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EDITORIAL
Can Israel Save Itself? Some Proposals
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIsrael’s quest for absolute security through war, with territorial expansion, regional hegemony, Iranian regime change, apartheid and genocide, is destructive to law, morality, and stability. We do know this much: without boldness of imagination, both Israelis and Palestinians have no hopes of escaping their respective tragic circumstances.
TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The World This Week: Playing with Fire
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2026 – There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc.
PAPER OF THE WEEK
US Sanctions and the Sharp Rise in Infant Mortality in Cuba
Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot and Guillaume Long | CEPR Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Apr 2026 – New Comprehensive Report Shows That Hardening of US Sanctions on Cuba Since 2017 Fueled a Sharp Increase in Cuba’s Infant Mortality Rate
NOBEL LAUREATES
Fame! A Misunderstanding
Matthew Lamb | Los Angeles Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service6 May 2026 – Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
An Open Letter to World Leaders and International Organizations
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service16 May 2026 – [Thinking Outside the Box… — TMS Editor] – We stand at a critical evolutionary juncture where the survival of humanity is threatened not merely by external crises, but by a profound crisis of the human spirit. I have the honor to submit for your consideration the policy paper entitled “The New Israel and the New Palestine: A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East.”
The New Israel and the New Palestine: A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East
Prof W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media ServiceModern diplomacy consistently fails in the Middle East because it treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero-sum collision of physical facts, borders, and raw power politics. This paper operationalizes the evolutionary axiology of the Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus to present a structural, value-based alternative.
TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Space Governance Needs More Than Diplomacy
Glen T. Martin, Manuel Galiñanes and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service[A letter to the editor of Nature Magazine in response to an article about “space governance” that really does not solve the terrible problem of the use of space for war. Nature rejected the letter saying that they do not print unsolicited responses. But our response needs to go out on this very important topic.]
Israel & US Entrapped by War of Aggression on Iran: The Quest for Real Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service17 May 2026 – The Iran War was widely rationalized after the fact as ‘a war of choice’ as if recourse to war continues to be a discretionary option in the 21st century. Iran’s resilience also suggests that non-defensive warfare is becoming a lose/lose venture in many contemporary situations.
How I Became a Captive of My Own Deceitful Kin
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo wound cuts as deeply as betrayal from within one’s own circle. It does not merely injure; it destabilises the very architecture of trust. Neither the philosophies of the West nor the spiritual remedies of the East fully heal such a breach, because the damage is not physical but moral.
The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces a Rethinking of Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty.
Strait of Hormuz–The Gate of Ahura Mazda: Latest Actor in Global Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“A Comprehensive Study of its Geologic Birth, Imperial Legacy, Modern Geopolitics, and the Search for Global Peace”
Eurovision: Europe Chooses Israeli Crimes over Original Peacemaking–Boycott It!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service12 May 2026 – This issue is much worse than you may think! Spread this, please! – Eurovision once symbolised a Europe committed to peace, dialogue, and cultural exchange. It was created in 1956 as a deliberate peace building project — a cultural instrument to rebuild trust in a Europe shattered by war.
Israel’s Exceptional Genocidal Inhumanity: What the Holocaust Memorial Industry Worldwide Don’t Want You to Know or Say
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2026 – Aided by another settler colony with 250 yrs of violence, Israel is committing its Holocaust in the Occupied Palestine, flaunting its sadistic inhumanity while the “Never again!” Industry keeps quiet.
Seniority over Justice
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe study contends that privileging merit over seniority is essential to reinforce judicial legitimacy, safeguard fundamental rights, and prevent democratic backsliding in Nepal. The author welcomes critique, feedback, dialogue/discussion, and further research to advance the discourse on seniority over justice.
Macron, the Would-Be Pan-African: The Arsonist’s Script
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2026 – Emmanuel Macron arriving in Kenya to present France as the defender of Pan-Africanism is like an arsonist showing up at the funeral with a fire safety brochure.
SPOTLIGHT
Why the World Needs China to Save More, Not Less
Jeffrey D. Sachs | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2026 – The IMF assumes China should save less. China’s saving is key to financing the developing world’s need for green infrastructure. The world economy, especially emerging markets and developing economies, benefits from China’s high saving.
Xi Warned Trump of the ‘Thucydides Trap’–What Is It?
Leo Sands | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2026 – China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one.
Trump Lands in Beijing with Over a Dozen Western Moguls in Tow Ahead of High-Stakes Talks with Xi
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2026 – Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and top executives from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta joined the US president.
Trump Understands Nothing of China’s Culture–the Chinese Have All the Cards and the Time, Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service15 May 2026 – Go to this Fox News page: Trump tells the world that his meeting with Xi Jinping yielded very concrete political and economic results. Then go to China Daily – or Global Times – and you will see that for the Chinese it is framework, principles, structure of cooperation that matters
The US Mis-imagination of China
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2026 – Current US policies toward China combine protectionism, technological containment, the disruption of supply chains, economic warfare for displacement of China in third-country markets, and the rejection of threat reduction through diplomacy in favor of purely military means.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Ready or Not, AI Government Is Already Here
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAutomation has shaped governments for decades, but new AI-driven systems are taking on functions from warfare to welfare. Promising speed and efficiency, their growing influence over decision-making complicates political accountability and risks autonomous governance being beyond human control.
How AI Is Reshaping Governance, Security and Power
Layal Beyhum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service7 May 2026 – AI policy adviser Tiffany Saade discusses AI governance, challenging AI hype and the narrative of neutral technologies.
Claude AI Has Emotions? 171 Vectors Explained
Gaugr - TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 2 Apr 2026, Anthropic’s interpretability team dropped a research paper that sent shockwaves through the AI community: Claude Sonnet 4.5 contains internal neural activation patterns that correspond to 171 distinct emotion concepts — and these patterns don’t just passively exist.
ANGLO AMERICA
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be USA’s Suez Crisis?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow the US war on Iran could be the “end of empire” moment as the Suez crisis was for Britain in 1956, which led to withdrawal from worldwide military bases, expediting independence for British colonies. Who in Washington today would guide the US through a similar transition to a post-imperial future?
How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar
Richard Medhurst – TRANSCEND Media Service1 May 2026 – A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean.
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2026 – Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions.
WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
The Ongoing Iran War
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – The US-Iran ceasefire negotiations have stalled. The negotiations haven’t progressed to a certain point and are stuck; rather, they haven’t even begun because they can’t agree on what to negotiate.
BRICS
Araghchi: BRICS Look at Iran with Different Eyes after “US Failure”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service16 May 2026 – BRICS held a summit for foreign ministers in New Delhi on May 14-15, overshadowed by the relatively fruitless Trump meeting with China’s Jinping. Iran, which attended as an observer, was naturally a big subject of conversation.
EUROPE
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Inclusion, Set to Air Palestine Films Instead
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – Public broadcasters from Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia announced today that they will not air this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation. Tel Aviv is pouring hundreds of millions into its Hasbara propaganda machine in an effort to reverse its reputational freefall.
NEWS
The Global Sumud Flotilla Has Not Given Up
Antonis Vradis | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – At least 30 of your fellow sea travellers were injured, four have reported sexual assault, two, Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila, were forcibly taken to Israel, beaten and tortured. Both undertook hunger strikes in protest. Hand on heart, knowing all this, would you continue sailing? The answers are clear: We are sailing on.
Israeli Navy Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla in New Attempt to Break Gaza Blockade
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service18 May 2026 – Israeli naval forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla today as they attempted to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip for the third time, boarding the ships in broad daylight after the flotilla had set sail from Turkiye last week to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
Global Sumud Land Convoy Advances Overland to Break Siege on Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service17 May 2026 – At a press conference held today in Zalitan, Libya, international human rights leaders and grassroots advocates united to declare that “Gaza is not alone” as the Global Sumud Land Convoy advances overland toward Rafah.
PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba
Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement - TRANSCEND Media Service15 May 2026 – 78 years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba: the displacement, uprooting, massacres, Zionist settler-colonialism, and attempts to erase Palestine from history, geography, and consciousness. Yet our Palestinian people have proven, time and again, that the will of free peoples is stronger than all projects of genocide and oppression.
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
Nicholas Kristof | NYT/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.
Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank Is a Continuing Process
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 – This selection concentrates on zionist settlers attacks on farming, a key pillar of the Palestinian economy and Palestinian culture.
UNITED NATIONS
Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2026 – “Albanese Has Done Nothing More Than Speak!” “The interim decision by the US judge gives me respite,” said UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. “But the battle is not over.”
IN FOCUS
IQ Scores Are Falling But, No, We’re Not Growing More Stupid
Stuart Jeffries | psyche - TRANSCEND Media ServiceScreens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Life Imitates Art…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServicePure Hollywood…
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) S Loganathan: un gandhiano attivo nell’India moderna
Elena Camino e Franco Lovisolo | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Maggio 2026 – Il 28 aprile 2026 è morto, in un ospedale di Madurai (Tamilnadu, India), S Loganathan, Direttore di una ONG indiana di ispirazione gandhiana.
(Italiano) La Proposta Di Legge “Un’altra Difesa” Non “Ripudia La Guerra” (Art. 11 Cost.) Né Fa Obiezione Di Coscienza Alle Forze Armate
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service11 maggio 2026 – La Difesa Popolare Non Violenta mira a risolvere un conflitto in modo non violento. Dal suggerimento di Galtung su che cosa è un conflitto sappiamo che esso è un A (Assunzioni)-B (Behavior, fatti)-C(Contraddizione). Pertanto…
(Italiano) Perché il vescovo si occupa di armi?
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service10 maggio 2026 – L’Arcivescovo cattolico di Torino, Roberto Repole, ha pubblicato il 29 aprile, in vista del 1 maggio, festa del Lavoro, una lettera in cui esprime forte preoccupazione per la conversione dell’industria locale verso la produzione di armi.
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
“Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service15 May 2026 – We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism.
The Palantir Imperium
CN LIVE! - TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2026 – Palantir Technologies is a North American company that analyses big data for governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and corporations. Public trust in Palantir has plummeted when petty criminals were targeted as terrorists; wrong people were seized by ICE; when 175 Iranian schoolgirls were killed using Palantir Maven software…
This Is the Real Reason for Trump’s Visit to China
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2026 – Donald Trump traveled to China joined by CEOs including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone. Ben Norton explains how Beijing won the trade war that was started by Washington.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service15 May 2026 – Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project.
Danza del Molinero (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEl Sombrero de Tres Picos
“Governments are vassals of Bankism and Military Capitalism, the Mafia that controls human affairs through violence and cyber-information manipulation in the 21st century.”
— Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A. -Editor TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS
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