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A New Year’s Thought: A Farewell to Warriors!
Editorial | The Tokyo Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

A One Hundred Two -Year-Old War Survivor Speaks About “War”

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Thematic Report – Israel’s Discriminatory Administration of the Occupied West Bank, Including East Jerusalem
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

7 Jan 2026 – This thematic report considers the human rights situation in the occupied West Bank with a focus on Israel’s discriminatory administration in violation of Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination, which prohibits racial segregation and apartheid.

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5 Crises to Watch Out for in 2026
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

As the world rings in a new year, the need to address ongoing and long-lasting humanitarian crises remains urgent. In 2026, several regions will face challenges that will demand global attention. 

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An Urgent Appeal to Save the Lives of Palestine Action Hunger Strikers in UK
Former hunger strikers | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

11 Jan 2026 – We write in uncompromising solidarity with the hunger strikers from Palestine Action held today in British prisons. They are imprisoned on remand, without trial and without conviction. For some, their remand has lasted over a year, and for most, they will not see trial for two.

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Maduro Seized, Norms Tested: Security Council Divided as Venezuela Crisis Deepens
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026

5 Jan 2026 – The UN Security Council met on Monday against a sharply altered diplomatic backdrop, following US strikes on the Venezuelan capital and seizure of President Nicolás Maduro.

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Myanmar Junta’s 3-Phased Elections
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

31 Dec 2025 – Myanmar’s widely reviled military junta is holding “phased general elections”, amidst the ever expanding military and political conflicts triggered by its coup in February 2021. 

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Gaza: The Reckoning
Bruno Maçães - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed. The International Court of Justice, all the major historians of genocide, the UN, all the major human rights organisations and even a former Israeli Prime Minister all call the Gaza “war” a genocide. Public opinion across Europe and the US increasingly agrees.

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Peace Research at Lund University Closed Down in 1989: Why and How?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

29 Dec 2025 – And why I lived happily ever after. This is a piece of Nordic academic history deserving to be shared – an early case of the destruction of Nordic peace and conflict research that followed.

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US Imperialism in 2026 and Prayers of Resistance
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

To belabour the obvious, US President Donald J. Trump is proving to be yet another aggressor in the White House despite the schizophrenic claims that he has ended eight wars, for which he practically demanded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

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2026: Hundreds of Thousands of Palestinians Remain Uprooted
UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026

1 Jan 2026 – Many Living in Makeshift Tents Pitched on Bare Ground or Squeezed into Damaged Buildings

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Call Me “an Antisemite”
Maung Zarni | Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

23 Dec 2025 – Zionist Jews now openly brag “we are the Masters of Universe”. Recognize a Palestinian State? Then your country is led by anti-Semites.

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Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture ⛔
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

27 Dec 2025 – The West, once proud of its values, now erodes them and thrives on security political disinformative narratives hoping you shall not know… If Baud, then we are all potential targets now!

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(Français) Albert Einstein avait prévu “la catastrophe”, à savoir Israël, & avait refusé d’être président des sionistes
Maung Zarni | Zanzibar Freedom of Speech - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

Qui, doté d’un esprit aussi vif & éthique, aurait voulu être le premier président d’une colonie européenne vouée au fiasco, malgré près de 80 ans de de protection & de mécénat impérialiste ?

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Neurotechnology in the Military Domain: A Primer
UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2025

Recent advances have rendered the integration of neurotechnology into military contexts increasingly likely. In contrast to civilian neurotechnology, this trend has received comparatively less attention, while carrying with it significant potential risks for international peace and security.

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Religions: A Gentle Wisdom in Them All
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

“Best wishes for the Season and the New Year” we easily write and read these days. So let us reflect on the Season, a time for religare, reconnect between that out there, and that in here, in us, for globalizing truths on the still unborn 2026.

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A World in Chaos
Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D. | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

Nuclear disarmament should be the first step in unraveling the chaos.

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Everything the Trump Administration Is Doing in Venezuela Involves Oil and Regime Change—Even if the White House Won’t Admit It
Jordan Blum | Fortune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025

14 Dec 2025 – The White House emphasizes national security over drug trafficking and immigration as it bombs boats and kills more than 80 people in legally questionable actions, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Regime change opening Venezuelan oil to more U.S. investment could lead to greater oil flows.

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NATO Rutte’s Berlin Speech: Not about Russia, but about the End of Rational Politics
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

12 Dec 2025 – And How It Made Me Think of Hitler

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UN Strongly Condemns Israel’s Invasion of UNRWA Compound in East Jerusalem
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

8 Dec 2025 – The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Jerusalem early today, representing “a new challenge to international law.” The UN flag was pulled down and replaced with an Israeli flag.

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Global Atrocity Risks Rising, Warns New United Nations Adviser on Genocide Prevention
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

8 Dec 2025 – The world is witnessing an alarming erosion of respect for international law, with conflicts increasingly targeting civilians and heightening the risk of atrocity crimes, warns the United Nations’ newly appointed Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

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Deep Concerns for Palestinians amid Intense Israeli Raids in Occupied West Bank
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

13 Dec 2025 – The UN human rights office has expressed alarm at reports of a “settler road” being built in the occupied West Bank where 100 hectares of Palestinian land have been confiscated for the new route, another step towards the fragmentation of the West Bank.

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Reflecting on the Day the Pacific War Japan/USA Began: Beyond the Elimination of Anti-Military Speeches
Editorial | Tokyo Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

8 Dec 2025 – 84 years ago, (8 Dec 1941 in Japan, 7 Dec 1941 in the USA), Japan entered combat with the United States and Britain. This marked the beginning of the Pacific War, the armed conflict initiated by Japan in the Asia-Pacific theater of WWII… The country was reduced to ashes and the war finally ended with 3.1 million Japanese killed.

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UN Approves Resolution for International Day against Colonialism in All Its Forms
The People's Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025

26 Oct 2025 – The UN passed a resolution that proposes the establishment of the The International Day against Colonialism, proposed to be 14 Dec. US and Israel Voted Against– Netherlands and France Abstained

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Israeli Raids and Settler Attacks Deepen Humanitarian Crisis in West Bank
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

7 Dec 2025 – A spike in Israeli military raids and settler violence across the occupied West Bank is driving new displacement, shutting schools and disrupting essential services for tens of thousands of Palestinians.

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Witch Hunt: The Heretic and the Inquisition–Why the West Fears Francesca Albanese
Michael Leonardi | Counterpunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

5 Dec 2025 – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories is the “witch” being hunted by the Western powers because she represents the truth of international law against the brute force of the geopolitical narrative. She dismantles the fiction that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

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Humanity Is Under the Rubble of 500 Years Old Racial Capitalism, Unipolar or Multipolar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

7 Dec 2025 – Whatever the name of the state (or even states), US or BRICS, the logic of Capital has locked the policy options of these political entities and, consequently, the fate of humans in perpetual misery while ever increasing – not reversing – the ecological threat to our collective existence as a species.

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Denmark’s Ritual of Militarisation: The Copenhagen Security Summit 2025
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025

On 8 Dec 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes with 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, being one of Denmark’s largest gatherings on geopolitics and security. A showcase of the Military‑Industrial‑Media‑Academic Complex MIMAC, not wanting to know what peace and coexistence could be.

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TFF Portfolio for True Peace in Ukraine
Jan Oberg, et al. | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

23 Nov 2025 – It is time to stop misusing the word “peace” as if peacemaking required neither knowledge nor creativity. TFF presents a genuine portfolio of proposals for global dialogue – and not a fake plan.

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Why China’s Warning Matters More Than Any UN Reform Debate
RT | Irish Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

28 Nov 2025- Beijing revives an uncomfortable truth: the global order belongs to the winners of WW2.

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The Question of Palestine
UN Committee on the Exercise of Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

25 November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People

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Prisons as Sites of National Reconciliation or Continuing Hells
Sai Tun Aung Lwin | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

24 Nov 2025 – In Vietnam, prison, a colonial and wartime instrument of brutality, has been turned into a memorial museum for national identity-building and reconciliation. Myanmar’s prisons continue to operate as spaces of systematic violence under successive authoritarian regimes.

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UN Expert: UNSC Resolution Violates Palestinian Right of Self-Determination and UN Charter
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025

19 Nov 2025 – A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination and consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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After the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025

[From TMS Editor: We are reposting this editorial for its immediacy. The Trump administration is accelerating the process of dissolution to a point of no return. This is a ‘thinking’ piece to aid responsible actors in planning for the next phase: regions instead of empires. Hopefully without bloodshed–as happened with the dissolution of the USSR.]

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Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan: A Cruel Joke in a Conflict/Peace Illiterate World
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025

18 Nov 2025 – The fact that the outlandish and quackish Trump “peace” plan for the genocided Gaza was passed by the UN Security Council defines the end of every understanding of true peace.

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Gaza: Displaced Palestinians Dealing with the ‘Death of Dignity’, Warns UNICEF
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025

19 Nov 2025 – Living conditions for Gazans – particularly children – are still dire as temperatures drop and families return to bombed-out homes as the fragile ceasefire holds, UN aid workers said today.

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Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Global Military Spending
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025

18 Nov 2025 — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme.

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Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025

11 Nov 2025 – In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.

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Gaza: War (Genocide) Has Made Children Violent, Sad and Bereft
UN News - Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025

13 Nov 2025 – More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.

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Rethinking Peace at a Time of Lucrative Genocides
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025

Peace thinkers and advocates need to start thinking hard when Gramsci’s “monsters” in the time of collapsing empires are billionaires who stand to profit from the wars of annihilation, be it in Sudan’s vast gold mines, or Rohingya’s fertile agricultural soil, or Gaza with its offshore natural gas, or Palestine’s beautiful seafront in Gaza.

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Reading “Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience” at the British Parliament
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

9 Nov 2025 – The dying Western Civilization (or “The West”) has not learned a thing during its 500-years of failed attempts to subjugate the Global Majority: The elite or rulers may submit, but the people never surrender to the invading colonizers. Palestine will be free.

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US Wealthiest Billionaires Got $698 Billion Richer This Year
Emma Burleigh | Fortune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

4 Nov 2025 – While North Americans are pinching their pennies amid soaring housing costs and mass layoffs, the ultra-rich are seeing unprecedented wealth gains. In the coming years, we could even have our first trillionaire: Elon Musk. 

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(Italiano) Tribunale di Gaza: una dichiarazione storica all’insegna delle testimonianze
Gaza Tribunal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

27 ottobre 2025 – Guidato dal Prof. Richard Falk, ex Relatore Speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui Diritti Umani nei Territori Palestinesi, la storia si è svolta in tempo reale. Dopo mesi di udienze, il Tribunale ha ora emesso la sua sentenza definitiva, che giunge alla coscienza del mondo.

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(Italiano) Il crollo degli Stati Uniti e il sorgere di nuovi fascismi
Maung Zarni | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

Che cosa direbbe o farebbe Galtung?

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Hiroshima Declaration 2025
Pugwash Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025

Issued by the Pugwash Council, 5 November 2025

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Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967
Francesca Albanese | UN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

20 Oct 2025 – Report of the Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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The Verdict of Conscience from the Gaza People’s Tribunal & a Way Forward
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

The images of 2025 Gaza resemble more ruined Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing than a site of urban warfare in a densely populated cityscape. The Jury’s verdict noted that Israel’s onslaught exceeded the Israeli Defence Force’s military objective of defeating the armed Palestinian resistance and destroying their physical infrastructure

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Reported Massacre at Hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher Leaves 460 Dead
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

29 Oct 2025 – Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.

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(Italiano) Tribunale di Gaza: una dichiarazione storica all’insegna delle testimonianze
Tribunale di Gaza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

27 ottobre 2025 – Guidato dal Prof. Richard Falk, ex Relatore Speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui Diritti Umani nei Territori Palestinesi, la storia si è svolta in tempo reale. Dopo mesi di udienze, il Tribunale ha ora emesso la sua sentenza definitiva, che giunge alla coscienza del mondo.

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Rwandan Prisoner of Conscience Victoire Ingabire
Ann Garrison | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025

29 Oct 2025 – Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated to commemorate her Oct 2010 arrest. Rwanda has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, ranking in the top three countries per capita.

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A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

25 Oct 2025 – Last night I had gone to bed with, and woke up this morning thinking about, the image of Gaza, I saw at the Archaeological Museum. That is, the Gaza battle scene on the sarcophagus named Alexandar, yes, that Macedonian empire-builder remembered as Alexandar the Great.

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Israel’s Physical and Ecological Destruction of Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

21 Oct 2025 – Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it “unlivable.”

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Gaza Tribunal: A Historic Statement in the Shadow of Testimony
Gaza Tribunal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

27 Oct 2025 – Led by Prof. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, it was history unfolding in real time. After months of hearings, the Tribunal has now delivered its final judgment — which lands in the conscience of the world.

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Two Conferences in Shanghai: Reflections on Discourse, Dialogue, and the Non-Studies of Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

In October 2025, I attended two major academic conferences in Shanghai. What unfolded was a journey through two distinct but interwoven events—each offering a lens into China’s intellectual landscape and its evolving role in the world.

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UN Rights Office Sounds Alarm over ‘Skyrocketing’ Israeli Settler Violence During Olive Harvest
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025

21 Oct 2025 – The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in violence and restrictions by Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinian farmers, as the crucial olive harvest season gets underway.

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(Italiano) Pensare il conflitto
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

Gli USA hanno un approccio immaturo, autistico, ai propri conflitti, da bambino viziato. Una leadership deve affrontare direttamente le radici dei conflitti – non i sintomi come l’odio e l’ostilità – ossia la contraddizione stessa, un problema in cerca di soluzione. Ed essere un bravo giocatore di squadra come sono sovente gli statunitensi, dove la squadra è il mondo.

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Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
Sunjeev Bery | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

8 Oct 2025 – Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment. The long-term implications of the “peace plan” appear startlingly similar to the goals that US white settlers had for Native Americans.

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UN Faces ‘Race to Bankruptcy’ as Guterres Unveils Sharply Reduced 2026 Budget
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

17 Oct 2025 – The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.

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“Genocide Is the Means, Not the Ends” – Norman Finkelstein
Ashfaaq Carim | UNAPOLOGETIC/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

3 Oct 2025 – Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.

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Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
Media Education Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein dissected Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel’s brutal occupation, siege, and successive “high-tech killing sprees” and atrocities in the Strip.

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Statement by the Last Releasee of the Global Sumud Flotilla from Israeli Jail
Huwaida Arraf | Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

Huwaida Arraf, a US attorney, Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, was on the Sumud Flotilla that Israel illegally intercepted on 1-2 Oct 2025 in international waters.  She was taken to Israel, had a sham hearing, was physically abused, refused to sign a statement, and was then expelled.  She is fearless.  Here is her story. 

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The Collapse of the US Empire and Rise of New Fascisms
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025

What Would Galtung Do or Say?

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‘Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize’ 2025 to Francesca Albanese
Jan Oberg | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

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Denmark, Drones & Deception: Europe’s Staged Panic Over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

6 Oct 2025 – Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…

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Thinking Conflict
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

The USA has an immature, autistic approach to its conflicts, like a spoiled child. A leadership has to come to grips with the root of conflicts–not symptoms like hatred and hostility–the contradiction itself, a problem in search of a solution. And be a good team player as USians often are; the team being the world.

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Peace Camps Empower Liberian Youth to Envision a Different Future
Tara Abhasakun | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

Peace camps have been empowering Liberian youth. In July 2025, 50 young people from Maryland and Grand Kru communities gathered in Monrovia for the ninth Annual Peace Through Fair Play Youth Camp organized by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.

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U.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, Oct 2023-Sep 2025
William D. Hartung | Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

7 Oct 2025 – The US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide. Given the scale of current and future spending, the IDF could not have done the damage they have done in Gaza without U.S. financing, weapons, and political support.

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West Bank: Record Number of Demolitions over Building Permits as Israel Furthers Annexation Agenda
The Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

6 Oct 2025 – In less than nine months, Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over building permits than in the whole of last year.

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Nobel ‘Peace’ Committee – A Prize for US Military Regime Change
Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

10 Oct 2025 — The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) strongly condemns the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again violated Alfred Nobel’s original mandate by honouring a figure who openly advocates foreign military intervention.

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PM Shigeru Ishiba on Japan’s Failure to Avoid War
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025

10 Oct 2025 – Outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba today released a statement of personal reflections to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II by posing a tantalizing question: “Why couldn’t Japan avoid that war?”

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Don’t Be Fooled: Others Could Have More Interest in Sending Drones to the Nordic Countries Than Russia
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

29 Sep 2025 – Drones over Nordic airports. No damage. No trace. No answers. Most assume Russia—but what if that’s not so? Why is there so much we are not told? Who else might benefit from sending drones into NATO airspace?

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(Italiano) La prima presidenza Trump, 2017 – Ricorda nulla?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

Non c’è alcuna grandezza in quel che fa Trump, rende anzi gli USA più piccoli. Tentare una rinascita anziché languire nella ruggine, cancellare accordi stupidi come il TPP: d’accordo. Ma ritrarsi in uno stato forte in auto-glorificazione non è grandezza, è isolamento. La grandezza non sta in quel che si è ma in come ci si relaziona. E Trump si relaziona davvero terribilmente.

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Haiti on the Brink: Violence Cuts Off Capital and Humanitarian Assistance Pushing Families to Starvation
UN Food Program - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

2 Oct 2025 – Armed groups now control nearly 90 percent of Port-au-Prince. More farmers are cut off from markets with devastating consequences for food prices and insecure families. A staggering 1.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes in search of food and shelter.

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For a Free Palestine, against US-Israel Empire: Italian Voices from Below
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

Hear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 Sep 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.

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Rohingya Plight in Myanmar, a ‘Test for Humanity’
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

30 Sep 2025 – “Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those words, UNGA President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference today over Myanmar’s deepening crisis, which threatens to destabilise the wider region.

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A Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025

Peace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.

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UNICEF Aid Trucks Robbed at Gunpoint in Gaza City
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025

Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, UNICEF said on 19 Sep 2025, following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads. 

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The First Trump Presidency, 2017 – Ring Any Bells?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025

There is no greatness in what Trump does, he makes USA smaller. Trying rebirth instead of rust, canceling stupid deals like TPP: OK. But retracting into a self-glorifying strong state is not greatness, it is isolation. Greatness is not in what you are but in how you relate. And Trump relates awfully.

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(Italiano) Studi sulla Pace: Ispirazione, Obiettivi, Conseguimenti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

La pace fa appello al cuore; gli studi al cervello. Entrambi sono necessari, anzi indispensabili. Ma altrettanto indispensabile è un valido collegamento tra cervello e cuore. E questo, in sintesi, è lo scopo degli studi e della pratica della pace.

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Gaza: Top UN Independent Rights Probe Alleges Israel Committed Genocide
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

16 Sep 2025 – Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the UN Human Rights Council alleged today that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.

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On Palestine’s Anti-Colonial Resistance and Popular Revolts in Indonesia, Nepal, Myanmar and Malaysia
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025

21 Sep 2025 – ASEAN as a regional bloc of 11 member states has neither humanistic vision nor intellectual leadership. Out of its utter and complete absence of any ideals or principles or humanistic enlightenment, it remains quiet in all genocides.

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A Call to Citizens Everywhere: Choose Your Action for Justice
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. et al. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

9 Sep 2025 – A series of proposals that you can advocate for, send in a letter to your government or do yourself. It’s called people’s power or citizens’ diplomacy. SHARE!

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To Hell with US Empire
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

11 Sep 2025 – Empires collapse. Every single one before got burned and buried. It’s End Times. But history is not ending for the rest of humanity. We revive ourselves with Love, Solidarity, Empathy. So, here is To Hell with your empire, greater or lesser. Go fuck yourselves!

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The Deafening Silence of the ‘Holocaust Industry’ on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

10 Sep 2025 – On September 1, the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For nearly two years, the world watched in silence as the Jewish state massacred thousands of unarmed Palestinians laying waste to their homeland.

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Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P. | UN Human Rights Council - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025

Jul 2025 – Report of the UN Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P.

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The Role of Information in Building a New World
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025

2 Sep 2025 – Research as a Key to Fighting Militarism and Repression

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Sudan: A Staggering 30 million People Are in Need as War Grinds On
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

31 Aug 2025 – The Capital, Khartoum, Now “Completely a Ghost Town” – Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.

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The Rohingya and Gaza: Two Genocides the World Refuses to End
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

25 Aug 2025 – As I watch Gaza, I can’t help but think about what’s been inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar and the role Israel has played in it.

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The People of Haiti Are in a Perfect Storm of Suffering’
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing families to flee,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UNSC on 28 Aug 2025.

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Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of Courts in Preventing Genocides and Punishing Perpetrators
Natalie Brinham and Maung Zarni | TRT Global – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

On this day, August 25, eight years ago, the Myanmar army launched a campaign of genocidal violence against the Rohingya in their ancestral home in western Myanmar, to erase them; the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.

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Memorial to the Massacre of Koreans in Japan: A Foundation for Coexistence
The Tokyo Shimbun | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2025

26 Aug 2025 – During the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 Sep 1923 in Japan, many Koreans were massacred due to false rumors.  Commemorating the victims means facing up to a “negative history” that must never be repeated.

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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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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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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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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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