Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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Spirit of Compassion: The Dalai Lama at 90
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
6 July marked the 90th birth anniversary of Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, celebrated with the traditional “Long Life” prayers at his monastic center in the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, India, where he lives.
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Krishnamurti on War
Krishnamurti Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
“War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action.” In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.
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Criminal Negligence in the Degrowth Movement? Why Transformative Criminology Matters for Systemic Change
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025 – The degrowth movement has emerged as one of the most courageous and necessary responses to the ecological and social crises of our time. It dares to question the dogma of endless economic growth on a finite planet, and it offers a vision of sufficiency, solidarity, and ecological sanity.
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The Time Has Arrived for a Comprehensive Middle East Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
The attack by Israel and the US on Iran had two significant effects. First, it once again exposed Israel’s project to “reshape the Middle East” through regime-change and block a Palestinian state. Second, it highlighted the futility and recklessness of this strategy.
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Boosting “Defence” Expenditure above 10% of GDP
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
Given the failure of the The U.S. Department of Defense to achieve a “clean” audit opinion for over 30 years, and of questionable defence expenditure, systemic waste, fraud, and mismanagement, NATO countries might make use of a form of creative accounting.
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Feeding the Warfare State
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
1 Jul 2025 – The Senate is on the verge of passing one of the ugliest pieces of legislation in living memory. The House’s version would cut $1.7 trillion in domestic spending, providing the top 5% of taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in tax breaks.
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Mother Earth Cries: They Bombed Me Again
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
Why Do Egoistic Leaders Scorch the Earth?
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The Outlaw West: Between Bad Faith and Ineptitude
Stephen Sefton | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
1 Jul 2025 – Failure of UN System Regarding Criminal Aggression against Iran and Genocide in Palestine
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The Extermination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Gaza Strip Is Reaching Unprecedented Cruelty
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025 – The US government is sending another $517 million worth of bombs to the Israeli regime to continue the genocide, while destroying themselves for the sake of the Zionist lobby. On 30 Jun Israel bombed the only still functioning cafe in the Gaza Strip.
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UN Says 613 Gaza Killings Recorded at Food Distribution Sites Near Humanitarian Convoys
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
4 Jul 2025 – An OHCHR spokesperson says the figure is as of 27 Jun, adding that more incidents have taken place since then.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Hallucinations
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
30 Jun 2025 – Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves.
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Profiting from Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025 – The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
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Iran and Israel: The Meaning of the Current Ceasefire for These Countries
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
After US President Trump launched the missile attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities with the bunker busters and other weapons on 22 June 2025, he announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire on 24 June, bringing the current war to a close.
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(Français) Le Monde Est-Il Prêt Pour un Mouvement Mondial Contre la Guerre ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
1er juillet 2025 – Le bulletin de CPNN de ce mois-ci décrit les manifestations massives aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Moyen-Orient contre les guerres et les préparatifs de guerre, qui ont atteint leur apogée ces derniers mois, et conclut par cette phrase : « Le monde est prêt pour un mouvement mondial contre la guerre.»
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War in West Asia: Iran, Israel, the United States and the Rothschilds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
Understanding Conflict – Why did the US want to ‘take out 7 countries’? Why does the US and Israel still want to ‘take out’ Iran? When tackling conflict at this level, it is imperative to understand the ‘conflict configuration’ as a preliminary step in addressing key elements of the conflict.
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Nonkilling Conflict Resolution and Nuclear Conflict
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
What we face in the world today stems from an ideology that makes us believe that killing and violence are normal in politics and political science, leading us to think that we are naturally violent and that killing and violence are principles we must accept.
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Blood in the Sand: How Ashura Transformed Islamic History’s Greatest Tragedy into a Peace Destroying Sectarianism (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
” The Sunni-Shia Divide centered on Ashura is a Peace Disruptive Fracture as well as a Paradoxical, Peace Propagative Bridge, between Commemoration, Condemnation, and the Possibility of Sectarian Cohesion with harmonious Coexistence in the future”.
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Nothing to Say, Ma
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
Madre, I’m running out of words. Please take my sighs and make them prayers of resistance to the ruthless actors who make this earth our home a bloody shambles.
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Falcone Interviews Richard Falk, Lawrence Davidson & Stephen Zunes on Iran War and the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
The wider meanings of the aggressive attack of 13 Jun 2025 by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear sites based on claims by Israel of an Iranian threat of becoming a nuclear weapons-possessing state.
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Actions in 70 U.S. Cities Say: ‘Hands Off Iran and West Asia! Free Palestine!’
Martha Grevatt | Workers World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
30 Jun 2025 – Although there is a temporary “ceasefire” in the U.S./Israeli effort to destroy Iran, many groups internationally are determined to stay mobilized. The horrific genocide in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank, continues, as do plots against Iran.
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Is the Stage Set for a Global Anti-War Movement?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
1 Jul 2025 – This month’s CPNN bulletin descries the massive street demonstrations in the United States, Europe and Middle East against the wars and war preparations that have peaked in recent months, and it concludes with the phrase, “The stage is set for a global anti-war movement.”
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Report: 60,000 Political Prisoners Held without Trial in Egypt
Women Journalists Without Chains/WJWC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
25 Jun 2025 – WJWC published a human rights report, “Prisons Without Keys: How Egypt’s Detention System Kills Life, Rights, and Hope”, shedding light on the ongoing abuses faced by tens of thousands of political detainees since 2013.
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Historicide in Gaza
Lydia Wilson | New Lines Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
27 Jun 2025 – Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told. The utter destruction of Gaza is hard to fathom, the numbers too extreme to comprehend. With more bombs dropped than the equivalent of six Hiroshimas, schools, universities, administrative buildings, homes, hospitals, religious buildings and infrastructure lie in ruins.
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Somewhere in My Heart (Music Video of the Week)
Aztec Camera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
“Somewhere in My Heart” is the twelfth single and biggest hit by the Scottish band released with their 1987 album “Love”.
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BRICS Expands to 56% of World Population, 44% of Global GDP
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
4 Jul 2025 – BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
The UN Charter is the most Gandhian document ever signed by the world’s governments. If member states lived up to their obligations in accordance with the UN Charter, including signed resolutions, the world would be more peaceful, just, democratic and lawful.
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UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide
Harriet Williamson | Novara Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
2 Jul 2025 – Economy of Genocide – Microsoft, Amazon and Google among major corporations identified as being part of a “joint criminal enterprise” in helping Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza.
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Signing and Spreading the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People’s Tribunal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – The Gaza People’s Tribunal, at the public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize basic rights, above all their inalienable right to self-determination. Please read, sign and spread it widely.
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Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Unarmed Palestinians Waiting for Aid: Report
Nikki McCann Ramírez | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
27 Jun 2025 – The Israeli military is managing aid distribution sites with live fire against crowds of unarmed civilians. Hundreds are dead. Israeli soldiers told Haaretz that aid distribution centers in Gaza have become “a killing field.”
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NATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
The question that not even Congressional opponents to a war against Iran ask: Why the Iranians can’t have a nuclear weapon if they want one? US citizens have been taught to believe that there are good and evil nations and regimes, Iran being an evil, “rogue” state that only wants nukes to destroy Israel.
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Washington Green-Lights $30M for Gaza Aid Scheme Tied to Mass Killings of Palestinians
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
25 Jun 2025 – Over 500 Palestinians have been killed at GHF aid sites that are now set to receive US funding, on top of tens of billions in military support sent to Israel.
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Gaza’s Hunger Games
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
29 Jun 2025 – Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-GHF is a Mossad-funded creation of Israel’s Defense Ministry run by former members of the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. GHF is headed by Rev. Johnnie Moore, a far-right Christian Zionist with close ties to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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In Gaza You Can Choose Only Humiliation or Death
Malak Hijazi | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – Israel has been starving us for months. It cut off all aid to Gaza in March, only to recently approve a US-led, militarized aid site run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” The consequences are not abstract – they are visceral, immediate and devastating.
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‘Our Kids Cry for Food’: Most Gaza Families Survive on One Meal a Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of food aid seekers on the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme.
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Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
When Leadership Knows Not “What the Fuck” Iran and Israel Are Doing – An extraordinary period in which the widely acclaimed leader of the free world is especially recognized for his tendency to “bullshit.”
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Trigger-Happy States and the Death of Diplomacy
Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – Diplomacy is being dragged into the street, executed and buried under the rubble of Israeli airstrikes—Washington with shovel in one hand, arms shipment in the other. The latest target in this grim theater of annihilation is Iran.
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Israel’s Expulsion of Palestinian Communities in West Bank Hits Record High with State Support
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
12 Jun 2025 – The eviction of residents from a Bedouin community marked the final piece in a chain of Palestinian communities that have vanished. Settlers no longer feel the need to hide their goal: the ethnic cleansing of Area C.
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Raised in a Colonial Death Cult: 600 Years of KU Leuven and still…
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
After six centuries, it’s time for KU Leuven to grow up—and to grow beyond its colonial roots.
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From Private Profit to Public Power: World’s Richest 1% Increased Wealth by $33.9 Trillion Since 2015
OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Since 2015, the richest 1 percent have gained at least $3.9 trillion in wealth in real terms, enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over. Billionaires—roughly 3,000 people—have gained 56.5 trillion in real terms, more than the $4 trillion estimated annual cost of achieving the SDGs.
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We Are All So Tired
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – An Ongoing Series Chronicling the USA’s Descent into Greatness
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Understanding the Great Reset as a Cybernetics Religion
Matt Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
Matt Ehret explains the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, plus an in-depth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the cultish monstrosity known in modern times as the Great Reset.
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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Must Not Suffer the Fate of Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
25 Jun 2025 – Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda’s foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On 19 Jun, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda.
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California Legislation Designed to Protect Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Rick Sterling and Marcy Winograd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
28 Jun 2025 – Pro-Israel California legislators are trying to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic and accurate portrayal of Israel/Palestine. Their legislation censors educational materials, punishes educators who deviate from Israeli versions, and invites complaints with needless investigations of teachers.
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Gandhi’s Philosophy of Nonviolence: Essential Selections
Brian C. Barnett | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
A concise open-access teaching resource featuring essential selections from Gandhi on the philosophy of nonviolence.
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USA: ICE-Watch Teams
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
There are videos online of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents claiming drivers have “swerved” toward them or have been “following” them. It is important to record and document all such interactions because ICE is the vanguard of the emerging fascism in the US.
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Through an African Lens: The Israel-Iran Conflict and a Call for Peace
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
African nations have responded to the Israel-Iran conflict with a spectrum of positions, reflecting their diverse political, economic, and historical contexts. South Africa has been a prominent voice, condemning Israel’s airstrikes on Iran as violations of international law.
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Peace and War: The B2 Hot Chips and Hot Wars 2025 (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
The Future Chip will determine the outcome of the Future Wars.
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How U.S. & Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – General Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, provided diplomatic cover for the Israeli/U.S. war on Iran. We contrast Grossi’s conduct with that of former IAEA Director Mohamed El Baradei, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to the kind of political pressures that Grossi gave in to.
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History of US-Iran Relations: From the 1953 Regime Change to Trump Strikes
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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NATO Summit in The Hague: Militarization Surge Exposes Imperialist Ambitions amid Global Instability
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
25 Jun 2025 – NATO leaders pledge to nearly triple defense spending by 2035, revealing imperialist intentions that threaten global peace and exacerbate geopolitical tensions.
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Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – Francesca Albanese joins Chris Hedges to break down the current starvation campaign in Gaza, and her upcoming report detailing the profiteering corporations capitalizing on the erasure of Palestinians.
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China Must Provide More Substantial Aid to Cuba
Salim Lamrani | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
24 Jun 2025 – Suffocated by an economic siege for more than six decades, Cuba is facing an extremely serious situation. China, a strategic partner and long-standing ally of the island, is in a position to provide more robust support to help it face current challenges.
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Carl von Clausewits’ and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
In dealing with both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?…
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Dear Israel Apologist
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
26 Jun 2025 – We have truth, facts and morality on our side, and you have a bunch of words. Nothing will stop me from opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities. Call me an antisemite or a Nazi. The name-calling stopped having any effect a long time ago.
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Ambivalence toward Resistance as a Human Right: Matters of Law and Policy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – I publish here my foreword to Shannonbrooke Murphy’s path-breaking book on the right of resistance. Murphy provides readers with a comprehensive framework for thinking about resistance to public authority in a variety of settings.
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Rogue States: The illegality of the U.S.-backed Israeli Attacks on Iran
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat.
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Persia, Iran, and the Great Arab Mix-up: A Sarcastic Stroll through History to Today’s Messy War
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Iranians are not Arabs. They are Persians, predominantly, with a rich history that stretches back to when most of the world was still figuring out how to make fire.
→ read full articleFundamental Strategic Importance of Skin as a Metaphor
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – Comparison of Relevance to Leadership by Distinct Artificial Intelligences – The strategic and operational significance of “skin” has been clarified at length by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his discussion of “skin in the game” as a metaphor.
→ read full articleNY Times and Roger Cohen Promote War Again
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
The NYT has been a major promoter of US “regime change” operations for decades. Today, regarding a US attack on Iran, it is again performing this role despite many readers being skeptical or opposed.
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Einstein: Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
→ read full articleThe Folly of a War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – Israel and its neoconservative allies in the United States have long attempted to start a war with Iran, a war that neither Israel nor the U.S. can win and will engender ferocious blowback.
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‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s Aid Death Traps for Starving Gazans
Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’
→ read full articleWill Israel Continue to Attack Iran until the International Community Approves the Eradication of Palestine?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 June 2025 – The Israeli attacks on Iran that began on 13 Jun were initially limited to homes of Iranian military officials but gradually began to target the oil and gas infrastructure and Iranian government buildings.
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Stop Netanyahu before He Gets Us All Killed
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation.
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Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.
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The War against Iran: 30 Years in the Making
Dr. Piers Robinson | Int'l Center for 9/11 Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
14 Jun 2025 – Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.
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Annual Peace Odyssey: The Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Pilgrimage in every religion is commercialized by entrepreneurs, often detracting from the original peace essence of a pilgrimage; the undertaking is a spiritual journey involving introspection and reflection, literally in conversation with the Divine.
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Just Say No!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
I know where I stand, I will not join the mad call to war by any government, and invite young men and women to join me in refusing to kill fellow humans, or to die, or get injured–their lives are sacred and precious.
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The Key Nuclear Allegation That Started the Iran-Israeli War Was Coaxed from a Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm
Alastair Crooke | Conflicts Forum’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
20 Jun 2025 – The IAEA Board’s 12 Jun 2025 ‘Non-Compliance Resolution’ was the planned precursor for Israel’s strike on Iran the next day. The plan to go to war with Iran was grounded in ‘the opportunity’ to strike, and not the intelligence that Iran was speeding towards a bomb.
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Israel Is Out of Control: “A Terrorist Government That Endangers International Peace”
Alfred de Zayas | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – Currently Israel has a terrorist government that endangers international peace and security within the meaning of article 39 of the UN Charter. Hitherto action by the Security Council has been blocked by the abuse of the veto power by the United States.
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Academia at the Crossroads: Indoctrination, Systemic Violence, and the Security Risks of Rentier Capitalism
Koenraad Priels | TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – As the world faces an accelerating socio-ecological catastrophe, the role of academia has become both more crucial and more contested than ever before.
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UN Chief ‘Gravely Alarmed’ by US Bombing of Iranian Nuclear Sites
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – António Guterres described the US bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a “dangerous escalation” today following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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After Iraq There’s No Excuse for Buying the War Lies about Iran
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – “OMG nuclear weapons!” Shut up, idiot. If you’re a grown adult with internet access still swallowing this load of bull spunk in the year 2025 you’re either stupid or evil.
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War with Iran: We Are Opening Pandora’s Box
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
22 Jun 2025 – Blinded by hubris, believing their own hallucinations, they have learned none of the lessons of the last two decades of warfare in the Middle East. A war with Iran will be a self-defeating and costly quagmire, one more nail in the rotting edifice of the empire.
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21 June: A Joyous Summer Solstice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
The Summer Solstice, the longest light of the year, has featured strongly in European folklore and spirituality: a time to worship the deities of the sun.
→ read full articleThe Illegal Attack on Iran
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – Israel’s attacks on Iran, backed by the US and EU, violate international law aiming to maintain regional dominance. Since the 2020 U.S. assassination of General Soleimani, Washington and Tel Aviv had been working to weaken Tehran. Now Israel smells an opportunity to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Big mistake.
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UN Rights Office ‘Horrified’ by Deadly Violence at Gaza Food Distribution Sites
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
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Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Has Become a War Project
DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
11 Jun 2025 – At an event hosted by The Left in the European Parliament and M5S Europa, and joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte, Varoufakis made the case that Europe’s military Keynesianism is not only deepening inequality and debt but also locking the continent into permanent conflict.
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Crusade against Iran and the Complicity of Western Decadent Civilizations
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Western Political Morality Lost its Values
→ read full articleGaza Genocide: Day 624
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – Two nuclear armed regimes run by lunatics bombing a non-nuclear country now to bring on the looked for Armageddon! Sirens blaring here in Bethlehem on day 624 of the accelerated genocide.
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Israeli Tanks Kill 59 Palestinians Trying to Get Food Aid in Gaza, Medics Say
Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
18 Jun 2025 – Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating;
Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd in Khan Younis;
Hundreds have been killed trying to get food in past three weeks.
Climate Misinformation Turning Crisis into Catastrophe, Report Says
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.
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Nepal: Proto-Nationalism Entrapped in the Musical Chair Circle of Political Parties and Floundering Economy
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Nepal’s location between India and China should have been a blessing. However, Nepal’s leaders, policymakers and economists failed to grasp the socio-economic transformations ushered in by technology, innovation and the digital revolution; they remain locked in an outdated “black-box-thinking” of the past.
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The Profound Influence of and Dialogue with Islam on Mahatma Gandhi’s Peace and Ethical Philosophies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Unveiling the Overlooked – Presently, in Narendra Modi’s India, the media, academics, film producers, authors, researchers and politicians are absolutely cautious in mentioning and crediting, Muslims and Islam for any contribution made to India, now officially called Bharat.
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Resistance Works
David Vine | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
I submitted this editorial to TMS on the psychic healing process of physical injury because it seemed so congruent with healing in public spheres of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and transcendence, so brilliantly articulated by Johan Galtung throughout his long life experience.
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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NATO, USA, WWIII: World’s Peoples Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
On 24 and 25 June, members of NATO will strut around the streets of The Hague for their annual summit. As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.
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(Castellano) Evolución de las Ideas de Izquierda y Liberales Desde el Siglo XVIII Hasta Hoy
Ernesto Kahan | El Diario de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – De la Libertad Ilustrada al Doble Rasero Global – Las revoluciones americana y francesa no solo transformaron el poder político, sino que pusieron en movimiento una mutación radical en la forma en que los seres humanos se comprenden a sí mismos dentro de la sociedad.
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The Decider
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – A Clown at the White House
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The Evolution of Leftist and Liberal Ideas from the 18th Century to Today
Prof. Ernesto Kahan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
21 Jun 2025 – From Enlightened Liberty to Global Double Standards – The American and French revolutions not only transformed political power but also set in motion a radical shift in how human beings understand themselves within society.
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(Italiano) La coscienza dice NO alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
Sono state presentate le iniziative in corso su questo tema e si è aperta una importante riflessione collettiva che ha portato i presenti a interrogarsi su quali possibili iniziative sarebbero urgenti in un contesto sempre più contrassegnato da una incontrollabile escalation bellica che rischia di travolgere tutti.
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Peace in an Authoritarian International Order Versus Peace in the Liberal International Order
Oliver P. Richmond | The Royal Institute of International Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
2025 – There may well be a correlation between the recent increase in war and displacement and the retreat of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding as effective tools since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Israel Attacks Iran
Pascal Lottaz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – In an unprecedented and unprovoked military attack, Israel kills several top leaders of the Iranian military, targeting the country’s nuclear facilities. Overnight, the terrorist regime in Tel Aviv added another crime of aggression to its nearly endless list.
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Israel Bombs Iran for Middle East “Stability”
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
13 Jun 2025 – Israel began bombing Iran today. In addition to the nuclear and military facilities, Israel bombed the homes of the Iranian military officials and nuclear and military experts.
→ read full articleConfiguring Multiple Disparate Sets of Strategic Principles
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
8 Jun 2025 – Eliciting Coherent Global Patterns of Governance with the Aid of AI – This exercise follows from the previous approach to the elaboration of a model to clarify the relation between a set of six interweaving cycles.
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Seventy Percent of Israel’s Cost of Munition and Weapons Used in Gaza Are Paid by the United States
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
A Conversation with Israeli Historian Lee Mordechai in Jerusalem – “It would be impossible for Israel to wage this war (of annihilation) in the way it has been waged without the US support.”
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The Middle East as a Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
Why the focus ought to be on Israel, not Iran. Israel has 90-400 nuclear weapons. Here is what a simple AI dialogue yields. Any journalist could do it. No one does.
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Masters of Suspicion, Truth, and the Way Forward
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
The “modernity” that emerged in the 20th century resulted in great measure from the immense skepticism of three key “masters of suspicion”—Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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