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Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

29 Mar 2025 – Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.

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Trump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

Trump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of  the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.

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From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

27 Mar 2025 – There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.

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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.

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Surrendering to Authoritarianism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

24 Mar 2025 – Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception… Resistance will be left to us. Enemies of the state.

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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. I spoke to Bénédicte Njoko of ‘The Case for the Land.’

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Regional Neorealism: Rethinking Geography and Geopolitical Competition
Anthony Heron | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

29 Mar 2025 – Neorealism, a cornerstone of international relations theory, is a comprehensive lens through which to analyse state behavior in a disordered world. States, whether driven by survival or ambition, are expected to balance power or maximise it, yielding predictable patterns of interaction across the global stage.

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Jeffrey Sachs Just Exposed the Truth They Don’t Want You to Hear
Kim Iversen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

6 Mar 2025 – Sachs on how Europe has no independent foreign policy as a loyal follower of U.S. interests—even when it leads to war. He exposes how Washington dictates Europe’s decisions, while Israel wields enormous influence over U.S. foreign policy.

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The F-Word
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

24 Mar 2025 – “Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but false and harmful.

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Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

29 Mar 2025 – Inside the Social, Economic, and Psychological Drivers of Elite-Driven Militarization in Global Politics

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Peace Promotion or Peace Disruptions: To Classify or Declassify Government Documents
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

“Classified Documents are the nemesis of various governments. Whatever is done, the entire citizenry cannot be pleased.

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Illusory Peace?
Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

27 Mar 2025 – CrossTalking with Mats Nilsson, Jan Oberg, and Jeremy Kuzmarov

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Junta Continues Dropping Bombs after Myanmar Earthquake as Opposition Puts Down Arms
ABC News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

As the death toll from the Friday’s [28 Mar] earthquake rises sharply, Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government announced a unilateral partial ceasefire. But Independent Myanmar media reported that the military continued air attacks in the wake of the earthquake.

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Trump and Putin’s Unofficial Covert Alliance
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

25 Mar 2025 – In preparation for the US’s withdrawal from NATO, the UK has proposed to send its troops to Ukraine from more than 30 European and British countries, including France and Canada, to maintain hostility towards Russia.

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Biological Apocalypse in Armenia Is Not Far Off
Valeriy Krylko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

22 Mar 2025 – In recent years, Armenia’s medical and sanitary-veterinary centers have been actively involved in U.S.-funded projects of international scientific and technical cooperation under the scheme previously implemented by the U.S. side in Georgia and Ukraine.

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Armenia’s Biological Laboratories: A Pandora’s Box Unleashed by Reckless Leadership
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

As of 27 Mar 2025, Armenia finds itself at the center of a simmering controversy over the presence of U.S.-funded biological laboratories on its soil—a development Armenians view as a dangerous gamble with national security and sovereignty.

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Growing Up with Fear and Self-Awareness
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – When I write about personal matters, I quickly stumble into one of life’s puzzling ironies: Every one of us is unique, and we’re also part of a collective whole. Self-awareness essentially means straddling that divide.

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Tyranny and “Efficiency” — How True Efficiency Empowers Our Resistance
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

25 Mar 2025 – The “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” is dismantling the US government. Why is the word “efficiency” applied to this group of institution-wreckers delegated by a tyrant?

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Gaza Is Our Holocaust
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

24 Mar 2025 – Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them. If Hamas struck a hospital treating Netanyahu it would not be justifiable. But the laws of war are forgotten when Israel violates them.

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Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Seth Staton Watkins – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

Original Song

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The Lord of the Flies
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

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On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline–and Fall–of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a configuration articulated by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the US Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. Direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.

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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Roger Waters | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

28 Mar 2025 – The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta conference.

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Israel Kills 9 Medics and Destroys Their Ambulances in Rafah
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

28 Mar 2025 – Israeli occupation forces executed nine missing Palestinian medics from the Red Crescent and Civil Defence in Rafah, buried them and destroyed their ambulances, the Palestinian Civil Defence confirmed yesterday.

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Reminiscing: Johan Galtung and I
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

17 Feb 2025 – Slices of Reality, One Year after His Passing

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Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services.

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Tigers Still at the Gates
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025- Philosopher F.S.C. Northrop in his pathmaking book, “The Taming of Nations” (1953), likened nation-states to wild animals largely driven by instincts of power – the tigers at the gates. 

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The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.

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CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

26 Mar 2025 – “We must push back” —  Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.

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Nemesis
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

25 Mar 2025 – The convulsions wracking the US body politic impact the nation’s foreign relations. The USA today defies all conventional categories. Its leader(s) are abnormal, its government is abnormal, its conduct is abnormal – and, perhaps, its society itself is abnormal. 

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Putin’s Proposed UN Control Over Ukraine Is Well Intentioned but Will Be Tough to Implement
Andrew Korybko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2025

28 Mar 2025 – The odds of everything perfectly unfolding – the UNSC agreeing to have the UN assume control only over “rump Ukraine” and without Kiev’s consent, the UN speedily assembling the large-scale resources required, and then successfully neutralizing all armed Ukrainian resistance – are low.

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The Human Struggle for Positive Freedom
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Mar 2025 – Clinging to the Light in the Darkest of Times – Recently, those trying to destroy the diverse institutions of the US government, attacking multiplicity, and hence freedom, forced their way into the US Institute for Peace in Washington, DC.

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Track Two: After the End of the Gaza Ceasefire, Are Negotiations Possible?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

On 18 Mar 2025, Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed over 400 Palestinians, including women and children, and wounding more than 500, ending a ceasefire that had begun on 19 Jan.

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Magna Carta of Peace
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

21 Mar 2025 – The Magna Carta was established in 1215 as a historic legal document in England. In contrast, the Magna Carta of Peace is nothing more than a Peace Accord. The MCP symbolizes unity, cooperation, collaboration, and harmony in society promoting reculturation and transitional justice.

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The Sunday Recap: Horror Stories from Gaza and the West Bank
+972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

23 Mar 2025:
*Scenes from a Ramadan massacre
*Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians
*Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion

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The Last Chapter of the Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

22 Mar 2025 – Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.

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Humiliation Everywhere All at Once!
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Power Point Presentation – Deep Dive Meditation on Humiliation through Psychology, History and Culture

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Peace Disruptors: Diplomats and Diplomacy-Declaration of Persona Non Grata, a Global Tool in the Present Era
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

 Persona Non Grata: The Ultimate Diplomatic Rejection

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Podcasting Star Mario Nawful Talks to Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. This is my recorded response.

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Bought and Sold: U.S. Leaders Pledge Allegiance to Israel
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

19 Mar 2025 – Loyalty to the US or to Israel?

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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.

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The US-Russian Strategy for the Ukraine Ceasefire
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

19 Mar 2025 – The US and Russian Presidents Trump and Putin held a telephone summit on 18 Mar 2025 and agreed to a 30-day ceasefire in which Russia and Ukraine would not attack each other’s energy-related (and other infrastructure) facilities.

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Gaza’s Silent Epidemic of Amputee Children
Hadeel Awad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

15 Mar 2025 – Gaza has the world’s highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them by the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing.

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Beatles’ Yesterday–Palestine Edition (Music Video of the Week)
The One Man Band – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Music is not only art; it is resistance, exposing the truth, demanding justice. We will not be silenced. Keep talking about Palestine, Gaza, West Bank, and rogue Israhell.

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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.

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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.

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(Slovak-slovenský) Geopolitika elitného šialenstva: balansovanie na pokraji Armagedonu, nebezpečenstvo jadrovej vojny (Časť 1)
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Skspravy.sk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Keď sa svet súčasne potáca na pokraji jadrovej vojny v Strednej Ázii tým, že nepodnikne žiadne účinné kroky na zastavenie genocídy vysielanej v Palestíne väčšina ľudskej populácie zíva, zatiaľ čo si prezerá najnovšie záznamy v rôznych chatovacích skupinách na svojom telefón.

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Irish Americans and Their Identity Crisis
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

In the 1800’s when the Irish immigrated to the USA in mass, due to the potato famine, there were signs in businesses that read, “Irish Need Not Apply”.  For Irish families that can recall this through their generational stories, what is written here in this article need not apply. 

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Psychological Dimensions of War on Gaza
Diane Perlman | TheNewView – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

1 Mar 2025 – As public discourse is so politicized and hysterical, peace psychologist Diane Perlman finds it most useful to go beyond right and wrong and right and left to shed light on the underlying psychological dynamics associated with violence and what it means to be human.

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“I.O.F. Targets Refugee Camps”
Cara Marianna | Winter Wheat – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

15 Mar 2025 – Zionist Terror Spreads

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Carnage in Gaza and ‘Global 195’*
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

21 Mar 2025 – Even by Israel’s brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world.

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US Gestapo —> Reasons to Mistrust Donal Trump
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

17 Mar 2025 – The Gestapo sought out those identified as ‘enemies’ within Greater Germany. These included Jewish people, Romani (Gypsies), Freemasons, communists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, and those with physical or mental disabilities.

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It’s Time!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

18 Mar 2025 – As we all knew, Bibi and Trump orchestrated a fake ceasefire to give Trump a major PR victory at the start of his administration. That ended last night when Israel unleashed hell and began to indiscriminately bomb Gaza and killing civilians, including infants and small children.

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Peace: The Role and Mission of the University for the New Millennium
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

The university has many milestones in its journey from Ashram through monasteries and also from Universitas of Pisan Prisoners at Genoa, (Italy) through Universitas of Bologna and Paris to modern universities in different parts of the world.

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Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Starts 40-day Fast for Gaza and the Worlds’ Children for Peace
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

21 Mar 2025 – Open Letter on behalf of the Palestinian Children of Gaza and children everywhere in the world suffering from the violence of hunger and war. “In the Ramadan Season, and Lent, let us join in fasting and prayer, in solidarity with a world fit for all our children. From today, I will fast and pray, fast and pray.” — Mairead

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How Should We Rethink Our Relationship to US Violence Around the World?
George Yancy | ScheerPost/Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Mar 2025 – The outrages are raining down one after another. In this interview, Norman Solomon discusses the mainstream media silence around U.S. militarism and articulates ways of resisting such silence, of rejecting denial.

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Israel Makes Its Most Explicit Statement of Genocidal Intent Yet
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

20 Mar 2025 – Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz published a statement of genocidal intent toward the people of Gaza, threatening civilians with collective punishment of “total devastation” if they do not overthrow Hamas and free all Israeli hostages.

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The Trump Assault on Government and the US Need for a New Progressive Program
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025

Progressives in the United States need to put aside their justifiable detestation of Donald Trump long enough to answer this question: What’s the most important difference between MAGA Republicans and Democrats?

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From the Art of War to the Art of Being Bullied?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

17 Mar 2025 – From Playground Bullies to Imperial Powers–and Beyond – The world is currently witness to various explicit assertions by the self-acclaimed leader of the free world–speaking in the name of the American people of the North.

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Myths and Reality: How and Why a False Narrative on Ukraine Was Created
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that NATO would not advance towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.

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The Ukraine Ceasefire and Then, What?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

13 Mar 2025 – Trump’s US negotiated with Zelensky’s Ukraine a 30-day ceasefire plan. Trump engineered a fight at the end of February, when Zelensky visited the US, and stopped the supply of military intelligence (GPS, etc.) and weapons from the US to Ukraine.

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USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.

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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

3 Mar 2025 – A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody

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World Water Day: Time for Cooperative Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

22 March is World Water Day, set by the UNGA to take into consideration the water challenges that humanity faces.There is a need for an integrated approach to water resources management backed by a cooperative international framework.

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Ungovernable: Nonviolent Mass Solidarity against Corruption and Despotism
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Only constitutional democracy, founded on human dignity, gives us government that we are morally obligated to obey.  When such constitutional democracy is subverted, “it is our right and our duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute such government as shall effect the people’s freedom, happiness, and dignity.”

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Boatless in Gaza: Using Old Fridge Doors to Catch Fish—In Pictures
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – Palestinians use makeshift paddleboards to fish in Gaza City’s port after Israeli bombing destroyed local fishing boats.

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Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Is this the beginning of a new Cold War between the U.S., NATO and Russia or the end of one? Will Russia and the West remain implacable enemies, with a new iron curtain through what was the heart of Ukraine? Or can the US and Russia resolve the disputes and hostility?

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Bertrand Russell’s Message on Palestine/Israel the Day before He Died
Bertrand Russell - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

This statement on the Middle East was dated 31 Jan 1970 and read on 3 Feb, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.

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Our Enemies Commit Genocide, Not Our Friends
Sebastian Shehadi | The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel’s genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel’s horrific crimes in Gaza.

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Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in Congo
Marc Botenga | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda’s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.

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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.

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Fighting the Shock Strategy
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – We must not let Trump and Netanyahu’s shock strategy distract us from the coup they are carrying out. Both came to power after being indicted for criminal offenses. It seems there is a kind of “legal” logic when such leaders initiate regime change to elevate themselves above the law.

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‘Haiti’s Survival Is at Stake,’ Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country, William O’Neill. 

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Syria’s Sectarian Massacres Are Blowback for Foreign-led Dirty War
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – By arming the sectarian insurgency that now rules Syria, the US and its allies bear responsibility for the current slaughter of Alawite civilians and other minority groups.

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Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – Christian extremists in the US bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism.

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How Arab-Muslim Leaders Betrayed the People
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

What if Arab-Muslim Leaders were Intelligent and Honest? Are they deaf or dead conscience not to see what is happening on the ground across Gaza and other parts of Palestine?

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Town Hall Violence and a (Hypothetical) Nonviolent Response
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – At a time when political violence is celebrated, well-meaning citizens must be prepared to respond with nonviolence. This essay provides a recent example of how attitudes of domination (cultural violence) can lead to injurious actions (direct violence), and how nonviolent intervention can give people a way out.

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Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

13 Mar 2025 – Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti released to commemorate International Women’s Day as a clarion call for solidarity.

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Endogenous Pursuit of Peace: Care about Your Microbiota
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

You Will Achieve Peace and Your Body Will Last Longer

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Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the Arrest of Former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
International Criminal Court-ICC - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – The International Criminal Court welcomes the arrest and transfer today of Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, criminally responsible for the crime against humanity, in the context of the Office’s ongoing investigation.

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Collective West Is Over – Peace Activism Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

15 Feb 2025 – Talk with Dr. Jan Oberg in Sweden and Dr. Ulrike Guérot in Germany – The traditional Anglo-European powers are no longer able to assert themselves, neither discursively nor physically, on the world stage. At the same time, they lost their peace movements. What happened?

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International Relations 2.0
Mireille Fanon Mendes France | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

12 Mar 2025 – Since Jan 2025 we have entered into a world where the law of the strongest prevails, where this law is accepted in international relations, and where those who reject it become the enemies of those who draw the contours of the axis of good…

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Emerging Powers – and Retiring Powers
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

In the name of justice and symmetry any focus on what is emerging invites a focus on the opposite: “demerging”, vanishing, retiring powers.  There is not that much space at the top, in the limelight.

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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.

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A Quadruple Ethics in a Society Including Robots
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

About human interaction with a robot, first of all one has to choose which kind of theory he wants to build. No axiomatic theory is suitable for fulfilling our purpose. Rather, the wanted theory has to be based on a basic problem.

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On Stupidity
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Denouncing China as US’ enemy on whom it plans to impose severe economic sanctions and then beseeching Beijing for assistance in keeping the dollar the global currency by ending its sale of U.S. securities; and then demanding that China slow its economic growth… – that’s stupid.

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I Stink Therefore I Am
Mr Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Trump’s Assault on Education and Attacks on Colleges and Universities

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Artificial Intelligence Explained for Nonexperts
Narges Razavian, Florian Knoll and Krzysztof J. Geras | HHS Public Access - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

In this paper we briefly summarize in an accessible way the current state of the field of AI. Furthermore, we highlight the most promising approaches and describe the current challenges that will need to be solved to enable broad deployment of AI in clinical practice.

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‘No Safe Streets’: Lawlessness Takes Hold of Syria under HTS-led Government
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

10 Mar 2025 – Syrian women fear leaving the house at night amid a rash of kidnappings and ongoing security vacuum.

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Finlandia-This Is My Song (Music Video of the Week)
Indigo Girls – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

Composed by Jean Sibelius, English lyrics by Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness, from the album ‘Rarities.’

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Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life–But if We Leave the Sea, We Die
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Mar 2025

11 Mar 2025 – Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.

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Trump-Putin Encounter Reframed by MMA and Kayfabe
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

Speculative Contrast between Political and Sports Commentary Using AI

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Danish PM Frederiksen: “Peace in Ukraine Could Be More Dangerous Than the War Going on Now”
The Jimmy Dore Show - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

26 Feb 2025 – “Peace Is Dangerous and a Threat to Us All” Says European Leader

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“Stop the Ethnic Cleansing”: Watch Oscar Speech of Palestinian, Israeli Directors of “No Other Land”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

The Palestinian-Israeli film ‘No Other Land’ won for best documentary feature at Sunday’s [2 Mar 2025] Academy Awards. The film follows the struggles of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank community of Masafer Yatta to stay on their land amid home demolitions by the Israeli military and violent attacks by Jewish settlers aimed at expelling them.

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Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

7 Mar 2025 – I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel’s response to October 7 in Gaza as ‘genocide.’

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I’m Still Here | 2025 Oscar for Best International Feature Film
Altitude Films – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

Brazilian Military Coup: Official Trailer–The true story that helped reconstruct part of Brazil’s hidden history. In 1971, the country faces the tightening grip of a US-engineered/supported murderous military dictatorship.

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Nonviolent People and the International Political Situation: What to Do?
Antonino Drago - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

Today we live in a time that since 1989 has declared “the end of ideologies”, both the classical liberal one and the socialist-Marxist one. But, in fact, this time is also that of the birth of a full historical consciousness, because for the first time there is a group, the nonviolent people, who are no longer blinded by wars.

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‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Even more impressive is the infrastructure it has built, including 26,000 miles of high speed rail, the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, 100,000 miles of expressway, …

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How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

A True Cost of War

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Open Letter to Donald Trump
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Mar 2025

We could achieve real peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity if you proposed and collaborated with the rest of the planet towards the Universal Abolition of Militarism: the war industries and the Armed Forces. As one of the most pragmatic deal makers of our century, this call is yours to make!

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