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94-Year-Old Seizes Chance to Tell Her Story of Atomic Bombing
Akari Uozumi | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

1 Aug 2025 – When Michiko Sakamoto opened the questionnaire sent to atomic bomb survivors nationwide, ideas for what she wanted to write came in a rush. The 94-year-old sat at her “kotatsu” heated table and gripped a pen at her home in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira.

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Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show…

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Why Japan Is an “Accomplice” in the Occupation of Palestine
Machi Kunizaki | Huffington Post Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

The Similarities between the Colonial Rule in East Asia and the Israeli Settlement

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Full Text: Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

A new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken system.

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91-Year-Old Man Exposed to Atomic Bombs Both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Nagasaki Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – “It’s still too hard for me to remember the hells that I experienced twice. I walked past piles of bodies.”

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Over 360 Humanitarian Workers Were Killed in 2024 — 200 in Gaza Alone, Making It the Deadliest Year on Record
UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Today, 19 Aug 2025, we mark the World Humanitarian Day — a time to honor those who step into crises to help others, and to stand with the millions of people whose lives hang in the balance.

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1987 Right Livelihood Acceptance Speech – Johan Galtung
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Peace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.

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First Person: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Late’ to Scale Up Humanitarian Aid in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – As gang violence across Haiti escalates, and the United States and other donors reduce their humanitarian funding, 1.3 million people who have fled their homes are facing the direst of consequences.

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International Criminal Court: New US Sanctions ‘a Flagrant Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

21 Aug 2025 — The ICC has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States yesterday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push-back surrounding investigations into US and Israeli officials.

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Israel Is Hell-Bent on Dispossessing All Palestinians Including Christians of Their Land
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BREAKING: Whistleblower Israeli Soldier Says IDF Burned over 1,000 Food Trucks Meant for Gaza
The North Star with Shaun King - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

26 Jul 2025 – An Israeli soldier just became a whistleblower and admitted the IDF BURNED over 1,000 food aid trucks meant for Gaza and buried what was left in deep pits to hide the evidence.

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Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

2 Aug 2025 – A new study published in ScienceDaily claims severe ocean overheating may be causing a fundamental climate shift. Starting in 2022-23, massive ocean heatwaves persisted for more than 500 days covering nearly the entire globe. This shocking event, never witnessed before, puts the entire global warming scenario on a new level that’s predictably negative.

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Sudan Gripped by Deadly Crisis as Hunger, Disease and Heat Intensify
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

31 Jul 2025 – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs raised the alarm yesterday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.

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In Just One Year, Victims from 162 Nationalities Were Trafficked to 128 Different Countries
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025

Human Trafficking Is Organized Crime – 30 July: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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Terror and Chaos for Gazans Now Entering the ‘Death Phase’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

21 Jul 2025 – After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams today described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.

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The World Moves South and East
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

Religions, worldviews, are at our hearts and minds.  Huge depositories of the human experiences, religions are mixes of jewels of wisdom and the mud of negativism, reflecting traumas and glories at the hands of, or at the expense of, others. 

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Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

Trump’s Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex

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The Specter of Bandung
Peiman Salehi | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

18 Jul 2025 – Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.

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Sweeping Censorship Will Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation Driving International Students Away
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

20 Jul 2025 – If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.

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BRICS Plans New Trade Model without the Dollar
Coin Tribune | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

17 Jul 2025 – Several members of the bloc, including Russia and Brazil, confirm that trade in national currencies is already underway.

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Brazil to Join South Africa’s Complaint against Israel at International Court of Justice
Orinoco Tribune Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

15 Jul 2025 – According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv. The Brazilian news outlet stated that the complaint before the ICJ seeks to have the actions committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recognized as genocide.

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UNICEF Voices Deep Dismay over the ‘Unconscionable’ Killing of Families Lining Up for Food Aid in Gaza
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

12 Jul 2025 – The head of the UN Children’s Fund has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thu, 10 Jul 2025. 

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Positive vs. Negative Nonviolence
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

Both are forms of power.  Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful.  Thus, negative nonviolence demands acts of omission–no more violence–and positive nonviolence invites acts of commission, for peace.

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Krishnamurti on War
Krishnamurti Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.” In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.

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Feeding the Warfare State
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

1 Jul 2025 – The Senate is on the verge of passing one of the ugliest pieces of legislation in living memory. The House’s version would cut $1.7 trillion in domestic spending, providing the top 5% of taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in tax breaks.

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NATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

26 Jun 2025 – Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.

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‘Our Kids Cry for Food’: Most Gaza Families Survive on One Meal a Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of food aid seekers on the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme.

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Trigger-Happy States and the Death of Diplomacy
Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

20 Jun 2025 – Diplomacy is being dragged into the street, executed and buried under the rubble of Israeli airstrikes—Washington with shovel in one hand, arms shipment in the other. The latest target in this grim theater of annihilation is Iran.

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Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

18 Jun 2025 – We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.

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UN Rights Office ‘Horrified’ by Deadly Violence at Gaza Food Distribution Sites
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jun 2025

18 Jun 2025 – As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.

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Seventy Percent of Israel’s Cost of Munition and Weapons Used in Gaza Are Paid by the United States
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2025

A Conversation with Israeli Historian Lee Mordechai in Jerusalem – “It would be impossible for Israel to wage this war (of annihilation) in the way it has been waged without the US support.”

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The Middle East as a Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2025

Why the focus ought to be on Israel, not Iran. Israel has 90-400 nuclear weapons. Here is what a simple AI dialogue yields. Any journalist could do it. No one does.

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Some Ideas on China and World Harmony
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2025

With the regionalization of the world where even the biggest states will find their place, an East Asian Community of the two Chinas, the two Koreas and the three Japans (Ryu Kyu Islands, Okinawa and an Ainu region) is inevitable.  The European Community-Union got started around steel and coal…

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Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six Decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

31 May 2025 – Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.

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Rule of Law vs. Rule of Mediation
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2025

A fresh wind of a culture of mediation is blowing all over Latin America, more than in any other continent. All over there are huge conferences, workshops and training in family mediation, between neighbors, communal mediation, in work relations; less so at the inter-nation and inter-state levels.

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Hindutva India Deporting Rohingya Refugees by Throwing Them into the Andaman Sea
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

19 May 2025 – The UN has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and put them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”

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(Castellano) Ante la Masacre de Gaza
Instituto Galtung España - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 May 2025

5 de mayo de 2025 – El panorama es desolador, pero es especialmente sangrante lo que está sucediendo en Gaza, donde un estado que se dice democrático está aniquilando a una población entera ante los ojos de todos sin que nadie parezca hacer nada.

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(Italiano) Perché tutta quella violenza oggigiorno?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Lo troviamo ovunque, come le uccisioni di massa in relazione agli attacchi degli Stati Uniti e/o dei suoi alleati [NATO] contro Iraq, Libia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ucraina, il genocidio israeliano dei palestinesi, Sudan, Myanmar… – 22 conflitti armati in corso nel 2025.

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Norway: Decline and Fall
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

The Norway I was born into 80 years ago and grew up in the 20 years that followed is hopefully still there, sedimented in the archeology of recent history.  But there is an overlayer of something alien, distinctly not Norwegian…

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Galtung: 60 Years of Global Peace Studies (Part 1)
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

An oldie from the founder of Conflict & Peace Studies

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Globalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

God has to globalize and should have done so before the stock exchange. Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect!

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(Italiano) Su Declino Progressivo e Caduta Inevitabile dell’Impero USA (Seconda Parte)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Date uno sguardo alle 14 contraddizioni e poi alla definizione d’impero. Il modo di risolvere queste erosioni al cuore del sistema è molto semplice.

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Civilian Peace Service
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Nonviolent Peaceforce – There is a basic problem: now coming from the West, there is always the danger that they could become the continuation of aggressive Western governmental politics by nongovernmental means.  How can this be avoided?

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A Lesson from Brazil – Where Gig Workers Have Rallied against the Right
Rodrigo Nunes | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

25 Apr 2025 – Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers.

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Plague of Rats and Insects Provide Latest Challenge for War-Shattered Gazans
Khaled Mohamed | UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

29 Apr 2025 — After suffering almost 18 months of deadly bombardment, displacement and lack of access to basic services, the embattled people of Gaza face yet another challenge: the threat of insects and rodents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inequality, corruption… what?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Comment…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Earthquake-Hit, War-Devastated Myanmar Needs a Lasting Humanitarian Ceasefire and the Establishment of a Myanmar Fund
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

3 Apr 2025 – TRANSCEND member Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of a Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar assets frozen by then Pres. Joe Biden in response to the Feb 2021 coup.

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A Landmark Forum for AI Governance in Security and Defence
Jessica Abowitz and Yasmin Afina | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Apr 2025

14 Mar 2025 – As AI becomes integrated into the military, governance must adapt. UNIDIR’s Conference on AI, Security and Ethics convened nearly 500 experts to discuss AI development and deployment in security and defence.

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Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

29 Mar 2025 – Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.

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On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline–and Fall–of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a configuration articulated by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the US Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. Direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.

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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.

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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.

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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

3 Mar 2025 – A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody

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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.

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‘Haiti’s Survival Is at Stake,’ Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country, William O’Neill. 

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Emerging Powers – and Retiring Powers
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

In the name of justice and symmetry any focus on what is emerging invites a focus on the opposite: “demerging”, vanishing, retiring powers.  There is not that much space at the top, in the limelight.

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Perfide Albion
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

The focus is on the United Kingdom, or England, or simply Albion, known for its perfidy–Lord Palmerston’s famous “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies; permanent interests.”

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With US Backing, Israel Has Already Set in Motion De Facto Annexation of Lands in the West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2025

27 Feb 2025 – The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.

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Islamism, Christianism, Judeaism
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Mar 2025

US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking His support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.

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Dialogue with 2024 Right Livelihood Awardee Issa Amro on Palestine/Israel
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations – “Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron.

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80 Years after Auschwitz: Milk the Holocaust while Ignoring Nakba, the Israeli Genocide
Maung Zarni | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2025

3 Feb 2025 – Zionists are unleashing the same horrors on Palestinians that the Nazis once heaped on the Jewish people.

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(Norwegian-Norsk) Hva kommer etter USAs imperium?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

En nøkkelhypotese i The fall of the US empire – and then what? er at etterfølgersystemet til det amerikanske imperiet verken vil være et hegemoni drevet av en stor aktør som Kina eller EU, eller globalisering drevet av transnasjonale selskaper, men en verden av regioner med regionale valutaer.

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The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker
Mark Goodwin | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

16 Jan 2025 – Mythologized as created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its companies were birthed out of the national security apparatus of the USA. What appeared as a guiding light towards free speech and financial freedom is Uncle Sam’s boot making its next step.

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Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 – 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.

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War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

29 Jan 2025 – Since war broke out in Sudan, one million people fled into Chad. Nine out of ten are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence including torture, rape and sexual slavery.

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How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.

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(Italiano) Civiltà come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

Sei civiltà definiscono 15 muri, religiosamente-filosoficamente ed economicamente-politicamente, come modelli di sviluppo. Lo scontro principale è l’Occidente contro il resto. Colonialismo, imperialismo. La soluzione: vincere, dominare. Ci sono altri modi: compromesso, trascendenza, nuove civiltà.

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Military Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

– that everybody seems to love.

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Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

21 Jan 2025 – For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.

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Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

18 Jan 2025 – Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza

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