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Genocide in Palestine with Arab-Muslim Leaders Watching
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

6 May 2025 – The Planned Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza and Fake International Law and Order

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Why Was NATO Expanding as the Size of the Russian Military Shrank?
Larry C Johnson | Son of the New American Revolution - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

5 May 2025 – Bill Clinton initiated the expansion of NATO in 1999 adding Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. According to the LA Times, Oct 1996, the push was underway to manufacture a narrative justifying adding more members to NATO:

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The Limitations of Military Might
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

6 May 2025 – Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations.

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

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

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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today
Raquel Varela | The Bullet/Socialist Project - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The New Challenge from the Far-Right

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On the Key Points of Contemporary International Relations: Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

War and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Global Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – On Monday, May 5, a Forum at Columbia University will feature Jeffrey Sachs, public intellectual, and Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, in a discussion that I am also honored to take part. I hope as many of subscribers will attend online.

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

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

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

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

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US “Relocates” Iraqi Refugee to Rwanda via New Diplomatic Arrangement
Marisa Kabas | The Handbasket - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

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Marching Towards Global Peace and Development
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Justice: The Mother of Peace

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Close the US Military Bases in Asia
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes.

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Some Crucial Features of Contemporary Warfare: War Crimes and Warlordism
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

27 Apr 2025 – War Crimes and War Criminals -After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations, like the United Nations or various specialist agencies connected to it.

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From Haiti to Gaza, from Congo to the Climate Apartheid: A Call for Humanity
Raïs Neza Boneza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

This refrain echoes through centuries of struggle—from the plantations of Saint Domingue to the besieged neighborhoods of Gaza, from the mineral-rich soil of the Congo to the burning plains of Southern Africa.

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

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

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A Keffiyeh Is Not Antisemitic
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

1 May 2025 – Psychologists Against Antisemitism (PAAS) is an Israel advocacy group, with the profession of psychology as its principal target.

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Crisis vs. War
This vs. That - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

What’s the Difference? – Crisis and war are both situations that involve intense conflict and upheaval, but they differ in their scope and duration.

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Power Shift in the Horn of Africa: Somalia Recognizes SSC-Khaatumo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

23 Apr 2025 – Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).

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(Italiano) “Ma questi chi li ha invitati?” Papa Francesco nel nuovo murale di Laika
la Repubblica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

L’opera apparsa in via Nicolò Piccolomini, a pochi passi dalla Città del Vaticano.

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‘Walk or Die’: Israeli Officer Used 80-Year-Old Palestinian as a Human Shield
Palestine Chronicle Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – Israeli soldiers forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to walk ahead of them with an explosive-laced strap around his neck—then shot him and his wife as they tried to flee.

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Alberto Portugheis in Baku, Azerbaijan
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

2 May 2025 – HUFUD Founder and President Alberto Portugheis has been invited to lecture at the Seminars organised by the Institute of Peace and Dialogue IPD, in Baku City, capital of Azerbaijan.

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Democracy Will Win! (Lol!)
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

27 April 2025 – The Trump administration, led by Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have officially found that the electronic voting machines used in US elections have been left unattended for many years, making them vulnerable to electronic intrusion (hacking).

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The Relations between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Other Christian Churches
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

A Focus on the Vatican, Azerbaijan, and Internal Armenian Tensions

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The Peace Manifesto 2025 Is Launched
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

1 May 2025 – In my last blog I asked the question: “we cannot sit still, and we must act, but how?” Now we have an answer, the Peace Manifesto 2025.

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Red Flags and Sacred Relics: The Marxist Paradox in Sri Lankan Politics
Sanjeewani Rupasinghe - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – A Paradox in Plain Sight – In contemporary politics, the use of myth and ritual is no longer the exclusive domain of monarchies or theocracies. Even secular and revolutionary regimes increasingly draw upon cultural and religious traditions to bolster their legitimacy.

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Evil Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

4 May 2025 – Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA?

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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.

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Autumn Lullaby
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

In her hand she held,
a green leaf from her Tutu’s kukui nut tree.
It was large and familiar.

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Peace Symbolism: Demystification of Icons, Iconodules, Iconoclasts and Iconography (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Presently, the term icons[1] conjure up an images of computer software or branding for the younger generation. However, in the medieval era, icons were associated with religious veneration of Biblical names.

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Is the U.S. President ‘Insane’? Are We in an ‘Abusive Relationship’?
Dr. Bandy X. Lee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

21 Apr 2025 – Addressing the Elephant in the Room May Be the Only Way to Save Us All – Our survival depends on whether we recognize that we are dealing with a psychopathic insane or whether we bow to the incompetent who says things like: “Countries are calling us up, kissing my ass…. ‘Please, please, sir, make a deal…. I’ll do anything, sir!’”

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Spain and Portugal Power Outage: What Caused It, and Was There a Cyber-Attack?
Jasper Jolly | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

29 Apr 2025 – Several Countries in Europe Have Been Scrambling to Restore Electricity after a Huge Power Cut Caused Blackouts – Spain, Portugal and some of south-west France suffered a massive power cut yesterday.

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Rohingya Genocide a Test of International Moral and Legal Commitment
Islamabad Daily Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Pak, Myanmar Experts Raise Concerns – Dr Zarni, a Buddhist, described the primary fault line behind the genocide as the deeply embedded Buddhist chauvinism in Myanmar, where Buddhists dominate state institutions and deny respect and fundamental rights to religious minorities.

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South Korea’s Biosecurity Is Safe, Thanks to Russia
Valeriy Krylko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Currently, most countries of the world pay special attention to preventing the emergence and spread of outbreaks of various particularly dangerous infections that can cause significant economic damage to both the agro-industrial complex and human health.

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(Italiano) Un’altra Difesa È Possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

9 Aprile 2025 – Ci sono altri mondi per affrontare le controversie internazionali? Sì. Con la resistenza civile perché un’altra difesa è possibile.

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India and Pakistan: Freedom Lost but Animosity Flourishes
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

India alleges Pakistan’s involvement in a recent attack on 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir Valley Pahalgam – disputed territory and parts occupied by India and Pakistan. Unthinkable flare -up could lead to war between the two nuclear rivals.

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Support Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s 40-Day Fast for Palestinian Children and World Peace
UPLIFT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Mairead’s choosing to fast and pray for 40 days is a form of creative nonviolent resistance infused with love, a cry from the heart that children should never more suffer war. 

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Freedom Flotilla: Outrage over Israel’s Bombing of Aid Ship Bound for Gaza
Ghalia Mohamed | Defend Demcracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

2 May 2025 – The organisers said they had been operating under a media blackout to “limit Israeli sabotage” in their attempt to deliver aid to the war-torn enclave, where Israel has blocked the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine for two months. Knock knock, anybody home?

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(Français) Lancement du Manifeste pour la Paix 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

1er mai 2025 – Dans mon dernier blog, je posais la question suivante : « Nous ne pouvons pas rester les bras croisés, nous devons agir, mais comment ?» Maintenant nous avons la réponse : le Manifeste pour la paix 2025.

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

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

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NATO Chief Mark Rutte Announces Trillions in Defence Spending Following Meeting with Trump
Oneindia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

25 Apr 2025 – Rutte praised Trump for encouraging NATO allies to invest more in their security. He promised that NATO will become stronger and fairer with trillions in defence funding. 

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Somaliland: British Colony, Palestinian Concentration Camp?
Kit Klarenberg | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

19 Apr 2025 – As Israeli and US officials scramble to find a destination to forcibly relocate Gaza’s population from their shattered homeland, the little-acknowledged, unrecognised breakaway statelet is increasingly viewed as an attractive option.

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Beckett Yesterday and Today: Memory, Trauma, Identity, and Resistance in Contemporary Theatre
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Literary Significance: The Beckettian Legacy Recontextualized

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

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

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Israel Stalls and the International Court of Justice Complies
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

23 Apr 2025 – One year ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel had fifteen months to prepare their defense (“counter memorial”) against the charges of genocide filed by South Africa. They were told to present their arguments by 28 July 2025.

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Greeting for Pesach
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As you gather around the Seder table to celebrate Pesach, may this sacred time fill your hearts with peace, gratitude, and divine connection.

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Holly Week and Easter Greetings
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As we reflect upon the sacred journey of Jesus, from the solemnity of the Cross to the glory of the Resurrection, may we be reminded that even in moments of suffering, there is a divine promise of renewal and hope.

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Memorable Configurations of Numbers of Cognitive and Strategic Relevance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Implications of Clarification Elicited through Exchange with AI – Corresponding to the long-recognized crisis of illiteracy and current aversion to reading, there is an increasing degree of recognition of innumeracy and the aversion to “mathematics”

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

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

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NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

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Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

This text is based on a paper published in the Special Issue of University News – A Weekly Journal of Higher Education of Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 42, No. 52, Dec. 27, 2004

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(Italiano) Francesco I: Umano E Rivoluzionario
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Aprile 2025 – Perché rivoluzionario?

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The Secret Military History of the Internet
The Chris Hedges Report with Yasha Levine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “Surveillance Valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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Urgent Emphasis on Nonviolent Approach in News Reporting
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The international workshop ‘Reporting on Non-Violence Approach’, organized by Pressenza and Dhaka Reporters Unity, was held on April 18. It was conducted virtually from Chile, Argentina, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 90 members of Dhaka Reporters Unity participated.

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A New Pope, A New Policy?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – Pope Francis was the first Pope from Latin America after a long line of Popes from Western Europe, mostly Italy, with one Pope from Poland, Jean-Paul II, who played an important role in the transition away from Communism in Poland.

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Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

25 Apr 2025 – The wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations because the UN Charter is wrong. The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.

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E `Ōlelo Kakou, Sisters E Pule Kakou, Sisters
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

(Let us speak together, Sisters) (Let us pray together, Sisters)
Sisters and Brothers Hear our prayer to you,
In the spirit of Aloha which our gods bequeathed to us and
to you,

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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Apr 2025 – Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.

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

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

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Message of Condolences on Passing on of His Holiness Pope Francis I
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – On this solemn Easter Monday, we join you in mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis—a shepherd of the marginalized, a bridge-builder between faiths, and a prophetic voice for our times.

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The Odyssey of Moses from Antiquity to Peace of Pesach
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Presently, the three branches of the Abrahamic faiths [1]observe extremely auspicious periods of spiritual upliftment Christianity observes, the 40 days of Lent leading up to the Holy Week and Easter Friday, when Jesus Christ[2], the persecuted Messiah was crucified.

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Preparing to ‘move on’, US says Ukraine is ‘not our war’
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – After weeks of fruitless talks, the Trump administration is increasingly suggesting that it will abandon its efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

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Sudan’s Paramilitary Attacks Largest IDP Camps amid World’s Biggest Displacement Crisis, Killing Over 100
Pavan Kulkarni | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.

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Reason against Belief
Wisdom Warriors - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Signs of the Times

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Trump’s Cultural Revolution
Paul Krugman | Nobel Economics Laureate– TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The First Thing We Do Is We Kill Intellectual Inquiry

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New Peace Ideas and the Johan Galtung International Peace Prize
Syed Sikander Mehdi | Revista de Cultura de Paz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

31 Dec 2024 – Excepting the Nobel Peace Prize, most of the international peace prizes are little known; some are not even regularly awarded; and a number of these, including the Nobel Peace Prize, shows little appreciation for the role of peace educators and researchers in promoting peace and building peace.

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Greetings for the Holy Week and Easter
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Easter Greetings

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

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

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Global Humanity Warns the Pharaohs of War for Consequences
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Abnormal Politicians Become Leaders

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Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

20 April 2025 – Israel is indirectly controlling a strip of the land along the Syrian border with Jordan, and is promoting a plan to create a “David Corridor” that connects Israel to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. This is a plan for Israel to inherit Middle East hegemony from the United States…

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(French) Les Liens Troubles entre le Vatican et l’Azerbaïdjan : l’Arménie, Dindon de la Farce
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Apr 2025 – Le Pape François vient de mourir en laissant de la poussière sous le tapis.

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The Western Narrative of Decline: A Misreading of Power and Purpose
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

25 Apr 2025 – For over two decades, a persistent narrative has circulated in Western media and political circles: the United States has been in a state of inexorable decline since the turn of the millennium.

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I’ve Worked at Google for Decades and I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing
Emma Jackson | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

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The Deafening Silence: Arab Complicity and the Normalization of Evil in Gaza
Jamal Kanj | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

16 April 2025 – The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza–an illegal act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population–as famine tightens its grip.

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Close Military Bases, Not Embassies
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong.

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Norway’s Prime Minister Accused of Complicity in Genocide
Marianne Bergvall - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

19 Apr 2025 – It is time to end impunity. We – Grandmothers against Genocide – have now filed a criminal complaint against top Norwegian politicians for complicity in genocide and war crimes.

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One on One – Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

Johan Galtung, considered the father of peace studies, discusses why he dedicated his life to waging peace in the world.

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

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

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Pope Francis Has Died on Easter Monday Aged 88 (RIP)
Devin Watkins | Vatican News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Pope Francis died today, 21 Apr 2025, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.

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This Week’s TMS Publications
TMS Editor, 21 Apr 2025

Dear contributing writers,

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Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.

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The Hawai’i Land Grab — And Trump’s Thirst for Greenland
Now It’s History - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

How Hawaii’s queen was dethroned by a group of white US businessmen eager to avoid tariffs on their sugar exports. In 1887, the heir to Hawaii’s throne attended a fellow royal’s grand party: the jubilee celebration marking Queen Victoria’s 50th anniversary as sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Eliciting Comprehension of Subtle Coherence of Strategic Relevance
Antony Judge | laetus in praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Exploration of Cognitively Resonant Configurations of Meaning and Order – In a period celebrated formally or informally as “holy” or “sacred”, it is extraordinary to witness the pervasive violence between those who each claim allegiance to a spiritual worldview.

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

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

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Trump Reconciles with Iran
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – US Pres. Trump is moving towards a nuclear deal and reconciliation with Iran. Today, Trump’s special envoy and the Iranian Foreign Minister began negotiations in Oman, a Middle Eastern country friendly with Iran. 

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Despite Threats, nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force Reservists Demand End of Gaza War, Hostage Deal
Bar Peleg and Michael Hauser Tov | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

10 Apr 2025 – ‘Currently, the war serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests,’ wrote active reservists and former senior officials in the letter that was published despite the Israeli Air Force Commander’s threats to oust signatories.

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(Italiano) La matrice stragista e i depistaggi
Alessandro Marescotti | PeaceLink – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

4 aprile 2025 – Strage fascista di Brescia: sentenza dopo 51 anni conferma le complicità istituzionali e atlantiche. La definizione ormai abusata di “servizi segreti deviati” non regge più alla luce di questa sentenza. I depistaggi furono un’azione consapevole, deliberata, volta a mantenere l’Italia all’interno dell’orbita atlantica e a garantire l’“ordine”, anche a costo di sacrificare vite innocenti.

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Historian on How Tariffs Played a Role in the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
DW Gibson | Hawaiʻi Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – As for today, Williams said, “You look the news and you see using tariffs as a sword to get other countries to bend to our will, and that’s exactly what happened in Hawaiʻi. Once we put all of our faith in the use of tariffs, the Kingdom was lost.”

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On Freedom: The Vision of a Contemporary North American Political Thinker
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Freedom is being defeated in the USA for failure to discern and protect these five aspects of freedom and because it is part of a fragmented world system that structurally defeats Personal Sovereignty, Creative Unpredictability, Mobility, Factuality and Truth-telling, as well as Human Solidarity.

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

Inequality, corruption… what?

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The German “Drang nach Osten” Policy and Southeast Europe around 1900
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

18 Apr 2025 – The unified German Empire, proclaimed in Versailles in January 1871, contemplated balancing the division of the world’s colonies, the markets, and the sources of the world’s raw material.

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Syria: What New Structures of the State Are Needed?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – With the end of the long dictatorship of Bachar al-Assad and the naming of Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), as President, there is a need for the Syrians to consider the structures of the state.

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“They’re Kissing My Ass”: Trump Says Tariffs Are Going Great, Promises Duty on Pharmaceuticals
Alex Galbraith | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

Trump has a rosy take on the early days of his ‘war on the world.’ “I’m telling you these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They’re dying to make a deal.”

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Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk
ET NOW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

17 Apr 2025 – Says ‘Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him’

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US Concentration Camps
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

16 Apr 2025 – Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.

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Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Xi recalled that China and the EU are “firm defenders” of free trade and that “there are no winners in a tariff war.”

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Armenia Betrayed: The Opposition’s Case against Pashinyan’s Surrender and the Folly of Western Dreams
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

As Armenia stands at a crossroads in April 2025, it reels from the catastrophic fallout of the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and the subsequent actions of PM Nikol Pashinyan, whom the opposition brands as a traitor to the Armenian people.

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China Cuts Off Boeing, Crippling US Manufacturing
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Krystal and Saagar discuss China cutting off Boeing in a major retaliation to the US.

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

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

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Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Apr 2025

15 Apr 2025 – The ‘international rules-based order’ in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been a charade. But Israel’s Gaza genocide, carried out with impunity, with the participation of the US and its allies, has exposed the charade like never before.

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