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Peace, Peace Education and the UN
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

How about peace education in all of that?  Training in handling complexity is basic, and the first tool to go is the world map using four colors to highlight the dying state system.  An illusion, the real world is much more complex.

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Israel Stalls and the International Court of Justice Complies
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

23 Apr 2025 – One year ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel had fifteen months to prepare their defense (“counter memorial”) against the charges of genocide filed by South Africa. They were told to present their arguments by 28 July 2025.

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Greeting for Pesach
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As you gather around the Seder table to celebrate Pesach, may this sacred time fill your hearts with peace, gratitude, and divine connection.

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Holly Week and Easter Greetings
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As we reflect upon the sacred journey of Jesus, from the solemnity of the Cross to the glory of the Resurrection, may we be reminded that even in moments of suffering, there is a divine promise of renewal and hope.

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Memorable Configurations of Numbers of Cognitive and Strategic Relevance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Implications of Clarification Elicited through Exchange with AI – Corresponding to the long-recognized crisis of illiteracy and current aversion to reading, there is an increasing degree of recognition of innumeracy and the aversion to “mathematics”

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The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

25 Apr 2025 – This week, the think tank Pakistan Institute of International Affairs is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. I will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.

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NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

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Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

This text is based on a paper published in the Special Issue of University News – A Weekly Journal of Higher Education of Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 42, No. 52, Dec. 27, 2004

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(Italiano) Francesco I: Umano E Rivoluzionario
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Aprile 2025 – Perché rivoluzionario?

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The Secret Military History of the Internet
The Chris Hedges Report with Yasha Levine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “Surveillance Valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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Urgent Emphasis on Nonviolent Approach in News Reporting
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The international workshop ‘Reporting on Non-Violence Approach’, organized by Pressenza and Dhaka Reporters Unity, was held on April 18. It was conducted virtually from Chile, Argentina, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 90 members of Dhaka Reporters Unity participated.

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A New Pope, A New Policy?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – Pope Francis was the first Pope from Latin America after a long line of Popes from Western Europe, mostly Italy, with one Pope from Poland, Jean-Paul II, who played an important role in the transition away from Communism in Poland.

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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Apr 2025 – Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.

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E `Ōlelo Kakou, Sisters E Pule Kakou, Sisters
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

(Let us speak together, Sisters) (Let us pray together, Sisters)
Sisters and Brothers Hear our prayer to you,
In the spirit of Aloha which our gods bequeathed to us and
to you,

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Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

25 Apr 2025 – The wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations because the UN Charter is wrong. The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Record Hunger in Haiti, with Millions at Risk
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

17 Apr 2025 – Escalating armed violence, displacement, economic turmoil and disruptions to local food production are fueling hunger in Haiti and leaving millions at risk, the UN World Food Programme said on today. 

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Message of Condolences on Passing on of His Holiness Pope Francis I
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – On this solemn Easter Monday, we join you in mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis—a shepherd of the marginalized, a bridge-builder between faiths, and a prophetic voice for our times.

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The Odyssey of Moses from Antiquity to Peace of Pesach
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Presently, the three branches of the Abrahamic faiths [1]observe extremely auspicious periods of spiritual upliftment Christianity observes, the 40 days of Lent leading up to the Holy Week and Easter Friday, when Jesus Christ[2], the persecuted Messiah was crucified.

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Preparing to ‘move on’, US says Ukraine is ‘not our war’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – After weeks of fruitless talks, the Trump administration is increasingly suggesting that it will abandon its efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Sudan’s Paramilitary Attacks Largest IDP Camps amid World’s Biggest Displacement Crisis, Killing Over 100
Pavan Kulkarni | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.

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Reason against Belief
Wisdom Warriors - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Signs of the Times

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Trump’s Cultural Revolution
Paul Krugman | Nobel Economics Laureate– TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The First Thing We Do Is We Kill Intellectual Inquiry

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New Peace Ideas and the Johan Galtung International Peace Prize
Syed Sikander Mehdi | Revista de Cultura de Paz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

31 Dec 2024 – Excepting the Nobel Peace Prize, most of the international peace prizes are little known; some are not even regularly awarded; and a number of these, including the Nobel Peace Prize, shows little appreciation for the role of peace educators and researchers in promoting peace and building peace.

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Greetings for the Holy Week and Easter
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Easter Greetings

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Global Humanity Warns the Pharaohs of War for Consequences
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Abnormal Politicians Become Leaders

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Flooding Displaces Thousands amid Ongoing Unrest in Eastern DR Congo
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province, DRC, the UN refugee agency, said today. 

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Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

20 April 2025 – Israel is indirectly controlling a strip of the land along the Syrian border with Jordan, and is promoting a plan to create a “David Corridor” that connects Israel to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. This is a plan for Israel to inherit Middle East hegemony from the United States…

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(French) Les Liens Troubles entre le Vatican et l’Azerbaïdjan : l’Arménie, Dindon de la Farce
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Apr 2025 – Le Pape François vient de mourir en laissant de la poussière sous le tapis.

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The Western Narrative of Decline: A Misreading of Power and Purpose
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

25 Apr 2025 – For over two decades, a persistent narrative has circulated in Western media and political circles: the United States has been in a state of inexorable decline since the turn of the millennium.

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I’ve Worked at Google for Decades and I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing
Emma Jackson | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

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The Deafening Silence: Arab Complicity and the Normalization of Evil in Gaza
Jamal Kanj | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 April 2025 – The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza–an illegal act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population–as famine tightens its grip.

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Close Military Bases, Not Embassies
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong.

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Norway’s Prime Minister Accused of Complicity in Genocide
Marianne Bergvall - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

19 Apr 2025 – It is time to end impunity. We – Grandmothers against Genocide – have now filed a criminal complaint against top Norwegian politicians for complicity in genocide and war crimes.

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One on One – Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Johan Galtung, considered the father of peace studies, discusses why he dedicated his life to waging peace in the world.

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Haiti ‘Awash’ with Guns Leaving Population ‘Absolutely Terrified’
Daniel Dickinson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

17 Apr 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of guns are being used by gangs to exert control and spread terror in Haiti, according to the UN’s designated expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.

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Pope Francis Has Died on Easter Monday Aged 88 (RIP)
Devin Watkins | Vatican News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Pope Francis died today, 21 Apr 2025, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.

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Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.

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The Hawai’i Land Grab — And Trump’s Thirst for Greenland
Now It’s History - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

How Hawaii’s queen was dethroned by a group of white US businessmen eager to avoid tariffs on their sugar exports. In 1887, the heir to Hawaii’s throne attended a fellow royal’s grand party: the jubilee celebration marking Queen Victoria’s 50th anniversary as sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Eliciting Comprehension of Subtle Coherence of Strategic Relevance
Antony Judge | laetus in praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Exploration of Cognitively Resonant Configurations of Meaning and Order – In a period celebrated formally or informally as “holy” or “sacred”, it is extraordinary to witness the pervasive violence between those who each claim allegiance to a spiritual worldview.

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SIPRI’s Ongoing Decay from Peace to Mainstream Military Security – Its New Director
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden.

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Trump Reconciles with Iran
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – US Pres. Trump is moving towards a nuclear deal and reconciliation with Iran. Today, Trump’s special envoy and the Iranian Foreign Minister began negotiations in Oman, a Middle Eastern country friendly with Iran. 

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Despite Threats, nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force Reservists Demand End of Gaza War, Hostage Deal
Bar Peleg and Michael Hauser Tov | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

10 Apr 2025 – ‘Currently, the war serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests,’ wrote active reservists and former senior officials in the letter that was published despite the Israeli Air Force Commander’s threats to oust signatories.

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(Italiano) La matrice stragista e i depistaggi
Alessandro Marescotti | PeaceLink – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

4 aprile 2025 – Strage fascista di Brescia: sentenza dopo 51 anni conferma le complicità istituzionali e atlantiche. La definizione ormai abusata di “servizi segreti deviati” non regge più alla luce di questa sentenza. I depistaggi furono un’azione consapevole, deliberata, volta a mantenere l’Italia all’interno dell’orbita atlantica e a garantire l’“ordine”, anche a costo di sacrificare vite innocenti.

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Historian on How Tariffs Played a Role in the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
DW Gibson | Hawaiʻi Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – As for today, Williams said, “You look the news and you see using tariffs as a sword to get other countries to bend to our will, and that’s exactly what happened in Hawaiʻi. Once we put all of our faith in the use of tariffs, the Kingdom was lost.”

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On Freedom: The Vision of a Contemporary North American Political Thinker
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Freedom is being defeated in the USA for failure to discern and protect these five aspects of freedom and because it is part of a fragmented world system that structurally defeats Personal Sovereignty, Creative Unpredictability, Mobility, Factuality and Truth-telling, as well as Human Solidarity.

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Some Chess Game
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Inequality, corruption… what?

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The German “Drang nach Osten” Policy and Southeast Europe around 1900
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

18 Apr 2025 – The unified German Empire, proclaimed in Versailles in January 1871, contemplated balancing the division of the world’s colonies, the markets, and the sources of the world’s raw material.

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Syria: What New Structures of the State Are Needed?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – With the end of the long dictatorship of Bachar al-Assad and the naming of Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), as President, there is a need for the Syrians to consider the structures of the state.

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“They’re Kissing My Ass”: Trump Says Tariffs Are Going Great, Promises Duty on Pharmaceuticals
Alex Galbraith | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Trump has a rosy take on the early days of his ‘war on the world.’ “I’m telling you these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They’re dying to make a deal.”

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Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk
ET NOW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

17 Apr 2025 – Says ‘Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him’

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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.

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US Concentration Camps
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

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Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Xi recalled that China and the EU are “firm defenders” of free trade and that “there are no winners in a tariff war.”

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Armenia Betrayed: The Opposition’s Case against Pashinyan’s Surrender and the Folly of Western Dreams
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

As Armenia stands at a crossroads in April 2025, it reels from the catastrophic fallout of the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and the subsequent actions of PM Nikol Pashinyan, whom the opposition brands as a traitor to the Armenian people.

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China Cuts Off Boeing, Crippling US Manufacturing
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Krystal and Saagar discuss China cutting off Boeing in a major retaliation to the US.

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Why That Much Violence These Days?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

We find it all over, as massive killings in connection with US and/or its allies [NATO] attacks on Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine, Israeli genocide of Palestinians, Sudan, Myanmar…–22 ongoing armed conflicts in 2025. There will probably be much more because of Trump’s tariffs economic war against the world [“They’re Kissing My Ass”] and threats of annexation of the Panama Canal and Greenland. [Updated by the TMS editor.]

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Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – The ‘international rules-based order’ in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been a charade. But Israel’s Gaza genocide, carried out with impunity, with the participation of the US and its allies, has exposed the charade like never before.

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The Paradox of Israel’s Role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: A Christian Bastion Betrayed?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

The narrative that Israel is a defender of the Western world against radical Islam; a nation fighting for its own survival and for Judeo-Christian values against an encroaching Islamic tide, is starkly contradicted by Israel’s extensive military support to Azerbaijan, a Muslim-majority nation.

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Problematic Global Secular Celebration of Passover?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

14 Apr 2025 – Paradoxical Contemporary Deification of a Negligent International Community – There is no lack of commentary on the surreal nature of the current times and the challenges it poses for strategic governance.

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The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – Last week I participated in a panel discussion on the weaponization of antisemitism at the annual conference of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.

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(Italiano) Costruiamo le alternative alla guerra
Redazione | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

11 Aprile 2025 – Contro questi venti di guerra, contro le politiche che vedono nel riarmo la sola strada per garantire la pace, occorrono ampie alleanze politiche sia a livello istituzionale che da parte dei Movimenti: costruiamo, insieme, le alternative alla guerra.

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Israel Is About to Empty Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.

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Have Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.

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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

11 Apr 2025 – Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country’s atrocities illegitimacy.

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State of Emergency
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

Meanwhile, at the Trump Fiefdom…

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Yanis Varoufakis Explains Trump’s Tariffs
Nexus - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

10 Apr 2025 – Varoufakis was Greece’s finance minister during the Greek debt crisis in 2015. Some called him the rock star finance minister for resisting the faceless bureaucrats from the European Union, the IMF – and the rapacious bankers.

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Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

7 Apr 2025 – One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.”

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The Odyssey of the Prince of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

“The Prince of Peace came with the Lord’s Blessings, and we have not only heeded Him, but also ignored Him totally and eventually killed Him. Even in the present era we, as collective humanity, have brazenly transgressed His Peace Doctrines. Oh! you pathetic humankind, in eternal pursuit of materialism.”

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Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

10 Apr 2025 – A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.

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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

Iluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.

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On AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – Artificial Intelligence isn’t conscious. Saying AI should replace humanity is the same as saying fire should replace humanity, or white noise static from old televisions should replace humanity.

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The “West” Is Imploding Faster after This
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

8 Apr 2025 – The entire “western” narrative, its repressive dominance and hubris are about to collapse. To discuss the state of the European tragedy, two scholars from the region: Dr. Jan Oberg, a peace researcher from Sweden, and former British Diplomat Ian Proud.

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Gaza Death Toll Soars with Dozens Killed in Single Day of Relentless Israeli Bombing
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

6 Apr 2025 – Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, as the Israeli army continues to relentlessly pound the strip with airstrikes. 

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Choosing My Name
Puanani Burgess - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

“Choosing My Name” is a poem written by Hawaiian author, Puanani Burgess. It can be found in her book, Growing Up Local: An anthology of poetry and prose from Hawai’i.

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Understanding and Countering Agent Provocateurs in Nonviolent Movements
Scot Nakagawa | The Anti-authoritarian Play Book - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

4 Apr 2025 – A Strategic Perspective

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McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

8 Apr 2025 – Trump has expressed his admiration for Republican Pres. William McKinley for his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But critics say Trump’s tariffs have instead fueled a stock market nosedive.

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The Persian Gulf War and the Gulf Peace Team
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

The Gulf Peace Team had its origins in the idea of sending a team to the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia as part of the struggle to prevent war in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The idea in one form or another had occurred to several people simultaneously around the end of September 1990.

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The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

25 Feb 2025 – Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture

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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.

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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.

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Relevance of Peace Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

Paper based on a keynote speech delivered at the National Convention of International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) on the theme: Relevance of Peace Educationon 8 Feb 1991 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Giving Birth to the New International Order
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

11 Apr 2025 – The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.

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Is This the World We Created? This Is Hell
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

7 Apr 2025 – Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind. We lack an equivalent of Bertrand Russell or Noam Chomsky, whose careful exposition of societal analysis and ideals is being superseded.

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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.

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Think Twice…
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

No Comment…

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Think Cosmically, Act Globally, Eat Locally…
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Apr 2025

A unifying story calls for something above all individual humans, something out there, and in here; like life itself, human life, humanity as such, the net of human relations, the god(s) of our faiths.  It cannot be I-me-my-mine, that is egocentrism.

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Visualization of Polyhedral Inner Chambers with Psychosocial Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

AI-assisted Exploration of Neglected Underlying Patterns of Order in 3D – There is a basic set of symmetrical polyhedra, many known in Ancient Greece, whose symmetry made them a focus for architecture, sacred geometry symbolism, and an inspiration for patterns of order and coherence in many domains.

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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.

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Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

1 Apr 2025 – We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Fri [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead.

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Germany’s New Political Landscape
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – A new party, Alternatives for Germany, became the second strongest force in parliament. The AfD are libertarian-conservatives favoring less government and stricter asylum laws, calling for an end to the NATO-sponsored wars of regime change that have generated waves of refugees.

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(Italiano) Impero USA: declino progressivo e caduta inevitabile (Parte 1)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

Gli Imperi hanno profili differenti. L’Impero USA ha una configurazione completa, articolata in una asserzione di un pianificatore del Pentagono: “Il ruolo di fatto delle Forze Armate degli Stati Uniti sarà di mantenere il mondo al sicuro per la nostra economia e aperto al nostro assalto culturale. A tali fini, faremo un discreto numero di uccisioni”.

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Truth Is Antisemitism–Protest Is Terrorism–Dissent Is Russian Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from de Edge of the Narrative Matrix - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

6 Apr 2025 – The Gaza holocaust is happening right in front of us. It’s like if everyone in Nazi Germany had screens in their homes showing what was happening in the extermination camps. Nobody can say they didn’t know. That claim does not exist for us.

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Will the UN Pillory Francesca Albanese?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – This is another pivotal moment for the UN and its Human Rights Council; whether it is subject to manipulation on issues that test the UN’s political independence. Tomorrow the UNHRC will vote on whether to reappoint Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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AI’s $4.8 Trillion Future: UN Warns of Widening Digital Divide without Urgent Action
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – Artificial Intelligence is to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.

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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

Mar 1947 Issue – “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly, one cannot be politically orthodox.”

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Full Video of Israeli Attack on Gaza Medics
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

5 Apr 2025 – Middle East Eye has obtained the full video from the Palestine Red Crescent Society documenting an Israeli attack on medical workers in Gaza. It was recovered from the phone of one of the medics who was killed and later discovered in a mass grave.

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People of Conscience a Threat to US/Israel Zionist Dreams of Domination
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – As the US and Israel commit serial mass murder–Palestinian genocide–I think of how People of Conscience like Albert Einstein and Dietrich Bonhoeffer took the moral high ground. Pressure from corrupt leaders and a misguided public could not move them to sell their soul. 

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Identity Politics, Sexual Politics, and Violence against People in Sri Lanka
Sanjeewani Rupasinghe – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

4 Apr 2025 – From the 1971 insurrection and the 1988–89 uprisings to the decades-long civil war, Sri Lanka has endured cycles of brutality, state-sponsored impunity, and a deep disregard for human life. These dark chapters have perpetuated a culture of violence and silence.

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Two Empires Falling – But How?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

The significance of the Rosenstrasse nonviolence in the heart of Berlin in the middle of the war is neglected, just like Obama neglected the role of nonviolence in ending both colonialism and the cold war in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, probably the most belligerent ever given.

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Armenia and Its Diaspora: A Tapestry of Tension and Triumph
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – As Armenia navigates its precarious existence in March 2025, the relationship with its diaspora—spread across key centers like France, Iran, Russia, and the United States—remains a complex and often strained bond.

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