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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.
→ read full articleRethinking 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
→ read full articleThe 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
→ read full article(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.”
→ read full articleGaza 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.
→ read full articleTwo 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.
→ read full articleThe 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…
→ read full articleThinking 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.
→ read full articleU.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?”
→ read full articleDon’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.
→ read full articleThe 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!
→ read full articleTo 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.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full article1987 Right Livelihood Acceptance Speech – Johan Galtung
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Peace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
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First Person: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Late’ to Scale Up Humanitarian Aid in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – As gang violence across Haiti escalates, and the United States and other donors reduce their humanitarian funding, 1.3 million people who have fled their homes are facing the direst of consequences.
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International Criminal Court: New US Sanctions ‘a Flagrant Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025 — The ICC has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States yesterday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push-back surrounding investigations into US and Israeli officials.
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Israel Is Hell-Bent on Dispossessing All Palestinians Including Christians of Their Land
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem
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The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists
Richard Falk interviewed by Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – The 10 Aug 2025 Israeli airstrike that killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two others in Gaza: Falk argues that discrediting truth-tellers and murdering the press is consistent with the apartheid worldview that dominates Zionist ideology.
→ read full articleEighty Years after Hiroshima: The American Bombs Have Turned Gaza into Hiroshima 2.0
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
7 Aug 2025 – Israel’s genocidal patron, namely the leaderships of the United States, have shown an utter and complete lack of human empathy, conscience or regard for the post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust international law, which they helped create.
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Myanmar Anti-Junta Opposition Plays with Fire: Dangling Rare Earth Materials before Transactional & Un-Trustworthy Washington
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 – Myanmar’s anti-Junta opposition in the diaspora and their Western supporters are playing with fire when they reportedly dangle before Trump’s transactional administration the prospects of a fire sale of the country’s strategic natural resources for political support.
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Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale Stare Down Goldfinger
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
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Malnutrition Deaths Mark ‘Latest in the War on Children’ in Gaza: UNRWA Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, underscoring the need to speed up medical evacuations. – These young deaths are “the latest in the war on children and childhood in Gaza,” the head of UNRWA said today.
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From Templars to Jesuits and the Vatican: How the Occult Underground Shaped World History
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 – You can access the transcript with images as well as the video version of the lecture.
→ read full articleTwo Indias: Gandhiji and Modern India
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
Gandhi was killed not far from where we are right now by a Pune brahmin, Godse, and I was that 17-year-old boy in Norway who cried upon hearing the news. Something unheard of had happened.
→ read full articleMinistries of Peace?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
The text, the message of a ministry, is revealed in its subsections, like the 64 US Congressmen headed by Dennis Kucinich did so well in the proposal for a US Department of Peace. Three major tasks: mediation of present conflicts, conciliation for the traumas of past violence, and construction of a more solid pace for the future.
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Gaza Genocide-Complicit States’ “Conditional Recognition” of Palestine Is “Elastic Words”
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – Words can’t liberate people under oppression in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, much less end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Palestine/Israel: UN Chief Urges Action to Implement Two-State Solution for Lasting Peace
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
“The only realistic, just, and sustainable solution is two States — Israel and Palestine — living side-by-side in peace and security, within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both – in line with international law, UN resolutions and other relevant agreements.”
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Children Are ‘Skin and Bones’ in Sudan: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
5 Aug 2025 – It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying violence, this have become the grim norm. “This is a looming catastrophe,” said Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative in Sudan.
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Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
3 Jul 2025 – An Evidence-Based Road Map for Future Policy Action
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Building Power for Palestine and for a New World Order
Ray Acheson | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – A coalition of states met in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-July to try and disrupt Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Their commitments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law are important to counter the militarism and profiteering of Western states. People power is the strength behind these commitments; what will lead to their implementation.
→ read full articleRohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
28 Jul 2025 – These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.
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(Italiano) Il mondo si muove verso sud e est
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
Le religioni e le visioni del mondo sono nei nostri cuori e nelle nostre menti. Enormi depositi di esperienze umane, le religioni sono un mix di gioielli di saggezza e fango di negatività, che riflettono traumi e glorie subite o subite da altri.
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Israeli Soldier Says IDF Burned over 1,000 Food Trucks Meant for Gaza
The North Star with Shaun King - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
26 Jul 2025 – An Israeli soldier just became a whistleblower and admitted the IDF BURNED over 1,000 food aid trucks meant for Gaza and buried what was left in deep pits to hide the evidence.
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Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
2 Aug 2025 – A new study published in ScienceDaily claims severe ocean overheating may be causing a fundamental climate shift. Starting in 2022-23, massive ocean heatwaves persisted for more than 500 days covering nearly the entire globe. This shocking event, never witnessed before, puts the entire global warming scenario on a new level that’s predictably negative.
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Sudan Gripped by Deadly Crisis as Hunger, Disease and Heat Intensify
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025 – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs raised the alarm yesterday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
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In Just One Year, Victims from 162 Nationalities Were Trafficked to 128 Different Countries
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
Human Trafficking Is Organized Crime – 30 July: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
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Terror and Chaos for Gazans Now Entering the ‘Death Phase’
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
21 Jul 2025 – After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams today described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.
→ read full articleThe World Moves South and East
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
Religions, worldviews, are at our hearts and minds. Huge depositories of the human experiences, religions are mixes of jewels of wisdom and the mud of negativism, reflecting traumas and glories at the hands of, or at the expense of, others.
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Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
Trump’s Washington Breathes New Life into the Military-Industrial Complex
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The Specter of Bandung
Peiman Salehi | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
18 Jul 2025 – Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.
→ read full articleSweeping Censorship Will Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation Driving International Students Away
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
20 Jul 2025 – If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.
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BRICS Plans New Trade Model without the Dollar
Coin Tribune | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
17 Jul 2025 – Several members of the bloc, including Russia and Brazil, confirm that trade in national currencies is already underway.
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Brazil to Join South Africa’s Complaint against Israel at International Court of Justice
Orinoco Tribune Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
15 Jul 2025 – According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv. The Brazilian news outlet stated that the complaint before the ICJ seeks to have the actions committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recognized as genocide.
→ read full articleUNICEF Voices Deep Dismay over the ‘Unconscionable’ Killing of Families Lining Up for Food Aid in Gaza
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
12 Jul 2025 – The head of the UN Children’s Fund has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thu, 10 Jul 2025.
→ read full articlePositive vs. Negative Nonviolence
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
Both are forms of power. Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful. Thus, negative nonviolence demands acts of omission–no more violence–and positive nonviolence invites acts of commission, for peace.
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Krishnamurti on War
Krishnamurti Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.” In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.
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Feeding the Warfare State
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
1 Jul 2025 – The Senate is on the verge of passing one of the ugliest pieces of legislation in living memory. The House’s version would cut $1.7 trillion in domestic spending, providing the top 5% of taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in tax breaks.
→ read full articleNATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.
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‘Our Kids Cry for Food’: Most Gaza Families Survive on One Meal a Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of food aid seekers on the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme.
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