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Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba
Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 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.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla Has Not Given Up
Antonis Vradis | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 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.
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Israeli Navy Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla in New Attempt to Break Gaza Blockade
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
18 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.
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Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 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.
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Ready or Not, AI Government Is Already Here
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Automation 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.
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(Italiano) S Loganathan: un gandhiano attivo nell’India moderna
Elena Camino e Franco Lovisolo | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
6 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.
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Life Imitates Art…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Pure Hollywood…
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The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
Nicholas Kristof | NYT/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 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.
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Why the World Needs China to Save More, Not Less
Jeffrey D. Sachs | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 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.
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Danza del Molinero (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
El Sombrero de Tres Picos
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(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 Service,
18 May 2026
11 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…
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Space Governance Needs More Than Diplomacy
Glen T. Martin, Manuel Galiñanes and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
[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.]
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“Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism.
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Fame! A Misunderstanding
Matthew Lamb | Los Angeles Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
6 May 2026 – Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.
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How AI Is Reshaping Governance, Security and Power
Layal Beyhum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
7 May 2026 – AI policy adviser Tiffany Saade discusses AI governance, challenging AI hype and the narrative of neutral technologies.
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The Ongoing Iran War
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 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.
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An Open Letter to World Leaders and International Organizations
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
16 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.”
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Israel & US Entrapped by War of Aggression on Iran: The Quest for Real Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
17 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.
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How I Became a Captive of My Own Deceitful Kin
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
No 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.
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Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 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.”
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Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be USA’s Suez Crisis?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
How 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?
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The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces a Rethinking of Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 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.
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How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar
Richard Medhurst – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
1 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.
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Claude AI Has Emotions? 171 Vectors Explained
Gaugr - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
On 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.
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Strait of Hormuz–The Gate of Ahura Mazda: Latest Actor in Global Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
“A Comprehensive Study of its Geologic Birth, Imperial Legacy, Modern Geopolitics, and the Search for Global Peace”
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Xi Warned Trump of the ‘Thucydides Trap’–What Is It?
Leo Sands | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 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.
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Eurovision: Europe Chooses Israeli Crimes over Original Peacemaking–Boycott It!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
12 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.
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Spain, Ireland, Slovenia Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Inclusion, Set to Air Palestine Films Instead
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 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.
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Trump Lands in Beijing with Over a Dozen Western Moguls in Tow Ahead of High-Stakes Talks with Xi
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and top executives from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta joined the US president.
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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank Is a Continuing Process
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – This selection concentrates on zionist settlers attacks on farming, a key pillar of the Palestinian economy and Palestinian culture.
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The Palantir Imperium
CN LIVE! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
8 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…
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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 Service,
18 May 2026
13 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.
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Seniority over Justice
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
The 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.
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(Italiano) Perché il vescovo si occupa di armi?
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
10 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.
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Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 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.
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IQ Scores Are Falling But, No, We’re Not Growing More Stupid
Stuart Jeffries | psyche - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place.
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This Is the Real Reason for Trump’s Visit to China
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 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.
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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 Service,
18 May 2026
15 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
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Prof W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Modern 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.
→ read full articleCan Israel Save Itself? Some Proposals
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Israel’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.
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Global Sumud Land Convoy Advances Overland to Break Siege on Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
17 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.
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The US Mis-imagination of China
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 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.
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Araghchi: BRICS Look at Iran with Different Eyes after “US Failure”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
16 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.
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Macron, the Would-Be Pan-African: The Arsonist’s Script
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 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.
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Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – Over the past four decades, I have lived with bipolar disorder that has often cut deeper than any physical pain I have ever known. Yet what has been equally difficult to bear is not only the illness itself, but the silence and incomprehension that so often surround it.
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Mnemonics of Achieving Strategic Lift-off and Sustainable Flight
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Imaginative Misrepresentation of Viable Systemic Connectivity by Magic Carpets and Dragonification – There are many extensively articulated strategies in response to the crises of governance — and to the polycrisis of the times.
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Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – The world’s most urgent problem is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and from different cultures, Westerners just compartmentalize them away–normalization.
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US Seeks to Turn Eritrea into “a Bulwark against Iranian Influence”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – The Wall Street Journal published a piece headlined “U.S. Seeks to Reset Ties with Reclusive but Strategically Vital African State.” As the militarization of the Red Sea escalates, the US tries to enlist Eritrea in exchange for sanctions relief.
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With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank
Natan Odenheimer, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – When Israeli settlers attacked his West Bank village, Moatasem Odeh saw his son Amir, 28, fatally shot. Then he was stabbed repeatedly and beaten unconscious. Israel has failed to arrest a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.
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(Italiano) Un’altra narrazione è possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
22 Aprile 2026 – “Se senti dolore sei vivo ma se senti il dolore degli altri sei umano.” –Lev Tolstoj – Per un giornalismo di pace, c’è anche un’altra narrazione. Un contributo del Centro Studi Sereno Regis alla marcia della pace Ciriè-Lanzo del 19 Aprile 2026
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‘Highly Protected’: OPCW Confirms It Buried Critical Evidence in Syria Chemical Weapons Probe
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.
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Sanctions for the Script, Minerals for the Taking–No Victory, only Congolese on the Flight
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – So, the U.S. Treasury just slapped Joseph Kabila onto its blacklist, accusing him of “sowing instability” by bankrolling the M23. In Kinshasa, Tshisekedi’s court is uncorking the cheap champagne. Victory at last!
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The Man Who Refused to Kneel: Vladimir Putin at 26 Years
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – On 7 May 2000, an unknown former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin took the oath of office. Russia was on its knees–economically shattered, militarily humbled, territorially fragile, and diplomatically irrelevant.
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(Italiano) Un’altra difesa è possibile: NO alla guerra, SI alla difesa civile, non armata e nonviolenta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
28 Aprile 2026 – Il 16 marzo scorso è stata depositata in Cassazione la proposta di legge di iniziativa popolare “Un’altra difesa è possibile”, promossa dalla Conferenza nazionale degli Enti di Servizio civile, dalla Rete italiana pace e disarmo, e da Sbilanciamoci.
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(Français) Netanyahu, le visionnaire qui nous sauve… de nos assiettes
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 mai 2026 – On nous l’avait promis : une guerre « rapide », « chirurgicale », « nécessaire ». Benjamin Netanyahu et Donald Trump nous l’avaient juré sur la Torah et la Bible réunies. Quelques semaines, tout au plus, et l’Iran serait maté, la région stabilisée, et le monde enfin en paix. Résultat, en ce mois d’avril 2026 ?
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Covert NATO Initiative Turns Film into Anti-Russia Battleground
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
9 May 2026 – A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
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(Français) L’argent : le dernier tabou qui paralyse vos négociations
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 mai 2026 – Pourquoi est-il plus facile de parler de nos échecs que de notre compte en banque ?
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Emerging World Law
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – The Transition from the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) to the Provisional World Parliament (PWP)
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The World This Week: Playing with Fire
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 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.
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Palantir and the New Order
Yanis Varoufakis | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
23 Apr 2026 – Neoliberalism Is Dead—Say Hello to Techlordism – A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour.
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End Europe’s Resurgent Militarism and Israel’s Genocidal Regime
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, Dr John Reuwer of Doctors against Genocide, and Bisan Owda of Gaza Call for Peace, Humanity and Harmony.
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First Time in History Younger Generation Scores Lower IQ
WION - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 Feb 2026 – For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a ‘cognitive catastrophe.’
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Trump and Lula at the White House: A Relationship Built on Pragmatism and a Broader Regional Calculus
Guilherme Casarões | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – For about three hours of closed-door talks between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and US President Donald Trump at the White House yesterday, many observers in the two countries held their breath.
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War on Humanity and Earth and the US-Israeli Moral, Intellectual and Political Bankruptcy
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
The US-Israel War on Mankind and Fear of the Future
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Using Food as Information to Improve Health and Well-Being
Dr Michael S. Fenster | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
Food is not just fuel; it is not merely a list of nutrients. Meals carry aroma, texture, memory, and meaning. Cultural traditions shape how foods are prepared, combined, and shared. Emotional states influence appetite and response. These elements are not superfluous add-ons to dietary health; they are part of how the body interprets what we eat.
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The Possibility of Israel’s World Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 May 2026 – The US and Iran continue their mutual naval blockades, halting much of the oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf countries to the world.
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UN Chief Says US Unpaid Dues Worth Billions Are ‘Non-Negotiable’
Namrata Sen | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
2 May 2026 – Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the UN, has affirmed that the billions of dollars that the U.S. owes to the international body are “non-negotiable.” He clarified that the outstanding amount, known as “assessed contributions,” is a mandatory obligation of member nations and cannot be negotiated.
→ read full articleMoving Beyond Personalism: How the Obsession with Donald Trump Undermines Hopes for Progressive Change
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
When Trump is criticized, when his mental stability as well as his moral character is called into question, he has a ready answer: TDS- “Trump Derangement Syndrome…” Time passes quickly. To remain obsessed by a leader’s personal failings plays his game and leaves oppressive systems in place. Let’s focus – now! — on creating something better.
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USA’s Suicide Pact
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – USA’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
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The Global Epidemic of Violence in an Age of Impunity
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 -Global violence today is metastasizing, not contained; over 180,000 violent events reported globally by the International Institute for Strategic Studies signal a world in which violent conflict has become a baseline condition rather than an exception.
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Moments of Bifurcation
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – From Gibraltar to Hormuz – The Moment of Bifurcation
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Eritrea and the “Internal Government Document Seen by Reuters”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
6 May 2026 – Reuters reports on a mysterious government document seeming to confirm that sanctions will be lifted on Eritrea.
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Lebanon Under Fire again – Israel Escalates Despite Ceasefire
Ranjan Solomon | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – Despite the ceasefire agreement reached in April, southern Lebanon continues to endure relentless Israeli military attacks. What was announced as a step toward de-escalation increasingly appears to have been little more than a temporary pause in an expanding regional conflict.
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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
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A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity
Gordon P. Duff | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
30 Mar 2026 – To the peoples of the world, to thinkers, to scholars, and to those who believe in justice: A specter now haunts the conscience of humanity—the return of predatory power— and it shall no longer go unchallenged.
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As Israel Continues to Destroy Lebanon’s South, Locals Are Turning to Hezbollah
Jason Ditz | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
1 May 2026 – Occupied by Israel, and watching Israeli military bulldozers destroy their homes and villages, many have less and less time to hold Hezbollah responsible, and are instead turning to Hezbollah for protection, as the only faction that is in any way resisting the ongoing attacks.
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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 Service,
11 May 2026
27 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
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The Limits of Power
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – The War on Iran Will Likely End in US Retreat
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TRANSCEND Member Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Awarded 2026 Berrigan-McAlister Award
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – Kathy Kelly, a Chicago-based peace activist and nonviolence innovator, has been named the sixth recipient of the Berrigan-McAlister Award, presented by DePaul University’s Department of Catholic Studies.
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The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces Rethinking Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Rather than a subsistence stipend, Universal High Income (UHI) would be a level of income allowing ordinary people to live well in a world where machines do most of the work.
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The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 May 2026 – Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet: the highest point of the Himalayas; the deepest depths of the sea; the snow of Antarctica.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is a Plastic Trash Nightmare–It Could also Be Part of a Much Bigger, Hidden Problem
Laura Paddison | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind.
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A Few More Thoughts on AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – Vowed atheist Richard Dawkins is the subject of laughter and ridicule for admitting that a sycophantic Chatbot might be conscious. I am confident the Chatbots aren’t conscious in the same way I’m confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren’t conscious.
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Freedom (of the Press) and Peace Are Not Ideological but Scientific Facts
Alejandro A. Tagliavini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – The RSF report says that in the 25 years that it has published the World Press Freedom Index, freedom of information has been deteriorating, and journalists continue to be killed or imprisoned. Norway tops the rankings for the tenth consecutive year, while Eritrea consolidates in last place (180th).
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From Imperial Tsars to Digital Sovereigns
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
An odyssey of Structural Violence, Peace Disruption, and the Preventable Failure of Galtung’s Positive Peace from the 20th to the 21st Century
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Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks
Jeremy Scahill & Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – Iran is saying it will enter into direct talks with the U.S. “when President Trump lifts what Iran considers to be the illegal military naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” says Jeremy Scahill. “Iran has maintained that it’s not shut down the strait, but that it’s just shut it down for any vessels that are linked to the U.S. war in any way.”
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“Spring 2026” Flotilla Sets Sail from Sicily to Break Gaza Blockade
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
27 Apr 2026 – The “Spring 2026 mission,” part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, set sail yesterday, Sunday, from the Italian island of Sicily, aiming to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
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Alzheimer’s and the Fragile Beauty of the Cuban Dream under Blockade and Threat of Invasion
Ullekh NP | Open Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
22 Apr 2026 – A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on a medical milestone and captures the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the US blockade and threats of an invasion.
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“We’re Like Pirates”: Trump on US Seizing Iranian Oil from Ships in Hormuz
Edited by Anushree Jonko | MDTV World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – “We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” Trump said today while addressing a rally in Florida.
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Teresita’s Dream – Cuba’s Battle against Alzheimer’s
Brattleboro Community TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
12 Dec 2025 – Windham World Affairs Council – Teresita’s Dream is not just a film. It is a call to reimagine global health — and to stand in solidarity with those pushing for solutions against the devastating consequences of the U.S. embargo on Cuba — while humanizing the real-world consequences of U.S. imperialist policy and flipping the script on Cuban innovation.
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Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla Near Greek Waters
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
Israeli military boats travelled more than 700 miles on Wednesday [29 Apr] night to attack a 54-ship flotilla that was headed for Gaza to attempt to break the illegal Israeli naval blockade.
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Terrorist State of Israel Assaults the Humanitarian Sumud Flotilla in International Waters: The Screams, Torture, Impunity, and the Duty to Name It
Claudia Aranda at Mediterranean Sea | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla was not a legal dispute over a naval blockade; it was not an inspection, not an administrative detention nor a “security check.” It was an armed capture of civilians in international waters, followed by beatings, humiliation, deliberate deprivation of food and water, coercive isolation, and direct allegations of torture.
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From “America First” to “Family First”: Trumps’ Hidden Profits from Iran War
Brian Hudson | Daily Kos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
14 Apr 2026 – In modern US history, war has consistently been a source of wealth for a small minority. This conflict will likely be remembered not as a necessary war, but as the first war in U.S. history waged for the private enrichment of a president’s family.
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(Castellano) Cuidado Con Los Hombres Que Hacen La Guerra Para Demostrar Que Son Hombres
Toby Miller y Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
29 abr 2026 – No sorprende la ‘hipermasculinidad’ desenfrenada que la Casa Blanca ha desencadenado en Irán
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‘All Changed with the Genocide’: Palestinian Women and Girls Face Brutal Abuse in Israeli Jails
Victoria Brittain | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
17 Apr 2026 – More Than 700 Have Been Arrested Since the Gaza Genocide Began, Enduring Brutal Conditions of Starvation, Isolation and Humiliation
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War of Aggression on Iran: Warren, Schiff Accuse Trump Family of Pentagon Deal Corruption
msn - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
25 Apr 2026 – Rep. Adam Schiff accused the Trump family of leveraging political prominence for financial gain, citing Eric Trump’s link to a $24 million Pentagon contract for a robotics startup.
→ read full articleThe 11th Hour US Imperialism, Israel’s “Mein Kampf in Reverse”, Palantir’s Oligarchic Techno-Fascism: Unprecedented Challenges to Peace-Thinkers/Makers
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
All news these days are bad news for average persons. Millions grit their teeth and pin their/our hope in the acts of resistance from below against corporate, statist and ideological forces that are prime drivers behind daily bad news.
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Havana Slams New Trump Sanctions as ‘Collective Punishment’ of Cuban People
Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – The Cuban government has firmly rejected new sanctions levied by United States President Donald Trump, calling them “unilateral coercive measures” intended to impose “collective punishment on the Cuban people”.
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Six Vaccinology-illiterate US Presidents Have Promoted Big Pharma’s Fast-tracked Experimental Vaccines
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
The Story about Fast-tracked Vaccination Fiascos – and Others yet to Come
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Record-Breaking World Heat
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch– TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
24 Apr 2026 – The world is its hottest (circa 1500-present). Yet, fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue unabated creating an artificial blanket that retains heat. Despite decarbonization efforts, emissions rise driven by increasing energy demand and fossil fuel use.
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