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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party

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No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”

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God, Science and Civilizational Destruction: US-Israel’s Pursuit of Domination
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Unprecedented in the post-Holocaust history: the world’s most technologically advanced killing machine–USA–is being used against targeted civilian populations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran by the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, despite overwhelming popular US opposition.

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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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 Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela also No Criticism of the Illegal War on Iran
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

3 Mar 2026 – Here is exactly what the EU should have stated…

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International Law, Peace Journalism, Incendiary Truths
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2026

In Times of Wars and Coloniality – In the face of the very real possibility of a world war wherein nuclear sable-rattling gets louder by the day, I have started to feel unbearably light and insignificant in seeking to uphold professional conventions of how to do things, what language and tone are appropriate in our articulations. When do lawyers, writers, peace journalists bin their craft and “fight”?  What does their fight look like? Well, that’s for each to decide.

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The USrael Attack on Iran on the 40th Anniversary of the Murder of Olof Palme
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2026

28 Feb 2026 – Today, USrael attacked Iran for the second time in one year. It also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme who condemned the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, and revealed the places where crimes were committed up till then. He paid a price for it: his life.

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2026

21 Feb 2026 – Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.

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After Greenland, Antarctica?
Jun Ohashi and Takashi Yamaguchi | TBS News Dig (Japan) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2026

24 Feb 2026 – The U.S. ‘Diplomacy’ Heads for Southern-Edge of Argentina, Ushuaia City, the “Gateway to Antarctica”

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A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

18 Feb 2026 – This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic.It is a visionary peace proposal that can save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin.A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity —benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us.

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Father of Peace Journalism Passed Away, Leaving Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism, which he and others launched in the 1960’s.

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(Português) Brasil: Petroleiros e Movimentos Sociais Articulam Campanha ‘Petróleo para Cuba’
FUP-Federação Única dos Petroleiros - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Feb 2026

Nesta sexta-feira, 13, a FUP enviou ofício à Diretoria Executiva de Logística, Comercialização e Mercados da Petrobrás, solicitando reunião para tratar da possibilidade de envio emergencial de combustível a Cuba.

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Munich ‘Security’ Conference–The West’s Premier Has Become a €20 Million Militarist Echo Chamber
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

13 Feb 2026 – The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades.

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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 3)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

Part 3 — Citizens and Government Actions in Economics, Trade and Financial Sovereignty

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Munich Security Report 2026: Under Destruction
Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger | Munich Security Conference - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Feb 2026

February 2026 – The Munich Security Conference 2026 is taking place at a moment of profound uncertainty. Rarely in the conference’s recent history have there been so many fundamental questions on the table at the same time: about Europe’s security, the resilience of the transatlantic partnership, and the ability of the international community to manage an increasingly complex and contested world.

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Truth, Love & Humanity Are NOT “Western Values”: From Israel, Epstein Files and Human Rights Watch to Elite Euro-Americans
Maung Zarni | Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

4 Feb 2026 – It is rich for the White Men (& Women) who cry “our shared ‘Judaeo-Christian Civilization,” in their savage wars for land and loot while lying their way to wealth & power.

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Across the West, Speaking for Palestine Is Now a Crime
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

25 Jan 2026 – Exactly a year ago today, I was abducted from a Zurich street by plainclothes police, bundled into an unmarked car and taken to prison. I was walking with one of my hosts toward a venue where I was scheduled to speak at an event organized by Swiss activists about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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BlackRock Is Buying Up the World’s Infrastructure to Serve Billionaire Oligarchs
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

The Real Deal Behind the Panama Canal & Greenland: The World Economic Forum’s Global Model “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy”

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When a Backup Steals Your Life’s Work: My Experience with pCloud on macOS
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

5 Feb 2026 – Our readers are not used to seeing this type of article. The experience involved starting up my Mac and finding only empty folders on its desktop, i.e. the sudden loss of nearly 100,000 documents and files accumulated over decades.

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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Intro)
Jan Oberg, Biljana Vankovska, Pascal Lottaz, Annette Schiffmann and Christina Spannar | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Introduction to TFF’s Forthcoming Five Idea Portfolios of Diplomatic and Nonviolent Resistance

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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 1)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

20 Jan 2026 – Media, Culture and Information Sovereignty – This is the first of five idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the US and help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to the Trump administration’s confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies.

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

30 Jan 2026 – For half-a-century, Harn Yawnghwe has been pushing for federalism based on ‘ethnic group equality and inclusive society’ as the only twofold viable solution for peace and reconciliation in his native Myanmar.

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The Spirit of the Mahatma in 2026 – An Introspection
Vivek Umrao Glendenning | Ground Report India - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

30 Jan 2026 – The observance on 30 Jan 2026, is far more than a scheduled national event in India; it is a date charged with profound moral, historical, and existential gravity, marking the seventy-eighth year since the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – The story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s 50-year exilic politics and the failed democratic transition that the Feb 2021 coup derailed.

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Neither the US and Its Allies nor any Other State Has a Right to Intervene in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations
Jan Oberg, Pascal Lottaz and Annette Schiffman | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

15 Jan 2026 – With a focus on possible war on Iran, we argue that the US must – and can – be stopped. It doesn’t have a God-given exceptionalist status. It has become “too arrogant.”

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Beyond Oil! Trump Models Himself after Adolf Hitler as the “Genius Leader”
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

10 Jan 2026 – There exists a chilling parallel between Adolf Hitler and Donald J. Trump, insofar as the two men’s worldviews–of themselves, their countries, and people – “races?”–they identify with, and their respective missions. Read Mein Kampf to understand US fascism and Trump’s Hitlerite leadership.

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UN World Court Begins Landmark Hearings on Rohingya Genocide Case against Myanmar
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

12 Jan 2026 – Public hearings opened today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a landmark case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention over the military’s treatment of the Rohingya minority.

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(Italiano) Ancora su guerra, pace e cristiani oggi
Enrico Peyretti | Appunti di cultura e politica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

Gen 14, 2026 – Cerco di riflettere sulla pace possibile e la guerra superabile a partire da una nota del teologo Severino Dianich (del 24 dicembre 2025).

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Gaza: Storms Worsen Already Dire Humanitarian Situation–Large Numbers Exposed to the Cold
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

12 Jan 2026 – The humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip remains extremely serious, with harsh winter weather threatening to reverse recent gains in aid delivery, the United Nations said today.

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The Trump Regime’s “Peace Board” Is Another Brick in His Personal Occidental Empire
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

18 Jan 2026 – His Gaza proposal reveals a far larger and world-threatening project. It’s a bid to replace the UN — and this MAGAlomania must be stopped now. See warning at the end.

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The Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

Prof. Johan Galtung’s exceptional foresight predicting the fall of the US empire is being validated by successive administrations, with Trump sticking the last nail in the empire’s (not the Republic’s) coffin–irreversibly. I repeat in unison with Prof. Galtung: ‘I love the US republic, and I hate the US empire’. –TMS Editor

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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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