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FIFA World Cup: Five Biggest Controversies of the 2026 Tournament
AFP, AP and Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026 – The 2026 World Cup has been full of controversies – Al Jazeera breaks down the five most significant. What happened to the beautiful game?
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Genocide Watch Gaza Report
Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
July 2026 – In September 2025, a U.N. Commission Report concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts of genocide in the Genocide Convention. Yet Israel has continued its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Oh for the Day When the Bombs Stop Falling
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – When the humans stop biting and stabbing each other and spraying everything with blood and oil.
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Deliberative Technologies in Youth, Peace & Security
Lena Slachmuijlder | Toda Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jun 2026 – Promise, Practice, and the Uptake Gap – When peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) coalition leaders put AI-enabled deliberative tools into practice, what do they enable, what obstacles do they face, and how can we take forward their lessons learned?
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Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Officials for Conspiracy against Pro-Palestinian Organizers
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – “This case will expose the scheme that sought to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in the US.” The lawsuit was filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed to stop groups like the KKK to coordinate with the government to strip individuals of their constitutional rights.
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On African Unity vs South African Xenophobia and Afrophobia
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
The myopic, xenophobic, Afro-phobic embarrassing malaise on display today in South Africa is totally oblivious to any Pan-African or global vision at all. It is rather an atavistic, backward narrow-minded tribal consciousness in need of immediate reeducation and excision.
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Ethics as the Architecture of Power: China Proposes a New Global Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
19 Jul 2026 – The new Action Plan on International AI Ethical Governance is a proposal to define who will establish the rules governing the development of AI with a distinct conception of the international order, the role of the State, and the place of developing countries.
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South Africa’s Top Court Defends Asylum Rights
Pavan Kulkarni | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – Landmark Ruling Curbs Arbitrary Deportations
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Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him over Coverage of Ayatollah’s Funeral
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal says US border agents told him he had no rights, as they took his electronics to invade his privacy and potentially compromise his sources.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and Moral Upheavals
Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
There are important risks, threats and disruptions that could result from a blind and too-rapid adoption of all the features of the new technology. Its ‘creative destruction’ could become increasingly powerful and detrimental, especially for workers, but also for writers and artists, for businesses and, finally, for the entire economy and society.
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Crime Scene Planet Earth: Why Peacebuilding Requires Doughnut Criminology
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – Peace journalism has taught us to look beyond spectacle and toward structure. That insight is essential, but today it is no longer enough. Peacebuilding must go further. Doughnut criminology matters because it makes violations visible.
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What is the Common Good?
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026 – Is Today’s World System Capable of This Concept? – The concept of the common good lives in the background of our world but is rarely explicitly discussed.
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If War Dead Could Speak
Jerry Tetalman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – If those killed in war could speak, this is what I imagine they would say. They would claim that war is humanity’s biggest moral failure and that war is the real enemy. They might ask, “Are we savage animals or are we civilized human beings?”
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Beyond the Interregnum
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026 – Can Democracy Survive Capitalism’s Final Crisis?
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Who Is “We”? Identity, Empire, and the Theft of Solidarity
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – The word “we” appears to unite, but it often conceals the unequal distribution of power, suffering and responsibility. To ask how “we” arrived at the present crisis is therefore…
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Tango por una Cabeza (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Gardel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
Teaching the Tango to a Beautiful Woman (Full Scene) | Scent of a Woman – Al Pacino – Gabrielle Anwar – Chris O’Donnell
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
The latest UN report on eastern DRC is being described as explosive. That is the preferred diplomatic adjective whenever institutions finally acknowledge a crisis that has been detonating in public for years.
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Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him
The Tucker Carlson Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – There’s never been a legitimate criminal investigation into 9-11, the deadliest terror attack in US history. Roger Waters is trying to change that.
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Imperialism and the Moral Decay of the West
Atilio Boron | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – The irreversible decline of the U.S. empire’s global hegemony is not merely an economic or technological issue. Such an reductionist approach would prevent us from grasping the full scope and the many dimensions of this slow but inexorable decline.
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Berar: The Forgotten Crossroads of Indian Civilisation
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – Berar occupies a distinctive place in India’s intellectual history. Situated between northern India and the Deccan, Berar became a meeting ground for Islamic scholarship, Persian administrative culture, Urdu literature, Marathi learning, and, later, Western education.
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16 July 1945: World’s First Nuclear Weapon Detonation
Researched by Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
The first nuclear weapon detonation in human history occurred at the Trinity test on 16 Jul 1945, at 5:29:45 AM MWT in the Jornada del Muerto desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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(Italiano) Gandhi e Shantidas sui mali strutturali del mondo e sulle relative risposte
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
9 Luglio 2026 – Senza comprendere e combattere le strutture sociali, la nonviolenza si riduce a mera competenza e cortesia. Ad esempio, coloro che presentano la politica dei diritti umani come soluzione ai mali sociali si limitano ad estendere l’etica interpersonale alla società, ma non alle sue strutture.
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Engaging with a Planetary Basket-case during a Singularity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Potential Reframing of Perception with the Assistance of AI – There are various connotations of “basket”, each quite distinctive. One has been associated with Trump, who chose to insult others as being a “basket case.”
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Photo of Bound Palestinian Detainee Corroborates Israeli Torture Reports, Say Rights Groups
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – An Israeli soldier’s photo of a Palestinian man from Gaza stripped to his underwear, blindfolded and bound face-down to an iron rod corroborates extensive reporting on Israeli torture of Palestinians in detention and itself may constitute a war crime, rights groups have said.
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Arms Markets
Anna Stavrianakis | Phenomenal World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Jun 2026 – A Look at the World’s Largest Military Industries
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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti Gives a Glimpse into the Imperialist Shock Doctrine That Could Rattle Venezuela Long After the Earthquakes
Jacqueline Luqman | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – The U.S. has attacked Venezuela through various means for decades and kidnapped President Maduro but is now claiming to assist with earthquake relief. If it’s role in Haiti is any guide, that so-called aid from the U.S. is a Trojan Horse bringing more plunder and control.
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More Than 53,000 Foreigners Deported from South Africa amid Xenophobia Wave
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – More than 53,000 foreigners have been processed for deportation and repatriation from South Africa, amid escalating tension over the wave of xenophobic attacks in recent months, the South African government reported today.
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What Is Humanitarian Education and Does It Help Build Peace?
Chloe Bruce | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026 – Humanitarian organizations invest in education to promote safety, resilience, and social cohesion, but researchers continue to debate its long-term impact on conflict and human well-being.
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Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore
Aaron Kirshenbaum | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French government also counted over 2,000 excess deaths during the June heatwaves.
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Quarticentennial Compendium Sets History’s Moral Ledger
World News Wire | Big News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
11 Jul 2026 – 25 Years of Merit and Moral Reckoning Formally Ratified – Documentation of genocide–concerning Gaza and Myanmar–by Melanie O’Brien, Francesca Albanese, Prof Yanghee Lee and Maung Zarni is the ‘Most Credible and ‘Most Consequential documentation of genocidal operations of the quarticentennial era’.
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What Happens ‘When the World Sleeps’
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – The Wounds of Palestine – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her book, “When the World Sleeps.”
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Citizen Vigilantes: When Fiction Becomes Uncomfortable Reality
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – From the gritty streets of 1970s New York in ‘Death Wish’ to the precise retribution delivered by Denzel Washington in ‘The Equalizer’ series, these stories thrive because they tap into a universal frustration: what happens when the systems meant to protect us falter?
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Will We Know if Artificial Intelligence Takes Over?
Doug Irving | Rand - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
What happens if we off-load our ability to make decisions, to shape the future, to machines? How will we know if we start to lose part of what makes us human, our agency?
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Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
War and War in the Age of Planet-destroying Globalized Capitalism
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PEN America Sells out. Again.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and US imperialism. Its moral core is gone. It abandoned its mission to “defend writers, artists, and journalists and protect free expression” and transformed itself into a propaganda machine for the oppressors
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The “Key to Peace” Comes in a Gun Box: Reflections on NATO’s Ankara Summit
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – NATO’s 2026 Summit was greeted with slogans, “Key to Peace,” “Key to Security,” and “A Shared Future in Peace.” But in the end, Erdoğan presented heads of state with Turkish-made elegant revolvers. The “key to peace” came in a gun box; the irony impossible to ignore.
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NATO’s Armament Is a Direct Threat to Societal Well-Being–S.G. Rutte Must Know It but Continues to Deceive the Public
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026 – We all pay more and more for less security and the destruction of our societal economy. Where are the millions of protesters in the streets of Europe against the NATO militarism parasite?
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The Kagame Regime Must Not Be Allowed to Seize the Archives of the ICTR
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – The records of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should not be surrendered to the Rwandan regime led by President Paul Kagame.
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Beyond the Whistle: How Football [Soccer] Exposes and Escapes Its Own Bigotry
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – So, FIFA deemed Haiti’s World Cup jersey “too political.” The disputed design reportedly referenced the Battle of Vertières: the revolution, the anti-slavery uprising, the moment Haitians fought for and won independence. A man holding a flag. A people holding onto history.
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An Appeal to Peace Laureates for the Endorsement of Birth Equity
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – Birth equity is the foundational right of every child to a fair, dignified, and secure start in life. It establishes equitable beginnings as the normative basis of human dignity, political legitimacy, intergenerational justice, and ecosocial peace.
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San Andreas Fault Reaches Highest Stress Level in 1,000 Years
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology/University of Hawaii News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jun 2026 – Tectonic stress along the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in Southern California has now reached, and in some places exceeded, the highest levels seen in the past 1,000 years, according to research led by Earth scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Disastrous NATO Summit–Toward Nuclear War with Russia
Glenn Diesen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
9 Jul 2026 – Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the disastrous NATO Summit, as the military bloc is without a strategy and heads toward nuclear war with Russia.
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Super El Niño Is Here, and We Must Organize to Prepare for It
Kaylie Couch | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – The National Oceanographic Association of America has warned that a “super El Niño” is forming in the Pacific. With wildfires and a statewide drought emergency, we are warned that a drier, warmer winter is on the way.
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Weaponizing Civil Death to Crush Dissidents: Germany’s Looming Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Hüseyin Doğru – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – Western states test the limits of their expansive repression of free speech in cases such as the sanctioning of German journalist, Hüseyin Dogru.
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Postcard from Transoxania
Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Khiva, Uzbekistan 7 Jul 2026 – The Marco Polo Drive of Peace, Culture, and Sustainable Development
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(Français) Démocratie en France : le bras de fer entre pouvoir, régulation, justice et médias
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Un Equilibre Fragile a l’Epreuve des Faits
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Israel Wants the World to Be Quiet
Ramzy Baroud | Arab News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
29 Jun 2026 – Monsters Playing Victims: Danny Danon’s Twisted War on the Truth – Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted on their country’s reputation by their UN ambassador, Danny Danon, is a moot point.
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UK: Burnham’s Contrition on Gaza Is Hollow. Watch What He Actually Does in Power
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – Here is a list of the things Britain’s incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel’s genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it?
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The World Needs a Living Left
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
11 Jun 2026 – As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.
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Detained Gaza Doctor Almost Unrecognisable After Injuries in Israeli Jail, Lawyer Says
Emma Graham-Harrison, Lorenzo Tondo and Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026 – Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial.
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You Can’t Drink Data
Greg Kearney | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
22 Jun 2026 – No comment…
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As Gaza Water Crisis Worsens, Israel Bombs Critical Facility in Possible War Crime
Stephen Prager | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
6 Jul 2026 – “This station was one of the most important remaining sources of clean water in Gaza City,” said an activist who has used it to supply desperate families.
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Israeli Mob Clash with Albania Protesters as Tension Explodes
OpenMindedThinker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Capitalist take over…
→ read full articleThe Qadri Legacy: Social Vision of Islamic Scholarship and Sufi Ethics
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
In the chaos that prevails around us, the most authentic hope comes from Sufis whose poetry and philosophy combine the virtuous message of formal religion with the transcendental values of love and harmony.
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Vijay Prashad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – The implications of U.N. inquiry into the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of children reach far beyond Gaza. They raise fundamental questions about the future of international law itself.
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30 June 1960: Congo Received a Flag, a National Anthem—and a Booby-Trapped State
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
On 30 June 1960, Congo became independent. Or, more precisely, Belgium handed Congo a flag, a few speeches, a timetable, a constitutional manual written elsewhere, and an administrative machine whose steering wheel was still suspiciously connected to Brussels.
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1,000 Days of Genocide: Death, Pain, & Suffering
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – This Friday, July 3, marks one thousand days of Israeli genocide in Gaza. “We are destroying more and more homes — they have nowhere to return to,” Netanyahu reportedly remarked in May. “The only expected result will be a desire for Gazans to emigrate outside the Strip.”
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Inequality, Culture, and Violence: Assessing the Legacy of Johan Galtung
Solveig Hillesund and Gudrun Østby | Journal of Global Security Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
In this paper, we show that many of the ideas and assumptions in the conceptual groundwork and theorization that underpin research on “horizontal inequalities” can be traced back to the seminal work of Johan Galtung, although they are rarely attributed to him.
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Who Can Be Prosecuted for the Gaza Genocide?
Frontline Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
30 Jun 2026 – The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has documented violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law in Gaza. Amit Baruah and Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission, discuss the findings of the Commission’s reports, the impact of the war on Palestinian children, and the challenges of enforcing international law amid global political divisions.
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How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
30 Jun 2026 – A new report demonstrates the patterns by compiling accounts detailing rape by soldiers using bottles, batons, and other sharp objects — even trained dogs. Editor’s note: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence.
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Requiem for the USA on the Fourth of July
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026 – The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism.
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History Continues to Serve Foreign Policy: Why Israel Finally Recognized the Armenian Genocide
Yakov M. Rabkin | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026 – The Israeli government recognized the deaths of one and a half million Armenians during World War I as genocide for political reasons, and Armenia is not even the intended addressee here.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
No study has ever shown that military spending outperforms civilian investment. European leaders now speak openly about transforming Europe’s economy into a war economy. This is not a metaphor. It is the stated ambition of governments, EU commissioners, and NATO officials.
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NATO 3.0: Alliance or Military-Industrial Investment Fund?
Biljana Vankovska | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026 – From the era of ‘defending the Free World’ against communism, through the age of ‘humanitarian intervention’ and the ‘Global War on Terror,’ to today’s struggle against almost the entire non-Western world, the Alliance has repeatedly reinvented the narratives that justify its existence.
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Democratizing Training for Nonviolent Resistance
Jamila Raqib and Alia Braley | Albert Einstein Institution/Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – This month, the Albert Einstein Institution launches a new People-Powered Training Platform.
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(Français) Pourquoi les Médias Commerciaux de Masse Parlent de Guerre Et Non de Paix ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
1er juillet 2026 – Comme je l’ai écrit dans le bulletin de ce mois-ci du CPNN, « les médias commerciaux de masse regorgent d’informations sur les guerres et les menaces de guerre à travers le monde. Ils ne rendent pas compte des informations pour la paix. Pourquoi en est-il ainsi ?
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Have the BRICS Countries Built an Alternative to the World Bank and the IMF?
Eric Toussaint | infoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026 – The five founding members of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) account for around 40% of the world’s population, nearly a third of global GDP in purchasing power parity and around 20% of global exports.
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(Français) La valse des plumes bien alignées : System of a Down au Stade de France, ou l’hypocrisie française en mode mineur
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
Paris, début juillet 2026. Quelques jours plus tôt, la presse hexagonale vibrait à l’unisson. Deux dates sold out au Stade de France, près de 160 000 spectateurs attendus, retour historique d’un groupe mythique : System of a Down. Les titres se multipliaient, enthousiastes, presque solennels.
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Witness to US War Crime
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
Homo Barbaricus…
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Michel Chossudovsky & Peter Koenig | Lux Média – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
26 Jun 2026 – Did President Trump really make a deal or rather betray the public at large again – for the umpteenth time? The deliberate confusion on where to sign the “Deal,” first Geneva.
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Sudan–The Sound of Silence
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026 – There is a huge humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan. Some have described it as the gravest humanitarian crisis in recent times. The starkest manifestation of this crisis is mass starvation. Both groups have support within the populace. Both have external support. There have been casualties in both camps.
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Why the Commercial Mass Media Reports War but Not Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
The commercial mass media is filled with stories about wars and the threat of wars around the world and they are not reporting news for peace. Why is this?
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Netanyahu’s War on Humanity: Ethnically Cleansing the Palestinian West Bank
H. Scott Prosterman | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
29 Jun 2026 – Since 7 Oct, 18 new settlements and eight new army bases have been constructed on what was Palestinian family homes for generations. When Netanyahu took power in 2022, he accelerated a far-right campaign to ethnically cleanse the northern areas of the West Bank.
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The Man Who Stood Still
Fabio Vighi | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026 – Lumumba Lives—Congo, Capitalism, and the Violence of Empire
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Israel Killing West Bank Children at Highest Rate in Decades ‘with Virtually No Accountability’
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
29 Jun 2026 – “The system does not merely back those who pull the trigger—it effectively grants them a license to kill,” said the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.
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Hasta Siempre Comandante! – (Music Video of the Week)
socialistagenda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
This piece is dedicated to the patron saint of freedom fighters worldwide – Che Guevara.
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Education for Active Nonviolence and Cultural Tropism – Building a New Future
Anne Farrell | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
30 Jun 2026 – The educational approach selected by senior government education officials and various social and cultural organizations contributes in shaping the look (1) and perception (2) of the new generations.
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Climate Activists Take on a New Foe: Data Centers
Kate Yoder | Grist/People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
29 Jun 2026 – The artificial intelligence boom has created a surge in construction of giant facilities that process digital information, and communities are working to stop them from being built, concerned about water usage, soaring energy bills, and Big Tech taking over.
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From Independence to Interdependence
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
2 Jul 2026 – As North Americans and people of other former colonies recognize, there’s a great deal to be said for national independence. But, at times, we might also wonder: is it sufficient?
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Carlos Castaneda, the Shamanic Messiah of the 1970s, Was also a Con Man, Plagiarist and Manipulative Cult Leader
Don Lattin | Messiahs I Have Known | TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
22 Jun 2026 – From the early 1970s, “Teachings of Don Juan:” Carlos Castaneda, an anthropology student at UCLA, had an incredible story to tell about his peyote-fueled adventures with an old Indian sorcerer he met at a bus depot on the Mexican border.
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The Case against “Justice” in British Courts
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
29 Jun 2026 – Today’s horrendous events are the direct outcomes of policy and political decisions made at the highest levels of governments in the three rogue or criminal states of Israel, USA and UK – in that order of policy influence.
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What White Supremacists Know
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
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Burkina Faso Cuts Diplomatic Ties with France
Pavan Kulkarni | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
30 Jun 2026 – Ouagadougou Accuses Paris of Backing Terrorism
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
Nikita Mazurov and Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
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Global Nonkilling Day 2026
Bill Bhaneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
28 Jun 2026 – It was in 2012 our beloved Prof. Glenn D. Paige spoke about this Day, reminding us of the immense work to be done towards realizing his vision of a nonkilling world. The Center for Global NonKilling founded by him covers Discovery, Research and Action in that direction.
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Israel Is an Apartheid State–and Its Weird Marriage Laws Show Us How
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation.
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Justice M. M. Qazi and His Idea of Justice
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
3 Jul 2026 – In The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen challenges the traditional approach of searching for an ideal perfectly just society before addressing injustice. He argues that human beings do not need to agree on a complete theory of perfect justice to identify and remove obvious wrongs.
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Israel Bombs Palestinians in Beach Tents in Gaza
Mohamed Ahmed and Abdel Qader Sabbah | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
26 Jun 2026 – “This area is made up of tents sheltering civilians—displaced people, people who lived through oppression, humiliation, famine, war and siege. And the whole place was bombed.”
→ read full articleThe Curtain Falls on the Victory Charade: Konstantinovka and the Absurdity of Persistent Russian Defeat Myths
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2026
The tale of a Russia supposedly paralyzed, bled white, teetering on the brink of collapse, and of a Ukrainian David whose sling, generously supplied from afar, would inevitably bring the Russian Goliath to its knees.
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Israel’s Suicidal Rupture with the U.S.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.
→ read full articleDe-signing a Poem of Re-signation in a Period of Polycrisis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Enabling Negative Capability with an Artificial I – In a period of polycrisis it is potentially fruitful to ask whether insight could be otherwise presented.
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Defending Israel’s Human Rights Violations–The Illusions of Western Virtue
Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – The instrumentalization of human rights has long been a staple of Western foreign policy, despite mounting evidence that such commitments are rarely applied consistently–Ursula von der Leyen and Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy, Double Standards
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Strengthening Respect for International Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026 – Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, warned that there is a serious erosion of respect for international humanitarian law. The ICRC is the chief agency for the respect of the Geneva Conventions, the heart of international humanitarian law.
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Advocates Renew Call for End to US Sanctions after Devastating Venezuela Earthquakes
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – Despite Earthquake, Trump Keeps Sanctions on Venezuela
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No One Bombs Their Way to Peace
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – The first lesson of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not that military power has become irrelevant. It is that military power, even when overwhelming, does not automatically produce political obedience.
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Psychological Fact: Nuclear Disarmament Requires World Federal Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – There is one word that explains why nuclear disarmament conferences have failed: DISTRUST. I came to this conclusion while studying reports from the recent “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” Review Conference.
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Datacentres Are Growing Target of Global Climate-Related Legal Cases, Report Finds
Isabella Kaminski | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
25 Jun 2026 – LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution.
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Help Venezuela NOW through the Armenian Cathedral of Caracas
Diran Noubar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
I am documentary film director and TMS writer Diran Noubar from France. In the heart of this tragedy is our community’s anchor, the Church of the Holy Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Caracas, with which I have a direct connection, and Bishop Bedros with whom I have a relationship and daily communication.
→ read full articleThe Worker’s Pitch
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
Football, Labour, and the Architecture of Extraction – Let us begin with a scandalous sentence for people who believe a player’s weekly wage has abolished class: footballers are workers.
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Iran Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2026
22 Jun 2026 – The crisis of legitimacy and credibility facing US leaders as a new generation of humanity confronts the genocide in Gaza, the US-Israeli war on Iran and other US acts of force and coercion.
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