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‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
24 Jan 2026 – It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
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The Full Text of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Charter
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Board of Peace charter hands US president broad powers, and links countries’ membership to large financial contribution. Middle East Eye obtained a copy of the charter and is publishing it here in full:
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The US Military Operation in Venezuela and the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026 – The United States attack on Venezuela on January 3 should be understood not simply as an unlawful use of force, but as part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to the imperial management of global security.
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11 Wounded in IDF Raid on West Bank University–Vice President Detained
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – The raid at Bir Zeit University occurred during a student rally in support of Palestinian prisoners. The IDF fired live ammunition and tear gas. ‘Raids of the university have become commonplace, but this time they crossed all the lines,’ the university president said.
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Ordering the House of Mathematics with an AI Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
In Quest of Coherent Insights for Peaceful Governance – The point is often made that mathematics has many highly specialized branches and few of the people associated with any particular one have any interest in other branches or in mathematics as a whole.
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Israeli Ban on 37 Aid Organizations Expected to Have Devastating Impacts across Palestine
Qassam Muaddi and Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026 – Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah.
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Imperial Boomerang
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
25 Jan 2026 – The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.
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What Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Who Has Joined So Far?
Menna Alaaeldin and Alexander Cornwell | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Trump has invited dozens of world leaders to join his Board of Peace. While some traditional allies responded cautiously, in a few cases rejecting, others such as Belarus have accepted.
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Davos: World Economic Forum – Board of Peace
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Marx once quipped “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” and Hegel stated that “what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Each reflects on their time.
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Sparky Gets ICED (Part 2)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – No Joke
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Returner til Avsender (et dikt)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Et dikt
Hvis «demokrati» kommer
Dundrende inn over himmelen
Som et F-35 over Ørland,
Pakket i ild,
Merket humanitær med rød tusj—
Returner til avsender.
Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – Trump’s Board of Peace for the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise questions. The US president would be the helmsman of an outfit of selected corporate overseers tilling the soil for The Donald’s posterity fund. But to what end?
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There Is another War Israel Is Waging – One That Is Not Making Headlines
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – As the US protracts Israel’s genocide in Gaza through the theatrics of a ceasefire, another war is taking place in the West Bank where Israel has mobilised all military and settler-colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Trump’s recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Iran, and the Caribbean/Pacific high seas, represents a major turn toward military intervention in his foreign policy.
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‘The Weak Must Suffer’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026 – The Eternal Fiction of the ‘International Rules-Based Order’ – These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe.
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The US-Israel Hybrid War against Iran
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – The question is not if the US and Israel will attack Iran, but when. They are waging war against Iran through crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyber warfare, stoking unrest, and unrelenting misinformation campaigns. It is called “hybrid warfare.”
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Getting Even over a Coveted but Denied Nobel Peace Prize, Plus…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Infantile Bullying: I’ll Show You! Letter the US president sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre.
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What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.
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A Red Heifer and Zionists’ Bovine Excrement
Fritz Pointer | – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
21 Jan 2026 – It is important for us to remember that for the Israelis and the North Americans, the conflict in the Middle East (West Asia) is not just a geopolitical rivalry, it is also an eschatological war. That is a war relating to the end of the world.
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Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps
B'Tselem - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
The abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody since 7 Oct 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held and released, almost all with no charges. The transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prisons, military and civilian, into de-facto torture camps where every inmate is subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering as a matter of policy.
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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – The story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s 50-year exilic politics and the failed democratic transition that the Feb 2021 coup derailed.
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Reclaiming Peace against Procedural Capture: A Manifesto for a Civic Board of Peace
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
In the wake of a highly publicized announcement by Trump on what has been called the “Board of Peace”, one is forced to confront and contest not only what is being proposed, but who gets to define peace and on whose terms.
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Twenty-first Century School for Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Education is not animal training. The education of man is human awakening.
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A Planetary Awareness
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
The United Nations Charter begins with the promising words “We the Peoples…” Thereafter the peoples’ voice fades and that of governments takes over.
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Neither NATO Nor Trump’s Are a ‘Board of Peace’
John Mac Ghlionn | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
23 Jan 2026 – Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.
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Boléro (Music Video of the Week)
Hayato Sumino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Composed by Maurice Ravel–from Hayato’s Album, Human Universe
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Trump’s “Creative Destruction” of the World Order through an Unusual Hypocritical Strategy
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
No one can stop the barrage of “evil” deeds from the president of the world’s most powerful hegemonic power.
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Deconstructing Trump’s ‘Peace’ Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – The resolution, Finkelstein points out, annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.
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“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
“Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, ‘Right, I’m taking over the world,’”
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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton (1887)
Online Library of Liberty - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
“Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”
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Recentering the Debate over ‘Greenland’ Begins with Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
21 Jan 2026 – Kalaallit Nunaat is the name of the country that Donald Trump is salivating over, according to the people who live there. The place the media call Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the right to secede by holding a referendum.
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Trump’s Ideology Trashes Human Dignity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
21 Jan 2026 – Within a World System that Crushes Human Dignity – It is important to remind ourselves that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century.
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Jeffrey Sachs Blows Up over Greenland Letter, Gaza Board of Peace
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jeff Sachs to discuss Greenland and Gaza.
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“Ayatollah, Please Send Help!”: Rotten to Its Core, USA Needs “a Regime Change” and a System Revolution
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
25 Jan 2025 – Every day I school myself through these voices, thoughtful, non-Pavlovian, humanistic and global: Cornel West, Amin Husain, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolf, John Mearshimer and Jeff Sachs.
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Nobel Laureates Nominate International Peace Research Association and Prof. Matt Meyer for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, a Northern Ireland leader of Peace People, was the 1976 awardee; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Argentinian who was brutalized as a political prisoner by a military junta, won in 1980. Both made the present nomination for the NPP.
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Greenland Is Not a Prize
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North – the United States – forgets its manners. It has set its sights on Greenland due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But its people – the Kalaallit – are an afterthought in Washington’s machinations.
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Greenland Isn’t the Scandal–The System Is
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
20 Jan 2026 – Europe woke up in 2026 with a hangover and a revelation: Wait… we’re a colony? Apparently, watching Nicolás Maduro paraded in Nike gear like a petty criminal was funny—until Europeans realized they, too, are potential Maduros. Same script, better tailoring.
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Can Trump Demilitarize Gaza with Night Raids and Death Squads?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
22 Jan 2026 – Targeted killings by Israeli-backed Palestinian death squads and the appointment of the recent head of Special Operations Command to lead the so-called International Stabilization Force in Gaza. Trump’s plans to demilitarize Gaza are following the catastrophic pattern of past US wars and occupations.
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Forging a Righteous Future: A Five-Year Strategic Plan for Peace, Stability and Integrity in Post Liberation South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2026
“A Lesson in the Anatomy of Decline: The Interlinked Systems of Crime, Corruption, and Institutional Decay in Contemporary South Africa”
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Comprehension of the Dynamics of Collective Selfing and Othering via AI
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
19 Jan 2026 – This exploration is the development of an earlier exercise, Paradoxical Geopolitical Implications of Dynamics of Self-Other Overlap (2026), with the aid of AI — of relevance to the empathy-reification challenges of Israeli-Palestinian and Trump-Putin relations.
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The Machinery of Terror
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
11 Jan 2026 – The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late. Repression in Iran is merely a replica of the US version. ICE, our Gestapo, is being birthed.
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The U.S. Has Announced Phase 2 of the “Gaza Ceasefire”
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
TRAGICOMEDY OF THE WEEK: For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ‘ceasefire lie’ offers little hope that it will change the status quo Israel has established on Phase 1 in the past three months: A NEW FORM OF GENOCIDE.
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U.S. Senate Blocks Bid to Limit Trump’s Military Powers against Venezuela
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – A narrowly divided US Senate rejected a War Powers resolution that would have constrained President Donald Trump’s authority to launch new military actions in Venezuela, with Vice President JD Vance casting a decisive tie-breaking vote.
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Neither the US and Its Allies nor any Other State Has a Right to Intervene in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations
Jan Oberg, Pascal Lottaz and Annette Schiffman | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – With a focus on possible war on Iran, we argue that the US must – and can – be stopped. It doesn’t have a God-given exceptionalist status. It has become “too arrogant.”
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Swinging on a Double Action Heinous Hinge with Donald Trump
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – Anything anyone can say about the demagogic Trump is true, whether from his critics, supporters, or those who look on in amazed horror that such a gross, vituperative, and openly violent creature is the president of the USA.
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Freezing to Death in Gaza: How Cold Is Killing Displaced Babies
Yasmin Abu Shammala | Quds News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
16 Jan 2026 – At least seven infants have died this winter in Gaza. Displaced babies freeze in soaked tents as Israel’s blockade blocks essential aid. This is how Israel is freezing Gaza’s babies to death.
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Beyond Oil! Trump Models Himself after Adolf Hitler as the “Genius Leader”
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
10 Jan 2026 – There exists a chilling parallel between Adolf Hitler and Donald J. Trump, insofar as the two men’s worldviews–of themselves, their countries, and people – “races?”–they identify with, and their respective missions. Read Mein Kampf to understand US fascism and Trump’s Hitlerite leadership.
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From Gaza to Venezuela, the US Has Been Unmasked as the Serial Villain
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
6 Jan 2026 – The path to Caracas – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza.
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UN World Court Begins Landmark Hearings on Rohingya Genocide Case against Myanmar
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – Public hearings opened today at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a landmark case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention over the military’s treatment of the Rohingya minority.
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Emergency Meetings
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Meanwhile in the White House…
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Reflections of a Father in an AI World
Felipe Zamana | Creativity & Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – Artificial Intelligence is the hottest topic nowadays. Just as video games, the internet, and smartphones once worried our parents, it is now our turn to decide how much influence new technologies will have on our children.
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(Italiano) Ancora su guerra, pace e cristiani oggi
Enrico Peyretti | Appunti di cultura e politica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Gen 14, 2026 – Cerco di riflettere sulla pace possibile e la guerra superabile a partire da una nota del teologo Severino Dianich (del 24 dicembre 2025).
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European Parliament Rejects U.S. Imperialist Claims Regarding Greenland
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 – The European Parliament urged the European Commission and the Council of the EU to determine concrete measures to support Greenland and Denmark in the face of US pressure.
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Gaza: Storms Worsen Already Dire Humanitarian Situation–Large Numbers Exposed to the Cold
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – The humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip remains extremely serious, with harsh winter weather threatening to reverse recent gains in aid delivery, the United Nations said today.
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The War beyond Gaza: Israel’s Silent Shock Campaign in the West Bank
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 – A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023, and the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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The Trump Regime’s “Peace Board” Is Another Brick in His Personal Occidental Empire
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
18 Jan 2026 – His Gaza proposal reveals a far larger and world-threatening project. It’s a bid to replace the UN — and this MAGAlomania must be stopped now. See warning at the end.
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Healthy Food to Feed Your Thoughts…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Today, 19 Jan 2026, is Martin Luther King Jr Day
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – A reflection on dignity, betrayal, and the fine art of losing without selling your soul.
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HAWAII: The US Army Is Quietly Walking Away from Oʻahu to Gain Leverage over the Pōhakuloa Training Area
Military Poisons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
12 Jan 2026 – An analysis of the Hawaii State’s rejection of the US Army’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, focusing on issues related to toxic contamination.
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World Cup Boycott Calls Grow in Response to Trump
Alberto Aceves | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026 – The drums of protest and calls to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the USA are beating louder. Fans are expressing outrage over the armed attack on Venezuela and the controversial human rights policies of the Donald Trump administration.
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It Could Be a Wonderful World
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
13 Jan 2026 – There is a widening gap today between global possibilities and global realities. The possibilities are enormous, for―thanks to a variety of factors, ranging from increases in knowledge to advances in economic productivity―it’s finally feasible for all of humanity to lead decent and fulfilling lives.
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Muhammad Ali Walked into a “Whites Only” Diner in 1974
Muhammad Ali: The True Story - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
What He Did Next Changed the Owner’s Life Forever
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Hyper-Imperialism on Hyper-Drive
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – The US bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president and first lady showcased the current hyper-imperialist stage of the world order. Although a new mood has emerged in the Global South, it is not yet a developed challenge to the collective West.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
January 1 is the birth anniversary of Maurice Béjart, an innovative master of modern dance. In a world where there is both appreciation and fear of the mixing of cultural traditions, he was always a champion of blending cultural influences, a World Citizen of culture and an inspiration to all who work for a universal culture.
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New World Order in Search of Humanity, Law and Order
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Is the New World Order an hypothetical phenomenon or a convenient reality to be imagined? How do you assess its evolving substance for the future?
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Europe’s Federal Moment: Greenland, Article 20 Treaty on European Union, and the Limits of Alliance Politics
Manuel Galiñanes, Mauro Casarotto and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
The proliferation of crises—from Ukraine and Gaza to Taiwan, Venezuela, and now Greenland—does not merely signal disorder. It reflects the emergence of an international system increasingly shaped by great powers seeking to preserve influence amid relative decline or contested primacy.
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It’s the Billionaires, Stupid!
Michael J. Talmo | The Real Facts - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
16 Jan 2026 – In 1992, a simple slogan helped Bill Clinton get elected President of the United States: “It’s the economy, stupid!”
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Cornering Japan So That It Has No Choice but to Take Over the US Support for Taiwan
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Trump is a hidden multipolarist and hegemonic renegade. He is destroying the existing British hegemonic system (i.e. liberal globalism) and pushing for Americanism as part of the US’s multipolarization of the world order.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Prof. Johan Galtung’s exceptional foresight predicting the fall of the US empire is being validated by successive administrations, with Trump sticking the last nail in the empire’s (not the Republic’s) coffin–irreversibly. I repeat in unison with Prof. Galtung: ‘I love the US republic, and I hate the US empire’. –TMS Editor
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Junk Food to Feed Your Thoughts…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
No Joke…
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Congo: A Tragedy in Many Parts Over Many Decades
DJ Ravindran | The India Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
14 Jan 2026 – Since independence, the Republic of Congo has been suffering from ethnic strife, armed rebellions and military interventions by neighbouring countries. The presence of valuable minerals has added fuel to the strife which has taken millions of lives. Can peace ever come to this troubled nation?
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Winter Strikes Gaza with a Vengeance
Fedaa al-Qedra | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
17 Jan 2026 – In a tent flooded with water and torn by the wind in Khan Younis, Iyad Abu Jamea, 49, is trying to support his and his son’s family, 14 people, as displaced families face the bitter winter cold with no proper shelter, while rain and sewage flood their homes, creating harsh and unsanitary living conditions.
→ read full articleGlobal Governance for Security and Peace of All: The Role of Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Global Governance in the 21st Century is highly relevant in the present world of violence and peacelessness.
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Will the ICJ Deliver Justice and Accountability for Myanmar’s Rohingyas?
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
As gratifying as it is to see the Rohingya people having their day at “the world’s court, the ICJ will not end the era of impunity for Myanmar junta and change Rohingya lives for better.
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The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2026 – The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 19 Jan 2026
Air on the G String (Music Video of the Week)
J. S. Bach | Hauser – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
By Medvid Production at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Ubuntu Rising: A Peace Force Against Global Belligerism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
“Out of Africa, Ubuntu Emerges: The Long-Overdue Peace Force”
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I Used to Be a Critic of the Two-Party System – Now I Wish We Had One
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
15 Jan 2025 -I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US war on Venezuela.
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Shame on the UN: Ratifying Genocide, Legitimating the Trump Plan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – The 3 Jan acts of US aggression against Venezuela rationalized as ‘law enforcement’ is a geopolitical expression of extra-legal prerogatives shielded from UN censure and sanctions by the veto power of the P5, and in that sense reflects the same mentality underlying the complicity with Gaza genocide.
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Ela Gandhi’s Statement on the US Attack on Venezuela
Ela Gandhi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
On 5 Apr 1930 Gandhiji wrote to a U.S. businessman: “I want world sympathy in this battle of right against might.” Today in the face of US aggression against Venezuela and labelling South Africa for genocidal intent against Afrikaners while ignoring genocide in Gaza, we are reminded of this quote and ask: Can the world stand by and allow this kind of aggression to continue?
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Withdrawing the US from International Organizations, Conventions and Treaties
The White House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
Presidential Memoranda 7 Jan 2026 – Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
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Grand Illusion
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 – We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”
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The Trump Doctrine Exposes the US as a Mafia State
Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland.
→ read full articleEconomic Warfare, Asset Theft, and Global Destruction
Nouri | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
6 Jan 2026 – Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s Masterclass on US Sanctions
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The Leeches on Humanity Have Unmasked Themselves in Palestine & Venezuela
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 – Criminal White Supremacist Arses have roamed our planet for way too long. Enter the European slave trade, the most successful trade of its kind in recorded history, that kicked off in AD 1440. In 2026, there still are Class A criminals in the ruling circles of Europe, N. & S America, and Australia- that is, the world of White Supremacy encompassing both Zionist and White nationalist strains.
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War and Oil: Connecting the Dots
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
And Why Everyone Should Boycott Chevron
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Who’s Really Running Venezuela?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
9 Jan 2026 – The world was mystified when Trump said that the US would “run” Venezuela. He has since made it clear that he wants to control Venezuela by imposing a U.S. monopoly on selling its oil to the rest of the world, to trap the Venezuelan government in a subservient relationship with the US.
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Responses to Evil, Even as It Has Grown within Social Structures
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
Abandoning a religious ethic of absolute commandments emanating from a higher Being and abandoning the concept of ethics as determined by nature itself, human reason has sought a new basis for ethics in a philosophical ontology…
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Ex-Presidents and Democratic Leaders Silent on the Impeachment of Donald Trump
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
9 Jan 2026 – Imagine, if you will, what would happen if these four wealthy politicians (George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden), who still have most of their voters liking them, decided to band together and take on Trump full throttle.
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After Trump’s Threat, Venezuela’s Acting President Calls for Cooperation with the US
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
5 Jan 2026 – Venezuela’s acting president, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, issued a statement yesterday calling for cooperation with the US after President Trump threatened her with a fate worse than President Nicolas Maduro’s if she did not do the US’s bidding.
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‘Cover-Up’: The Complicity of the Press in US Violence
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
4 Jan 2026 – All governments lie. Seymour Hersh built his journalism career around the creed that it’s a reporter’s job to expose government lies, especially those told by the United States government.
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Jeffrey Sachs Slams US “Power Grab” Over Venezuela at UN Security Council
DRM News | Jeffrey Sachs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
5 Jan 2026 – Economist and UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs delivered blistering remarks at an emergency UN Security Council meeting, condemning U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Sachs warned of U.S. “hegemonic power grabs,” urging the Council to defend the UN Charter and international law.
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A New Year’s Thought: A Farewell to Warriors!
Editorial | The Tokyo Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
A One Hundred Two -Year-Old War Survivor Speaks About “War”
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From Minneapolis to Here and There: One Empire, Many Graves
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
This is not about one murder, one massacre, one “tragic incident,” one regrettable “mistake” explained away by a press release and a blue-ribbon commission. This is about a system that perfects cruelty, routinizes violence, and then asks us to admire its efficiency.
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Thematic Report – Israel’s Discriminatory Administration of the Occupied West Bank, Including East Jerusalem
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – This thematic report considers the human rights situation in the occupied West Bank with a focus on Israel’s discriminatory administration in violation of Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination, which prohibits racial segregation and apartheid.
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Venezuela and Truth
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
4 Jan 2026 – The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They did not mention that the elected governments of Hugo Chávez reduced extreme poverty by over 70%, reduced poverty by 50%, halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100% literacy. Chávez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal.
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The Path to Success in Governing Venezuela
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
8 Jan 2026 — Five days have passed since the Trump administration’s US military raided Venezuela, abducted President Maduro and his wife, and declared that “the United States will govern Venezuela until it begins to stabilize and develop.”
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Gaza under Engineered Collapse: How Israel Is Dismantling an Entire Humanitarian System
Women Journalists Without Chains – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
7 Jan 2026 – What is unfolding in Gaza is no longer merely the humanitarian fallout of war. It is the systematic construction of a humanitarian void — a man-made catastrophe driven by Israeli policy and sustained through overlapping political, military, and administrative controls that have transformed civilian survival itself into a battlefield.
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5 Crises to Watch Out for in 2026
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2026
As the world rings in a new year, the need to address ongoing and long-lasting humanitarian crises remains urgent. In 2026, several regions will face challenges that will demand global attention.
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