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The Pentagon’s Obsession with China Puts Hawai’i at Risk
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2026

10 Aug 2026 – To prepare for a possible war with China, the U.S. military has put Hawai’i on the front lines of a potential nuclear conflict. Exaggerating the threat posed by China is a foolproof marketing scheme for those who profit handsomely from preparations for war with Beijing.

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The World beyond Global Disorder
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.

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Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
Ioana Puscas | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

UNIDIR has launched a scenario compendium presenting potential uses of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems in realistic operational contexts. Challenges of compliance with International Humanitarian Law.

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The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta
Stephen Zunes | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

3 Aug 2026 – Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis? – What prompted the scenes this past week of 50,000 Moroccans and others streaming into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is more complicated than it seems.

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Will a World without Israel Be Safer and More Peaceful?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

By all indications, Israel itself – that is, its apartheid policies towards Palestinians, its pursuit of Hitlerite “Mein Kampf in reverse” in the Occupied Palestine and its unmistakably Exceptionalist behaviour worldwide–has become the primary driver behind worldwide moral outrage. 

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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Arundhati Roy | The Wire/Equator – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

23 Jul 2026 – The student-led protests that have convulsed the Indian capital this week are showing us a different future for India and spreading to other cities. The cautious hope stirred by this youth uprising – and the Modi government’s desperate struggle to contain it.

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Piano Prodigy Young Boy (Music Video of the Week)
Unknown/Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

Awesome…

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Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

BOTH!!

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Half of Me Had always Been Waiting
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jul 2026

17 Jul 2026 – How watching Cabo Verde in the World Cup awakened a part of my identity I’d long ignored.

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The Clash of Imperialist States and Cooperative Civilizations
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2026

War and War in the Age of Planet-destroying Globalized Capitalism

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San Andreas Fault Reaches Highest Stress Level in 1,000 Years
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology/University of Hawaii News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2026

10 Jun 2026 – Tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in Southern California has now reached, and in some places exceeded, the highest levels seen in the past 1,000 years, according to research led by Earth scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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Inequality, Culture, and Violence: Assessing the Legacy of Johan Galtung
Solveig Hillesund and Gudrun Østby | Journal of Global Security Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jul 2026

In this paper, we show that many of the ideas and assumptions in the conceptual groundwork and theorization that underpin research on “horizontal inequalities” can be traced back to the seminal work of Johan Galtung, although they are rarely attributed to him.

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NATO 3.0: Alliance or Military-Industrial Investment Fund?
Biljana Vankovska | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jul 2026

3 Jul 2026 – From the era of ‘defending the Free World’ against communism, through the age of ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the ‘Global War on Terror,’ to today’s struggle against almost the entire non-Western world, the Alliance has repeatedly reinvented the narratives that justify its existence.

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What White Supremacists Know
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jul 2026

The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

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Cyber Warfare Markets
Fortune Business Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2026

8 Jun 2026 – Cyber warfare is a key area of contemporary war policy. The global cyber warfare market size was valued at USD 134.72 Billion in 2025 and it is projected to grow to USD 303.71 Billion by 2034. North America dominated this market with a share of 48.22% in 2025.

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Nonviolent Solutions Are Everywhere
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2026

19 Jun 2026 – Campaign Nonviolence Action Days invites people into the existing movement toward a nonviolent, equitable and livable world. Imagine a world of nonviolent solutions. 

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“The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed”: Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 Oct 2023
United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2026

18 Jun 2026 – UN Report on Gaza’s Children: Evidence Points to a Strategy of Societal Destruction – Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel

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Doomsayers and Possibility Explorers
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2026

27 Jun 2027 – It is time for research, media, politics and citizens to stop and think: What is it we do too much and what is it we do too little.

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Israel CONTINUES the Genocide in Gaza
Ana Kasparian and Trita Parsi | The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2026

14 Jun 2026 – The IDF Is still killing civilians in Gaza, despite the ceasefire–and in Lebanon.

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Democratic Party’s Corollary to Trump’s Foreign Policy: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
Roger D. Harris and John Perry | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2026

19 Jun 2026 – When it comes to Washington’s efforts to dominate Latin America and the Caribbean, the substantive dispute – if there is any substance remaining, once stripped of partisan bickering – is less about ends than means.

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The False Hope of US Support for Myanmar Democracy vs. Political Realism of Asian Giants
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2026

18 Jun 2026 – Based on his decades of pro-sanctions activism internationally, Dr Maung Zarni offers a brutally honest reflection on the futile Western dependency of anti-junta movements in his native country.

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Ecocide!
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2026

“The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth’s history, fundamentally altering the planet at an unprecedented scale. Humanity consumes resources far faster than they can regenerate, driving rapid environmental degradation, mass biodiversity loss, and climate shifts that many scientists classify as a new geological epoch.”

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(Italiano) 50 anni di Fidel
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2026

[Nota del redattore TMS: In un tempo in cui il futuro, la sopravvivenza e il benessere del mondo sono in mano a uomini e donne minori, miliardari fascisti, neo-nazisti, sionisti genocidi, dirigenti mondiali ignoranti, codardi, senza scrupoli; …

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Nuclear Abolition Is the Only Civilised Option
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2026

9 Jun 2026 – Here you have the essential arguments that people who cannot or will not think freely never mention.

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US Federal Court Dismisses Civil Rights Conspiracy Claims against Pro-Palestine Activists and The People’s Forum
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PCJF – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2026

9 Jun 2026 – Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism – In an important victory for free speech, a federal court has dismissed with prejudice all civil rights conspiracy claims brought against The People’s Forum from the occupation of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

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Global Peace Index 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA | reliefweb - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2026

9 Jun 2026 – The 2026 Global Peace Index reveals a world struggling with the economic consequences of a record-high number of conflicts that are increasingly interconnected and difficult to resolve. Global peacefulness deteriorated for the 12th consecutive year, driven by…

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The Threshold of Knowing: On Holographic Reality, Synchronicity, and the Primacy of Consciousness
Jan Oberg and Peter Yassopoulos | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2026

We have built extraordinary machines. We have mapped genomes, split atoms, and wired the world. And we have done all of it from a foundation that may be fundamentally wrong about what we are…

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Hitler’s Jew Hatred and Huckabee’s Jew Love as Grave Threats to World Peace
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2026

What do Arch-antisemite Adolf Hitler of Yesteryear and Today’s Christian Zionist Mike Huckabee Have in Common?  More Than You Think

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A Child of Genocide-Survivor Parents, This Rohingya Refugee in Canada Believes in and Acts on Never Again!
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2026

27 May 2026 – Rohingya human rights activist, former refugee and veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces detailed the abuses he was subjected to by Israel’s elite naval commandos and Israeli prison guards, in his 20-minutes recorded interview in Istanbul.

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50 Years of Fidel
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2026

[Note from the TMS editor: At a time when the world’s future, survival and well-being are at the hands of lesser men and women, fascist billionaires, neo-Nazis, genocidal Zionists, ignorant, cowardly, unscrupulous world leaders; where  power and money reign supreme above morals, ethics, values, humanity, compassion; …

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Stratagems for Change: Saving Humanity from Ourselves
Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D. | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2026

29 May 2026 – We are living in a challenging time with far too much suffering, stemming from a variety of ailments, including armed conflict, poverty, and ecological destruction. The symptoms of our dysfunctional world are many, the causes few, and yet complex, intricate, and hard to elucidate in simple terms.

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As AI Replaces Thinking, Learning Is Eroding
Shobhit Mahajan | The Tribune/After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2026

Chat GPT and Google Gemini are rapidly becoming the go-to places for students. That by itself is not surprising–after all, generations of students have found ways to avoid rigor and skirt around academic engagement. We might have a generation of  passive consumers and not creators.

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Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba
Masar Badil | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement/Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2026

15 May 2026 – Seventy-eight years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba: the displacement, uprooting, massacres, Zionist settler-colonialism, and attempts to erase Palestine from history, geography, and consciousness. Yet our Palestinian people have proven, time and again, that the will of free peoples is stronger than all projects of genocide and oppression.

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FORSEA Condemns the Israeli Regime for Hijacking another Group of Global Sumud Flotilla Boats and Kidnapping International Activists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2026

20 May 2026 – Ko Tinmaung sent FORSEA the recording a few hours before the Israeli terrorists in uniform boarded his boat Umut about 70 nautical miles past Cyprus.

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Journalism: Shaping a World at Peace
UNESCO – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2026

World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2022 /2025

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Eurovision: Europe Chooses Israeli Crimes over Original Peacemaking–Boycott It!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2026

12 May 2026 – This issue is much worse than you may think! Spread this, please! – Eurovision once symbolised a Europe committed to peace, dialogue, and cultural exchange. It was created in 1956 as a deliberate peace building project — a cultural instrument to rebuild trust in a Europe shattered by war.

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Trump Understands Nothing of China’s Culture–the Chinese Have All the Cards and the Time, Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2026

15 May 2026 – Go to this Fox News page: Trump tells the world that his meeting with Xi Jinping yielded very concrete political and economic results. Then go to China Daily – or Global Times – and you will see that for the Chinese it is framework, principles, structure of cooperation that matters

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End Europe’s Resurgent Militarism and Israel’s Genocidal Regime
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2026

11 May 2026 – Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, Dr John Reuwer of Doctors against Genocide, and Bisan Owda of Gaza Call for Peace, Humanity and Harmony.

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Lebanon Under Fire again – Israel Escalates Despite Ceasefire
Ranjan Solomon | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2026

10 May 2026 – Despite the ceasefire agreement reached in April, southern Lebanon continues to endure relentless Israeli military attacks. What was announced as a step toward de-escalation increasingly appears to have been little more than a temporary pause in an expanding regional conflict.

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Teresita’s Dream – Cuba’s Battle against Alzheimer’s
Brattleboro Community TV - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2026

12 Dec 2025 – Windham World Affairs Council – Teresita’s Dream is not just a film. It is a call to reimagine global health — and to stand in solidarity with those pushing for solutions against the devastating consequences of the U.S. embargo on Cuba — while humanizing the real-world consequences of U.S. imperialist policy and flipping the script on Cuban innovation.

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The 11th Hour US Imperialism, Israel’s “Mein Kampf in Reverse”, Palantir’s Oligarchic Techno-Fascism: Unprecedented Challenges to Peace-Thinkers/Makers
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2026

All news these days are bad news for average persons. Millions grit their teeth and pin their/our hope in the acts of resistance from below against corporate, statist and ideological forces that are prime drivers behind daily bad news.

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Record-Breaking World Heat
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch– TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2026

24 Apr 2026 – The world is its hottest (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated creating an artificial blanket that retains heat. Despite decarbonization efforts, emissions rise driven by increasing energy demand and fossil fuel use.

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Neurotechnologies and Their Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2026

2 Apr 2026 – This conference report provides a summary of the key themes, issues and takeaways from UNIDIR’s Innovations Dialogue 2025 on neurotechnologies and their implications for international peace and security.

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Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945–They Wouldn’t Today Either
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

24 Apr 2026 – Japanese surrender could have been ensured without instantaneous killing of more than a hundred thousand civilians and several hundred thousand people being subjected to third-degree burns, injuries, and radiation exposure that would eventually kill them, too.

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Genocidal in Essence, Settler Colonial Entities such as Israel Cannot Be Reformed
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

26 Apr 2026 – They Self-Destruct at Enormous Human Costs

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Settler Criminals
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

Zionism, Americanism, Nazism

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Newcastle Upon Tyne: The First City to Erect a Genocide Memorial Monument for Myanmar’s Rohingya Survivors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

14  Apr 2026 – Forgetting is a crime against memory. The city of Newcastle in the UK does not forget Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya and pledges to support their quest for justice.

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NATO: Allies’ Security Myth
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – “Global Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer “

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Lebanon’s Vichy Regime Faces Street Mobilization over Betrayal of Resistance and “Normalization” with Israel
Feroze Mithiborwala | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026 – As Beirut’s skyline is obscured by the smoke of Israeli bombardment, the regime of PM Nawaf Salam faces accusations of “high treason” and “servile collaboration” with Netanyahu, triggering a massive popular uprising.

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Europe’s ‘War on Vitamins’ Returns: How EU Restrictions Risk Deepening a Silent Public Health Crisis
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Under the misleading banner of ‘safety,’ the European Union is moving toward enforcing draconian limits on the permitted dosages of vitamins and minerals contained in supplements, a deeply cynical attack on the health, lives, and freedom of choice of millions of people.

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Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War
Robert Roth | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

10 Apr 2026 – As the world reels from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, Trump’s plan to assert dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace.

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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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