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Hell in a Handbasket
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
No Comment…
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Burying Genocide: The BBC, Gaza and the Role of the UK
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
14 Jul 2025 – The BBC isn’t ‘failing’. It is doing precisely what it was set up to do, namely, act as a mouthpiece for establishment power and as an enabler of state crimes.
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Highlighting the Unmentionable by Inference
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
13 Jul 2025 – Entrapment in Risky Discourse by Which One Becomes the Target – Incredibly, it seems that society has now developed to the point at which particular matters are no longer mentionable in public discourse–for fear of righteous condemnation, marginalization, or worse.
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Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks
Ellen Brown | Just Money – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
8 Jul 2025 – A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of giant banks diverts that flow into an exponentially-growing self-feeding pool of digital profits for themselves.
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The Guernica of Israel’s War of Extermination
Gideon Levy | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on 26 Apr 1937. The people of Guernica, which was bombed by fascists and Nazis during the Spanish Civil War, urged the international community to share the suffering of the Palestinian people who are reeling under relentless Israeli bombing.
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UN Group of Experts on DRC–Jun 2025 Report
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
9 Jul 2025 – The UN Group of Experts on DRC reports the obvious, that Rwandan President Paul Kagame intends to annex DRC’s Kivu Provinces.
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BRICS at Rio de Janeiro: What Next? – Analysis
Kester Kenn Klomegah | Eurasia Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – BRICS, the group of emerging-market economies meeting in Rio de Janeiro, has outlined goals to challenge the unipolar system and set up new models to change the economic architecture through South-South cooperation.
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UNICEF Voices Deep Dismay over the ‘Unconscionable’ Killing of Families Lining Up for Food Aid in Gaza
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
12 Jul 2025 – The head of the UN Children’s Fund has voiced deep dismay over the “unconscionable” killing of children during an aid distribution in the central Gaza Strip on Thu, 10 Jul 2025.
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Day of Hope
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
12 July has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of Hope to be celebrated each year as a moment of light in dark times. Hope is a powerful force for positive change and for a brighter future.
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Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
13 Jul 2025 – The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club [read MAFIA].
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When Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world.
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Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza: 40 Days of Solidarity and Compassion
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – Whenever you get to thinking that people lack compassion and generally can’t be trusted with the planet, I recommend you read this article.
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Dima’s Greatest Hits: A Year of Medvedev’s X Brilliance
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
6 Jul 2025 – A Sarcastic Article about Medvedev – Dmitry Medvedev’s X feed is a masterclass in geopolitical comedy, from Ukraine’s NATO pipe dream to the West’s nuclear double standards. Every tweet is a zinger…
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Blood in the Sand: How Ashura Transformed from Islamic History’s Greatest Tragedy to Peace Destroying, Sectarian Turmoil (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
The paper highlights the development of the two major sects in Islam dating back to 680 CE.
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The Middle East Is Making a Major Shift from War to Peace
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
28 June 2025 – Taking advantage of the war with Iran coming to an end, Trump is trying to expand and to implement the Abraham Accords reconciling diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Islamic countries with Israel.
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Dozens Arrested in London Protests against Ban on Palestine Action
Emad Almarshahi | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
13 Jul 2025 – British police have arrested 46 pro-Palestine demonstrators during a protest in Parliament Square, marking the second consecutive weekend of unrest over the government’s decision to outlaw the activist group Palestine Action.
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This Is How the U.S.-Run GHF Tried to Build a Local Network of ‘Aid Collaborators’ in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – In service of Israel’s military goals of conquering the Strip and expelling Gazans, the GHF has replaced the UN’s aid distribution system with “death traps,” leading the organization to fulfill Israeli genocidal objectives under the guise of humanitarianism.
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New Footage Exposes Ragtag US Mercenaries Firing toward Gaza Food Aid Seekers
Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation.
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‘An Arsenal of Profiteering’: Military Contractors Have Gotten Over Half of Pentagon Spending Since 2020
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
8 Jul 2025 – “These figures represent a continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing,” said the project’s director.
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US Imposes Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – Yesterday, the US government imposed sanctions on UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, under an executive order issued by Donald Trump.
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(Português) Guerra na Ásia Ocidental: Irã, Israel, EUA e os Rothschilds
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
Compreensão do Conflito – Porque é que os EUA queriam ‘eliminar 7 países’? Por que os Estados Unidos (e Israel) ainda querem ‘derrubar’ o Irã? Ao abordar os conflitos a este nível, é imperativo compreender a ‘configuração dos conflitos’ como um passo preliminar para abordar os elementos-chave do conflito.
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The Real Reason the Gaza Genocide Hasn’t Been Stopped
Chris Hedges and Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
6 Jul 2025 – Francesca Albanese describes the dark, self-serving reasons that no UN member states have stopped the genocide in Gaza: the economy of war, crisis and genocide that fuels the slaughter and fills the pockets of craven private actors.
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Wars, Trees and the Struggle for Peace
Syed Sikander Mehdi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
The historical, spiritual, environmental and humanistic properties of trees are recognized worldwide. Their importance has been highlighted not only by the holy books and spiritual leaders of different religions but also by story tellers, poets, novelists, painters, film makers, medicine manufacturers, and environmental activists.
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Documentary | Grassroots Governance in China
Miao Xiaojuan | TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
4 Jul 2025 – How is China governed from the ground up? How does China’s democracy work? I am joined by six Western experts on a rare journey across China to meet the unsung heroes driving rural development, resolving disputes, and dreaming under the stars.
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How Five Companies Are Keeping the World at War
AJ+ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
24 Jun 2025 – They lost the war – but made billions. This doc uncovers how U.S. defense contractors turned global conflict, from Afghanistan to Gaza, into a profit machine. Investigative journalist Abby Martin helps break down this story.
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In 17th BRICS Summit, Members Reiterate Commitments to Multilateralism and International Law
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – BRICS condemned Israeli-US attacks on Iran last month and criticized their attempts to “politicize and militarize” humanitarian aid in Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
Both are forms of power. Negative nonviolence tries to stop the other side’s direct or structural violence whereas positive nonviolence tries to make the antagonist start being peaceful. Thus, negative nonviolence demands acts of omission–no more violence–and positive nonviolence invites acts of commission, for peace.
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China, Russia Vow ‘Strategic Coordination’ to Promote Peace in West Asia
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – China’s foreign minister said the two countries are working to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue.
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Imperial Hypocrisy about “Terrorism” Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
8 Jul 2025 – “Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple.
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Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos (3 Sep 1933 – 5 Jul 2025): Humanist, Peace Linguist, Nonkilling Poet Laureate
Prof. Anoop Swarup - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
It is with great sadness that we share the demise of Francisco Gomes de Matos, our pioneer peace linguist and Nonkilling poet laureate, whose admirable path was dedicated to inspiring and humanizing nonkilling transformation.
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Russophobia by the Collective West Opens the Doors for Cold War 2.0
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – The current orchestrated Collective Western policy of total Russophobia began with the British Cabinet of Theresa May followed by the creation of the War Cabinet of Donald Trump’s first administration.
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BRICS Offers a Real Alternative to Transform the International Order: Diaz-Canel
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
7 Jul 2025 – Present and future generations deserve a world of peace and security, the Cuban President stressed.
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The Good Guys
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah
and massacring civilians trying to obtain food.
The Good Guys are circling the planet with hundreds of military bases
and telling us we’re not allowed to oppose genocide.
AI Geniuses’ Nuclear Energy Plans Overlook Doomsday Clock
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
9 Jul 2025 – AI top guns want nuke power despite plutonium, nuclear waste, cancers, and genetic effects.
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Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory Captured the Reality of Climate Change–The US Plans to Shut It Down
Alex Sen Gupta, Katrin Meissner and Timothy H. Raupach | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
3 Jul 2025 – Data collected by Mauna Loa telescopes since 1958 show the evidence of climate change by sampling the air and measuring global CO₂ levels. Charles Keeling used this data to produce the famous Keeling curve–a graph showing carbon dioxide levels increasing year after year.
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All Wars Are Banksters’ Wars
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
6 Jul 2025 – Following the Money – When we think of empires, we automatically conflate them with a particular location on the planet. This tendency is a mistake that has contributed to the confusion of an overwhelming majority of the world’s population.
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‘It Comes with the Territory’: How Israel’s Archaeologists Legitimize Annexation
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
1 Jul 2025 – Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel’s colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza’s destruction.
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The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – When the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, who today the Trump administration is sanctioning.
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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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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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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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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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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”.
→ read full articleNothing 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.
→ read full article“Iran Can’t Have a Nuclear Weapon,” Says Trump. Why The Hell Not?
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.
→ read full articleRequisite Appreciation of “Bullshit”?
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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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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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