Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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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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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 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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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.
→ read full articleEnding 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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Location, Location, Location
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
It might be said, and well said, that the United States succeeded despite itself, much like the man who fell off a cliff and thereby found a huge virgin deposit of gold.
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Unknown/Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
Awesome…
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Why the West Keeps Missing the Point on Russia
Sajid Farid Shapoo | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
11 Jul 2026 – West fails to understand Russian society is cultivating a unique national identity that would exist with or without Putin.
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Trump’s Phantom Enemies
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 – The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
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The Weaponization of Atrocity: Israel’s Tactical Gambit and the Aliyev Veto
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
26 Jul 2026 – History should never be transactional. Yet, in July 2026, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Israel transitioned from a long-awaited gesture of justice into a stark display of leverage-based “diplomacy”.
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I’m a Scholar of Genocide–We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era
Omer Bartov | The New York Times/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 – How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them and accountability ensues.
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Nicaragua Did NOT Cancel Elections
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
23 Jul 2026 – A Lie That Went Half Way Round the World
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(Italiano) Quando il Presidente della Repubblica offre la deterrenza francese a Berlino e gli Champs-Élysées a Kiev
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
Il 2 marzo 2026, dalla base dell’Île Longue, Emmanuel Macron ha solennemente annunciato l’avvento della «deterrenza avanzata». Una bella formula, quasi poetica. In chiaro: la Germania, questo partner «chiave», potrà d’ora in poi partecipare agli esercizi nucleari francesi.
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TMS Is Independent Media. No Government Grants. No Advertising.
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 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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The Psychological Experience of Swana Americans in Contemporary Western Life
Dr. Mona Abuhamda | New Washington School of Psychiatry – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
There is a grief that has no diagnostic code. It is the grief of watching, from this side of the ocean, from inside a life that looks perfectly functional, the erasure of your people. A literal one. I am a psychologist. North African. Arab.
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We Are Already Fighting World War III and You Are the Target
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
Resisting the Elite Program to Kill or Technocratically Enslave Us All
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I Was Part of the Protest March in Delhi–>Democratic Politics Took a New Turn
Yogendra Yadav | The Indian Express - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 – More than direct sufferers, the protesters were primarily potential sufferers, those who know that it could be their turn tomorrow, those who realise that the education-employment system has broken down.
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FIFA-Trump: The Game Was Never Their Own
Emese Ilyés | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
20 Jul 2026 – The 2026 World Cup was a lesson in how authoritarians capture what we love and how we refuse to let them.
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(Français) Et si écouter une seule personne suffisait à transformer un conflit ?
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
19 Jul 2026 – Quand une médiation classique n’est pas possible parce qu’une des parties refuse, que reste-t-il ?
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(Français) L’Empire fatigué : la force spectaculaire et la puissance introuvable
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
Depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, les États-Unis ont maintenu un statut de première puissance militaire mondiale qui défient l’imagination. Pourtant, lorsqu’on examine les résultats concrets de cette immense machine de guerre sur les trente-cinq dernières années, un étrange paradoxe apparaît.
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64,000 Orphaned Children in the Gaza Strip–a Project for Concrete Action
La Scuola per la Pace | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
24 Jul 2026 – In Gaza, amidst near-total silence from the mainstream media, attacks have intensified, and the situation is worse than ever… The messages we receive daily from Gazans via the “Aid for Palestine” Committee tell us that the bombing and gunfire are constant.
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‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI Says AI Models Autonomously Hacked Another Company
AP/Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026 – ChatGPT maker OpenAI says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. The “unprecedented cyber incident” took place during an internal exercise meant to test its models’ cyber capabilities.
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India Launches First Hydrogen-Powered Train Built in the Country
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – Expanding Clean Energy on Railways – India rolled out its first domestically built, hydrogen-powered train today, a move aimed at expanding the use of clean energy in its vast rail network.
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The Global South’s Grocery Bill
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
20 Jul 2026 – (With apologies to no one) Why the world’s poorest are invoiced for everyone else’s wars.
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Israel Is Building a Miles-Long Earthen Barrier Inside Gaza, Entrenching Its Division
AP | Courthouse News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026 – The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
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Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2026
BOTH!!
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Half of Me Had always Been Waiting
Nuno Ramalho – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – How watching Cabo Verde in the World Cup awakened a part of my identity I’d long ignored.
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It’s Not Terrorism When We Do It
Nate Bear | ¡Do Not Panic! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
18 Jul 2026 – Yesterday Pete Hegseth triumphantly tweeted a picture of Iran’s Chabahar maritime port tower collapsing following an attack by the US regime. The image bore a striking resemblance to the collapse of the Twin Towers on 11 September.
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity [read: Depravity]
Abdaljawad Omar | Equator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues. – Last year, the online magazine +972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”.
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“Enormous Damage” to U.S. on Iran War Loss
Katie Halper – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
11 Jul 2026 – Katie Halper interviews political scientist John Mearsheimer and economist Yanis Varoufakis on how the US has been losing war after war, yet remaining powerful, and why with Iran it may be a different story.
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Statement of ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane on the Day of International Criminal Justice
Judge Tomoko Akane | International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – Twenty-eight years ago today, the Rome Statute was born. On this International Criminal Justice Day, let us recall that the international rule of law cannot exist without independent judicial institutions that uphold the law through the decisions of impartial judges. The International Criminal Court is one such institution.
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Palestine in Pictures: June 2026
The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – At least 122 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip during the month of June. Between 3 and 30 June, 115 Palestinians were killed in Gaza or died from injuries sustained previously. Five bodies were recovered from the rubble and more than 500 people were injured.
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‘Heroes?’ [laughter] Victims and Victimizers (guess who is who)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
You have 30 seconds.
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Jeffrey Sachs: China Offers a Global Vision for AI Governance
CGTN Europe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – Artificial intelligence is the defining general-purpose technology of our age, with China and the United States emerging as the leading powers.
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Win or Lose This World Cup, Argentina Has No Honour nor Does It Enjoy Global Admiration
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – This world cup both FIFA and Argentina (i.e., the nation, the football team and the fans, and the golden boy Leonel Messi) have shown their racist, rotten, corrupt cores.
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Trump Administration Vows to ‘Disable’ International Criminal Court
Joseph Stepansky | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026 – US State Department ups pressure campaign on international tribunal, threatening allies who support investigations.
→ read full articleIn Defense of the International Criminal Court-ICC
René Wadlow | Association of World Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – At a time when risks are rising and international cooperation is under attack, we need institutions capable of managing risks that no single country can, alone. The International Criminal Court is such an institution of world law.
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The Not-So-Secret Israeli Strategy
Ramzy Baroud | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026 – This Is the Real Gaza Plan – Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after.
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‘A Stray Dog with a Toddler’s Arm’: How Israeli Atrocities Fuelled Palestine Action
Dania Akkad and Phil Miller | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – Women tell Old Bailey jury why they helped raid Israeli-owned Elbit arms factory near Bristol.
→ read full articleFrom Brain Capture to Intellectual Sovereignty
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
25 Jun 2026 – Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.
→ read full articleEncasement within Contrasting Polyhedral Baskets
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
Psychosocial Transcendence through Dynamic Exchange and Sonification with AI Assistance – In the quest for coherence in a society faced with polycrisis, consideration can be given to the coherent patterns identified through geometry and variously appreciated as symbols.
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Trump Pays Writer E. Jean Carroll $5M in Damages over Rape and Defamation
Max Matza | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – US President Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case, her lawyers confirmed.
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A Dream Deferred but Still Alive
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
Roosevelt reported that the Yalta conference of Allied leaders had agreed upon “a common ground for peace.” It would “spell the end of the system of unilateral action, the exclusive alliances, the spheres of influence, the balances of power, and all the expedients that have been tried for centuries and always failed.”
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After Controversial Egypt Match, Many Fans from the Global South Are Done with the Soccer World Cup
Ashish Malhotra | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – Feelings of injustice around the international tournament are a symptom of geopolitics in 2026. – It’s hard to say for sure because of the wizardry involved.
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The Abundance Paradigm: Meaning beyond Work (Part 5)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives. We have come to equate paid employment with identity. That presumption may soon be rendered obsolete by AI.
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Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Tests the New Western Order
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026 – A major investment project has left Albania caught between diverging US and European interests. The increasingly autonomous protest networks that the West spent decades building in the Balkans are further complicating matters.
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Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder
Nicholas Kristof | NY Times/Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
11 Jul 2026 – Last year, experts warned Trump and other world leaders that the UAE-backed R.S.F. militia was to commit a massacre in El Fasher, Sudan. They shrugged as the militia slaughtered 60,000 people. Now the same militia is besieging El Obeid, with half a million inhabitants.
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Genocide Watch Gaza Report
Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
July 2026 – In September 2025, a U.N. Commission Report concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts of genocide in the Genocide Convention. Yet Israel has continued its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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FIFA World Cup: Five Biggest Controversies of the 2026 Tournament
AFP, AP and Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026 – The 2026 World Cup has been full of controversies – Al Jazeera breaks down the five most significant. What happened to the beautiful game?
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Oh for the Day When the Bombs Stop Falling
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – When the humans stop biting and stabbing each other and spraying everything with blood and oil.
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Deliberative Technologies in Youth, Peace & Security
Lena Slachmuijlder | Toda Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jun 2026 – Promise, Practice, and the Uptake Gap – When peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) coalition leaders put AI-enabled deliberative tools into practice, what do they enable, what obstacles do they face, and how can we take forward their lessons learned?
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Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Officials for Conspiracy against Pro-Palestinian Organizers
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – “This case will expose the scheme that sought to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in the US.” The lawsuit was filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed to stop groups like the KKK to coordinate with the government to strip individuals of their constitutional rights.
→ read full articleOn African Unity vs South African Xenophobia and Afrophobia
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
The myopic, xenophobic, Afro-phobic embarrassing malaise on display today in South Africa is totally oblivious to any Pan-African or global vision at all. It is rather an atavistic, backward narrow-minded tribal consciousness in need of immediate reeducation and excision.
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South Africa’s Top Court Defends Asylum Rights
Pavan Kulkarni | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – Landmark Ruling Curbs Arbitrary Deportations
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Ethics as the Architecture of Power: China Proposes a New Global Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
19 Jul 2026 – The new Action Plan on International AI Ethical Governance is a proposal to define who will establish the rules governing the development of AI with a distinct conception of the international order, the role of the State, and the place of developing countries.
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Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him over Coverage of Ayatollah’s Funeral
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal says US border agents told him he had no rights, as they took his electronics to invade his privacy and potentially compromise his sources.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and Moral Upheavals
Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
There are important risks, threats and disruptions that could result from a blind and too-rapid adoption of all the features of the new technology. Its ‘creative destruction’ could become increasingly powerful and detrimental, especially for workers, but also for writers and artists, for businesses and, finally, for the entire economy and society.
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Crime Scene Planet Earth: Why Peacebuilding Requires Doughnut Criminology
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
14 Jul 2026 – Peace journalism has taught us to look beyond spectacle and toward structure. That insight is essential, but today it is no longer enough. Peacebuilding must go further. Doughnut criminology matters because it makes violations visible.
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What is the Common Good?
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
13 Jul 2026 – Is Today’s World System Capable of This Concept? – The concept of the common good lives in the background of our world but is rarely explicitly discussed.
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If War Dead Could Speak
Jerry Tetalman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – If those killed in war could speak, this is what I imagine they would say. They would claim that war is humanity’s biggest moral failure and that war is the real enemy. They might ask, “Are we savage animals or are we civilized human beings?”
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Beyond the Interregnum
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
16 Jul 2026 – Can Democracy Survive Capitalism’s Final Crisis?
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Who Is “We”? Identity, Empire, and the Theft of Solidarity
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – The word “we” appears to unite, but it often conceals the unequal distribution of power, suffering and responsibility. To ask how “we” arrived at the present crisis is therefore…
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Tango por una Cabeza (Music Video of the Week)
Carlos Gardel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
Teaching the Tango to a Beautiful Woman (Full Scene) | Scent of a Woman – Al Pacino – Gabrielle Anwar – Chris O’Donnell
→ read full articleCongo’s UN Report: The Report Everyone Already Knew—and Why Rwanda Gets Away with It
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
The latest UN report on eastern DRC is being described as explosive. That is the preferred diplomatic adjective whenever institutions finally acknowledge a crisis that has been detonating in public for years.
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Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him
The Tucker Carlson Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – There’s never been a legitimate criminal investigation into 9-11, the deadliest terror attack in US history. Roger Waters is trying to change that.
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Imperialism and the Moral Decay of the West
Atilio Boron | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
15 Jul 2026 – The irreversible decline of the U.S. empire’s global hegemony is not merely an economic or technological issue. Such an reductionist approach would prevent us from grasping the full scope and the many dimensions of this slow but inexorable decline.
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Berar: The Forgotten Crossroads of Indian Civilisation
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
17 Jul 2026 – Berar occupies a distinctive place in India’s intellectual history. Situated between northern India and the Deccan, Berar became a meeting ground for Islamic scholarship, Persian administrative culture, Urdu literature, Marathi learning, and, later, Western education.
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16 July 1945: World’s First Nuclear Weapon Detonation
Researched by Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
The first nuclear weapon detonation in human history occurred at the Trinity test on 16 Jul 1945, at 5:29:45 AM MWT in the Jornada del Muerto desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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(Italiano) Gandhi e Shantidas sui mali strutturali del mondo e sulle relative risposte
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
9 Luglio 2026 – Senza comprendere e combattere le strutture sociali, la nonviolenza si riduce a mera competenza e cortesia. Ad esempio, coloro che presentano la politica dei diritti umani come soluzione ai mali sociali si limitano ad estendere l’etica interpersonale alla società, ma non alle sue strutture.
→ read full articleEngaging with a Planetary Basket-case during a Singularity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Potential Reframing of Perception with the Assistance of AI – There are various connotations of “basket”, each quite distinctive. One has been associated with Trump, who chose to insult others as being a “basket case.”
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Photo of Bound Palestinian Detainee Corroborates Israeli Torture Reports, Say Rights Groups
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – An Israeli soldier’s photo of a Palestinian man from Gaza stripped to his underwear, blindfolded and bound face-down to an iron rod corroborates extensive reporting on Israeli torture of Palestinians in detention and itself may constitute a war crime, rights groups have said.
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Arms Markets
Anna Stavrianakis | Phenomenal World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
Jun 2026 – A Look at the World’s Largest Military Industries
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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti Gives a Glimpse into the Imperialist Shock Doctrine That Could Rattle Venezuela Long After the Earthquakes
Jacqueline Luqman | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
1 Jul 2026 – The U.S. has attacked Venezuela through various means for decades and kidnapped President Maduro but is now claiming to assist with earthquake relief. If it’s role in Haiti is any guide, that so-called aid from the U.S. is a Trojan Horse bringing more plunder and control.
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More Than 53,000 Foreigners Deported from South Africa amid Xenophobia Wave
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – More than 53,000 foreigners have been processed for deportation and repatriation from South Africa, amid escalating tension over the wave of xenophobic attacks in recent months, the South African government reported today.
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What Is Humanitarian Education and Does It Help Build Peace?
Chloe Bruce | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026 – Humanitarian organizations invest in education to promote safety, resilience, and social cohesion, but researchers continue to debate its long-term impact on conflict and human well-being.
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Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore
Aaron Kirshenbaum | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French government also counted over 2,000 excess deaths during the June heatwaves.
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What Happens ‘When the World Sleeps’
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – The Wounds of Palestine – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her book, “When the World Sleeps.”
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Quarticentennial Compendium Sets History’s Moral Ledger
World News Wire | Big News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
11 Jul 2026 – 25 Years of Merit and Moral Reckoning Formally Ratified – Documentation of genocide–concerning Gaza and Myanmar–by Melanie O’Brien, Francesca Albanese, Prof Yanghee Lee and Maung Zarni is the ‘Most Credible and ‘Most Consequential documentation of genocidal operations of the quarticentennial era’.
→ read full articleCitizen Vigilantes: When Fiction Becomes Uncomfortable Reality
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – From the gritty streets of 1970s New York in ‘Death Wish’ to the precise retribution delivered by Denzel Washington in ‘The Equalizer’ series, these stories thrive because they tap into a universal frustration: what happens when the systems meant to protect us falter?
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Will We Know if Artificial Intelligence Takes Over?
Doug Irving | Rand - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
What happens if we off-load our ability to make decisions, to shape the future, to machines? How will we know if we start to lose part of what makes us human, our agency?
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Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
War and War in the Age of Planet-destroying Globalized Capitalism
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PEN America Sells out. Again.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and US imperialism. Its moral core is gone. It abandoned its mission to “defend writers, artists, and journalists and protect free expression” and transformed itself into a propaganda machine for the oppressors
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The “Key to Peace” Comes in a Gun Box: Reflections on NATO’s Ankara Summit
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – NATO’s 2026 Summit was greeted with slogans, “Key to Peace,” “Key to Security,” and “A Shared Future in Peace.” But in the end, Erdoğan presented heads of state with Turkish-made elegant revolvers. The “key to peace” came in a gun box; the irony impossible to ignore.
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NATO’s Armament Is a Direct Threat to Societal Well-Being–S.G. Rutte Must Know It but Continues to Deceive the Public
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
7 Jul 2026 – We all pay more and more for less security and the destruction of our societal economy. Where are the millions of protesters in the streets of Europe against the NATO militarism parasite?
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The Kagame Regime Must Not Be Allowed to Seize the Archives of the ICTR
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – The records of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should not be surrendered to the Rwandan regime led by President Paul Kagame.
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An Appeal to Peace Laureates for the Endorsement of Birth Equity
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
12 Jul 2026 – Birth equity is the foundational right of every child to a fair, dignified, and secure start in life. It establishes equitable beginnings as the normative basis of human dignity, political legitimacy, intergenerational justice, and ecosocial peace.
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Beyond the Whistle: How Football [Soccer] Exposes and Escapes Its Own Bigotry
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2026
8 Jul 2026 – So, FIFA deemed Haiti’s World Cup jersey “too political.” The disputed design reportedly referenced the Battle of Vertières: the revolution, the anti-slavery uprising, the moment Haitians fought for and won independence. A man holding a flag. A people holding onto history.
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