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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
No Comment…
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
→ read full articleBoosting “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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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NATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.
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In Gaza You Can Choose Only Humiliation or Death
Malak Hijazi | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – Israel has been starving us for months. It cut off all aid to Gaza in March, only to recently approve a US-led, militarized aid site run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” The consequences are not abstract – they are visceral, immediate and devastating.
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Trigger-Happy States and the Death of Diplomacy
Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – Diplomacy is being dragged into the street, executed and buried under the rubble of Israeli airstrikes—Washington with shovel in one hand, arms shipment in the other. The latest target in this grim theater of annihilation is Iran.
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We Are All So Tired
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – An Ongoing Series Chronicling the USA’s Descent into Greatness
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Understanding the Great Reset as a Cybernetics Religion
Matt Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
Matt Ehret explains the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, plus an in-depth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the cultish monstrosity known in modern times as the Great Reset.
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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Must Not Suffer the Fate of Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
25 Jun 2025 – Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda’s foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On 19 Jun, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda.
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Gandhi’s Philosophy of Nonviolence: Essential Selections
Brian C. Barnett | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
A concise open-access teaching resource featuring essential selections from Gandhi on the philosophy of nonviolence.
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China Must Provide More Substantial Aid to Cuba
Salim Lamrani | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
24 Jun 2025 – Suffocated by an economic siege for more than six decades, Cuba is facing an extremely serious situation. China, a strategic partner and long-standing ally of the island, is in a position to provide more robust support to help it face current challenges.
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Ambivalence toward Resistance as a Human Right: Matters of Law and Policy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – I publish here my foreword to Shannonbrooke Murphy’s path-breaking book on the right of resistance. Murphy provides readers with a comprehensive framework for thinking about resistance to public authority in a variety of settings.
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Rogue States: The illegality of the U.S.-backed Israeli Attacks on Iran
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat.
→ read full articleFundamental Strategic Importance of Skin as a Metaphor
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – Comparison of Relevance to Leadership by Distinct Artificial Intelligences – The strategic and operational significance of “skin” has been clarified at length by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his discussion of “skin in the game” as a metaphor.
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Einstein: Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
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‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s Aid Death Traps for Starving Gazans
Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’
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Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.
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The War against Iran: 30 Years in the Making
Dr. Piers Robinson | Int'l Center for 9/11 Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
14 Jun 2025 – Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.
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The Key Nuclear Allegation That Started the Iran-Israeli War Was Coaxed from a Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm
Alastair Crooke | Conflicts Forum’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – The IAEA Board’s 12 Jun 2025 ‘Non-Compliance Resolution’ was the planned precursor for Israel’s strike on Iran the next day. The plan to go to war with Iran was grounded in ‘the opportunity’ to strike, and not the intelligence that Iran was speeding towards a bomb.
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Israel Is Out of Control: “A Terrorist Government That Endangers International Peace”
Alfred de Zayas | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – Currently Israel has a terrorist government that endangers international peace and security within the meaning of article 39 of the UN Charter. Hitherto action by the Security Council has been blocked by the abuse of the veto power by the United States.
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Academia at the Crossroads: Indoctrination, Systemic Violence, and the Security Risks of Rentier Capitalism
Koenraad Priels | TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – As the world faces an accelerating socio-ecological catastrophe, the role of academia has become both more crucial and more contested than ever before.
→ read full articleThe Illegal Attack on Iran
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – Israel’s attacks on Iran, backed by the US and EU, violate international law aiming to maintain regional dominance. Since the 2020 U.S. assassination of General Soleimani, Washington and Tel Aviv had been working to weaken Tehran. Now Israel smells an opportunity to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Big mistake.
→ read full articleGaza Genocide: Day 624
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – Two nuclear armed regimes run by lunatics bombing a non-nuclear country now to bring on the looked for Armageddon! Sirens blaring here in Bethlehem on day 624 of the accelerated genocide.
→ read full articleIsraeli Tanks Kill 59 Palestinians Trying to Get Food Aid in Gaza, Medics Say
Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating;
Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd in Khan Younis;
Hundreds have been killed trying to get food in past three weeks.
Climate Misinformation Turning Crisis into Catastrophe, Report Says
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.
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Resistance Works
David Vine | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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NATO, USA, WWIII: World’s Peoples Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
On 24 and 25 June, members of NATO will strut around the streets of The Hague for their annual summit. As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.
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(Castellano) Evolución de las Ideas de Izquierda y Liberales Desde el Siglo XVIII Hasta Hoy
Ernesto Kahan | El Diario de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – De la Libertad Ilustrada al Doble Rasero Global – Las revoluciones americana y francesa no solo transformaron el poder político, sino que pusieron en movimiento una mutación radical en la forma en que los seres humanos se comprenden a sí mismos dentro de la sociedad.
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The Decider
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – A Clown at the White House
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(Italiano) La coscienza dice NO alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Sono state presentate le iniziative in corso su questo tema e si è aperta una importante riflessione collettiva che ha portato i presenti a interrogarsi su quali possibili iniziative sarebbero urgenti in un contesto sempre più contrassegnato da una incontrollabile escalation bellica che rischia di travolgere tutti.
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Peace in an Authoritarian International Order Versus Peace in the Liberal International Order
Oliver P. Richmond | The Royal Institute of International Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
2025 – There may well be a correlation between the recent increase in war and displacement and the retreat of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding as effective tools since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
→ read full articleConfiguring Multiple Disparate Sets of Strategic Principles
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
8 Jun 2025 – Eliciting Coherent Global Patterns of Governance with the Aid of AI – This exercise follows from the previous approach to the elaboration of a model to clarify the relation between a set of six interweaving cycles.
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Seventy Percent of Israel’s Cost of Munition and Weapons Used in Gaza Are Paid by the United States
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
A Conversation with Israeli Historian Lee Mordechai in Jerusalem – “It would be impossible for Israel to wage this war (of annihilation) in the way it has been waged without the US support.”
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The Middle East as a Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
Why the focus ought to be on Israel, not Iran. Israel has 90-400 nuclear weapons. Here is what a simple AI dialogue yields. Any journalist could do it. No one does.
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The Rise of ‘Antidiplomacy’ in a Powerless Europe
Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
5 Jun 2025 – Kaja Kallas is the face of EU’s self-defeating positions on China and self-loathing reverence for the USA. European policies are scripted to signal hopeless transatlantic loyalty.
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US Veterans Fast against Israel’s Starvation of Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2025
30 May 2025 – Fasters are demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under U.N. authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
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The News from Glox
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2025
May 26 2025 – In a Galaxy very, very, very far away…
→ read full articleThe Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
1 Jun 2025 – Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
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A Modest Proposal to Address Collective Suffering Pragmatically
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
1 Jun 2025 – Clarifying the Response of the International Community to the Unacceptable – It is somewhat amazing, in this period of tragic suffering in many parts of the world, to recognize the extraordinary resemblance to the conditions in Ireland in the 18th century.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
25 May 2025 – In this era of predatory capitalism, imperial geopolitics and surging fascism, we as a lead species, need to think, feel, and act differently to avoid catastrophe, and do so in a spirit of urgency.
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Remembering the Nakba while Witnessing a Genocide
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
19 May 2025 – As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Beit Jala not only to mark the catastrophe of 1948, but to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.
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Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six Decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
31 May 2025 – Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.
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How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
22 May 2025 – Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.
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A Talmudic Prescription for Collective Safety and Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World)
Diane Perlman | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
28 May 2025 – In the face of Israel’s infliction of unimaginable suffering and genocide upon Palestinians, I have been pondering a Talmudic text as I struggle daily with the daunting challenge of my responsibilities as a Jew and as a clinical and political psychologist.
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Spain Convenes Int’l Conference to Call for Arms Embargo on Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
26 May 2025 – Gaza, “a Gaping Wound on Humanity” – Delegations from 20 countries met yesterday in Madrid in a push to pressure Israel to halt its total war on Gaza and to establish a Palestinian state.
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Shadowy Israeli-U.S. Aid Plan Is Weapon in “Netanyahu’s War of Annihilation” in Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
29 May 2025 – “The point of this is to lure Palestinians as though they’re animals going into a cage, lure them with the bait of promise of aid, and then entrap them in the south of Gaza.”
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Days of Terror in Gaza’s ‘Block 76’
Ruwaida Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
21 May 2025 – My family clung to our hometown of Al-Fukhari for as long as we could, until Israel’s evacuation orders and new assault left us with no choice.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
White House, 30 May 2025
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Why Is an 83-Year-Old Vietnamese Woman Fighting against Agent Orange and US Corporations in a French Court?
Tom Fawthrop | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Vietnam is still plagued by the toxic legacy of the US chemical warfare.
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Terrorism Charges for Telling the Truth: How Britain Is Silencing Journalists Who Report on Palestine
Sara Chessa | The Anti-Inhumanist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
28 May 2025 – Since August 2024, an alarming pattern of detentions, arrests and legal intimidation targeting independent journalists and activists has emerged in Britain despite condemnation by international institutions.
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Trump’s Utterly Cruel and Inhuman Immigration Policy Targetting Haitians
Charlie Hinton | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
For justice to be done, Haitians must be able to return to a country freed from the violence imposed by decades of US-backed anti-democratic rule.
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Fasting for Gazans
Kathy Kelly | Bar Crawl Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
Since 22 May 2025, several peace activists have been fasting–for 40 days–in front of the United States Mission to the UN. They demand an end to US support of Israel’s military and urge the US government to pressure Israel to open the Gazan borders to humanitarian aid.
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I Remember
William H. McRaven | The Atlantic/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
26 May 2025 – A Poem – “I remember the weight of life and death at the end of our guns.”
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Venezuela: Pro-Government Alliance Wins Big in Legislative and Regional Elections
Ricardo Vaz | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
26 May 2025 – Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.
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