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Weakening Permanently and Maintaining the Hardliner Iranian Regime?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

21 April 2026 — I have begun to think that Israel’s strategy for Iran war was initially to weaken and permanently maintain the current hardliner Iranian regime (Revolutionary Guard), manipulating Trump with misinformation and initiating the war against Iran at the end of February.

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ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
Radley Balko | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

23 Apr 2026 – A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

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The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

24 Apr 2026 – Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Endorses the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.

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They May Grow Up to Become Mothers One Day…
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

The Psychopathology of Murdering Innocents – The horror of US and Israel’s vicious, unprovoked attacks against Iran on February 28 (my 76th birthday) is breathtaking. The war commenced with a duo of atrocities.

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Genocidal in Essence, Settler Colonial Entities such as Israel Cannot Be Reformed
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

26 Apr 2026 – They Self-Destruct at Enormous Human Costs

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Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

20 Apr 2026 – Iran’s leaders have learned how to deal with Trump’s lies, threats and deception by swiftly correcting his lies, preparing their defenses to confront his threats, and not falling for his fake offers of negotiation. But there is still a path to peace.

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Peace Journalism – A Discussion of Systemic Peace
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

14 Apr 2026 – Georgia Kelly Interviews Antonio C. S. Rosa and Marilyn Langlois from TRANSCEND Media Service

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No to Barbarism in the World in Defense of Civilization
Fernando Alcoforado | Academia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

This paper aims to denounce the barbarism in which humanity is subjected throughout history that reached its highest level during the existence of capitalism in the contemporary era and to strive for its end in defense of the principles of civilization. 

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Kajal Kajal (Music Video of the Week)
Kumar Sanu, Sadhana Sargam (singers) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

Exquisite!  Enjoy!

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UK in Retrial Seeks to Jail Palestine Action for ‘Terrorism’
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026 – Amid a media blackout, British authorities and their Israeli collaborators are determined to curtail the activist group as they face their last legal chance to do so.

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The Cowardice of Qualification: When Anti-War Voices Speak the Language of Empire
Ramzy Baroud | The Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

As the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said wrote in his essay “The Essential Terrorist”, “terrorism” has “acquired an extraordinary status in US public discourse” and has “displaced Communism as public enemy number one,” providing a flexible label through which enemies are constructed and violence against them normalized. The issue is the qualification itself.

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(Français) La France Éternelle : Un Bijou de Contradictions en Plein Éclat
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

26 avril 2026 – La France. Cette terre bénie des dieux, ce phare de la civilisation occidentale, ce pays où le bon goût se conjugue encore au passé simple et où l’on sait, depuis des siècles, transformer la moindre contrariété en art de vivre.

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Big Brother and the Israel Advocacy Machine
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

I sometimes find myself recalling Orwell’s Oceania when I read the daily distressing and outraging news from Palestine and the broader region. I think about how, much like Big Brother, today’s Israel Advocacy Machine demands complete allegiance, compliance, and submission.

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Settler Criminals
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

Zionism, Americanism, Nazism

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Beyond Oil: Global Food Crisis Emerging from Hormuz — Why Brazil and BRICS Matter
Uriel Araujo | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

15 Apr 2026 – The Iran war is triggering ripple effects far beyond energy prices. Global food systems, heavily dependent on fertilizers and shipping routes, are now under strain. Brazil, for one, faces heightened vulnerability despite its agricultural strength. BRICS itself is emerging as a potential critical geopolitical actor.

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The Imperial Pillars in British Colonial India: Lalvani vs Tharoor–a Critical Analysis of Peace Propagation or Peace Disruption Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

The Making or Breaking of British India: The “Told Story of British Enterprise revisited.

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My Cruel Tryst with Kazi Clan
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2026

24 Apr 2026 – Few wounds cut as deeply, or endure as quietly, as betrayal within the family. Forgiveness does not erase the past, nor does it guarantee renewal. What it offers instead is a way of engaging with injury that neither falsifies reality nor allows it to define the whole of human experience.

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Mnemonic Foundations of a Playable Topology of Global Coherence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The challenge may be framed simply: can patterns of coherence as structurally rich as polyhedra be rendered as cognitively accessible and memorable as the alphabet? This could be compared with the early challenge of education, namely enabling children to engage with the alphabet as a pattern, …

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Responses to Questions from Asgar Ghahremanpour, Journalist at Iran Daily
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Israel has ignored international law since its inception in 1948, including the legal obligations of an Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territories of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Such an assessment has been validated by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of July 19, 2024.

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Inside Israel’s Prison Regime
The Real News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – While international attention has decreased in recent months, the horrors Israel continues to systematically unleash on Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank have not. Graphic scenes of violence–be aware.

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Regarding Nuclear War Between Israel and Iran
Ann Garrison interviews physicist James McFadden | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

15 Apr 2026 – The political fallout from Trump’s recklessness in West Asia continues around the globe, while some wonder how far the radioactive fallout might travel if the war were to go nuclear. I talked with Physicist James McFadden about the likely consequences of a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran.

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Newcastle Upon Tyne: The First City to Erect a Genocide Memorial Monument for Myanmar’s Rohingya Survivors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

14  Apr 2026 – Forgetting is a crime against memory. The city of Newcastle in the UK does not forget Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya and pledges to support their quest for justice.

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Unpacking the Iran-USA Ceasefire with Prof Farhang Jahanpour
Amara Sophia Elahi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

11 Apr 2026 – Prof. Farhang Jahanpour is a former Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan in Iran. He taught at the Universities of Oxford (where I had the privilege of studying Persian literature with him), Cambridge and Harvard. He was also a Middle East editor at BBC Monitoring.

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NATO: Allies’ Security Myth
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – “Global Developments Highlight the Fundamental Reality That the Transatlantic Alliance Is Not Making Europe Safer “

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‘I Felt I Was a Monster’: IDF Soldiers Talk about the ‘Moral Injury’ – and the Silence
Tom Levinson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Some of them killed civilians in Gaza; others just looked on, or witnessed abuse and cover-ups in the name of revenge. Now they’re trying to cope with something a bit different than PTSD.

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Debt, Decline and Iran: Why the U.S. Can’t Afford another Forever War
The Duran | Dennis Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – In this sobering conversation, Dennis Kucinich offers a clear-eyed assessment of the US’ accelerating descent into another costly and unwinnable war.

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US/Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran Carrying on Their Tradition of Targeting Medical Workers
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – The United States and Israel are systematically targeting hospitals in Iran. In one month of bombing, the two countries have hit at least 307 health centers across the country, according to reports from the Iranian Red Crescent.

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Why the Israeli and US War in Iran Is “Not Europe’s War”
Jeanne Macé and Alžběta Frommerová | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Since the launch of the Israel and US war against Iran on 28 Feb 2026, European countries have been exposed to the consequences of a conflict they neither initiated nor sought to join.

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” [Anthem of Europe]
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

“Ah! how could I possibly quit the world before bringing forth all that I felt it was my vocation to produce?” That year, Beethoven began the long gestation of what would become an eternal masterwork of the supreme human art: making meaning out of chaos, beauty out of sorrow.

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Lebanon’s Vichy Regime Faces Street Mobilization over Betrayal of Resistance and “Normalization” with Israel
Feroze Mithiborwala | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026 – As Beirut’s skyline is obscured by the smoke of Israeli bombardment, the regime of PM Nawaf Salam faces accusations of “high treason” and “servile collaboration” with Netanyahu, triggering a massive popular uprising.

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Food Safety in the EU: Addition of Vitamins and Minerals
European Commission - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

What are additives? A wide range of nutrients and other ingredients are used in food manufacturing. Such nutrients or ingredients are added to food in order to “enrich” or “fortify” the food in question, so as to add or emphasise particular nutritional characteristics.

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(Français) Hongrie 2026 : Le Chef-d’œuvre d’une Passation de Pouvoir
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

La Hongrie nous offre une leçon de politique aussi subtile qu’élégante. Viktor Orbán, ce titan qui a incarné pendant seize ans la souveraineté hongroise face aux vents contraires de Bruxelles et de Washington, a choisi de quitter la scène avec une grâce rare. Sans amertume, sans cris, sans complots.

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Brief, Arbitrary Abductions: A New Tool of Israeli Intimidation in Masafer Yatta
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

15 Apr 2026 – In recent months, soldiers have arrested dozens of West Bank Palestinians — many blindfolded, beaten, and then released without explanation.

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My Own Genocide…
Susan Abulhawa - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Truthful. Indeed. You can say that again. And again…

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Review of Generation Z Voices Across Borders: Inspire Youth Journal’s Global Platform
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The Inspire Youth Journal is a global platform that amplifies the voices of Generation Z through journalism, storytelling, and dialogue. It brings together over 200 contributors from 40 countries to address pressing global issues and promote cross-border solidarity.

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Ignorant and Imbecile Warriors: US and Israel Waging War on Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Trump: “An entire civilization will perish, never to return; 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally come to an end. God bless the great people of Iran!” Although the Pope did not mention Trump by name, he stated that “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war”

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Israeli Journalist with Deep Ties to IDF Admits West Bank Violence ‘Looks Like… Ethnic Cleansing’
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – West Bank settler attacks on Palestinians are “rather sophisticated, organized, and funded systematic actions,” with the goal of “cleansing” the entire region, said journalist Ron Ben-Yishai.

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The Man Who Put War on Trial
Steven Jay | MobilizedNEWs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

In 1945, a 27-year-old lawyer helped prove a radical idea after WWII: War crimes can be prosecuted. On 14 Apr, Benjamin Ferencz, who put war on trial at Nuremberg, posthumously receives Congressional Gold Medal.

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Resisting the New World Order: Your Technocratic Slave Camp
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

19 Apr 2026 – Many authors and organizations are commenting on one or more of the changes being imposed on the world as a series of events take place, each of which will significantly change how the world functions and how we perceive it. Only a rare analyst, however, is drawing attention to what the combined impact of these changes is designed to achieve.

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Endogenous Peace Principles Across Civilisations, from Maat in Antiquity to Biophotonic Coherence: A Humane, Scientific, and Sacred Science of Peace Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

A Comprehensive Narrative of Ethical, Mystical, Ecological, and Neuroharmonic Pathways to the attainment of Human Communal Peace

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Paramount’s Purchase of CNN Heralds a New Trump-Friendly Media Empire
Caitlin Scialla | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Paramount Skydance‘s winning bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery marks a major milestone in media monopolization that, if successful, will further expand Trump-allied tech moguls Larry and David Ellison’s burgeoning power over US news and entertainment media.

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Addiction, Not Conflict: Notes from a Continent That’s Seen It All
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

There is something almost poetic about the way the world organizes its chaos. Not poetic in the Rumi sense—more in the bureaucratic, “please take a number and wait for collapse” sense. The conflicts are a part of the «relationship.”

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Mass Destruction in Southern Lebanon as Israeli Forces Use ‘Gaza Tactics’ to Level Villages
Jason Ditz | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – Israeli officials have been saying they intended to apply a Gaza Strip model to the invasion of Lebanon, but the extent of the destruction in the first 1.5 month is even bigger than initially feared. Satellite images confirm over 1,400 buildings destroyed in Israeli invasion.

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Europe’s ‘War on Vitamins’ Returns: How EU Restrictions Risk Deepening a Silent Public Health Crisis
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

17 Apr 2026 – Under the misleading banner of ‘safety,’ the European Union is moving toward enforcing draconian limits on the permitted dosages of vitamins and minerals contained in supplements, a deeply cynical attack on the health, lives, and freedom of choice of millions of people.

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Future No Kings Protests: Weeping and Resisting in Global Solidarity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – My poem below is intended as a sequel to an earlier poem, An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism, written in support of the No Kings protests, which were a dramatic success.

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The Complete List of What Billionaires Own in Hawaii
Brigitte and Zsolt | SandinMyLuggage - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Updated 2026 – Just 37 billionaires now control more than 218,000 acres of Hawaii. That’s 11% of all private land in the state – and the actual number is higher because these buyers hide behind shell companies with Hawaiian-sounding names. After 30 years on Oahu, I’ve watched this unfold in real-time. But what happened in 2025 changed everything.

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The Cancer Calculus
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – The ICIJ Is Proud to Bring You Our Latest Investigation – Keytruda has been hailed as a game changer in cancer treatment, but much of the world can’t afford it. Now, we shed new light on how Merck has fended off competitors to keep the price of Keytruda sky-high, locking out patients and squeezing health care systems worldwide.

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How a Comedian Turned Autocrat Collected Europe’s Highest Honor for Liberty while Sending His Country to the Meat Grinder
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The Hague, 16 Apr 2026. In a sun-dappled hall that once hosted the loftiest declarations of human dignity, Volodymyr Zelensky stepped forward to accept the Four Freedoms Award. The prize has previously gone to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and the International Red Cross.

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Serpents in Authority
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

The most consequential betrayals do not arrive in the form of open opposition; they emerge from within the very structures designed to guide and protect. Authority, when granted in good faith, carries an unspoken covenant—to elevate, to safeguard, and to act without concealed extraction.

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Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – It bears thinking that the world needs to apologize to Lebanon and to Palestine as the genocide by Israel grinds on from Gaza City to Beirut.

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Sudanese War and Genocide Enters Fourth Year
Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP/WP/Genocide Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

16 Apr 2026 – Famine. Massacres. Badly needed food and other supplies are now under strain. Sudan yesterday entered a fourth year of war that’s been called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new Middle East conflict throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes.

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Kollo Lena | زين – كله لينا (Music Video of the Week)
Zeyne – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

Enjoy!

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Bypass the Failed UN Security Council: A World Parliament Arises
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

15 Apr 2026 –  The Earth Constitution, drafted over a period of 30 years by the World Constitution & Parliament Association, has the potential to resolve the dilemma of the UN not being able to end war, eliminate nuclear weapons, or adequately insure human rights and protect the environment.

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Haiti: Solidarity in a World at War
Robert Roth | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

10 Apr 2026 – As the world reels from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran and Lebanon, and as the Israeli genocide continues in Gaza and the West Bank, Trump’s plan to assert dominance over the Americas is also moving forward at an unprecedented pace.

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Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”
The Intercept Briefing - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2026

14 Apr 2026 – The investigative journalist and “Democracy Now!” host — and the subject of a new documentary — on why independent media is needed now more than ever.

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Conceptual Complexity Compactified within Fundamental Polyhedra
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

13 Apr 2026 – Progressive Emergence of Explicit Complex Patterns Implicit in Simplest Forms – This exploration was triggered by the suspicion that the complexity evident explicitly in the array of 13 semi-regular Archimedean polyhedra was implicit in some manner in the 5 regular Platonic polyhedra.

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“Fahrenheit 11/9” – This Is How Fascism Starts
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – A scene from Michael Moore’s 2018 film, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.

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Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Two texts relevant to ongoing US/Israel war of aggression against Iran in the context of a failing ceasefire agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.

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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party

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Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes
The Critic Brief - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026

The “special relationship” is OVER. In a stunning 24 hours, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria have all slammed the door shut on US warplanes — refusing airspace and air bases as Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age.”

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War on Iran–a Word from the US President: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake in the hands of a madman. Exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the downed F-15 yesterday?

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Europe Pushes Back at Trump, Refuses US Military Access for Iran War
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – Several European countries including Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland have restricted or denied U.S. military access linked to operations against Iran, highlighting growing divisions within the Western alliance.

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Which Way to US National Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Rather than throw up our hands at the latest outbreak of horrific violence by marauding nationalist bullies, let’s use the challenge afforded by the current international crisis to create a new and better world.

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War by Design: Kagame’s Script in Eastern Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – There’s nothing strange about the “war choreography “ in eastern Congo. It’s precise. Deliberate. Directed from Kigali. Surprise. Forget the diplomats’ favorite lullabies—“stabilization,” “regional mechanisms.” That’s just complicity with a thesaurus.

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Artificial Intelligence Issue
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

This is not the last time The Nation will address the technological revolution that is already raising fundamental concerns about the future of work, surveillance, and existential questions of war and peace. We will be in the thick of these debates, arguing for a future in which we take the steps that are necessary to assure that we can all Stay Human.

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I Visited My Destroyed Home in Gaza after 900 Days
Amir Ismail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – Shocking Reality… I went back to where I lived my whole life… They erased the walls, but they couldn’t erase our souls. 904 days later, we still have hope. From the ashes of Gaza, we will rise again.

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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.

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Reclaiming the Feminine for Peace in Times of War
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Dominant models of power continue to privilege violence over dialogue. War, in this sense, is not simply about men, but about particular performances of masculinity tied to control, securitization, and the need to assert power—often rooted in insecurity.

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Destroying Iran’s Electric and Water Supply Is a War Crime
Karolina Bonde | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian Infrastructure in Iran

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Want to Know Capitalism’s Endgame? Just Look at Private Equity–It Has Captured Our Everyday Lives
Hettie O’Brien | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – It was the free croissants that gave it away. And the Scandinavian-style furniture. And the tasteful pastel walls. It was different from other nurseries: marginally more expensive. These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill.

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The Declining Empire on Steroids
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

28 March 2026 – With disastrous news hitting the headlines daily, it is often difficult to keep the big picture in mind. Yet the big picture is of vital importance for establishing a future for humanity beyond war, torture, murder and slavery. Is there an alternative?

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Building on the US/Iran Ceasefire
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Recalling the words of a Leonard Cohen’s song, “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in”, there is now a two-week crack in the war on Iran with the possibilities of negotiations led by the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad with the active support of the Chinese government.

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Why North Americans Turned to Al Jazeera Instead of CNN or Fox During Iran War
Zvika Klein | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up. Nobody in Jerusalem is tracking this news. Nobody in Washington is either. Good!

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On Behalf of the Tehran Peace Museum
Shahriar Khateri and Mona Badamchizaedh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

31 Mar 2026 – Dear colleagues, friends, members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, it has now been more than a month since the onset of this unlawful and unprovoked war against Iran. During this period, hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.

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Mearsheimer: No Signs of Quick End to US-Israel War on Iran
Al Jazeera | The Bottom Line – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

5 Apr 2026 – US political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that Israel – not Iran – is the Middle East country that is ‘highly aggressive’.

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What Germany Could but Didn’t Do for Peace
Petra Erler interviews Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

You have been working for many years to make the United Nations the ultimate guardian of peace. So far, to no avail. Are you a Don Quixote?
No. I am one of many who oppose nationalism and advocate for international peace based on law and order.

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No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

6 Apr 2026 – A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”

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70+ Boats Launch Historic Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Bold Solidarity Stand
teleSUR English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026 – The Global Sumud Flotilla with 70+ boats and 3,000 participants sails from Barcelona today to break Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade. This massive civilian mission demands urgent humanitarian aid and an end to violations amid a fragile Middle East ceasefire.

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Iran’s Nuclear Rights
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

8 Apr 2026 – I know I wasn’t the only one listening to the clock tick all Tuesday afternoon, right up to Trump’s 8 pm deadline for putting Iran’s 7000-year-old civilization to death, “never to be brought back again.”    

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The Epstein Files: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Paradise, or Just Another Day in Elite Wonderland?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

First, the Lazarus theory: Jeffrey Epstein, alive and well (or at least bearded and flanked by bodyguards) in Tel Aviv. Social media lit up earlier this year with purported photos of the man himself strolling Israeli streets, looking suspiciously hale for someone who’d been autopsied six years prior.

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Lebanon Declares Day of Mourning after Israeli Attacks Kill over 200 People
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – The deadliest day of Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon so far saw warplanes strike more than 100 locations across the country, hitting densely populated neighbourhoods in Beirut and areas beyond traditional frontlines.

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Families Crowd Khan Younis Charity Kitchens as Hunger Deepens in Gaza
Roya News English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Residents crowd charity kitchens in Khan Yunis as many families struggle to buy food despite goods returning to Gaza’s markets.

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Ending Israel’s War on Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

9 Apr 2026 – To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967. While Trump was telling the world that Iran was begging for a ceasefire, it was Trump himself who was begging for a ceasefire.

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To Posterity (1938)
Bertold Brecht – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

I came into the cities in a time of disorder
As hunger reigned.
I came among men in a time of turmoil
And I rose up with them.

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God, Science and Civilizational Destruction: US-Israel’s Pursuit of Domination
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

Unprecedented in the post-Holocaust history: the world’s most technologically advanced killing machine–USA–is being used against targeted civilian populations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran by the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, despite overwhelming popular US opposition.

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(Français) Comment les Américains ont Perdu l’Iran sans même y Poser le Pied !!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

« Armes de destruction massive » de Saddam Hussein: Depuis ce jour fatidique où le monde entier a compris que Washington pouvait inventer une menace nucléaire pour justifier une guerre, l’Amérique a perdu quelque chose d’irremplaçable : le bénéfice du doute. Et c’est précisément ce capital envolé qui vient de sceller, en Iran, une défaite plus cuisante que n’importe quel retrait précipité de Kaboul ou de Bagdad.

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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

11 Apr 2026 – In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny.

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Creating US Military Bases on the Moon
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

7 Apr 2026 – NASA outlines this $20 billion project to build bases on the moon. 

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Peace in the Shadow and Shade of Colonial Imperialism: A Protagonist’s Call to Decolonize the Diasporic Mind (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

“Neo Colonialism is the same philosophy of occupation, by imperialist, in a novel, refined guise of a cultured approach.“

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The Track Record of the Collective West in Regards to Human Rights and International Law
Prof. Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

1 Apr 2026 – A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of States at the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Council and other international agencies.

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The Western Empire Is Going Down!
Boris Malagurski interviews Jan Oberg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2026

At a moment when global tensions are escalating — from the confrontation of the US, Israel and Iran to rising military spending across Europe and the Middle East — voices calling for diplomacy are becoming rare. Øberg has long argued that the international system has moved away from preventing conflicts to managing them once they explode.

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Macho Man… Really?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

Terms Machismo and Male Chauvinism are semantically related or have similar meanings: Toxic Masculinity.

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Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place
Pascal Lottaz | Neutrality Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – How the US ‘Allies’ in West Asia (the Sunni kingdoms/dictatorships) managed to maneuver themselves into the worst of both worlds.

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How Structural Violence Leads to Life or Death
Bandy X. Lee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Structural violence is what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung defined as the “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs” through unjust social structures– the most potent cause of behavioral violence.

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Asymmetric Dialogue in a Period of Asymmetric Warfare?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

16 Mar 2026 – The following exploration is effectively an annex to an extensive separate exchange with AI to clarify the nature of “UnChristian”, “UnJewish” and “UnIslamic” from a cybernetic perspective.

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Beware Men Who Wage War to Prove They Are Men
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

A specifically masculine heritage of violence in the service of the nation oversees and delimits democracy and authority—a privileged area of social welfare.

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Flirting with Apocalyptic War in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – From almost all perspectives the ongoing war of aggression known as the ‘Iran War’ is one of the greatest international blunders in modern history, and far worse than this, poses the highest risks of stumbling into an apocalyptic warfare since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

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Power and Manipulation— Media as a Weapon
Patrik Baab interviews Joe Lauria - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

26 Feb 2026 – Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?

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A View from Tehran: War Caused a New Kind of Stability
Peiman Salehi | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

4 Apr 2026 – Rather than triggering collapse, external pressure appears to be producing a form of internal consolidation socially, politically, and strategically that complicates expectations about the conflict. From within Tehran, the most immediate observation is not breakdown, but continuity under strain.

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How Iran Should End the War
M. Javad Zarif | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2026

3 Apr 2026 – Iran did not start this war with the US and Israel. But more than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning it. US and Israeli forces have spent weeks bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands and damaging hundreds of buildings in hopes of toppling the country’s government.

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