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The Rohingya and Gaza: Two Genocides the World Refuses to End
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
25 Aug 2025 – As I watch Gaza, I can’t help but think about what’s been inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar and the role Israel has played in it.
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Apathy to Peace and War: Palestine
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Egoistic Leaders against Peace and Humanity
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Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
The conflict as has been widely observed by many close observers bears a closer resemblance to ‘a massacre’ than a war because it is so one sided with the most modern weaponry of land and air possessed on the Israeli side and primitive weaponry or none at all on the Palestinian resisting side.
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Three Giants at One Table: Can Russia, India, and China Rewrite the Global Rules?
Manish Vaid | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Russia has called for the RIC cooperation format to be revived. India sees it as an opportunity for greater autonomy in a multipolar world.
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Templars, Transhumanists and War, Oh My!
ESW | RogueNewsTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – In this episode of Rogue News, I took the time to chat with V about the world situation, and the interconnected nature of transhumanism, Gnostic Crusaders and technocracy with a look towards both ‘left’ and ‘right’ manifestations of the game.
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The Devil at Woodstock – A Modern Tragedy (Parts I and II)
The Chained Muse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
12 Aug 2025 – The first installment of our two-part “Devil at Woodstock” feature is an adaptation of poet Daniel Leach’s modern narrative verse tragedy. Is it a poem or a prophecy? We’ll let you decide. Watch Part II below.
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The Democratizing of Democracy
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
23 Aug 2025 – Redeeming Ourselves from MAGA and Fascism
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The Seventy-Six-Year Curse: All Has Been Washed White
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
23 Aug 2025 – Some things resist being written. To write them is to be caught in a web of visions, distortions, and expectations. To remain silent would have been the easier path. Yet silence has its own weight, and so I write. Whether you agree or not, whether you exist in this perspective or outside it, I write—and after this, I will pass from it.
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
For the art of writing implies the art of reading. The writer creates and the reader recreates; both demand silence, the cessation of all noise that serves to prevent true thought. The machines must be turned off. “Our inventions,” Thoreau noted, “are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”
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Heartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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Can the UN Trusteeship Council Be an Important Part of the Solution in the Middle East?
Ingeborg Breines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
25 Aug 2025 – How can the US, Germany and others continue to pour funds and weapons into Israel despite decisions in the UN’s highest bodies indicating complicity in accordance with the Convention against Genocide?
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Ending the Assault on Gaza: What Must Be Done Now
Gershon Baskin | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Israel’s military juggernaut will not be stopped in Gaza without significant international pressure and a range of conditional sanctions.
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Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday [29 Aug] that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from docking at Turkish ports and denying Israeli aircraft overflight rights over Türkiye.
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Distractions at the US of A
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
25 Aug 2025 – Yawn
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Helsinki Process: Need for Renewal
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – The difficulties to an end to the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict shows the need for a renewal of the Helsinki process of Pan-European Dialogue and Action, which began in 1973 and led to the creation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of Courts in Preventing Genocides and Punishing Perpetrators
Natalie Brinham and Maung Zarni | TRT Global – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
On this day, August 25, eight years ago, the Myanmar army launched a campaign of genocidal violence against the Rohingya in their ancestral home in western Myanmar, to erase them; the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.
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Unaudited Power: The US Military Budget Nobody Controls
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion, growing $1 trillion every five months. Interest exceeds $1 trillion annually. The military outlay, close to $1 trillion, consumes nearly half of the discretionary budget.
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From Swords to Solutions: A Comparative Analysis of Vegetius’ Military Doctrine and Modern Peace Theories
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Achieving a Sustained Peace: General Flavius Vegetius Renatus emphasized that military preparedness was essential to deter aggression and maintain peace. So does US VP Vance.
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Memorial to the Massacre of Koreans in Japan: A Foundation for Coexistence
The Tokyo Shimbun | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – During the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 Sep 1923 in Japan, many Koreans were massacred due to false rumors. Commemorating the victims means facing up to a “negative history” that must never be repeated.
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Israel Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing At Least 20 People, Including Five Journalists
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
25 Aug 2025 – Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip today, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
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North Africa: The Enduring Jewish-Berber Relationship
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) live together across the lands of North Africa building communities, sharing languages, trading in the markets, and celebrating side by side.
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From Guernica to Gaza
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – Mass Killers Have Been Above It All – Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match.
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‘He Got Out of Gaza, But Gaza Did Not Get Out of Him’: Israeli Soldiers Returning from War Struggle with Trauma and Suicide
Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz | CNN/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Editor’s note: This story contains details of suicide and violence that some readers may find upsetting.
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US Lifeline Masks Israel’s Economic Freefall as Global Divestment Grows
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Now that Israel has become a bad brand, affiliated with unethical investments in the genocide and growing illegal settlements in the West Bank, the US has stepped in to fill the gaps–for how long?
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Rethinking Peace Thinking
Timothy Bryar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
29 Aug 2025 – In a text titled ‘Against Peace’, philosopher Agon Hamza succinctly summarises the problems with existing forms of peace thinking: Peace presupposes that there is a world of stability to return to…
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Why Palestine Is Already a State
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025 – The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply.
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Washington’s Nightmare: Modi and Xi Break the Ice
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025 – A potential India–China border breakthrough could mark a turning point in Asia, easing decades of hostility while undermining Washington’s grip on New Delhi.
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Israel’s Assassination of Memory
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025 – Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state.
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Jan Oberg: If You Want Peace, Be Creative and Focus on the Future
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Dr. Jan Oberg is a Danish peace researcher in Sweden. We talk about the escalating rhetoric toward Russia in Europe and what peace-oriented folks can do about it.
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The Ukraine War Will End with Ukraine Going Back to Be “Pro-Russia”
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Trump and Putin, who want to destroy the existing US hegemony and shift the world to a multipolar structure, claim to want to end the Ukraine War quickly, but in reality intend to prolong it.
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The Attainment of Peace: A Multidimensional Perspective
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
“A comprehensive analysis of the current state of global peace and peace theories proposed as antidotes, from antiquity through to the 21st century, by giants of peace propagation”.
→ read full articleHeartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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94-Year-Old Seizes Chance to Tell Her Story of Atomic Bombing
Akari Uozumi | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – When Michiko Sakamoto opened the questionnaire sent to atomic bomb survivors nationwide, ideas for what she wanted to write came in a rush. The 94-year-old sat at her “kotatsu” heated table and gripped a pen at her home in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira.
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Gaza’s Urgency and Lessons for the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Responses to questions posed by Naman Bakaç, an independent journalist in Turkey. The interview was published by FOCUS, an independent online media platform
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Awarding Noble Piece Prize to Trump and Netanyahu?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
25 Aug 2025 – Appropriate Appreciation of Transactional Commodification of Honour in a Fragmenting World – Donald Trump has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by multiple countries…
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Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show…
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The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide
Protect Palestine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
7 Jun 2025 – A powerful new briefing has been published presenting a comprehensive legal, moral, and strategic argument for urgent international military intervention to halt the ongoing genocide by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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(Italiano) Energia nucleare ‘pulita’? Un nodo irrisolto
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
11 Ago 2025 – La sperimentazione sull’energia nucleare, con il primo, clamoroso successo sancito dall’esplosione del Trinity Test, nel luglio del 1945, diede origine a decenni di sciagure. I giapponesi che morirono a Hiroshima e Nagasaki non furono le sole vittime.
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How to Open Communicative Dialogue for All Humanity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Sri Aurobindo saw the evolutionary spirit as moving humanity toward “world union.” Teilhard de Chardin saw the cosmic process moving humanity toward an “Omega point” of unification through love and cooperation. Ken Wilber sees humanity growing toward “integral” and “holistic” modes of consciousness bringing us together…
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Most Israelis Not Bothered by Reports of Suffering and Famine in Gaza, New Poll Shows
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
6 Aug 2025 – Vast majority of Israelis said they were not troubled at all by reports, with a majority saying Israel’s army was careful to avoid civilian suffering.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Still Trump, MAGA, RFK, Jr. Yawn…
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Toward Transformative Accountability
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Addressing Rentier Capitalist Capture and Restoring the Public Good in (Flemish) Higher Education
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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
Frances Madeson | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
19 Aug 2025 – For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
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Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
4 Aug 2025 – As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more…
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The Alaska Summit Was a Spectacular Distraction
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Trump needed a break from the infighting in MAGA so he decided an inconsequential meeting with Putin would do the trick.
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfire: India Moves Closer to China, Strengthening BRICS Unity
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – The US government has long tried to recruit India for its new cold war on China. Donald Trump’s tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening BRICS.
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Why Japan Is an “Accomplice” in the Occupation of Palestine
Machi Kunizaki | Huffington Post Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
The Similarities between the Colonial Rule in East Asia and the Israeli Settlement
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Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into US politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations.
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Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Other Big Oil Allies Sabotage Progress
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – “The vast majority of governments want a strong agreement, yet a handful of bad actors were allowed to use process to drive such ambition into the ground,” said one environmentalist.
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Observations from the West Bank: The Jewish Supremacy Monster Cannot Be Contained
Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
12 Aug 2025 – Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.
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Fascism at the Gate
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
20 Aug 2025 – Donald Trump and his regime has turned our national capital into a totalitarian state. His regime is sending cops, soldiers, and ICE to control and scare people—especially Black and brown people. This isn’t about safety. It’s about power and fear.
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Remembering Daria Dugina: A Beacon of Russian Thought and Patriotism
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Third Anniversary of Her Tragic Death
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On The Smithsonian and Slavery: Trump’s Whitewashing of History
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025 – On Tue 19 Aug, Trump attacked the narrative taught in US schools and documented in museums about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery, focusing on The Smithsonian Institution, the world-renowned center of learning and culture based in Washington, DC.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 25 Aug 2025
Full Text: Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
A new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken system.
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Classified IDF Intel Reveals 83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Are Civilians
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025 – The data show “a proportion of civilian slaughter with few, if any, parallels in modern warfare.”
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8 Years On: Accountability Needed for Myanmar Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
25 Aug 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya in the Rakhine State. Burma/Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed women, men and children throughout northern Rakhine.
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NATO’s Imperialist March and Its Victims
Biljana Vankovska | Valdai Discussion Club - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
In the summer of 1999, months after NATO bombed Yugoslavia, I attended a lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung, the father of peace research. Known for his integrity and intellectual courage, he didn’t mince words: “This world has a problem. That problem has a name, and its name is: the United States of America.”
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Trump vs. Musk: The Break-up
Hagar Omran | Forbes Middle East - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
19 Jul 2025 – When Elon Musk and Donald Trump clash, it sends ripples through the markets. Here’s a timeline detailing their turbulent relationship and its impact on Tesla and Musk’s wealth.
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Guilty Silence: Western Writers and Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Mukul Kesavan | The Telegraph India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
3 Aug 2025 – The IDF-induced famine in Gaza became a Live Aid moment; weirdly, starvation depoliticised the genocide, bleaching it into a humanitarian cause that writers could finally get behind.
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91-Year-Old Man Exposed to Atomic Bombs Both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Nagasaki Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
6 Aug 2025 – “It’s still too hard for me to remember the hells that I experienced twice. I walked past piles of bodies.”
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(Português) A Paz e a Guerra sob Trump
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
“Trump já deixou claro: não irá fazer diplomacia. Atuará com a força, tanto bélica quanto econômica e comercial. Sua construção de uma nova ordem não passa pela paz mas pela capitulação do adversário”. Os acertos das tarifas são imposições dele e não frutos de negociação.
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(Français) L’Épopée d’un Titan des Horizons : Hommage à Gérard Chaliand
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Dans les brumes d’un Bruxelles hivernal, le 15 février 1934, naquit un astre errant, Gérard Chaliand, fils d’Arméniens exilés, dont le sang portait l’écho des montagnes oubliées et des génocides murmurés.
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Over 360 Humanitarian Workers Were Killed in 2024 — 200 in Gaza Alone, Making It the Deadliest Year on Record
UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Today, 19 Aug 2025, we mark the World Humanitarian Day — a time to honor those who step into crises to help others, and to stand with the millions of people whose lives hang in the balance.
→ read full article1987 Right Livelihood Acceptance Speech – Johan Galtung
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Peace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
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The US Military’s Bioweapon Labs
Helena Glass | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Scrolling thru Twitter I came across a video of RFK, Jr. telling Congress that the Covid vaccines were actually developed by the DoD and given to Pfizer and Moderna so they would appear to be from Big Pharma which is why Big Pharma was given the ‘no liability’ clause.
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Bulldozing Gaza
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
23 Aug 2025 – The singularity of the Israeli campaign in Gaza lies in the asymmetry of power, its intensity, its enclosure, its direct connection to a settler colonial project. All this leads us back to the 1940s and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide, which he modeled on Nazi-occupied Poland.
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(Italiano) Orrore sistemico in Palestina: tutto un equivoco?
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
22 Ago 2025 – “Per ogni vittima del 7 ottobre, 50 palestinesi sono dovuti morire. Non importa se sono bambini. Non sto parlando per un senso di vendetta, ma per trasmettere un messaggio alle generazioni future. Non c’è niente che possiamo fare: hanno bisogno di una Nakba di tanto in tanto, per sentirne il prezzo”.
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Who Are the Inner Elite and the Origins of the Jewish Bankers
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 – Dive into the hidden history of banking dynasties, from the Rothschilds to the Warburgs—and the ancient power structures that control them.
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International Criminal Court: New US Sanctions ‘a Flagrant Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025 — The ICC has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States yesterday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push-back surrounding investigations into US and Israeli officials.
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First Person: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Late’ to Scale Up Humanitarian Aid in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – As gang violence across Haiti escalates, and the United States and other donors reduce their humanitarian funding, 1.3 million people who have fled their homes are facing the direst of consequences.
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(Italiano) 80 anni dopo Hiroshima: proprio ora di un altro INIZIO
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Mentre l’orologio dell’apocalisse segna attualmente solo 89 secondi alla mezzanotte, riflettiamo su come siamo arrivati al punto zero 80 anni fa, non solo per riportare indietro le lancette dell’orologio e impedire qualsiasi futuro dispiegamento, ma anche per liberare completamente la Terra da questi dispositivi demoniaci.
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Modigliani’s Eyes
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Modigliani’s models’ eyes
are pupil-less, iris-less,
(or, sometimes, one’s inverted,
the other looking not-quite out).
Israel Is Hell-Bent on Dispossessing All Palestinians Including Christians of Their Land
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem
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Open Letter to Pres. Donald Trump
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
27 Aug 2024 – The children of Gaza are being starved and killed. Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza. This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.
→ read full article(French) La Spirale Descendante : Le Leadership de Nikol Pashinyan et la Chute de l’Arménie dans l’Abîme
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
10 août 2025 – Au printemps 2018, l’Arménie fut emportée par une vague d’optimisme lorsque des manifestations massives, surnommées la Révolution de Velours, renversèrent le gouvernement de longue date de Serzh Sargsyan. À la tête de ce mouvement se trouvait Nikol Pashinyan, ancien journaliste et figure de l’opposition.
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The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists
Richard Falk interviewed by Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – The 10 Aug 2025 Israeli airstrike that killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two others in Gaza: Falk argues that discrediting truth-tellers and murdering the press is consistent with the apartheid worldview that dominates Zionist ideology.
→ read full articleEnabling Government Bipartisanship through Dual-Use Budget Items
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Expanding Interpretations of Civilian Benefit in Relation to National and Global Security – The following exploration was provoked by the widely publicized demand of the USA in July 2025 that NATO allies increase their defence spending to 5% of GDP.
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“Israel Has Succeeded in Killing Me”
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – The Israeli military just assassinated six Palestinian journalists in a targeted strike, among them beloved Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif. Israel has killed nearly 270 journalists and media workers since it launched its genocidal assault on Gaza.
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Eighty Years after Hiroshima: The American Bombs Have Turned Gaza into Hiroshima 2.0
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
7 Aug 2025 – Israel’s genocidal patron, namely the leaderships of the United States, have shown an utter and complete lack of human empathy, conscience or regard for the post-Hiroshima, post-Holocaust international law, which they helped create.
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The Death of EU Values in Gaza
Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – The EU likes to think of itself as a community of values, committed to international law, peace, protecting civilians and a rules-based global order. But with the brutal destruction of Gaza and the illegal occupation of Palestine, these principles have become hollow rhetoric.
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(Português) Alienígenas entre nós?
Avi Loeb | Harvard Astronomy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
5 agosto 2025 – Um estudo de Harvard reacendeu a hipótese dos criptoterrestres seres extraterrestres vivendo disfarçados entre nós. A teoria sugere que eles chegaram há muito tempo e observam silenciosamente nossa evolução. O tema ganhou força…
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Myanmar Anti-Junta Opposition Plays with Fire: Dangling Rare Earth Materials before Transactional & Un-Trustworthy Washington
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 – Myanmar’s anti-Junta opposition in the diaspora and their Western supporters are playing with fire when they reportedly dangle before Trump’s transactional administration the prospects of a fire sale of the country’s strategic natural resources for political support.
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Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale Stare Down Goldfinger
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
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Condemn All UN Member States: They Spend 100 Times More on Militarism Than on the Entire UN System
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – But did you know? Is this discussed now when the UN turn 80 in October? No, politicians, media and scholars generally focus on war and ignore humanity’s most important peace-maker.
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Nobel Peace Prize for Trump
Marian Kamensky - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
No joke…
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The End of Democracy?
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – Upset by the non-violent revolutions of 1989, the Western intellectual world repeated like a childish refrain an enchanted phrase: “The fall of the Berlin Wall” and theorized the historical end of all analyses of contemporary society.
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US-Russia Talks: The Choice between Peace and Escalation
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the chances for successful peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and prevent an ever-escalating war between the US, NATO and Russia.
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The Significance of Holding a US-Russia Summit Now
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska on 15 Aug 2025 because a ceasefire in Ukraine appears likely. However, the situation is such that a ceasefire cannot be achieved through discussions between the US and Russian leaders.
→ read full articleIsraeli Occupation of Gaza and Who Would Be the Next King of Arabia?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 – Israeli Occupation and How Leaders Mislead the Masses
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Ukraine: We Told You So!
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
11 Aug 2025 – Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war *** Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible – Gallup asked that question three years ago to all Ukrainians. Then, 72% of Ukrainians wanted Ukraine to continue fighting and only 22% to negotiate an end to the war. Most recently, 24% want to continue fighting and 69% want to negotiate an end to the war.
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Historic Peace Summit in Alaska: Putin Emerges Victorious in Talks with Trump
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Putin broke three years of isolation, forcing the West to engage on his timeline. Trump hailed the talks as “productive” and noted “great progress,” but Putin made no promises, instead securing an invitation for future Moscow meetings.
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The War at Home
David Cole | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Apr 2025 – Red Scares in the US Past and Present
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Malnutrition Deaths Mark ‘Latest in the War on Children’ in Gaza: UNRWA Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
13 Aug 2025 – At least 100 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition and hunger, underscoring the need to speed up medical evacuations. – These young deaths are “the latest in the war on children and childhood in Gaza,” the head of UNRWA said today.
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The Anxiety News Network
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
Meanwhile, in the Divine Destiny country…
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The Trump–Putin Meeting in Alaska – An Opportunity also for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 – This meeting comes at a time when Ukraine is facing the prospect of a devastating military defeat – one that can no longer be averted by further arms deliveries or financial aid.
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Putin’s Step Back or Smart Move?
Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Ritter knows more about nukes, strategic balances, missile systems, etc. than almost anyone else, having been the first US Weapons Inspector for the enforcement of the new INF Treaty in 1988.
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Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS
Alan Macleod | MintPressNews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
7 Aug 2025 – After reaching an agreement with Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired CBS News. He is the largest private funder of the IDF, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Netanyahu among his closest friends.
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