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EDITORIAL
Sanctioning Francesca Albanese Marco Rubio Tramples on Law, Justice, and Truth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIf the vindictive sanctions are implemented against this extraordinary citizen of Italy, in the face of strong UN objections, Albanese will be barred from entering the US even to discharge her annual UN duty to present a report to the General Assembly.
TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Documentary | Grassroots Governance in China
Miao Xiaojuan | TRANSCEND Media Service4 Jul 2025 – How is China governed from the ground up? How does China’s democracy work? I am joined by six Western experts on a rare journey across China to meet the unsung heroes driving rural development, resolving disputes, and dreaming under the stars.
FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Wars, Trees and the Struggle for Peace
Syed Sikander Mehdi – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe historical, spiritual, environmental and humanistic properties of trees are recognized worldwide. Their importance has been highlighted not only by the holy books and spiritual leaders of different religions but also by story tellers, poets, novelists, painters, film makers, medicine manufacturers, and environmental activists.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
NEWS
Jew Anti-Zionist Congress: A New Era for Jewish-Palestinian Solidarity
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jul 2025 – Future historians, remember this place and date: Vienna, 13-15 Jun 2025. This was when hundreds of anti-Zionist Jews, joined by Palestinians and other allies, gathered for the first ‘Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress.’
TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Sweeping Censorship Will Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation Driving International Students Away
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2025 – If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.
Nihilism, Fascism, and Utopia
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jul 2025 – Human Prospects in the Age of Despair
Remembering the Magna Carta on Human Environment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jul 2025 – The thematic articulation of most fundamental strategies is completely unmemorable to most. Use of AI to develop mnemonic aids to comprehension of complex strategic articulations.
The Lost Scrolls of Peace in Modernity: A 21st Century Survival Guide for the Spiritually and Morally Bankrupt Materialists
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe author has compiled this paper to highlight what the Elite, the Rich, and the Powerful Do Not Want You, the reader, to Remember.
HUMAN RIGHTS
‘Brutal Sadism:’ Israel Bans Gazans from Entering Mediterranean Sea Under Pain of Death
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2025 – “This is not about security,” said the head of Gaza’s fishers’ union. “It’s economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation.”
NATO
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organisation on Earth
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Jun 2025 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the only real military bloc in the world – one whose mandate and ambitions stretch far beyond the North Atlantic and, in fact, constitute the greatest threat to world peace.
ANGLO AMERICA
Bringing Down a President
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jul 2025 – As you may have heard, every unarmed resistance campaign in recent memory that mobilized at least 3.5 percent of the population for an action against rulers forced the desired regime change. This “3.5 percent rule” is merely an academic curiosity.
ASIA--PACIFIC
Proto-Nationalism Entrapped in Musical Chair Circle of Political Party and Floundering Economy
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNepal Entrapped by Super-Nationalism: A Costly Illusion Without Pragmatic Transformation.
BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
Kosovo Prepares for Secession from Serbia Using Tito’s Yugoslavia as a Blanket
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jul 2025 – Links with Central Serbia
BRICS
BRICS Plans New Trade Model without the Dollar
Coin Tribune | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jul 2025 – Several members of the bloc, including Russia and Brazil, confirm that trade in national currencies is already underway.
How the Global Majority Can Free Itself from US Financial Colonialism
Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jul 2025 – Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism.
US Imperialism Is Hitting a BRICS Wall!
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2025 – Neoliberal globalized capitalism spread across the globe at the turn of the 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Warsaw Pact, and the dissolution of the USSR.
EUROPE
Complaint at the European Court of Human Rights: Systemic Ecocide and Genocide in the Global Financial System
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2025 -The legal action is rooted in extensive empirical, mathematical, and legal evidence demonstrating that the current global financial architecture—anchored in debt-driven, interest-bearing banking and rentier capitalism—generates large-scale harm and crises.
‘Shocking, Disappointing’: EU Refuses to Sanction Israel over Genocide in Gaza
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jul 2025 – Diplomats told European media that EU ministers are ‘unwilling’ to tackle the issue and wish to wait on the outcome of a new Gaza aid agreement between Tel Aviv and the bloc: BS.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Brazil to Join South Africa’s Complaint against Israel at International Court of Justice
Orinoco Tribune Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jul 2025 – According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv. The Brazilian news outlet stated that the complaint before the ICJ seeks to have the actions committed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recognized as genocide.
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The World Wonders! Where Are the Arab Leaders?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceBlind terror and hatred of Arabs and Islam blends the US and Israeli conquest plans for “Greater Israel”, a catastrophic abnormality taking shape and form without any deterrence.
PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
The BDS Movement Turns 20–It’s an Essential Pillar of Palestinian Freedom
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Jul 2025 – Do no harm, a principle associated with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has mainstreamed since its inception 20 years ago this week.
In a Historic Gathering, 12 Countries Announce Israel Sanctions and Renewed Legal Action to End Gaza Genocide
María F. Fitzgerald | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jul 2025 – Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, representatives of Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, and South Africa announced sanctions against Israel to cut the flow of weapons facilitating genocide and war crimes in Gaza.
Largest Displacement since 1967 Taking Place in Occupied West Bank, Says UN
AFP | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jul 2025 – The UN has warned that mass displacement in the occupied West Bank hit levels not seen since Israel’s occupation 60 years ago. An Israeli military operation launched in the north of the West Bank in January forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians, raising concerns of ethnic cleansing.
Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza Must Be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children Seeking Water
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2025 – Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for decades to come.” The Israeli army has destroyed 90% of the Gaza Strip’s housing, most hospitals, all schools and universities, water purification plants and other essential infrastructure, leaving over 2 million people to try to live in rubble.
ACTIVISM
No Ordinary Solidarity: Inside Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago’s Hunger Strike for Gaza
Joseph Mogul | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Jul 2025 – For 18 days, six members of JVP led a fast that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.
POETRY FORMAT
Salt in Their Hands
Mohammed Khier Abualruz | X – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn Gaza’s dusk where silence swells,
The children wait by broken wells.
No bread to break, no songs to sing,
Just buzzing drones and circling wing.
ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) Guerra en el oeste de Asia: Irán, Israel, Estados Unidos y los Rothschild
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEntendiendo el conflicto: ¿Por qué Estados Unidos quería “eliminar a 7 países”? ¿Por qué Estados Unidos (e Israel) todavía quieren “eliminar” a Irán?
IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Trump Insiders: US Gov’t very Afraid of BRICS and Dedollarization
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jul 2025 – The US fears the Global South’s challenge to the exorbitant privilege of the dollar. Trump is trying to make an example out of Brazil, threatening high tariffs to punish Lula da Silva, who promotes a multipolar world and a new global reserve currency.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Back for Good (Music Video of the Week)
Take That – TRANSCEND Media ServiceKick back and enjoy…
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Accident Prone
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2025 – Yawn…
“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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