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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 29 Sep 2025
Italian Workers’ Strike in Solidarity with Gaza Brings Disruptions Across the Country
The Hindu | After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2025
22 Sep 2025 – Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors.
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(Italiano) Studi sulla Pace: Ispirazione, Obiettivi, Conseguimenti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
La pace fa appello al cuore; gli studi al cervello. Entrambi sono necessari, anzi indispensabili. Ma altrettanto indispensabile è un valido collegamento tra cervello e cuore. E questo, in sintesi, è lo scopo degli studi e della pratica della pace.
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Remembering the Disparate via a Polyhedral Carousel
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
Memorable configuration of transformations between core polyhedra of strategic relevance.
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Gaza’s Contribution to Civilization
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
Gaza’s role as a market, agricultural supplier, and transport hub helped to link inland and coastal economies for centuries. This was an essential contribution to circum-Mediterranean coastal communities and over 30 countries have direct connections to Gaza.
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Israel Says ‘Gaza Is Burning’ as It Launches Ground Assault
Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
16 Sep 2025
Senior IDF official says main stage of ground assault has begun
City pounded from air, sea and ground, witnesses see huge blasts
Long columns of Palestinians flee city on foot or in vehicles
Gaza and the Death of Conscience
Ismail Salahuddin | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
11 Sep 2025 – The world is witnessing a genocide live on its screens. We have seen children pulled from rubble, families starving in tents, hospitals turned to dust. We cannot say we did not know. Every image, every cry, every number has reached us in real time. And yet the killing goes on, the silence goes on, life goes on.
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US Vetoes UN Security Council Gaza Ceasefire Demand for Sixth Time
Lorraine Mallinder | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025 – The US vetoed a crucial UNSC resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel expanded its scorched-earth offensive on Gaza City. The resolution was approved by 14 of the 15 members of the council today.
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The Week That Was
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
The Kirk Syndrome
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Iraq Invades the United States
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
And Other Headlines from an Upside-Down History of the U.S. Military and the World
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(Français) Le cri silencieux des sages : Comment l’intellect malien désarme la Nation
Inter De Bamako | MaliWeb - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
15 Sep 2025 – Bamako, Mali. Les échos des tambours de guerre résonnent depuis trop longtemps sur nos terres ancestrales. Les voix des politiques se perdent dans les méandres des discours, et les balles sifflent, déchirant la chair de notre nation.
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Israel Levels 50 High-Rise Buildings in Large-Scale Gaza Occupation Campaign
Aseel Saleh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
12 Sep 2025 – Israel called the campaign “Operation Gideon Chariots II”, which Hamas said it will counter with a series of operations dubbed “Moses’ Staff”.
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Robert Redford: The Actor and the Activist
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025 – Deep Throat: Bob Woodward, from the WP, was played by Robert Redford, the legendary actor, director and activist, who died this week at his home in Utah, at the age of 89. In 2012, he reflected on that role.
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Barbarism Revisited
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
Hannah Arendt –> Points to Ponder
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We Are Missing 680,000 Souls: Gaza, the Most Public Hidden Genocide
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
20 Sep 2025 – Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has issued a severe denunciation: the real number of deaths in Gaza exceeds 680,000, more than ten times the officially reported figure.
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The Double Genocide in Gaza
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
17 Sep 2025 – In its disproportionate response to Hamas’ 7 Oct 2023 massacre of Israelis, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
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Neocolonialism in Africa, from the IMF and the World Bank to the International Caucasian Court for Prosecuting Africans
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
Remarks prepared for a 16 Sep 2025 Covert Action Magazine webinar on Neocolonialism in Africa.
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On Palestine’s Anti-Colonial Resistance and Popular Revolts in Indonesia, Nepal, Myanmar and Malaysia
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
21 Sep 2025 – ASEAN as a regional bloc of 11 member states has neither humanistic vision nor intellectual leadership. Out of its utter and complete absence of any ideals or principles or humanistic enlightenment, it remains quiet in all genocides.
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Targeting Venezuela
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025 – From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support – The USA is building up its military assets for another regime change attempt against Venezuela—and this one could be far more deadly than the others.
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“We Must Not Look Away: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice”
Roy Eidelson | PeacePsychology48 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association) hosted this webinar on 9 Sep 2025. Our speaker was TRANSCEND Member, Psychologist Roy Eidelson, the President of Division 48.
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The New McCarthyism: UC Berkeley Just Handed Over the Names of 160 Students and Faculty to the Trump Admin
Viet Thanh Nguyen | Zeteo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025 – I’m beyond disturbed that my alma mater is wiling to destroy its reputation as the birthplace of the 1960s Free Speech Movement and put students in danger in the process.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 22 Sep 2025
Trump Wages Economic War on US Allies while BRICS Builds Alternative System
Ben Norton and Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
17 Sep 2025 – Donald Trump imposes tariffs and unequal treaties on Europe, Japan, and South Korea, forcing them to move factories to the US, while BRICS creates a multipolar world order. Trump’s imperial strategy to exploit US allies.
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Peace Journalism in the Digital Age
Annika Sehl, et al. | Weizenbaum Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
The model of peace journalism originates from Johan Galtung: War/violence journalism vs Peace/conflict journalism. War/violence journalism is a zero-sum game oriented toward war/violence, propaganda, elites, and victory. Peace/conflict journalism is a win-win-situation oriented toward peace/conflict, truth, the people, and solutions.
→ read full articleBeing a Terrorist by Implication in a Terrific Environment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
13 Sep 2025 – Celebrating Complicity in the Terrifying Experience of Gaza – How will the future describe a period in which the major strategic determinant was held to be the response to terrorism?
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A Call to Citizens Everywhere: Choose Your Action for Justice
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. et al. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
9 Sep 2025 – A series of proposals that you can advocate for, send in a letter to your government or do yourself. It’s called people’s power or citizens’ diplomacy. SHARE!
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300,000 Palestinians Forced to Flee as Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza City
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
14 Sep 2025 – The displaced people will be forced to al-Mawasi. A so-called safe zone that Israel has repeatedly bombed.
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519 of 533 in US Congress Voted to Continue Sponsoring the Mass Murder of 2.4m Palestinians
Christina Macpherson | After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
12 Sep 2025 – Depraved! Only 14 of the 533 corrupt members of Congress refused to endorse and pay for ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, bombing, kidnapping, starvation and sadistic murder of thousands of innocents. That is a mere 5% of 260 Democrats in Congress.
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US War Department (Pentagon) Plan Prioritizes Homeland (Latin America) over China Threat
Paul McLeary and Daniel Lippman | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
5 Sep 2025 – This marks a major departure from the first Trump administration, which emphasized deterring Beijing.
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
Hans G. Despain, Ph.D. | London School of Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
The alliance of corporations, finance, and states underpinning the capitalist system that drives inequality, stifles democracy and enriches elites. Combining theory, analysis and practical solutions, this book offers a blueprint for reclaiming power through economic democracy.
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We Are Inspired
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
12 Sep 2025 – The holocaust/genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza strip continue. Calculations show that excess mortality has been much higher than the reported 64,000 violent deaths (71% women and children).
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Gaza’s Hunger Crisis Dominates Headlines, but Most Deaths Come from Israel’s Airstrikes
Nir Hasson and Rawan Suleiman | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
5 Sep 2025 – Around 70 people were killed daily in Gaza in August 2025; an attempt to clarify why 29 Israeli strikes that killed 180 people were carried out was met with vague answers, or silence.
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Robin D. G. Kelley, et al. | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
Summer 2025 – Fourteen years ago, Noam Chomsky published “The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux” in these pages. He used the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to revisit his classic 1967 essay on the subject.
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Meanwhile, in Brasilia…
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
11 Sep 2025 – Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for Coup Plotting against Pres. Lula.
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Spain Announces Arms Embargo on Israel and Other Steps ‘to Stop the Genocide in Gaza’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
8 Sep 2025 – “This is not self-defense,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asserted, “it is the extermination of a defenseless people and a violation of every international law.”
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The Deafening Silence of the ‘Holocaust Industry’ on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
10 Sep 2025 – On September 1, the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For nearly two years, the world watched in silence as the Jewish state massacred thousands of unarmed Palestinians laying waste to their homeland.
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Denial in Plain Sight: Rights Groups Show Evidence of Gaza Genocide, Israel Continues to Reject It
Kazim Alam | TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
8 Sep 2025 – After killing more than 64,000 Palestinians over the past two years, Tel Aviv argues the legal definition of genocide has been distorted by rights groups to target and vilify Israel.
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‘We Took the Gloves Off’: Ex-IDF Chief Confirms Gaza Casualties over 200,000
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
12 Sep 2025 – A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
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Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P. | UN Human Rights Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
Jul 2025 – Report of the UN Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P.
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Ethiopia: National Aspiration, Identity, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
Ethiopians officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Mon, 8 Sep, an awesome achievement: it generates up to 6,540 Megawatts, doubling present generation; Ethiopians themselves paid for it without IMF, WB or funding outside the Ethiopian diaspora.
→ read full articleGenocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 15 Sep 2025
Video: 11 Sept 2001 “the Global War on Terrorism”
Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
This video production focuses on the unanswered questions of 9/11. What was the role of Al Qaeda and the alleged “act of war” by Afghanistan against the USA on the morning of Sep 11, 2001.
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Eurasia Realigns in Face of Late-Stage Barbarism: The New Post-Western World Order
Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2025
9 Sep 2025 – At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, Eurasia discussed a new international economic order based on mutually beneficial trade and investment.
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Minnesota Shooting Exploited to Impose AI Mass Surveillance Tool?
Glenn Greenwald | System Update - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
29 Aug 2025 – Selling Insane AI-powered Surveillance
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Blessed Are the Piecemakers as Children of God?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – Piecekeeping Disguised as Peacekeeping in a Pieceful World – The world’s rhetoric is saturated with “peace”, but the experiential reality is saturated with “pieces”.
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AP Jerusalem Chief Participated in Secretive Israeli Govt Anti-BDS Event, Leaked Files Reveal
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
6 Sep 2025 – AP’s Israel-Palestine news director, Josef Federman, has spun data to minimize the Gaza death count. Leaked documents show he appeared on a panel aimed at assisting “Israel’s ability to effectively portray its narrative” during a conference chaired by an ex-IDF official who legitimized killing journalists.
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‘Humanitarianism’ in Gaza Distracts from Getting Justice
Anthony Hayward | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
19 Aug 2025 – The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed.
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Genocide Prevention: What Can Be Done Should Be Done by Persons, Governments, and the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
How can Israel and Netanyahu be stopped at this moment? This question has haunted the world for the past two years and worried peace and justice activists for a much longer time. The most obvious issue is how to persuade the US and EU governments to withdraw their support to Israel.
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Billionaires Buying off Hawaiian Lands!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
1 Sep 2025 – US’ richest have been buying land in Hawaii but no one knew exactly the extension of their holdings. Forbes spent months digging through property records and the results were astonishing: 37 billionaires, equal to just 0.003% of Hawaii’s total population of 1.4 million, own 11 percent of its private land.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 8 Sep 2025
Just Another Day
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
1 Sep 2025 – Really…
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Global Appeal: Gaza’s Journalists Need Urgent Protection
The Landline | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
1 Sep 2025 – Joining over 250 media organizations, we call on international actors to defend Palestinian journalists and force Israel to open Gaza to foreign press.
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Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – The Many Ways Bombs Can Kill – Cancer, in short, will be but another weapon added to Israel’s ever-increasing evil, genocidal arsenal.
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Empowering the UN General Assembly with the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
3 Sep 2025 – Critics can understandably blame the UN whose primary job is to “end the scourge of war.” It is no secret that it has failed miserably in this, its primary task. For many frustrated critics, the blame rests with the UNSC’s P-5 veto nations.
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China Celebrates 80th Anniversary of Victory over Japanese Occupation, Calls for an Equitable and Just World Order
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
3 Sep 2025 – The massive military parade was attended by leaders from over 20 foreign nations, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions. It remains only what these conclusions will be.
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The Role of Information in Building a New World
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
2 Sep 2025 – Research as a Key to Fighting Militarism and Repression
→ read full articleUnproductive Interpretation of Work and Employment as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Faced with polycrisis and forms of governance which are proving “unfit for purpose”, there is a case for a more radical assessment of what “work”, “employment” and “productivity” mean for those affected by those framings in their daily lives.
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‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michael and Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
21 Aug 2025 – In recent weeks, through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw was of catastrophic proportions.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza
Wahid Ben Ali | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – The Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocide. It is composed of dozens of small civilian vessels from over 39 national delegations.
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How Israelis Turned Atrocity Denial into an Art
Ron Dudai | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”
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The Epilogue of Gaza City: The Demolition
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – The last 48 hours in Gaza City have been marked by a series of relentless bombings that have destroyed the last habitable neighborhoods in the city.
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The Ramzy Baroud/Palestine Chronicle Case: When Truth Becomes the Crime
Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – What is sought is not justice but intimidation—to cast suspicion on every Palestinian voice, to brand their words as weapons, their witness as crime: Travesty of Justice.
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Sudan: A Staggering 30 million People Are in Need as War Grinds On
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – The Capital, Khartoum, Now “Completely a Ghost Town” – Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 1 Sep 2025
Alligator Alcatraz’ to Be Vacated in Compliance with Court Order to Shut It
Richard Luscombe and AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed.
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Palantir’s Tools Pose an Invisible Danger We Are Just Beginning to Comprehend
Juan Sebastian Pinto | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
24 Aug 2025 – Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work.
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DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
Matt Sledge | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – US Democratic National Committee members voted today to kill a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt arms sales to Israel put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
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The People of Haiti Are in a Perfect Storm of Suffering’
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing families to flee,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UNSC on 28 Aug 2025.
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Three Giants at One Table: Can Russia, India, and China Rewrite the Global Rules?
Manish Vaid | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Russia has called for the RIC cooperation format to be revived. India sees it as an opportunity for greater autonomy in a multipolar world.
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Templars, Transhumanists and War, Oh My!
ESW | RogueNewsTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – In this episode of Rogue News, I took the time to chat with V about the world situation, and the interconnected nature of transhumanism, Gnostic Crusaders and technocracy with a look towards both ‘left’ and ‘right’ manifestations of the game.
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
For the art of writing implies the art of reading. The writer creates and the reader recreates; both demand silence, the cessation of all noise that serves to prevent true thought. The machines must be turned off. “Our inventions,” Thoreau noted, “are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”
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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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Heartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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Ending the Assault on Gaza: What Must Be Done Now
Gershon Baskin | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Israel’s military juggernaut will not be stopped in Gaza without significant international pressure and a range of conditional sanctions.
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Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday [29 Aug] that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from docking at Turkish ports and denying Israeli aircraft overflight rights over Türkiye.
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Distractions at the US of A
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
25 Aug 2025 – Yawn
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Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of Courts in Preventing Genocides and Punishing Perpetrators
Natalie Brinham and Maung Zarni | TRT Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
On this day, August 25, eight years ago, the Myanmar army launched a campaign of genocidal violence against the Rohingya in their ancestral home in western Myanmar, to erase them; the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.
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Unaudited Power: The US Military Budget Nobody Controls
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion, growing $1 trillion every five months. Interest exceeds $1 trillion annually. The military outlay, close to $1 trillion, consumes nearly half of the discretionary budget.
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Memorial to the Massacre of Koreans in Japan: A Foundation for Coexistence
The Tokyo Shimbun | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – During the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 Sep 1923 in Japan, many Koreans were massacred due to false rumors. Commemorating the victims means facing up to a “negative history” that must never be repeated.
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North Africa: The Enduring Jewish-Berber Relationship
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) live together across the lands of North Africa building communities, sharing languages, trading in the markets, and celebrating side by side.
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From Guernica to Gaza
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – Mass Killers Have Been Above It All – Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match.
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‘He Got Out of Gaza, But Gaza Did Not Get Out of Him’: Israeli Soldiers Returning from War Struggle with Trauma and Suicide
Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz | CNN/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Editor’s note: This story contains details of suicide and violence that some readers may find upsetting.
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US Lifeline Masks Israel’s Economic Freefall as Global Divestment Grows
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Now that Israel has become a bad brand, affiliated with unethical investments in the genocide and growing illegal settlements in the West Bank, the US has stepped in to fill the gaps–for how long?
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Why Palestine Is Already a State
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025 – The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply.
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Washington’s Nightmare: Modi and Xi Break the Ice
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025 – A potential India–China border breakthrough could mark a turning point in Asia, easing decades of hostility while undermining Washington’s grip on New Delhi.
→ read full articleHeartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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94-Year-Old Seizes Chance to Tell Her Story of Atomic Bombing
Akari Uozumi | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – When Michiko Sakamoto opened the questionnaire sent to atomic bomb survivors nationwide, ideas for what she wanted to write came in a rush. The 94-year-old sat at her “kotatsu” heated table and gripped a pen at her home in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira.
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Gaza’s Urgency and Lessons for the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Responses to questions posed by Naman Bakaç, an independent journalist in Turkey. The interview was published by FOCUS, an independent online media platform
→ read full articleAwarding Noble Piece Prize to Trump and Netanyahu?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
25 Aug 2025 – Appropriate Appreciation of Transactional Commodification of Honour in a Fragmenting World – Donald Trump has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by multiple countries…
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Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show…
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Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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(Italiano) Energia nucleare ‘pulita’? Un nodo irrisolto
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
11 Ago 2025 – La sperimentazione sull’energia nucleare, con il primo, clamoroso successo sancito dall’esplosione del Trinity Test, nel luglio del 1945, diede origine a decenni di sciagure. I giapponesi che morirono a Hiroshima e Nagasaki non furono le sole vittime.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Still Trump, MAGA, RFK, Jr. Yawn…
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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
Frances Madeson | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025 – For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
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Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
4 Aug 2025 – As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more…
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfire: India Moves Closer to China, Strengthening BRICS Unity
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – The US government has long tried to recruit India for its new cold war on China. Donald Trump’s tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening BRICS.
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The Alaska Summit Was a Spectacular Distraction
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Trump needed a break from the infighting in MAGA so he decided an inconsequential meeting with Putin would do the trick.
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Why Japan Is an “Accomplice” in the Occupation of Palestine
Machi Kunizaki | Huffington Post Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
The Similarities between the Colonial Rule in East Asia and the Israeli Settlement
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Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Other Big Oil Allies Sabotage Progress
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – “The vast majority of governments want a strong agreement, yet a handful of bad actors were allowed to use process to drive such ambition into the ground,” said one environmentalist.
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