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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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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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“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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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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Problematic Global Secular Celebration of Passover?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025 – Paradoxical Contemporary Deification of a Negligent International Community – There is no lack of commentary on the surreal nature of the current times and the challenges it poses for strategic governance.
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(Italiano) Costruiamo le alternative alla guerra
Redazione | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Aprile 2025 – Contro questi venti di guerra, contro le politiche che vedono nel riarmo la sola strada per garantire la pace, occorrono ampie alleanze politiche sia a livello istituzionale che da parte dei Movimenti: costruiamo, insieme, le alternative alla guerra.
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Have Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.
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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025 – Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country’s atrocities illegitimacy.
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State of Emergency
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Meanwhile, at the Trump Fiefdom…
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Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
7 Apr 2025 – One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.”
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Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025 – A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.
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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Iluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.
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Understanding and Countering Agent Provocateurs in Nonviolent Movements
Scot Nakagawa | The Anti-authoritarian Play Book - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – A Strategic Perspective
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McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump has expressed his admiration for Republican Pres. William McKinley for his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But critics say Trump’s tariffs have instead fueled a stock market nosedive.
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The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
25 Feb 2025 – Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture
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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.
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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.
→ read full articleVisualization of Polyhedral Inner Chambers with Psychosocial Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
AI-assisted Exploration of Neglected Underlying Patterns of Order in 3D – There is a basic set of symmetrical polyhedra, many known in Ancient Greece, whose symmetry made them a focus for architecture, sacred geometry symbolism, and an inspiration for patterns of order and coherence in many domains.
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Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Fri [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead.
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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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(Italiano) Impero USA: declino progressivo e caduta inevitabile (Parte 1)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Gli Imperi hanno profili differenti. L’Impero USA ha una configurazione completa, articolata in una asserzione di un pianificatore del Pentagono: “Il ruolo di fatto delle Forze Armate degli Stati Uniti sarà di mantenere il mondo al sicuro per la nostra economia e aperto al nostro assalto culturale. A tali fini, faremo un discreto numero di uccisioni”.
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Truth Is Antisemitism–Protest Is Terrorism–Dissent Is Russian Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from de Edge of the Narrative Matrix - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
6 Apr 2025 – The Gaza holocaust is happening right in front of us. It’s like if everyone in Nazi Germany had screens in their homes showing what was happening in the extermination camps. Nobody can say they didn’t know. That claim does not exist for us.
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Will the UN Pillory Francesca Albanese?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – This is another pivotal moment for the UN and its Human Rights Council; whether it is subject to manipulation on issues that test the UN’s political independence. Tomorrow the UNHRC will vote on whether to reappoint Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Mar 1947 Issue – “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly, one cannot be politically orthodox.”
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People of Conscience a Threat to US/Israel Zionist Dreams of Domination
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025 – As the US and Israel commit serial mass murder–Palestinian genocide–I think of how People of Conscience like Albert Einstein and Dietrich Bonhoeffer took the moral high ground. Pressure from corrupt leaders and a misguided public could not move them to sell their soul.
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No Other Land ‧ 2025 Oscar Winning Documentary on Palestine-Israel
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal | Leo Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
2024 – Full Movie
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Earthquake-Hit, War-Devastated Myanmar Needs a Lasting Humanitarian Ceasefire and the Establishment of a Myanmar Fund
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – TRANSCEND member Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of a Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar assets frozen by then Pres. Joe Biden in response to the Feb 2021 coup.
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A Landmark Forum for AI Governance in Security and Defence
Jessica Abowitz and Yasmin Afina | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
14 Mar 2025 – As AI becomes integrated into the military, governance must adapt. UNIDIR’s Conference on AI, Security and Ethics convened nearly 500 experts to discuss AI development and deployment in security and defence.
→ read full article(Romanesc-Romanian) Minunata Lume Nouă din 2030: „Nu veți deține nimic. Și veți fi fericiți”
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Dacă petreceți doar câteva minute verificând site-ul web „The Great Reset” al Forumului Economic Mondial, care include o copie a ceea ce el numește „The Great Reset Transformation Map”, veți recunoaște rapid că WEF intenționează să impună schimbări profunde în aproximativ 200 de domenii ale vieții umane până în 2030.
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Teaching Peace: Nurturing Young Peacemakers in Ghana through Education
Mohammed Ibrahim | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Schools in Ghana are teaching peace education; students learn conflict resolution, social justice, and peaceful coexistence. Exploring joint initiatives between schools and Ghana’s National Peace Council.
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The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.
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The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Sharon Kumar | The Observatory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – The competition among top AI models is transforming how we work, create, and communicate. But as these systems grow smarter and more accessible, new questions emerge about cost, sustainability, and responsible development in a rapidly evolving landscape.
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Israel Killed 15 Palestinian Paramedics and Rescue Workers One by One, Says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh and Julian Borger | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025 – Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.
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(Castellano) La gran hipocresía “verde” Norte-Sur
Bernard Duterme | Centro Tricontinental CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Abril 2025 – Cuatro o cinco truismos que no están en duda, pero que nos sentimos obligados a recordar antes de proseguir. En primer lugar, la magnitud del desastre ecológico, su centralidad, su urgencia.
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Trump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Trump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.
→ read full articleDo Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. I spoke to Bénédicte Njoko of ‘The Case for the Land.’
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Regional Neorealism: Rethinking Geography and Geopolitical Competition
Anthony Heron | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Neorealism, a cornerstone of international relations theory, is a comprehensive lens through which to analyse state behavior in a disordered world. States, whether driven by survival or ambition, are expected to balance power or maximise it, yielding predictable patterns of interaction across the global stage.
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Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Inside the Social, Economic, and Psychological Drivers of Elite-Driven Militarization in Global Politics
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Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025 – CrossTalking with Mats Nilsson, Jan Oberg, and Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Growing Up with Fear and Self-Awareness
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – When I write about personal matters, I quickly stumble into one of life’s puzzling ironies: Every one of us is unique, and we’re also part of a collective whole. Self-awareness essentially means straddling that divide.
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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Roger Waters | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta conference.
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Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services.
→ read full articleThe Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.
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CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – “We must push back” — Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.
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Humiliation Everywhere All at Once!
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Power Point Presentation – Deep Dive Meditation on Humiliation through Psychology, History and Culture
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Podcasting Star Mario Nawful Talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. This is my recorded response.
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Bought and Sold: U.S. Leaders Pledge Allegiance to Israel
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025 – Loyalty to the US or to Israel?
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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.
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Gaza’s Silent Epidemic of Amputee Children
Hadeel Awad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
15 Mar 2025 – Gaza has the world’s highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them by the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing.
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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.
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(Slovak-slovenský) Geopolitika elitného šialenstva: balansovanie na pokraji Armagedonu, nebezpečenstvo jadrovej vojny (Časť 1)
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Skspravy.sk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Keď sa svet súčasne potáca na pokraji jadrovej vojny v Strednej Ázii tým, že nepodnikne žiadne účinné kroky na zastavenie genocídy vysielanej v Palestíne väčšina ľudskej populácie zíva, zatiaľ čo si prezerá najnovšie záznamy v rôznych chatovacích skupinách na svojom telefón.
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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.
→ read full articlePsychological Dimensions of War on Gaza
Diane Perlman | TheNewView – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
1 Mar 2025 – As public discourse is so politicized and hysterical, peace psychologist Diane Perlman finds it most useful to go beyond right and wrong and right and left to shed light on the underlying psychological dynamics associated with violence and what it means to be human.
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“I.O.F. Targets Refugee Camps”
Cara Marianna | Winter Wheat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
15 Mar 2025 – Zionist Terror Spreads
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Carnage in Gaza and ‘Global 195’*
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025 – Even by Israel’s brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world.
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US Gestapo —> Reasons to Mistrust Donal Trump
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025 – The Gestapo sought out those identified as ‘enemies’ within Greater Germany. These included Jewish people, Romani (Gypsies), Freemasons, communists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, and those with physical or mental disabilities.
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It’s Time!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025 – As we all knew, Bibi and Trump orchestrated a fake ceasefire to give Trump a major PR victory at the start of his administration. That ended last night when Israel unleashed hell and began to indiscriminately bomb Gaza and killing civilians, including infants and small children.
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How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?
George Yancy | ScheerPost/Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025 – The outrages are raining down one after another. In this interview, Norman Solomon discusses the mainstream media silence around U.S. militarism and articulates ways of resisting such silence, of rejecting denial.
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From the Art of War to the Art of Being Bullied?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025 – From Playground Bullies to Imperial Powers–and Beyond – The world is currently witness to various explicit assertions by the self-acclaimed leader of the free world–speaking in the name of the American people of the North.
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Myths and Reality: How and Why a False Narrative on Ukraine Was Created
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that NATO would not advance towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.
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USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.
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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
3 Mar 2025 – A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody
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Our Enemies Commit Genocide, Not Our Friends
Sebastian Shehadi | The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza.
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Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in Congo
Marc Botenga | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda’s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.
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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
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International Relations 2.0
Mireille Fanon Mendes France | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Since Jan 2025 we have entered into a world where the law of the strongest prevails, where this law is accepted in international relations, and where those who reject it become the enemies of those who draw the contours of the axis of good…
→ read full articleA Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.
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Artificial Intelligence Explained for Nonexperts
Narges Razavian, Florian Knoll and Krzysztof J. Geras | HHS Public Access - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
In this paper we briefly summarize in an accessible way the current state of the field of AI. Furthermore, we highlight the most promising approaches and describe the current challenges that will need to be solved to enable broad deployment of AI in clinical practice.
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Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life–But if We Leave the Sea, We Die
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.
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Trump-Putin Encounter Reframed by MMA and Kayfabe
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
Speculative Contrast between Political and Sports Commentary Using AI
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“Stop the Ethnic Cleansing”: Watch Oscar Speech of Palestinian, Israeli Directors of “No Other Land”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
The Palestinian-Israeli film ‘No Other Land’ won for best documentary feature at Sunday’s [2 Mar 2025] Academy Awards. The film follows the struggles of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta to stay on their land amid home demolitions by the Israeli military and violent attacks by Jewish settlers aimed at expelling them.
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Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel’s response to October 7 in Gaza as ‘genocide.’
→ read full article‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Even more impressive is the infrastructure it has built, including 26,000 miles of high speed rail, the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, 100,000 miles of expressway, …
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How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
A True Cost of War
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Multilateralism Can and Must Deliver
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Cyril Ramaphosa and Pedro Sánchez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – Amid creeping unilateralism, the world must reinforce multilateral action to tackle global threats, such as climate change and inequality, affirm the three heads of state.
→ read full articleWhose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime between Trump and Zelensky?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.
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Israel Developing ChatGPT-like Tool That Weaponizes Surveillance of Palestinians
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – The Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
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Billionaire-backed Global Citizen Whitewashes Kagame’s Invasion of DRC
Ann Garrison | The Gray Zone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
5 Mar 2025 – John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.
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Two AI Chatbots Speaking to Each Other in Their Own Special Language Is the Last Thing We Need
Lance Ulanoff | Techradar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
25 Feb 2025 – Imagine if two AIs could chat with each other in a language no human could understand. Right. Now go hide under the covers.
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The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – In the deeply undemocratic International Monetary Fund, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
3 Mar 2025 – Meanwhile, in the old US of A circus:
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: Closing the Enforcement Gap
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
8 Mar 2025 – Israel’s Recourse to Genocide: Overt yet Denied
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BRICS and G20 Value Platforms: A Comparative Analysis
Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
5 Mar 2025 – The BRICS declarations name the causes of many of today’s global problems associated with the inequality between the West and the Non-West, with the practices of neo-colonial exploitation that the West carries out in relation to developing countries.
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The Five Excuses for Genocide
David Swanson | World BEYOND War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
4 Mar 2025 – Yesterday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC and asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which can be broken into five types.
→ read full articleTransforming the United Nations from New York Entrapment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Navigating Uncharted Waters in Quest of Relevance in a Shifting World – There is a long history of proposals to reform the UN. These predate the new foreign policies of the USA as instigated by Donald Trump with the commitment to efficiency by Elon Musk. As of the time of writing, these have seemingly had relatively little implication for the UN system.
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Diane Perlman | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
16 Feb 2025 – The Next Best Thing to Being There
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With US Backing, Israel Has Already Set in Motion De Facto Annexation of Lands in the West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.
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I Saw a Room Full of Men with Their Hammers A-Bleeding
Mindy Belz | Globe Trot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
1 Mar 2025 – A Ukraine follow-up because what happened in the Oval Office today is unprecedented, unthinkable, and reveals poor strategy at a high-risk level.
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It Is Darkest before Dawn
Ilan Pappé | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
21 Feb 2025 – Israeli Settler Colonialism Is at an End
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Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence: Technological Promises and Practical Realities
Vladislav Chernavskikh | SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Sep 2024 – Recent advances in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have increased state interest in leveraging AI for military purposes. Given the current and relatively early stage of military adoption of advanced AI, the exploration of these factors lays the groundwork for further consideration of the likely realities of integration and of potential transparency measures and governance practices at the AI–nuclear nexus.
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Stephanie Nolen | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.
→ read full articleUpdate from TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2025
Dear friends, finally, I am back on my feet. I thank wholeheartedly all messages of encouragement, support and good wishes I received in the last three weeks and extend my gratitude to one and all (read on…).
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Note from TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor | TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
With a heavy heart I inform you that I have been knocked down by some virus; five days in bed unable to perform the most basic tasks. Apologies. Pain from scoliosis has increased with the muscle pains. I go to hospital today. But this is a walk in the park compared with the inconceivable suffering imposed on millions around de world by the human virus Genocide. (…)
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Dialogue with 2024 Right Livelihood Awardee Issa Amro on Palestine/Israel
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations – “Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron.
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