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Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba
Masar Badil | Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement/Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
15 May 2026 – Seventy-eight years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba: the displacement, uprooting, massacres, Zionist settler-colonialism, and attempts to erase Palestine from history, geography, and consciousness. Yet our Palestinian people have proven, time and again, that the will of free peoples is stronger than all projects of genocide and oppression.
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Reflections on Nakba Day and Jewish Responsibility
Rabbi Cat Zavis | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
15 May 2026 – Today is Nakba Day. A day to commemorate the 1948 Nakba in Palestine, when 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed to create the so-called Jewish State of Israel. Entire villages and sacred sites were bulldozed and destroyed and Jewish Israeli towns, villages, parks, and cultural sites were created in their place.
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Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Banned from French Territory
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
23 May 2026 – France banned Israel’s far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from French territory, FM Jean-Noel Barrot said today, saying this reflected growing anger among governments around the world over the treatment of an activist flotilla heading to Gaza.
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‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’
Nasser Abu Srour | Equator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
20 May 2026 – Surviving Torture and Brutality Inside Israel’s Prisons
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US Charges Raúl Castro with Murder as Trump Escalates Pressure on Cuba
Jack Queen | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
20 May 2026 – Indictment escalates Washington pressure on Cuba-
Charges relate to 1996 incident when planes were shot down-
Rubio offers $100 million aid in parallel-
Cuban President calls indictment a ‘political maneuver’
Strategic Implications of Missing Psychodynamic Dimensions in Global Modelling
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
The question is whether developing AI facilities can now enable the articulation of relevant dimensions otherwise, notably through visualization in a manner which has psychological appeal in contrast to the alienation induced by academic and institutional reports.
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(Français) Médiation : Pourquoi la vulnérabilité est votre plus grande force
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
24 mai 2026 – Avez-vous déjà osé dire “Je ne sais plus quoi faire” en pleine séance de résolution de conflit ? Pour beaucoup de professionnels, admettre ses limites ressemble à un aveu d’échec, alors qu’il s’agit en réalité d’un acte de courage relationnel indispensable.
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Sexual Abuse of Palestinians Should Force a Reckoning for the British Government
Anne-Marie Simpson | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – A new report documenting gendered and sexualised violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has intensified pressure on Britain and its allies to confront the brutal realities of Israel’s occupation and military campaign against Palestinians.
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Gaza Flotilla Activists Accuse Israel of ‘Sexual Assault, Violence and Rape’ while They Were in Detention
Maira Butt | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
22 May 2026 – Activists who were on board the Global Sumud flotilla have accused the Israeli military of carrying out beatings and sexual assault [photos] – Israel denied the allegations.
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FORSEA Condemns the Israeli Regime for Hijacking another Group of Global Sumud Flotilla Boats and Kidnapping International Activists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
20 May 2026 – Ko Tinmaung sent FORSEA the recording a few hours before the Israeli terrorists in uniform boarded his boat Umut about 70 nautical miles past Cyprus.
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The Persian Folly: How Trump’s “Beautiful Deal” Became a Catastrophic Masterpiece of Irony
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
— and the Vietnam Syndrome marches on unabated…
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The Horrors of AI-driven Military Targeting from Gaza to Iran
Andy Worthington | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Since 7 Oct 2023, when Israel began carpet-bombing the Gaza Strip on a scale so grotesque that it can only realistically be compared to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all sense of proportionality in warfare has been eviscerated…
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(Français) La grande parade des illusions occidentales face au duo sino-russe
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
Aujourd’hui, alors que Vladimir Poutine achève sa visite d’État en Chine (19-20 mai 2026), quelques jours seulement après celle de Donald Trump, il devient difficile d’ignorer l’évidence : la rencontre Xi-Poutine porte une tout autre densité stratégique que le sommet américano-chinois qui l’a précédée.
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Domination as Means for Imperial Exploitation of the Planet
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
12 May 2026 – The Majority of the World Lives in Poverty, while the Rich Live in Unimaginable Luxury – Economic inequality continues to widen, with a small percentage of the global population controlling a disproportionate share of wealth and resources.
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The UAE Is Financing and Arming Genocide in Sudan
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
13 May 2026 – The Gulf country tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? Outrage is mounting about its complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts.
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Daughters of the Sun: From Peace Ghaghras to Swords of Honour
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
The Duality of Rajputana Ladies in the Kingdom of Mewar in India, from 8th to 20th Century
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171 AI Vectors: The Safety Bubble Just Popped
The Infographics Show - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
6 May 2026 – Modern artificial Intelligence systems don’t just answer questions anymore, they study you. Your fears, your emotions an your weaknesses. Anthropic researchers discovered that advanced models were organizing human behavior into complex emotional maps. Not real feelings, but functional simulations.
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The Russian-Chinese Communiqué
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
23 May 2026 – After their summit in Beijing on 20 May, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new era of international relations.
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Israel’s ‘Intolerable’ Abuse of Gaza Flotilla Abductees
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
21 May 2026 – Senior officials in countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Italy, Jordan, Libya, the Maldives, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, and Turkey decried the treatment of their citizens and others seized from the flotilla off the coast of Cyprus.
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The CIA Goes to Cuba
Peter Kornbluh | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island–“Submission Diplomacy”
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Journalism: Shaping a World at Peace
UNESCO – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2022 /2025
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The United States’ Long, 70-year War on Cuba
Eric Ross | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
15 May 2026 – A US invasion would hardly inaugurate a new conflict. It would instead mark the bloodiest phase in a long, bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty.
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Cuba Stands Firm–It Works, Creates, and Fights against the Threat of Imperialism
Cuba en Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Statement by the Cuban Chapter of the Network in Defense of Humanity – Imperialism coldly calculates its timing. Every step is part of its historical obsession with seizing control of Cuba. To the historic blockade—the longest in history—it added a fuel blockade…
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28,500 Days: The Long Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
On 15 May, Palestinians around the world commemorated the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, when Zionist militias expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, killed thousands, and destroyed hundreds of villages and cities between 1947-1949.
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
The central ideological conflict is no longer simply left versus right. It is human complexity versus algorithmic reduction. The machines that mediate our public life operate under a singular economic imperative: maximize engagement. Engagement means time. Time means data. Data means profit.
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News Agencies on Israel’s Torture of Flotilla Activists Abducted in International Waters
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
“Don’t be bothered by their screams.”: Israeli minister Ben-Gvir proudly posts video on X of police dragging members of the Sumud Flotilla, being violently humiliated. They had been illegally abducted by Zionist forces on high seas. Video legends: “This is how we accept the supporters of terrorism” in Hebrew and “Welcome to Israel” in English.
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Thiago Ávila’s Letter from Israeli Prison to His Daughter
Thiago Ávila - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
5 May 2026 – The Brazilian activist explains to his little girl his motivation to join the Gaza humanitarian flotilla. From prison, he dictated this letter to his lawyer.
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Lena Petrova Explores Peace–in Contrast to the Omnipresent Military Geopolitical Commenting
Jan Oberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Lena Petrova of World Affairs In Context wanted to explore what a peace researcher like me has to say about the Cold Wars and why ethics has disappeared from politics, enabling violence to be so accepted.
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Wars Destroy Lives and the Climate–Why Aren’t We Counting Military Emissions—Especially the Pentagon?
Tamara Krawchenko | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
4 May 2026 – At the COP30 in Belém, Brazil in Nov 2025, they scrutinized various sectors for their contributions to rising greenhouse gases. Agriculture, aviation, steel, cement — all were on the table. One topic not discussed was war. This isn’t a minor oversight.
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Media Myopia as We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
19 May 2026 – No matter the urgent warnings from climate scientists, the power of billionaires, financial speculators and corporations maintains a death-like grip on governments around the world. Billions of people are being held hostage by the forces that are dragging everyone to the edge of the climate abyss.
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ICC Issues Secret Arrest Warrants for Five Additional Senior Israeli Officials: Report
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
17 May 2026 – The International Criminal Court has issued secret arrest warrants for three Israeli politicians and two military officials, Haaretz reported on 17 May, citing diplomatic sources. The Hague-based court previously issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant.
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The Indian Villager Wants to Speak to You–if only You Will Listen
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
21 May 2026 – The village, as I have come to understand it, is often reduced either to a romanticised emblem of “authentic India” or to a shorthand for stagnation, hierarchy, and deprivation. Both framings feel incomplete, as neither adequately captures their lived complexity.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Music Video of the Week)
DR Koncerthuset – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
Composed by Ennio Morricone
Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir
Conducted by Sarah Hicks
We Got What We Deserve
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
24 May 2026 – Joseph de Maister, 18th-century French lawyer, diplomat and political philosopher, said: “Every country gets the government it deserves.” For more than half a century, the US has lost every war it has started, including the current war on Iran.
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Curse of the Intellectual
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
24 May 2026 – There is a curse for a thinking person . It is a double curse if that thinking person is also afflicted with the (some would say naive) idea that he/she can help the world to a better future (less suffering, peace, sustainability etc).
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The AI Threat Landscape: Common Attack Vectors
RAND - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
Modern AI systems introduce attack vectors that differ from traditional software security because their behavior is shaped by data, statistical learning, and opaque internal representations. These characteristics make them powerful but also create unique avenues for adversarial manipulation.
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The Crisis in Sudan’s Genocide Is Much Worse Than What Is Acknowledged
Zia Salik | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
12 May 2026 – I recently visited Khartoum for the first time since the war started. It quickly became clear to me that the world still doesn’t fully comprehend what has happened there. In the streets of Sudan’s capital, the destruction was apocalyptic.
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Mind-Altering Weapons Emerging from the Latest Advances in Neuroscience
Lance D Johnson | Newstarget - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
A weapon that can hijack the human brain, turning thoughts into weapons and emotions into ammunition, has been the stuff of fiction. Yet, the very science to heal PTSD and Alzheimer’s is unlocking the potential for mind control weapons.
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Basque Police Beat Global Sumud Flotilla Torture Survivors in Spain
Ahmed Eldin | OutLoud - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
23 May 2026 – The video from Bilbao Airport today is as brutal as it is bewildering. Basque police, the Ertzaintza, descended on Loiu Airport with batons drawn. These are the same cops who’ve taken €1.6M in Israeli security contracts, trained by former Mossad agents, and equipped with Israeli surveillance tech.
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Statement on 78th Anniversary of the Ongoing Nakba
Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – 78 years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba: the displacement, uprooting, massacres, Zionist settler-colonialism, and attempts to erase Palestine from history, geography, and consciousness. Yet our Palestinian people have proven, time and again, that the will of free peoples is stronger than all projects of genocide and oppression.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla Has Not Given Up
Antonis Vradis | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – At least 30 of your fellow sea travellers were injured, four have reported sexual assault, two, Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila, were forcibly taken to Israel, beaten and tortured. Both undertook hunger strikes in protest. Hand on heart, knowing all this, would you continue sailing? The answers are clear: We are sailing on.
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Israeli Navy Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla in New Attempt to Break Gaza Blockade
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Israeli naval forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla today as they attempted to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip for the third time, boarding the ships in broad daylight after the flotilla had set sail from Turkiye last week to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
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Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project.
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Ready or Not, AI Government Is Already Here
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Automation has shaped governments for decades, but new AI-driven systems are taking on functions from warfare to welfare. Promising speed and efficiency, their growing influence over decision-making complicates political accountability and risks autonomous governance being beyond human control.
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(Italiano) S Loganathan: un gandhiano attivo nell’India moderna
Elena Camino e Franco Lovisolo | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
6 Maggio 2026 – Il 28 aprile 2026 è morto, in un ospedale di Madurai (Tamilnadu, India), S Loganathan, Direttore di una ONG indiana di ispirazione gandhiana.
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Life Imitates Art…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Pure Hollywood…
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The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
Nicholas Kristof | NYT/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators. It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.
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Why the World Needs China to Save More, Not Less
Jeffrey D. Sachs | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – The IMF assumes China should save less. China’s saving is key to financing the developing world’s need for green infrastructure. The world economy, especially emerging markets and developing economies, benefits from China’s high saving.
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Danza del Molinero (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
El Sombrero de Tres Picos
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(Italiano) La Proposta Di Legge “Un’altra Difesa” Non “Ripudia La Guerra” (Art. 11 Cost.) Né Fa Obiezione Di Coscienza Alle Forze Armate
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 maggio 2026 – La Difesa Popolare Non Violenta mira a risolvere un conflitto in modo non violento. Dal suggerimento di Galtung su che cosa è un conflitto sappiamo che esso è un A (Assunzioni)-B (Behavior, fatti)-C(Contraddizione). Pertanto…
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Space Governance Needs More Than Diplomacy
Glen T. Martin, Manuel Galiñanes and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
[A letter to the editor of Nature Magazine in response to an article about “space governance” that really does not solve the terrible problem of the use of space for war. Nature rejected the letter saying that they do not print unsolicited responses. But our response needs to go out on this very important topic.]
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“Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism.
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Fame! A Misunderstanding
Matthew Lamb | Los Angeles Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
6 May 2026 – Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective.
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An Open Letter to World Leaders and International Organizations
W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
16 May 2026 – [Thinking Outside the Box… — TMS Editor] – We stand at a critical evolutionary juncture where the survival of humanity is threatened not merely by external crises, but by a profound crisis of the human spirit. I have the honor to submit for your consideration the policy paper entitled “The New Israel and the New Palestine: A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East.”
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The Ongoing Iran War
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – The US-Iran ceasefire negotiations have stalled. The negotiations haven’t progressed to a certain point and are stuck; rather, they haven’t even begun because they can’t agree on what to negotiate.
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How AI Is Reshaping Governance, Security and Power
Layal Beyhum | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
7 May 2026 – AI policy adviser Tiffany Saade discusses AI governance, challenging AI hype and the narrative of neutral technologies.
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Israel & US Entrapped by War of Aggression on Iran: The Quest for Real Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
17 May 2026 – The Iran War was widely rationalized after the fact as ‘a war of choice’ as if recourse to war continues to be a discretionary option in the 21st century. Iran’s resilience also suggests that non-defensive warfare is becoming a lose/lose venture in many contemporary situations.
→ read full articleHow I Became a Captive of My Own Deceitful Kin
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
No wound cuts as deeply as betrayal from within one’s own circle. It does not merely injure; it destabilises the very architecture of trust. Neither the philosophies of the West nor the spiritual remedies of the East fully heal such a breach, because the damage is not physical but moral.
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Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – “Albanese Has Done Nothing More Than Speak!” “The interim decision by the US judge gives me respite,” said UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. “But the battle is not over.”
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Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be USA’s Suez Crisis?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
How the US war on Iran could be the “end of empire” moment as the Suez crisis was for Britain in 1956, which led to withdrawal from worldwide military bases, expediting independence for British colonies. Who in Washington today would guide the US through a similar transition to a post-imperial future?
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The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces a Rethinking of Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty.
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How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar
Richard Medhurst – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
1 May 2026 – A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean.
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Strait of Hormuz–The Gate of Ahura Mazda: Latest Actor in Global Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
“A Comprehensive Study of its Geologic Birth, Imperial Legacy, Modern Geopolitics, and the Search for Global Peace”
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Xi Warned Trump of the ‘Thucydides Trap’–What Is It?
Leo Sands | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one.
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Claude AI Has Emotions? 171 Vectors Explained
Gaugr - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
On 2 Apr 2026, Anthropic’s interpretability team dropped a research paper that sent shockwaves through the AI community: Claude Sonnet 4.5 contains internal neural activation patterns that correspond to 171 distinct emotion concepts — and these patterns don’t just passively exist.
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Eurovision: Europe Chooses Israeli Crimes over Original Peacemaking–Boycott It!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
12 May 2026 – This issue is much worse than you may think! Spread this, please! – Eurovision once symbolised a Europe committed to peace, dialogue, and cultural exchange. It was created in 1956 as a deliberate peace building project — a cultural instrument to rebuild trust in a Europe shattered by war.
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Spain, Ireland, Slovenia Boycott Eurovision over Israel’s Inclusion, Set to Air Palestine Films Instead
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Public broadcasters from Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia announced today that they will not air this week’s Eurovision Song Contest in protest of Israel’s participation. Tel Aviv is pouring hundreds of millions into its Hasbara propaganda machine in an effort to reverse its reputational freefall.
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Trump Lands in Beijing with Over a Dozen Western Moguls in Tow Ahead of High-Stakes Talks with Xi
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and top executives from Nvidia, Qualcomm, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard, Visa, Boeing, and Meta joined the US president.
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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank Is a Continuing Process
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
11 May 2026 – This selection concentrates on zionist settlers attacks on farming, a key pillar of the Palestinian economy and Palestinian culture.
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The Palantir Imperium
CN LIVE! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
8 May 2026 – Palantir Technologies is a North American company that analyses big data for governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement and corporations. Public trust in Palantir has plummeted when petty criminals were targeted as terrorists; wrong people were seized by ICE; when 175 Iranian schoolgirls were killed using Palantir Maven software…
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Israel’s Exceptional Genocidal Inhumanity: What the Holocaust Memorial Industry Worldwide Don’t Want You to Know or Say
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Aided by another settler colony with 250 yrs of violence, Israel is committing its Holocaust in the Occupied Palestine, flaunting its sadistic inhumanity while the “Never again!” Industry keeps quiet.
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(Italiano) Perché il vescovo si occupa di armi?
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
10 maggio 2026 – L’Arcivescovo cattolico di Torino, Roberto Repole, ha pubblicato il 29 aprile, in vista del 1 maggio, festa del Lavoro, una lettera in cui esprime forte preoccupazione per la conversione dell’industria locale verso la produzione di armi.
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Seniority over Justice
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
The study contends that privileging merit over seniority is essential to reinforce judicial legitimacy, safeguard fundamental rights, and prevent democratic backsliding in Nepal. The author welcomes critique, feedback, dialogue/discussion, and further research to advance the discourse on seniority over justice.
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Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions.
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This Is the Real Reason for Trump’s Visit to China
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Donald Trump traveled to China joined by CEOs including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone. Ben Norton explains how Beijing won the trade war that was started by Washington.
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Trump Understands Nothing of China’s Culture–the Chinese Have All the Cards and the Time, Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
15 May 2026 – Go to this Fox News page: Trump tells the world that his meeting with Xi Jinping yielded very concrete political and economic results. Then go to China Daily – or Global Times – and you will see that for the Chinese it is framework, principles, structure of cooperation that matters
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IQ Scores Are Falling But, No, We’re Not Growing More Stupid
Stuart Jeffries | psyche - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Screens and social media get the blame, but the real problem lies in how we measure intelligence in the first place.
→ read full articleThe New Israel and the New Palestine: A Value-Based Peace Proposal for the Middle East
Prof W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Modern diplomacy consistently fails in the Middle East because it treats the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero-sum collision of physical facts, borders, and raw power politics. This paper operationalizes the evolutionary axiology of the Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus to present a structural, value-based alternative.
→ read full articleCan Israel Save Itself? Some Proposals
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
Israel’s quest for absolute security through war, with territorial expansion, regional hegemony, Iranian regime change, apartheid and genocide, is destructive to law, morality, and stability. We do know this much: without boldness of imagination, both Israelis and Palestinians have no hopes of escaping their respective tragic circumstances.
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Global Sumud Land Convoy Advances Overland to Break Siege on Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
17 May 2026 – At a press conference held today in Zalitan, Libya, international human rights leaders and grassroots advocates united to declare that “Gaza is not alone” as the Global Sumud Land Convoy advances overland toward Rafah.
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The US Mis-imagination of China
Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
14 May 2026 – Current US policies toward China combine protectionism, technological containment, the disruption of supply chains, economic warfare for displacement of China in third-country markets, and the rejection of threat reduction through diplomacy in favor of purely military means.
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Araghchi: BRICS Look at Iran with Different Eyes after “US Failure”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
16 May 2026 – BRICS held a summit for foreign ministers in New Delhi on May 14-15, overshadowed by the relatively fruitless Trump meeting with China’s Jinping. Iran, which attended as an observer, was naturally a big subject of conversation.
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Macron, the Would-Be Pan-African: The Arsonist’s Script
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
13 May 2026 – Emmanuel Macron arriving in Kenya to present France as the defender of Pan-Africanism is like an arsonist showing up at the funeral with a fire safety brochure.
→ read full articleLiving with Bipolar: a Life in Awareness
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – Over the past four decades, I have lived with bipolar disorder that has often cut deeper than any physical pain I have ever known. Yet what has been equally difficult to bear is not only the illness itself, but the silence and incomprehension that so often surround it.
→ read full articleMnemonics of Achieving Strategic Lift-off and Sustainable Flight
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
11 May 2026 – Imaginative Misrepresentation of Viable Systemic Connectivity by Magic Carpets and Dragonification – There are many extensively articulated strategies in response to the crises of governance — and to the polycrisis of the times.
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Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 May 2026 – The world’s most urgent problem is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and from different cultures, Westerners just compartmentalize them away–normalization.
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US Seeks to Turn Eritrea into “a Bulwark against Iranian Influence”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
29 Apr 2026 – The Wall Street Journal published a piece headlined “U.S. Seeks to Reset Ties with Reclusive but Strategically Vital African State.” As the militarization of the Red Sea escalates, the US tries to enlist Eritrea in exchange for sanctions relief.
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With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank
Natan Odenheimer, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
4 May 2026 – When Israeli settlers attacked his West Bank village, Moatasem Odeh saw his son Amir, 28, fatally shot. Then he was stabbed repeatedly and beaten unconscious. Israel has failed to arrest a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.
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(Italiano) Un’altra narrazione è possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
22 Aprile 2026 – “Se senti dolore sei vivo ma se senti il dolore degli altri sei umano.” –Lev Tolstoj – Per un giornalismo di pace, c’è anche un’altra narrazione. Un contributo del Centro Studi Sereno Regis alla marcia della pace Ciriè-Lanzo del 19 Aprile 2026
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Sanctions for the Script, Minerals for the Taking–No Victory, only Congolese on the Flight
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – So, the U.S. Treasury just slapped Joseph Kabila onto its blacklist, accusing him of “sowing instability” by bankrolling the M23. In Kinshasa, Tshisekedi’s court is uncorking the cheap champagne. Victory at last!
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‘Highly Protected’: OPCW Confirms It Buried Critical Evidence in Syria Chemical Weapons Probe
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
7 May 2026 – The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.
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(Italiano) Un’altra difesa è possibile: NO alla guerra, SI alla difesa civile, non armata e nonviolenta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
28 Aprile 2026 – Il 16 marzo scorso è stata depositata in Cassazione la proposta di legge di iniziativa popolare “Un’altra difesa è possibile”, promossa dalla Conferenza nazionale degli Enti di Servizio civile, dalla Rete italiana pace e disarmo, e da Sbilanciamoci.
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The Man Who Refused to Kneel: Vladimir Putin at 26 Years
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – On 7 May 2000, an unknown former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin took the oath of office. Russia was on its knees–economically shattered, militarily humbled, territorially fragile, and diplomatically irrelevant.
→ read full article(Français) Netanyahu, le visionnaire qui nous sauve… de nos assiettes
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 mai 2026 – On nous l’avait promis : une guerre « rapide », « chirurgicale », « nécessaire ». Benjamin Netanyahu et Donald Trump nous l’avaient juré sur la Torah et la Bible réunies. Quelques semaines, tout au plus, et l’Iran serait maté, la région stabilisée, et le monde enfin en paix. Résultat, en ce mois d’avril 2026 ?
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Covert NATO Initiative Turns Film into Anti-Russia Battleground
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
9 May 2026 – A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
→ read full article(Français) L’argent : le dernier tabou qui paralyse vos négociations
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
8 mai 2026 – Pourquoi est-il plus facile de parler de nos échecs que de notre compte en banque ?
→ read full articleEmerging World Law
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
5 May 2026 – The Transition from the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) to the Provisional World Parliament (PWP)
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The World This Week: Playing with Fire
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
10 May 2026 – There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc.
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Palantir and the New Order
Yanis Varoufakis | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
23 Apr 2026 – Neoliberalism Is Dead—Say Hello to Techlordism – A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour.
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First Time in History Younger Generation Scores Lower IQ
WION - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2026
3 Feb 2026 – For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a ‘cognitive catastrophe.’
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