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Macho Man… Really?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Terms Machismo and Male Chauvinism are semantically related or have similar meanings: Toxic Masculinity.

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Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place
Pascal Lottaz | Neutrality Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – How the US ‘Allies’ in West Asia (the Sunni kingdoms/dictatorships) managed to maneuver themselves into the worst of both worlds.

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How Structural Violence Leads to Life or Death
Bandy X. Lee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Structural violence is what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung defined as the “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs” through unjust social structures– the most potent cause of behavioral violence.

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Asymmetric Dialogue in a Period of Asymmetric Warfare?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

16 Mar 2026 – The following exploration is effectively an annex to an extensive separate exchange with AI to clarify the nature of “UnChristian”, “UnJewish” and “UnIslamic” from a cybernetic perspective.

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Beware Men Who Wage War to Prove They Are Men
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

A specifically masculine heritage of violence in the service of the nation oversees and delimits democracy and authority—a privileged area of social welfare.

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Flirting with Apocalyptic War in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – From almost all perspectives the ongoing war of aggression known as the ‘Iran War’ is one of the greatest international blunders in modern history, and far worse than this, poses the highest risks of stumbling into an apocalyptic warfare since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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Power and Manipulation— Media as a Weapon
Patrik Baab interviews Joe Lauria - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

26 Feb 2026 – Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?

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A View from Tehran: War Caused a New Kind of Stability
Peiman Salehi | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Rather than triggering collapse, external pressure appears to be producing a form of internal consolidation socially, politically, and strategically that complicates expectations about the conflict. From within Tehran, the most immediate observation is not breakdown, but continuity under strain.

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How Iran Should End the War
M. Javad Zarif | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – Iran did not start this war with the US and Israel. But more than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning it. US and Israeli forces have spent weeks bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands and damaging hundreds of buildings in hopes of toppling the country’s government.

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Balen`s Hundred-Point Charter of Governance: Of, By, and For the Nepali People
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, became Nepal’s youngest prime minister in March 2026 after a Generation Z-led uprising against corruption and established political elites. His “Hundred-Point Charter of Governance” aims to bring transparency, accountability, and citizen-centered reform to Nepal.

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The Security Council Has Allowed Unchecked Power and Brutality–to Protect Peace, We Must Reform the UN
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

30 Mar 2026 – A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order.

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The US-Israel War on Humanity: What Is Next?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The trajectory of war against Iran unleashed authoritarianism of dark ages propelling insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture.

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Michael Hudson: World Will Not Be the Same after the US Military Aggression against Iran
Prof. Glenn Diesen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently. 

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(Français) Le Réarmement allemand : une élégante valse avec les spectres du passé, ou l’appel discret d’un monde multipolaire ?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Depuis le 1er janvier 2026, tout homme allemand âgé de 17 à 45 ans qui souhaite quitter le territoire pour plus de trois mois doit désormais solliciter l’autorisation bienveillante de la Bundeswehr. Une simple formalité administrative, nous assure-t-on, liée à la modernisation du service militaire. Rien de dramatique, bien sûr.

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Why Americans instead of North Americans?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

“Why only those born in the United States are officially called (named, labeled, known as) Americans”? The name of the country is United States of America–not America of the United States. Manifestation of a imperialist deep culture allied to a bullying, vain illusion that, We are #1. I am also an American–South American.

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Israeli Knesset Passes Death Penalty Bill for Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

30 Mar 2026 – The Israeli Knesset passed a bill today that mandates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of ‘acts of terrorism’ with the ‘intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.’

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The Empire vs. Iran: Which Side Are You On?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The current war is going from bad to worse for the American and Israeli imperialists. Good!  Let’s continue to oppose it and hope for its early end.  But don’t let the Empire off the hook.

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Israel Is Stepping Up Its Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Elias Feroz interviews Sarit Michaeli | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

31 Mar 2026 – Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.

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North Americans Are Being Policed with Military-Grade Weapons–This Has to Stop
Michael Shank and Hank Johnson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

6 Mar 2026 – Predator drones and armored personnel carriers have become commonplace in US cities. Congress has the power to fix this.

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Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-up
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Judi Rever prefaces her new book with a quote from the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II: “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

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UN Expert Warns Torture Has Become ‘State Doctrine’ in Israel, Making Prisons Instruments of Genocide and Torture
Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

23 Mar 2026 – Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians, long shielded by decades of impunity and political cover, has become a defining instrument of ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN expert warned today.

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The New Planetary Awakening
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

18 Mar 2026 – Six Fundamental Principles for Democratic  World Law

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World Has Left Cuba Alone to Face Trump’s Global Fascism
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

28 Mar 2026 – The World Will Pay an Enormous Price if Cuba Falls

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A Manual for Benevolent Bombing
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

There is something deeply reassuring about a well-structured war. Not the explosions, the smoke, the screaming, the “inconvenient civilians” who insist on living where the bombs land. No, the comfort lies in the narrative. The choreography. The liturgical precision of turning high explosives into high-minded philosophy.

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New World Busy Being Born while Old One Is Busy Dying
Pepe Escobar | Sovereign Global Majority – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

26 Mar 2026 – Iran’s real terms are harsh: Closure of ALL US military bases in the Gulf; guarantee of no more wars; end of the war on Hezbollah; lifting of ALL sanctions; war damage reparations; a new order in the Strait of Hormuz (already in effect: collecting fees just like Egypt in Suez); missile program intact. Conclusion: the infernal escalation machine keeps rolling as Trump’s 15-point surrender is D.O.A.

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Trump’s Hormuz “Masterstroke”: How Russia and China Just Hit the Geopolitical Jackpot
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – And Why the World May Never Look the Same – There’s an old saying: never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Apparently, Donald Trump never got the memo.

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Women Demand a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Once again this year, we see around the world on International Women’s Day that women are demanding a culture of peace. In some cases this is quite explicit.

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Why Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity–an Arab Christian Perspective
Matt Ehret/Beyond Geopolitics | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages.

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What Happens When the US President Ignores International Law? We’re about to Find Out, again
Candace Rondeaux | New America - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Is Maduro a defendant or a hostage? Is the Trump administration waging war on “narcoterrorists” or on the distinction between law enforcement and military force? And which legal framework—US courts or international law—gets to answer?

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“Kill Any of the Natives Found in Their Way”
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait: they all claim God and Law to be on their side.

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The Escalating Belligerence in the Middle East: A Peace Propagator’s Academic Analysis of the Iran War of Choice
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The current, international, political scenario is a short walk to World War III and Armageddon.

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Unquestionable Reframing of the Unrighteous with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

15 Mar 2026 – Clarifying UnChristian, UnJewish and UnIslamic from a Cybernetic Perspective

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(Castellano) Chomsky ante el tribunal de la lógica
Asier Arias y Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

La ausencia de argumentos con base en evidencia que sugiera connivencia, aquiescencia, encubrimiento, silencio cómplice u omisión culpable por parte de Noam Chomsky es el rasgo característico de los comunicados de quienes han tratado de desvincular sus figuras de la de Chomsky en el contexto de la campaña de denigración en curso.

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Education for Democracy to Build a Global Common Society for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

13 Mar 2026 – The position is that there is no democracy in all nations of the World. In today’s world, maximum States are dictatorships of one kind or another, where one or a dozen persons hold the decision-making power that enables them to declare which persons or groups of nations should die.

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The Image of the Non-violent Trinity
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Christians, with the incarnation of the Son of God on earth, had a human mediator with the divine. Therefore, representing His human figure cannot be considered idolatry.

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Ending the War through Diplomacy Is the only Path Forward
Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D. | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

20 Mar 2026 – That the U.S. is awash in hypocrisy and mendacity should come as no surprise to the people of the world who have watched the U.S. launch one war and/or regime change operation after another over the past 80 years.

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An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

as if restless
a crown prince
impatient
to catch a crown
falling from heaven

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Decapitation Wars: The Latest Strategy of an Empire in Crisis
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Decapitation wars are large-scale struggles in which attackers attempt to defeat an enemy regime by targeting and assassinating a substantial number of its civilian and military leaders. The current war in Iran, begun by the U.S.  and Israel during negotiations without any immediate provocation or threat by Iran or its allies, is one of the first such wars.

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Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

16 Mar 2026 – If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.

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The War against Iran: Decades in the Making
Dr. Piers Robinson | International Center for 9/11 Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.

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‘Mind-Blowing Corruption’: Traders Placed Massive Bets Minutes before Trump’s Post on Iran
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

24 Mar 2026 – Just minutes before Trump momentarily boosted the stock market—and sent oil prices tumbling—with his disputed announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities. Value of those trades: $580 million.

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Genocide Warning: Lebanon
Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

25 Mar 2026 – Although Israel claims self-defense for its war against Hezbollah, it has routinely violated humanitarian laws. It has struck hotels, bombed Lebanese medical teams and facilities and has used white phosphorus in its attacks on residential areas, a war crime.

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The Predatory Empire Has Turned Cruel, Criminal and Corrosive
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – The moral image and perceived legitimacy of the United States are now lower than at any time since 1945. There are numerous perspectives on this unique situation; here are three I consider central.

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Trump Has No Soul
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul.

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Chomsky Before the Court of Logic
Asier Arias and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

20 Mar 2026 – The total absence of evidence-based arguments—whether suggesting collusion, acquiescence, or culpable omission—is the defining hallmark of the statements issued by those seeking to distance themselves from Noam Chomsky amid the smear campaign following the Epstein disclosures.

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(Français) Médiation judiciaire : Ce que les magistrats attendent désormais de vous
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

14 Mar 2026 – L’ère de la médiation “informelle” est révolue. Avec le décret du 18 juillet 2025, le paysage français a basculé : nous passons d’un code de bonnes pratiques à un cadre juridique strict et codifié.

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Iran: Renewal Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

13 Mar 2026 – With the U.S.A.-Israeli -Iran armed conflict in a most destructive phase and spreading to Lebanon, a spirit of renewal and reconciliation in Iran is needed.  This is the theme of Novroz, coming shortly.

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Israel Has Crushed UNRWA in Gaza – and the Rest of the World Has Done Nothing
Philippe Lazzarini | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

21 Mar 2026 – I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East.

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Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – In his introduction to Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change, filmmaker Oliver Stone calls it a warning against what regime change means for the people living in the nations targeted, and a call to organize to prevent future regime-change wars.

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How the Chechen Miracle Kick-Started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’
Scott Ritter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – In early 2024, I traveled to Chechnya, where I met with people who once fought a bitter war against Moscow, but are now the country’s fiercest defenders.

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How Western Media Sanitizes and Sells the Crimes of Empire
Nate Bear | Do Not Panic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – Yesterday The Associated Press said it was going to start using words that reflect reality and announced, after much deliberation and a newsroom vote, that it was going to start referring to Israel’s ground offensive into Lebanon as an invasion. It went into a long and convoluted explanation as to why this was the appropriate terminology,…

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‘Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING’: New World Order
Chris Hedges at Princeton – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – The genocide in Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for the weak. Oppose the strong, refuse to bow to its capricious demands and you are showered with missiles and bombs.

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U.S. Takes Aim at President Gustavo Petro, but He’s Akin to a Rock Star in Colombia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

25 Mar 2026 – All eyes are now fixed on the US-Israeli War on Iran, so there’s been little attention to US moves to undermine Colombian President Gustavo Petro. These could, at worst, see Petro in a US prison alongside Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the US kidnapped on 3 Jan.

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The ‘American Psychologist’ Publishes Another Misleading Article about Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

12 Mar 2026 – For reasons I don’t understand, the American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, has published another article that appears to misrepresent antisemitism and its prevalence within the mental health professions (this isn’t the first time).

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Why Israel Wants a War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Gideon Levy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on.

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The Tail That Wags the Dog
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Teetering at the Brink of World War III – I have experienced wonderful Passover Seders in which the family group recites:
“Let all who suffer from oppression be our oppression. Let all who are downtrodden and crying for redemption be our burden and commitment for redemption.” The Seder connects Judaism with a universal compassion and struggle for human liberation.

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48 Hours and What You Can Do
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

22 Mar 2026 – It is hard to come-up with adjectives to describe the lunatic president of the US who is a puppet of Netanyahu (Epstein Mossad files), another lunatic who just noted that Jesus Christ does not have an advantage over Genghis Khan. Israeli colonial settlers went on a rampage yesterday torching property in nine Palestinian villages.

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ANTONIO C. S. ROSA – Peace Journalism
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Antonio (born 8 Feb 1946) is a pioneer in Peace Journalism and the editor and co-founder with Norwegian peace negotiator, Johan Galtung, of TRANSCEND Media Service in 2008. Event Date: Fri 3 Apr, 7pm (GMT), 11am California time. Zoom – Live from Porto, Portugal

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Tales from Iran: Nowruz under the Bombs—a Requiem for the Short Sighted
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

23 Mar 2026 – Imagine, for a single, brutal moment, a man who loses his father, his mother, and his wife in a single flash of US and Israeli bombs. This is not the opening scene of a gritty political thriller. It is the reality of Iran’s new leadership.

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The Most Dangerous Country
David Bromwich | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack.

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Psychology of Resilience: The Structural Roots of the “Resistance Environment” in Lebanon
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – By Dr. Mohammad Aloush for Al-Akhbar Newspaper

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Think of the Children
Michael J. Talmo | The Real Facts - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

How many more children must needlessly die? How do millions of dead children in the US and throughout the rest of the world make America great again?

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Israel: Genocide in the West Bank through Zionist Settlers
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – It’s not just Gaza—Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians, everywhere. We are one people being destroyed as one people.

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A Brutal War or a Brutal Regime…
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

When Civilians Are Forced to Choose Their Violence

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Defiant but Humane: Women of Resistance in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, My Teachers Today
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

17 Mar 2026 – Defiant Iranian, Lebanese & Palestinians set a high bar of revolution against the savage West, most specifically Israel-US empire that has leeched on our collective humanity & the environment.

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The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

12 Mar 2026 – Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news.

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War on Humanity: USA-Israel vs Iran
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Paradox of Political Wickedness – The US and Israel are entrenched in an ill-informed and irresistible impulse of wrong thinking, wrong actions and wrong leadership.

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(Français) Les Échos de l’Histoire : Quand la France Danse au Rythme des Tambours Américains
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Dans les annales de la diplomatie, il est des motifs qui se répètent avec une élégance presque tragique. Aujourd’hui, alors que les cieux d’Iran s’embrasent sous les feux croisés d’une guerre qui n’en porte pas encore tout à fait le nom, on ne peut s’empêcher de percevoir un écho familier.

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Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles
Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

23 Mar 2026 – As international law developed, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved — from the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 through the Congress of Vienna 1814-15, the League of Nations in 1919 and the UN Charter in 1945 as an incipient world constitution aimed at promoting peace, development and human rights.

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How the US Became an International Serial Killer
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

25 Mar 2026 – For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. How the Church Committee’s investigation of assassination plots against Castro, Lumumba and others led to an executive order prohibiting assassination that is still on the books.

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The Shadows of Betrayal: How the War in Iran Is Shaking the Foundations of US Politics
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

15 Mar 2026 – In Washington, where electoral promises twist into illusions, a specter haunts the White House. The question is no longer “who will win in the Middle East?” but “who will survive politically?”—a query hanging like a dark cloud over the Atlantic horizon.

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What about the United Nations?
 Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

The Bully Nations: Why the UN Is a Global War System – The United Nations has not been able to prevent wars, eliminate weapons of mass destruction, save the environment, or adequately protect human rights. 

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Ramadan Kareem
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

14 Mar 2026 – As Ramadan draws to a close, for millions, this year, it has been lived not in comfort but amid hardship, conflict, and uncertainty, where each fast and prayer carries the weight of survival itself. In Gaza…

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Applied Peace: Ubuntu Humanism, Usage of Indigenous, Mother Tongue Language and the Practice of Peace in Plural Societies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

“The preservation and usage of the mother tongue, is the single most important pillar of Peace in multicultural societies, globally”.

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What Do You Think?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2026

Success vs Success

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Interrogating the Iran War as a ‘War of Choice’: Political Realism vs Peace Journalism
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2026

Never before have the political organs of the UN given such support to a flagrant violator of the most basic of human rights or of its core prohibition of aggression in the UN Charter, and given it by a consensus that included countries of the Global South, including regional Islamic neighbors of Israel and Iran.

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From the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2026

Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
Our Weekly Digest today is again cut to a minimum. I am still unwell and unable to do my work.

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A Note from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
16 Mar 2026 – With a heavy heart, I acknowledge that our Weekly Digest today is shorter and lacking, and I explain.

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I Am Ashamed to Be an American
Lee Siegel | The New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

10 Mar 2026 – It shames and enrages me to hear Pete Hegseth, the sycophantic Secretary of War, cry that “America is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.” I am ashamed, as a Jew, to be associated with Israel in any way. For years, I bridled at the anti-Zionism that, almost always, concealed an anti-Semitism to some degree. No more.

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Remembering Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette (29 Jul 1940 – 5 Mar 2026)
Kazu Haga | Waving Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

6 Mar 2026 – Civil rights legend Dr. Bernard LaFayette helped reshape the course of the nation. But what I remember most was his joy and unwavering hopefulness.

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We Have a Dream…
ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Where they belong: In the dock…

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World’s Road to Hell Is Paved by Crusading US White Christians and Genocidal Messianic Israeli Jews
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – ALL faiths are susceptible to being weaponized for the savage ends of genocides, racist violence and wars of material gains.

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UAE Billionaire to Trump: Who Authorized You to Turn Our Region into a War Zone?
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

5 Mar 2026 – The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.

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The Brave New War Machine
Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

8 Mar 2026 – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from an offhand outburst, his statement reflects a broader ethos taking hold in Silicon Valley’s military-tech sector.

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(Castellano) Los pueblos originarios: nuestros maestros y doctores
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Hoy todos nos sentimos más o menos perdidos. La situación de nuestra civilización, así nos parece, ha llegado a su límite. Perdida en las contradicciones que ella misma creó, se da cuenta de que el cuerpo de conocimientos y el arsenal de técnicas que ella misma produjo no ofrecen soluciones capaces de sacarnos de los graves problemas que enfrentamos.

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These Targeted Attacks – Minab among Them
Elaheh Pooyandeh | TRANSNATIONAL Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

TFF plans to publish more texts and pictures from Iran, to give you the sense of its civilisation, beauty – to put a human face on the USraeli barbarism. 

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The New Barbarians
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

The barbarians are among us; they are not confined to any particular country or culture or religion. The USA and UK and Israel remain the vanguard of the natural history of destruction – the title of a book about their favourite activity: killing and destroying from the sky above. Luftkrieg und Literatur; (Air war and literature).

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The Good War Business Model: How to Sell Destruction, Call It Security, and Send the Invoice Later
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

In the next “Good War,” whose economy will rise… and whose cities will burn? Because empires never send themselves into the meat grinder. They outsource. The business model works until it doesn’t. And then the invoice comes due for everyone.

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Quit ChatGPT: Right Now! Your Subscription Is Bankrolling Authoritarianism
Rutger Bregman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

4 Mar 2026 – As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley.

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“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare.

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A World without Illusions–An Interview with Celso Amorim
Phenomenal World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

5 Mar 2026 – The Chief Advisor to Brazilian President Lula discusses the assault on Iran, the concept of multipolarity, and how Brazil can defend its sovereignty in an age of imperial conflict.

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Dismay as Ancient Heritage Sites across Iran Damaged in US-Israel Bombing
Julian Borger and Deepa Parent | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

12 Mar 2026 – Golestan Palace in Tehran, a world heritage site, harmed despite UNESCO sending coordinates. “This is a declaration of war on a civilisation, an enemy that has no culture pays no heed to symbols of culture. A country that has no history has no respect for signs of history; that has no identity sets no value for identity.”

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Peace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Imagine a blackout on medical practice, therapies, cures. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail. That journalism would be disease-oriented, the journalist being a disease journalist. There is not, yet, a tradition of “peace journalism” whereas “war and violence journalism” seem to be in good standing. But what could be that concept of peace journalism?

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Why Gandhi Matters?
K. V. Raghupathi, PhD | Erothanatos - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

Einstein absolutely venerated Gandhi. When Einstein moved to Princeton in 1935, from Berlin, he added Gandhi to his three portraits: Newton, Faraday and Clerk Maxwell. He said that the Mahatma was the “greatest man of our age. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”.

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With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank
Theia Chatelle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

10 Mar 2026 – The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.

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Spain Stands Up: Toward the Internationalization of ‘No a la Guerra’
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – President Sánchez’s voice has been the bravest in Europe. His peace communication and action have the potential to disarm the authoritarian brutality of war as events in Iran and the Middle East grip the hearts and minds of the peoples of the world.

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Sustained Indigenous Languages and Peace: The Mandela–Ubuntu–Language Interactivity Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

“Peace speaks many languages, but it is heard most clearly in the mother tongue.”[2]

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Iran
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2026

5 Mar 2026 – How do you sort through lies in the fog of a regional war that is likely going to lead to a global war? More importantly how do you get crucial information that helps you act to stop the madness devastating people and our environment.

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An Unlawful War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

4 Mar 2026 – I write with a sense of urgency. The Second Iran War moves us closer to an abyss of unknowable depth. Neither the geopolitical actors, nor the UN, nor respect for law, morality, and decency are capable of resolving the multi-dimensional global crisis and promoting a justice-driven future for humanity. The alternative to struggle is despair.

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MAGA End-times from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

8 Mar 2026 – Exploration of Neglected Implications with AI Assistance – There is considerable focus on the person and psychology of Donald Trump in provoking unpredictable change globally and evoking controversial reactions — with the support of a power base identifying with the MAGA slogan.

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