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“They’re Kissing My Ass”: Trump Says Tariffs Are Going Great, Promises Duty on Pharmaceuticals
Alex Galbraith | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
Trump has a rosy take on the early days of his ‘war on the world.’ “I’m telling you these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They’re dying to make a deal.”
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Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk
ET NOW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025 – Says ‘Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him’
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.
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US Concentration Camps
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.
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Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – Xi recalled that China and the EU are “firm defenders” of free trade and that “there are no winners in a tariff war.”
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Armenia Betrayed: The Opposition’s Case against Pashinyan’s Surrender and the Folly of Western Dreams
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
As Armenia stands at a crossroads in April 2025, it reels from the catastrophic fallout of the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and the subsequent actions of PM Nikol Pashinyan, whom the opposition brands as a traitor to the Armenian people.
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China Cuts Off Boeing, Crippling US Manufacturing
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – Krystal and Saagar discuss China cutting off Boeing in a major retaliation to the US.
→ read full articleWhy That Much Violence These Days?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
We find it all over, as massive killings in connection with US and/or its allies [NATO] attacks on Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine, Israeli genocide of Palestinians, Sudan, Myanmar…–22 ongoing armed conflicts in 2025. There will probably be much more because of Trump’s tariffs economic war against the world [“They’re Kissing My Ass”] and threats of annexation of the Panama Canal and Greenland. [Updated by the TMS editor.]
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Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – The ‘international rules-based order’ in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been a charade. But Israel’s Gaza genocide, carried out with impunity, with the participation of the US and its allies, has exposed the charade like never before.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of Israel’s Role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: A Christian Bastion Betrayed?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
The narrative that Israel is a defender of the Western world against radical Islam; a nation fighting for its own survival and for Judeo-Christian values against an encroaching Islamic tide, is starkly contradicted by Israel’s extensive military support to Azerbaijan, a Muslim-majority nation.
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Problematic Global Secular Celebration of Passover?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025 – Paradoxical Contemporary Deification of a Negligent International Community – There is no lack of commentary on the surreal nature of the current times and the challenges it poses for strategic governance.
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The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – Last week I participated in a panel discussion on the weaponization of antisemitism at the annual conference of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
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(Italiano) Costruiamo le alternative alla guerra
Redazione | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Aprile 2025 – Contro questi venti di guerra, contro le politiche che vedono nel riarmo la sola strada per garantire la pace, occorrono ampie alleanze politiche sia a livello istituzionale che da parte dei Movimenti: costruiamo, insieme, le alternative alla guerra.
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Israel Is About to Empty Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.
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Have Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.
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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025 – Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country’s atrocities illegitimacy.
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State of Emergency
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Meanwhile, at the Trump Fiefdom…
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Yanis Varoufakis Explains Trump’s Tariffs
Nexus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025 – Varoufakis was Greece’s finance minister during the Greek debt crisis in 2015. Some called him the rock star finance minister for resisting the faceless bureaucrats from the European Union, the IMF – and the rapacious bankers.
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Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
7 Apr 2025 – One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.”
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The Odyssey of the Prince of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
“The Prince of Peace came with the Lord’s Blessings, and we have not only heeded Him, but also ignored Him totally and eventually killed Him. Even in the present era we, as collective humanity, have brazenly transgressed His Peace Doctrines. Oh! you pathetic humankind, in eternal pursuit of materialism.”
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Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025 – A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.
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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Iluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.
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The “West” Is Imploding Faster after This
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – The entire “western” narrative, its repressive dominance and hubris are about to collapse. To discuss the state of the European tragedy, two scholars from the region: Dr. Jan Oberg, a peace researcher from Sweden, and former British Diplomat Ian Proud.
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On AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – Artificial Intelligence isn’t conscious. Saying AI should replace humanity is the same as saying fire should replace humanity, or white noise static from old televisions should replace humanity.
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Understanding and Countering Agent Provocateurs in Nonviolent Movements
Scot Nakagawa | The Anti-authoritarian Play Book - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – A Strategic Perspective
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Choosing My Name
Puanani Burgess - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
“Choosing My Name” is a poem written by Hawaiian author, Puanani Burgess. It can be found in her book, Growing Up Local: An anthology of poetry and prose from Hawai’i.
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Gaza Death Toll Soars with Dozens Killed in Single Day of Relentless Israeli Bombing
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
6 Apr 2025 – Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, as the Israeli army continues to relentlessly pound the strip with airstrikes.
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McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump has expressed his admiration for Republican Pres. William McKinley for his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But critics say Trump’s tariffs have instead fueled a stock market nosedive.
→ read full articleThe Persian Gulf War and the Gulf Peace Team
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
The Gulf Peace Team had its origins in the idea of sending a team to the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia as part of the struggle to prevent war in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The idea in one form or another had occurred to several people simultaneously around the end of September 1990.
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The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
25 Feb 2025 – Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture
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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.
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Relevance of Peace Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Paper based on a keynote speech delivered at the National Convention of International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) on the theme: Relevance of Peace Educationon 8 Feb 1991 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
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Giving Birth to the New International Order
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025 – The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
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Is This the World We Created? This Is Hell
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
7 Apr 2025 – Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind. We lack an equivalent of Bertrand Russell or Noam Chomsky, whose careful exposition of societal analysis and ideals is being superseded.
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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.
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Think Twice…
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
No Comment…
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
A unifying story calls for something above all individual humans, something out there, and in here; like life itself, human life, humanity as such, the net of human relations, the god(s) of our faiths. It cannot be I-me-my-mine, that is egocentrism.
→ read full articleVisualization of Polyhedral Inner Chambers with Psychosocial Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
AI-assisted Exploration of Neglected Underlying Patterns of Order in 3D – There is a basic set of symmetrical polyhedra, many known in Ancient Greece, whose symmetry made them a focus for architecture, sacred geometry symbolism, and an inspiration for patterns of order and coherence in many domains.
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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Fri [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead.
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Germany’s New Political Landscape
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – A new party, Alternatives for Germany, became the second strongest force in parliament. The AfD are libertarian-conservatives favoring less government and stricter asylum laws, calling for an end to the NATO-sponsored wars of regime change that have generated waves of refugees.
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(Italiano) Impero USA: declino progressivo e caduta inevitabile (Parte 1)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Gli Imperi hanno profili differenti. L’Impero USA ha una configurazione completa, articolata in una asserzione di un pianificatore del Pentagono: “Il ruolo di fatto delle Forze Armate degli Stati Uniti sarà di mantenere il mondo al sicuro per la nostra economia e aperto al nostro assalto culturale. A tali fini, faremo un discreto numero di uccisioni”.
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Truth Is Antisemitism–Protest Is Terrorism–Dissent Is Russian Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from de Edge of the Narrative Matrix - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
6 Apr 2025 – The Gaza holocaust is happening right in front of us. It’s like if everyone in Nazi Germany had screens in their homes showing what was happening in the extermination camps. Nobody can say they didn’t know. That claim does not exist for us.
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Will the UN Pillory Francesca Albanese?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – This is another pivotal moment for the UN and its Human Rights Council; whether it is subject to manipulation on issues that test the UN’s political independence. Tomorrow the UNHRC will vote on whether to reappoint Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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AI’s $4.8 Trillion Future: UN Warns of Widening Digital Divide without Urgent Action
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – Artificial Intelligence is to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.
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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Mar 1947 Issue – “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly, one cannot be politically orthodox.”
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Full Video of Israeli Attack on Gaza Medics
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
5 Apr 2025 – Middle East Eye has obtained the full video from the Palestine Red Crescent Society documenting an Israeli attack on medical workers in Gaza. It was recovered from the phone of one of the medics who was killed and later discovered in a mass grave.
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People of Conscience a Threat to US/Israel Zionist Dreams of Domination
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025 – As the US and Israel commit serial mass murder–Palestinian genocide–I think of how People of Conscience like Albert Einstein and Dietrich Bonhoeffer took the moral high ground. Pressure from corrupt leaders and a misguided public could not move them to sell their soul.
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Identity Politics, Sexual Politics, and Violence against People in Sri Lanka
Sanjeewani Rupasinghe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – From the 1971 insurrection and the 1988–89 uprisings to the decades-long civil war, Sri Lanka has endured cycles of brutality, state-sponsored impunity, and a deep disregard for human life. These dark chapters have perpetuated a culture of violence and silence.
→ read full articleTwo Empires Falling – But How?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
The significance of the Rosenstrasse nonviolence in the heart of Berlin in the middle of the war is neglected, just like Obama neglected the role of nonviolence in ending both colonialism and the cold war in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, probably the most belligerent ever given.
→ read full articleArmenia and Its Diaspora: A Tapestry of Tension and Triumph
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
2 Apr 2025 – As Armenia navigates its precarious existence in March 2025, the relationship with its diaspora—spread across key centers like France, Iran, Russia, and the United States—remains a complex and often strained bond.
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No Other Land ‧ 2025 Oscar Winning Documentary on Palestine-Israel
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal | Leo Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
2024 – Full Movie
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Earthquake-Hit, War-Devastated Myanmar Needs a Lasting Humanitarian Ceasefire and the Establishment of a Myanmar Fund
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – TRANSCEND member Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of a Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar assets frozen by then Pres. Joe Biden in response to the Feb 2021 coup.
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Teaching Peace: Nurturing Young Peacemakers in Ghana through Education
Mohammed Ibrahim | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Schools in Ghana are teaching peace education; students learn conflict resolution, social justice, and peaceful coexistence. Exploring joint initiatives between schools and Ghana’s National Peace Council.
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A Landmark Forum for AI Governance in Security and Defence
Jessica Abowitz and Yasmin Afina | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
14 Mar 2025 – As AI becomes integrated into the military, governance must adapt. UNIDIR’s Conference on AI, Security and Ethics convened nearly 500 experts to discuss AI development and deployment in security and defence.
→ read full article(Romanesc-Romanian) Minunata Lume Nouă din 2030: „Nu veți deține nimic. Și veți fi fericiți”
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Dacă petreceți doar câteva minute verificând site-ul web „The Great Reset” al Forumului Economic Mondial, care include o copie a ceea ce el numește „The Great Reset Transformation Map”, veți recunoaște rapid că WEF intenționează să impună schimbări profunde în aproximativ 200 de domenii ale vieții umane până în 2030.
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The AI Power Play: How ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Others Are Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Sharon Kumar | The Observatory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – The competition among top AI models is transforming how we work, create, and communicate. But as these systems grow smarter and more accessible, new questions emerge about cost, sustainability, and responsible development in a rapidly evolving landscape.
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The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.
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Israel Killed 15 Palestinian Paramedics and Rescue Workers One by One, Says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh and Julian Borger | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025 – Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.
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News & Comments Choices 31 Mar 2025
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Please click on the link to read the story.
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Ideology and the Failure of Democracy: The Tragic Fate of the USA and Our Real Hope for the Future
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The horrific fate of the USA being played out in the present is the result of governance by ideology, rather than by value-informed rationality. This is the legacy of both the Democratic and Republican parties and this article describes the ideologies of each of these parties and contrasts…
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(Castellano) La gran hipocresía “verde” Norte-Sur
Bernard Duterme | Centro Tricontinental CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Abril 2025 – Cuatro o cinco truismos que no están en duda, pero que nos sentimos obligados a recordar antes de proseguir. En primer lugar, la magnitud del desastre ecológico, su centralidad, su urgencia.
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How Egomaniac Leaders Call to End Civilized Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Politicians Speak from Hell
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Peace Disruption: The Forgotten Chagossians and Deprivation of Human Rights by Imperial Britannia
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Britan was a colonial power that invaded from the Americas to South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. In this imperialistic greed, there ensued not only violent expropriation of land but also violation of Human Rights of the indigenous peoples subjugated by supposedly the civilized centre of the world, Britannia.
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We (the People) Stand United for the Common Good
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025 – Autocracy, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, despotism, monocracy, fascism – so many ways to describe the current state of the (not so) United States of America.
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Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.
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Trump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Trump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.
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From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025 – There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.
→ read full articleDo Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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Surrendering to Authoritarianism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025 – Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception… Resistance will be left to us. Enemies of the state.
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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. I spoke to Bénédicte Njoko of ‘The Case for the Land.’
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Regional Neorealism: Rethinking Geography and Geopolitical Competition
Anthony Heron | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Neorealism, a cornerstone of international relations theory, is a comprehensive lens through which to analyse state behavior in a disordered world. States, whether driven by survival or ambition, are expected to balance power or maximise it, yielding predictable patterns of interaction across the global stage.
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Jeffrey Sachs Just Exposed the Truth They Don’t Want You to Hear
Kim Iversen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – Sachs on how Europe has no independent foreign policy as a loyal follower of U.S. interests—even when it leads to war. He exposes how Washington dictates Europe’s decisions, while Israel wields enormous influence over U.S. foreign policy.
→ read full articleThe F-Word
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025 – “Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but false and harmful.
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Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Inside the Social, Economic, and Psychological Drivers of Elite-Driven Militarization in Global Politics
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Peace Promotion or Peace Disruptions: To Classify or Declassify Government Documents
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
“Classified Documents are the nemesis of various governments. Whatever is done, the entire citizenry cannot be pleased.
→ read full articleIllusory Peace?
Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
27 Mar 2025 – CrossTalking with Mats Nilsson, Jan Oberg, and Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Junta Continues Dropping Bombs after Myanmar Earthquake as Opposition Puts Down Arms
ABC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
As the death toll from the Friday’s [28 Mar] earthquake rises sharply, Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government announced a unilateral partial ceasefire. But Independent Myanmar media reported that the military continued air attacks in the wake of the earthquake.
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Biological Apocalypse in Armenia Is Not Far Off
Valeriy Krylko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
22 Mar 2025 – In recent years, Armenia’s medical and sanitary-veterinary centers have been actively involved in U.S.-funded projects of international scientific and technical cooperation under the scheme previously implemented by the U.S. side in Georgia and Ukraine.
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Trump and Putin’s Unofficial Covert Alliance
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025 – In preparation for the US’s withdrawal from NATO, the UK has proposed to send its troops to Ukraine from more than 30 European and British countries, including France and Canada, to maintain hostility towards Russia.
→ read full articleArmenia’s Biological Laboratories: A Pandora’s Box Unleashed by Reckless Leadership
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
As of 27 Mar 2025, Armenia finds itself at the center of a simmering controversy over the presence of U.S.-funded biological laboratories on its soil—a development Armenians view as a dangerous gamble with national security and sovereignty.
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Growing Up with Fear and Self-Awareness
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – When I write about personal matters, I quickly stumble into one of life’s puzzling ironies: Every one of us is unique, and we’re also part of a collective whole. Self-awareness essentially means straddling that divide.
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Tyranny and “Efficiency” — How True Efficiency Empowers Our Resistance
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025 – The “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” is dismantling the US government. Why is the word “efficiency” applied to this group of institution-wreckers delegated by a tyrant?
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Gaza Is Our Holocaust
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025 – Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them. If Hamas struck a hospital treating Netanyahu it would not be justifiable. But the laws of war are forgotten when Israel violates them.
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Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Seth Staton Watkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Original Song
→ read full articleOn the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline–and Fall–of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a configuration articulated by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the US Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. Direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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The Lord of the Flies
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Roger Waters | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta conference.
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Israel Kills 9 Medics and Destroys Their Ambulances in Rafah
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Israeli occupation forces executed nine missing Palestinian medics from the Red Crescent and Civil Defence in Rafah, buried them and destroyed their ambulances, the Palestinian Civil Defence confirmed yesterday.
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Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services.
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Reminiscing: Johan Galtung and I
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
17 Feb 2025 – Slices of Reality, One Year after His Passing
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Tigers Still at the Gates
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025- Philosopher F.S.C. Northrop in his pathmaking book, “The Taming of Nations” (1953), likened nation-states to wild animals largely driven by instincts of power – the tigers at the gates.
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CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
26 Mar 2025 – “We must push back” — Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.
→ read full articleThe Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.
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Nemesis
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025 – The convulsions wracking the US body politic impact the nation’s foreign relations. The USA today defies all conventional categories. Its leader(s) are abnormal, its government is abnormal, its conduct is abnormal – and, perhaps, its society itself is abnormal.
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Putin’s Proposed UN Control Over Ukraine Is Well Intentioned but Will Be Tough to Implement
Andrew Korybko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – The odds of everything perfectly unfolding – the UNSC agreeing to have the UN assume control only over “rump Ukraine” and without Kiev’s consent, the UN speedily assembling the large-scale resources required, and then successfully neutralizing all armed Ukrainian resistance – are low.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
On 18 Mar 2025, Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed over 400 Palestinians, including women and children, and wounding more than 500, ending a ceasefire that had begun on 19 Jan.
→ read full articleThe Human Struggle for Positive Freedom
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025 – Clinging to the Light in the Darkest of Times – Recently, those trying to destroy the diverse institutions of the US government, attacking multiplicity, and hence freedom, forced their way into the US Institute for Peace in Washington, DC.
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Magna Carta of Peace
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025 – The Magna Carta was established in 1215 as a historic legal document in England. In contrast, the Magna Carta of Peace is nothing more than a Peace Accord. The MCP symbolizes unity, cooperation, collaboration, and harmony in society promoting reculturation and transitional justice.
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