Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Spain, Ireland, Slovenia Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Inclusion, Set to Air Palestine Films Instead
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Public broadcasters from Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia announced today that they will not air this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation. Tel Aviv is pouring hundreds of millions into its Hasbara propaganda machine in an effort to reverse its reputational freefall.
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Trump Lands in Beijing with Over a Dozen Western Moguls in Tow Ahead of High-Stakes Talks with Xi
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and top executives from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta joined the US president.
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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank Is a Continuing Process
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – This selection concentrates on zionist settlers attacks on farming, a key pillar of the Palestinian economy and Palestinian culture.
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The Palantir Imperium
CN LIVE! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
8 May 2026 – Palantir Technologies is a North American company that analyses big data for governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and corporations. Public trust in Palantir has plummeted when petty criminals were targeted as terrorists; wrong people were seized by ICE; when 175 Iranian schoolgirls were killed using Palantir Maven software…
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Israel’s Exceptional Genocidal Inhumanity: What the Holocaust Memorial Industry Worldwide Don’t Want You to Know or Say
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Aided by another settler colony with 250 yrs of violence, Israel is committing its Holocaust in the Occupied Palestine, flaunting its sadistic inhumanity while the “Never again!” Industry keeps quiet.
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(Italiano) Perché il vescovo si occupa di armi?
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
10 maggio 2026 – L’Arcivescovo cattolico di Torino, Roberto Repole, ha pubblicato il 29 aprile, in vista del 1 maggio, festa del Lavoro, una lettera in cui esprime forte preoccupazione per la conversione dell’industria locale verso la produzione di armi.
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Seniority over Justice
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
The study contends that privileging merit over seniority is essential to reinforce judicial legitimacy, safeguard fundamental rights, and prevent democratic backsliding in Nepal. The author welcomes critique, feedback, dialogue/discussion, and further research to advance the discourse on seniority over justice.
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Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions.
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This Is the Real Reason for Trump’s Visit to China
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Donald Trump traveled to China joined by CEOs including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone. Ben Norton explains how Beijing won the trade war that was started by Washington.
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Trump Understands Nothing of China’s Culture–the Chinese Have All the Cards and the Time, Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – Go to this Fox News page: Trump tells the world that his meeting with Xi Jinping yielded very concrete political and economic results. Then go to China Daily – or Global Times – and you will see that for the Chinese it is framework, principles, structure of cooperation that matters
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IQ Scores Are Falling But, No, We’re Not Growing More Stupid
Stuart Jeffries | psyche - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place.
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The New Israel and the New Palestine: A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East
Prof W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Modern diplomacy consistently fails in the Middle East because it treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero-sum collision of physical facts, borders, and raw power politics. This paper operationalizes the evolutionary axiology of the Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus to present a structural, value-based alternative.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Israel’s quest for absolute security through war, with territorial expansion, regional hegemony, Iranian regime change, apartheid and genocide, is destructive to law, morality, and stability. We do know this much: without boldness of imagination, both Israelis and Palestinians have no hopes of escaping their respective tragic circumstances.
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Global Sumud Land Convoy Advances Overland to Break Siege on Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
17 May 2026 – At a press conference held today in Zalitan, Libya, international human rights leaders and grassroots advocates united to declare that “Gaza is not alone” as the Global Sumud Land Convoy advances overland toward Rafah.
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The US Mis-imagination of China
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Current US policies toward China combine protectionism, technological containment, the disruption of supply chains, economic warfare for displacement of China in third-country markets, and the rejection of threat reduction through diplomacy in favor of purely military means.
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Araghchi: BRICS Look at Iran with Different Eyes after “US Failure”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
16 May 2026 – BRICS held a summit for foreign ministers in New Delhi on May 14-15, overshadowed by the relatively fruitless Trump meeting with China’s Jinping. Iran, which attended as an observer, was naturally a big subject of conversation.
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Macron, the Would-Be Pan-African: The Arsonist’s Script
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Emmanuel Macron arriving in Kenya to present France as the defender of Pan-Africanism is like an arsonist showing up at the funeral with a fire safety brochure.
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Living with Bipolar: a Life in Awareness
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – Over the past four decades, I have lived with bipolar disorder that has often cut deeper than any physical pain I have ever known. Yet what has been equally difficult to bear is not only the illness itself, but the silence and incomprehension that so often surround it.
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Mnemonics of Achieving Strategic Lift-off and Sustainable Flight
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Imaginative Misrepresentation of Viable Systemic Connectivity by Magic Carpets and Dragonification – There are many extensively articulated strategies in response to the crises of governance — and to the polycrisis of the times.
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Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – The world’s most urgent problem is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and from different cultures, Westerners just compartmentalize them away–normalization.
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US Seeks to Turn Eritrea into “a Bulwark against Iranian Influence”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – The Wall Street Journal published a piece headlined “U.S. Seeks to Reset Ties with Reclusive but Strategically Vital African State.” As the militarization of the Red Sea escalates, the US tries to enlist Eritrea in exchange for sanctions relief.
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(Italiano) Un’altra narrazione è possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
22 Aprile 2026 – “Se senti dolore sei vivo ma se senti il dolore degli altri sei umano.” –Lev Tolstoj – Per un giornalismo di pace, c’è anche un’altra narrazione. Un contributo del Centro Studi Sereno Regis alla marcia della pace Ciriè-Lanzo del 19 Aprile 2026
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With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank
Natan Odenheimer, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – When Israeli settlers attacked his West Bank village, Moatasem Odeh saw his son Amir, 28, fatally shot. Then he was stabbed repeatedly and beaten unconscious. Israel has failed to arrest a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.
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‘Highly Protected’: OPCW Confirms It Buried Critical Evidence in Syria Chemical Weapons Probe
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.
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Sanctions for the Script, Minerals for the Taking–No Victory, only Congolese on the Flight
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – So, the U.S. Treasury just slapped Joseph Kabila onto its blacklist, accusing him of “sowing instability” by bankrolling the M23. In Kinshasa, Tshisekedi’s court is uncorking the cheap champagne. Victory at last!
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The Man Who Refused to Kneel: Vladimir Putin at 26 Years
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – On 7 May 2000, an unknown former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin took the oath of office. Russia was on its knees–economically shattered, militarily humbled, territorially fragile, and diplomatically irrelevant.
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(Italiano) Un’altra difesa è possibile: NO alla guerra, SI alla difesa civile, non armata e nonviolenta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
28 Aprile 2026 – Il 16 marzo scorso è stata depositata in Cassazione la proposta di legge di iniziativa popolare “Un’altra difesa è possibile”, promossa dalla Conferenza nazionale degli Enti di Servizio civile, dalla Rete italiana pace e disarmo, e da Sbilanciamoci.
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(Français) Netanyahu, le visionnaire qui nous sauve… de nos assiettes
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 mai 2026 – On nous l’avait promis : une guerre « rapide », « chirurgicale », « nécessaire ». Benjamin Netanyahu et Donald Trump nous l’avaient juré sur la Torah et la Bible réunies. Quelques semaines, tout au plus, et l’Iran serait maté, la région stabilisée, et le monde enfin en paix. Résultat, en ce mois d’avril 2026 ?
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Covert NATO Initiative Turns Film into Anti-Russia Battleground
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
9 May 2026 – A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
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(Français) L’argent : le dernier tabou qui paralyse vos négociations
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 mai 2026 – Pourquoi est-il plus facile de parler de nos échecs que de notre compte en banque ?
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Emerging World Law
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – The Transition from the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) to the Provisional World Parliament (PWP)
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The World This Week: Playing with Fire
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc.
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Palantir and the New Order
Yanis Varoufakis | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
23 Apr 2026 – Neoliberalism Is Dead—Say Hello to Techlordism – A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour.
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First Time in History Younger Generation Scores Lower IQ
WION - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 Feb 2026 – For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a ‘cognitive catastrophe.’
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End Europe’s Resurgent Militarism and Israel’s Genocidal Regime
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, Dr John Reuwer of Doctors against Genocide, and Bisan Owda of Gaza Call for Peace, Humanity and Harmony.
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Trump and Lula at the White House: A Relationship Built on Pragmatism and a Broader Regional Calculus
Guilherme Casarões | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – For about three hours of closed-door talks between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and US President Donald Trump at the White House yesterday, many observers in the two countries held their breath.
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Using Food as Information to Improve Health and Well-Being
Dr Michael S. Fenster | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
Food is not just fuel; it is not merely a list of nutrients. Meals carry aroma, texture, memory, and meaning. Cultural traditions shape how foods are prepared, combined, and shared. Emotional states influence appetite and response. These elements are not superfluous add-ons to dietary health; they are part of how the body interprets what we eat.
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War on Humanity and Earth and the US-Israeli Moral, Intellectual and Political Bankruptcy
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
The US-Israel War on Mankind and Fear of the Future
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The Possibility of Israel’s World Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 May 2026 – The US and Iran continue their mutual naval blockades, halting much of the oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf countries to the world.
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UN Chief Says US Unpaid Dues Worth Billions Are ‘Non-Negotiable’
Namrata Sen | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
2 May 2026 – Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the UN, has affirmed that the billions of dollars that the U.S. owes to the international body are “non-negotiable.” He clarified that the outstanding amount, known as “assessed contributions,” is a mandatory obligation of member nations and cannot be negotiated.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
When Trump is criticized, when his mental stability as well as his moral character is called into question, he has a ready answer: TDS- “Trump Derangement Syndrome…” Time passes quickly. To remain obsessed by a leader’s personal failings plays his game and leaves oppressive systems in place. Let’s focus – now! — on creating something better.
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USA’s Suicide Pact
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – USA’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
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The Global Epidemic of Violence in an Age of Impunity
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 -Global violence today is metastasizing, not contained; over 180,000 violent events reported globally by the International Institute for Strategic Studies signal a world in which violent conflict has become a baseline condition rather than an exception.
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Moments of Bifurcation
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – From Gibraltar to Hormuz – The Moment of Bifurcation
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Eritrea and the “Internal Government Document Seen by Reuters”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
6 May 2026 – Reuters reports on a mysterious government document seeming to confirm that sanctions will be lifted on Eritrea.
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Lebanon Under Fire again – Israel Escalates Despite Ceasefire
Ranjan Solomon | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – Despite the ceasefire agreement reached in April, southern Lebanon continues to endure relentless Israeli military attacks. What was announced as a step toward de-escalation increasingly appears to have been little more than a temporary pause in an expanding regional conflict.
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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
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A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity
Gordon P. Duff | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
30 Mar 2026 – To the peoples of the world, to thinkers, to scholars, and to those who believe in justice: A specter now haunts the conscience of humanity—the return of predatory power— and it shall no longer go unchallenged.
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As Israel Continues to Destroy Lebanon’s South, Locals Are Turning to Hezbollah
Jason Ditz | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
1 May 2026 – Occupied by Israel, and watching Israeli military bulldozers destroy their homes and villages, many have less and less time to hold Hezbollah responsible, and are instead turning to Hezbollah for protection, as the only faction that is in any way resisting the ongoing attacks.
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US Sanctions and the Sharp Rise in Infant Mortality in Cuba
Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot and Guillaume Long | CEPR Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
27 Apr 2026 – New Comprehensive Report Shows That Hardening of US Sanctions on Cuba Since 2017 Fueled a Sharp Increase in Cuba’s Infant Mortality Rate
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The Limits of Power
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – The War on Iran Will Likely End in US Retreat
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The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces Rethinking Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Rather than a subsistence stipend, Universal High Income (UHI) would be a level of income allowing ordinary people to live well in a world where machines do most of the work.
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TRANSCEND Member Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Awarded 2026 Berrigan-McAlister Award
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – Kathy Kelly, a Chicago-based peace activist and nonviolence innovator, has been named the sixth recipient of the Berrigan-McAlister Award, presented by DePaul University’s Department of Catholic Studies.
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The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 May 2026 – Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet: the highest point of the Himalayas; the deepest depths of the sea; the snow of Antarctica.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is a Plastic Trash Nightmare–It Could also Be Part of a Much Bigger, Hidden Problem
Laura Paddison | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind.
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A Few More Thoughts on AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – Vowed atheist Richard Dawkins is the subject of laughter and ridicule for admitting that a sycophantic Chatbot might be conscious. I am confident the Chatbots aren’t conscious in the same way I’m confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren’t conscious.
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Freedom (of the Press) and Peace Are Not Ideological but Scientific Facts
Alejandro A. Tagliavini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – The RSF report says that in the 25 years that it has published the World Press Freedom Index, freedom of information has been deteriorating, and journalists continue to be killed or imprisoned. Norway tops the rankings for the tenth consecutive year, while Eritrea consolidates in last place (180th).
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From Imperial Tsars to Digital Sovereigns
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
An odyssey of Structural Violence, Peace Disruption, and the Preventable Failure of Galtung’s Positive Peace from the 20th to the 21st Century
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Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks
Jeremy Scahill & Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” says Jeremy Scahill. “Iran has maintained that it’s not shut down the strait, but that it’s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.”
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“Spring 2026” Flotilla Sets Sail from Sicily to Break Gaza Blockade
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
27 Apr 2026 – The “Spring 2026 mission,” part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, set sail yesterday, Sunday, from the Italian island of Sicily, aiming to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
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Alzheimer’s and the Fragile Beauty of the Cuban Dream under Blockade and Threat of Invasion
Ullekh NP | Open Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
22 Apr 2026 – A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on a medical milestone and captures the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the US blockade and threats of an invasion.
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“We’re Like Pirates”: Trump on US Seizing Iranian Oil from Ships in Hormuz
Edited by Anushree Jonko | MDTV World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – “We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” Trump said today while addressing a rally in Florida.
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Teresita’s Dream – Cuba’s Battle against Alzheimer’s
Brattleboro Community TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
12 Dec 2025 – Windham World Affairs Council – Teresita’s Dream is not just a film. It is a call to reimagine global health — and to stand in solidarity with those pushing for solutions against the devastating consequences of the U.S. embargo on Cuba — while humanizing the real-world consequences of U.S. imperialist policy and flipping the script on Cuban innovation.
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Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla Near Greek Waters
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Israeli military boats travelled more than 700 miles on Wednesday [29 Apr] night to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed for Gaza to attempt to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade.
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Terrorist State of Israel Assaults the Humanitarian Sumud Flotilla in International Waters: The Screams, Torture, Impunity, and the Duty to Name It
Claudia Aranda at Mediterranean Sea | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla was not a legal dispute over a naval blockade; it was not an inspection, not an administrative detention nor a “security check.” It was an armed capture of civilians in international waters, followed by beatings, humiliation, deliberate deprivation of food and water, coercive isolation, and direct allegations of torture.
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From “America First” to “Family First”: Trumps’ Hidden Profits from Iran War
Brian Hudson | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
14 Apr 2026 – In modern US history, war has consistently been a source of wealth for a small minority. This conflict will likely be remembered not as a necessary war, but as the first war in U.S. history waged for the private enrichment of a president’s family.
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(Castellano) Cuidado Con Los Hombres Que Hacen La Guerra Para Demostrar Que Son Hombres
Toby Miller y Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 abr 2026 – No sorprende la ‘hipermasculinidad’ desenfrenada que la Casa Blanca ha desencadenado en Irán
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‘All Changed with the Genocide’: Palestinian Women and Girls Face Brutal Abuse in Israeli Jails
Victoria Brittain | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
17 Apr 2026 – More Than 700 Have Been Arrested Since the Gaza Genocide Began, Enduring Brutal Conditions of Starvation, Isolation and Humiliation
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War of Aggression on Iran: Warren, Schiff Accuse Trump Family of Pentagon Deal Corruption
msn - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
25 Apr 2026 – Rep. Adam Schiff accused the Trump family of leveraging political prominence for financial gain, citing Eric Trump’s link to a $24 million Pentagon contract for a robotics startup.
→ read full articleThe 11th Hour US Imperialism, Israel’s “Mein Kampf in Reverse”, Palantir’s Oligarchic Techno-Fascism: Unprecedented Challenges to Peace-Thinkers/Makers
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
All news these days are bad news for average persons. Millions grit their teeth and pin their/our hope in the acts of resistance from below against corporate, statist and ideological forces that are prime drivers behind daily bad news.
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Havana Slams New Trump Sanctions as ‘Collective Punishment’ of Cuban People
Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – The Cuban government has firmly rejected new sanctions levied by United States President Donald Trump, calling them “unilateral coercive measures” intended to impose “collective punishment on the Cuban people”.
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Six Vaccinology-illiterate US Presidents Have Promoted Big Pharma’s Fast-tracked Experimental Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
The Story about Fast-tracked Vaccination Fiascos – and Others yet to Come
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Record-Breaking World Heat
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
24 Apr 2026 – The world is its hottest (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated creating an artificial blanket that retains heat. Despite decarbonization efforts, emissions rise driven by increasing energy demand and fossil fuel use.
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Understanding the Link between Capitalism and War
Klaus Moegling | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
1 May 2026 – For a long time, the word “capitalism” was taboo. Now that multimillionaires and billionaires have taken over the U.S. government, it’s on everyone’s lips. Yet there are only a few systematic analyses of “capitalism and war.”
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Three Recent Examples of AI Being Used for Empire Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
28 Apr 2026 – In the last few days, I’ve seen three separate instances of generative Artificial Intelligence being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to.
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Neurotechnologies and Their Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 Apr 2026 – This conference report provides a summary of the key themes, issues and takeaways from UNIDIR’s Innovations Dialogue 2025 on neurotechnologies and their implications for international peace and security.
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Pirates in High Seas
Francesca Albanese | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Total impunity…
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The Business of Armed Conflict: Who Is Profiting from the War of Aggression against Iran
European Business Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Mar 2026 – Wars create wealth and rarely as visibly as since US and Israeli forces struck Iran on 28 Feb. While the humanitarian and macroeconomic costs dominate headlines, a parallel story unfolds in boardrooms and trading floors: the systematic transfer of wealth toward a set of industries that benefit structurally and immediately.
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Five Charts That Show the Rise of Global Militarisation
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – In 2025, global military spending rose to $2.88 trillion. As countries spend more on their militaries, what does that mean for spending on healthcare and education? Other than spending the most on its own military, the US is also the largest exporter of weapons in the world, making up 39 percent ($115bn) of the total global share.
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Israel vs. Iran: Who Are the Terrorists and Who Are the Freedom Fighters?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – I asked myself a simple question: Who are the freedom fighters? Beside Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, who else fights for the Palestinians’ right to their homes, land, life and freedom? (See AI’s response to my question via Co-pilot at the end of this article.)
→ read full articleThe Spiritual Quest of Humanity and the Earth Constitution
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
16 Apr 2026 – The bestiality in man has risen to global governing. The captains of wealth, economic exploitation and accumulation, technology of war, and the use of Artificial Intelligence for war and human domination, resonate with irrational apocalyptic traditions worldwide.
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Betting on War: Mysterious Traders Make Millions on Well-Timed Bets Tied to Trump’s War on Iran
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
23 Apr 2026 – Suspicions of Insider Trading as Online Betting Markets Reap Windfalls in Iran War
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Growing Calls to End Unilateral Coercive Measures
Jill Clark-Gollub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
April 2026 – This spring constituents and grassroots organizations have been raising awareness in Congress and in public forums of the harms caused by Unilateral Coercive Measures or “Sanctions”.
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The Very Essence of the Iran War Is a Strategic Attempt by the US and Israel to Crush the British-allied Globalist Countries
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
26 Apr 2026 — US President Trump is being manipulated by Iran in ceasefire negotiations.
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The West’s Bubble of Illusion about Israel–and about Itself–Is Finally Being Burst
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
1 May 2026 – The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy.
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Manual for the Culture of Peace by the New Generation
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
1 May 2026 – This manual is based on my experience during the 1960’s with the movement against the War in Vietnam, my work with the People’s Peace Appeal and the Seville Statement on Violence in the 1980’s, my work at UNESCO from 1992 to 2001, and since then as the editor of the Culture of Peace News Network.
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(Français) Manuel pour Une Culture de la Paix par la Nouvelle Génération
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
1er mai 2026 – À l’occasion du relancement du Manifeste pour la Paix, j’ai préparé le manuel suivant, destiné aux équipes d’activation recrutées pour diffuser le Manifeste sur les réseaux sociaux jusqu’à ce qu’il devienne viral.
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Education for Eradication of Poverty for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
The UNGA proclaimed 1996 as the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty (Resolution 49/110) to catalyze global action against poverty, particularly following the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.
→ read full article“Mali Did Not Wake Up to an Attack–It Woke Up to a Message”
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
30 Apr 2026 – On Sovereignty, Performance, and the Ritual of International Observation
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Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and US Silence
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Never before has a race of people generated so much sympathy around the world and then, in the space of a lifetime, succeeded in turning that sympathy into hatred and revulsion” (The World After Gaza p. 40). Israel, today, with its ideology of Greater Israel, should not and must not possess nuclear weapons.
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From Russia with Love (Music Video of the Week)
John Barry & Monty Norman | HD Film Tributes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Soundtrack from the 1963 James Bond/007 film “From Russia with Love,” with Sean Connery.
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Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
4 May 2026 – Two of the activists on the flotilla, the Brazilian organizer, Thiago Avila, and the Spaniard Saif Abu Keshek, who is of Palestinian descent, were not allowed to disembark when the vessel reached Ierapetra Port in southern Crete, although the ship was in Greek territorial waters.
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El Salvador Pres. Nayib Bukele Is Donald Trump’s Jailer-for-Hire: CECOT Penitentiary
Daniel Finn interviews Hilary Goodfriend | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
25 Apr 2025 – Nayib Bukele swept to power in 2019 by presenting himself as an insurgent outsider who was going to clean up corruption in El Salvador. In reality he has waged war on democratic rights and turned his country into a MAGA prison camp.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
The chances are uncomfortably high that many people will pass away without ever formalising their final wishes.
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The Moral Code Peace Propagation for the 21st Century – Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
The entity of elusive Peace has been the subject of many tomes, since antiquity, but none have ventured to highlight the Moral Code in the evolution of Peace Theories for the 21st Century
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WATCH: Inside Iran
Dimitri Lascaris | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Dimitri Lascaris spent 11 days in Iran last month and was the first Westerner to show there was no military base near the school the U.S. struck, killing 168 schoolgirls. Here are four of his films from Iran.
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Amnesty International: The State of Human Rights in 2025/26
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
April 2026 – Throughout 2025, political leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among many others, carried out their conquests for economic and political domination through destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale. As AI has long warned, a global environment where primitive ferocity could flourish has been long in the making.
→ read full articleAnother Close Call at Washington Correspondents’ Dinner
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 Apr 2026 – Trump’s Latest Brush with Danger, and the Predictable Political Gold Rush
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Toward Reframing Peace Initiatives of US and Iran in Seeming Opposition
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
27 Apr 2026 – This is written in a period in which the world is hanging on the outcome of the engagement between a 15-point plan (by the USA) and a 10-point plan (by Iran). One outcome is the threatened destruction of a millennial civilization in the name of the people of the USA.
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Challenges of the Nuclear Age: Toward What Future for Humanity?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Text of the Kelly Lecture, 7 Apr 2026, sponsored annually by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It was delivered in early evening that coincided with the expiration of Trump’s first of several threats and deadlines directed at the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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