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How to Open Communicative Dialogue for All Humanity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Sri Aurobindo saw the evolutionary spirit as moving humanity toward “world union.”  Teilhard de Chardin saw the cosmic process moving humanity toward an “Omega point” of unification through love and cooperation. Ken Wilber sees humanity growing toward “integral” and “holistic” modes of consciousness bringing us together…

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Most Israelis Not Bothered by Reports of Suffering and Famine in Gaza, New Poll Shows
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – Vast majority of Israelis said they were not troubled at all by reports, with a majority saying Israel’s army was careful to avoid civilian suffering.

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Toward Transformative Accountability
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Addressing Rentier Capitalist Capture and Restoring the Public Good in (Flemish) Higher Education

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Couldn’t Be Better!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – Still Trump, MAGA, RFK, Jr. Yawn…

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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
Frances Madeson | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

19 Aug 2025 – For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.

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Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more…

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The Alaska Summit Was a Spectacular Distraction
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Trump needed a break from the infighting in MAGA so he decided an inconsequential meeting with Putin would do the trick.

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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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Trump’s Tariffs Backfire: India Moves Closer to China, Strengthening BRICS Unity
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – The US government has long tried to recruit India for its new cold war on China. Donald Trump’s tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening BRICS.

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Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into US politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. 

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Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Other Big Oil Allies Sabotage Progress
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – “The vast majority of governments want a strong agreement, yet a handful of bad actors were allowed to use process to drive such ambition into the ground,” said one environmentalist.

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Observations from the West Bank: The Jewish Supremacy Monster Cannot Be Contained
Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

12 Aug 2025 – Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.

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On The Smithsonian and Slavery: Trump’s Whitewashing of History
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

21 Aug 2025 – On Tue 19 Aug, Trump attacked the narrative taught in US schools and documented in museums about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery, focusing on The Smithsonian Institution, the world-renowned center of learning and culture based in Washington, DC.

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Fascism at the Gate
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

20 Aug 2025 – Donald Trump and his regime has turned our national capital into a totalitarian state. His regime is sending cops, soldiers, and ICE to control and scare people—especially Black and brown people. This isn’t about safety. It’s about power and fear.

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Remembering Daria Dugina: A Beacon of Russian Thought and Patriotism
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Third Anniversary of Her Tragic Death

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 25 Aug 2025

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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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Classified IDF Intel Reveals 83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Are Civilians
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

21 Aug 2025 – The data show “a proportion of civilian slaughter with few, if any, parallels in modern warfare.”

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NATO’s Imperialist March and Its Victims
Biljana Vankovska | Valdai Discussion Club - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

In the summer of 1999, months after NATO bombed Yugoslavia, I attended a lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung, the father of peace research. Known for his integrity and intellectual courage, he didn’t mince words: “This world has a problem. That problem has a name, and its name is: the United States of America.”  

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8 Years On: Accountability Needed for Myanmar Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

25 Aug 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya in the Rakhine State. Burma/Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed women, men and children throughout northern Rakhine.

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Trump vs. Musk: The Break-up
Hagar Omran | Forbes Middle East - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

19 Jul 2025 – When Elon Musk and Donald Trump clash, it sends ripples through the markets. Here’s a timeline detailing their turbulent relationship and its impact on Tesla and Musk’s wealth.

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Guilty Silence: Western Writers and Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Mukul Kesavan | The Telegraph India – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

3 Aug 2025 – The IDF-induced famine in Gaza became a Live Aid moment; weirdly, starvation depoliticised the genocide, bleaching it into a humanitarian cause that writers could finally get behind.

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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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(Português) A Paz e a Guerra sob Trump
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

“Trump já deixou claro: não irá fazer diplomacia. Atuará com a força, tanto bélica quanto econômica e comercial. Sua construção de uma nova ordem não passa pela paz mas pela capitulação do adversário”. Os acertos das tarifas são imposições dele e não frutos de negociação.

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(Français) L’Épopée d’un Titan des Horizons : Hommage à Gérard Chaliand
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Dans les brumes d’un Bruxelles hivernal, le 15 février 1934, naquit un astre errant, Gérard Chaliand, fils d’Arméniens exilés, dont le sang portait l’écho des montagnes oubliées et des génocides murmurés.

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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.

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1987 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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Bulldozing Gaza
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

23 Aug 2025 – The singularity of the Israeli campaign in Gaza lies in the asymmetry of power, its intensity, its enclosure, its direct connection to a settler colonial project. All this leads us back to the 1940s and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide, which he modeled on Nazi-occupied Poland.

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The US Military’s Bioweapon Labs
Helena Glass | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – Scrolling thru Twitter I came across a video of RFK, Jr. telling Congress that the Covid vaccines were actually developed by the DoD and given to Pfizer and Moderna so they would appear to be from Big Pharma which is why Big Pharma was given the ‘no liability’ clause.

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(Italiano) Orrore sistemico in Palestina: tutto un equivoco?
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

22 Ago 2025 – “Per ogni vittima del 7 ottobre, 50 palestinesi sono dovuti morire. Non importa se sono bambini. Non sto parlando per un senso di vendetta, ma per trasmettere un messaggio alle generazioni future. Non c’è niente che possiamo fare: hanno bisogno di una Nakba di tanto in tanto, per sentirne il prezzo”.

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Who Are the Inner Elite and the Origins of the Jewish Bankers
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

14 Aug 2025 – Dive into the hidden history of banking dynasties, from the Rothschilds to the Warburgs—and the ancient power structures that control them.

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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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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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Modigliani’s Eyes
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Modigliani’s models’ eyes
are pupil-less, iris-less,
(or, sometimes, one’s inverted,
the other looking not-quite out).

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(Italiano) 80 anni dopo Hiroshima: proprio ora di un altro INIZIO
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

Mentre l’orologio dell’apocalisse segna attualmente solo 89 secondi alla mezzanotte, riflettiamo su come siamo arrivati ​​al punto zero 80 anni fa, non solo per riportare indietro le lancette dell’orologio e impedire qualsiasi futuro dispiegamento, ma anche per liberare completamente la Terra da questi dispositivi demoniaci.

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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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Open Letter to Pres. Donald Trump
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025

27 Aug 2024 – The children of Gaza are being starved and killed. Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza.  This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.

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(French) La Spirale Descendante : Le Leadership de Nikol Pashinyan et la Chute de l’Arménie dans l’Abîme
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

10 août 2025 – Au printemps 2018, l’Arménie fut emportée par une vague d’optimisme lorsque des manifestations massives, surnommées la Révolution de Velours, renversèrent le gouvernement de longue date de Serzh Sargsyan. À la tête de ce mouvement se trouvait Nikol Pashinyan, ancien journaliste et figure de l’opposition.

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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.

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Enabling Government Bipartisanship through Dual-Use Budget Items
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Expanding Interpretations of Civilian Benefit in Relation to National and Global Security – The following exploration was provoked by the widely publicized demand of the USA in July 2025 that NATO allies increase their defence spending to 5% of GDP.

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“Israel Has Succeeded in Killing Me”
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – The Israeli military just assassinated six Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike, among them beloved Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif. Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza.

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Eighty 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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The Death of EU Values in Gaza
Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – The EU likes to think of itself as a community of values, committed to international law, peace, protecting civilians and a rules-based global order. But with the brutal destruction of Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine, these principles have become hollow rhetoric.

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(Português) Alienígenas entre nós?
Avi Loeb | Harvard Astronomy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

5 agosto 2025 – Um estudo de Harvard reacendeu a hipótese dos criptoterrestres seres extraterrestres vivendo disfarçados entre nós. A teoria sugere que eles chegaram há muito tempo e observam silenciosamente nossa evolução. O tema ganhou força…

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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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Condemn All UN Member States: They Spend 100 Times More on Militarism Than on the Entire UN System
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – But did you know? Is this discussed now when the UN turn 80 in October? No, politicians, media and scholars generally focus on war and ignore humanity’s most important peace-maker.

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Nobel Peace Prize for Trump
Marian Kamensky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

No joke…

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The End of Democracy?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – Upset by the non-violent revolutions of 1989, the Western intellectual world repeated like a childish refrain an enchanted phrase: “The fall of the Berlin Wall” and theorized the historical end of all analyses of contemporary society.

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US-Russia Talks: The Choice between Peace and Escalation
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the chances for successful peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and prevent an ever-escalating war between the US, NATO and Russia.

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The Significance of Holding a US-Russia Summit Now
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska on 15 Aug 2025 because a ceasefire in Ukraine appears likely. However, the situation is such that a ceasefire cannot be achieved through discussions between the US and Russian leaders.

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Israeli Occupation of Gaza and Who Would Be the Next King of Arabia?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – Israeli Occupation and How Leaders Mislead the Masses

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Historic Peace Summit in Alaska: Putin Emerges Victorious in Talks with Trump
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

18 Aug 2025 – Putin broke three years of isolation, forcing the West to engage on his timeline.  Trump hailed the talks as “productive” and noted “great progress,” but Putin made no promises, instead securing an invitation for future Moscow meetings.

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Ukraine: We Told You So!
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war *** Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible – Gallup asked that question three years ago to all Ukrainians. Then, 72% of Ukrainians wanted Ukraine to continue fighting and only 22% to negotiate an end to the war. Most recently, 24% want to continue fighting and 69% want to negotiate an end to the war.

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The War at Home
David Cole | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Apr 2025 – Red Scares in the US Past and Present

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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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The Trump–Putin Meeting in Alaska – An Opportunity also for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

16 Aug 2025 – This meeting comes at a time when Ukraine is facing the prospect of a devastating military defeat – one that can no longer be averted by further arms deliveries or financial aid.

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The Anxiety News Network
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Meanwhile, in the Divine Destiny country…

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Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS
Alan Macleod | MintPressNews - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

7 Aug 2025 – After reaching an agreement with Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired CBS News. He is the largest private funder of the IDF, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Netanyahu among his closest friends.

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Putin’s Step Back or Smart Move?
Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

17 Aug 2025 – Ritter knows more about nukes, strategic balances, missile systems, etc. than almost anyone else, having been the first US Weapons Inspector for the enforcement of the new INF Treaty in 1988.

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The Responsibility to Protect and the Crisis in Gaza: A Call for Direct Nonviolent International Action
Charles Webel, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Gaza today constitutes a textbook case for invoking the United Nations’ Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine.

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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.

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The Transcendental Self and Its Implications
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – What makes us human and gives us hope?

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‘Democracy’ Is the New Colonialism
Constantin von Hoffmeister | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

7 Aug 2025 – Empires have not changed, they have simply cloaked themselves in platitudes such as “resilience,” “visibility,” and “empowerment.”

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80 Years Ago, today…
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

… and a Sample of My Work on Psychology of Nuclear Dynamics – 10 Aug 2025

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Indian Government Increases Pressure against Bengali-speakers and Other Muslims
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

15 Aug 2025 – Indian authorities  in recent days have expelled hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims to Bangladesh without due process, ostensibly to deter people from entering India without legal authorization. 

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Zen and the Art of Woodland Garden Maintenance with Ease and Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Oberg Photo Graphics – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

12 Aug 2025 – You should tend to your garden today even if the world ends tomorrow. It’s a very healthy defiance… We do not know what a garden looks like that gives you peace, inner and outer, and is also rather easy to maintain. But we’re working on it.

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People’s Inquiries: Alternatives for Seeking Justice
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

13 Aug 2025 – Today the Peoples’ Tribunal/Inquiry movement is part of the larger movement for building new and fair societies, creating new relations between people, and institutions alternative to those of the traditional modern state.

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion to ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

14 Aug 2025 – The planned construction appears to be a response to Western countries saying they will recognize a Palestinian state.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 18 Aug 2025

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Light of Life, the Synchronised Biophotons and Photobionts, a Novel Hypothesis (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

A Bio-philosophical narrative inspired by a visionary hypothesis on Peace, weaving together evolutionary biology, biophysics, and peace propagation in our troubled, belligerent world.

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Re-living the Past within Us
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

Toshio Kojima, owner of the “Kojima Art Gallery” in a suburb of Tokyo, has been teaching me about the importance of Boro Art! “Boro-boro” is an expression meaning “worn-out.”  (Spending too much time watching US politics play out on TV, one might say, “I’m feeling boro-boro now!”)

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Two 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.

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From Silence to Accountability: Why the United Nations Must Break with Complicity
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025

11 Aug 2025 – The UN today sits at a crossroads. On paper, it remains the custodian of universal human rights, peace, and sustainable development. In practice, large parts of it now function in structural complicity with forces perpetrating crimes against humanity, systemic ecocide, and the mass impoverishment of billions.

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Walls Closing in on Squirming Pedophile Trump
Joachim Hagopian | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi is aiding and abetting pedophiles that include Trump when he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend in his 40s. New York Magazine: I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. – Trump

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Israel’s National Security Cabinet Approves Netanyahu’s Escalation, Hiding Defeat in the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

8 Aug 2025 – Relations with the Trump presidency seem to be finally fraying and the announced cause seems to be Israel’s stubborn refusal to allow food, water, and medicines to reach starving Palestinians rather than the controversy inside and outside of Israel to extend military operation to the yet unoccupied parts of Gaza City.

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AP Reveals Armed Contractors Fired on Starving Gazans at US-Backed Aid Sites
The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

An AP investigation exposes how untrained US security contractors used live fire, stun grenades, and pepper spray on hungry Palestinians at GHF-run food/aid centers in Gaza.

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Euro-Med: Israel Recruits Gangs and US Mercenaries to Kill Civilians Near Gaza Food/Aid Points
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

In a report, the human rights group said the IDF is coordinating with the “Abu Shabab gang” and foreign mercenaries from a US private security firm to incite chaos and carry out extrajudicial killings as snipers.

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Cognitive Fullerene as a Rosetta Stone for Patterns of Systemic Constraint
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

10 Aug 2025 – Reconciliation between Disparate Frameworks in the Light of Global Familiarity with the Football

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Video Report: Israel Imposes No-Build Zone in Southern Lebanon
Drop Site News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

On 17 July, an Israeli drone strike killed at least one person and injured two others in Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh governorate, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The missile struck a civilian vehicle—part of the Israeli military’s ongoing aerial campaign in southern Lebanon, carried out in defiance of the declared ceasefire.

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Nazis Murdered My Family in the Holocaust—Now Germany Is Punishing Me for Protesting Zionists’ Genocide in Gaza
Rachael Shapiro | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

2 Aug 2025 – This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.

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Europe Is Going Down Like the Titanic Because It Has Learned Nothing from Its Past
Peter Noordendorp | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

4 Aug 2025 – Europe is repeating bad things from the past because it learned nothing from its colonial past and its warmongering on European soil. About the past of the US, it is good to say that it lost all wars from Vietnam up until Afghanistan after WW2. Ukraine is now its latest fiasco.

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In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka | Library of Short Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

“It’s a remarkable apparatus,” said the Officer to the Explorer and gazed with a certain look of admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar. It appeared that the Traveller had responded to the invitation of the Commandant only out of politeness, when he had been asked to attend the execution of a soldier condemned for disobeying and insulting his superior.

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Children of Light and the Human Interest
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

The task of strengthening the human interest against armed violence, poverty, ecological decay, and the gross violations of human rights is still before us.  We must not underestimate the difficulties nor the persistence of narrow self-interest.  There is much to be done.  Join in this vital effort.

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A Wasteland of Rubble, Dust and Graves: How Gaza Looks from the Sky
Lorenzo Tondo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.

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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on 6 Aug by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

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Catastrophe Capitalism Complicit in Israel’s Genocide
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

Mark this down…

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What’s Cooking in Macron’s Mind with This Palestine Stunt? A Sarcastic Stroll Through Eight Years of French Flops
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

6 Aug 2025 – Oh, Emmanuel Macron, you enigmatic maestro of French flair, what fresh folly have you conjured now? In a move that’s got the world raising its eyebrows higher than the Eiffel Tower, Macron has announced that France will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September 2025.

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Ministries 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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Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

3 Aug 2025 – The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems. It’s high-time to rethink how state IDs and identification technologies are linked to mass atrocities. My new research brief is a small step towards this rethink. Here’s the thinking behind it.

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Randy Newman – Political Science: Let’s Drop the Big One Now (Music Video of the Week) 1
Joe Ramen – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

A Video I Put Together Using Randy Newman’s Song as a Vehicle

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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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What to Know as Israel Considers Reoccupying Gaza in What Would Be a Major Escalation of the War
Joseph Krauss | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

5 Aug 2025 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering ordering the full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media, a move that would draw fierce opposition internationally and within Israel.

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How Long Will They Talk to Us about the Holocaust?
Leopoldo Alberto Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

But the Zionists (because it’s them, not the Jews) never stop talking about the Holocaust, as if they had exclusive ownership of the suffering. Fundamentalist Zionism has taken over Palestine and seeks to extend its dominance to all of Western Asia. They are doing to others what the Nazis did to the Jews.

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Cyprus: US and Israel Clash with Turkey over Control of the Eastern Mediterranean
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

9 Aug 2025 – The Island of Cyprus finds itself caught in the eye of the corridor-hegemony storm with Washington, Israel, and the UK on one side, and Turkey, China, and Russia seeking dominance and influence. This connects to the global war against Humanity – the reduction of nation states to money laundering hubs for the ruling transnational elite.

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From Thinking to Action in the Fight against Plastics
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

The Global Plastics Treaty was supposed to be finalized last year but negotiations broke down between two blocs of nations, those seeking controls on plastics and harmful chemicals, and those reliant on fossil fuel production. Since then, of course, Trump began his second term, with his MAGA mantra of “Drill, Baby, Drill.”

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Genocide Musical… B. Netanyahu Sings: “We Are the Killers!” (Music Video of the Week) 2
Red Creators Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

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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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The US and Russia Pretend to Be False Enemies
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025

After the conflict between Russia and the US and Europe became decisive with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Medvedev was likely appointed by Putin to continue issuing provocative accusations and sarcasm against the US and EU which the Russian government cannot officially announce but wants to convey to the world.

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