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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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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.
→ read full articleMoving Beyond Personalism: How the Obsession with Donald Trump Undermines Hopes for Progressive Change
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 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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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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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.
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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”.
→ 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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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.)
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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 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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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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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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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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(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.
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“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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The Sacred Geometry of Islamic Inheritance
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.
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Another 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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Trump, Sanity, and Obedience
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
18 Apr 2026 – Many people are saying that Donald Trump is insane. He may be. So too Benjamin Netanyahu. But if so, it is a form of insanity that includes the calm sanity of Adolf Eichmann and Harry Truman as they went about their business of mass extermination.
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How the International Community Obtained a Nuclear Weapons-Free Agreement with Iran―and Lost It Thanks to Donald Trump
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration.
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Trump the God
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
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Reprogramming the Technological Republic: Designing Futures Beyond Militarization
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
In a “manifesto” linked to Palantir Technologies’ CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, technological capacity is subordinated to state power, war is normalized as a persistent condition, and responsibility is redefined as participation in that order.
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
There is nothing inherently confusing here, nothing so complicated that it escapes understanding. Calling it “complex” or labeling regions as “fragile” doesn’t explain reality—it softens it. It creates distance. It turns something concrete and accountable into something vague and untouchable.
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Iran War: What Has the War Done to the Cost of Humanitarian Aid?
Peter McNamara | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – As Save the Children warns of potential food shortages owing to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a much more severe risk is being posed to the most vulnerable globally.
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Israeli Soldiers Using Sexual Assault to Force Palestinians Out of West Bank, Report Says
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.
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The Trump Administration’s War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.
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Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst
Joshua Carroll | Novara Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Evidence of gruesome form of torture is ‘overwhelming’.
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No to War, Yes to Peace: A Global Call to End Wars and Militarism
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The defining crisis of our age is war. Endless, permanent, profitable war. War that has become not an aberration, not a last resort, but the very engine of a global economic system that cannot function without it.
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(Castellano) La derrota de Trump ante Aristóteles en Irán
Andrés Suárez y Joan Pedro-Carañana - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
18 abril 2026 – Aristóteles escribió hace más de dos mil años que ningún discurso puede persuadir si se traiciona a sí mismo. Sin embargo, frente al fenómeno de Donald Trump, la máxima aristotélica enfrenta su mayor desafío: ¿la contradicción debilita al orador o lo vuelve impredecible y poderoso?
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(Italiano) Resistere al Nuovo Ordine Mondiale: Il tuo campo di schiavi tecnocratico
Robert J. Burrowes | ComeDonChisciotte - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 aprile 2026 – Molti autori e organizzazioni stanno commentando uno o più dei cambiamenti che si stanno imponendo al mondo a seguito di una serie di eventi, ognuno dei quali modificherà in modo significativo il funzionamento del mondo e la nostra percezione di esso.
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Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 Apr 2026 – As Iran agrees to resume negotiations in Islamabad, John Mearsheimer dissects the complicated challenges and competing interests facing the United States as the countdown to the end of the ceasefire begins.
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Iran’s Civilizational and Moral Strength
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026 – The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?
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Satellite Images Reveal Israel Expanding Gaza Military Sites
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
19 Apr 2026 – Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
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Development of Peace Education in India
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Although India has contributed enormously to world peace through the adoption of the policy of Panchsheel and ‘non-alignment, and not disregarding the great non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, there is almost no trace of peace education either in the form of discipline or in the form of educational institutions in India.
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Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945–They Wouldn’t Today Either
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Japanese surrender could have been ensured without instantaneous killing of more than a hundred thousand civilians and several hundred thousand people being subjected to third-degree burns, injuries, and radiation exposure that would eventually kill them, too.
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ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
Radley Balko | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
23 Apr 2026 – A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.
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Weakening Permanently and Maintaining the Hardliner Iranian Regime?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
21 April 2026 — I have begun to think that Israel’s strategy for Iran war was initially to weaken and permanently maintain the current hardliner Iranian regime (Revolutionary Guard), manipulating Trump with misinformation and initiating the war against Iran at the end of February.
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The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Endorses the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.
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Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The Psychopathology of Murdering Innocents – The horror of US and Israel’s vicious, unprovoked attacks against Iran on February 28 (my 76th birthday) is breathtaking. The war commenced with a duo of atrocities.
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Genocidal in Essence, Settler Colonial Entities such as Israel Cannot Be Reformed
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 Apr 2026 – They Self-Destruct at Enormous Human Costs
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Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
20 Apr 2026 – Iran’s leaders have learned how to deal with Trump’s lies, threats and deception by swiftly correcting his lies, preparing their defenses to confront his threats, and not falling for his fake offers of negotiation. But there is still a path to peace.
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Peace Journalism – A Discussion of Systemic Peace
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – Georgia Kelly Interviews Antonio C. S. Rosa and Marilyn Langlois from TRANSCEND Media Service
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Kajal Kajal (Music Video of the Week)
Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam (singers) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Exquisite! Enjoy!
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No to Barbarism in the World in Defense of Civilization
Fernando Alcoforado | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
This paper aims to denounce the barbarism in which humanity is subjected throughout history that reached its highest level during the existence of capitalism in the contemporary era and to strive for its end in defense of the principles of civilization.
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UK in Retrial Seeks to Jail Palestine Action for ‘Terrorism’
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – Amid a media blackout, British authorities and their Israeli collaborators are determined to curtail the activist group as they face their last legal chance to do so.
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The Cowardice of Qualification: When Anti-War Voices Speak the Language of Empire
Ramzy Baroud | The Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
As the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said wrote in his essay “The Essential Terrorist”, “terrorism” has “acquired an extraordinary status in US public discourse” and has “displaced Communism as public enemy number one,” providing a flexible label through which enemies are constructed and violence against them normalized. The issue is the qualification itself.
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(Français) La France Éternelle : Un Bijou de Contradictions en Plein Éclat
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
26 avril 2026 – La France. Cette terre bénie des dieux, ce phare de la civilisation occidentale, ce pays où le bon goût se conjugue encore au passé simple et où l’on sait, depuis des siècles, transformer la moindre contrariété en art de vivre.
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Big Brother and the Israel Advocacy Machine
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
I sometimes find myself recalling Orwell’s Oceania when I read the daily distressing and outraging news from Palestine and the broader region. I think about how, much like Big Brother, today’s Israel Advocacy Machine demands complete allegiance, compliance, and submission.
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Settler Criminals
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
Zionism, Americanism, Nazism
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Beyond Oil: Global Food Crisis Emerging from Hormuz — Why Brazil and BRICS Matter
Uriel Araujo | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Iran war is triggering ripple effects far beyond energy prices. Global food systems, heavily dependent on fertilizers and shipping routes, are now under strain. Brazil, for one, faces heightened vulnerability despite its agricultural strength. BRICS itself is emerging as a potential critical geopolitical actor.
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The Imperial Pillars in British Colonial India: Lalvani vs Tharoor–a Critical Analysis of Peace Propagation or Peace Disruption Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
The Making or Breaking of British India: The “Told Story of British Enterprise revisited.
→ read full articleMy Cruel Tryst with Kazi Clan
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2026
24 Apr 2026 – Few wounds cut as deeply, or endure as quietly, as betrayal within the family. Forgiveness does not erase the past, nor does it guarantee renewal. What it offers instead is a way of engaging with injury that neither falsifies reality nor allows it to define the whole of human experience.
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