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Walls Closing in on Squirming Pedophile Trump
Joachim Hagopian | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi is aiding and abetting pedophiles that include Trump when he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend in his 40s. New York Magazine: I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. – Trump

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Israel’s National Security Cabinet Approves Netanyahu’s Escalation, Hiding Defeat in the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

8 Aug 2025 – Relations with the Trump presidency seem to be finally fraying and the announced cause seems to be Israel’s stubborn refusal to allow food, water, and medicines to reach starving Palestinians rather than the controversy inside and outside of Israel to extend military operation to the yet unoccupied parts of Gaza City.

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AP Reveals Armed Contractors Fired on Starving Gazans at US-Backed Aid Sites
The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

An AP investigation exposes how untrained US security contractors used live fire, stun grenades, and pepper spray on hungry Palestinians at GHF-run food/aid centers in Gaza.

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Euro-Med: Israel Recruits Gangs and US Mercenaries to Kill Civilians Near Gaza Food/Aid Points
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

In a report, the human rights group said the IDF is coordinating with the “Abu Shabab gang” and foreign mercenaries from a US private security firm to incite chaos and carry out extrajudicial killings as snipers.

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Cognitive Fullerene as a Rosetta Stone for Patterns of Systemic Constraint
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

10 Aug 2025 – Reconciliation between Disparate Frameworks in the Light of Global Familiarity with the Football

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Video Report: Israel Imposes No-Build Zone in Southern Lebanon
Drop Site News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

On 17 July, an Israeli drone strike killed at least one person and injured two others in Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh governorate, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The missile struck a civilian vehicle—part of the Israeli military’s ongoing aerial campaign in southern Lebanon, carried out in defiance of the declared ceasefire.

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Nazis Murdered My Family in the Holocaust—Now Germany Is Punishing Me for Protesting Zionists’ Genocide in Gaza
Rachael Shapiro | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

2 Aug 2025 – This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.

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Europe Is Going Down Like the Titanic Because It Has Learned Nothing from Its Past
Peter Noordendorp | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – Europe is repeating bad things from the past because it learned nothing from its colonial past and its warmongering on European soil. About the past of the US, it is good to say that it lost all wars from Vietnam up until Afghanistan after WW2. Ukraine is now its latest fiasco.

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In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka | Library of Short Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

“It’s a remarkable apparatus,” said the Officer to the Explorer and gazed with a certain look of admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar. It appeared that the Traveller had responded to the invitation of the Commandant only out of politeness, when he had been asked to attend the execution of a soldier condemned for disobeying and insulting his superior.

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Children of Light and the Human Interest
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

The task of strengthening the human interest against armed violence, poverty, ecological decay, and the gross violations of human rights is still before us.  We must not underestimate the difficulties nor the persistence of narrow self-interest.  There is much to be done.  Join in this vital effort.

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A Wasteland of Rubble, Dust and Graves: How Gaza Looks from the Sky
Lorenzo Tondo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

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Catastrophe Capitalism Complicit in Israel’s Genocide
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Mark this down…

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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on 6 Aug by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

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What’s Cooking in Macron’s Mind with This Palestine Stunt? A Sarcastic Stroll Through Eight Years of French Flops
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – Oh, Emmanuel Macron, you enigmatic maestro of French flair, what fresh folly have you conjured now? In a move that’s got the world raising its eyebrows higher than the Eiffel Tower, Macron has announced that France will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September 2025.

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Ministries of Peace?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

The text, the message of a ministry, is revealed in its subsections, like the 64 US Congressmen headed by Dennis Kucinich did so well in the proposal for a US Department of Peace. Three major tasks: mediation of present conflicts, conciliation for the traumas of past violence, and construction of a more solid pace for the future.

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Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

3 Aug 2025 – The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems. It’s high-time to rethink how state IDs and identification technologies are linked to mass atrocities. My new research brief is a small step towards this rethink. Here’s the thinking behind it.

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Gaza Genocide-Complicit States’ “Conditional Recognition” of Palestine Is “Elastic Words”
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – Words can’t liberate people under oppression in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, much less end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.

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Randy Newman – Political Science: Let’s Drop the Big One Now (Music Video of the Week) 1
Joe Ramen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

A Video I Put Together Using Randy Newman’s Song as a Vehicle

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Palestine/Israel: UN Chief Urges Action to Implement Two-State Solution for Lasting Peace
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

“The only realistic, just, and sustainable solution is two States — Israel and Palestine — living side-by-side in peace and security, within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both – in line with international law, UN resolutions and other relevant agreements.”

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What to Know as Israel Considers Reoccupying Gaza in What Would Be a Major Escalation of the War
Joseph Krauss | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering ordering the full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media, a move that would draw fierce opposition internationally and within Israel.

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How Long Will They Talk to Us about the Holocaust?
Leopoldo Alberto Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

But the Zionists (because it’s them, not the Jews) never stop talking about the Holocaust, as if they had exclusive ownership of the suffering. Fundamentalist Zionism has taken over Palestine and seeks to extend its dominance to all of Western Asia. They are doing to others what the Nazis did to the Jews.

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Cyprus: US and Israel Clash with Turkey over Control of the Eastern Mediterranean
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

9 Aug 2025 – The Island of Cyprus finds itself caught in the eye of the corridor-hegemony storm with Washington, Israel, and the UK on one side, and Turkey, China, and Russia seeking dominance and influence. This connects to the global war against Humanity – the reduction of nation states to money laundering hubs for the ruling transnational elite.

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From Thinking to Action in the Fight against Plastics
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

The Global Plastics Treaty was supposed to be finalized last year but negotiations broke down between two blocs of nations, those seeking controls on plastics and harmful chemicals, and those reliant on fossil fuel production. Since then, of course, Trump began his second term, with his MAGA mantra of “Drill, Baby, Drill.”

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Genocide Musical… B. Netanyahu Sings: “We Are the Killers!” (Music Video of the Week) 2
Red Creators Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

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Children Are ‘Skin and Bones’ in Sudan: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying violence, this have become the grim norm. “This is a looming catastrophe,” said Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative in Sudan.

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The US and Russia Pretend to Be False Enemies
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

After the conflict between Russia and the US and Europe became decisive with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Medvedev was likely appointed by Putin to continue issuing provocative accusations and sarcasm against the US and EU which the Russian government cannot officially announce but wants to convey to the world.

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Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

3 Jul 2025 – An Evidence-Based Road Map for Future Policy Action

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 11 Aug 2025

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The Nightmare in Gaza
Aviva Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

In 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance drafted a definition of antisemitism. It was founded in 1998 to promote Holocaust education and to “strengthen governmental cooperation to work towards a world without genocide.” Right now, its definition is being used to criminalize opposition to genocide.

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Karl Marx Letter to US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Karl Marx - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams on 28 Jan 1865

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Building Power for Palestine and for a New World Order
Ray Acheson | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – A coalition of states met in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-July to try and disrupt Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Their commitments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law are important to counter the militarism and profiteering of Western states. People power is the strength behind these commitments; what will lead to their implementation.

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A New Report Exposes How Major US Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

29 Jul 2025 – It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

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Biophotons and the Peace Crusade: A 21st Century Manifesto Written in Light (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

From Global Hegemony to Global Harmony Deploying Quantum Biology

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Threats and Intimidation Stalling Top ICC Prosecutor’s Israel Case: Report
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

3 Aug 2025 – Report says Karim Khan ‘privately threatened’ by then-Foreign Secretary David Cameron with UK’s withdrawal from International Criminal Court. – Intimidation campaigns including threats to safety and sanctions directed at the chief prosecutor of the ICC as he investigates war crimes by Israeli officials in Gaza.

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The Liquidation of Hope: Gaza’s Televised Agony
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – The sheer, unrelenting horror unfolding in Gaza is not unique in its scale of human suffering. Sudan has endured catastrophic famine for over a year, reaching the same “fifth stage of starvation” Gaza now tragically enters.

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Trump Officials’ Gaza Tour Slammed as ‘Blatant Theatrical Display’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – Cynically Stage-Managed Humanitarian Aid – “The goal is clear—to erase the truth, discredit thousands of recorded videos, and wash away the blood,” said one Palestinian photojournalist.

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Eritrea: We Won’t Kneel Down
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – This year’s US Eritrean Festival was held in Stockton, California. Eritrean Americans were as gregarious and joyful to be together as ever, speaking their native language, Tigrinya, and celebrating their culture.

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A Flash Mob for Gaza Bounces from Milan to Berlin – Video
Andrea De Lotto | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – Several flash mobs have been held in Milan to denounce the genocide in Palestine, but one in particular has been repeated many times in other Italian cities and also in Berlin.

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Changing the Narrative: Why West African Media Is Embracing Peace Journalism
Mohammed Ibrahim | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

7 Jul 2025 – In a media landscape often dominated by sensationalism and conflict-driven content, a quiet revolution is taking place. Across West Africa, radio stations are shifting their focus to peace journalism, using their platforms to promote dialogue, resolve conflicts, and build resilient communities.

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1,500 Killed while Seeking Food Aid in Gaza since May: UN
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that many people reportedly continue to be killed and injured, including those seeking food along the UN convoy routes and militarized distribution points.”

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Bombed Clinic and Conquest Decision: Netanyahu Hastens Gaza’s Final Collapse
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – The image is brutal. The explosion—like a torn throat—shatters the silence of the night and lights up the ruins of Gaza surrounding the UN clinic, which blew into a thousand pieces. This is not an excess. It is a message. The missile did not only strike a medical facility: it struck the very threshold of imaginable horror. This destruction was no accident. It was the result of a war logic forged behind closed doors.

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A Totally Normal Thing to Sell
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

While I was at the gym, I saw a man on the machine next to me wearing an Alligator Alcatraz T-shirt. That shirt is merch for a literal concentration camp. The people being held there aren’t criminals who were found guilty in a court— they are people whom Trump has deemed undesirable.

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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Right from the start the US colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”

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FDA Orders COVID ‘Vaccine’ Makers Pfizer and Moderna to Warn Public about Heart Damage Risk
Frank Bergman and Prof Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

8 Aug 2025 – The United States Food and Drug Administration has ordered Pfizer and Moderna to issue warnings that their Covid mRNA “vaccines” carry a high risk of heart damage, particularly for young men. That was known to the FDA and the CDC but they failed to act.

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Israel Preparing to Escalate Military Offensive in Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

3 Aug 2025 – The Israeli military is drawing up plans to escalate its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip that will soon be presented to Israeli political leadership, Haaretz reported today. An Israeli official said Netanyahu is pushing for ‘the release of hostages as part of a military resolution.’

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Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

28 Jul 2025 – These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.

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A Japanese Child’s Dream to End All Wars
Gary Corseri & Mako Kumano – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

My 10-year-old third cousin-in-law, Mako Kumano, was assigned a composition subject in her 5th grade class:
     “If you were to be reborn, what would you be and what would you like to do?” 

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Global Configuration of Human Rights for a Global Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – Insights Via AI in the Light of the Rosetta Stone, Philosopher’s Stone and Cut Diamond

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One Thousand Paper Cranes
Marilyn Langlois - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

TRANSCEND member Marilyn Langlois describes her pilgrimage to Hiroshima, Japan, in April of 2025, recalling her family connection to the first atomic bomb, countering myths surrounding its use, and stressing the urgency of “never again.”

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Bankruptcy Is Us
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this USA on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Trump as president (twice!) would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future.

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Stronger Track Two Networks Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

The armed conflict in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, and tensions between China and Taiwan, without any governmental negotiations, forces us to ask if more can be done on the part of NGOs to encourage negotiations in good faith.

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Atomic Suicide
Rube Goldberg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

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Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

Since August 1945 the world has been living on borrowed time but a nuclear war can be averted. A revival of public pressure for nuclear disarmament is essential. It could focus on the signing and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which none of the nuclear powers has signed.

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Denying Gaza’s Starvation Is No Less Vile Than Denying the Holocaust
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

27 Jul 2025 – Denial is legitimate in Israel, it’s consistent with local political correctness – there is no hunger; descriptions of deliberate starvation in Gaza are an antisemitic conspiracy.

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Survey: What the World Thinks about Israel in 2025
Marcus Lu | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

Among the 24 countries surveyed in early 2025, the majority of respondents had a negative view of Israel (median 62%). Just three countries had more positive responses than negative: India, Kenya and Nigeria.

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Countering Genocide: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

2 Aug 2025 – Interview with Mike Billington of the Schiller Institute on array of topics. Published in the  1 Aug 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

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The Mathematics of Starvation: How Israel Caused a Famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza: Palestinians cannot leave their open air prison, military attacks have annihilated farming, Israel has banned fishing. All food they need must be brought from outside–and that Israel will not allow. RIP

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Israel’s International Isolation Has Begun
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

2 Jul 2025 – U.S. and global politics surrounding Israel are shifting rapidly as the world recoils in horror at Israel’s starvation of Gaza. Here are several lessons the left should take note of. 

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Zionist Spies Innovate AI Sexual Blackmail Tech
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

On July 19th, Ynet announced Israeli artificial intelligence startup Decart “has unveiled a real-time video transformation technology, setting a new benchmark in the field of generative media,” following “months of anticipation and extensive fundraising.”

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‘Welcome to Hell’: Inside El Salvador’s Megaprison Where Trump Deported Migrants
Samantha Schmidt, et al. | WP/Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – Interviews with 16 former detainees of the Terrorism Confinement Center show the conditions at the notorious prison. One detainee was beaten unconscious, others emerged covered in bruises, struggling to walk, vomiting blood, another returned to cell in tears telling he’d been sexually assaulted.

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On the Long March to Sovereignty: Niger’s Revolution against French Neocolonialism Enters Third Year
Pavan Kulkarni | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – Enduring a financial siege by France and terror attacks by its alleged proxies, the popular military government that replaced the puppet regime in Niger enters the third year of its rule, with concrete progress to show in agriculture, education, and power-generation.

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(Italiano) Il mondo si muove verso sud e est
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

Le religioni e le visioni del mondo sono nei nostri cuori e nelle nostre menti. Enormi depositi di esperienze umane, le religioni sono un mix di gioielli di saggezza e fango di negatività, che riflettono traumi e glorie subite o subite da altri.

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Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century
Morton Deutsch, Ph.D. | Psychologists for Social Responsibility - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

Some conflicts – whether between spouses, labor and management, or nations – seem to escalate out of control. Conflict research yields knowledge that has been successfully applied and can be productively applied to the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis, India and Pakistan and other conflicts that seem to be stuck in the kind of escalating sequence that could lead to continued mutual harm.

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