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Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025 – The ICJ issued an advisory opinion yesterday branding the Israeli blockade on food and medical aid into the occupied Gaza Strip illegal. I mean, surely this conclusion is simple common sense.
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A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025 – The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue.
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Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina’s Corrupt Leader Javier Milei with $40 Billion
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Trump is using $20 billion of US government money plus $20B more in private loans to bail out Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, meddling in the South American nation’s election.
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Two Conferences in Shanghai: Reflections on Discourse, Dialogue, and the Non-Studies of Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
In October 2025, I attended two major academic conferences in Shanghai. What unfolded was a journey through two distinct but interwoven events—each offering a lens into China’s intellectual landscape and its evolving role in the world.
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UN Report Lists Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide: Which Are Them?
Federica Marsi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.
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Reversing the Truth: The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ and British Complicity in Genocide
David Edwards | Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Competition for this year’s Peace Prize was fierce. Time magazine’s cover greeted the latest pause in Israel’s US-armed genocide in Gaza with a portrait of self-proclaimed Nobel front-runner Donald Trump: ‘HIS TRIUMPH’
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Oct 2025
Expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine: The Greatest Strategic Error
Imran Hossain | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – In the game of geopolitics, the most important rule is ‘self-interest first’. In Rakhine, every actor sought their own interest, making a complex situation for the Rohingya. But ‘expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine’ was the biggest strategic miscalculations by the junta and the civilian govt.
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Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Johan was born in Oslo, Norway on 24 Oct 1930. 15 years later, the UN would come to existence on the same day—an omen of sorts? He received his first Ph.D. in mathematics at age of 25 and would become a sociologist, political scientist, mediator, and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies, among numerous other attributions and qualifications.
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Which Countries Owe the IMF the Most Money in 2025?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – From Argentina to Egypt, at least 86 countries collectively owe the International Monetary Fund more than $162bn.
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The Disarming Force: Why Active Nonviolence Is Not the Same as Non-Violence
Ángel Sanz Montes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – In light of the Sumud Global Flotilla, it makes sense to question the real power of unarmed resistance in the face of overwhelming force. Beyond the specific act, whose humanitarian value is unquestionable, this journey is a potent symbol of a tradition that underpins it: active nonviolence.
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Creation of Unified BRICS Currency Threatens Dollar Supremacy in International Trade
Mix Vale | BRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – Emerging nations are uniting to question the dollar’s reign. The BRICS bloc, along with new members, is intensifying discussions on a unified currency. This proposal gains traction amid geopolitical tensions and economic sanctions exposing vulnerabilities in the current system.
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The Masks Have Come Off
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story.
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Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – What to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.
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Palestinians Freed from Israeli Prisons Denied Reunion with Families, Deported Instead
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
As Trump Claims a ‘Forever’ Peace: Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deported them.
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A Critique of Pure Stupidity: Understanding Trump 2.0
William Davies | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
13 Oct 2025 – Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the ICC.
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(Italiano) Pensare il conflitto
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Gli USA hanno un approccio immaturo, autistico, ai propri conflitti, da bambino viziato. Una leadership deve affrontare direttamente le radici dei conflitti – non i sintomi come l’odio e l’ostilità – ossia la contraddizione stessa, un problema in cerca di soluzione. Ed essere un bravo giocatore di squadra come sono sovente gli statunitensi, dove la squadra è il mondo.
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Trump Approves CIA Operations in Venezuela: What We Know, and What’s Next
Elizabeth Melimopoulos and Sarah Shamim | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.
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A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians…
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Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
Dan Steinbock | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – Amid its lethal bombarding campaign, Israel awarded licenses for gas exploration in offshore Gaza, which is not under its sovereignty. Hence, the ceasefire smokescreen to disguise the struggle for the gas reserves. Making Gaza safe for US capitalism.
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Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
Sunjeev Bery | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment. The long-term implications of the “peace plan” appear startlingly similar to the goals that US white settlers had for Native Americans.
→ read full articleDr. Denis Mukwege’s Nobel Peace Prize Brought No Peace to the Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to “the man who heals women” made Euro-Americans feel good without interrupting their catastrophic proxy war for Congo’s resources. An incisive critique of that deeply flawed institution, Oslo’s Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Is Israel/Hamas Deal for Real?
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – Judge Andrew Napolitano Interviews Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
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UN Faces ‘Race to Bankruptcy’ as Guterres Unveils Sharply Reduced 2026 Budget
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 20 Oct 2025
“Genocide Is the Means, Not the Ends” – Norman Finkelstein
Ashfaaq Carim | UNAPOLOGETIC/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025 – Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.
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(Italiano) 35 anni dal punto di svolta della Germania
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Ottobre 2025 – In una recente visita alla capitale tedesca, ho dato uno sguardo attento a tutto il sentiero ciclopedonale di 160 kilometri del Muro di Berlino (Berliner Mauerweg) lungo il percorso che racchiudeva Berlino-Ovest come un’isola durante la Guerra Fredda.
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Statement by the Last Releasee of the Global Sumud Flotilla from Israeli Jail
Huwaida Arraf | Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Huwaida Arraf, a US attorney, Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, was on the Sumud Flotilla that Israel illegally intercepted on 1-2 Oct 2025 in international waters. She was taken to Israel, had a sham hearing, was physically abused, refused to sign a statement, and was then expelled. She is fearless. Here is her story.
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EU Billionaires’ Wealth Surges by over €400 Billion in First Half of 2025
OXFAM | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – The combined wealth of EU billionaires increased by more than 400 billion euros in just six months this year–over two billion euros a day.
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Inverting Reality: The Optics of Trump’s “Peace” Plan–A Powerful Message from Palestine
Rima Najjar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took.
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The China-Russia-India Energy and Trade Triangle: Reshaping Global Markets in a Multipolar Era
Philip Carter | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – China-Russia-India alliance challenges U.S. economic dominance via energy/trade integration and BRICS expansion.
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Why Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Is a Disaster for the Palestinians
Ismail Patel | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
30 Sep 2025 – By demanding submission and making self-determination entirely conditional and vague, the plan constitutes a colonial subjugation of Palestinian national aspirations.
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Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire; Trump Confirms Deal Was Reached
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Hamas and other Palestinian factions agreed to a framework for the Gaza ceasefire deal today, a senior Hamas official and a second source close to the Palestinian negotiating team told. “From our side, yes.”
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Gaza as a Mirror for Personal Implication in a Reality Denied
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
What is to be learned from the extensive media exposure to the tragic events in Gaza and the nature of the global response to it? More to the point, what indeed could “I” be learning from that exposure and how “I” am called into question by it?
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‘Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize’ 2025 to Francesca Albanese
Jan Oberg | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
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Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combating “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism.
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Disinvite Trump
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
7 Oct 2025 – The International Movement for a Just World joins a host of Malaysian groups and individuals in appealing to PM Anwar Ibrahim to formally disinvite Trump to the forthcoming ASEAN Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 28 Oct 2025.
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Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza
Leopoldo Tartaglia | Labor Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on Oct 3 in a general strike in support of Gaza and against the genocide. The strike drew extraordinary participation from workers, students, families, and dozens of secular and religious associations.
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A Joint Statement from Palestinian Resistance Factions
Resistance News Network | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on 10 Oct 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.
→ read full articleWhy October 7 Happened in 3 Minutes
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 – Max Blumenthal breaks it all down.
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Denmark, Drones & Deception: Europe’s Staged Panic Over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
6 Oct 2025 – Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…
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Eritrea in the Empire’s Crosshairs: Propaganda and Regime Change Operations
Ann Garrison and Elias Amare | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Western NGOs and media recently launched coordinated attacks on Eritrea, a longstanding US target for regime change.
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Human Rights in a Divided & Dangerous World
Michael Nutkiewicz | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
4 Oct 2025 – Do human rights still matter in a divided and dangerous world? Does the fact that they are violated invalidate them as tools for making the world safer and fairer? Are there concrete ways to strengthen our understanding and commitment to human rights?
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Genocide Stalks the U.S.A.: Paul Robeson, 1952
Editors | Black Agenda Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Robeson’s essay “Genocide Stalks the U.S.A.,” published in New World Review in 1952, is worth returning to. It focuses on the efforts to present the UN with a petition charging the US with committing genocide against African Americans. Robeson offers us two things that help us understand the question of Palestine: a reminder, and a methodology.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 13 Oct 2025
Bertrand Russell’s Historic War Crimes Tribunal against the US in Vietnam, 1964-1967
Harish C. Mehta | Rising Asia Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Oct 2025 – The audacity of Bertrand Russell and Ho Chi Minh to create a transnational war crimes tribunal to try the US government for crimes against the people of Vietnam and Laos through bombardment of civilians, schools, hospitals, and villages. The tribunal hearings in Sweden, Denmark and Japan signposts the continuing relevance of war crimes trials.
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Israel Attacks Another Group of Civilian Ships Bound for Gaza
Ana Vračar | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – In a new act of state terrorism, Israel has assaulted vessels from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza initiative in international waters, abducting more than 140 crew members.
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Is the UN Charter Worth the Paper It’s Written On?
Ann Garrison and Dan Kovalik | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2024 – In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the world’s most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again.
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Hamas’s Strategic Gamble
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
5 Oct 2025 – While President Trump enthusiastically welcomed Hamas’s response to his Gaza plan, the White House and Israel deal in deception.
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Africa Will Be Free When the IMF Stops Colluding to Steal Its Wealth
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – In countries like Senegal, the IMF has been complicit with irregular debt practices and fraudulent accounting in order to undermine sovereignty and favour multinational corporations.
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Peace Camps Empower Liberian Youth to Envision a Different Future
Tara Abhasakun | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Peace camps have been empowering Liberian youth. In July 2025, 50 young people from Maryland and Grand Kru communities gathered in Monrovia for the ninth Annual Peace Through Fair Play Youth Camp organized by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.
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How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the US Federal Debt Crisis (Part I)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
5 Oct 2025 – The Fed’s Hidden Drain
→ read full articleU.S. Military Aid and Arms Transfers to Israel, Oct 2023-Sep 2025
William D. Hartung | Brown University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
7 Oct 2025 – The US has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the Gaza genocide. Given the scale of current and future spending, the IDF could not have done the damage they have done in Gaza without U.S. financing, weapons, and political support.
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West Bank: Record Number of Demolitions over Building Permits as Israel Furthers Annexation Agenda
The Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
6 Oct 2025 – In less than nine months, Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over building permits than in the whole of last year.
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Artificial Intelligence and Israeli Intelligence–The Planning of Genocide–“What Gaza Will Look Like in the Future”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 – What this entails is the admission that there was a detailed intelligence and military agenda to “Wipe Gaza off the Map”, planned well in advance to October 7, 2023.
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Trump’s ‘Comprehensive’ Plan to End the Gaza Genocide
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
Released by the White House on 29 Sep 2025
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Palestinian Statehood and the Winding Road to Palestinian Self-Determination
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – My responses to a Brazilian journalist to questions about the recent diplomatic surge of recognitions of Palestinian statehood.
→ read full articleDon’t Be Fooled: Others Could Have More Interest in Sending Drones to the Nordic Countries Than Russia
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – Drones over Nordic airports. No damage. No trace. No answers. Most assume Russia—but what if that’s not so? Why is there so much we are not told? Who else might benefit from sending drones into NATO airspace?
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(Italiano) La prima presidenza Trump, 2017 – Ricorda nulla?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
Non c’è alcuna grandezza in quel che fa Trump, rende anzi gli USA più piccoli. Tentare una rinascita anziché languire nella ruggine, cancellare accordi stupidi come il TPP: d’accordo. Ma ritrarsi in uno stato forte in auto-glorificazione non è grandezza, è isolamento. La grandezza non sta in quel che si è ma in come ci si relaziona. E Trump si relaziona davvero terribilmente.
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Gaza Future Poetically Reframed under Threat of Hell
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
4 Oct 2025 – Memorable Visualization in 3D of Connectivity of a 20-Point Plan – Framed as a long awaited breakthrough, Trump has presented — with the support of Netanyahu — a 20-point plan to resolve the tragic conflictual situation in Gaza.
→ read full articleIsraeli Defense Minister Says Half a Million Palestinians in Gaza City Will Be Considered ‘Terrorists’ if They Don’t Evacuate
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Question is: evacuate to where? They are trapped by the Israeli military in the world’s largest open-air prison!
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What Does Peace Journalism Mean to Peace Journalists in East Africa?
Meagan Doll | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
Developed by Norwegian sociologist and peace researcher Johan Galtung, peace journalism focuses on structural causes of conflict, multiparty interactions, and opportunities for peacemaking through careful attention to word choice and broad framing narratives.
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(Italiano) Soglia antropologica: il già Occidente ora (auto)Occiso
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
4 Ottobre 2025 – Il superamento di una soglia antropologica significativa, una massa critica, in una storia che matura già da decenni stagliandosi su altre, tragiche e ignorate, dell’imperialismo/colonialismo.
→ read full articleTrump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of Palestine
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
30 Sep 2025 – Three weeks after Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas’s negotiators in Doha, Trump hailed the public announcement of his 20-point plan to end the ‘war’ in Gaza as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.”
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Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Interception Triggers Protests, Diplomatic Expulsions and Calls for Strikes
Jonathan Yerushalmy, Carmela Fonbuena, Sam Jones and Lisa O’Carroll | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – Israel’s long-anticipated interception of the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla has prompted criticism and condemnation around the world, triggering mass demonstrations, diplomatic rebukes and retaliation, and the threats of massive labour strikes.
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Gaza and the Economy of Genocide
Matan Kaminer | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Even before 7 Oct 2023, Gazans had been reduced to the role of a surplus population with minimal employment within Israel. Their expulsion from Israel’s capitalist economy helped to lay the groundwork for genocide.
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Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti
Steve Cushion | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
In 1825, fourteen French gunboats sailed into the harbor of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, and forced the government to pay an indemnity of 150 million francs. This threw Haiti into a cycle of debts that reduced the majority of the population to an abject poverty that survives to this day. Thomas Piketty has described this as “neocolonialism through debt.”
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For a Free Palestine, against US-Israel Empire: Italian Voices from Below
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
Hear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 Sep 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.
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What Abolishing Militaries Includes
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely and creating institutions that do things very differently. Abolishing war, and preparations for war, and weapons of war, and militaries means working for a world in which there exists not a single member of a single military or a single weapon.
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Kidnapped Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla Begin Hunger Strike in Ketziot Prison
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
4 Oct 2025 – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived at the port of Ashdod on 2 Oct staging a scene designed for public humiliation. From that port began the transfer of more than four hundred activists kidnapped in international waters toward an equally infamous destination: Ketziot prison, in the heart of the Negev desert.
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(Français) Discours a la Semaine de la Paix de Montpellier
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
21 Sep 2025 – Nous vivons une nouvelle ère de l’histoire depuis 1945, année de la destruction d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki par les bombes nucléaires. À notre époque, la question de la paix est devenue urgente.
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Rohingya Plight in Myanmar, a ‘Test for Humanity’
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
30 Sep 2025 – “Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those words, UNGA President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference today over Myanmar’s deepening crisis, which threatens to destabilise the wider region.
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Does Gandhi Still Matter? Yes, and Rajmohan Gandhi Explains Why
Akshita Singh | India Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – On the occasion of Gandhi’s anniversary, here is an excerpt from the renowned historian-biographer’s book that lays out the main arguments on the contemporary relevance of the Mahatma (2 Oct 1869 – 30 Jan 1948).
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Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Consciousness
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Near-death experiences blend science, spirituality, and the unknown, raising profound questions about what it means to be alive, what it means to die, and whether we truly understand either.
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China Supports Palestine’s Incorporation into BRICS: New Momentum for the Palestinian Cause?
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – Resounding across the geopolitical stage, China officially supported Palestine’s integration into BRICS at the end of Sep 2025, days after the Palestinian National Authority submitted its application to join the influential bloc.
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Germany Is Shamelessly Weaponising Its Nazi Past to Justify Support for Genocidal Israel
Charlie Jaay | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
28 Sep 2025 – A new YouGov survey shows that most Germans believe Israel is committing genocide. This view challenges their government’s position of unconditional support for the Israeli occupation rooted in Germany’s dark Nazi past.
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Trump Says Israel Can ‘Finish the Job’ in Gaza if Hamas Rejects Latest ‘Ceasefire Plan’
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – Donald Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu accepted the latest U.S.-backed “peace plan” in Gaza and threatened Hamas that if it rejects the proposal, Israel would have his “full backing to finish the job” of destroying Gaza.
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Speech to Montpellier Peace Days
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
21 Sep 2025 – We have been living in a new era of history since 1945, when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by nuclear bombs. In our time, the question of peace has become urgent.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo Genocide Emergency 2025
Omar Kausar | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Since 1996, wars and ethnic conflicts in the DRC have caused six million deaths. The First Congo War began after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda when up to two million Hutus crossed into the DRC and sought refuge in camps in North and South Kivu.
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Israel Should Let the Aid Flotilla Reach Gaza or Risk Adding to Its Global Indictment
Haaretz | Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
26 Sep 2025 – Dozens of ships have been making their way through the Mediterranean Sea toward the Gaza Strip. This is the Global Sumud Flotilla, an effort by hundreds of international activists to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and to draw international attention to the humanitarian crisis, the hunger and the massive death caused by Israel’s military operation there.
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Assessing Israel’s Attack on Hamas Negotiating Team in Doha: Defying Law, Morality, and Prudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
23 Sep 2025 – Israel’s Qatar Strike Undermines Sovereignty and International Law – In the aftermath of this Israel-Qatar attack that seemed at first to threaten the Western interests in the Middle East, is a strange combination of verbal denunciation of Israeli violation of Qatari sovereignty with a political status quo in play.
→ read full articleBeyond both Rhyme and Reason in the Face of Polycrisis?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
Memorable correspondences between Dante’s poesis, trigrams, genetic codons, triplicities, and polyhedra… Much interest has been evoked by the challenge of AI and the potential of quantum computing. The latter is based on the obscurities of quantum mechanics.
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These Countries Recognized Palestine, but Still Send Arms to Israel
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
25 Sep 2025 – Canada, France, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestine as a state this week but continue to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Hypocrisy?
→ read full articleA New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
It’s a sentiment more and more people can identify with as dark, dangerous, and duplicitous news reports loot the public’s mind of any sense of logical understanding by presenting stories that contradict themselves, while inducing great anxiety.
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West’s Grip Slips with Saudi–Pakistan Security Deal
F.M. Shakil | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
23 Sep 2025 – By aligning with nuclear-armed Pakistan, Riyadh asserts greater independence from the western military order and signals the emergence of a multipolar Persian Gulf security architecture increasingly shaped by Global South coordination, not western diktats.
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From Auschwitz, to Bosnia, to Gaza: The Price of Silence
Damir Mitrić and Jill Klein | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
25 Sep 2025 – Genocide thrives when the world averts its eyes, and history is repeating before us.
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The Recognition of Palestine: What It Does, What It Doesn’t Do, and Why Now
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 – The recognition of Palestine as a state is more of a symbolic gesture than a act, like imposing sanctions on Israel would be. Still, even Israel’s allies have been forced to take action as the genocide in Gaza deepens.
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Glenn Greenwald | Systems Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
26 Sep 2025 – Plus: Trump’s Russia/Ukraine Policy, the Tom Homan Investigation, and More.
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Israel’s Twelve Tactics of Genocide Denial
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
Sep 2025 – Israel was founded after the Holocaust as a nation-state where Jews could have a homeland and defend themselves. However, the territory granted to Israel was already occupied by Palestinians as well as Jews.
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Israel’s Netanyahu Addresses Empty UN General Assembly with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
27 Sep 2025 – Many news outlets reported that “some” or “dozens” of delegates walked out of the UNGA as Netanyahu prepared to address them. The truth is: Netanyahu addressed mostly empty chairs. I don’t know why editors think they can pull the wool over peoples’ eyes.
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What Is ‘Antifa’ and Why Has Trump Branded It a ‘Terrorist Organization’?
Tess Owen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
23 Sep 2025 – There is no such formal entity called antifa, yet the US president has designated it an ‘anarchist enterprise’, raising concerns from civil liberties experts.
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In Move That Could Bring in NATO, Spain Joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
25 Sep 2025 – Yesterday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be in the vicinity of the 50 ships that make up the Sumud flotilla aiming to provide humanitarian relief to the Gaza Strip.
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Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag
Francesca Albanese | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
24 Sep 2025 – Francesca Albanese dismantles the illusion that ordinary people are powerless. She urges civil society to demand freedom for Palestinians and calls for universities, banks and municipalities to cut ties with Israel just as the world did with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.
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Our Age of Unreason
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 – We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
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UNICEF Aid Trucks Robbed at Gunpoint in Gaza City
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, UNICEF said on 19 Sep 2025, following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
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Ugh, Here We Are…
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 – The Soap Opera Goes on…
→ read full articleGaza Is Not Rwanda: Its Suffering Should Not Perpetuate that of Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
24 Sep 2025 – Likening the suffering of Gazans to that of Rwandan Tutsis perpetuates the narrative that has dominated the African Great Lakes Region for 30 years, allegedly justifying the sacrifice of millions of Congolese.
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Netanyahu Speaks to a Practically Empty UN General Assembly on 26 Sep 2025
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
Empty chairs greet Netanyahu at UN as diplomats boycott his speech.
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The “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” Exposed
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
25 Sep 2025 – The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites quickly turned into death traps. More than 859 Palestinians seeking food have been killed at GHF places since it began operating in May: Deadly “humanitarian aid,” engineered for mass starvation.
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