Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Peace Disruptors: Diplomats and Diplomacy-Declaration of Persona Non Grata, a Global Tool in the Present Era
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Persona Non Grata: The Ultimate Diplomatic Rejection
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Bought and Sold: U.S. Leaders Pledge Allegiance to Israel
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025 – Loyalty to the US or to Israel?
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Podcasting Star Mario Nawful Talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. This is my recorded response.
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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.
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The US-Russian Strategy for the Ukraine Ceasefire
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
19 Mar 2025 – The US and Russian Presidents Trump and Putin held a telephone summit on 18 Mar 2025 and agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in which Russia and Ukraine would not attack each other’s energy-related (and other infrastructure) facilities.
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Gaza’s Silent Epidemic of Amputee Children
Hadeel Awad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
15 Mar 2025 – Gaza has the world’s highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them by the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing.
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Beatles’ Yesterday–Palestine Edition (Music Video of the Week)
The One Man Band – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Music is not only art; it is resistance, exposing the truth, demanding justice. We will not be silenced. Keep talking about Palestine, Gaza, West Bank, and rogue Israhell.
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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.
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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.
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(Slovak-slovenský) Geopolitika elitného šialenstva: balansovanie na pokraji Armagedonu, nebezpečenstvo jadrovej vojny (Časť 1)
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Skspravy.sk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Keď sa svet súčasne potáca na pokraji jadrovej vojny v Strednej Ázii tým, že nepodnikne žiadne účinné kroky na zastavenie genocídy vysielanej v Palestíne väčšina ľudskej populácie zíva, zatiaľ čo si prezerá najnovšie záznamy v rôznych chatovacích skupinách na svojom telefón.
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Irish Americans and Their Identity Crisis
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
In the 1800’s when the Irish immigrated to the USA in mass, due to the potato famine, there were signs in businesses that read, “Irish Need Not Apply”. For Irish families that can recall this through their generational stories, what is written here in this article need not apply.
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Diane Perlman | TheNewView – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
1 Mar 2025 – As public discourse is so politicized and hysterical, peace psychologist Diane Perlman finds it most useful to go beyond right and wrong and right and left to shed light on the underlying psychological dynamics associated with violence and what it means to be human.
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“I.O.F. Targets Refugee Camps”
Cara Marianna | Winter Wheat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
15 Mar 2025 – Zionist Terror Spreads
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Carnage in Gaza and ‘Global 195’*
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025 – Even by Israel’s brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world.
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US Gestapo —> Reasons to Mistrust Donal Trump
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025 – The Gestapo sought out those identified as ‘enemies’ within Greater Germany. These included Jewish people, Romani (Gypsies), Freemasons, communists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, and those with physical or mental disabilities.
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It’s Time!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025 – As we all knew, Bibi and Trump orchestrated a fake ceasefire to give Trump a major PR victory at the start of his administration. That ended last night when Israel unleashed hell and began to indiscriminately bomb Gaza and killing civilians, including infants and small children.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Starts 40-day Fast for Gaza and the Worlds’ Children for Peace
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
21 Mar 2025 – Open Letter on behalf of the Palestinian Children of Gaza and children everywhere in the world suffering from the violence of hunger and war. “In the Ramadan Season, and Lent, let us join in fasting and prayer, in solidarity with a world fit for all our children. From today, I will fast and pray, fast and pray.” — Mairead
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Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
The university has many milestones in its journey from Ashram through monasteries and also from Universitas of Pisan Prisoners at Genoa, (Italy) through Universitas of Bologna and Paris to modern universities in different parts of the world.
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How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?
George Yancy | ScheerPost/Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025 – The outrages are raining down one after another. In this interview, Norman Solomon discusses the mainstream media silence around U.S. militarism and articulates ways of resisting such silence, of rejecting denial.
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Israel Makes Its Most Explicit Statement of Genocidal Intent Yet
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025 – Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz published a statement of genocidal intent toward the people of Gaza, threatening civilians with collective punishment of “total devastation” if they do not overthrow Hamas and free all Israeli hostages.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Progressives in the United States need to put aside their justifiable detestation of Donald Trump long enough to answer this question: What’s the most important difference between MAGA Republicans and Democrats?
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From the Art of War to the Art of Being Bullied?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
17 Mar 2025 – From Playground Bullies to Imperial Powers–and Beyond – The world is currently witness to various explicit assertions by the self-acclaimed leader of the free world–speaking in the name of the American people of the North.
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Myths and Reality: How and Why a False Narrative on Ukraine Was Created
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that NATO would not advance towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.
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The Ukraine Ceasefire and Then, What?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025 – Trump’s US negotiated with Zelensky’s Ukraine a 30-day ceasefire plan. Trump engineered a fight at the end of February, when Zelensky visited the US, and stopped the supply of military intelligence (GPS, etc.) and weapons from the US to Ukraine.
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USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.
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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
3 Mar 2025 – A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody
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World Water Day: Time for Cooperative Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
22 March is World Water Day, set by the UNGA to take into consideration the water challenges that humanity faces.There is a need for an integrated approach to water resources management backed by a cooperative international framework.
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Ungovernable: Nonviolent Mass Solidarity against Corruption and Despotism
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Only constitutional democracy, founded on human dignity, gives us government that we are morally obligated to obey. When such constitutional democracy is subverted, “it is our right and our duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute such government as shall effect the people’s freedom, happiness, and dignity.”
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Boatless in Gaza: Using Old Fridge Doors to Catch Fish—In Pictures
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025 – Palestinians use makeshift paddleboards to fish in Gaza City’s port after Israeli bombing destroyed local fishing boats.
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Bertrand Russell’s Message on Palestine/Israel the Day before He Died
Bertrand Russell - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
This statement on the Middle East was dated 31 Jan 1970 and read on 3 Feb, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.
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Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Is this the beginning of a new Cold War between the U.S., NATO and Russia or the end of one? Will Russia and the West remain implacable enemies, with a new iron curtain through what was the heart of Ukraine? Or can the US and Russia resolve the disputes and hostility?
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Our Enemies Commit Genocide, Not Our Friends
Sebastian Shehadi | The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza.
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Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in Congo
Marc Botenga | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda’s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.
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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
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Fighting the Shock Strategy
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025 – We must not let Trump and Netanyahu’s shock strategy distract us from the coup they are carrying out. Both came to power after being indicted for criminal offenses. It seems there is a kind of “legal” logic when such leaders initiate regime change to elevate themselves above the law.
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‘Haiti’s Survival Is at Stake,’ Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country, William O’Neill.
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Syria’s Sectarian Massacres Are Blowback for Foreign-led Dirty War
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – By arming the sectarian insurgency that now rules Syria, the US and its allies bear responsibility for the current slaughter of Alawite civilians and other minority groups.
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Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025 – Christian extremists in the US bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism.
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How Arab-Muslim Leaders Betrayed the People
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
What if Arab-Muslim Leaders were Intelligent and Honest? Are they deaf or dead conscience not to see what is happening on the ground across Gaza and other parts of Palestine?
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Town Hall Violence and a (Hypothetical) Nonviolent Response
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025 – At a time when political violence is celebrated, well-meaning citizens must be prepared to respond with nonviolence. This essay provides a recent example of how attitudes of domination (cultural violence) can lead to injurious actions (direct violence), and how nonviolent intervention can give people a way out.
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Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
13 Mar 2025 – Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti released to commemorate International Women’s Day as a clarion call for solidarity.
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Endogenous Pursuit of Peace: Care about Your Microbiota
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
You Will Achieve Peace and Your Body Will Last Longer
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Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the Arrest of Former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
International Criminal Court-ICC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – The International Criminal Court welcomes the arrest and transfer today of Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, criminally responsible for the crime against humanity, in the context of the Office’s ongoing investigation.
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Collective West Is Over – Peace Activism Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
15 Feb 2025 – Talk with Dr. Jan Oberg in Sweden and Dr. Ulrike Guérot in Germany – The traditional Anglo-European powers are no longer able to assert themselves, neither discursively nor physically, on the world stage. At the same time, they lost their peace movements. What happened?
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International Relations 2.0
Mireille Fanon Mendes France | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
12 Mar 2025 – Since Jan 2025 we have entered into a world where the law of the strongest prevails, where this law is accepted in international relations, and where those who reject it become the enemies of those who draw the contours of the axis of good…
→ read full articleEmerging Powers – and Retiring Powers
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
In the name of justice and symmetry any focus on what is emerging invites a focus on the opposite: “demerging”, vanishing, retiring powers. There is not that much space at the top, in the limelight.
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A Quadruple Ethics in a Society Including Robots
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
About human interaction with a robot, first of all one has to choose which kind of theory he wants to build. No axiomatic theory is suitable for fulfilling our purpose. Rather, the wanted theory has to be based on a basic problem.
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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.
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I Stink Therefore I Am
Mr Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Trump’s Assault on Education and Attacks on Colleges and Universities
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On Stupidity
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Denouncing China as US’ enemy on whom it plans to impose severe economic sanctions and then beseeching Beijing for assistance in keeping the dollar the global currency by ending its sale of U.S. securities; and then demanding that China slow its economic growth… – that’s stupid.
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Artificial Intelligence Explained for Nonexperts
Narges Razavian, Florian Knoll and Krzysztof J. Geras | HHS Public Access - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
In this paper we briefly summarize in an accessible way the current state of the field of AI. Furthermore, we highlight the most promising approaches and describe the current challenges that will need to be solved to enable broad deployment of AI in clinical practice.
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‘No Safe Streets’: Lawlessness Takes Hold of Syria under HTS-led Government
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
10 Mar 2025 – Syrian women fear leaving the house at night amid a rash of kidnappings and ongoing security vacuum.
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Finlandia-This Is My Song (Music Video of the Week)
Indigo Girls – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Composed by Jean Sibelius, English lyrics by Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness, from the album ‘Rarities.’
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Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life–But if We Leave the Sea, We Die
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.
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Trump-Putin Encounter Reframed by MMA and Kayfabe
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
Speculative Contrast between Political and Sports Commentary Using AI
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Danish PM Frederiksen: “Peace in Ukraine Could Be More Dangerous Than the War Going on Now”
The Jimmy Dore Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
26 Feb 2025 – “Peace Is Dangerous and a Threat to Us All” Says European Leader
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“Stop the Ethnic Cleansing”: Watch Oscar Speech of Palestinian, Israeli Directors of “No Other Land”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
The Palestinian-Israeli film ‘No Other Land’ won for best documentary feature at Sunday’s [2 Mar 2025] Academy Awards. The film follows the struggles of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta to stay on their land amid home demolitions by the Israeli military and violent attacks by Jewish settlers aimed at expelling them.
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Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel’s response to October 7 in Gaza as ‘genocide.’
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I’m Still Here | 2025 Oscar for Best International Feature Film
Altitude Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
Brazilian Military Coup: Official Trailer–The true story that helped reconstruct part of Brazil’s hidden history. In 1971, the country faces the tightening grip of a US-engineered/supported murderous military dictatorship.
→ read full articleNonviolent People and the International Political Situation: What to Do?
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
Today we live in a time that since 1989 has declared “the end of ideologies”, both the classical liberal one and the socialist-Marxist one. But, in fact, this time is also that of the birth of a full historical consciousness, because for the first time there is a group, the nonviolent people, who are no longer blinded by wars.
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‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Even more impressive is the infrastructure it has built, including 26,000 miles of high speed rail, the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, 100,000 miles of expressway, …
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Open Letter to Donald Trump
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
We could achieve real peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity if you proposed and collaborated with the rest of the planet towards the Universal Abolition of Militarism: the war industries and the Armed Forces. As one of the most pragmatic deal makers of our century, this call is yours to make!
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How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
A True Cost of War
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.
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Israel Developing ChatGPT-like Tool That Weaponizes Surveillance of Palestinians
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – The Israeli army is building an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, which could accelerate the process of incrimination and arrest, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal.
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USA 2025
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
No Comment…
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Multilateralism Can and Must Deliver
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Cyril Ramaphosa and Pedro Sánchez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – Amid creeping unilateralism, the world must reinforce multilateral action to tackle global threats, such as climate change and inequality, affirm the three heads of state.
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Billionaire-backed Global Citizen Whitewashes Kagame’s Invasion of DRC
Ann Garrison | The Gray Zone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
5 Mar 2025 – John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.
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Two AI Chatbots Speaking to Each Other in Their Own Special Language Is the Last Thing We Need
Lance Ulanoff | Techradar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
25 Feb 2025 – Imagine if two AIs could chat with each other in a language no human could understand. Right. Now go hide under the covers.
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Two AI Agents on a Phone Call Realize They’re Both AI and Switch to a Superior Audio Signal GGWave
Anton Pidkuiko – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
23 Feb 2025 – You be the judge—if they make you feel stupid or idiotic, welcome to the club.
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Rearmament of Europe Is Not the Way – Peace Is the Way
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – I passionately appeal to the EU political leaders and most importantly to the peoples of Europe, (particularly the youth) to let go of the politics of fear and start disarming and building fraternity among the peoples and between all nations of Europe and the world – after all, that’s why the European Union was set up!
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The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – In the deeply undemocratic International Monetary Fund, where a country’s voting power is tied not to its population size but to the size of its economy, the US effectively holds a veto over any major changes and moulds policies according to its whims.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
3 Mar 2025 – Meanwhile, in the old US of A circus:
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: Closing the Enforcement Gap
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
8 Mar 2025 – Israel’s Recourse to Genocide: Overt yet Denied
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BRICS and G20 Value Platforms: A Comparative Analysis
Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
5 Mar 2025 – The BRICS declarations name the causes of many of today’s global problems associated with the inequality between the West and the Non-West, with the practices of neo-colonial exploitation that the West carries out in relation to developing countries.
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Kuan Yin: She Who Hears the Cries of the World
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
19 February, in Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, a feminine symbol, the Goddess of Compassion, “She who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony.”
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Hamas, Palestine, and Israel
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – Hamas, or according to its full name, “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is a Palestinian political-national organization with a military wing of a conservative Islamic nature and orientation. Its purpose is to resist the Israeli occupation, maintain resistance, and fight for the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
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Rare Earth Elements: Enter the Dragon-A New Player in the Field of Global Peace Disruptions
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – This publication delves into Rare Earth Elements (REEs), often interchangeably referred to as Rare Earth Minerals (REMs), occupy a unique and critical position in the global economy and geopolitical landscape.
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The Five Excuses for Genocide
David Swanson | World BEYOND War - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
4 Mar 2025 – Yesterday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC and asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which can be broken into five types.
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Negotiating a Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
6 Mar 2025 – The time has arrived for diplomacy that brings collective security to Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.
→ read full articlePerfide Albion
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
The focus is on the United Kingdom, or England, or simply Albion, known for its perfidy–Lord Palmerston’s famous “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies; permanent interests.”
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Transforming the United Nations from New York Entrapment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Navigating Uncharted Waters in Quest of Relevance in a Shifting World – There is a long history of proposals to reform the UN. These predate the new foreign policies of the USA as instigated by Donald Trump with the commitment to efficiency by Elon Musk. As of the time of writing, these have seemingly had relatively little implication for the UN system.
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Cuba’s 6th International Conference for World Balance
Diane Perlman | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
16 Feb 2025 – The Next Best Thing to Being There
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With US Backing, Israel Has Already Set in Motion De Facto Annexation of Lands in the West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.
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Danish Activists Offer to Buy California from US in Exchange for Greenland
TASS Russian News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
10 Feb 2025 – The initiative proposes to raise funds for the purchase of California by crowdfunding.
→ read full articleTo Build a Better Tomorrow
Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Matt Meyer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
At a time of great crisis and change, we write in continued and consistent urgency for peace with justice, through dialogue and direct peacebuilding.
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Is Fascism on the Rise in Germany?
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
17 Feb 2025 – The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. The fundamental cause for this crisis is the decay of capitalism.
→ read full articleChild Soldiers: From International Norms to Local Practice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
The issue of child soldiers had gained attention in the ethnic-based fighting in Liberia. Young people had also been used in fighting in Colombia, South America. Child soldiers were often accused of sexual abuse, and there were difficulties in reintegrating the youth in their home villages when the fighting stopped.
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I Saw a Room Full of Men with Their Hammers A-Bleeding
Mindy Belz | Globe Trot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
1 Mar 2025 – A Ukraine follow-up because what happened in the Oval Office today is unprecedented, unthinkable, and reveals poor strategy at a high-risk level.
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TASS Russian News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
1 Mar 2025 – According to US official, what happened at Trump’s meeting with Zelensky at the White House was “disastrous.”
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Rise Up!
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
The MAGA vision and strategy
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It Is Darkest before Dawn
Ilan Pappé | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
21 Feb 2025 – Israeli Settler Colonialism Is at an End
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Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
“The 21st Century is typified by the global community experiencing unbridled violations of civil rights, especially by the guardians of the so-called free spirit of democracy. This erosion of civil rights is witnessed in freedom of speech rhetoric and religious association, regularly, with no substantive progress in remedying the malady.
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Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence: Technological Promises and Practical Realities
Vladislav Chernavskikh | SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Sep 2024 – Recent advances in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have increased state interest in leveraging AI for military purposes. Given the current and relatively early stage of military adoption of advanced AI, the exploration of these factors lays the groundwork for further consideration of the likely realities of integration and of potential transparency measures and governance practices at the AI–nuclear nexus.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking His support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Stephanie Nolen | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.
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Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
Harvard Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Norwegian peace/conflict theorist Johan Galtung developed a three-layered understanding of violence that represents how a confluence of factors merge to shape the conditions for the promotion and perpetuation of violence.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2025
Dear friends, finally, I am back on my feet. I thank wholeheartedly all messages of encouragement, support and good wishes I received in the last three weeks and extend my gratitude to one and all (read on…).
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Political Psychoanalysis of Donald J. Trump’s Presidential Election Victory
Claude R. Shema – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2025
Jan 2025 – Why did Prof. Lichtman’s “Predicting the next president” model get it wrong? One of the most controversial presidential candidates in history, Trump secured his second victory in the 2024 US presidential race. A jury convicted, indicted by courts and sentenced felon [Trump] versus a prosecutor, attorney, senator, sitting vice-president [Kamala Harris].
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