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Israel’s Suicidal Rupture with the U.S.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.
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De-signing a Poem of Re-signation in a Period of Polycrisis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Enabling Negative Capability with an Artificial I – In a period of polycrisis it is potentially fruitful to ask whether insight could be otherwise presented.
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Strengthening Respect for International Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, warned that there is a serious erosion of respect for international humanitarian law. The ICRC is the chief agency for the respect of the Geneva Conventions, the heart of international humanitarian law.
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Defending Israel’s Human Rights Violations–The Illusions of Western Virtue
Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – The instrumentalization of human rights has long been a staple of Western foreign policy, despite mounting evidence that such commitments are rarely applied consistently–Ursula von der Leyen and Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy, Double Standards
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Advocates Renew Call for End to US Sanctions after Devastating Venezuela Earthquakes
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – Despite Earthquake, Trump Keeps Sanctions on Venezuela
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No One Bombs Their Way to Peace
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – The first lesson of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not that military power has become irrelevant. It is that military power, even when overwhelming, does not automatically produce political obedience.
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Psychological Fact: Nuclear Disarmament Requires World Federal Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – There is one word that explains why nuclear disarmament conferences have failed: DISTRUST. I came to this conclusion while studying reports from the recent “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” Review Conference.
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Datacentres Are Growing Target of Global Climate-Related Legal Cases, Report Finds
Isabella Kaminski | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution.
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Help Venezuela NOW through the Armenian Cathedral of Caracas
Diran Noubar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
I am documentary film director and TMS writer Diran Noubar from France. In the heart of this tragedy is our community’s anchor, the Church of the Holy Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Caracas, with which I have a direct connection, and Bishop Bedros with whom I have a relationship and daily communication.
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29 THOUSAND Visits per Day, 29 Donors in 2026–Too Large a Discrepancy among Our Readers
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
29 Jun 2026
We at TMS will not be able to continue disseminating our pioneer Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism unless readers decide to partner with us. Not charity, not alms, not coin in a hat, but a recognition of our work’s value to the inhabitants of a very sick planet in need of solutions. Urgent solutions.
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Football, Labour, and the Architecture of Extraction – Let us begin with a scandalous sentence for people who believe a player’s weekly wage has abolished class: footballers are workers.
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Iran Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – The crisis of legitimacy and credibility facing US leaders as a new generation of humanity confronts the genocide in Gaza, the US-Israeli war on Iran and other US acts of force and coercion.
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Cyber Warfare Markets
Fortune Business Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
8 Jun 2026 – Cyber warfare is a key area of contemporary war policy. The global cyber warfare market size was valued at USD 134.72 Billion in 2025 and it is projected to grow to USD 303.71 Billion by 2034. North America dominated this market with a share of 48.22% in 2025.
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(Français) La Sagesse d’un Homme d’État face à la Provocation : La Frappe sur Voronej et le Sang-Froid de Vladimir Poutine
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Le 22 juin 2026, l’Ukraine, avec le soutien actif de missiles de croisière franco-britanniques Storm Shadow, a osé frapper une usine militaire en plein territoire russe. Cette attaque révèle la profondeur de l’implication occidentale dans un conflit que certains à Kiev et à Paris semblent vouloir étendre sans limites.
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The Left Will Re-Emerge (Part 1)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
23 Jun 2026 – By “the Left,” I mean all organised collective resistance against social injustice, inequality, and discrimination caused by the main forms of domination in the modern era: capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.
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The Abundance Paradigm: The Clarity Act and the Stablecoin Wars (Part 4)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Stablecoins are privately issued digital tokens that can circulate on blockchain networks independently of the banking system. They are designed to maintain a stable value, typically one dollar per token.
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Fourth of July vs Juneteenth
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – As the US approaches its 250th birthday, listen to Frederick Douglass as he delivers a Fourth of July oration in the city of Buffalo, N.Y. in the year 1852. A black man, a runaway slave asked to celebrate white peoples’ freedom.
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The Great Western Masquerade: Proxy Illusions, Battlefield Realities, and the Dangerous Game of Narrative Warfare
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
28 Jun 2026 – In the grand salon of Western capitals, where diplomats sip espresso and pronounce on “rules-based orders,” a curious pantomime unfolds. Europe and its Atlantic patrons, having funneled NATO’s arsenals into Ukraine at a scale that would have made Cold War planners blush, now insist this is not a proxy war designed to bleed Russia.
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The World We Have Known Ends This July–a New One Begins
Mark A. Shryock - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
In July 2026, five planets will lock into a geometric pattern that French astrologer André Barbault called The Barbault Basket. It is a rare alignment that, he believed, marks periods when civilizations reorganize themselves.
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If Consciousness Is Fundamental: A Dialogue on Neuroscience, Intentionality, and What It Means to Be Human
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
28 Jun 2026 – For more than a century, mainstream neuroscience has largely assumed that consciousness is something the brain produces. What if consciousness is not produced by the brain but a fundamental feature of reality, with the brain acting as the biological system that organizes, filters, or expresses it?
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The Tribute System: The New World Order
Ray Dalio | Principled Perspectives/Linkedin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026 – On Chinese Culture, the Tribute System, the 100 Years of Humiliation, The Art of War, “One China with Taiwan Part of China,” Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Headed
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Green Dashboard
Pang Xiao and Liu Kan | China Daily Global - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026 – China is placing environmental conservation at the heart of its modernization drive with practical governance measures.
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Nonviolent Solutions Are Everywhere
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 – Campaign Nonviolence Action Days invites people into the existing movement toward a nonviolent, equitable and livable world. Imagine a world of nonviolent solutions.
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Soccer World Cup’s Rogue Host
Mukul Kesavan | The Telegraph India - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
28 Jun 2026 – Iran is the only team that can’t rest and recuperate after a match because Trump’s minions insist that they fly out of the US within hours of the full-time whistle.
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“The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed”: Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 Oct 2023
United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026 – UN Report on Gaza’s Children: Evidence Points to a Strategy of Societal Destruction – Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel
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The Money Changers: Rothschild Banking Dynasty Said to Be Worth $100 Trillion
Dean Henderson | 21st Century Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
There is a notion that European Illuminati bankers seek to bring the US back to the fold of the Crown of England, the key political vassal for the Eight Families who own every private central bank in the world — Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Warburg, Lazard and Israel Moses Seif.
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Over 120 Israeli Teenagers Announce Their Refusal to Enlist in the Army
Mesarvot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026 – On the last day of the school year in Israel, 19 Jun, a letter from teens announcing their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army was distributed in thousands of copies across several schools around the country. The letter, titled “We refuse!” has by now more than 120 signatures from high school students who are intended for military service.
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Covering the Impact of Climate Change—without Mentioning Climate Change
Olivia Riggio | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – Severe weather has gripped the globe this week, with record-shattering, deadly heat in Western Europe. Yet on 23 Jun, despite leading their shows with severe weather headlines, news shows on NBC, ABC and CBS failed to mention climate even in passing.
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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Loved all through the world, IZ’s version of “Over the Rainbow” has touched millions. Video depicts his ashes being deposited in the ocean he loved so much around Hawai’ian Islands.
1,582,402,888 views on 12 Apr 2010
Doomsayers and Possibility Explorers
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
27 Jun 2027 – It is time for research, media, politics and citizens to stop and think: What is it we do too much and what is it we do too little.
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Israel and the ICC: News & Comment – Selected Articles
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – The International Criminal Court deals with the worst wrongs, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, that states and non-state entities inflict on civilian populations. Neither Israel nor the US signed the Rome Statute treaty which established the ICC but that hasn’t stopped them from interfering with the court.
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My Farewell Note to Kazi Clan
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
I am an imperfect Muslim, and I question my own spiritual credentials. The issue is: how can a son tolerate the denigration of parents who did have impeccable credentials? This has become a common trend.
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Bombs for Peace – Remembering Minab
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026 – The ‘Bombs for Peace’ exhibition, organized by the Benevolent Iranian Women Association of Sydney in collaboration with the Iranian Friends of Palestine and Families for Palestine, took place from June 5 to 7 in Sydney, Australia. The guest speakers were Dr. Tim Anderson, John Shipton and Joe Lauria.
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Will Israel Blow Up Trump’s Deal?
Amy Goodman/Jeremy Scahill | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
15 Jun 2026 – Jeremy Scahill on Iran Talks, Strait of Hormuz, Nukes & More
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Genocide Sunday Recap–Selected Articles
+972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
21 Jun 2026 – In Gaza, ‘Slaughter Continues Unabated’ while the World Turns Away (and more…)
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Israel CONTINUES the Genocide in Gaza
Ana Kasparian and Trita Parsi | The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – The IDF Is still killing civilians in Gaza, despite the ceasefire–and in Lebanon.
→ read full articleWisdom Dynamics and Second-Order Wisdom?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
Speculations relevant to peace and sustainability from an artificial intelligence perspective. Many are preoccupied with where coherent insight might now be obtained with the erosion of trust in institutions, authorities, political parties, religions, and experts.
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Marco Polo Drive of Peace, Culture and Sustainable Development
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 – One Horsepower Then–1,582 Now – Seven hundred fifty years ago, a 17-year-old Venetian set off east and didn’t come home for a quarter of a century.
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Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026 – Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the global problem of war.
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Processed, Stamped and Denied Entry: The World Cup Meets the US Border
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
Figures are now circulating about 180,000 unsold tickets on resale markets. Hotels in some host cities are reportedly facing mass cancellations. Transport to stadiums has become less of a public service than a hostage negotiation with wheels.
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The Balkan Policy of China after the Cold War 1.0
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
It is important to note that China has generally avoided significant internal political changes after the first Cold War and the collapse of socialism in the global context. China still has a one-party system without parliamentary democracy, just like neighboring North Korea, which relies on China for most of its existence.
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Israel’s Designs Are Clear–Why the World Must Not Look Away from Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
12 Jun 2026 – The Israeli prime minister has made it explicitly clear that he has no intention of following any peace road map, planning instead for the permanent incremental takeover of Gaza.
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Democratic Party’s Corollary to Trump’s Foreign Policy: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
Roger D. Harris and John Perry | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 – When it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering – is less about ends than means.
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The Joke Is on Us
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 – The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.
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The End of Hegemony or the End of the World?
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026 – Has the new MOU (memorandum of understanding) between the US and Iran avoided World War Three? Only by truly uniting under a World Parliament will we be able to end the absurdity of militarism and readiness for suicidal wars.
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The Abundance Paradigm: Government Money without Strings Attached (Part 3)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar
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Research Quality and Quantity: Some Aspects of Doing Social Science Today
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
21 Jun 2026 – An interview on the topic of “research productivity” from Chinese Social Sciences Today, published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
The initial public offering (IPO) raised an estimated $87.5 billion and the total value of SpaceX is now more than $2 trillion. Since Musk owns 85% of the stock, he is the world’s first trillionaire. Public reactions to these events have been vociferous.
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The UK Joins the Pirates
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
15 Jun 2026 – This attempt to enforce Western sanctions in areas where Western powers have no jurisdiction is a classic example of the current aggressive resurgence of imperialism replacing international law.
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Building the New Asia of Our Dreams
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026 – Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a regional platform for coordination remains a vital material necessity to safeguard the region against imperialism and neocolonialism.
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Record Conflicts Drive Peace to Historic Low as AI Warfare Surges
Institute for Economics & Peace | PR Newswire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – For the first time in history, machines are making life-and-death combat decisions faster than any human can review them, and the international frameworks meant to govern them barely exist.
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The White Rose of Athens (Music Video of the Week)
Nana Mouskouri | neveratime– TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
Kick back and enjoy the ride…
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Abby Martin Went to Israel–It’s WORSE Than You Think
Double Down News and Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
7 Apr 2026 – You DEFINITELY won’t see this on BBC or CNN.
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To Readers Who Never Donated: Do It Now or TMS Will Go Under–Seriously!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
In a capitalist world money is essential for living and functioning and WE ARE OUT OF FUNDS!! If you never contributed financially to TMS, do it now with a recurring monthly donation. PLEASE! We MUST PAY OUR BILLS!!
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Real Estate Event in London ‘Advertised Sale of Land in Illegal Israeli Settlements’
Geneva Abdul and Aamna Mohdin | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026 – Pamphlets from event featured projects in West Bank and East Jerusalem despite previous denials by organisers.
→ read full article(Français) Le Crépuscule d’un Jupiter Économique: Le Bilan d’Emmanuel Macron
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
Comment Transformer la France en Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile
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The False Hope of US Support for Myanmar Democracy vs. Political Realism of Asian Giants
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026 – Based on his decades of pro-sanctions activism internationally, Dr Maung Zarni offers a brutally honest reflection on the futile Western dependency of anti-junta movements in his native country.
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De-militarize Hawaii—Anti-RIMPAC War Exercise
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
The biennial Rim of the Pacific war games, the largest military naval exercise in the world, is scheduled to take place in the waters around, the air above, and on the land of Hawaii from 24 Jun to 31 Jul 2026. 31 countries, 40 surface ships, 5 submarines, 140 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will pollute the islands.
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John F. Kennedy: A Profile in Courage (in the Nuclear Age)
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
13 Jun 2026 – Presidents throughout history have made countless speeches, and if we measure them against their actions in office, the vast majority have been of little substance. Yet, there are exceptions, and in the case of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the word exceptional comes to mind.
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How to Create a Custom News Feed Free from Algorithm Manipulation
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – As Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation gets more and more aggressive in force-feeding us the official narrative of the day, we have to get a bit clever in making sure we see the information our rulers don’t want us to see.
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Harrowing Experience in Israeli Torture Dungeon Revealed
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Thiago Ávila – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026 – Kidnapped at Sea: Thiago Ávila Reveals Brutal Torture by Zionists in Israel’s Detention System
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Ecocide!
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
“The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth’s history, fundamentally altering the planet at an unprecedented scale. Humanity consumes resources far faster than they can regenerate, driving rapid environmental degradation, mass biodiversity loss, and climate shifts that many scientists classify as a new geological epoch.”
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Sexual Violence against Children in Warzones: UN Secretary-General’s Urgent Warning Shakes Global Conscience
G M Forhadul Mozumder | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026 – Innocent children are becoming the most brutal and silent victims of warfare. In a powerful message marking the UN International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, UNSG António Guterres fiercely jarred the conscience of world leaders.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2026
Islamic inheritance law endures as a disciplined synthesis of law and morality—balancing generosity with restraint, autonomy with obligation, and individual intention with the enduring claims of justice.
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Ramzy Baroud | Arab News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026 – The Rats of Gaza and the Opportunists among Us – It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.
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Vanishing
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
We have been poisoned with the words of liars, telling us all is well, the foundations are solid. Ask the children of Gaza, if you can bear to hear their dead voices level with you. Ask the shades of the victims of our bombs everywhere. They know. Walls? Ask the Trojans. We have been slipped a poisoned gift.
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International Law, Geopolitics, Global Security, the Revival of Neutrality
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026 – Richard Falk, a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, critiques the current state of international law and U.S. militarism, arguing that the unipolar world order established post-1945 is failing. He contends that international law is often ineffective…
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Israel’s Genocide Economy: Record Weapons Profits Driven by Muslim and European Buyers
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026 – Instead of being boycotted, Israel sold more weapons to Arabs than to the US in 2025: $2.9bn. Europe was the biggest purchaser and India bought more weapons than any single nation. The UAE, Morocco and Azerbaijan governments are helping Israel’s record-breaking weapons boom.
→ read full articleThe Abundance Paradigm: The AI Revolution–Where Capitalism Meets Socialism (Part 2)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
1 Jun 2026 – Some critics saw the AI revolution not as liberation but as a technocratic nightmare: AI surveillance, programmable digital money and “smart cities,” centralized control systems, and a future in which most people will own nothing while a tiny elite owns the machines, the data, and even the government. Others…
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AI Can Chart a Course to Disaster Faster Than Humans Can Notice
Hiranya Peiris | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
25 May 2026 – Researchers gave three commercial AI models—GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash—an exercise to train human military strategists. Across 21 simulations and 329 turns, the models chose to use nuclear weapons in all but one game. No model chose to surrender or make meaningful concessions.
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The Palestinians Dying for Work (Selected Articles)
+972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – During the nearly two-month ‘ceasefire,’ Israel has continued besieging villages, razing farmland, attacking journalists and rescue workers, and disappearing civilians. Those who remain describe their quest to survive. (MORE…)
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(Italiano) 50 anni di Fidel
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
[Nota del redattore TMS: In un tempo in cui il futuro, la sopravvivenza e il benessere del mondo sono in mano a uomini e donne minori, miliardari fascisti, neo-nazisti, sionisti genocidi, dirigenti mondiali ignoranti, codardi, senza scrupoli; …
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Conflict Trends: A Global Overview 1946–2025
Siri Aas Rustad | Peace Research Institute Oslo PRIO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
In 2025, approximately 245,000 individuals were killed in battle-related deaths, the third most violent year in the post–Cold War era. Three conflicts drove this trend: Russia-Ukraine; violence in Sudan; bombardments of Gaza (genocide).
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The Nazis Hid Their Crimes–>Zionists Boast about Them
Laala Bechetoula | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
6 Jun 2026 – While Trump dreams of a Riviera built on children’s bones, Israel executes the first genocide openly claimed in the history of mankind.
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The Most Racist Soccer World Cup in History
Nate Bear | Do Not Panic! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
It starts on 11 Jun: The Iranian team was forced to relocate from Arizona to Mexico; its manager and various staff have been denied US visas. Somalian referee Omar Artan was denied entry. Iraqi team vice-captain Ayman Hussein was detained, searched and interrogated. The Senegalese were treated like criminals, not allowed to enter the terminal and strip-searched on the tarmac. Etc…
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Can Israel Win Back the World’s Trust?
Shira Efron | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
31 May 2026 – Polls, social media, and growing boycotts suggest that Israel’s international isolation is worsening. Although some of this stems from forces beyond Israel’s control, the country could take steps to stop the slide, especially with elections around the corner.
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The Beautiful Game in an Ugly Country
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.
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Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. Adolescents/Young Adults Use AI Chatbots for Mental Health Advice
RAND - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
1 Jun 2026 – Use for mental health advice has risen sharply in the past year, and most young people say they have not told anyone about turning to chatbots for help.
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Stop Calling It a Ceasefire
Katherine Krueger | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026 – How many acts of war must occur before the mainstream media accepts there is no ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran? To any reasonable person, a ceasefire is exactly what it sounds like: It is the total cessation of military attacks to end a war.
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The Rise of the “Conflict-Permanence” Industry
Imran Khalid | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
11 Jun 2026 – Gaza Genocide, Inc.: The Permanent-Conflict Industry – Gaza is a tragic example of how a business has been created around the administering of crisis.
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The Criminal Underside of the Green Transition
Robert Muggah | Toda Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
5 Jun 2026 – How Critical Minerals Could Turn the Amazon into a Strategic Asset, or a Criminalized Supply Chain Frontier
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Who Is the Aggressor? Turning Obstacles into Threats
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026 – Obstacles to the aggressors’ expansion and occupation in the Middle East are Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shia militia in Iraq. They are presented as “threats” rather than defenders of their dignity, sovereignty and land.
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Artificial Intelligence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution: What’s the Alternative?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – AI vs. Nonviolence – Are we, nonviolent people, aware that AI is taking away nonviolence itself?
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Nuclear Abolition Is the Only Civilised Option
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – Here you have the essential arguments that people who cannot or will not think freely never mention.
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Africa Is Finally Refining Its Oil–Naturally, the Adults Are Concerned
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
The mask slips. Not dramatically. Not with thunder, flags, or villain music. Just a polite report, a market recommendation, a few words like competition, efficiency, liberalization — and suddenly the old colonial script walks back on stage wearing a World Bank tie.
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The Right Is Disappearing
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
6 Jun 2026 – The Choice Is Between the Left and the Far Right
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US Federal Court Dismisses Civil Rights Conspiracy Claims against Pro-Palestine Activists and The People’s Forum
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PCJF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism – In an important victory for free speech, a federal court has dismissed with prejudice all civil rights conspiracy claims brought against The People’s Forum from the occupation of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
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UK: Terrorist Sentence for Palestine Action Activists Marks ‘Dangerous’ Move against Right to Protest
Amnesty International UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
“Criminal damage has never been treated as terrorism within the UK justice system before and it is dangerous to treat them as the same thing. We should all be worried about what this means for other individuals taking direct action in protest of a genocide or any other issue.” — Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive
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3 Alarming Signs Elon Musk Wealth Marks a New Era of Corporate Tech Fascism
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – Elon Musk wealth has made him the first trillionaire, after SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut exposed extreme inequality, speculative finance, and corporate power.
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World Cup Chaos? Everything Going Wrong So Far
Channel 4 News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026 – The tournament is caught up in Trump’s strict US border rules–and not everyone appears to be welcome. Iran, Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal are all playing at the World Cup–despite featuring on the US travel ban list.
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Simon Speakman Cordall and Awad Joumaa | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – Former detainees detail systematic torture and sexual violence, including rape, while in Israeli custody. Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing.
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Super-Rich’s Assets Cause Outsized Amount of Climate Harm, Study Says
Fiona Harvey | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
10 Jun 2026 – Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions.
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Moscow Nights [Подмосковные вечера] (Music Video of the Week)
Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Music Video Vault – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
(2013) – In 1956, Podmoskovnye Vechera was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre. One of the best-known Russian songs outside the homeland. Kick back and enjoy!
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The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
Jay Caspian Kang | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
26 May 2026 – “Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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Civil Records for Hundreds of Thousands of Lebanese Could Be Wiped Out by Israel’s War of Aggression
Alaa Serhal | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
14 Jun 2026 – With whole towns leveled by Israel, a quarter million Lebanese people may have lost the proof of who they are and what they own.
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Blind Submission to Authority Is Caused by Bad Parenting
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – Raising kids who aren’t allowed to say no to you is raising adults who don’t think anyone should be allowed to oppose their rulers.
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Global Peace Index 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA | reliefweb - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – The 2026 Global Peace Index reveals a world struggling with the economic consequences of a record-high number of conflicts that are increasingly interconnected and difficult to resolve. Global peacefulness deteriorated for the 12th consecutive year, driven by…
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Cuba’s Health Miracles while under Blockade
Nuvpreet Kalra | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026 – Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact that this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine.
→ read full articleNo Results Found: Sudan, Global Indifference, and the Scroll Past Genocide
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
When the British and Egyptians finally packed their bags in 1956, they left Sudan a divided country with a map to maximize ethnic friction and a warm wish of “good luck,” as handing the keys to a burning house and saying, “Mind the smoke.”
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Ousted by the Trump Administration, U.S. Immigrants Remain Locked up in Obscure African Kingdom
Kate Morrissey | Capital & Main - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026 – Eswatini is a small country between South Africa and Mozambique, ruled by a king who made a deal with Trump to receive 160 people deported from the US in exchange for US $5.1 million. Held indefinitely, prisoners lack medical attention, food and clothing.
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