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Open Letter from Global Jewish Organizations in Support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

8 Aug 2026 – A call for Jewish organizations around the world to publicly endorse the BDS movement and support coordinated nonviolent pressure to end Israeli impunity. – We, the undersigned Jewish organizations, collectives, and community members around the world, write today out of profound moral urgency.

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Azerbaijan: Twenty-Three Hostages, One Dictator, One Coward, and One Very Convenient Silence
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

On the subject of the 23 Armenians imprisoned in Baku — former presidents, ministers, soldiers, and civilians — Pashinyan’s government has maintained what diplomats call calibrated restraint and what the rest of us call silence.

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The World beyond Global Disorder
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.

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Alphabetisation of Governance in the Face of Polycrisis?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

10 Aug 2026 – Relevance of Extant 26-fold Frameworks to the Articulation of Global Order – The question meriting continuing attention is why the unsystematic articulation of strategic principles and values is so rarely addressed. The challenge is exemplified by the unexplained contrasts between the various articulations of human rights.

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Moral Courage vs. Cowardice
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

History rarely asks ordinary people to perform extraordinary acts. More often, it presents simple moral choices: to tell the truth or remain silent, to defend the vulnerable or look away, to challenge injustice or accommodate it. Palestine has become one of those defining moral tests of our era.

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Manifesto: Mysticism and (R)evolution
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

5 Aug 2026 – Silence, Word, Dialectics, and the Earth Constitution – The most fundamental dimensions of our human situation are encompassed by astonishing depths and absolute mysteries. Five primary aspects of this situation can be symbolized as “mysticism,” “holism,”, “logos,” “freedom,” and “hope.”

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Palestine: Heavy-Handed Action in Singapore
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The International Movement for a Just World is deeply disappointed with the Singapore government for its heavy-handed action against the British band known as ‘Massive Attack’ for raising the Palestinian flag at their concert in Singapore on 29 Jul 2026. The entire band was detained and questioned.

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India and Israel
Abdul Rahman | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

9 Aug 2026 – How Modi’s Government Became a Weapons Supplier to Gaza’s Genocide

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After Blocking Fuel, the US Turns to Cuba’s Food Supply
Logan McMillen | Jacobin/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

8 Aug 2026 – The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it buys from US corporations. Cuba’s right to eat its own food is under siege.

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St. Francis of Assisi: The Prayer of Peace in the Atomic Age
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

If St. Francis of Assisi had witnessed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his prayer would likely shift from a personal plea for individual peace to an urgent, cosmic cry for the survival of humanity and the preservation of God’s creation.

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Somalia: On the Frontlines with Somaliland
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

4  Aug 2026 – “During the last week of July, I traveled to the front lines of Somalia’s unresolved border conflict with Somaliland, the Somali secessionist state now recognized by Israel but not by any of the UNs’ other 192 sovereign members. The Northeast State forces were holding the line.”

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Frantz Fanon Revisited
Frantz Fanon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

… Still Current

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Pledge for Peace from A-Bomb Survivor 81 Years after Nagasaki Bombing
Chiyoko Motomura | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Translation of the Pledge for Peace delivered by Japanese atomic bomb survivor Chiyoko Motomura on the 81st anniversary of the 9 Aug 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki – provided by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.

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The Meaning of Tell, Nablus
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

6 Aug 2026 – Why the West Bank May Be Nearing a Breaking Point – The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning.

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NATO Pushes Europe toward Total Collapse
Dr. Jan Oberg | World Affairs In Context – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

25 Jul 2026 – –> Countdown to All-Out War Has Begun

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USA Is the Empire, as Dispensable as USSR Was: The Islamic Republic of Iran Leads Resistance
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

10 Aug 2026 – Here is a daily dose of my intellectual vaccine against the plague of US (and Western) Hegemony, or the Savagery Packaged as “Civilization”.

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Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
Ioana Puscas | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

UNIDIR has launched a scenario compendium presenting potential uses of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems in realistic operational contexts. Challenges of compliance with International Humanitarian Law.

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The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers Are Slow Learners
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The nine nuclear powers (USA, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possess 12,100 nuclear warheads and are upgrading and expanding their arsenals.  Nuclear weapons spending rose to $119 billion in 2025―a 19 percent increase over 2024. The U.S. accounts for more than half of this spending and embarked on a $1.7 trillion nuclear weapons buildup.

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Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Abby Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – In Abby Martin’s new film, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.

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Food for North Americans’ Thought
Norman Finkelstein | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

“Washington, you have a problem.”

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The Dumbest Psyops of All Time? The Ceuta Migrant Crisis
Michael Whitney | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

3 Aug 2026 – The Moroccan migrant invasion of Spain might be the most extravagant fake news story of all time.

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The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The continuity of agenda from one US president to the next is striking. Because the criminal Donald Trump says and does openly what has often been done insidiously by other presidents, he shocks by his audacity. He commits crimes at home and abroad as if he were smirkingly firing some contestant on his former Reality-TV show.

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Genocide Deniers Call Gaza Starvation a ‘Hoax’ by Citing UNICEF—Which Reported Famine
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

7 Aug 2026 – US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee—who last year admitted Gazans were starving—was among those noting a new global hunger report by the UN agency that reported the 2025 famine as it unfolded.

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The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
Lily Hay Newman | Wired/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

1 Aug 2026 – Both major AI labs’ models escaped onto the internet and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue? Great question.

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(Français) Réflexion médiatico-philosophique sur la désinformation
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Chers lecteurs, bienvenue dans l’ère de la post-vérité, où la désinformation a pris des proportions si hallucinantes qu’elle pourrait faire rougir un éléphant rose inventé par un influenceur en mal de likes. Imaginez :

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On War, Defense, and Nonviolence
Thierry Castelbou/Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The CSDC (Civil Defense Studies Center) of Rome has been operating in Italy since 1984, proposing an agreement with the military to obtain recognition of a form of defense different from the military one.

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Trump Is Far More Corrupt and Dangerous Than Some Corporate Media Portray Him
Rodrigue Tremblay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

3 Aug 2026 – Trump has demonstrated that he is not your ordinary politician. It is well documented that he is, by far, the most corrupt and incompetent president the US has ever had: dictatorial, confrontational, bullying, manipulative. Lying has become a sick obsession in his daily rants.

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A Flowering of Culture: A Goal of the UNESCO-led Education for Global Citizenship
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The UNESCO-led program of Education for Global Citizenship stresses the aim of developing a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing common values and responsibilities with empathy and solidarity.

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Israel’s Defense Minister Orders IDF Takeover of Refugee Camp, Expulsion of Palestinians
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

28 Jul 2026 – Defense Minister Israel Katz said today that he has instructed the IDF to prepare to take control of a refugee camp and expel its Palestinian residents amid Israel’s unfolding West Bank offensive.

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The Global Structural Crisis of Capital
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Capital, Foster says, has found itself in a position akin to Lucian’s sorcerer’s apprentice: futilely attempting to control a runaway system that he had himself created, accumulating not only contradictions but outright catastrophe—with globe-spanning consequences.

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Inside the Longest Refugee Protest in History
Matt Benson | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

31 Jul 2026 – For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human rights.

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Iran – Persia
Global Documentary - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

We explore a land that few travelers truly experience that takes you on a journey from ancient Persia to modern Iran, uncovering landscapes, Persian culture, and hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

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Anthropocene
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

30 Jul 2026 – We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies where every twinkle in the night sky is an Elon Musk satellite.

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A Song of Peace | World Peace (Music Video of the Week)
The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Soprano Wendy Kokkelkoren sings with the Limburgs Choir School Cantarella a musical prayer for the world, a heart wish for worldwide peace–from Finland.

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The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta
Stephen Zunes | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

3 Aug 2026 – Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis? – What prompted the scenes this past week of 50,000 Moroccans and others streaming into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is more complicated than it seems.

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From Auschwitz to Academia: The Banality of Evil in the Propaganda Complex of Systemic Ecocide and Genocide
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

The ‘banality of evil’ is no longer confined to Auschwitz but has migrated to our universities, economics departments, law schools, policy institutes; wears suits, publishes papers, teaches courses, claims neutrality, and legitimizes systemic ecocide and genocide on a planetary scale. This is not a metaphor. It is a structural analysis.

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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Carl Zimmer | The New York Times/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.”

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The War on Drugs Has Always Been More about War Than Drugs
Carlos Ron | Breakthrough News/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

4 Aug 2026 – The pardon of Washington’s ally Juan Orlando Hernández amid an uptick in the US war on drugs signals that trafficking is forgivable, even pardonable, in an ally. Venezuela is the definitive case of this double standard.

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Technofeudalism and the Future of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

8 Aug 2026 – The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis

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Don Corleone Trump
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

3 Aug 2026 – Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos.

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Qazi Syed Saifuddin: Educationist, Student Leader, Institution Builder and Architect of Humanitarian Service
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2026

This essay is far more than a historical account; it is my personal homage to a teacher whose influence has remained a guiding light throughout my life. Dr Qazi’s invaluable assistance made it possible to present that tribute with greater authenticity, coherence, and completeness.

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Exposing the Lies and Secrets of the Nuclear Era
Nobel Peace Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

The film and the conversation give unique insights into contemporary nuclear dangers, including the emerging threat of AI-enabled weapons systems in a launch-on-warning environment. Most critically, it outlines practical steps to help prevent nuclear catastrophe.

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(Italiano) In Cammino Per La Pace E Il Disarmo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

2 ago 2026 – Monte Sole- Sant’Anna di Stazzema, 5-7 e 11-12 agosto 2026 – Il gruppo del Cammino per la Pace e il disarmo sta ultimando i preparativi per la partenza fissata per il 5 agosto prossimo.

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Hiroshima: Minute by Minute
DocuReal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

This minute-by-minute account immerses you in the key turning points that reshaped the course of history – and redefined the boundaries of humanity, warfare, and global power forever.

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Why the Odyssey?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

We live at a time when the nature of reality and illusion is particularly fragile, time and space jumbled like dice in a cup, and nostalgia for a real or imaginary home quite intense. The sociologist Zygmunt Baumann coined it “liquid modernity.”

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Trump, Elections, and Democracy: How We Can Move Beyond Electoral Fetishism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

How could a vulgar upstart and political amateur like Trump defeat a seasoned professional like Hilary?  It must have been a Russian plot!  Few Democrats these days have much to say about “Russiagate.”

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The New Holocaust Deniers Are Netanyahu, Katz and Trump
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

“Israel Hit Gaza Refugee Camp” was the 29 July news headline on Al Jazeera.  Who but war criminals would bomb a refugee camp filled with women and children?  Have Israelis forgotten what the Nazis did to Jews in Europe?

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Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

16 Jul 2026 – Since 7 Oct 2023, Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank; more than 230, children. Attacks by settlers on Palestinian communities have increased, destroying property and capturing livestock, driving families from their homes. The IDF has launched a large-scale assault on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp.

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The ECO: Africa Does Not Need a New Name for an Old Leash
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – The history of money and the money of history cannot be separated from that of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which is set to introduce the ECO currency in 2027.

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Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-Led US Senate COVID Hearing
Ahmed Aboulenein | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

Paul and Fauci have long clashed over COVID-19 origins
Fauci accuses senator of “slanderous comments”
Paul released 1,141 pages of Fauci’s pandemic-era diary
Fauci lawyer says Paul seeks “pathological” retribution

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The Narco-Slavers of Chihuahua – ‘We Were Simply Animals’
Marcela Turati et al. | Equator - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps.

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The World’s Silence on Gaza Once Headlines Fade
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

30 Jul 2026 – The tapering off of news coverage on the US-Israeli genocide has done little to abate the violence. In fact, its permanence is precisely what allows the world to look away.

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The Ostrich and the Iron: Why Europe’s Geopolitical Somnambulism Is about to End
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

The train of history is accelerating, and Europe is currently tied to the tracks, still arguing about the seating chart in the first-class carriage. The awakening will not be a conversation; it will be an impact.

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How Israel Uses Settler-Soldier Terror to Colonise the West Bank
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

27 Jul 2026 – Settler attacks are not isolated incidents. They are all part of a strategy to grab land and colonise.

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Humanity at Crossroads: Where Are the Peacemakers?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

Global Leaders Who Could Not Think as Normal Human Beings

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Venezuela, Memory, and the Long Arc of U.S. Imperialism
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state–by force.

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Militarism, Inequality and Poverty: Ways Out of the Vicious Circle
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

28 Jul 2026 – While the world carries on business as usual, humanity moves from one tragedy to another. Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and many more. With bodies scattered, broken families, cities in ruins and endless suffering of people, it seems all value to life is lost.

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How Neoliberal Academia Became the Propaganda Machinery for Perpetuating Systemic Ecocide and Genocide
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

27 Jul 2026 – Neoliberal academia presents itself as enlightened, critical, and globally connected. In reality, much of it has become one of the key legitimating institutions of the very order that produces ecocide, genocidal conditions, and massive human-rights violations.

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NATO Pushes Europe toward Total Collapse
Dr. Jan Oberg | World Affairs In Context – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

25 Jul 2026 – –> Countdown to All-Out War Has Begun

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Cuba’s Influence in the Demise of South Africa’s ‘Apartheid:’ A Silenced History
Mirko Casale | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

24 Jul 2026 – In 1948, racial segregation was implanted in South Africa, by which the black African population was marginalized by laws from a white minority of European settlers. Cuba’s true contribution to the fight against ‘apartheid’ extended far beyond South Africa’s borders.

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(Français) La France de Macron : Quand le « Pays des Lumières » éteint l’Interrupteur
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

Le théâtre de l’Élysée ne change plus de décor, il change simplement de masque. Le 1er août 2026 restera sans doute dans les annales de la tartufferie républicaine comme le jour où l’arrogance du pouvoir a franchi le Rubicon de l’absurde.

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Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman
Loubna N Morris | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

In his book, ‘The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman’ (2006), Peter Rost  argues and reveals a big number of the fraudulent practices, the violations of the laws that govern the pharmaceutical industry, and the injustice he witnessed during his work with pharmaceutical companies Wyeth, Pharmacia, and Pfizer.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Memorial Ceremonies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

– William Stafford’s Peace Poem for the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Ceremony on 6 Aug 2026.
– St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Peace Speech for the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Memorial Ceremony on 9 Aug 2026.

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One Democratic State
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

30 Jul 2026 – The predicted imminent collapse in the West Bank (a prelude to the Gaza scenario) is beginning to happen: no gas, no money, ethnic cleansing, pogroms by settlers etc. This should remind us of certain truths.

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TMS Is Independent Media. No Government Grants. No Advertising.
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

The only strings attached are to our readers, writers, searchers of truth and solutions for resolution of conflicts–mediators. PLEASE make a recurring monthly donation; partner with TMS.

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“Becoming an Activist Is Not a Rational Thing:” A Conversation with RLA Laureate Walden Bello
Right Livelihood - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

24 Jul 2026 – Walden Bello received the Right Livelihood Award in 2003 and remained a leading voice on the global left: an author, former member of the Philippine Congress, and lifelong activist. What set him on this path, the importance of conviction, and his advice for young people finding their way into activism.

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There Will Be Times, Oh My Child, When It All Seems Hopeless
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

The sky is red, and the moon has a FOR SALE sign, and parts of Palestinians are turning up in our tap water.

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Will a World without Israel Be Safer and More Peaceful?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

By all indications, Israel itself – that is, its apartheid policies towards Palestinians, its pursuit of Hitlerite “Mein Kampf in reverse” in the Occupied Palestine and its unmistakably Exceptionalist behaviour worldwide–has become the primary driver behind worldwide moral outrage. 

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Can One Philosophy Fit the Whole World?
Jan Krikke – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

15 Jul 2026 – The dream of a philosophy that explains the whole is almost as old as philosophy itself. Plato sought eternal Forms. Confucius looked for harmony in human relationships. Nāgārjuna dismantled conceptual certainties. Spinoza envisioned reality as a single substance. Hegel interpreted history as the unfolding of Spirit.

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Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Abby Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – In Abby Martin’s new film, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.

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Israeli Defense Forces Mental Health Crisis Deepens
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

29 Jul 2026 – Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days – Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military

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World Citizens Oppose China’s Ethnic Unity Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

30 Jul 2026 – The Chinese Government limits ethnic minorities with a new Ethnic Unity law which expands state control over identity, culture, and religious practice.

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‘This Is Not a Ceasefire,’ Doctors Without Borders Says of Gaza, ‘It Is a Continuation of the Genocide’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

28 Jul 2026 – “A ceasefire should ensure that hostilities are paused, weapons are silenced, and that people are safe from strikes.” Nearly 10 months into a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, Doctors Without Borders declared that “the wounds of war are not only unhealed—they are still being inflicted.”

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“It seems as if Hitler has won. He’s changed us Jews into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation.”
Miriam Margolyes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

— British Jewish Actress Miriam Margolyes

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India: Teaching a Lesson
Eram Agha | The Caravan/After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

31 Jul 2026 – Over the past decade, the Narendra Modi government has attempted to centralise the multiple doors into higher education. Singular national examinations by the National Testing Agency were established in 2017. Medical entrances, the first to be centralised, were a portend of the effects this would have.

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(norsk) Når rosene er borte: Norges kamp mot rasisme begynner dagen etter
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

28. juli 2026 – Norge minnes nå at det har gått femten år siden en høyreekstrem terrorist tok livet av 77 personer i regjeringskvartalet og på Utøya. Nå går vi inn i den mest krevende fasen: tirsdagen etter hendelse

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Protest in Venice, Italy as Trump’s Ambassador Shows Off Massive Yacht
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

20 Jul 2026 – ‘MAGA – Make America Go Away’ – The yacht cost $450 million (£341.6 million) and boasts six floors, two helipads and multiple swimming pools. People during the march were confronted by police force. They hear speeches and project their outrage at the US.

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With Karim Khan’s Dismissal, the Elimination of the War Crimes Court (ICC) Is Near-Complete
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

30 Jul 2026 – Millions of people around the globe will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court.

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Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

The surety of science about what happens when we die, like the surety of religion, is only speculative, for it is conceived by the living.

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New Forms of Political Criminalization in Latin America
Alejandra Garcia Elizalde | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

27 Jul 2026 – The meeting convened by Marco Rubio against “left-wing extremism” has reignited a debate in Latin America over the so-called “internal enemy.” It reflects the continuation of doctrines implemented during the Cold War.

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‘Black Day for Democracy’: Indian Police Bash and Gas Youth-Led ‘Cockroach’ Protesters
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

20 Jul 2026 – Indian protesters rallying today in New Delhi under the banner of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party were brutally attacked by police. “It’s just shocking to see that the people we elected have turned a blind eye to youth dying,” said one protester.

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Kazi Syed Gyasuddin: Life, Law, and Public Service in the Making of Maharashtra
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2026

From the Deccan Sultanates to modern India, the office of the Qazi evolved from a judicial institution rooted in Islamic jurisprudence into a broader tradition of legal scholarship, public service, and constitutional leadership.

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Mirrored Primes as Bridges between Incommensurable Strategic Frameworks
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

An earlier quest for coherence in a society faced with polycrisis took as its point of departure the “basket” as a container metaphor. “Basket-case” commonly features in the deprecation of strategic inadequacy.

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What’s Driving the Trump Administration’s Push to Dismantle the ICC?
Stewart Patrick | Emissary/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

15 Jul 2026 – The United States never joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) but is now pushing to dismantle it. Why? The move is an escalation of its war on multilateralism.

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International Law in Gaza: Legality and Legitimacy Perspectives
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

24 Jul 2026 – The generally neglected interplay between legality and legitimacy as important modes of assessing controversial transnational behavior of states, especially with respect to the war/peace agenda of geopolitical actors, which for reasons of convenience I identify as the five Permanent Members of the Security Council.

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BRICS 2026: Members, Goals & India’s Role
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

22 Jul 2026 – What BRICS is, its full form, member countries and the recent expansion, goals, the New Development Bank, the BRICS-currency debate, and India’s role.

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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Arundhati Roy | The Wire/Equator – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

23 Jul 2026 – The student-led protests that have convulsed the Indian capital this week are showing us a different future for India and spreading to other cities. The cautious hope stirred by this youth uprising – and the Modi government’s desperate struggle to contain it.

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Ukraine, the US Enduring Proxy War on Russia
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

21 Jul 2026 – Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.

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Becoming the Stranger
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

20 Jul 2026 – The road to fascism, as Ece Temelkuran writes in “Nation of Strangers,” was constructed over the last six decades of neoliberal assault. We have arrived at the terminus.

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Don’t Look Away from Cuba
Chris Mills Rodrigo | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

14 Jul 2026 – The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.

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NGOs in an Evolving World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

22 Jul 2026 – The United Nations (UN) Charter begins with the promising words “We the Peoples…”. However, thereafter the peoples’ voice fades and that of governments takes over.

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The Data Center Fight Is Going Global
Cathy Rogers, Saul Levin, and Philip Eubanks | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

23 Jul 2026 – As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.

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To Imagine a New Development Theory from the Global South
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

16 Jul 2026 – The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.

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The Subsidized Occupation: Palestine and the Arabs
M. Reza Behnam | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

20 Jul 2026 – Oil-rich Arab states possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and economic leverage on the planet.  Yet, they have declined to use their economic indispensability in defense of Palestinian statehood and to uphold their own sovereignty.  

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Human Rights after 1945 and the Neoliberal Unmaking of Morality
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

20 Jul 2026 – Humanity came out of WWII staring into an abyss of its own making. The concentration camps, the mass bombings, the industrialised extermination of entire peoples and ways of life—these were not accidents or misunderstandings.

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(Deutsch) Der Winter de Neutralität: Wenn Bern seine Seele für fröstelnde Drohnen verkauft
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

Am 13. und 14. Juli, während die Welt mit den üblichen, vom Westen inszenierten Ablenkungen beschäftigt war, gönnte sich der Schweizer Rüstungschef einen diskreten Ausflug nach Israel. Das Ziel? Die militärischen Bande zwischen der „neutralen“ Helvetia und dem jüdischen Staat enger zu knüpfen.

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West Bank: Six Attacks Every Single Day
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

23 Jul 2026 – After Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, settler violence across the Occupied West Bank reached record highs. In recent months, settler violence has accelerated in both the frequency and brutality of attacks.

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The Generation That Refuses to Crawl
Julian Vigo | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

20 Jul 2026 – India’s Gen Z Revolt – Thousands of young people attempted to march to Parliament but the Delhi Police answered them with barricades, batons, and tear gas. Some protesters were detained. The protesters call themselves the Cockroach Janta Party.

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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
Edward Curtin and Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

“Life is the best play of all,” a seven year-old Sophie once said to me as we talked about acting, music, writing, and sports.

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Ending the War on Iran Depends on Ending Iran’s Vulnerability to Future U.S./Israel Aggression
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jul 2026

Pushing Iran Toward Nuclearism – The current situation stems from an unprovoked war of aggression started by the US on February 28 and soon joined by Israel, and resumed from time to time since. For those who seek genuine peace in the world, the plight of Iran has many lessons that need to be learned by liberal democracies.

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