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Serbia’s Organized Chaos
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Serbia has been racked for months by disruptive protests largely attributed to students, opposition leaders and university authorities. Are these organic protests?
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Displacement Orders Are “Psychological and Physical Warfare” in Israel’s Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Médecins Sans Frontières - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Israel continues to use last-minute displacement orders as a violent tool, turning Gaza into hell on earth. Incessant bombing, blockade of aid and displacement orders are trapping hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into ever-shrinking spaces.
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The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (28 May 2025)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal, a consensus document prepared in conjunction with participants in the first of two Public Sessions of the Gaza Tribunal, was released on 28 May 2025.
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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
29 May 2025 – The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.
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Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.
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Hindutva India Deporting Rohingya Refugees by Throwing Them into the Andaman Sea
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – The UN has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and put them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”
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(Castellano) Ante la Masacre de Gaza
Instituto Galtung España - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
5 de mayo de 2025 – El panorama es desolador, pero es especialmente sangrante lo que está sucediendo en Gaza, donde un estado que se dice democrático está aniquilando a una población entera ante los ojos de todos sin que nadie parezca hacer nada.
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Africa Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in US History
Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
22 May 2025 – House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
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Fear in the Countryside–Continued Violence in Democratic Congo
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
22 May 2025 – The armed conflict in the eastern area of the RDC–democratic in name only–on the frontier with Rwanda, is growing more complicated and is impacting in a negative way the lives of nearly all the people.
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Meanwhile, Kids Die, nay Are Killed
Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
Free Palestine
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Eradicating Poverty beyond Growth: Reforming the Global Financial Architecture for Ecological and Social Justice
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
This report presents a scientific case that the current monetary system—built on the misrepresentation of money as both a commodity and a unit of value—is mathematically unstable, ecologically catastrophic, and inherently exploitative.
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Mapping Militarism 2025
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
22 May 2025 – World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view.
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Turning into a Global Pariah Israel Starves and Destroys Gaza
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – After more than 19 months of a brutal invasion, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out amid a renewed Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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The US Has $36 Trillion in Debt–What Does That Mean, and Who Owns It?
Hanna Duggal and Marium Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – The US has the highest national debt in the world, a quarter of which is owned by other countries.
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Rethinking US-China Relations after the Tariffs Shipwreck
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – When Trump imposed his tariffs on 2 Apr, the real aim was to weaken China by preventing it from selling to US consumers; also to isolate China through incentives to those that reduced trade with Beijing.
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The Austria Option for Ukraine
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
Seventy years ago on 15 May 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, signaling Austria’s latest metamorphosis into a sovereign, democratic republic, neutral in perpetuity, with its former occupiers guaranteeing the security of its borders. Could a similar destiny be in store for Ukraine?
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“The Suffering Is beyond Description”: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – The warning comes as Israel expands its military assault with Netanyahu vowing to take control of the entire Gaza Strip.
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Life & Teaching of Mahatma Gandhi
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amir | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
Gandhi (1869–1948), a leader of India’s independence, revolutionized resistance through his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and truth-force (satyagraha). Educated as a lawyer in London, his activism began in South Africa (1893–1914).
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A Proposal to Revive the 1961 Mccloy-Zorin Plan as a Basis for Collective Security
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
24 May 2025 – Reactivation Under International Law within the Framework of Article 24 of Germany’s Basic Law and Article 106 of the UN Charter
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Global Peace Disruption: The Trump Trade Wars 2025
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
In a materialistic world, trade and economic viability thereof is of paramount importance. Hence, government will weaponize trade to achieve neo-financial colonization.
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“Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s Latest Escalation of Gaza’s Invasion
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – “The situation, as anyone who’s following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic,” says the Middle East analyst. “There is not only an unprecedented siege, but also an unprecedented intensification of Israel’s genocidal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.”
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Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act between Overt Genocide and Maintaining Western Support
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.
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BRICS: Dethroning the Dollar?
Noam Chomsky | Philosopheasy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
7 May 2025 – Is the Dollar Dying? – Noam Chomsky unveils the hidden dynamics driving global currency wars, impacting economies & geopolitics worldwide.
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Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
20 May 2025 – With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.
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US Defense Department Accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s Use
Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press/AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said today, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
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Trump’s Retaliatory Sanctions over Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Halt Work of International Criminal Court
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – The Trump administration sanctioned the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes. The measures by this ‘Rogue States Syndicate’ have greatly weakened the International Criminal Court’s ability to function.
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Arab Leaders Seek Protection from New Imperialism
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – History repeats itself and a favorite perversion is at work. Opportunist European imperialists fighting their nationalistic Two World Wars used colonized Arabs to divide and fight their wars with two million or more lost lives.
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The Politicization, Coercion and Disabling of the International Criminal Court
Alfred de Zayas and Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
23 May 2025 – This is the body of a response by Alfred De Zayas to an inquiry he has received on how to contact the ICC. Alfred clearly outlines the difficulties one faces in attempting to contact it, pointing to the political nature of the Court.
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Pursuing Peace with Justice: Five Years after the Murder of George Floyd
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
Recognizing that the concerns expressed here are not unique to peace psychologists alone, our Society welcomes support and endorsement of this statement from other American Psychological Association divisions and allied groups.
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Promises Made, Promises Kept
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
19 May 2025 – At the White House of Horrors
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US Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
23 May 2025 – Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.
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The Mouse Is Dreaming
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
In a dark hole behind the washing machine the house-mouse is dreaming.
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How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa
Sisonke Msimang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
21 May 2025 – Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House. Rather than rage against Trump, South Africans have opted to laugh.
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New Study Reveals Changing Attitudes to Female Genital Mutilation among Sudanese Communities in Egypt
Equality Now - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – Since Sudan’s devastating war erupted in April 2023, over a million people have fled to neighbouring Egypt. Both countries have laws banning FGM, but despite this Sudan and Egypt have some of the highest rates of FGM globally.
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India-Pakistan Escalation of Conflict: Promoting Positive Peace Through a Bottom-up Approach
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
15 May 2025 – Since the partition from India in 1947, Pakistan has been engaged in around a dozen significant and minor conflicts with India. Wars and negotiations are carried out based on the interests and directives of the respective central governments.
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Burkina Faso’s 37-Year-Old Leader Draws US Ire
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S.
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(Italiano) Perché tutta quella violenza oggigiorno?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Lo troviamo ovunque, come le uccisioni di massa in relazione agli attacchi degli Stati Uniti e/o dei suoi alleati [NATO] contro Iraq, Libia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ucraina, il genocidio israeliano dei palestinesi, Sudan, Myanmar… – 22 conflitti armati in corso nel 2025.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy…
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Trump II: The Macro View
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Chomsky acknowledges the U.S. Constitution as a framework that limits democratic responsiveness, with institutions like the Senate, Electoral College, and campaign finance system skewing power toward wealthy, white, and rural constituencies.
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The Human Cost of Syria Sanctions
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
17 May 2025 – On May 13, U.S. President Trump announced he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria.
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Peace Symbolism: Icons and Iconography Post 19th Century (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
10 May 2025 – As stated in Part 1 of the series on Peace Symbolism, in the 21st century, the term icons conjure up images of computer software or branding for the younger generation.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
The Norway I was born into 80 years ago and grew up in the 20 years that followed is hopefully still there, sedimented in the archeology of recent history. But there is an overlayer of something alien, distinctly not Norwegian…
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Human Rights Foundation Launches First-ever AI for Individual Rights Initiatives
Bereket Alemayehu | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
15 May 2025 – The Human Rights Foundation announced that the program is the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence, used as tools of repression, to support open-source for those under tyranny.
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Transgenic, Transgender, Transhuman: Techno-obsessive Agenda of the “Less Than Human”
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – The techno-obsessive trend of this time is the new pandemic, designed like its predecessor, to derail the human race.
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Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
In her hand she held,
a green leaf from her Tutu’s kukui nut tree.
Growing Tensions in the Taiwan Strait
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – Even before Taiwanese elected Lai Ching-te as president in Jan 2024, Chinese officials voiced opposition, calling him “a separatist” and “an instigator of war.” Chinese officials attacks have become even harder, calling him a “destroyer of cross-Strait peace.”
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A Win-Win Solution to the Flying Palace Problem
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – Applying Johan Galtung’s TRANSCEND Method of Conflict Transformation
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The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.
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Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.
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Peace Disruption: The Neo Exodus, in the 21st Century, of the South African, White Afrikaners to the US
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
The morphological diversity, within the human race, from evolution, is so multifaceted that it is often hard to believe that all humans belong to the same species of Homo sapiens, sapiens.
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The Crisis of Truth and the MAGA Phenomenon
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
17 May 2025 – Ultimate Denial Inevitably Leading to Genocide
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Haiti: Restitution and Reparations
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Since November 11th travel to and from Haiti has become difficult. A shooting at the capital’s airport triggered an immediate ban by the US government on all US flights. Our border with the Dominican Republic has been closed for over a year.
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India Must End Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, and Forced Returns of Rohingya Refugees
Fortify Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – Indian authorities beat, blindfold, handcuff, and forcibly return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.
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(Italiano) Incidenti Nucleari: Dalla Cronaca ai Dettagli
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Riflessioni a partire dal libro di Serhii Plokhy, Atomi e cenere. Dall’atollo di Bikini a Fukushima, storia di sei disastri nucleari, Le scie, Mondadori, Milano 2024.
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Trojan Plane
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
13 May 2025 – The King of Corruption Solidifies His Title
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The Gaza Genocide Is Worse Than the Nazi Holocaust
Alon Mizrahi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – We have no military to defend Palestinians, but we have judgement, and we must use it fiercely. The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see. It is an open challenge to human morality.
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The New Dark Age
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
17 May 2025 – The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.
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(Français) Le Quartier Arménien de Jérusalem : Une Histoire Millénaire et des Défis Actuels vus par les Arméniens
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
17 mai 2025 – Le quartier arménien, niché dans le sud-ouest de la vieille ville de Jérusalem, est un joyau de l’histoire chrétienne et de la diaspora arménienne.
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Russia’s Fight for Justice: How NATO’s Betrayal and Lies Fueled Distrust in Russia-Ukraine Negotiations
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
17 May 2025 – For Russia, the ongoing war in Ukraine is not merely a conflict with its neighbor but a desperate stand against NATO’s relentless aggression, cloaked in lies and broken promises.
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Starvation and Potential ICC Warrants on Gaza: What Does International Law Say?
Anne van Mourik and Lucy J. Gaynor | JusticeInfo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
6 May 2025 – “You have to hear this to believe this. The International Criminal Court in the Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials, as war criminals.
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Who Is Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations.
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Misconception and Right Concept of Peace Education: Theory and Praxis
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Misconception about Peace Education: Wrong Diagnosis
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On Some Capital Issues about Warfare
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – The destiny of warfare depends very much on actors’ relative capabilities. By definition, different capabilities are the means of the actor in international relations to achieve certain goals.
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Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.
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Coming Soon: The Strategic Nonviolence Academy
Nonviolence Radio | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
8 May 2025 – Organizer and strategist Joe Worthy discusses the new space he is building to holistically train a new wave of leaders in both the skills and values of nonviolent action.
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The Exacerbation of Israel’s Gaza Massacre Situation
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
8 May 2025 — Israel is trying to starve the people remaining in Gaza. International aid organizations and others have been prevented from bringing food and other supplies into Gaza from outside.
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India and Pakistan Need Soul Searching: What Is Next after the Ceasefire?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
Looking Beyond the Formative History
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Framing Trump as Global Scapegoat to Avoid Implications of Complicity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Mea Culpa and My Bad versus MeToo and NotMe? – There is an extraordinary amount of media coverage of the personality and policies of Donald Trump — in a period variously recognized to be dangerously exposed to polycrises and foreseeable disasters.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
“You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
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Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump: Liberal NGO Pushes for Harsher Venezuela Sanctions
Roger D. Harris | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
5 May 2025 – It’s been over 100 days since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Most NGOs to the left of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Tensions between India and Pakistan have grown since the attack and death of 26 Indian tourrists in the resort area of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on 22 April 2025.
→ read full articleThe USA Crisis of Law and Human Dignity: Philosophers of Law Reveal the Deeper Issue
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
4 May 2025 – In the light of the Donald Trump administration’s disregard of the rule of law, of due-process, of the rights and dignity of citizens that the law is meant to protect, and of the US Constitution that he has sworn to uphold, it is well worth our effort to reflect on what they have to say.
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Peace Symbols: Edible Eggs, Fabergé Eggs, Chocolate Eggs, Hares and Relationship to Easter
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Eggs are Peace Symbols from Antiquity to the present era. The Eggs are celebrated by various cultures throughout the world and symbolizes, the sealed tomb of Jesus of Nazareth which was cracked open to reveal goodness.
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`Awapuhi
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Mama loved the scent
of the wild yellow ginger,
growing thick on the slopes of Tantalus.
The Road to the Culture of Nonviolence
Dr. R. Vetrickarthick | The Gandhigram Rural Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
Brutal Physical Strength or Determined Mental Strength or Spirited Soul Force – Which is the strong one?
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MAGA Rage Erupts as New Pope’s Views of Trump Prove Unexpectedly Harsh
Greg Sargent | The Daily Blast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
9 May 2025 – Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Leo XIV. There is evidence that he has promoted articles critical of JD Vance and Donald Trump, and even expressed sympathy for George Floyd.
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The Farce of the Ukrainian Ceasefire Continues
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
2 May 2025 — The United States and Ukraine signed a resource agreement, on 1 May 2025, that had been postponed since February. It is reported that the agreement is for Ukraine to hand over the rights to underground resources to the United States in return for the United States continuing to provide Ukraine with the US military support.
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President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
11 May 2025 – In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes.
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Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
When Nikol Pashinyan swept into power in May 2018 on the crest of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution, his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi set an optimistic tone. Pashinyan, a former journalist turned revolutionary, pledged to deepen Armenia’s strategic alliance with Russia.
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Fort Apache, Washington D.C.: Race at the Centre of the Effort to Reassert a White USA
Michael Charney | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
6 May 2025 – While the US government domestically circles the wagons, mobilises the cavalry, and urges settlers to take refuge within a metaphorical Fort Apache 2025, it does so internationally as well.
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Galtung: 60 Years of Global Peace Studies (Part 1)
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
An oldie from the founder of Conflict & Peace Studies
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Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
6 May 2025 – The Planned Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza and Fake International Law and Order
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Why Was NATO Expanding as the Size of the Russian Military Shrank?
Larry C Johnson | Son of the New American Revolution - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
5 May 2025 – Bill Clinton initiated the expansion of NATO in 1999 adding Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland. According to the LA Times, Oct 1996, the push was underway to manufacture a narrative justifying adding more members to NATO:
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The Limitations of Military Might
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
6 May 2025 – Although the statement that “power grows out of the barrel of a gun” was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations.
→ read full articleGlobalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
God has to globalize and should have done so before the stock exchange. Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect!
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The Carnation Revolution of Portugal Today
Raquel Varela | The Bullet/Socialist Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
21 Apr 2025 – The New Challenge from the Far-Right
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On the Key Points of Contemporary International Relations: Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
War and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
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Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Global Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
3 May 2025 – On Monday, May 5, a Forum at Columbia University will feature Jeffrey Sachs, public intellectual, and Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, in a discussion that I am also honored to take part. I hope as many of subscribers will attend online.
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(Italiano) Su Declino Progressivo e Caduta Inevitabile dell’Impero USA (Seconda Parte)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
Date uno sguardo alle 14 contraddizioni e poi alla definizione d’impero. Il modo di risolvere queste erosioni al cuore del sistema è molto semplice.
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Civilian Peace Service
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
Nonviolent Peaceforce – There is a basic problem: now coming from the West, there is always the danger that they could become the continuation of aggressive Western governmental politics by nongovernmental means. How can this be avoided?
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US “Relocates” Iraqi Refugee to Rwanda via New Diplomatic Arrangement
Marisa Kabas | The Handbasket - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
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Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
Justice: The Mother of Peace
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Some Crucial Features of Contemporary Warfare: War Crimes and Warlordism
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
27 Apr 2025 – War Crimes and War Criminals -After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations, like the United Nations or various specialist agencies connected to it.
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Close the US Military Bases in Asia
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
The best strategy for the superpowers is to stay out of each other’s lanes.
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From Haiti to Gaza, from Congo to the Climate Apartheid: A Call for Humanity
Raïs Neza Boneza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
This refrain echoes through centuries of struggle—from the plantations of Saint Domingue to the besieged neighborhoods of Gaza, from the mineral-rich soil of the Congo to the burning plains of Southern Africa.
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A Lesson from Brazil – Where Gig Workers Have Rallied against the Right
Rodrigo Nunes | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
25 Apr 2025 – Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers.
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A Keffiyeh Is Not Antisemitic
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
1 May 2025 – Psychologists Against Antisemitism (PAAS) is an Israel advocacy group, with the profession of psychology as its principal target.
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Crisis vs. War
This vs. That - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
What’s the Difference? – Crisis and war are both situations that involve intense conflict and upheaval, but they differ in their scope and duration.
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(Italiano) “Ma questi chi li ha invitati?” Papa Francesco nel nuovo murale di Laika
la Repubblica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
L’opera apparsa in via Nicolò Piccolomini, a pochi passi dalla Città del Vaticano.
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