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U.N. AGAIN CONDEMNS U.S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
CNN, 29 Oct 2009
For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday [Oct 28 2009] voted to condemn the 47-year embargo against Cuba by the United States.The draft resolution was passed by a vote of 187-3, with 2 abstentions. Only the United States, Israel and Palau voted against the measure. Micronesia and the […]
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Salim Lamrani, 28 Oct 2009
On September 23, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time in a speech hailed by the entire international community. Obama acknowledged that the hyper-interventionism of the U.S. in the internal affairs of other countries was a serious mistake. "No nation should be forced to accept the […]
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Dalia Acosta, Inter Press Service (IPS), 4 Jul 2009
Interview with Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raúl Castro and activist for sexual diversity rights. Renowned for her work for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite and transgender people, Mariela Castro advocates a fairer, more inclusive, and above all more participatory socialism in Cuba. Castro is head of the National Sex Education Centre (CENESEX) […]
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Philip Fornaci, 10 Jun 2009
One of the most notable characteristics of 21st century Havana is what is not there: obvious and visible destitution. The begging and aggressive peddling prevalent in so many poor Latin capitals (and in most US cities) is entirely absent in Havana. There are no homeless people sleeping under bridges or hidden in doorways, no stumbling […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) CUBA REALIZA JORNADA CONTRA HOMOFOBIA, COM APOIO GOVERNAMENTAL
Dalia Acosta, 8 Jun 2009
Quase 50 anos depois do triunfo da Revolução Cubana, as minorias sexuais começam a sentir pela primeira vez que sua voz é ouvida e que podem encontrar um espaço para começar a avançar até uma sociedade mais justa e inclusiva. "Sempre quis ser parte de tudo isso. Não recordo quantas vezes disse a minha mãe: […]
→ read full article(SPANISH) IRÁN, CUBA, AMÉRICA LATINA… ¿A DÓNDE VA OBAMA?
Fernando Montiel T. – Miembro de TRANSCEND, 3 May 2009
Alguien dijo alguna vez que, cansada de inventar, la historia tiende a repetir. Los apretones de mano y las sonrisas que atinadamente critica James Petras (Rebelión, Abril 27, 2009) ya se han visto antes: se vieron en los sesentas cuando los Estados Unidos presentaron la Alianza para el Progreso; se vieron en los setentas […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EUA SUSPENDEM RESTRICÕES A VIAGENS E REMESSAS PARA CUBA
BBC Brasil, 14 Apr 2009
A Casa Branca anunciou nesta segunda-feira [13 Abril] o fim de certas restrições nas relações do país com Cuba – entre elas, os limites impostos a cubano-americanos interessados em viajar à ilha e ao envio de dinheiro aos seus parentes no país caribenho. As medidas haviam sido uma promessa de campanha do presidente americano, Barack […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EL SALVADOR VAI RESTABELECER RELACÕES COM CUBA APÓS 48 ANOS
Raúl Gutiérrez, 13 Apr 2009
O presidente eleito de El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, vai restabelecer relações com Cuba 48 anos depois do rompimento de todos os vínculos com a ilha. A quebra se deu no contexto da Guerra Fria, quando os Estados Unidos faziam pressão sobre os países latino-americanos para que isolassem o regime de Fidel Castro. Funes, eleito por […]
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CNN, 19 Mar 2009
The president of Costa Rica announced Wednesday [Mar 18, 2009] that he is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba more than 47 years after one of his predecessors severed them. "The time has arrived for direct and open dialogue, for official and normal relations that should permit us to tackle our agreements and our disagreements, talking […]
→ read full articleTIME TO RETHINK US SANCTONS ON CUBA: TOP REPUBLICAN SENATOR
Agence France-Presse, 23 Feb 2009
The time is right for reevaluating US sanctions on Cuba, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says in a new report, calling for allowing Cuba to buy US goods on credit, US media reported Sunday [Feb. 22]. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana’s opinions are attached to a report due to be […]
→ read full articleUS-CUBA: BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR DISMANTLING EMBARGO
Jim Lobe, 8 Dec 2008
If U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wants to begin dismantling Washington’s nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, it appears he will have widespread support for doing so. Not only have some major foreign policy heavyweights recently called for ending the embargo if, for no other reason, than to create desperately needed goodwill elsewhere in the Americas […]
→ read full articleCUBA HAS LOWEST AIDS RATE IN CARIBBEAN
Brazil Sun, 6 Dec 2008
Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at 0.1 percent of the population in the Caribbean, the National AIDS Prevention Center (NAPC) said. While AIDS-related mortality is low in the island, and mother-to-child transmission is negligible, the epidemic shows a sustained growth, mainly among the male population, NAPC chief Rosaida Ochoa told journalists on Thursday. […]
→ read full articleRIO GROUP ACCEPTS CUBA – GROUP DEMANDS ROLE IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER
Raul Cortes, 18 Nov 2008
Argentina, Brazil & Mexico to Go to Washington for World Economic Summit The Rio Group club of Latin American and Caribbean nations agreed to join forces in order to deal with the current economic crisis and to defend their rights in a possible new world financial order, on the same day it approved the inclusion […]
→ read full articleMASSIVE UN VOTE IN SUPPORT OF LIFTING US EMBARGO ON CUBA
AFP, 30 Oct 2008
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 17th year in a row in favor of lifting the 46-year-old US trade embargo on communist-ruled Cuba, as Havana hoped for better ties with a new US administration. Some 185 of the assembly’s 192 members approved a resolution, which reiterated a "call upon all states […]
→ read full article20BN BARREL OIL DISCOVERY PUTS CUBA IN THE BIG LEAGUE
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, 20 Oct 2008
• Self-reliance beckons for communist state • Estimate means reserves are on a par with US Friends and foes have called Cuba many things – a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny – but no one has called it lucky, until now . Mother nature, it emerged this week, appears to have blessed […]
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World Order after 1945, after Vietnam War, and after Second Coming of Trump
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026 – This post elaborates upon a lecture of mine on 26 Jan 2026 at a webinar in a series convened and moderated by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, which has kept alive the relevance of the Vietnam experience to current struggles.
→ read full articlePolitics in Sports: Could Exercising the Olympic “Nuclear Option” Save Humanity?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026
Imagine if the IOC had applied the same standards used to condemn Russia today to the US over the last 80 years for its repeated belligerence that flagrantly undermines Olympic values of harmonious development, peaceful societies and preservation of human dignity.
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Idea Porfolios (Intro) How Governments and Citizens Can Stop the Trump Regime’s World-Threatening Designs
Introduction to TFF’s Forthcoming Five Idea Portfolios of Diplomatic and Nonviolent Resistance
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(Castellano) Espectáculo trumpista de la violencia en las pantallas para la nueva fabricación del consentimiento
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026
24 enero 2026 – ¡Es la economía, estúpido! Pero también ¡es la cultura, estúpido! Es la producción de beneficios económicos y la reproducción de la cultura gánster. Es el espectáculo de la mentira para justificar la verdad sanguinaria del imperialismo y es el espectáculo de la verdad de la violencia para ocultar la verdad del imperio que se desangra.
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What Is the Most Basic, Most Severe Violation of Freedom?
Alejandro A. Tagliavini - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026
Violence is equivalent to taking away freedom, diverting the intrinsic development—against one’s will— of a being. Therefore, violence and freedom are logical opposites. Logic is a science, not my opinion.
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The US Military Operation in Venezuela and the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026 – The United States attack on Venezuela on January 3 should be understood not simply as an unlawful use of force, but as part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to the imperial management of global security.
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Davos: World Economic Forum – Board of Peace
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Marx once quipped “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” and Hegel stated that “what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Each reflects on their time.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Returner til Avsender (et dikt)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026
Et dikt
Hvis «demokrati» kommer
Dundrende inn over himmelen
Som et F-35 over Ørland,
Pakket i ild,
Merket humanitær med rød tusj—
Returner til avsender.
Understanding Trump’s Interventions: How Regional Imperialism Generates World War
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026
Trump’s recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Iran, and the Caribbean/Pacific high seas, represents a major turn toward military intervention in his foreign policy.
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Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – Anything anyone can say about the demagogic Trump is true, whether from his critics, supporters, or those who look on in amazed horror that such a gross, vituperative, and openly violent creature is the president of the USA.
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Freezing to Death in Gaza: How Cold Is Killing Displaced Babies
Yasmin Abu Shammala | Quds News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
16 Jan 2026 – At least seven infants have died this winter in Gaza. Displaced babies freeze in soaked tents as Israel’s blockade blocks essential aid. This is how Israel is freezing Gaza’s babies to death.
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From Gaza to Venezuela, the US Has Been Unmasked as the Serial Villain
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
6 Jan 2026 – The path to Caracas – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza.
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It Could Be a Wonderful World
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026 – There is a widening gap today between global possibilities and global realities. The possibilities are enormous, for―thanks to a variety of factors, ranging from increases in knowledge to advances in economic productivity―it’s finally feasible for all of humanity to lead decent and fulfilling lives.
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New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
Is the New World Order an hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined? How do you assess its evolving substance for the future?
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
Prof. Johan Galtung’s exceptional foresight predicting the fall of the US empire is being validated by successive administrations, with Trump sticking the last nail in the empire’s (not the Republic’s) coffin–irreversibly. I repeat in unison with Prof. Galtung: ‘I love the US republic, and I hate the US empire’. –TMS Editor
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Junk Food to Feed Your Thoughts…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
No Joke…
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I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2025 -I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela.
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Grand Illusion
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 – We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”
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The Trump Doctrine Exposes the US as a Mafia State
Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland.
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War and Oil: Connecting the Dots
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
And Why Everyone Should Boycott Chevron
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Who’s Really Running Venezuela?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
9 Jan 2026 – The world was mystified when Trump said that the US would “run” Venezuela. He has since made it clear that he wants to control Venezuela by imposing a U.S. monopoly on selling its oil to the rest of the world, to trap the Venezuelan government in a subservient relationship with the US.
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Ex-Presidents and Democratic Leaders Silent on the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
9 Jan 2026 – Imagine, if you will, what would happen if these four wealthy politicians (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden), who still have most of their voters liking them, decided to band together and take on Trump full throttle.
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From Minneapolis to Here and There: One Empire, Many Graves
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
This is not about one murder, one massacre, one “tragic incident,” one regrettable “mistake” explained away by a press release and a blue-ribbon commission. This is about a system that perfects cruelty, routinizes violence, and then asks us to admire its efficiency.
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The Path to Success in Governing Venezuela
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 — Five days have passed since the Trump administration’s US military raided Venezuela, abducted President Maduro and his wife, and declared that “the United States will govern Venezuela until it begins to stabilize and develop.”
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The U.S. Desperately Wants Back in the Business of Empire with Venezuela
Gabriel Hetland | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 – The USA carried out a coup in Venezuela to plunder the country’s resources. But Latin Americans will have the last word. Precious few elected officials have raised the fundamental question: Does the U.S. have the right to infringe upon another nation’s sovereignty?
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As the World Welcomes a New Year, We, in Gaza, Dread What It Will Bring
Qasem Waleed | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
31 Dec 2026 -Another year has passed, and life in Gaza is still trapped between Israel’s killing machine and the growing indifference of the world. It is another year added to our unique calendar of loss, destruction and death. We have seen so much evil this year that we are afraid to imagine the future.
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U.S. the Rogue State
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2026
5 Jan 2026 – The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies the USA as a rogue state.
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Michelle Ellner | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2026
3 Jan 2026 – I listened to the Jan 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family and memories of the country being spoken as if it were a possession, what I heard was chilling. The US will “run the country” until a transition it deems “safe” and “judicious.”
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Assange’s Criminal Complaint against Nobel Peace Committee
Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025
17 Dec 2025 – Alfred Nobel’s endowment for peace cannot be spent on the promotion of war. Nor can it be used as a tool in foreign military intervention. Venezuela, whatever the status of its political system, is no exception. Nobel’s will of 27 Nov 1895 is binding under Swedish law.
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‘We Want It Back’: Trump Asserts U.S. Claims to Venezuelan Oil and Land
Patrick J. McDonnell, Ana Ceballos and Kate Linthicum | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025
17 Dec 2025 – Trump’s order of a blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela claiming that Caracas stole “oil, land and other assets” from the US mark a significant escalation of his unrelenting campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
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In Trump’s Peace, US Firms Will Help Israel Spy on and Target Gazans
Sophia Goodfriend | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Dec 2025
10 Dec 2025 – The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are cashing in on the genocide.
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US War Crimes
Peter Maguire | Sour Milk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025
6 Dec 2025 – Recently, many people have asked me if the Trump administration’s decision to target and destroy the Venezuelan boats is a war crime? The simple answer is yes and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ultimately bears responsibility.
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Venezuela Charges Washington with ‘Theft, Piracy’ after Seizure of Oil Tanker
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025
11 Dec 2025 – Venezuela has accused the US government of “blatant theft” and “piracy,” following Washington’s seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker off the Latin American country’s coast yesterday. The US claimed it was involved in the Iranian oil trade.
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(Italiano) Innovazione senza saggezza è come vita senza amore
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025
1 Dicembre 2025 – L’innovazione tecnologica sta superando l’innovazione sociale, economica e politica. L’implementazione dell’innovazione tecnologica, guidata da motivazioni di profitto, sta sopprimendo il nostro potenziale di sfruttare i progressi per rendere la vita più meravigliosa per l’intera famiglia umana, non solo per pochi privilegiati.
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If Trump Is Serious about Peace, Marco Rubio Has to Go
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Dec 2025
8 Dec 2025 – Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster.
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Latin America: The Trump Corollary
Eric Ross | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025
7 Dec 2025 – Bloody U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro
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How Pearl Harbor Day Threatens Venezuela
David Swanson | Let's Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025
1 Dec 2025 – Trump is openly threatening war on Venezuela in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, and has already for nearly three months been openly murdering everyone aboard numerous boats — a crime whether it’s murder or whether it’s war.
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First ‘International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures’
Jill Clark-Gollub and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025
In June of 2025, the UNGA designated December 4 as the annual ‘International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures,’ urging States to stop using them (commonly called “sanctions,” “blockade”) because they violate international law and impose collective punishment.
→ read full articleInnovation without Wisdom Is like Life without Love
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Dec 2025
Technological innovation is outpacing social, economic, and political innovation. The implementation of technological innovation, driven by profit motives, is suppressing our potential to harness advancements to make life more wonderful for the entire human family, not just the privileged few.
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Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
People's Summit Towards COP30 | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025
23 Nov 2025 – We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, on 12/16 Nov 2025, declare what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and testimonies.
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Venezuela: A Not-so-covert CIA Disaster in the Making
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Dec 2025
On 22 Nov 2025, Reuters reported that the US is “to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days”. Venezuela doesn’t even produce fentanyl, but Trump goes forward with regime change in Caracas as part of a spurious ‘war on drugs’.
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What Is Really Happening in Venezuela? US Attacks and Economic Situation Explained
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025
16 Nov 2025 – An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of US sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.
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Venezuela: What Is at Stake?
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2025
22 Nov 2025 – JUST supports the mass protests around the globe against the US for its flexing of military muscles against Venezuela. The whole world should reject this brazen, shameful act of aggression. As human beings we have no choice but to protect our honour.
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We Choose Fascism! (?)
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025
10 Nov 2025 – Is the USA choosing Fascism? That is the question that will occupy historians – probably Asian – in the second half of the 21st Century. There are indications suggesting that the answer is ‘Yes’ – or, we are in the process of doing so. Let’s examine them.
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Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado Offers to Sell $1.7 Trillion of Venezuela’s Assets to US Corporations
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025
13 Nov 2025 – The far-right Venezuelan coup leader vowed “massive privatization.”
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“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is Euphemism for U.S.-inflicted Carnage and Chaos
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025
11 Nov 2025 – The fate that awaits the people of Venezuela if Trump should launch an invasion or a coup, as his predecessors did to Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Honduras, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen: Destruction, destabilization and years of corruption and chaos – in every case.
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The Significance of the Venezuela Attack by the US Administration
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Nov 2025
The U.S. military has already attacked several Venezuelan ships in the Caribbean (on the high seas) for allegedly secretly transporting narcotics (including fentanyl). However, there is no evidence that large amounts of fentanyl are flowing from Venezuela to the United States, and this is (allegedly) a false accusation.
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Martyrs to the Unspeakable: A Luminous Tapestry of Truth
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – To weave a magnificent tapestry like the one James W. Douglass has created takes a steady hand, a hopeful heart, and a steadfast dedication to seeking truth and telling it through factually based and interwoven stories.
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It Is Easy to Miss the Cloud Reflections
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025
It is easy to miss the cloud reflections in the puddles when the drones are perching on the telephone wires and boats are exploding off the coast of Venezuela.
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The Multipolarism of Fools
John Feffer | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Nov 2025
4 Nov 2025 – The BRICS Are Not the Answer – Trump hates Antifa, late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, anyone who challenges him in court, and as of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize despite strong-arming its members. He has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong.
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The US Targets Colombians by Sanctioning Gustavo Petro
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – As part of his escalating aggression toward Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil, Trump sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his wife, his son, and his Interior Minister for drug trafficking offenses.
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Trump’s Military Pressure on Maduro Evokes Latin America’s Coup-Ridden Past—Made in USA
Robert Tait | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025
1 Nov 2025 – US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, echoing past US coups and assassinations across the region.
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Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, MLK, and RFK
Elizabeth Woodworth | Integrate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Why has the public lost so many of its cherished humanitarian leaders to assassination? Bringing new research to light, this gripping book is a gift to our needed understanding of this phenomenon. A Review, by Elizabeth Woodworth
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It’s Just Wall-to-wall News Stories about the US and Its Allies Abusing the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Nov 2025
29 Oct 2025 – The US and its allies are terrorizing the world. They make threats, impose sanctions, amass war machinery, and when the US is serious about attacking a country, it starts churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream war media.
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Trump Orders CIA to Attack Venezuela: US Military Kills Innocent People Based on Lies
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2025
The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans on boats in international waters, which UN experts have condemned as “extrajudicial executions.” Among the victims have been fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago, whose families were interviewed by The Guardian.
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(Italiano) Pensare il conflitto
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025
Gli USA hanno un approccio immaturo, autistico, ai propri conflitti, da bambino viziato. Una leadership deve affrontare direttamente le radici dei conflitti – non i sintomi come l’odio e l’ostilità – ossia la contraddizione stessa, un problema in cerca di soluzione. Ed essere un bravo giocatore di squadra come sono sovente gli statunitensi, dove la squadra è il mondo.
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Trump Approves CIA Operations in Venezuela: What We Know, and What’s Next
Elizabeth Melimopoulos and Sarah Shamim | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.
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Joint Statement by International Organisations against Trump’s Attendance to ASEAN Summit
ASEAN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025
We, the undersigned organisations, fully condemn Trump’s attendance at the upcoming ASEAN Summit in Malaysia. We make this condemnation based on our common stance against US imperialism which is the primary antagonist of our world today.
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Dr. Denis Mukwege’s Nobel Peace Prize Brought No Peace to the Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to “the man who heals women” made Euro-Americans feel good without interrupting their catastrophic proxy war for Congo’s resources. An incisive critique of that deeply flawed institution, Oslo’s Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
The USA has an immature, autistic approach to its conflicts, like a spoiled child. A leadership has to come to grips with the root of conflicts–not symptoms like hatred and hostility–the contradiction itself, a problem in search of a solution. And be a good team player as USians often are; the team being the world.
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Eritrea in the Empire’s Crosshairs: Propaganda and Regime Change Operations
Ann Garrison and Elias Amare | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
1 Oct 2025 – Western NGOs and media recently launched coordinated attacks on Eritrea, a longstanding US target for regime change.
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Bertrand Russell’s Historic War Crimes Tribunal against the US in Vietnam, 1964-1967
Harish C. Mehta | Rising Asia Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
Oct 2025 – The audacity of Bertrand Russell and Ho Chi Minh to create a transnational war crimes tribunal to try the US government for crimes against the people of Vietnam and Laos through bombardment of civilians, schools, hospitals, and villages. The tribunal hearings in Sweden, Denmark and Japan signposts the continuing relevance of war crimes trials.
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Is the UN Charter Worth the Paper It’s Written On?
Ann Garrison and Dan Kovalik | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2024 – In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the world’s most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again.
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Urgent Next Steps for Palestine at the UN
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – What is wrong with Trump’s Gaza plan and how an Emergency Special Session of the UNGA can pass a binding resolution to recognize Palestine and launch a UN-led arms embargo, economic boycott and other concrete measures to force Israel to end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of Palestine.
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Nobel ‘Peace’ Committee – A Prize for US Military Regime Change
Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 — The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) strongly condemns the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has once again violated Alfred Nobel’s original mandate by honouring a figure who openly advocates foreign military intervention.
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Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti
Steve Cushion | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Oct 2025
In 1825, fourteen French gunboats sailed into the harbor of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, and forced the government to pay an indemnity of 150 million francs. This threw Haiti into a cycle of debts that reduced the majority of the population to an abject poverty that survives to this day. Thomas Piketty has described this as “neocolonialism through debt.”
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Israel’s Twelve Tactics of Genocide Denial
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2025
Sep 2025 – Israel was founded after the Holocaust as a nation-state where Jews could have a homeland and defend themselves. However, the territory granted to Israel was already occupied by Palestinians as well as Jews.
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Why the SanctionsKill Campaign Supports BDS
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025
It is important to understand the distinction between BDS and imperialist sanctions. BDS is the peoples’ effort to end their governments’ complicity with Zionist colonial crimes, whereas US “sanctions” maintain imperialist hegemony by forcing countries to submit to US economic and political interests.
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Gaza and the Death of Conscience
Ismail Salahuddin | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025
11 Sep 2025 – The world is witnessing a genocide live on its screens. We have seen children pulled from rubble, families starving in tents, hospitals turned to dust. We cannot say we did not know. Every image, every cry, every number has reached us in real time. And yet the killing goes on, the silence goes on, life goes on.
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Iraq Invades the United States
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025
And Other Headlines from an Upside-Down History of the U.S. Military and the World
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Targeting Venezuela
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025
18 Sep 2025 – From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support – The USA is building up its military assets for another regime change attempt against Venezuela—and this one could be far more deadly than the others.
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Trump Wages Economic War on US Allies while BRICS Builds Alternative System
Ben Norton and Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Sep 2025
17 Sep 2025 – Donald Trump imposes tariffs and unequal treaties on Europe, Japan, and South Korea, forcing them to move factories to the US, while BRICS creates a multipolar world order. Trump’s imperial strategy to exploit US allies.
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Robin D. G. Kelley, et al. | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025
Summer 2025 – Fourteen years ago, Noam Chomsky published “The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux” in these pages. He used the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to revisit his classic 1967 essay on the subject.
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Spheres of Security versus Spheres of Influence: A Reconsideration of Great Power Boundaries
Jeffrey D. Sachs and John Mearsheimer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Sep 2025
6 Sep 2025 – Few concepts in international relations are as contested as “spheres of influence.” From the colonial carve-ups of the nineteenth century to the Cold War division of Europe, great powers have repeatedly claimed the right to intervene in their neighbors’ politics, economics, and security arrangements.
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International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
IAGS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025
Recognising that Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc. of Gaza, which, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children;
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The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions. It remains only what these conclusions will be.
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Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025
4 Aug 2025 – As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more…
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Full Text: Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025
A new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken system.
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Trump vs. Musk: The Break-up
Hagar Omran | Forbes Middle East - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Aug 2025
19 Jul 2025 – When Elon Musk and Donald Trump clash, it sends ripples through the markets. Here’s a timeline detailing their turbulent relationship and its impact on Tesla and Musk’s wealth.
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The End of Democracy?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – Upset by the non-violent revolutions of 1989, the Western intellectual world repeated like a childish refrain an enchanted phrase: “The fall of the Berlin Wall” and theorized the historical end of all analyses of contemporary society.
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Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025
3 Jul 2025 – An Evidence-Based Road Map for Future Policy Action
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Building Power for Palestine and for a New World Order
Ray Acheson | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – A coalition of states met in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-July to try and disrupt Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Their commitments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law are important to counter the militarism and profiteering of Western states. People power is the strength behind these commitments; what will lead to their implementation.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Aug 2025
Right from the start the US colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”
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Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025
Since August 1945 the world has been living on borrowed time but a nuclear war can be averted. A revival of public pressure for nuclear disarmament is essential. It could focus on the signing and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which none of the nuclear powers has signed.
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The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 million Poor People
Jonathan V. Last - The Bulwark – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025 – The monster Bloomberg profile of Luke Farritor: I cannot recommend it highly enough. He grew up in Nebraska and what struck me most reading the account of his life is the extent of his privilege. – What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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