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Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

28 Jun 2025 – The Lansing Memo Comes to Berlin – From Nord Stream’s Sabotage to NATO’s 5% Arms Push: Why Western elites speak with one militarist voice and how pro-US/NATO militarism is promoted from behind the scenes. (Must-Read)

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(Deutsch-German) Krieg in Westasien: Iran, Israel, die Vereinigten Staaten und die Rothschilds
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

Warum wollten die Vereinigten Staaten „sieben Länder ausschalten“?
Warum wollen die Vereinigten Staaten (und Israel) immer noch den Iran „ausschalten“?

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Where Life Is Seized – Frantz Fanon Revisited
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961), author​​ of the anti-racist jeremiad Black Skin, White Masks; spokesman for the Algerian Revolution and author of The Wretched of the Earth, the ‘bible’ of decolonisation; inspiration to Third World revolutionaries…

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Israeli Navy Seizes Second Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla Vessel in 2 Months
Olivia Rosane | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

26 Jul 2025 – “The interception occurred in international waters outside Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, in violation of international maritime law,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said.

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Home Raids and Violence: In Hebron, ‘Voluntary’ Transfer of Palestinians Is Underway
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2025

18 Jul 2025 – As the genocide rages, Israeli settlers’ and soldiers’ invasions of Palestinian homes in Hebron’s Old City are becoming more frequent and violent.

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Salt in Their Hands
Mohammed Khier Abualruz | X – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

In Gaza’s dusk where silence swells,
The children wait by broken wells.
No bread to break, no songs to sing,
Just buzzing drones and circling wing.

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Sweeping Censorship Will Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation Driving International Students Away
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

20 Jul 2025 – If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.

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Nihilism, Fascism, and Utopia
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

13 Jul 2025 – Human Prospects in the Age of Despair

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The BDS Movement Turns 20–It’s an Essential Pillar of Palestinian Freedom
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

11 Jul 2025 – Do no harm, a principle associated with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has mainstreamed since its inception 20 years ago this week.

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In a Historic Gathering, 12 Countries Announce Israel Sanctions and Renewed Legal Action to End Gaza Genocide
María F. Fitzgerald | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

17 Jul 2025 – Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, representatives of Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, and South Africa announced sanctions against Israel to cut the flow of weapons facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza.

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Remembering the Magna Carta on Human Environment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

18 Jul 2025 – The thematic articulation of most fundamental strategies is completely unmemorable to most. Use of AI to develop mnemonic aids to comprehension of complex strategic articulations.

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Largest Displacement since 1967 Taking Place in Occupied West Bank, Says UN
AFP | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

15 Jul 2025 – The UN has warned that mass displacement in the occupied West Bank hit levels not seen since Israel’s occupation 60 years ago. An Israeli military operation launched in the north of the West Bank in January forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing. 

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Accident Prone
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 – Yawn…

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Bringing Down a President
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

15 Jul 2025 – As you may have heard, every unarmed resistance campaign in recent memory that mobilized at least 3.5 percent of the population for an action against rulers forced the desired regime change. This “3.5 percent rule” is merely an academic curiosity.

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The Lost Scrolls of Peace in Modernity: A 21st Century Survival Guide for the Spiritually and Morally Bankrupt Materialists
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

The author has compiled this paper to highlight what the Elite, the Rich, and the Powerful Do Not Want You, the reader, to Remember.

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(Castellano) Guerra en el oeste de Asia: Irán, Israel, Estados Unidos y los Rothschild
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

Entendiendo el conflicto: ¿Por qué Estados Unidos quería “eliminar a 7 países”? ¿Por qué Estados Unidos (e Israel) todavía quieren “eliminar” a Irán?

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Kosovo Prepares for Secession from Serbia Using Tito’s Yugoslavia as a Blanket
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

16 Jul 2025 – Links with Central Serbia

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Sanctioning Francesca Albanese Marco Rubio Tramples on Law, Justice, and Truth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

If the vindictive sanctions are implemented against this extraordinary citizen of Italy, in the face of strong UN objections, Albanese will be barred from entering the US even to discharge her annual UN duty to present a report to the General Assembly.

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Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza Must Be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children Seeking Water
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 – Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for decades to come.” The Israeli army has destroyed 90% of the Gaza Strip’s housing, most hospitals, all schools and universities, water purification plants and other essential infrastructure, leaving over 2 million people to try to live in rubble.

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The World Wonders! Where Are the Arab Leaders?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

Blind terror and hatred of Arabs and Islam blends the US and Israeli conquest plans for “Greater Israel”, a catastrophic abnormality taking shape and form without any deterrence.

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No Ordinary Solidarity: Inside Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago’s Hunger Strike for Gaza
Joseph Mogul | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – For 18 days, six members of JVP led a fast that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.

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BRICS Plans New Trade Model without the Dollar
Coin Tribune | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

17 Jul 2025 – Several members of the bloc, including Russia and Brazil, confirm that trade in national currencies is already underway.

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Jew Anti-Zionist Congress: A New Era for Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

18 Jul 2025 – Future historians, remember this place and date: Vienna, 13-15 Jun 2025. This was when hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews, joined by Palestinians and other allies, gathered for the first ‘Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress.’

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Proto-Nationalism Entrapped in Musical Chair Circle of Political Party and Floundering Economy
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

Nepal Entrapped by Super-Nationalism: A Costly Illusion Without Pragmatic Transformation.

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NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

10 Jun 2025 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.

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Trump Insiders: US Gov’t very Afraid of BRICS and Dedollarization
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

13 Jul 2025 – The US fears the Global South’s challenge to the exorbitant privilege of the dollar. Trump is trying to make an example out of Brazil, threatening high tariffs to punish Lula da Silva, who promotes a multipolar world and a new global reserve currency.

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Complaint at the European Court of Human Rights: Systemic Ecocide and Genocide in the Global Financial System
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 -The legal action is rooted in extensive empirical, mathematical, and legal evidence demonstrating that the current global financial architecture—anchored in debt-driven, interest-bearing banking and rentier capitalism—generates large-scale harm and crises.

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How the Global Majority Can Free Itself from US Financial Colonialism
Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

17 Jul 2025 – Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism.

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Back for Good (Music Video of the Week)
Take That – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

Kick back and enjoy…

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‘Shocking, Disappointing’: EU Refuses to Sanction Israel over Genocide in Gaza
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

16 Jul 2025 – Diplomats told European media that EU ministers are ‘unwilling’ to tackle the issue and wish to wait on the outcome of a new Gaza aid agreement between Tel Aviv and the bloc: BS.

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‘Brutal Sadism:’ Israel Bans Gazans from Entering Mediterranean Sea Under Pain of Death
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 – “This is not about security,” said the head of Gaza’s fishers’ union. “It’s economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation.”

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Brazil to Join South Africa’s Complaint against Israel at International Court of Justice
Orinoco Tribune Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

15 Jul 2025 – According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv. The Brazilian news outlet stated that the complaint before the ICJ seeks to have the actions committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recognized as genocide.

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US Imperialism Is Hitting a BRICS Wall!
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 – Neoliberal globalized capitalism spread across the globe at the turn of the 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Warsaw Pact, and the dissolution of the USSR.

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Hell in a Handbasket
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

No Comment…

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Burying Genocide: The BBC, Gaza and the Role of the UK
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

14 Jul 2025 – The BBC isn’t ‘failing’. It is doing precisely what it was set up to do, namely, act as a mouthpiece for establishment power and as an enabler of state crimes.

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Highlighting the Unmentionable by Inference
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

13 Jul 2025 – Entrapment in Risky Discourse by Which One Becomes the Target – Incredibly, it seems that society has now developed to the point at which particular matters are no longer mentionable in public discourse–for fear of righteous condemnation, marginalization, or worse.

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Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown | Just Money – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

8 Jul 2025 – A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of giant banks diverts that flow into an exponentially-growing self-feeding pool of digital profits for themselves.

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The Guernica of Israel’s War of Extermination
Gideon Levy | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on 26 Apr 1937. The people of Guernica, which was bombed by fascists and Nazis during the Spanish Civil War, urged the international community to share the suffering of the Palestinian people who are reeling under relentless Israeli bombing.

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UN Group of Experts on DRC–Jun 2025 Report
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

9 Jul 2025 – The UN Group of Experts on DRC reports the obvious, that Rwandan President Paul Kagame intends to annex DRC’s Kivu Provinces.

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BRICS at Rio de Janeiro: What Next? – Analysis
Kester Kenn Klomegah | Eurasia Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – BRICS, the group of emerging-market economies meeting in Rio de Janeiro, has outlined goals to challenge the unipolar system and set up new models to change the economic architecture through South-South cooperation.

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UNICEF Voices Deep Dismay over the ‘Unconscionable’ Killing of Families Lining Up for Food Aid in Gaza
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

12 Jul 2025 – The head of the UN Children’s Fund has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thu, 10 Jul 2025. 

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Day of Hope
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

12 July has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of Hope to be celebrated each year as a moment of light in dark times.  Hope is a powerful force for positive change and for a brighter future.

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Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

13 Jul 2025 – The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club [read MAFIA].

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When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world.

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Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza: 40 Days of Solidarity and Compassion
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – Whenever you get to thinking that people lack compassion and generally can’t be trusted with the planet, I recommend you read this article.

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Dima’s Greatest Hits: A Year of Medvedev’s X Brilliance
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

6 Jul 2025 – A Sarcastic Article about Medvedev – Dmitry Medvedev’s X feed is a masterclass in geopolitical comedy, from Ukraine’s NATO pipe dream to the West’s nuclear double standards. Every tweet is a zinger…

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Blood in the Sand: How Ashura Transformed from Islamic History’s Greatest Tragedy to Peace Destroying, Sectarian Turmoil (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

The paper highlights the development of the two major sects in Islam dating back to 680 CE.

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The Middle East Is Making a Major Shift from War to Peace
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

28 June 2025 – Taking advantage of the war with Iran coming to an end, Trump is trying to expand and to implement the Abraham Accords reconciling diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Islamic countries with Israel.

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Dozens Arrested in London Protests against Ban on Palestine Action
Emad Almarshahi | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

13 Jul 2025 – British police have arrested 46 pro-Palestine demonstrators during a protest in Parliament Square, marking the second consecutive weekend of unrest over the government’s decision to outlaw the activist group Palestine Action.

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This Is How the U.S.-Run GHF Tried to Build a Local Network of ‘Aid Collaborators’ in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – In service of Israel’s military goals of conquering the Strip and expelling Gazans, the GHF has replaced the UN’s aid distribution system with “death traps,” leading the organization to fulfill Israeli genocidal objectives under the guise of humanitarianism.

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New Footage Exposes Ragtag US Mercenaries Firing toward Gaza Food Aid Seekers
Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.

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‘An Arsenal of Profiteering’: Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

8 Jul 2025 – “These figures represent a continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing,” said the project’s director.

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US Imposes Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – Yesterday, the US government imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, under an executive order issued by Donald Trump. 

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(Português) Guerra na Ásia Ocidental: Irã, Israel, EUA e os Rothschilds
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

Compreensão do Conflito – Porque é que os EUA queriam ‘eliminar 7 países’? Por que os Estados Unidos (e Israel) ainda querem ‘derrubar’ o Irã? Ao abordar os conflitos a este nível, é imperativo compreender a ‘configuração dos conflitos’ como um passo preliminar para abordar os elementos-chave do conflito.

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Wars, Trees and the Struggle for Peace
Syed Sikander Mehdi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

The historical, spiritual, environmental and humanistic properties of trees are recognized worldwide. Their importance has been highlighted not only by the holy books and spiritual leaders of different religions but also by story tellers, poets, novelists, painters, film makers, medicine manufacturers, and environmental activists.

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The Real Reason the Gaza Genocide Hasn’t Been Stopped
Chris Hedges and Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

6 Jul 2025 – Francesca Albanese describes the dark, self-serving reasons that no UN member states have stopped the genocide in Gaza: the economy of war, crisis and genocide that fuels the slaughter and fills the pockets of craven private actors.

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Documentary | Grassroots Governance in China
Miao Xiaojuan | TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

4 Jul 2025 – How is China governed from the ground up? How does China’s democracy work? I am joined by six Western experts on a rare journey across China to meet the unsung heroes driving rural development, resolving disputes, and dreaming under the stars.

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How Five Companies Are Keeping the World at War
AJ+ - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

24 Jun 2025 – They lost the war – but made billions. This doc uncovers how U.S. defense contractors turned global conflict, from Afghanistan to Gaza, into a profit machine. Investigative journalist Abby Martin helps break down this story.

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Positive vs. Negative Nonviolence
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

Both are forms of power.  Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful.  Thus, negative nonviolence demands acts of omission–no more violence–and positive nonviolence invites acts of commission, for peace.

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In 17th BRICS Summit, Members Reiterate Commitments to Multilateralism and International Law
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – BRICS condemned Israeli-US attacks on Iran last month and criticized their attempts to “politicize and militarize” humanitarian aid in Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire.

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China, Russia Vow ‘Strategic Coordination’ to Promote Peace in West Asia
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – China’s foreign minister said the two countries are working to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue.

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Imperial Hypocrisy about “Terrorism” Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

8 Jul 2025 – “Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple.

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Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos (3 Sep 1933 – 5 Jul 2025): Humanist, Peace Linguist, Nonkilling Poet Laureate
Prof. Anoop Swarup - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

It is with great sadness that we share the demise of Francisco Gomes de Matos, our pioneer peace linguist and Nonkilling poet laureate, whose admirable path was dedicated to inspiring and humanizing nonkilling transformation. 

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Russophobia by the Collective West Opens the Doors for Cold War 2.0
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – The current orchestrated Collective Western policy of total Russophobia began with the British Cabinet of Theresa May followed by the creation of the War Cabinet of Donald Trump’s first administration.

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BRICS Offers a Real Alternative to Transform the International Order: Diaz-Canel
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

7 Jul 2025 – Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, the Cuban President stressed.

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The Good Guys
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah
and massacring civilians trying to obtain food.
The Good Guys are circling the planet with hundreds of military bases
and telling us we’re not allowed to oppose genocide.

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AI Geniuses’ Nuclear Energy Plans Overlook Doomsday Clock
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

9 Jul 2025 – AI top guns want nuke power despite plutonium, nuclear waste, cancers, and genetic effects.

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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Captured the Reality of Climate Change–The US Plans to Shut It Down
Alex Sen Gupta, Katrin Meissner and Timothy H. Raupach | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

3 Jul 2025 – Data collected by Mauna Loa telescopes since 1958 show the evidence of climate change by sampling the air and measuring global CO₂ levels. Charles Keeling used this data to produce the famous Keeling curve–a graph showing carbon dioxide levels increasing year after year.

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All Wars Are Banksters’ Wars
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

6 Jul 2025 – Following the Money – When we think of empires, we automatically conflate them with a particular location on the planet. This tendency is a mistake that has contributed to the confusion of an overwhelming majority of the world’s population.

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‘It Comes with the Territory’: How Israel’s Archaeologists Legitimize Annexation
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

1 Jul 2025 – Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel’s colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza’s destruction.

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The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2025

10 Jul 2025 – When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning.

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Spirit of Compassion: The Dalai Lama at 90
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

6 July marked the 90th birth anniversary of Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, celebrated with the traditional “Long Life” prayers at his monastic center in the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, India, where he lives.

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Krishnamurti on War
Krishnamurti Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.” In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.

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Criminal Negligence in the Degrowth Movement? Why Transformative Criminology Matters for Systemic Change
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

2 Jul 2025 – The degrowth movement has emerged as one of the most courageous and necessary responses to the ecological and social crises of our time. It dares to question the dogma of endless economic growth on a finite planet, and it offers a vision of sufficiency, solidarity, and ecological sanity.

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The Time Has Arrived for a Comprehensive Middle East Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

The attack by Israel and the US on Iran had two significant effects. First, it once again exposed Israel’s project to “reshape the Middle East” through regime-change and block a Palestinian state. Second, it highlighted the futility and recklessness of this strategy.

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Boosting “Defence” Expenditure above 10% of GDP
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

Given the failure of the The U.S. Department of Defense to achieve a “clean” audit opinion for over 30 years, and of questionable defence expenditure, systemic waste, fraud, and mismanagement, NATO countries might make use of a form of creative accounting.

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Feeding the Warfare State
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

1 Jul 2025 – The Senate is on the verge of passing one of the ugliest pieces of legislation in living memory. The House’s version would cut $1.7 trillion in domestic spending, providing the top 5% of taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in tax breaks.

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Mother Earth Cries: They Bombed Me Again
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

Why Do Egoistic Leaders Scorch the Earth?

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The Extermination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Gaza Strip Is Reaching Unprecedented Cruelty
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

2 Jul 2025 – The US government is sending another  $517 million worth of bombs to the Israeli regime to continue the genocide, while destroying themselves for the sake of the Zionist lobby. On 30 Jun Israel bombed the only still functioning cafe in the Gaza Strip.

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The Outlaw West: Between Bad Faith and Ineptitude
Stephen Sefton | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

1 Jul 2025 – Failure of UN System Regarding Criminal Aggression against Iran and Genocide in Palestine

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UN Says 613 Gaza Killings Recorded at Food Distribution Sites Near Humanitarian Convoys
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

4 Jul 2025 – An OHCHR spokesperson says the figure is as of 27 Jun, adding that more incidents have taken place since then.

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Hallucinations
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

30 Jun 2025 – Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves.

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Profiting from Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

2 Jul 2025 – The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.

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Iran and Israel: The Meaning of the Current Ceasefire for These Countries
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

After US President Trump launched the missile attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities with the bunker busters and other weapons on 22 June 2025, he announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire on 24 June, bringing the current war to a close.

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(Français) Le Monde Est-Il Prêt Pour un Mouvement Mondial Contre la Guerre ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

1er juillet 2025 – Le bulletin de CPNN de ce mois-ci décrit les manifestations massives aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Moyen-Orient contre les guerres et les préparatifs de guerre, qui ont atteint leur apogée ces derniers mois, et conclut par cette phrase : « Le monde est prêt pour un mouvement mondial contre la guerre.»

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War in West Asia: Iran, Israel, the United States and the Rothschilds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

Understanding Conflict – Why did the US want to ‘take out 7 countries’? Why does the US and Israel still want to ‘take out’ Iran? When tackling conflict at this level, it is imperative to understand the ‘conflict configuration’ as a preliminary step in addressing key elements of the conflict.

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Nonkilling Conflict Resolution and Nuclear Conflict
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

What we face in the world today stems from an ideology that makes us believe that killing and violence are normal in politics and political science, leading us to think that we are naturally violent and that killing and violence are principles we must accept.

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Blood in the Sand: How Ashura Transformed Islamic History’s Greatest Tragedy into a Peace Destroying Sectarianism (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

” The Sunni-Shia Divide centered on Ashura is a Peace Disruptive Fracture as well as a Paradoxical, Peace Propagative Bridge, between Commemoration, Condemnation, and the Possibility of Sectarian Cohesion with harmonious Coexistence in the future”.

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Falcone Interviews Richard Falk, Lawrence Davidson & Stephen Zunes on Iran War and the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

The wider meanings of the aggressive attack of 13 Jun 2025 by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear sites based on claims by Israel of an Iranian threat of becoming a nuclear weapons-possessing state.

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Nothing to Say, Ma
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

Madre, I’m running out of words. Please take my sighs and make them prayers of resistance to the ruthless actors who make this earth our home a bloody shambles.

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Actions in 70 U.S. Cities Say: ‘Hands Off Iran and West Asia! Free Palestine!’
Martha Grevatt | Workers World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

30 Jun 2025 – Although there is a temporary “ceasefire” in the U.S./Israeli effort to destroy Iran, many groups internationally are determined to stay mobilized. The horrific genocide in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank, continues, as do plots against Iran. 

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Is the Stage Set for a Global Anti-War Movement?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

1 Jul 2025 – This month’s CPNN bulletin descries the massive street demonstrations in the United States, Europe and Middle East against the wars and war preparations that have peaked in recent months, and it concludes with the phrase, “The stage is set for a global anti-war movement.”

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Report: 60,000 Political Prisoners Held without Trial in Egypt
Women Journalists Without Chains/WJWC - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

25 Jun 2025 – WJWC published a human rights report, “Prisons Without Keys: How Egypt’s Detention System Kills Life, Rights, and Hope”, shedding light on the ongoing abuses faced by tens of thousands of political detainees since 2013.

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Historicide in Gaza
Lydia Wilson | New Lines Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

27 Jun 2025 – Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told. The utter destruction of Gaza is hard to fathom, the numbers too extreme to comprehend. With more bombs dropped than the equivalent of six Hiroshimas, schools, universities, administrative buildings, homes, hospitals, religious buildings and infrastructure lie in ruins.

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Somewhere in My Heart (Music Video of the Week)
Aztec Camera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

“Somewhere in My Heart” is the twelfth single and biggest hit by the Scottish band released with their 1987 album “Love”.

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BRICS Expands to 56% of World Population, 44% of Global GDP
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

4 Jul 2025 – BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.

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The UN at 80: Still Humanity’s Most Important Organisation but Member States Deliberately Destroy It
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

The UN Charter is the most Gandhian document ever signed by the world’s governments. If member states lived up to their obligations in accordance with the UN Charter, including signed resolutions, the world would be more peaceful, just, democratic and lawful.

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UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide
Harriet Williamson | Novara Media – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2025

2 Jul 2025 – Economy of Genocide – Microsoft, Amazon and Google among major corporations identified as being part of a “joint criminal enterprise” in helping Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza.

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Signing and Spreading the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People’s Tribunal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

23 Jun 2025 – The Gaza People’s Tribunal, at the public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize basic rights, above all their inalienable right to self-determination. Please read, sign and spread it widely.

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Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Unarmed Palestinians Waiting for Aid: Report
Nikki McCann Ramírez | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jun 2025

27 Jun 2025 – The Israeli military is managing aid distribution sites with live fire against crowds of unarmed civilians. Hundreds are dead. Israeli soldiers told Haaretz that aid distribution centers in Gaza have become “a killing field.”

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