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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.

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The 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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The Human Cost of Syria Sanctions
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – On May 13,  U.S. President Trump announced  he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria.

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Norway: Decline and Fall
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

The Norway I was born into 80 years ago and grew up in the 20 years that followed is hopefully still there, sedimented in the archeology of recent history.  But there is an overlayer of something alien, distinctly not Norwegian…

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Peace Symbolism: Icons and Iconography Post 19th Century (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

10 May 2025 – As stated in Part 1 of the series on Peace Symbolism, in the 21st century, the term icons conjure up images of computer software or branding for the younger generation.

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Trump II: The Macro View
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Chomsky acknowledges the U.S. Constitution as a framework that limits democratic responsiveness, with institutions like the Senate, Electoral College, and campaign finance system skewing power toward wealthy, white, and rural constituencies.

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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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Autumn Lullaby
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

In her hand she held,
a green leaf from her Tutu’s kukui nut tree.

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Growing Tensions in the Taiwan Strait
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – Even before Taiwanese elected Lai Ching-te as president in Jan 2024, Chinese officials voiced opposition, calling him “a separatist” and “an instigator of war.” Chinese officials attacks have become even harder, calling him a “destroyer of cross-Strait peace.”

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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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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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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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Peace Disruption: The Neo Exodus, in the 21st Century, of the South African, White Afrikaners to the US
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

The morphological diversity, within the human race, from evolution, is so multifaceted that it is often hard to believe that all humans belong to the same species of Homo sapiens, sapiens.

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The Crisis of Truth and the MAGA Phenomenon
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – Ultimate Denial Inevitably Leading to Genocide

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Haiti: Restitution and Reparations
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Since November 11th travel to and from Haiti has become difficult. A shooting at the capital’s airport triggered an immediate ban by the US government on all US flights. Our border with the Dominican Republic has been closed for over a year. 

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India Must End Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, and Forced Returns of Rohingya Refugees
Fortify Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – Indian authorities beat, blindfold, handcuff, and forcibly return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

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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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The Gaza Genocide Is Worse Than the Nazi Holocaust
Alon Mizrahi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – We have no military to defend Palestinians, but we have judgement, and we must use it fiercely. The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see. It is an open challenge to human morality.

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The New Dark Age
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.

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(Français) Le Quartier Arménien de Jérusalem : Une Histoire Millénaire et des Défis Actuels vus par les Arméniens
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 mai 2025 – Le quartier arménien, niché dans le sud-ouest de la vieille ville de Jérusalem, est un joyau de l’histoire chrétienne et de la diaspora arménienne.

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Russia’s Fight for Justice: How NATO’s Betrayal and Lies Fueled Distrust in Russia-Ukraine Negotiations
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

17 May 2025 – For Russia, the ongoing war in Ukraine is not merely a conflict with its neighbor but a desperate stand against NATO’s relentless aggression, cloaked in lies and broken promises.

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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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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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Misconception and Right Concept of Peace Education: Theory and Praxis
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Misconception about Peace Education: Wrong Diagnosis

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On Some Capital Issues about Warfare
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

12 May 2025 – The destiny of warfare depends very much on actors’ relative capabilities. By definition, different capabilities are the means of the actor in international relations to achieve certain goals.

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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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The Exacerbation of Israel’s Gaza Massacre Situation
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

8 May 2025 — Israel is trying to starve the people remaining in Gaza.  International aid organizations and others have been prevented from bringing food and other supplies into Gaza from outside.

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India and Pakistan Need Soul Searching: What Is Next after the Ceasefire?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2025

Looking Beyond the Formative History

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Imagine if Gaza Were Jewish and the People Bombing It Were Muslims
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Serevice, 19 May 2025

16 May 2025 – If Gaza was populated by Jews and those massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words “genocide” and “Holocaust” would’ve been appearing in the news every single day.

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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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Gatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
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.

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Dangerous Escalation of India-Pakistan Tensions
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

Tensions between India and Pakistan have grown since the attack and death of 26 Indian tourrists in the resort area of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April 2025.

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The USA Crisis of Law and Human Dignity: Philosophers of Law Reveal the Deeper Issue
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

4  May 2025 – In the light of the Donald Trump administration’s disregard of the rule of law, of due-process, of the rights and dignity of citizens that the law is meant to protect, and of the US Constitution that he has sworn to uphold, it is well worth our effort to reflect on what they have to say.

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Peace Symbols: Edible Eggs, Fabergé Eggs, Chocolate Eggs, Hares and Relationship to Easter
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

Eggs are Peace Symbols from Antiquity to the present era.  The Eggs are celebrated by various cultures throughout the world and symbolizes, the sealed tomb of Jesus of Nazareth which was cracked open to reveal goodness.

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`Awapuhi
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

Mama loved the scent
of the wild yellow ginger,
growing thick on the slopes of Tantalus.

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The 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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The Farce of the Ukrainian Ceasefire Continues
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

2 May 2025 — The United States and Ukraine signed a resource agreement, on 1 May 2025, that had been postponed since February. It is reported that the agreement is for Ukraine to hand over the rights to underground resources to the United States in return for the United States continuing to provide Ukraine with the US military support.

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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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Putin and Pashinyan: A Tumultuous Alliance Marked by Risk and Paradox
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

When Nikol Pashinyan swept into power in May 2018 on the crest of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi set an optimistic tone. Pashinyan, a former journalist turned revolutionary, pledged to deepen Armenia’s strategic alliance with Russia.

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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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Galtung: 60 Years of Global Peace Studies (Part 1)
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

An oldie from the founder of Conflict & Peace Studies

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Genocide in Palestine with Arab-Muslim Leaders Watching
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

6 May 2025 – The Planned Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza and Fake International Law and Order

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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 Limitations of Military Might
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

6 May 2025 – Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations.

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Globalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

God has to globalize and should have done so before the stock exchange. Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect!

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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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On the Key Points of Contemporary International Relations: Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 May 2025

War and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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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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Civilian Peace Service
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Nonviolent Peaceforce – There is a basic problem: now coming from the West, there is always the danger that they could become the continuation of aggressive Western governmental politics by nongovernmental means.  How can this be avoided?

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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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Marching Towards Global Peace and Development
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Justice: The Mother of Peace

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Close the US Military Bases in Asia
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes.

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Some Crucial Features of Contemporary Warfare: War Crimes and Warlordism
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

27 Apr 2025 – War Crimes and War Criminals -After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations, like the United Nations or various specialist agencies connected to it.

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From Haiti to Gaza, from Congo to the Climate Apartheid: A Call for Humanity
Raïs Neza Boneza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

This refrain echoes through centuries of struggle—from the plantations of Saint Domingue to the besieged neighborhoods of Gaza, from the mineral-rich soil of the Congo to the burning plains of Southern Africa.

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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.

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A Keffiyeh Is Not Antisemitic
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

1 May 2025 – Psychologists Against Antisemitism (PAAS) is an Israel advocacy group, with the profession of psychology as its principal target.

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Crisis vs. War
This vs. That - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

What’s the Difference? – Crisis and war are both situations that involve intense conflict and upheaval, but they differ in their scope and duration.

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(Italiano) “Ma questi chi li ha invitati?” Papa Francesco nel nuovo murale di Laika
la Repubblica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

L’opera apparsa in via Nicolò Piccolomini, a pochi passi dalla Città del Vaticano.

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Power 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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‘Walk or Die’: Israeli Officer Used 80-Year-Old Palestinian as a Human Shield
Palestine Chronicle Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – Israeli soldiers forced an 80-year-old Palestinian man to walk ahead of them with an explosive-laced strap around his neck—then shot him and his wife as they tried to flee.

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Alberto Portugheis in Baku, Azerbaijan
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

2 May 2025 – HUFUD Founder and President Alberto Portugheis has been invited to lecture at the Seminars organised by the Institute of Peace and Dialogue IPD, in Baku City, capital of Azerbaijan.

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Democracy Will Win! (Lol!)
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

27 April 2025 – The Trump administration, led by Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, have officially found that the electronic voting machines used in US elections have been left unattended for many years, making them vulnerable to electronic intrusion (hacking).

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The Relations between the Armenian Apostolic Church and Other Christian Churches
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

A Focus on the Vatican, Azerbaijan, and Internal Armenian Tensions

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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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Red Flags and Sacred Relics: The Marxist Paradox in Sri Lankan Politics
Sanjeewani Rupasinghe - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

3 May 2025 – A Paradox in Plain Sight – In contemporary politics, the use of myth and ritual is no longer the exclusive domain of monarchies or theocracies. Even secular and revolutionary regimes increasingly draw upon cultural and religious traditions to bolster their legitimacy.

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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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Autumn Lullaby
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

In her hand she held,
a green leaf from her Tutu’s kukui nut tree.
It was large and familiar.

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Is the U.S. President ‘Insane’? Are We in an ‘Abusive Relationship’?
Dr. Bandy X. Lee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

21 Apr 2025 – Addressing the Elephant in the Room May Be the Only Way to Save Us All – Our survival depends on whether we recognize that we are dealing with a psychopathic insane or whether we bow to the incompetent who says things like: “Countries are calling us up, kissing my ass…. ‘Please, please, sir, make a deal…. I’ll do anything, sir!’”

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Peace Symbolism: Demystification of Icons, Iconodules, Iconoclasts and Iconography (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Presently, the term icons[1] conjure up an images of computer software or branding for the younger generation. However, in the medieval era, icons were associated with religious veneration of Biblical names.

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Rohingya Genocide a Test of International Moral and Legal Commitment
Islamabad Daily Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Pak, Myanmar Experts Raise Concerns – Dr Zarni, a Buddhist, described the primary fault line behind the genocide as the deeply embedded Buddhist chauvinism in Myanmar, where Buddhists dominate state institutions and deny respect and fundamental rights to religious minorities.

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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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South Korea’s Biosecurity Is Safe, Thanks to Russia
Valeriy Krylko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Currently, most countries of the world pay special attention to preventing the emergence and spread of outbreaks of various particularly dangerous infections that can cause significant economic damage to both the agro-industrial complex and human health.

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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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India and Pakistan: Freedom Lost but Animosity Flourishes
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

India alleges Pakistan’s involvement in a recent attack on 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir Valley Pahalgam – disputed territory and parts occupied by India and Pakistan. Unthinkable flare -up could lead to war between the two nuclear rivals.

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Support Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire’s 40-Day Fast for Palestinian Children and World Peace
UPLIFT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Mairead’s choosing to fast and pray for 40 days is a form of creative nonviolent resistance infused with love, a cry from the heart that children should never more suffer war. 

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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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NATO Chief Mark Rutte Announces Trillions in Defence Spending Following Meeting with Trump
Oneindia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

25 Apr 2025 – Rutte praised Trump for encouraging NATO allies to invest more in their security. He promised that NATO will become stronger and fairer with trillions in defence funding. 

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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.

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Beckett Yesterday and Today: Memory, Trauma, Identity, and Resistance in Contemporary Theatre
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 May 2025

Literary Significance: The Beckettian Legacy Recontextualized

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Peace, Peace Education and the UN
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

How about peace education in all of that?  Training in handling complexity is basic, and the first tool to go is the world map using four colors to highlight the dying state system.  An illusion, the real world is much more complex.

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Israel Stalls and the International Court of Justice Complies
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

23 Apr 2025 – One year ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel had fifteen months to prepare their defense (“counter memorial”) against the charges of genocide filed by South Africa. They were told to present their arguments by 28 July 2025.

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Greeting for Pesach
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As you gather around the Seder table to celebrate Pesach, may this sacred time fill your hearts with peace, gratitude, and divine connection.

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Holly Week and Easter Greetings
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2025

As we reflect upon the sacred journey of Jesus, from the solemnity of the Cross to the glory of the Resurrection, may we be reminded that even in moments of suffering, there is a divine promise of renewal and hope.

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Memorable 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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Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

This text is based on a paper published in the Special Issue of University News – A Weekly Journal of Higher Education of Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 42, No. 52, Dec. 27, 2004

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(Italiano) Francesco I: Umano E Rivoluzionario
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

24 Aprile 2025 – Perché rivoluzionario?

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The Secret Military History of the Internet
The Chris Hedges Report with Yasha Levine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

2 Apr 2025 – The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, “Surveillance Valley,” and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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Urgent Emphasis on Nonviolent Approach in News Reporting
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Apr 2025

21 Apr 2025 – The international workshop ‘Reporting on Non-Violence Approach’, organized by Pressenza and Dhaka Reporters Unity, was held on April 18. It was conducted virtually from Chile, Argentina, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 90 members of Dhaka Reporters Unity participated.

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