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Iran Confirms Khamenei Killed In US-Israel Strikes, Announces 40-Day Mourning
News18 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – A photograph of Khamenei’s body was shown to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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USraeli Attack on Iran: At Least 148 Girls Killed in Strike on Elementary School
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Eyewitness say that girls 7 to 12 years old lied dead across their school.
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Going to War, again, for Israel
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Once again, the US is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including US service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, …
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Trump Starts a Major Regime-Change War with Iran, Serving Neoconservatism and Israel
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – This is the definitive war of choice. It is the exact type of war that Trump and his movement spent a decade vowing to end. And the potential for destruction is infinite.
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Hearing Coherently the Diversity of Contrasting Voices
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
24 Feb 2026 – Cognitive and Strategic Implications of Numerically Articulated Sets – The following extensive interaction with AI provides an explanation for the methodology of the argument made separately (Nasruddin Walks the Coaction Cardioid as a Triptych of Geopolitical Crises, 2026).
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The USrael Attack on Iran on the 40th Anniversary of the Murder of Olof Palme
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Today, USrael attacked Iran for the second time in one year. It also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme who condemned the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, and revealed the places where crimes were committed up till then. He paid a price for it: his life.
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The Epstein Entrapment Network: Revelations of Crime and the Predatory Erotic Lives of the Rich and Powerful
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
One lesson to be learned is that money and class often speak louder than law in such high-profile situations, even in the United States where the rule of law is sanctified in public discourse.
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How the U.S. Military (Pentagon, NATO) Is Destroying the Planet
Abby Martin | BreakThrough News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Abby Martin discusses her new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, which exposes how the U.S. military — “the army of fossil fuel companies” — drives global climate destruction.
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Legal Sovereignty in the Face of Orbital Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty. The confrontation is not simply Brazil versus Musk. It is the symptom of a global dilemma: who governs digital space when key infrastructure belongs to private actors with transnational ambitions?
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APA’s Council Meeting: Human Rights Win, Fear Loses
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – Last weekend, the 180-member governing Council of the American Psychological Association held its annual meeting. In a series of crucial votes, human rights were pitted against fear. Defying the odds, human rights remarkably won out every time.
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Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – Proponents of foreign intervention in Iran are unlikely to get the sudden rupture and regime change they hope for.
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Iran: 100 Years of Foreign Interference
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
From the British invasion of neutral Persia during both WWI and WWII; to the CIA-directed overthrow of the first democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953 due to oil interests…
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‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon Doesn’t even Know What to Do with Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
26 Feb 2026 – Trump is pushing for another $500 billion for the Pentagon as he moves the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. But Pentagon officials are reportedly uncertain about where to put the money, “because the amount is so large.”
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From Midnight Hammer to Midnight Nightmare
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
In history, empires on last legs are run by delusional imbeciles, too drunk on the swagger of invincibility & uber-greed, like teenagers on dance floor, not knowing or caring self-destructive risks.
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Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – In front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Feb 25, the second anniversary of what Aaron called his “extreme protest” against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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What Life Has Taught Me
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
History’s great minds teach us that greatness is not measured by applause, but by fidelity to truth under pressure. Albert Einstein warned that blind obedience to authority is the enemy of truth, reminding us that silence in the face of wrongdoing is itself a moral failure.
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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
21 Feb 2026 – Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.
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The Williams Brothers: Afro-Basque Hybridity
Joan Pedro-Carañana, Toby Miller and Israel V. Márquez – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Most black immigrants come to Spain for work. The majority in low-paid jobs or outside formal labor and education. Two-thirds are Muslim. A quarter experience discrimination. They are routinely stopped and searched by police without reason—at higher levels than the rest of the population.
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TRUMP DECLARES WAR: Major US Military Combat Operations Begin in Iran
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Trump’s announcements: major U.S. military combat against Iran as “imminent threat” to US national security and global allies. The U.S. military is currently engaged in a massive operation to dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, neutralize its naval capabilities, and destroy its long-range missile industry. Ultimatum to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard: surrender or face “certain death.”
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
Alphaville – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
(Official Video HD) – 2024
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War Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious; the only one international in scope. A racket is not what it seems. Only a small “inside” group knows it, for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
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US Military Used Anthropic’s AI Model Claude in Venezuela Raid, Report Says
William Christou | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
14 Feb 2026 – Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir, was used by the US military to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.
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After Greenland, Antarctica?
Jun Ohashi and Takashi Yamaguchi | TBS News Dig (Japan) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
24 Feb 2026 – The U.S. ‘Diplomacy’ Heads for Southern-Edge of Argentina, Ushuaia City, the “Gateway to Antarctica”
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Iran’s Missiles Smash US Bases, Trump-Israeli War Backfires
Elijah Magnier & Mohammad Marandi | Danny Haiphong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026
The US and Israel launched strikes into Iran in the early hours of February 28. Iran has already retaliated in a massive way, leaving several US bases and Israel itself under heavy fire. War correspondent Elijah Magnier joins the show to break it all down.
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Empire Has an Identity Crisis — and the Global South Has a Memory
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
If you missed the speech by Marco Rubio, here is the short version: the West must be restored, civilization must be defended, and naturally, the US should lead the parade. Preferably with Europe marching in step. He rose to defend “Western civilization” — that sacred, endangered species that somehow only becomes visible when its dominance is challenged.
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Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz & Strikes U.S. Bases
Jackson Hinkle interviews Ray McGovern | Legitimate Targets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Jn a moment of cascading escalation — with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region — former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides a sobering assessment of what he described as “uncharted territory.”
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
A court in Niger just billed Europe €115 billion for uranium, coercion, and a century of organized extraction. While Western leaders escalate tensions with Iran in the name of “international order,” the colonized are asking who ordered the order.
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Should Billionaires Have It All?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Oxfam: One-fourth of the world’s population is afflicted by hunger and nearly half live in poverty. Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 percent in 2025 to $18.4 trillion―its highest level in history. The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity, over four billion people.
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(Italiano) I Giochi Olimpici Invernali di Milano-Cortina 2026: Un Trionfo Italiano che Ha Illuminato il Mondo!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Milano-Cortina 2026 non sono stati solo Giochi: sono stati un’ode all’Italia, un trionfo che ha unito sport, cultura e umorismo in un pacchetto irresistibile. Con entusiasmo dico: bravi tutti!
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How to Imagine a World of Peace and Human Unity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Ignorant and Egoistic Leaders are a Menace to Peace and World Order
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The Global Geometry of Peace: From Triangles to Trinity to Transcendence, a Peace Convergence: When Science, Spirit, and Story Become One (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Peace as Humanity’s Missing Frequency. Human aggression comes from biophotonic disruption and reptilian-brain dominance.
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Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
Public banks — local and national — are not alternatives to the private sector. They are the missing infrastructure that makes the private sector work.
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Remarks on the Palestinian-Israeli Issue by Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong at the UN Security Council
Ambassador Fu Cong - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
19 Feb 2026 – China firmly supports the just cause of the Palestinian people in restoring their legitimate national rights. We will continue to work with the international community to promote a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, alleviate the humanitarian crisis, …
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Better Things Are Possible
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Indeed
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Nobel Laureate Perez Esquivel Slams Trump in Open Letter to Obama
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel sent a letter on 12 Feb 2026 to former President Barack Obama to denounce Donald Trump’s policies describing him as a “global dictator” and the “number one terrorist.”
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Anti-Hegemonism and the Dynamics of Relations in the Russia–India–China Triangle
Anton Bespalov | BRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
19 Feb 2026 – Russia—for which constructing a stable security order in Eurasia is overriding priority—is uniquely positioned as a catalyst between Beijing and New Delhi, both in bilateral conversations through multilateral platforms.
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Psycho…?
M. Werker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The world is so… f*&%#d!!
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Whither World Order: The Lamentable Present, the Unknowable Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 – My responses to Egyptian journalist, Muhamed Abd Elaziz on international law, Gaza, personal experience, and many other topics.
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A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
18 Feb 2026 – This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic.It is a visionary peace proposal that can save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin.A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity —benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us.
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No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
16 Feb 2026 – The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.
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Boom! Boom! US Inc.: The End of Americo-Israel as We Know It
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
16 Feb 2026 – The mirage of AI will crush the United States of Pedophiles & Zio-Blackmailers
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Trump Risks Igniting a Nuclear Wildfire
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026 – The NYTimes Editorial Board states OUR BIGGEST FEAR: TRUMP SITS ON THE NUCLEAR CODES. The world is entering a dangerous new nuclear age.
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The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
16 Feb 2026 – The vicious and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territory, by Israel and the U.S. now includes the German, Italian, French, Austrian and Czech foreign ministers demanding her resignation.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The Art of Being Bullied — As Practiced by a Fool in Eight Chambers – The “fables” presented below in the form of a triptych have been generated by Claude-4.6 in the light of a previous argument.
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Are We Angry Yet? The Time Has Come…
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 – The drug trade – and the ‘War on Drugs’ that polices it – unleashes a value chain of suffering on peasant communities in the Global South. You cannot explain such systematic brutality without anger.
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“Extremely Dangerous Situation”: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
18 Feb 2026 – “This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate,” says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. “Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position.”
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Israel on the Brink
Stefan Moore | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026 – Amid the largest genocide of this century in Gaza and the violent ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, two prominent Jewish historians believe that one democratic secular state in Palestine is not only achievable but inevitable.
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In 4 Minutes, Israeli Settlers Burned Down an Entire West Bank Bedouin Community
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 – Evidence from videos, satellite images and eyewitness accounts show how a ruthless attack took place last month in a wave of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank. In just a few minutes the attackers – about 20 – set fire to a number of structures and escaped.
→ read full articleU.S. Declares War on Multipolarity & Europe Is Lost
Prof. Glenn Diesen interviews Einar Tangen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
16 Feb 2026 – Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI-Centre for International Governance Innovation. He discusses Marco Rubio’s call to restore US dominance. Europe’s choices: Act as the vassal of the US attempting to reverse multipolarity or adjust to the world as it is.
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Education for Justice and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The Role of the UN International Year of Peace & Its Future Tasks
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Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of the US Neoliberal War Machine
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
19 Feb 2026 – After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and threaten Iran.
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Father of Peace Journalism Passed Away, Leaving Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism, which he and others launched in the 1960’s.
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‘Unconscionable’: Arundhati Roy Leaves Berlinale after Jury Comments on Gaza
The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
14 Feb 2026 – Indian author and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy withdrew from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival after remarks by jury president Wim Wenders that filmmakers should remain outside politics ignited a dispute linked to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, quickly turning the festival’s opening into a broader debate about the role of art during wartime.
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The Nowhere Box: Largest Area of the Human Mind
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Can you still feel the boredom you felt staring out of the window at school? Did you focus on feeling it, more consciously, later? Or have you filed it in the nowhere box?… The most interesting thing about human beings is that they have no idea why they behave the way they do.
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Evolution, Consciousness, and Democracy
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Pathways to the Earth Constitution
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(Castellano) El fin del imperio tecno-estatal gringo y la lucha cooperativa por la vida
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
18 febrero 2026 – Quieren desmoralizarnos, pero su imperio está débil. Es el momento de la resistencia y de construir alternativas al tecno-fascismo.
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What Global Powers Found under Greenland’s Ice Explains the U.S. Push to Control It
NextGen Explorer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
19 Feb 2026 – Beneath Greenland’s ice sheet, scientists have discovered trillions of dollars in rare earth minerals and a classified US nuclear base abandoned with cancer-causing chemicals and radioactive waste, left behind because the Pentagon believed the ice would hide it forever. It didn’t.
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Reminiscing: Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) and I
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026 – Slices of an Amazing Reality
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‘We Returned from Hell’: Report Details Israeli Torture against Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 – Fifty-nine Palestinian journalists shared their stories of torture and abuse at the hands of the Israeli military.
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Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is “Obsessed” with Destroying Iran
Amy Goodman & Jeremy Scahill | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 – Despite chairing the first meeting of his new Board of Peace yesterday, Trump continues to threaten war against Iran as the Pentagon positions a massive fighting force in the Middle East. He said he would give Tehran about two weeks to reach a deal…
→ read full articleThe Rubio Doctrine and Huntington’s Ghost: Justifying Civilizational Warfare
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Marco Rubio’s speech of Feb 14 to the Munich Security Conference was greeted by high praise on the right, mild criticism on the left, and sighs of relief in most European capitals. Upon receiving a standing ovation, it was clear that its real significance as a new and dangerous turn in global policy had not been recognized.
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Algorithms and AI Have Turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death
Sayid Marcos Tenório | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026 – The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of the contemporary war in Gaza, in which genocide is carried out not only by bombs and missiles, but by data, algorithms and global digital platforms.
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The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
18 Feb 2026 – The Epstein files have been in the hands of the F.B.I. for eight years or more. Then why have redacted files been released just recently? Cui bono? And who is behind the release that did not occur over the course of the first Trump and the Biden administrations? Cui bono? We ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Strengthen the United Nations
David C. Oughton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The UNGA is not democratic because each of the current 193 countries has the same one vote, regardless of its population. A few countries have over a billion people while some have only a few thousand. It is thus possible for a resolution in the UNGA to pass by a two-thirds majority that represents only 8 percent of the world’s population.
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Israel’s Recognition of “Somaliland” Is Destabilizing Somalia and the Horn of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
18 Feb 2026 – I spoke to the Black Alliance for Peace AFRICOM Watch Bulletin about Israel’s recognition of Somalia’s secessionist state, which is further destabilizing the volatile Horn of Africa.
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Israel Just Started Legalizing Its Annexation of the West Bank–Here’s What That Means
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 – Israel just erased Palestinian existence from the West Bank by law, and it’s not an overstatement. Here’s what these changes mean and how they set the stage for annexation.
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Vincent – Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The video depicts a slide-show of van Gogh’s work set to the song. With this beautiful song, Don McLean pays a tribute to the marvel and wonder Vincent left behind, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color – a contradiction to his troubled existence.
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Justice for Imran Khan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
20 Feb 2026 – In the midst of the earth-shaking events occurring in the planet, there is a political crisis around an individual with implications for humanity as a whole: the situation of the former PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan, a political prisoner since Aug 2023.
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Israeli Cabinet Approves West Bank Land Registration, Palestinians Condemn ‘De-Facto Annexation’
Steven Scheer | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
16 Feb 2026 – Israel’s cabinet yesterday approved further measures to tighten Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, a move Palestinians called a “de-facto annexation”.
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Europeans Declare Rubio a Slightly Smaller Asshole Than JD Vance
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
17 Feb 2026 – In a joint communiqué issued at the close of the Munich Security Conference, European leaders declared US Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “slightly smaller asshole” than last year’s Vice President JD Vance. “Make no mistake, everyone here thought Marco was a ginormous dick,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters. “But JD was still worse.”
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2025 Military Spending (% of GDP)
Global Military - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
How much of a nation’s economic output is devoted to military purposes. Countries facing security threats often spend considerably more. This metric helps compare military commitment across economies of different sizes.
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(Português) Brasil: Petroleiros e Movimentos Sociais Articulam Campanha ‘Petróleo para Cuba’
FUP-Federação Única dos Petroleiros - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Nesta sexta-feira, 13, a FUP enviou ofício à Diretoria Executiva de Logística, Comercialização e Mercados da Petrobrás, solicitando reunião para tratar da possibilidade de envio emergencial de combustível a Cuba.
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The Delhi That AI Summit’s VIPs Won’t See – and the One They Did
Shobhit Mahajan | The Indian Express - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
19 Feb 2026 – The tech bosses no doubt would have been impressed with the wide though empty roads and the flawless arrangement made by Delhi Police in controlling the notoriously unruly traffic (not to speak of stray cattle) on Delhi roads. They would also have noticed…
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From Diagnosis to Design, from Violence to Value: Ubuntu and the Transformative Peace Triangles of 21st Century – Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
The need for an intercultural analysis of Ubuntu, Vawdaian Relational Architecture, and Galtung’s Diagnostic Lens in a Unified Peace Epistemology
→ read full articleThe Solkar Formula: A Study on Waqf Fraud, Coercive Strategy, and the Systematic Persecution of My Parents and Me
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Moral Standing, Purpose, and Locus of Duty: I place this statement on record as a consolidated and comprehensive account of fact, conscience, and reasoned grievance.
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Israel still Strangling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus Is Eating Her Face”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
15 Feb 2026 – “UNICEF noted that children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since the beginning of the year, 109 Palestinians killed, 252 injured, and 10 bodies recovered from under the rubble . . .”
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Investigation Reveals Israel ‘Evaporated’ Nearly 3,000 Palestinians with Thermal Weapons in Gaza
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
10 Feb 2026 – “We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.”
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(Italiano) Nel decennale della morte di Nanni Salio–La pace è saper vivere
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Laureato e ricercatore di fisica, ha dedicato tutta la sua ricerca all’ambiente naturale, alla pace, alla nonviolenza política ed economica, alla spiritualità ed educazione unitaria di questi profili della condizione umana, nella drammatica attualità del mondo.
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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 2)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
PART 2 — Diplomacy, Law and Nonviolent Power
→ read full articleVisual Articulation of Heartfelt Concerns with AI
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
14 Feb 2026 – The erosion of trust and commitment is currently of considerable concern with respect to long-term international treaties and “special relationships”.
→ read full articleThe Courage to Be: Adapting to Unknowability in a Dangerous World
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
As human beings we share deep emotional impulses to foretell the future, whether to foresee action on the basis of dread as to what the future will bring or to offer oneself and others reassurance that the future will deliver us from an ominous catastrophe or bring us the gifts of life that we most covet.
→ read full article(Français) Les Politiciens et Leur Vigilance à Géométrie Variable : L’Ukraine, ce Tabou Doré qui Cache une Mafia en Guerre
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Dans l’arène politique, la vigilance ressemble souvent à un projecteur de théâtre : éblouissant sur les scènes qui arrangent, mais curieusement tamisé ailleurs. Ainsi va la saga ukrainienne, où les discours enflammés sur la démocratie masquent une réalité plus trouble.
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Epstein & the Banality of Evil
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Sex trafficking and rape of minors, blackmail, financial duplicity, espionage, treason, abuse of their powers by public agencies and private institutions, establishment coverups that span decades, perjury – among others. There is not a sinful action missing from its multifaceted violation of law and human morality.
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Munich ‘Security’ Conference–The West’s Premier Has Become a €20 Million Militarist Echo Chamber
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 – The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades.
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Europe Now Needs the Courage to Pursue Peace
Harald Kujat and Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 – A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
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Geopolitical Obstacles to International Law Enforcement: Deficiencies in the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
9 Feb 2026 – International law is definitely being marginalized in contemporary international relations by the rise of ultra-nationalist political leaders and authoritarian governments.
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Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Medea Benjamin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 – Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s response to the fuel crisis. “With no gasoline, buses don’t run, so we can’t get to work. We have electricity only three to six hours a day. There’s no gas for cooking, so we’re burning wood and charcoal in our apartments. It’s like going back 100 years.”
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (Music Video of the Week)
NFL – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
9 Feb 2026 – Watch the world’s biggest artist on the world’s biggest stage at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. Please click on Watch on YouTube
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Cat & Mouse Deadly Game of Rotten Politics…
Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Uncle Sam: The Evil Empire of the West
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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 3)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Part 3 — Citizens and Government Actions in Economics, Trade and Financial Sovereignty
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Corrupt, Filthy, Degenerates: Killing with Impunity
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 – Trump is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files with FBI Agents redacting millions of documents. Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges on Netanyahu in DC to press gang the US into his war on Iran.
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Trump Halts Environmental Policies: The Danger of Brutal Ignorance in Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 – The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming.
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Israel’s War on Gaza’s Healthcare Continues in Full Force under ‘Ceasefire’
Dr. Mads Gilbert | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
6 Feb 2026 – Missiles and gunfire continue to target Gaza’s medics while tens of thousands of patients remain trapped without treatment as the world looks away.
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Russia Invited Back to the Middle East
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026 – Israel (i.e. the Likud faction), which is becoming a hegemonic power in the Middle East, is extremely strong.
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Reimagining the Gaza Peace Plan: From Governance to (Co)existence
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 – At moments of profound violence, the question is not only whether peace is possible, but who gets to envision and build it, and on what terms. In the Israeli-Palestinian context, decades of governmental, military, and procedural interventions have repeatedly failed to secure even the minimal conditions for shared life, let alone the end of armed hostilities.
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D.O.P.P
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Pam Bondi should be arrested for contempt of Congress. She was ordered to release the unredacted Epstein files and only withhold the victims’ names, not the perpetrators. What the DOJ did was the opposite. They have outed many victims while hiding the names of the billionaire Epstein class evil perverts.
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Munich Security Report 2026: Under Destruction
Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger | Munich Security Conference - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
February 2026 – The Munich Security Conference 2026 is taking place at a moment of profound uncertainty. Rarely in the conference’s recent history have there been so many fundamental questions on the table at the same time: about Europe’s security, the resilience of the transatlantic partnership, and the ability of the international community to manage an increasingly complex and contested world.
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Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
9 Feb 2026 – The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the US finally seize it?
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
9 Feb 2026 – Jeffrey Epstein was not the scandal. He was the safety mechanism. A replaceable fuse: visible, disposable, convenient. The kind of villain a system can afford to “deal with” without ever dealing with itself.
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Peace Education in the New Millennium
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
Peace education is essential for human survival in the New Millennium. It is needed for individual, national and global peace. In the world of physical and structural violence, peace education has a great importance.
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