Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service

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Addiction, Not Conflict: Notes from a Continent That’s Seen It All
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

There is something almost poetic about the way the world organizes its chaos. Not poetic in the Rumi sense—more in the bureaucratic, “please take a number and wait for collapse” sense. The conflicts are a part of the «relationship.”

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Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics’ to Level Villages
Jason Ditz | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction in the first 1.5 month is even bigger than initially feared. Satellite images confirm over 1,400 buildings destroyed in Israeli invasion.

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Future No Kings Protests: Weeping and Resisting in Global Solidarity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – My poem below is intended as a sequel to an earlier poem, An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism, written in support of the No Kings protests, which were a dramatic success.

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

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

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The Complete List of What Billionaires Own in Hawaii
Brigitte and Zsolt | SandinMyLuggage - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Updated 2026 – Just 37 billionaires now control more than 218,000 acres of Hawaii. That’s 11% of all private land in the state – and the actual number is higher because these buyers hide behind shell companies with Hawaiian-sounding names. After 30 years on Oahu, I’ve watched this unfold in real-time. But what happened in 2025 changed everything.

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The Cancer Calculus
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – The ICIJ Is Proud to Bring You Our Latest Investigation – Keytruda has been hailed as a game changer in cancer treatment, but much of the world can’t afford it. Now, we shed new light on how Merck has fended off competitors to keep the price of Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.

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How a Comedian Turned Autocrat Collected Europe’s Highest Honor for Liberty while Sending His Country to the Meat Grinder
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The Hague, 16 Apr 2026. In a sun-dappled hall that once hosted the loftiest declarations of human dignity, Volodymyr Zelensky stepped forward to accept the Four Freedoms Award. The prize has previously gone to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and the International Red Cross.

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Serpents in Authority
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The most consequential betrayals do not arrive in the form of open opposition; they emerge from within the very structures designed to guide and protect. Authority, when granted in good faith, carries an unspoken covenant—to elevate, to safeguard, and to act without concealed extraction.

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Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.

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Sudanese War and Genocide Enters Fourth Year
Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP/WP/Genocide Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – Famine. Massacres. Badly needed food and other supplies are now under strain. Sudan yesterday entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes.

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Kollo Lena | زين – كله لينا (Music Video of the Week)
Zeyne – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Enjoy!

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Bypass the Failed UN Security Council: A World Parliament Arises
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

15 Apr 2026 –  The Earth Constitution, drafted over a period of 30 years by the World Constitution & Parliament Association, has the potential to resolve the dilemma of the UN not being able to end war, eliminate nuclear weapons, or adequately insure human rights and protect the environment.

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

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

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Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”
The Intercept Briefing - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

14 Apr 2026 – The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.

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Conceptual Complexity Compactified within Fundamental Polyhedra
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – Progressive Emergence of Explicit Complex Patterns Implicit in Simplest Forms – This exploration was triggered by the suspicion that the complexity evident explicitly in the array of 13 semi-regular Archimedean polyhedra was implicit in some manner in the 5 regular Platonic polyhedra.

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Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Two texts relevant to ongoing US/Israel war of aggression against Iran in the context of a failing ceasefire agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.

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“Fahrenheit 11/9” – This Is How Fascism Starts
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – A scene from Michael Moore’s 2018 film, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.

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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party

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Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes
The Critic Brief - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026

The “special relationship” is OVER. In a stunning 24 hours, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria have all slammed the door shut on US warplanes — refusing airspace and air bases as Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.”

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War on Iran–a Word from the US President: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake in the hands of a madman. Exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the downed F-15 yesterday?

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Europe Pushes Back at Trump, Refuses US Military Access for Iran War
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – Several European countries including Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland have restricted or denied U.S. military access linked to operations against Iran, highlighting growing divisions within the Western alliance.

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Which Way to US National Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Rather than throw up our hands at the latest outbreak of horrific violence by marauding nationalist bullies, let’s use the challenge afforded by the current international crisis to create a new and better world.

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War by Design: Kagame’s Script in Eastern Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – There’s nothing strange about the “war choreography “ in eastern Congo. It’s precise. Deliberate. Directed from Kigali. Surprise. Forget the diplomats’ favorite lullabies—“stabilization,” “regional mechanisms.” That’s just complicity with a thesaurus.

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I Visited My Destroyed Home in Gaza after 900 Days
Amir Ismail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Shocking Reality… I went back to where I lived my whole life… They erased the walls, but they couldn’t erase our souls. 904 days later, we still have hope. From the ashes of Gaza, we will rise again.

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Artificial Intelligence Issue
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

This is not the last time The Nation will address the technological revolution that is already raising fundamental concerns about the future of work, surveillance, and existential questions of war and peace. We will be in the thick of these debates, arguing for a future in which we take the steps that are necessary to assure that we can all Stay Human.

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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.

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Reclaiming the Feminine for Peace in Times of War
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Dominant models of power continue to privilege violence over dialogue. War, in this sense, is not simply about men, but about particular performances of masculinity tied to control, securitization, and the need to assert power—often rooted in insecurity.

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Destroying Iran’s Electric and Water Supply Is a War Crime
Karolina Bonde | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian Infrastructure in Iran

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The Declining Empire on Steroids
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

28 March 2026 – With disastrous news hitting the headlines daily, it is often difficult to keep the big picture in mind. Yet the big picture is of vital importance for establishing a future for humanity beyond war, torture, murder and slavery. Is there an alternative?

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Want to Know Capitalism’s Endgame? Just Look at Private Equity–It Has Captured Our Everyday Lives
Hettie O’Brien | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – It was the free croissants that gave it away. And the Scandinavian-style furniture. And the tasteful pastel walls. It was different from other nurseries: marginally more expensive. These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill.

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Why North Americans Turned to Al Jazeera Instead of CNN or Fox During Iran War
Zvika Klein | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up. Nobody in Jerusalem is tracking this news. Nobody in Washington is either. Good!

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Building on the US/Iran Ceasefire
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Recalling the words of a Leonard Cohen’s song, “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in”, there is now a two-week crack in the war on Iran with the possibilities of negotiations led by the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad with the active support of the Chinese government.

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On Behalf of the Tehran Peace Museum
Shahriar Khateri and Mona Badamchizaedh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

31 Mar 2026 – Dear colleagues, friends, members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, it has now been more than a month since the onset of this unlawful and unprovoked war against Iran. During this period, hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.

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Mearsheimer: No Signs of Quick End to US-Israel War on Iran
Al Jazeera | The Bottom Line – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – US political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that Israel – not Iran – is the Middle East country that is ‘highly aggressive’.

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What Germany Could but Didn’t Do for Peace
Petra Erler interviews Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

You have been working for many years to make the United Nations the ultimate guardian of peace. So far, to no avail. Are you a Don Quixote?
No. I am one of many who oppose nationalism and advocate for international peace based on law and order.

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No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”

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70+ Boats Launch Historic Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Bold Solidarity Stand
teleSUR English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026 – The Global Sumud Flotilla with 70+ boats and 3,000 participants sails from Barcelona today to break Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade. This massive civilian mission demands urgent humanitarian aid and an end to violations amid a fragile Middle East ceasefire.

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Iran’s Nuclear Rights
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

8 Apr 2026 – I know I wasn’t the only one listening to the clock tick all Tuesday afternoon, right up to Trump’s 8 pm deadline for putting Iran’s 7000-year-old civilization to death, “never to be brought back again.”    

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The Epstein Files: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Paradise, or Just Another Day in Elite Wonderland?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

First, the Lazarus theory: Jeffrey Epstein, alive and well (or at least bearded and flanked by bodyguards) in Tel Aviv. Social media lit up earlier this year with purported photos of the man himself strolling Israeli streets, looking suspiciously hale for someone who’d been autopsied six years prior.

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Lebanon Declares Day of Mourning after Israeli Attacks Kill over 200 People
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – The deadliest day of Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon so far saw warplanes strike more than 100 locations across the country, hitting densely populated neighbourhoods in Beirut and areas beyond traditional frontlines.

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Families Crowd Khan Younis Charity Kitchens as Hunger Deepens in Gaza
Roya News English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Residents crowd charity kitchens in Khan Yunis as many families struggle to buy food despite goods returning to Gaza’s markets.

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Ending Israel’s War on Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967. While Trump was telling the world that Iran was begging for a ceasefire, it was Trump himself who was begging for a ceasefire.

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To Posterity (1938)
Bertold Brecht – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

I came into the cities in a time of disorder
As hunger reigned.
I came among men in a time of turmoil
And I rose up with them.

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God, Science and Civilizational Destruction: US-Israel’s Pursuit of Domination
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Unprecedented in the post-Holocaust history: the world’s most technologically advanced killing machine–USA–is being used against targeted civilian populations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran by the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, despite overwhelming popular US opposition.

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(Français) Comment les Américains ont Perdu l’Iran sans même y Poser le Pied !!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

« Armes de destruction massive » de Saddam Hussein: Depuis ce jour fatidique où le monde entier a compris que Washington pouvait inventer une menace nucléaire pour justifier une guerre, l’Amérique a perdu quelque chose d’irremplaçable : le bénéfice du doute. Et c’est précisément ce capital envolé qui vient de sceller, en Iran, une défaite plus cuisante que n’importe quel retrait précipité de Kaboul ou de Bagdad.

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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

11 Apr 2026 – In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny.

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Creating US Military Bases on the Moon
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – NASA outlines this $20 billion project to build bases on the moon. 

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Peace in the Shadow and Shade of Colonial Imperialism: A Protagonist’s Call to Decolonize the Diasporic Mind (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

“Neo Colonialism is the same philosophy of occupation, by imperialist, in a novel, refined guise of a cultured approach.“

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The Track Record of the Collective West in Regards to Human Rights and International Law
Prof. Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of States at the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Council and other international agencies.

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The Western Empire Is Going Down!
Boris Malagurski interviews Jan Oberg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

At a moment when global tensions are escalating — from the confrontation of the US, Israel and Iran to rising military spending across Europe and the Middle East — voices calling for diplomacy are becoming rare. Øberg has long argued that the international system has moved away from preventing conflicts to managing them once they explode.

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Macho Man… Really?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Terms Machismo and Male Chauvinism are semantically related or have similar meanings: Toxic Masculinity.

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Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place
Pascal Lottaz | Neutrality Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – How the US ‘Allies’ in West Asia (the Sunni kingdoms/dictatorships) managed to maneuver themselves into the worst of both worlds.

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How Structural Violence Leads to Life or Death
Bandy X. Lee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Structural violence is what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung defined as the “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs” through unjust social structures– the most potent cause of behavioral violence.

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Asymmetric Dialogue in a Period of Asymmetric Warfare?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

16 Mar 2026 – The following exploration is effectively an annex to an extensive separate exchange with AI to clarify the nature of “UnChristian”, “UnJewish” and “UnIslamic” from a cybernetic perspective.

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Beware Men Who Wage War to Prove They Are Men
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

A specifically masculine heritage of violence in the service of the nation oversees and delimits democracy and authority—a privileged area of social welfare.

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Flirting with Apocalyptic War in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – From almost all perspectives the ongoing war of aggression known as the ‘Iran War’ is one of the greatest international blunders in modern history, and far worse than this, poses the highest risks of stumbling into an apocalyptic warfare since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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Power and Manipulation— Media as a Weapon
Patrik Baab interviews Joe Lauria - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

26 Feb 2026 – Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?

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A View from Tehran: War Caused a New Kind of Stability
Peiman Salehi | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Rather than triggering collapse, external pressure appears to be producing a form of internal consolidation socially, politically, and strategically that complicates expectations about the conflict. From within Tehran, the most immediate observation is not breakdown, but continuity under strain.

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How Iran Should End the War
M. Javad Zarif | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – Iran did not start this war with the US and Israel. But more than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning it. US and Israeli forces have spent weeks bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands and damaging hundreds of buildings in hopes of toppling the country’s government.

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Balen`s Hundred-Point Charter of Governance: Of, By, and For the Nepali People
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, became Nepal’s youngest prime minister in March 2026 after a Generation Z-led uprising against corruption and established political elites. His “Hundred-Point Charter of Governance” aims to bring transparency, accountability, and citizen-centered reform to Nepal.

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The Security Council Has Allowed Unchecked Power and Brutality–to Protect Peace, We Must Reform the UN
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

30 Mar 2026 – A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order.

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Michael Hudson: World Will Not Be the Same after the US Military Aggression against Iran
Prof. Glenn Diesen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently. 

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The US-Israel War on Humanity: What Is Next?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The trajectory of war against Iran unleashed authoritarianism of dark ages propelling insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture.

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(Français) Le Réarmement allemand : une élégante valse avec les spectres du passé, ou l’appel discret d’un monde multipolaire ?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Depuis le 1er janvier 2026, tout homme allemand âgé de 17 à 45 ans qui souhaite quitter le territoire pour plus de trois mois doit désormais solliciter l’autorisation bienveillante de la Bundeswehr. Une simple formalité administrative, nous assure-t-on, liée à la modernisation du service militaire. Rien de dramatique, bien sûr.

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Why Americans instead of North Americans?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

“Why only those born in the United States are officially called (named, labeled, known as) Americans”? The name of the country is United States of America–not America of the United States. Manifestation of a imperialist deep culture allied to a bullying, vain illusion that, We are #1. I am also an American–South American.

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Israeli Knesset Passes Death Penalty Bill for Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

30 Mar 2026 – The Israeli Knesset passed a bill today that mandates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of ‘acts of terrorism’ with the ‘intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.’

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The Empire vs. Iran: Which Side Are You On?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The current war is going from bad to worse for the American and Israeli imperialists. Good!  Let’s continue to oppose it and hope for its early end.  But don’t let the Empire off the hook.

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North Americans Are Being Policed with Military-Grade Weapons–This Has to Stop
Michael Shank and Hank Johnson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

6 Mar 2026 – Predator drones and armored personnel carriers have become commonplace in US cities. Congress has the power to fix this.

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Israel Is Stepping Up Its Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Elias Feroz interviews Sarit Michaeli | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

31 Mar 2026 – Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.

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Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-up
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Judi Rever prefaces her new book with a quote from the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II: “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

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UN Expert Warns Torture Has Become ‘State Doctrine’ in Israel, Making Prisons Instruments of Genocide and Torture
Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

23 Mar 2026 – Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians, long shielded by decades of impunity and political cover, has become a defining instrument of ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN expert warned today.

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The New Planetary Awakening
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

18 Mar 2026 – Six Fundamental Principles for Democratic  World Law

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World Has Left Cuba Alone to Face Trump’s Global Fascism
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

28 Mar 2026 – The World Will Pay an Enormous Price if Cuba Falls

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New World Busy Being Born while Old One Is Busy Dying
Pepe Escobar | Sovereign Global Majority – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

26 Mar 2026 – Iran’s real terms are harsh: Closure of ALL US military bases in the Gulf; guarantee of no more wars; end of the war on Hezbollah; lifting of ALL sanctions; war damage reparations; a new order in the Strait of Hormuz (already in effect: collecting fees just like Egypt in Suez); missile program intact. Conclusion: the infernal escalation machine keeps rolling as Trump’s 15-point surrender is D.O.A.

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A Manual for Benevolent Bombing
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

There is something deeply reassuring about a well-structured war. Not the explosions, the smoke, the screaming, the “inconvenient civilians” who insist on living where the bombs land. No, the comfort lies in the narrative. The choreography. The liturgical precision of turning high explosives into high-minded philosophy.

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Trump’s Hormuz “Masterstroke”: How Russia and China Just Hit the Geopolitical Jackpot
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – And Why the World May Never Look the Same – There’s an old saying: never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Apparently, Donald Trump never got the memo.

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Women Demand a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Once again this year, we see around the world on International Women’s Day that women are demanding a culture of peace. In some cases this is quite explicit.

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Why Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity–an Arab Christian Perspective
Matt Ehret/Beyond Geopolitics | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages.

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What Happens When the US President Ignores International Law? We’re about to Find Out, again
Candace Rondeaux | New America - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Is Maduro a defendant or a hostage? Is the Trump administration waging war on “narcoterrorists” or on the distinction between law enforcement and military force? And which legal framework—US courts or international law—gets to answer?

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“Kill Any of the Natives Found in Their Way”
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait: they all claim God and Law to be on their side.

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The Escalating Belligerence in the Middle East: A Peace Propagator’s Academic Analysis of the Iran War of Choice
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

The current, international, political scenario is a short walk to World War III and Armageddon.

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Unquestionable Reframing of the Unrighteous with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

15 Mar 2026 – Clarifying UnChristian, UnJewish and UnIslamic from a Cybernetic Perspective

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(Castellano) Chomsky ante el tribunal de la lógica
Asier Arias y Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

La ausencia de argumentos con base en evidencia que sugiera connivencia, aquiescencia, encubrimiento, silencio cómplice u omisión culpable por parte de Noam Chomsky es el rasgo característico de los comunicados de quienes han tratado de desvincular sus figuras de la de Chomsky en el contexto de la campaña de denigración en curso.

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Education for Democracy to Build a Global Common Society for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

13 Mar 2026 – The position is that there is no democracy in all nations of the World. In today’s world, maximum States are dictatorships of one kind or another, where one or a dozen persons hold the decision-making power that enables them to declare which persons or groups of nations should die.

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The Image of the Non-violent Trinity
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Christians, with the incarnation of the Son of God on earth, had a human mediator with the divine. Therefore, representing His human figure cannot be considered idolatry.

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An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

as if restless
a crown prince
impatient
to catch a crown
falling from heaven

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Ending the War through Diplomacy Is the only Path Forward
Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D. | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

20 Mar 2026 – That the U.S. is awash in hypocrisy and mendacity should come as no surprise to the people of the world who have watched the U.S. launch one war and/or regime change operation after another over the past 80 years.

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Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

16 Mar 2026 – If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.

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Decapitation Wars: The Latest Strategy of an Empire in Crisis
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

Decapitation wars are large-scale struggles in which attackers attempt to defeat an enemy regime by targeting and assassinating a substantial number of its civilian and military leaders. The current war in Iran, begun by the U.S.  and Israel during negotiations without any immediate provocation or threat by Iran or its allies, is one of the first such wars.

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The War against Iran: Decades in the Making
Dr. Piers Robinson | International Center for 9/11 Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.

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‘Mind-Blowing Corruption’: Traders Placed Massive Bets Minutes before Trump’s Post on Iran
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

24 Mar 2026 – Just minutes before Trump momentarily boosted the stock market—and sent oil prices tumbling—with his disputed announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities. Value of those trades: $580 million.

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Genocide Warning: Lebanon
Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

25 Mar 2026 – Although Israel claims self-defense for its war against Hezbollah, it has routinely violated humanitarian laws. It has struck hotels, bombed Lebanese medical teams and facilities and has used white phosphorus in its attacks on residential areas, a war crime.

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The Predatory Empire Has Turned Cruel, Criminal and Corrosive
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – The moral image and perceived legitimacy of the United States are now lower than at any time since 1945. There are numerous perspectives on this unique situation; here are three I consider central.

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Trump Has No Soul
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

26 Mar 2026 – Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul.

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Chomsky Before the Court of Logic
Asier Arias and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

20 Mar 2026 – The total absence of evidence-based arguments—whether suggesting collusion, acquiescence, or culpable omission—is the defining hallmark of the statements issued by those seeking to distance themselves from Noam Chomsky amid the smear campaign following the Epstein disclosures.

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(Français) Médiation judiciaire : Ce que les magistrats attendent désormais de vous
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

14 Mar 2026 – L’ère de la médiation “informelle” est révolue. Avec le décret du 18 juillet 2025, le paysage français a basculé : nous passons d’un code de bonnes pratiques à un cadre juridique strict et codifié.

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Iran: Renewal Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

13 Mar 2026 – With the U.S.A.-Israeli -Iran armed conflict in a most destructive phase and spreading to Lebanon, a spirit of renewal and reconciliation in Iran is needed.  This is the theme of Novroz, coming shortly.

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Israel Has Crushed UNRWA in Gaza – and the Rest of the World Has Done Nothing
Philippe Lazzarini | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

21 Mar 2026 – I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East.

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Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

11 Mar 2026 – In his introduction to Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change, filmmaker Oliver Stone calls it a warning against what regime change means for the people living in the nations targeted, and a call to organize to prevent future regime-change wars.

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How Western Media Sanitizes and Sells the Crimes of Empire
Nate Bear | Do Not Panic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2026

27 Mar 2026 – Yesterday The Associated Press said it was going to start using words that reflect reality and announced, after much deliberation and a newsroom vote, that it was going to start referring to Israel’s ground offensive into Lebanon as an invasion. It went into a long and convoluted explanation as to why this was the appropriate terminology,…

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