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WATCH: Inside Iran
Dimitri Lascaris | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Dimitri Lascaris spent 11 days in Iran last month and was the first Westerner to show there was no military base near the school the U.S. struck, killing 168 schoolgirls. Here are four of his films from Iran.
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Amnesty International: The State of Human Rights in 2025/26
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
April 2026 – Throughout 2025, political leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among many others, carried out their conquests for economic and political domination through destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale. As AI has long warned, a global environment where primitive ferocity could flourish has been long in the making.
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Another Close Call at Washington Correspondents’ Dinner
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 Apr 2026 – Trump’s Latest Brush with Danger, and the Predictable Political Gold Rush
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Toward Reframing Peace Initiatives of US and Iran in Seeming Opposition
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
27 Apr 2026 – This is written in a period in which the world is hanging on the outcome of the engagement between a 15-point plan (by the USA) and a 10-point plan (by Iran). One outcome is the threatened destruction of a millennial civilization in the name of the people of the USA.
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Challenges of the Nuclear Age: Toward What Future for Humanity?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Text of the Kelly Lecture, 7 Apr 2026, sponsored annually by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It was delivered in early evening that coincided with the expiration of Trump’s first of several threats and deadlines directed at the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Trump, Sanity, and Obedience
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
18 Apr 2026 – Many people are saying that Donald Trump is insane. He may be. So too Benjamin Netanyahu. But if so, it is a form of insanity that includes the calm sanity of Adolf Eichmann and Harry Truman as they went about their business of mass extermination.
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How the International Community Obtained a Nuclear Weapons-Free Agreement with Iran―and Lost It Thanks to Donald Trump
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration.
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Trump the God
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
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Reprogramming the Technological Republic: Designing Futures Beyond Militarization
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
In a “manifesto” linked to Palantir Technologies’ CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, technological capacity is subordinated to state power, war is normalized as a persistent condition, and responsibility is redefined as participation in that order.
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The Genocide Supply Chain: Open for Business
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
There is nothing inherently confusing here, nothing so complicated that it escapes understanding. Calling it “complex” or labeling regions as “fragile” doesn’t explain reality—it softens it. It creates distance. It turns something concrete and accountable into something vague and untouchable.
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Iran War: What Has the War Done to the Cost of Humanitarian Aid?
Peter McNamara | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – As Save the Children warns of potential food shortages owing to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a much more severe risk is being posed to the most vulnerable globally.
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The Trump Administration’s War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.
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Israeli Soldiers Using Sexual Assault to Force Palestinians Out of West Bank, Report Says
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.
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Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst
Joshua Carroll | Novara Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Evidence of gruesome form of torture is ‘overwhelming’.
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No to War, Yes to Peace: A Global Call to End Wars and Militarism
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The defining crisis of our age is war. Endless, permanent, profitable war. War that has become not an aberration, not a last resort, but the very engine of a global economic system that cannot function without it.
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(Castellano) La derrota de Trump ante Aristóteles en Irán
Andrés Suárez y Joan Pedro-Carañana - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
18 abril 2026 – Aristóteles escribió hace más de dos mil años que ningún discurso puede persuadir si se traiciona a sí mismo. Sin embargo, frente al fenómeno de Donald Trump, la máxima aristotélica enfrenta su mayor desafío: ¿la contradicción debilita al orador o lo vuelve impredecible y poderoso?
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(Italiano) Resistere al Nuovo Ordine Mondiale: Il tuo campo di schiavi tecnocratico
Robert J. Burrowes | ComeDonChisciotte - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 aprile 2026 – Molti autori e organizzazioni stanno commentando uno o più dei cambiamenti che si stanno imponendo al mondo a seguito di una serie di eventi, ognuno dei quali modificherà in modo significativo il funzionamento del mondo e la nostra percezione di esso.
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Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – As Iran agrees to resume negotiations in Islamabad, John Mearsheimer dissects the complicated challenges and competing interests facing the United States as the countdown to the end of the ceasefire begins.
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Iran’s Civilizational and Moral Strength
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026 – The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?
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Satellite Images Reveal Israel Expanding Gaza Military Sites
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
19 Apr 2026 – Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
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Development of Peace Education in India
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Although India has contributed enormously to world peace through the adoption of the policy of Panchsheel and ‘non-alignment, and not disregarding the great non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, there is almost no trace of peace education either in the form of discipline or in the form of educational institutions in India.
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Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945–They Wouldn’t Today Either
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Japanese surrender could have been ensured without instantaneous killing of more than a hundred thousand civilians and several hundred thousand people being subjected to third-degree burns, injuries, and radiation exposure that would eventually kill them, too.
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Weakening Permanently and Maintaining the Hardliner Iranian Regime?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 April 2026 — I have begun to think that Israel’s strategy for Iran war was initially to weaken and permanently maintain the current hardliner Iranian regime (Revolutionary Guard), manipulating Trump with misinformation and initiating the war against Iran at the end of February.
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ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
Radley Balko | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026 – A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.
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The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Endorses the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The Psychopathology of Murdering Innocents – The horror of US and Israel’s vicious, unprovoked attacks against Iran on February 28 (my 76th birthday) is breathtaking. The war commenced with a duo of atrocities.
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Genocidal in Essence, Settler Colonial Entities such as Israel Cannot Be Reformed
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 Apr 2026 – They Self-Destruct at Enormous Human Costs
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Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Iran’s leaders have learned how to deal with Trump’s lies, threats and deception by swiftly correcting his lies, preparing their defenses to confront his threats, and not falling for his fake offers of negotiation. But there is still a path to peace.
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Peace Journalism – A Discussion of Systemic Peace
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – Georgia Kelly Interviews Antonio C. S. Rosa and Marilyn Langlois from TRANSCEND Media Service
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No to Barbarism in the World in Defense of Civilization
Fernando Alcoforado | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
This paper aims to denounce the barbarism in which humanity is subjected throughout history that reached its highest level during the existence of capitalism in the contemporary era and to strive for its end in defense of the principles of civilization.
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Kajal Kajal (Music Video of the Week)
Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam (singers) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Exquisite! Enjoy!
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UK in Retrial Seeks to Jail Palestine Action for ‘Terrorism’
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – Amid a media blackout, British authorities and their Israeli collaborators are determined to curtail the activist group as they face their last legal chance to do so.
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The Cowardice of Qualification: When Anti-War Voices Speak the Language of Empire
Ramzy Baroud | The Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
As the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said wrote in his essay “The Essential Terrorist”, “terrorism” has “acquired an extraordinary status in US public discourse” and has “displaced Communism as public enemy number one,” providing a flexible label through which enemies are constructed and violence against them normalized. The issue is the qualification itself.
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(Français) La France Éternelle : Un Bijou de Contradictions en Plein Éclat
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 avril 2026 – La France. Cette terre bénie des dieux, ce phare de la civilisation occidentale, ce pays où le bon goût se conjugue encore au passé simple et où l’on sait, depuis des siècles, transformer la moindre contrariété en art de vivre.
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Big Brother and the Israel Advocacy Machine
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
I sometimes find myself recalling Orwell’s Oceania when I read the daily distressing and outraging news from Palestine and the broader region. I think about how, much like Big Brother, today’s Israel Advocacy Machine demands complete allegiance, compliance, and submission.
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Settler Criminals
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Zionism, Americanism, Nazism
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Beyond Oil: Global Food Crisis Emerging from Hormuz — Why Brazil and BRICS Matter
Uriel Araujo | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Iran war is triggering ripple effects far beyond energy prices. Global food systems, heavily dependent on fertilizers and shipping routes, are now under strain. Brazil, for one, faces heightened vulnerability despite its agricultural strength. BRICS itself is emerging as a potential critical geopolitical actor.
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The Imperial Pillars in British Colonial India: Lalvani vs Tharoor–a Critical Analysis of Peace Propagation or Peace Disruption Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The Making or Breaking of British India: The “Told Story of British Enterprise revisited.
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My Cruel Tryst with Kazi Clan
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Few wounds cut as deeply, or endure as quietly, as betrayal within the family. Forgiveness does not erase the past, nor does it guarantee renewal. What it offers instead is a way of engaging with injury that neither falsifies reality nor allows it to define the whole of human experience.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The challenge may be framed simply: can patterns of coherence as structurally rich as polyhedra be rendered as cognitively accessible and memorable as the alphabet? This could be compared with the early challenge of education, namely enabling children to engage with the alphabet as a pattern, …
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Responses to Questions from Asgar Ghahremanpour, Journalist at Iran Daily
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Israel has ignored international law since its inception in 1948, including the legal obligations of an Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territories of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Such an assessment has been validated by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of July 19, 2024.
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Inside Israel’s Prison Regime
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank have not. Graphic scenes of violence–be aware.
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Regarding Nuclear War Between Israel and Iran
Ann Garrison interviews physicist James McFadden | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The political fallout from Trump’s recklessness in West Asia continues around the globe, while some wonder how far the radioactive fallout might travel if the war were to go nuclear. I talked with Physicist James McFadden about the likely consequences of a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran.
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: The First City to Erect a Genocide Memorial Monument for Myanmar’s Rohingya Survivors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – Forgetting is a crime against memory. The city of Newcastle in the UK does not forget Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya and pledges to support their quest for justice.
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Unpacking the Iran-USA Ceasefire with Prof Farhang Jahanpour
Amara Sophia Elahi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
11 Apr 2026 – Prof. Farhang Jahanpour is a former Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan in Iran. He taught at the Universities of Oxford (where I had the privilege of studying Persian literature with him), Cambridge and Harvard. He was also a Middle East editor at BBC Monitoring.
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NATO: Allies’ Security Myth
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – “Global Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer “
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‘I Felt I Was a Monster’: IDF Soldiers Talk about the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Tom Levinson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Some of them killed civilians in Gaza; others just looked on, or witnessed abuse and cover-ups in the name of revenge. Now they’re trying to cope with something a bit different than PTSD.
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Debt, Decline and Iran: Why the U.S. Can’t Afford another Forever War
The Duran | Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – In this sobering conversation, Dennis Kucinich offers a clear-eyed assessment of the US’ accelerating descent into another costly and unwinnable war.
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US/Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran Carrying on Their Tradition of Targeting Medical Workers
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – The United States and Israel are systematically targeting hospitals in Iran. In one month of bombing, the two countries have hit at least 307 health centers across the country, according to reports from the Iranian Red Crescent.
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Why the Israeli and US War in Iran Is “Not Europe’s War”
Jeanne Macé and Alžběta Frommerová | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Since the launch of the Israel and US war against Iran on 28 Feb 2026, European countries have been exposed to the consequences of a conflict they neither initiated nor sought to join.
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” [Anthem of Europe]
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” That year, Beethoven began the long gestation of what would become an eternal masterwork of the supreme human art: making meaning out of chaos, beauty out of sorrow.
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Lebanon’s Vichy Regime Faces Street Mobilization over Betrayal of Resistance and “Normalization” with Israel
Feroze Mithiborwala | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – As Beirut’s skyline is obscured by the smoke of Israeli bombardment, the regime of PM Nawaf Salam faces accusations of “high treason” and “servile collaboration” with Netanyahu, triggering a massive popular uprising.
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(Français) Hongrie 2026 : Le Chef-d’œuvre d’une Passation de Pouvoir
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
La Hongrie nous offre une leçon de politique aussi subtile qu’élégante. Viktor Orbán, ce titan qui a incarné pendant seize ans la souveraineté hongroise face aux vents contraires de Bruxelles et de Washington, a choisi de quitter la scène avec une grâce rare. Sans amertume, sans cris, sans complots.
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Food Safety in the EU: Addition of Vitamins and Minerals
European Commission - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
What are additives? A wide range of nutrients and other ingredients are used in food manufacturing. Such nutrients or ingredients are added to food in order to “enrich” or “fortify” the food in question, so as to add or emphasise particular nutritional characteristics.
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Brief, Arbitrary Abductions: A New Tool of Israeli Intimidation in Masafer Yatta
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – In recent months, soldiers have arrested dozens of West Bank Palestinians — many blindfolded, beaten, and then released without explanation.
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My Own Genocide…
Susan Abulhawa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Truthful. Indeed. You can say that again. And again…
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Review of Generation Z Voices Across Borders: Inspire Youth Journal’s Global Platform
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The Inspire Youth Journal is a global platform that amplifies the voices of Generation Z through journalism, storytelling, and dialogue. It brings together over 200 contributors from 40 countries to address pressing global issues and promote cross-border solidarity.
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Ignorant and Imbecile Warriors: US and Israel Waging War on Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Trump: “An entire civilization will perish, never to return; 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally come to an end. God bless the great people of Iran!” Although the Pope did not mention Trump by name, he stated that “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war”
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Israeli Journalist with Deep Ties to IDF Admits West Bank Violence ‘Looks Like… Ethnic Cleansing’
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – West Bank settler attacks on Palestinians are “rather sophisticated, organized, and funded systematic actions,” with the goal of “cleansing” the entire region, said journalist Ron Ben-Yishai.
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The Man Who Put War on Trial
Steven Jay | MobilizedNEWs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
In 1945, a 27-year-old lawyer helped prove a radical idea after WWII: War crimes can be prosecuted. On 14 Apr, Benjamin Ferencz, who put war on trial at Nuremberg, posthumously receives Congressional Gold Medal.
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Resisting the New World Order: Your Technocratic Slave Camp
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
19 Apr 2026 – Many authors and organizations are commenting on one or more of the changes being imposed on the world as a series of events take place, each of which will significantly change how the world functions and how we perceive it. Only a rare analyst, however, is drawing attention to what the combined impact of these changes is designed to achieve.
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Endogenous Peace Principles Across Civilisations, from Maat in Antiquity to Biophotonic Coherence: A Humane, Scientific, and Sacred Science of Peace Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
A Comprehensive Narrative of Ethical, Mystical, Ecological, and Neuroharmonic Pathways to the attainment of Human Communal Peace
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Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
Caitlin Scialla | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Paramount Skydance‘s winning bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery marks a major milestone in media monopolization that, if successful, will further expand Trump-allied tech moguls Larry and David Ellison’s burgeoning power over US news and entertainment media.
→ read full articleAddiction, Not Conflict: Notes from a Continent That’s Seen It All
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
There is something almost poetic about the way the world organizes its chaos. Not poetic in the Rumi sense—more in the bureaucratic, “please take a number and wait for collapse” sense. The conflicts are a part of the «relationship.”
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Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics’ to Level Villages
Jason Ditz | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction in the first 1.5 month is even bigger than initially feared. Satellite images confirm over 1,400 buildings destroyed in Israeli invasion.
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Future No Kings Protests: Weeping and Resisting in Global Solidarity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – My poem below is intended as a sequel to an earlier poem, An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism, written in support of the No Kings protests, which were a dramatic success.
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Europe’s ‘War on Vitamins’ Returns: How EU Restrictions Risk Deepening a Silent Public Health Crisis
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Under the misleading banner of ‘safety,’ the European Union is moving toward enforcing draconian limits on the permitted dosages of vitamins and minerals contained in supplements, a deeply cynical attack on the health, lives, and freedom of choice of millions of people.
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The Complete List of What Billionaires Own in Hawaii
Brigitte and Zsolt | SandinMyLuggage - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Updated 2026 – Just 37 billionaires now control more than 218,000 acres of Hawaii. That’s 11% of all private land in the state – and the actual number is higher because these buyers hide behind shell companies with Hawaiian-sounding names. After 30 years on Oahu, I’ve watched this unfold in real-time. But what happened in 2025 changed everything.
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The Cancer Calculus
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – The ICIJ Is Proud to Bring You Our Latest Investigation – Keytruda has been hailed as a game changer in cancer treatment, but much of the world can’t afford it. Now, we shed new light on how Merck has fended off competitors to keep the price of Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.
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How a Comedian Turned Autocrat Collected Europe’s Highest Honor for Liberty while Sending His Country to the Meat Grinder
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The Hague, 16 Apr 2026. In a sun-dappled hall that once hosted the loftiest declarations of human dignity, Volodymyr Zelensky stepped forward to accept the Four Freedoms Award. The prize has previously gone to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and the International Red Cross.
→ read full articleSerpents in Authority
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The most consequential betrayals do not arrive in the form of open opposition; they emerge from within the very structures designed to guide and protect. Authority, when granted in good faith, carries an unspoken covenant—to elevate, to safeguard, and to act without concealed extraction.
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Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.
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Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP/WP/Genocide Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – Famine. Massacres. Badly needed food and other supplies are now under strain. Sudan yesterday entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes.
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Kollo Lena | زين – كله لينا (Music Video of the Week)
Zeyne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Enjoy!
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Bypass the Failed UN Security Council: A World Parliament Arises
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Earth Constitution, drafted over a period of 30 years by the World Constitution & Parliament Association, has the potential to resolve the dilemma of the UN not being able to end war, eliminate nuclear weapons, or adequately insure human rights and protect the environment.
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Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War
Robert Roth | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
10 Apr 2026 – As the world reels from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, Trump’s plan to assert dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace.
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Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”
The Intercept Briefing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.
→ read full articleConceptual Complexity Compactified within Fundamental Polyhedra
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – Progressive Emergence of Explicit Complex Patterns Implicit in Simplest Forms – This exploration was triggered by the suspicion that the complexity evident explicitly in the array of 13 semi-regular Archimedean polyhedra was implicit in some manner in the 5 regular Platonic polyhedra.
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Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Two texts relevant to ongoing US/Israel war of aggression against Iran in the context of a failing ceasefire agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.
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“Fahrenheit 11/9” – This Is How Fascism Starts
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – A scene from Michael Moore’s 2018 film, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.
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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party
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Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes
The Critic Brief - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026
The “special relationship” is OVER. In a stunning 24 hours, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria have all slammed the door shut on US warplanes — refusing airspace and air bases as Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.”
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War on Iran–a Word from the US President: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake in the hands of a madman. Exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the downed F-15 yesterday?
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Europe Pushes Back at Trump, Refuses US Military Access for Iran War
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
5 Apr 2026 – Several European countries including Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland have restricted or denied U.S. military access linked to operations against Iran, highlighting growing divisions within the Western alliance.
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Which Way to US National Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
Rather than throw up our hands at the latest outbreak of horrific violence by marauding nationalist bullies, let’s use the challenge afforded by the current international crisis to create a new and better world.
→ read full articleWar by Design: Kagame’s Script in Eastern Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – There’s nothing strange about the “war choreography “ in eastern Congo. It’s precise. Deliberate. Directed from Kigali. Surprise. Forget the diplomats’ favorite lullabies—“stabilization,” “regional mechanisms.” That’s just complicity with a thesaurus.
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I Visited My Destroyed Home in Gaza after 900 Days
Amir Ismail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
1 Apr 2026 – Shocking Reality… I went back to where I lived my whole life… They erased the walls, but they couldn’t erase our souls. 904 days later, we still have hope. From the ashes of Gaza, we will rise again.
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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
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Artificial Intelligence Issue
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
This is not the last time The Nation will address the technological revolution that is already raising fundamental concerns about the future of work, surveillance, and existential questions of war and peace. We will be in the thick of these debates, arguing for a future in which we take the steps that are necessary to assure that we can all Stay Human.
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Reclaiming the Feminine for Peace in Times of War
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
Dominant models of power continue to privilege violence over dialogue. War, in this sense, is not simply about men, but about particular performances of masculinity tied to control, securitization, and the need to assert power—often rooted in insecurity.
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Destroying Iran’s Electric and Water Supply Is a War Crime
Karolina Bonde | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian Infrastructure in Iran
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The Declining Empire on Steroids
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
28 March 2026 – With disastrous news hitting the headlines daily, it is often difficult to keep the big picture in mind. Yet the big picture is of vital importance for establishing a future for humanity beyond war, torture, murder and slavery. Is there an alternative?
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Want to Know Capitalism’s Endgame? Just Look at Private Equity–It Has Captured Our Everyday Lives
Hettie O’Brien | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – It was the free croissants that gave it away. And the Scandinavian-style furniture. And the tasteful pastel walls. It was different from other nurseries: marginally more expensive. These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill.
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Building on the US/Iran Ceasefire
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Recalling the words of a Leonard Cohen’s song, “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in”, there is now a two-week crack in the war on Iran with the possibilities of negotiations led by the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad with the active support of the Chinese government.
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On Behalf of the Tehran Peace Museum
Shahriar Khateri and Mona Badamchizaedh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
31 Mar 2026 – Dear colleagues, friends, members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, it has now been more than a month since the onset of this unlawful and unprovoked war against Iran. During this period, hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.
→ read full articleMearsheimer: No Signs of Quick End to US-Israel War on Iran
Al Jazeera | The Bottom Line – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
5 Apr 2026 – US political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that Israel – not Iran – is the Middle East country that is ‘highly aggressive’.
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Why North Americans Turned to Al Jazeera Instead of CNN or Fox During Iran War
Zvika Klein | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up. Nobody in Jerusalem is tracking this news. Nobody in Washington is either. Good!
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What Germany Could but Didn’t Do for Peace
Petra Erler interviews Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
You have been working for many years to make the United Nations the ultimate guardian of peace. So far, to no avail. Are you a Don Quixote?
No. I am one of many who oppose nationalism and advocate for international peace based on law and order.
No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”
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70+ Boats Launch Historic Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Bold Solidarity Stand
teleSUR English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – The Global Sumud Flotilla with 70+ boats and 3,000 participants sails from Barcelona today to break Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade. This massive civilian mission demands urgent humanitarian aid and an end to violations amid a fragile Middle East ceasefire.
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