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The Gaza Peoples’ Tribunal: Exploring Palestinian Erasure
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – By rewarding impunity for genocide, Trump’s ceasefire proves why a civil society-led tribunal is needed to uphold accountability and document Palestine’s fight for justice.
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They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. Hell, the most abusive Muslim states are US partners in crime like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Last night I had gone to bed with, and woke up this morning thinking about, the image of Gaza, I saw at the Archaeological Museum. That is, the Gaza battle scene on the sarcophagus named Alexandar, yes, that Macedonian empire-builder remembered as Alexandar the Great.
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Complexity of Interaction with a Configuration of Cognitive Mirrors
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
As a continuation of the exchanges with AIs with respect to Gaza, the complexity of such a mirror can be exploratively modelled in greater detail as a strange nexus for coherent comprehension in a period of chaotic fragmentation.
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Israel’s Physical and Ecological Destruction of Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it “unlivable.”
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Growing Concern on U.S.-Venezuela Tensions
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
On 15 Oct 2025, the Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a statement of solidarity with Venezuela at their meeting in Uganda, the current chair of the Non-Aligned Movement. Time for positive action is now, before greater tensions develop.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
20 Oct 2025 – The Pantomime Continues
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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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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
A fundamental principle of conflict resolution is “Multiply the options for agreement.” To maximize the chances of achieving sustainable peace, the parties need to consider the widest possible range of choices. In practice, however, …
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Global Pariah: The True Cost of the Gaza Genocide Revealed
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
No amount of money, newspaper coverage, or Netflix specials can ever successfully polish the image of a state that has so openly committed a genocide, one of the most thoroughly documented in recorded history.
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Turning Back from the Brink of Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025 – Legislators in the U.S. Congress and Senate introduced resolutions for the U.S. government to lead an effort to halt the nuclear arms race. Russia and the US, which together possess 87 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, have scrapped nearly all their nuclear arms control agreements.
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Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025 – The ICJ issued an advisory opinion yesterday branding the Israeli blockade on food and medical aid into the occupied Gaza Strip illegal. I mean, surely this conclusion is simple common sense.
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Gaza Tribunal: A Historic Statement in the Shadow of Testimony
Gaza Tribunal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Led by Prof. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, it was history unfolding in real time. After months of hearings, the Tribunal has now delivered its final judgment — which lands in the conscience of the world.
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A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
22 Oct 2025 – The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue.
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The 2025 Integrity Media Awards Goes to Julian Assange
The Information Rights Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
27 Oct 2025 – Julian Assange was awarded the 2025 inaugural Courage in Journalism Award. His brother, Gabriel Shipton, accepted the award on Julian’s behalf.
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Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina’s Corrupt Leader Javier Milei with $40 Billion
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – Trump is using $20 billion of US government money plus $20B more in private loans to bail out Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, meddling in the South American nation’s election.
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From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
23 Oct 2025 – Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby.
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A Ceasefire of the Perpetrators: How the West Repackaged Occupation as Peace
Javed Akbar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Trump is being lavishly credited with ending Israel’s massacre of Gaza’s population. We are told he persuaded both Netanyahu and Hamas into accepting his “deal.” In truth, Hamas had consented to nearly identical terms more than a year ago. It was Israel that torpedoed the effort.
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Two Conferences in Shanghai: Reflections on Discourse, Dialogue, and the Non-Studies of Peace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
In October 2025, I attended two major academic conferences in Shanghai. What unfolded was a journey through two distinct but interwoven events—each offering a lens into China’s intellectual landscape and its evolving role in the world.
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(Français) L’Arménie en Voie de Tyrannie
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
26 octobre 2025 – Pashinyan, le Petit Jupiter du Caucase, et sa Croisade contre les Cloches d’Echmiadzin – Ah, l’Arménie ! Cette nation antique, berceau du christianisme et rempart contre les invasions ottomanes.
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UN Report Lists Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide: Which Are Them?
Federica Marsi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.
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‘I Have Seen the Unthinkable, the Inhumane’: Dr Mimi Syed’s Testimony at Gaza Tribunal
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
“The children of Gaza, with their eyes wide open and full of innocence, have been subjected to horrors that no child should ever face. I have seen them murdered, starved and denied the most basic of human rights.”
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Reversing the Truth: The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ and British Complicity in Genocide
David Edwards | Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Competition for this year’s Peace Prize was fierce. Time magazine’s cover greeted the latest pause in Israel’s US-armed genocide in Gaza with a portrait of self-proclaimed Nobel front-runner Donald Trump: ‘HIS TRIUMPH’
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Democracy and Education for Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective caste, creed, colour. Rousseau asserts, “Man is born free”, but he realized and said also, “that he is everywhere in chains.”
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Political Insanity Drives Aggressive Wars in Palestine and Ukraine: How to Make Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Few against Many and Insanity without Borders
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France in Free Fall: Macron, the French, and Their Dance Macabre
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
26 Oct 2025 – France! The cradle of liberty, the homeland of the Enlightenment that under Macron resembles more a dusty Molière comedy: a blend of arrogance, absurdity and tragedy, where the actors—the French—lament while applauding their own shipwreck.
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The Pact of Betrayal: Sarkozy, Gaddafi and NATO’s War on Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
In 2007, the Libyan leader was received in Paris with red carpets and diplomatic smiles. His tent was pitched on the Champs-Élysées, a symbol of renewed Franco-African friendship. Behind the velvet words, however, a secret deal was already being written — one that would stain both men forever.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Oct 2025
Expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine: The Greatest Strategic Error
Imran Hossain | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – In the game of geopolitics, the most important rule is ‘self-interest first’. In Rakhine, every actor sought their own interest, making a complex situation for the Rohingya. But ‘expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine’ was the biggest strategic miscalculations by the junta and the civilian govt.
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Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – Palestine Behind Bars – What can the release of Palestinian detainees tell us about the ceasefire and the future of Israeli occupation? Please click and listen to horror stories:
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Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Johan was born in Oslo, Norway on 24 Oct 1930. 15 years later, the UN would come to existence on the same day—an omen of sorts? He received his first Ph.D. in mathematics at age of 25 and would become a sociologist, political scientist, mediator, and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies, among numerous other attributions and qualifications.
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Environmental Destruction and Endless Wars versus One Human Reality—Now or Never
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
Seeking a new paradigm is not so much a matter of looking for ideas that have not previously been found, for a new paradigm has already emerged during the last century that is entirely adequate to what is needed.
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Which Countries Owe the IMF the Most Money in 2025?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – From Argentina to Egypt, at least 86 countries collectively owe the International Monetary Fund more than $162bn.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Expands Israel’s Middle East Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
On 14 Oct, the Gaza War came to an end. Hamas returned all 20 remaining hostages and the bodies of the dead ones (the rest are buried under rubble). Israel lavishly praised Trump for achieving the ceasefire. However, fighting has since resumed.
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The Ramayana as a Treatise on Peace and Social Harmony
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
An Analysis (Template) of Duty, Sacrifice, and Resilience in the Present Era – “When the path of dharma (duties) is clouded by despair, devotion lifts mountains.”
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Somewhere Only We Know (Music Video of the Week)
Keane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
The Classic from 2009 with Lyrics
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My Friend Johan and I: Slices of a Transcendent Reality
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
I met Prof. Johan Galtung when I was an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu in 1986. He had a personal way of dealing with his students: at the end of each semester Johan would host a small reception in his house. I hardly knew that I was getting a lifelong best friend, well-wisher, employer, and above all–a mentor.
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The Disarming Force: Why Active Nonviolence Is Not the Same as Non-Violence
Ángel Sanz Montes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
25 Oct 2025 – In light of the Sumud Global Flotilla, it makes sense to question the real power of unarmed resistance in the face of overwhelming force. Beyond the specific act, whose humanitarian value is unquestionable, this journey is a potent symbol of a tradition that underpins it: active nonviolence.
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Creation of Unified BRICS Currency Threatens Dollar Supremacy in International Trade
Mix Vale | BRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
24 Oct 2025 – Emerging nations are uniting to question the dollar’s reign. The BRICS bloc, along with new members, is intensifying discussions on a unified currency. This proposal gains traction amid geopolitical tensions and economic sanctions exposing vulnerabilities in the current system.
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UN Rights Office Sounds Alarm over ‘Skyrocketing’ Israeli Settler Violence During Olive Harvest
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2025
21 Oct 2025 – The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in violence and restrictions by Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinian farmers, as the crucial olive harvest season gets underway.
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Something Happened on the Way to Heaven…
TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
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The Masks Have Come Off
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story.
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Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – What to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.
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Palestinians Freed from Israeli Prisons Denied Reunion with Families, Deported Instead
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
As Trump Claims a ‘Forever’ Peace: Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deported them.
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Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025 – The imperial project to formalize occupation under international management via a transition authority would embed permanent colonial control, deepen division, and ensure that Gaza be permanently subjugated.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Third-party nonviolent intervention is the physical presence of a third party into an area of conflict in such a way as to reduce the level of violence. Accompaniment of persons in danger was developed as a technique in the early 1980s by Peace Brigades International, which I represented in Geneva.
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A Critique of Pure Stupidity: Understanding Trump 2.0
William Davies | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
2 Oct 2025 – If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?
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Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
13 Oct 2025 – Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the ICC.
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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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A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians…
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Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
Dan Steinbock | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – Amid its lethal bombarding campaign, Israel awarded licenses for gas exploration in offshore Gaza, which is not under its sovereignty. Hence, the ceasefire smokescreen to disguise the struggle for the gas reserves. Making Gaza safe for US capitalism.
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Increase by Record Amount in 2024
World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – CO2 levels in the atmosphere soared to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the WMO.
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Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
Sunjeev Bery | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment. The long-term implications of the “peace plan” appear startlingly similar to the goals that US white settlers had for Native Americans.
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Wish You Were Here (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
A Classic from 1975 – Lost Souls and War (with lyrics)
→ read full articleDr. 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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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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Jeffrey Sachs: Is Israel/Hamas Deal for Real?
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – Judge Andrew Napolitano Interviews Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
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UN Faces ‘Race to Bankruptcy’ as Guterres Unveils Sharply Reduced 2026 Budget
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
17 Oct 2025 – The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 20 Oct 2025
The Imperial Tango: How the US “War on Drugs” Dances around Venezuela’s Oil Wells
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
18 Oct 2025 – Ah, the United States of America—land of the free, home of the brave, and apparently, the self-appointed global sheriff in a never-ending Wild West showdown against “narco-terrorists.”
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“Genocide Is the Means, Not the Ends” – Norman Finkelstein
Ashfaaq Carim | UNAPOLOGETIC/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025 – Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.
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Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
Media Education Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein dissected Israel’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel’s brutal occupation, siege, and successive “high-tech killing sprees” and atrocities in the Strip.
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(Italiano) 35 anni dal punto di svolta della Germania
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Ottobre 2025 – In una recente visita alla capitale tedesca, ho dato uno sguardo attento a tutto il sentiero ciclopedonale di 160 kilometri del Muro di Berlino (Berliner Mauerweg) lungo il percorso che racchiudeva Berlino-Ovest come un’isola durante la Guerra Fredda.
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I Decide Who I Am —> No Longer Jew or Jewish
Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
14 Oct 2025 – I am not Jewish because I do not practise Jewish religion. There is no such thing as ‘Jewish blood’–only human blood. Our identity is influenced by family, upbringing, culture, and society but mature persons choose their own identity and the values they hold. I decide who I am–not Israel, not anyone else.
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The Middle East after the Gaza ‘War’
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
12 Oct 2025 – The Gaza War ended based on the Trump plan. Israel is prepared to resume attacks (crimes against humanity) if necessary, so this may be a temporary ceasefire rather than a groundbreaking end.
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Statement by the Last Releasee of the Global Sumud Flotilla from Israeli Jail
Huwaida Arraf | Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Huwaida Arraf, a US attorney, Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, was on the Sumud Flotilla that Israel illegally intercepted on 1-2 Oct 2025 in international waters. She was taken to Israel, had a sham hearing, was physically abused, refused to sign a statement, and was then expelled. She is fearless. Here is her story.
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The Inner Lamp: Deepavali’s Philosophy of Peace in a World of Conflict and Belligerence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
“Lighting the Way: Deepavali and the Pursuit of Global Peace is the inescapable Victory of Light Over Darkness, Good over Evil: Deepavali’s Narrative is a Shared Human Aspiration for Sustained Global Peace “
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EU Billionaires’ Wealth Surges by over €400 Billion in First Half of 2025
OXFAM | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – The combined wealth of EU billionaires increased by more than 400 billion euros in just six months this year–over two billion euros a day.
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Inverting Reality: The Optics of Trump’s “Peace” Plan–A Powerful Message from Palestine
Rima Najjar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took.
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Abolish the World Cup!
Toby Miller and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025 – Football is more popular than Jesus of Nazareth and John Lennon combined. And at first glance, it seems like a pastime that doesn’t harm the environment: players just need a ball, some space, and the desire to run. But the data are shocking:
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Columbus Day vs. Indigenous People’s Day
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
More Profound and Irrelevant Than Presently Understood
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Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
15 Oct 2025 – Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.”
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Islam and Gandhi on Peace and Nonviolence
Cemil Kutlutürk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
Islam and Mahatma Gandhi’s approaches are remarkable. Both share same aims about common ethical concepts such as nonviolence, compassion for all creation, freedom, justice, patience and tolerance.
→ read full articleEducation, Altruism and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
The basic problem of the whole world today is the establishment of peace. But peace based on human nature will be foundational, lasting, eternal permanent and endurable in a nuclear age.
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Genocide Two Years On: It Is the West, Not Gaza, That Must Be Deradicalised
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism.
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The China-Russia-India Energy and Trade Triangle: Reshaping Global Markets in a Multipolar Era
Philip Carter | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – China-Russia-India alliance challenges U.S. economic dominance via energy/trade integration and BRICS expansion.
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Why Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Is a Disaster for the Palestinians
Ismail Patel | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
30 Sep 2025 – By demanding submission and making self-determination entirely conditional and vague, the plan constitutes a colonial subjugation of Palestinian national aspirations.
→ read full articleThe Collapse of the US Empire and Rise of New Fascisms
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
What Would Galtung Do or Say?
→ read full article(Français) La Rencontre Trump-Zelensky : Triomphe de la Vision Russe et Débâcle de l’Europe sous Macron et von der Leyen
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2025
La rencontre historique du 18 octobre entre Donald Trump et Volodymyr Zelensky à la Maison Blanche a redessiné la géopolitique mondiale en 2,5 heures d’échanges tendus. En refusant catégoriquement de livrer les missiles Tomahawk demandés par Kiev pour frapper la Russie, Trump a scellé un virage décisif.
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Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire; Trump Confirms Deal Was Reached
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Hamas and other Palestinian factions agreed to a framework for the Gaza ceasefire deal today, a senior Hamas official and a second source close to the Palestinian negotiating team told. “From our side, yes.”
→ read full articleGaza as a Mirror for Personal Implication in a Reality Denied
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
What is to be learned from the extensive media exposure to the tragic events in Gaza and the nature of the global response to it? More to the point, what indeed could “I” be learning from that exposure and how “I” am called into question by it?
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Interpreting the Trump (Netanyahu) Gaza Plan; Reactions to It and What Next
Daniel Levy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
3 Oct 2025 – The juxtaposition between the evident and criminal flaws in the Trump Gaza plan (which, while thin on detail, makes grandiose claims, is cringeworthy and unlikely to be actualized), requires some explaining and unpacking; where it might lead and whether anything can be salvaged from this detritus.
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Oxford Jewish Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist
Quds News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
27 Sep 2025 – Jewish Oxford University historian Prof. Avi Shlaim has openly condemned Israel’s policies and praised Palestinian resistance. In an interview with Haaretz, Shlaim repeatedly stressed that Palestinians, including Hamas, have the right to resist occupation.
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‘Lay Down Your Arms Peace Prize’ 2025 to Francesca Albanese
Jan Oberg | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel’s full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel´s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
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Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
8 Oct 2025 – Washington’s escalating regime-change offensive against Venezuela uses drug interdiction conflated with combating “terrorism” as a pretext for the expansion of imperial militarism.
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Albert Einstein and the Problem of War
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Einstein was horrified by the onset of World War I and wondered whether “centuries of painstaking cultural effort” have “carried us no further than . . . the insanity of nationalism.” Today, as we face a violent, nuclear-armed world, his warnings about unrestrained nationalism and his proposals to control it are increasingly relevant.
→ read full articleTwo Years of Genocide: On Social Media by Israeli Soldiers Themselves
zeteo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
5 Oct 2025 – On the second anniversary of the Oct 7 attack, here’s our acclaimed short film ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’, featuring rare interviews with Israeli troops.
→ read full articleDisinvite Trump
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
7 Oct 2025 – The International Movement for a Just World joins a host of Malaysian groups and individuals in appealing to PM Anwar Ibrahim to formally disinvite Trump to the forthcoming ASEAN Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 28 Oct 2025.
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Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza
Leopoldo Tartaglia | Labor Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
9 Oct 2025 – More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on Oct 3 in a general strike in support of Gaza and against the genocide. The strike drew extraordinary participation from workers, students, families, and dozens of secular and religious associations.
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Western Media Is an Integral Component of the West’s Collective Genocide in Palestine
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Is So Fxxking Criminal, Pathetic, Perverse – Stopping the US-Israel Joint Genocide Amidst Worldwide Condemnation Is Presented as “a Deal”
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Gaza and the Excuse of October 7: The Test of Our Humanity
Biljana Vankovska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
7 Oct 2025 – October 7 marks the beginning of a genocide that had long been unfolding in silence — slowly, systematically, and with bureaucratic precision behind euphemisms: “security,” “counterterrorism,” “right to self-defence.” But on October 7, 2023, the mask fell. The genocide revealed its full, grotesque face — naked hatred toward everything Palestinian.
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A Joint Statement from Palestinian Resistance Factions
Resistance News Network | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the three powers — issued a joint statement on 10 Oct 2025, posted by Resistance News Network.
→ read full articleWhy October 7 Happened in 3 Minutes
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 – Max Blumenthal breaks it all down.
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Denmark, Drones & Deception: Europe’s Staged Panic Over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
6 Oct 2025 – Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark…
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Transition to a Nonmilitary Earth Federation through the World Disarmament Agency
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
Civil law require enforcement by civilian police who are accountable to the principles of good government and trained in the protection of human rights and dignity. The first of these principles is that individuals are accountable to the law, not collectivities (like nation-states).
→ read full articleThinking Conflict
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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Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
10 Oct 2025 – There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.
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The Garden of Peace Memories: Revisiting Kashmir’s Cultural Past and Present, Odyssean Soul (Part 4)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2025
“Can The Sacred Harmony in the Vale of Kashmir be Ever Restored?”
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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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