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Mnemonic Foundations of a Playable Topology of Global Coherence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The challenge may be framed simply: can patterns of coherence as structurally rich as polyhedra be rendered as cognitively accessible and memorable as the alphabet? This could be compared with the early challenge of education, namely enabling children to engage with the alphabet as a pattern, …
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Responses to Questions from Asgar Ghahremanpour, Journalist at Iran Daily
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Israel has ignored international law since its inception in 1948, including the legal obligations of an Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territories of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Such an assessment has been validated by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of July 19, 2024.
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Inside Israel’s Prison Regime
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank have not. Graphic scenes of violence–be aware.
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Regarding Nuclear War Between Israel and Iran
Ann Garrison interviews physicist James McFadden | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The political fallout from Trump’s recklessness in West Asia continues around the globe, while some wonder how far the radioactive fallout might travel if the war were to go nuclear. I talked with Physicist James McFadden about the likely consequences of a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran.
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Newcastle Upon Tyne: The First City to Erect a Genocide Memorial Monument for Myanmar’s Rohingya Survivors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – Forgetting is a crime against memory. The city of Newcastle in the UK does not forget Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya and pledges to support their quest for justice.
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Unpacking the Iran-USA Ceasefire with Prof Farhang Jahanpour
Amara Sophia Elahi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
11 Apr 2026 – Prof. Farhang Jahanpour is a former Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan in Iran. He taught at the Universities of Oxford (where I had the privilege of studying Persian literature with him), Cambridge and Harvard. He was also a Middle East editor at BBC Monitoring.
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NATO: Allies’ Security Myth
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – “Global Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer “
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‘I Felt I Was a Monster’: IDF Soldiers Talk about the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Tom Levinson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Some of them killed civilians in Gaza; others just looked on, or witnessed abuse and cover-ups in the name of revenge. Now they’re trying to cope with something a bit different than PTSD.
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Debt, Decline and Iran: Why the U.S. Can’t Afford another Forever War
The Duran | Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – In this sobering conversation, Dennis Kucinich offers a clear-eyed assessment of the US’ accelerating descent into another costly and unwinnable war.
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US/Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran Carrying on Their Tradition of Targeting Medical Workers
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – The United States and Israel are systematically targeting hospitals in Iran. In one month of bombing, the two countries have hit at least 307 health centers across the country, according to reports from the Iranian Red Crescent.
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Why the Israeli and US War in Iran Is “Not Europe’s War”
Jeanne Macé and Alžběta Frommerová | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Since the launch of the Israel and US war against Iran on 28 Feb 2026, European countries have been exposed to the consequences of a conflict they neither initiated nor sought to join.
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” [Anthem of Europe]
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” That year, Beethoven began the long gestation of what would become an eternal masterwork of the supreme human art: making meaning out of chaos, beauty out of sorrow.
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Lebanon’s Vichy Regime Faces Street Mobilization over Betrayal of Resistance and “Normalization” with Israel
Feroze Mithiborwala | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – As Beirut’s skyline is obscured by the smoke of Israeli bombardment, the regime of PM Nawaf Salam faces accusations of “high treason” and “servile collaboration” with Netanyahu, triggering a massive popular uprising.
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Food Safety in the EU: Addition of Vitamins and Minerals
European Commission - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
What are additives? A wide range of nutrients and other ingredients are used in food manufacturing. Such nutrients or ingredients are added to food in order to “enrich” or “fortify” the food in question, so as to add or emphasise particular nutritional characteristics.
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(Français) Hongrie 2026 : Le Chef-d’œuvre d’une Passation de Pouvoir
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
La Hongrie nous offre une leçon de politique aussi subtile qu’élégante. Viktor Orbán, ce titan qui a incarné pendant seize ans la souveraineté hongroise face aux vents contraires de Bruxelles et de Washington, a choisi de quitter la scène avec une grâce rare. Sans amertume, sans cris, sans complots.
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Brief, Arbitrary Abductions: A New Tool of Israeli Intimidation in Masafer Yatta
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – In recent months, soldiers have arrested dozens of West Bank Palestinians — many blindfolded, beaten, and then released without explanation.
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My Own Genocide…
Susan Abulhawa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Truthful. Indeed. You can say that again. And again…
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Review of Generation Z Voices Across Borders: Inspire Youth Journal’s Global Platform
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The Inspire Youth Journal is a global platform that amplifies the voices of Generation Z through journalism, storytelling, and dialogue. It brings together over 200 contributors from 40 countries to address pressing global issues and promote cross-border solidarity.
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Ignorant and Imbecile Warriors: US and Israel Waging War on Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Trump: “An entire civilization will perish, never to return; 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally come to an end. God bless the great people of Iran!” Although the Pope did not mention Trump by name, he stated that “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war”
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Israeli Journalist with Deep Ties to IDF Admits West Bank Violence ‘Looks Like… Ethnic Cleansing’
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – West Bank settler attacks on Palestinians are “rather sophisticated, organized, and funded systematic actions,” with the goal of “cleansing” the entire region, said journalist Ron Ben-Yishai.
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The Man Who Put War on Trial
Steven Jay | MobilizedNEWs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
In 1945, a 27-year-old lawyer helped prove a radical idea after WWII: War crimes can be prosecuted. On 14 Apr, Benjamin Ferencz, who put war on trial at Nuremberg, posthumously receives Congressional Gold Medal.
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Resisting the New World Order: Your Technocratic Slave Camp
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
19 Apr 2026 – Many authors and organizations are commenting on one or more of the changes being imposed on the world as a series of events take place, each of which will significantly change how the world functions and how we perceive it. Only a rare analyst, however, is drawing attention to what the combined impact of these changes is designed to achieve.
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Endogenous Peace Principles Across Civilisations, from Maat in Antiquity to Biophotonic Coherence: A Humane, Scientific, and Sacred Science of Peace Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
A Comprehensive Narrative of Ethical, Mystical, Ecological, and Neuroharmonic Pathways to the attainment of Human Communal Peace
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Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
Caitlin Scialla | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Paramount Skydance‘s winning bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery marks a major milestone in media monopolization that, if successful, will further expand Trump-allied tech moguls Larry and David Ellison’s burgeoning power over US news and entertainment media.
→ read full articleAddiction, Not Conflict: Notes from a Continent That’s Seen It All
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
There is something almost poetic about the way the world organizes its chaos. Not poetic in the Rumi sense—more in the bureaucratic, “please take a number and wait for collapse” sense. The conflicts are a part of the «relationship.”
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Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics’ to Level Villages
Jason Ditz | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction in the first 1.5 month is even bigger than initially feared. Satellite images confirm over 1,400 buildings destroyed in Israeli invasion.
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Future No Kings Protests: Weeping and Resisting in Global Solidarity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – My poem below is intended as a sequel to an earlier poem, An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism, written in support of the No Kings protests, which were a dramatic success.
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Europe’s ‘War on Vitamins’ Returns: How EU Restrictions Risk Deepening a Silent Public Health Crisis
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
17 Apr 2026 – Under the misleading banner of ‘safety,’ the European Union is moving toward enforcing draconian limits on the permitted dosages of vitamins and minerals contained in supplements, a deeply cynical attack on the health, lives, and freedom of choice of millions of people.
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The Complete List of What Billionaires Own in Hawaii
Brigitte and Zsolt | SandinMyLuggage - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Updated 2026 – Just 37 billionaires now control more than 218,000 acres of Hawaii. That’s 11% of all private land in the state – and the actual number is higher because these buyers hide behind shell companies with Hawaiian-sounding names. After 30 years on Oahu, I’ve watched this unfold in real-time. But what happened in 2025 changed everything.
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The Cancer Calculus
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – The ICIJ Is Proud to Bring You Our Latest Investigation – Keytruda has been hailed as a game changer in cancer treatment, but much of the world can’t afford it. Now, we shed new light on how Merck has fended off competitors to keep the price of Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.
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How a Comedian Turned Autocrat Collected Europe’s Highest Honor for Liberty while Sending His Country to the Meat Grinder
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The Hague, 16 Apr 2026. In a sun-dappled hall that once hosted the loftiest declarations of human dignity, Volodymyr Zelensky stepped forward to accept the Four Freedoms Award. The prize has previously gone to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and the International Red Cross.
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Serpents in Authority
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
The most consequential betrayals do not arrive in the form of open opposition; they emerge from within the very structures designed to guide and protect. Authority, when granted in good faith, carries an unspoken covenant—to elevate, to safeguard, and to act without concealed extraction.
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Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.
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Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP/WP/Genocide Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
16 Apr 2026 – Famine. Massacres. Badly needed food and other supplies are now under strain. Sudan yesterday entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes.
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Kollo Lena | زين – كله لينا (Music Video of the Week)
Zeyne – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
Enjoy!
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Bypass the Failed UN Security Council: A World Parliament Arises
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
15 Apr 2026 – The Earth Constitution, drafted over a period of 30 years by the World Constitution & Parliament Association, has the potential to resolve the dilemma of the UN not being able to end war, eliminate nuclear weapons, or adequately insure human rights and protect the environment.
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Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War
Robert Roth | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
10 Apr 2026 – As the world reels from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, Trump’s plan to assert dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace.
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Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”
The Intercept Briefing - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2026
14 Apr 2026 – The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.
→ read full articleConceptual Complexity Compactified within Fundamental Polyhedra
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
13 Apr 2026 – Progressive Emergence of Explicit Complex Patterns Implicit in Simplest Forms – This exploration was triggered by the suspicion that the complexity evident explicitly in the array of 13 semi-regular Archimedean polyhedra was implicit in some manner in the 5 regular Platonic polyhedra.
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“Fahrenheit 11/9” – This Is How Fascism Starts
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – A scene from Michael Moore’s 2018 film, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.
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Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Two texts relevant to ongoing US/Israel war of aggression against Iran in the context of a failing ceasefire agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.
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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party
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Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes
The Critic Brief - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026
The “special relationship” is OVER. In a stunning 24 hours, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria have all slammed the door shut on US warplanes — refusing airspace and air bases as Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.”
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War on Iran–a Word from the US President: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake in the hands of a madman. Exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the downed F-15 yesterday?
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Europe Pushes Back at Trump, Refuses US Military Access for Iran War
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
5 Apr 2026 – Several European countries including Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland have restricted or denied U.S. military access linked to operations against Iran, highlighting growing divisions within the Western alliance.
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Which Way to US National Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
Rather than throw up our hands at the latest outbreak of horrific violence by marauding nationalist bullies, let’s use the challenge afforded by the current international crisis to create a new and better world.
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War by Design: Kagame’s Script in Eastern Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – There’s nothing strange about the “war choreography “ in eastern Congo. It’s precise. Deliberate. Directed from Kigali. Surprise. Forget the diplomats’ favorite lullabies—“stabilization,” “regional mechanisms.” That’s just complicity with a thesaurus.
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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
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Reclaiming the Feminine for Peace in Times of War
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
Dominant models of power continue to privilege violence over dialogue. War, in this sense, is not simply about men, but about particular performances of masculinity tied to control, securitization, and the need to assert power—often rooted in insecurity.
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I Visited My Destroyed Home in Gaza after 900 Days
Amir Ismail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
1 Apr 2026 – Shocking Reality… I went back to where I lived my whole life… They erased the walls, but they couldn’t erase our souls. 904 days later, we still have hope. From the ashes of Gaza, we will rise again.
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Artificial Intelligence Issue
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
This is not the last time The Nation will address the technological revolution that is already raising fundamental concerns about the future of work, surveillance, and existential questions of war and peace. We will be in the thick of these debates, arguing for a future in which we take the steps that are necessary to assure that we can all Stay Human.
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Destroying Iran’s Electric and Water Supply Is a War Crime
Karolina Bonde | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian Infrastructure in Iran
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Want to Know Capitalism’s Endgame? Just Look at Private Equity–It Has Captured Our Everyday Lives
Hettie O’Brien | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – It was the free croissants that gave it away. And the Scandinavian-style furniture. And the tasteful pastel walls. It was different from other nurseries: marginally more expensive. These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill.
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The Declining Empire on Steroids
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
28 March 2026 – With disastrous news hitting the headlines daily, it is often difficult to keep the big picture in mind. Yet the big picture is of vital importance for establishing a future for humanity beyond war, torture, murder and slavery. Is there an alternative?
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On Behalf of the Tehran Peace Museum
Shahriar Khateri and Mona Badamchizaedh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
31 Mar 2026 – Dear colleagues, friends, members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, it has now been more than a month since the onset of this unlawful and unprovoked war against Iran. During this period, hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.
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Building on the US/Iran Ceasefire
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Recalling the words of a Leonard Cohen’s song, “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in”, there is now a two-week crack in the war on Iran with the possibilities of negotiations led by the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad with the active support of the Chinese government.
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Al Jazeera | The Bottom Line – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
5 Apr 2026 – US political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that Israel – not Iran – is the Middle East country that is ‘highly aggressive’.
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Why North Americans Turned to Al Jazeera Instead of CNN or Fox During Iran War
Zvika Klein | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up. Nobody in Jerusalem is tracking this news. Nobody in Washington is either. Good!
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What Germany Could but Didn’t Do for Peace
Petra Erler interviews Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
You have been working for many years to make the United Nations the ultimate guardian of peace. So far, to no avail. Are you a Don Quixote?
No. I am one of many who oppose nationalism and advocate for international peace based on law and order.
No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
6 Apr 2026 – A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”
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70+ Boats Launch Historic Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Bold Solidarity Stand
teleSUR English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
12 Apr 2026 – The Global Sumud Flotilla with 70+ boats and 3,000 participants sails from Barcelona today to break Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade. This massive civilian mission demands urgent humanitarian aid and an end to violations amid a fragile Middle East ceasefire.
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The Epstein Files: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Paradise, or Just Another Day in Elite Wonderland?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
First, the Lazarus theory: Jeffrey Epstein, alive and well (or at least bearded and flanked by bodyguards) in Tel Aviv. Social media lit up earlier this year with purported photos of the man himself strolling Israeli streets, looking suspiciously hale for someone who’d been autopsied six years prior.
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Lebanon Declares Day of Mourning after Israeli Attacks Kill over 200 People
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – The deadliest day of Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon so far saw warplanes strike more than 100 locations across the country, hitting densely populated neighbourhoods in Beirut and areas beyond traditional frontlines.
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Iran’s Nuclear Rights
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
8 Apr 2026 – I know I wasn’t the only one listening to the clock tick all Tuesday afternoon, right up to Trump’s 8 pm deadline for putting Iran’s 7000-year-old civilization to death, “never to be brought back again.”
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Families Crowd Khan Younis Charity Kitchens as Hunger Deepens in Gaza
Roya News English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
4 Apr 2026 – Residents crowd charity kitchens in Khan Yunis as many families struggle to buy food despite goods returning to Gaza’s markets.
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Ending Israel’s War on Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
9 Apr 2026 – To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967. While Trump was telling the world that Iran was begging for a ceasefire, it was Trump himself who was begging for a ceasefire.
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To Posterity (1938)
Bertold Brecht – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
I came into the cities in a time of disorder
As hunger reigned.
I came among men in a time of turmoil
And I rose up with them.
God, Science and Civilizational Destruction: US-Israel’s Pursuit of Domination
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
Unprecedented in the post-Holocaust history: the world’s most technologically advanced killing machine–USA–is being used against targeted civilian populations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran by the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, despite overwhelming popular US opposition.
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(Français) Comment les Américains ont Perdu l’Iran sans même y Poser le Pied !!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
« Armes de destruction massive » de Saddam Hussein: Depuis ce jour fatidique où le monde entier a compris que Washington pouvait inventer une menace nucléaire pour justifier une guerre, l’Amérique a perdu quelque chose d’irremplaçable : le bénéfice du doute. Et c’est précisément ce capital envolé qui vient de sceller, en Iran, une défaite plus cuisante que n’importe quel retrait précipité de Kaboul ou de Bagdad.
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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
11 Apr 2026 – In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny.
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The Track Record of the Collective West in Regards to Human Rights and International Law
Prof. Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
1 Apr 2026 – A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of States at the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Council and other international agencies.
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Peace in the Shadow and Shade of Colonial Imperialism: A Protagonist’s Call to Decolonize the Diasporic Mind (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
“Neo Colonialism is the same philosophy of occupation, by imperialist, in a novel, refined guise of a cultured approach.“
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Creating US Military Bases on the Moon
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
7 Apr 2026 – NASA outlines this $20 billion project to build bases on the moon.
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The Western Empire Is Going Down!
Boris Malagurski interviews Jan Oberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2026
At a moment when global tensions are escalating — from the confrontation of the US, Israel and Iran to rising military spending across Europe and the Middle East — voices calling for diplomacy are becoming rare. Øberg has long argued that the international system has moved away from preventing conflicts to managing them once they explode.
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Macho Man… Really?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
Terms Machismo and Male Chauvinism are semantically related or have similar meanings: Toxic Masculinity.
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Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place
Pascal Lottaz | Neutrality Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
3 Apr 2026 – How the US ‘Allies’ in West Asia (the Sunni kingdoms/dictatorships) managed to maneuver themselves into the worst of both worlds.
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How Structural Violence Leads to Life or Death
Bandy X. Lee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
4 Apr 2026 – Structural violence is what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung defined as the “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs” through unjust social structures– the most potent cause of behavioral violence.
→ read full articleAsymmetric Dialogue in a Period of Asymmetric Warfare?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
16 Mar 2026 – The following exploration is effectively an annex to an extensive separate exchange with AI to clarify the nature of “UnChristian”, “UnJewish” and “UnIslamic” from a cybernetic perspective.
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Beware Men Who Wage War to Prove They Are Men
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
A specifically masculine heritage of violence in the service of the nation oversees and delimits democracy and authority—a privileged area of social welfare.
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Flirting with Apocalyptic War in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
3 Apr 2026 – From almost all perspectives the ongoing war of aggression known as the ‘Iran War’ is one of the greatest international blunders in modern history, and far worse than this, poses the highest risks of stumbling into an apocalyptic warfare since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
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Power and Manipulation— Media as a Weapon
Patrik Baab interviews Joe Lauria - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
26 Feb 2026 – Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?
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A View from Tehran: War Caused a New Kind of Stability
Peiman Salehi | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
4 Apr 2026 – Rather than triggering collapse, external pressure appears to be producing a form of internal consolidation socially, politically, and strategically that complicates expectations about the conflict. From within Tehran, the most immediate observation is not breakdown, but continuity under strain.
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How Iran Should End the War
M. Javad Zarif | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
3 Apr 2026 – Iran did not start this war with the US and Israel. But more than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning it. US and Israeli forces have spent weeks bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands and damaging hundreds of buildings in hopes of toppling the country’s government.
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Balen`s Hundred-Point Charter of Governance: Of, By, and For the Nepali People
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, became Nepal’s youngest prime minister in March 2026 after a Generation Z-led uprising against corruption and established political elites. His “Hundred-Point Charter of Governance” aims to bring transparency, accountability, and citizen-centered reform to Nepal.
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The Security Council Has Allowed Unchecked Power and Brutality–to Protect Peace, We Must Reform the UN
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
30 Mar 2026 – A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order.
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Michael Hudson: World Will Not Be the Same after the US Military Aggression against Iran
Prof. Glenn Diesen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
1 Apr 2026 – Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently.
→ read full articleThe US-Israel War on Humanity: What Is Next?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
The trajectory of war against Iran unleashed authoritarianism of dark ages propelling insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture.
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(Français) Le Réarmement allemand : une élégante valse avec les spectres du passé, ou l’appel discret d’un monde multipolaire ?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
Depuis le 1er janvier 2026, tout homme allemand âgé de 17 à 45 ans qui souhaite quitter le territoire pour plus de trois mois doit désormais solliciter l’autorisation bienveillante de la Bundeswehr. Une simple formalité administrative, nous assure-t-on, liée à la modernisation du service militaire. Rien de dramatique, bien sûr.
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Why Americans instead of North Americans?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
“Why only those born in the United States are officially called (named, labeled, known as) Americans”? The name of the country is United States of America–not America of the United States. Manifestation of a imperialist deep culture allied to a bullying, vain illusion that, We are #1. I am also an American–South American.
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Israeli Knesset Passes Death Penalty Bill for Palestinians
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
30 Mar 2026 – The Israeli Knesset passed a bill today that mandates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of ‘acts of terrorism’ with the ‘intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.’
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North Americans Are Being Policed with Military-Grade Weapons–This Has to Stop
Michael Shank and Hank Johnson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
6 Mar 2026 – Predator drones and armored personnel carriers have become commonplace in US cities. Congress has the power to fix this.
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The Empire vs. Iran: Which Side Are You On?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
The current war is going from bad to worse for the American and Israeli imperialists. Good! Let’s continue to oppose it and hope for its early end. But don’t let the Empire off the hook.
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Israel Is Stepping Up Its Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Elias Feroz interviews Sarit Michaeli | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
31 Mar 2026 – Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.
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Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-up
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
1 Apr 2026 – Judi Rever prefaces her new book with a quote from the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II: “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
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UN Expert Warns Torture Has Become ‘State Doctrine’ in Israel, Making Prisons Instruments of Genocide and Torture
Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
23 Mar 2026 – Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians, long shielded by decades of impunity and political cover, has become a defining instrument of ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN expert warned today.
→ read full articleThe New Planetary Awakening
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
18 Mar 2026 – Six Fundamental Principles for Democratic World Law
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World Has Left Cuba Alone to Face Trump’s Global Fascism
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
28 Mar 2026 – The World Will Pay an Enormous Price if Cuba Falls
→ read full articleA Manual for Benevolent Bombing
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
There is something deeply reassuring about a well-structured war. Not the explosions, the smoke, the screaming, the “inconvenient civilians” who insist on living where the bombs land. No, the comfort lies in the narrative. The choreography. The liturgical precision of turning high explosives into high-minded philosophy.
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New World Busy Being Born while Old One Is Busy Dying
Pepe Escobar | Sovereign Global Majority – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
26 Mar 2026 – Iran’s real terms are harsh: Closure of ALL US military bases in the Gulf; guarantee of no more wars; end of the war on Hezbollah; lifting of ALL sanctions; war damage reparations; a new order in the Strait of Hormuz (already in effect: collecting fees just like Egypt in Suez); missile program intact. Conclusion: the infernal escalation machine keeps rolling as Trump’s 15-point surrender is D.O.A.
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Trump’s Hormuz “Masterstroke”: How Russia and China Just Hit the Geopolitical Jackpot
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2026
5 Apr 2026 – And Why the World May Never Look the Same – There’s an old saying: never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Apparently, Donald Trump never got the memo.
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