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United Humanity: A Future beyond War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
28 May 2025 – The slaughter goes on in the name of war, which reduces human life to a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians and children are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all. How can we be more than just spectators as we learn stunning details about the hell across the planet?
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Gaza Tribunal Project: Opening Remarks
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Opening Remarks, Richard Falk, Sarajevo Public Session of Gaza Tribunal, 26 May 2025.
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Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
28 May 2025 – Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence.
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The Scoundrel as an Ideal: Why Neoliberalism Rewards Those Who Despise Others
Daniel Seara | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
25 May 2025 – We live in a society where being a caring person is not valued. It is suspicious. It is “soft.” And the algorithm, like the market, penalizes tenderness and rewards backstabbing.
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The Transatlantic Split Myth: How U.S.-Europe Militarization Thrives behind the Rhetoric
Nel | Worldlines – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
23 May 2025 – Synchronized defense budgets, shared doctrines, and welfare cuts expose the fiction of a ‘rift’—while citizens foot the bill for perpetual war readiness.
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Serbia’s Organized Chaos
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Serbia has been racked for months by disruptive protests largely attributed to students, opposition leaders and university authorities. Are these organic protests?
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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (28 May 2025)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal, a consensus document prepared in conjunction with participants in the first of two Public Sessions of the Gaza Tribunal, was released on 28 May 2025.
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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
29 May 2025 – The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.
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Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.
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Hindutva India Deporting Rohingya Refugees by Throwing Them into the Andaman Sea
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – The UN has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and put them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”
→ read full articleAfrica Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in US History
Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
22 May 2025 – House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
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Meanwhile, Kids Die, nay Are Killed
Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
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Mapping Militarism 2025
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
22 May 2025 – World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view.
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Turning into a Global Pariah Israel Starves and Destroys Gaza
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – After more than 19 months of a brutal invasion, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out amid a renewed Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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The US Has $36 Trillion in Debt–What Does That Mean, and Who Owns It?
Hanna Duggal and Marium Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – The US has the highest national debt in the world, a quarter of which is owned by other countries.
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Rethinking US-China Relations after the Tariffs Shipwreck
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – When Trump imposed his tariffs on 2 Apr, the real aim was to weaken China by preventing it from selling to US consumers; also to isolate China through incentives to those that reduced trade with Beijing.
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Life & Teaching of Mahatma Gandhi
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amir | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
Gandhi (1869–1948), a leader of India’s independence, revolutionized resistance through his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and truth-force (satyagraha). Educated as a lawyer in London, his activism began in South Africa (1893–1914).
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BRICS: Dethroning the Dollar?
Noam Chomsky | Philosopheasy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
7 May 2025 – Is the Dollar Dying? – Noam Chomsky unveils the hidden dynamics driving global currency wars, impacting economies & geopolitics worldwide.
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Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.
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US Defense Department Accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s Use
Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press/AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said today, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
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The Politicization, Coercion and Disabling of the International Criminal Court
Alfred de Zayas and Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
23 May 2025 – This is the body of a response by Alfred De Zayas to an inquiry he has received on how to contact the ICC. Alfred clearly outlines the difficulties one faces in attempting to contact it, pointing to the political nature of the Court.
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Promises Made, Promises Kept
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – At the White House of Horrors
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US Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
23 May 2025 – Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.
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How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa
Sisonke Msimang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House. Rather than rage against Trump, South Africans have opted to laugh.
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Burkina Faso’s 37-Year-Old Leader Draws US Ire
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S.
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(Italiano) Perché tutta quella violenza oggigiorno?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Lo troviamo ovunque, come le uccisioni di massa in relazione agli attacchi degli Stati Uniti e/o dei suoi alleati [NATO] contro Iraq, Libia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ucraina, il genocidio israeliano dei palestinesi, Sudan, Myanmar… – 22 conflitti armati in corso nel 2025.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Ordeal: How Will It End?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy…
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Human Rights Foundation Launches First-ever AI for Individual Rights Initiatives
Bereket Alemayehu | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
15 May 2025 – The Human Rights Foundation announced that the program is the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence, used as tools of repression, to support open-source for those under tyranny.
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Transgenic, Transgender, Transhuman: Techno-obsessive Agenda of the “Less Than Human”
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – The techno-obsessive trend of this time is the new pandemic, designed like its predecessor, to derail the human race.
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The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.
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A Win-Win Solution to the Flying Palace Problem
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – Applying Johan Galtung’s TRANSCEND Method of Conflict Transformation
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Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.
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(Italiano) Incidenti Nucleari: Dalla Cronaca ai Dettagli
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Riflessioni a partire dal libro di Serhii Plokhy, Atomi e cenere. Dall’atollo di Bikini a Fukushima, storia di sei disastri nucleari, Le scie, Mondadori, Milano 2024.
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Trojan Plane
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – The King of Corruption Solidifies His Title
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Who Is Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations.
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Starvation and Potential ICC Warrants on Gaza: What Does International Law Say?
Anne van Mourik and Lucy J. Gaynor | JusticeInfo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
6 May 2025 – “You have to hear this to believe this. The International Criminal Court in the Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials, as war criminals.
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Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.
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Coming Soon: The Strategic Nonviolence Academy
Nonviolence Radio | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
8 May 2025 – Organizer and strategist Joe Worthy discusses the new space he is building to holistically train a new wave of leaders in both the skills and values of nonviolent action.
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Framing Trump as Global Scapegoat to Avoid Implications of Complicity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Mea Culpa and My Bad versus MeToo and NotMe? – There is an extraordinary amount of media coverage of the personality and policies of Donald Trump — in a period variously recognized to be dangerously exposed to polycrises and foreseeable disasters.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
“You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
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Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump: Liberal NGO Pushes for Harsher Venezuela Sanctions
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
5 May 2025 – It’s been over 100 days since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Most NGOs to the left of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law.
→ read full articleThe Road to the Culture of Nonviolence
Dr. R. Vetrickarthick | The Gandhigram Rural Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Brutal Physical Strength or Determined Mental Strength or Spirited Soul Force – Which is the strong one?
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MAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh
Greg Sargent | The Daily Blast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
9 May 2025 – Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Leo XIV. There is evidence that he has promoted articles critical of JD Vance and Donald Trump, and even expressed sympathy for George Floyd.
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President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
11 May 2025 – In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes.
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Fort Apache, Washington D.C.: Race at the Centre of the Effort to Reassert a White USA
Michael Charney | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
6 May 2025 – While the US government domestically circles the wagons, mobilises the cavalry, and urges settlers to take refuge within a metaphorical Fort Apache 2025, it does so internationally as well.
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Why Was NATO Expanding as the Size of the Russian Military Shrank?
Larry C Johnson | Son of the New American Revolution - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
5 May 2025 – Bill Clinton initiated the expansion of NATO in 1999 adding Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. According to the LA Times, Oct 1996, the push was underway to manufacture a narrative justifying adding more members to NATO:
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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today
Raquel Varela | The Bullet/Socialist Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
21 Apr 2025 – The New Challenge from the Far-Right
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Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Global Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
3 May 2025 – On Monday, May 5, a Forum at Columbia University will feature Jeffrey Sachs, public intellectual, and Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, in a discussion that I am also honored to take part. I hope as many of subscribers will attend online.
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(Italiano) Su Declino Progressivo e Caduta Inevitabile dell’Impero USA (Seconda Parte)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
Date uno sguardo alle 14 contraddizioni e poi alla definizione d’impero. Il modo di risolvere queste erosioni al cuore del sistema è molto semplice.
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US “Relocates” Iraqi Refugee to Rwanda via New Diplomatic Arrangement
Marisa Kabas | The Handbasket - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
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A Lesson from Brazil – Where Gig Workers Have Rallied against the Right
Rodrigo Nunes | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
25 Apr 2025 – Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers.
→ read full articlePower Shift in the Horn of Africa: Somalia Recognizes SSC-Khaatumo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
23 Apr 2025 – Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).
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The Peace Manifesto 2025 Is Launched
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
1 May 2025 – In my last blog I asked the question: “we cannot sit still, and we must act, but how?” Now we have an answer, the Peace Manifesto 2025.
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Evil Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
4 May 2025 – Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA?
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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
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Spain and Portugal Power Outage: What Caused It, and Was There a Cyber-Attack?
Jasper Jolly | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
29 Apr 2025 – Several Countries in Europe Have Been Scrambling to Restore Electricity after a Huge Power Cut Caused Blackouts – Spain, Portugal and some of south-west France suffered a massive power cut yesterday.
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(Italiano) Un’altra Difesa È Possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
9 Aprile 2025 – Ci sono altri mondi per affrontare le controversie internazionali? Sì. Con la resistenza civile perché un’altra difesa è possibile.
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Freedom Flotilla: Outrage over Israel’s Bombing of Aid Ship Bound for Gaza
Ghalia Mohamed | Defend Demcracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
2 May 2025 – The organisers said they had been operating under a media blackout to “limit Israeli sabotage” in their attempt to deliver aid to the war-torn enclave, where Israel has blocked the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine for two months. Knock knock, anybody home?
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(Français) Lancement du Manifeste pour la Paix 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
1er mai 2025 – Dans mon dernier blog, je posais la question suivante : « Nous ne pouvons pas rester les bras croisés, nous devons agir, mais comment ?» Maintenant nous avons la réponse : le Manifeste pour la paix 2025.
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Plague of Rats and Insects Provide Latest Challenge for War-Shattered Gazans
Khaled Mohamed | UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
29 Apr 2025 — After suffering almost 18 months of deadly bombardment, displacement and lack of access to basic services, the embattled people of Gaza face yet another challenge: the threat of insects and rodents.
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Somaliland: British Colony, Palestinian Concentration Camp?
Kit Klarenberg | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
19 Apr 2025 – As Israeli and US officials scramble to find a destination to forcibly relocate Gaza’s population from their shattered homeland, the little-acknowledged, unrecognised breakaway statelet is increasingly viewed as an attractive option.
→ read full articleMemorable Configurations of Numbers of Cognitive and Strategic Relevance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
Implications of Clarification Elicited through Exchange with AI – Corresponding to the long-recognized crisis of illiteracy and current aversion to reading, there is an increasing degree of recognition of innumeracy and the aversion to “mathematics”
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The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
25 Apr 2025 – This week, the think tank Pakistan Institute of International Affairs is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. I will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.
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NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.
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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
24 Apr 2025 – Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.
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Sudan’s Paramilitary Attacks Largest IDP Camps amid World’s Biggest Displacement Crisis, Killing Over 100
Pavan Kulkarni | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.
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Trump’s Cultural Revolution
Paul Krugman | Nobel Economics Laureate– TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
21 Apr 2025 – The First Thing We Do Is We Kill Intellectual Inquiry
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New Peace Ideas and the Johan Galtung International Peace Prize
Syed Sikander Mehdi | Revista de Cultura de Paz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
31 Dec 2024 – Excepting the Nobel Peace Prize, most of the international peace prizes are little known; some are not even regularly awarded; and a number of these, including the Nobel Peace Prize, shows little appreciation for the role of peace educators and researchers in promoting peace and building peace.
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I’ve Worked at Google for Decades and I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing
Emma Jackson | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
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The Deafening Silence: Arab Complicity and the Normalization of Evil in Gaza
Jamal Kanj | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
16 April 2025 – The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza–an illegal act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population–as famine tightens its grip.
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Close Military Bases, Not Embassies
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
21 Apr 2025 – The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong.
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Haiti ‘Awash’ with Guns Leaving Population ‘Absolutely Terrified’
Daniel Dickinson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2025
17 Apr 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of guns are being used by gangs to exert control and spread terror in Haiti, according to the UN’s designated expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.
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Pope Francis Has Died on Easter Monday Aged 88 (RIP)
Devin Watkins | Vatican News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
Pope Francis died today, 21 Apr 2025, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.
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Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.
→ read full articleEliciting Comprehension of Subtle Coherence of Strategic Relevance
Antony Judge | laetus in praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
Exploration of Cognitively Resonant Configurations of Meaning and Order – In a period celebrated formally or informally as “holy” or “sacred”, it is extraordinary to witness the pervasive violence between those who each claim allegiance to a spiritual worldview.
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SIPRI’s Ongoing Decay from Peace to Mainstream Military Security – Its New Director
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden.
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Despite Threats, nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force Reservists Demand End of Gaza War, Hostage Deal
Bar Peleg and Michael Hauser Tov | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025 – ‘Currently, the war serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests,’ wrote active reservists and former senior officials in the letter that was published despite the Israeli Air Force Commander’s threats to oust signatories.
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(Italiano) La matrice stragista e i depistaggi
Alessandro Marescotti | PeaceLink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
4 aprile 2025 – Strage fascista di Brescia: sentenza dopo 51 anni conferma le complicità istituzionali e atlantiche. La definizione ormai abusata di “servizi segreti deviati” non regge più alla luce di questa sentenza. I depistaggi furono un’azione consapevole, deliberata, volta a mantenere l’Italia all’interno dell’orbita atlantica e a garantire l’“ordine”, anche a costo di sacrificare vite innocenti.
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Historian on How Tariffs Played a Role in the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
DW Gibson | Hawaiʻi Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – As for today, Williams said, “You look the news and you see using tariffs as a sword to get other countries to bend to our will, and that’s exactly what happened in Hawaiʻi. Once we put all of our faith in the use of tariffs, the Kingdom was lost.”
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“They’re Kissing My Ass”: Trump Says Tariffs Are Going Great, Promises Duty on Pharmaceuticals
Alex Galbraith | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
Trump has a rosy take on the early days of his ‘war on the world.’ “I’m telling you these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They’re dying to make a deal.”
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.
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Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025 – Xi recalled that China and the EU are “firm defenders” of free trade and that “there are no winners in a tariff war.”
→ read full articleProblematic Global Secular Celebration of Passover?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
14 Apr 2025 – Paradoxical Contemporary Deification of a Negligent International Community – There is no lack of commentary on the surreal nature of the current times and the challenges it poses for strategic governance.
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(Italiano) Costruiamo le alternative alla guerra
Redazione | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Aprile 2025 – Contro questi venti di guerra, contro le politiche che vedono nel riarmo la sola strada per garantire la pace, occorrono ampie alleanze politiche sia a livello istituzionale che da parte dei Movimenti: costruiamo, insieme, le alternative alla guerra.
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Have Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.
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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
11 Apr 2025 – Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country’s atrocities illegitimacy.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Meanwhile, at the Trump Fiefdom…
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Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
7 Apr 2025 – One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We’re destroying their houses and pissing on their graves.”
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Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
10 Apr 2025 – A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.
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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
Iluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.
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Understanding and Countering Agent Provocateurs in Nonviolent Movements
Scot Nakagawa | The Anti-authoritarian Play Book - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025 – A Strategic Perspective
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McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump has expressed his admiration for Republican Pres. William McKinley for his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But critics say Trump’s tariffs have instead fueled a stock market nosedive.
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The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
25 Feb 2025 – Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.
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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
AI-assisted Exploration of Neglected Underlying Patterns of Order in 3D – There is a basic set of symmetrical polyhedra, many known in Ancient Greece, whose symmetry made them a focus for architecture, sacred geometry symbolism, and an inspiration for patterns of order and coherence in many domains.
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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – We get an update from TRANSCEND member Maung Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Burma Fri [28 Mar], leaving at least 2,700 dead.
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