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Shine
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

Smoke and sky spiders fill the air
as missiles smash into Gaza
and powerful men drive needles
into the flesh of young girls.

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US Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love
Chris Jeske | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

While it’s hard to take Musk and Hegseth seriously when they talk about making Star Trek real, I don’t doubt for a minute that they can find many new ways to violate our rights and destroy what we love about the natural world.

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I Have Seen the Collapse of an Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

In the final years of the 20th Century I was a witness to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Having spent up to six months at a time on many occasions from 1973 to 1986 in the Soviet Union, I saw how a great empire with alliances in most continents, came to crash from within.

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Global Citizens Support a World Parliament: Leaders Need to Catch Up
George Papandreou | Democracy Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

28 Jan 2026 – A new global survey delivers a message that policymakers and institutions can no longer afford to ignore: people across the world are ready to discuss the idea of a democratically elected World Parliament and many already support it.

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On the Road to Nuclear War
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

On 27 Jan 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation. This grim appraisal has impressive evidence to support it. 

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UK: Acquittals Demolish Lies about Palestine Action Activists
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

5 Feb 2026 – Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that trying to stop genocide is a crime.

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The Materialist Mind Is Trying to Resolve an Existential Crisis
David Andersson | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

6 Feb 2026 – We are at a crossroads of civilization, facing contradictions that cannot be solved by the same logic that created them. We are attempting to answer the future of humanity with a mindset inherited from the past.

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Inside a Coordinated, Multi-Village Settler-Soldier Pogrom in Masafer Yatta
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

30 Jan 2026 – As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.

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Meet the World’s Best Known “Antisemites”
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

2 Feb 2026 – I thank Dr Zachary Foster for this compilation, as well as his moral courage and intellectual integrity to speak truthfully about the Cancer of Jewish Supremacy, with a strain of White Supremacy.

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The Normalisation of Atrocity
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

 Our grandchildren are witnesses to the blanket bombing of Gaza and to Palestinian genocide perpetrated by the descendants of Holocaust victims. They hear the silence of our political leaders and see the active complicity of Biden, Trump and successive British governments in the genocide.

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A Brief History of the Enduring [66 Years] US Embargo against Cuba
Birsen Filip | Mises Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

US policies have focused on ensuring that Cuba is a closed commercial state, with the intent of bringing about its government eventual collapse. In that event, the US will be able to reestablish the control that it previously exerted over the island before the Cuban Socialist Revolution prevailed on 1 Jan 1959.

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BlackRock Is Buying Up the World’s Infrastructure to Serve Billionaire Oligarchs
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

The Real Deal Behind the Panama Canal & Greenland: The World Economic Forum’s Global Model “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy”

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Albert Camus on How to Live Whole in a Broken World
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (7 Nov 1913 – 4 Jan 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Gaza Teaches Us That only Some Lives Are Worth Talking About
Sylvia Monkhouse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

5 Feb 2026 – Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, Israel has killed over 500 Palestinians. But these lives – according to western media and politicians – are not worth talking about.

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Michael Parenti: The War on Drugs Is a Cover for Imperialism and the CIA’s Own Drug Dealing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

4 Feb 2026 – Michael Parenti’s legacy is clarity. He taught that U.S. policies like the drug war are successful strategies for maintaining power and profit.

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When a Backup Steals Your Life’s Work: My Experience with pCloud on macOS
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

5 Feb 2026 – Our readers are not used to seeing this type of article. The experience involved starting up my Mac and finding only empty folders on its desktop, i.e. the sudden loss of nearly 100,000 documents and files accumulated over decades.

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‘I Cannot Help My Clients’: The Impossible Task of Representing Palestinian Detainees
Lee Mordechai and Liat Kozma | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – With Israel running its prisons as ‘torture facilities,’ lawyers point to the absence of state and judicial oversight allowing them to operate with impunity.

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Don’t Blame the UN for the World’s Problems
Thomas Fazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

1 Feb 2026 – The UN is weaker and more delegitimized than ever, but it would be a mistake to blame the institution for the world’s problems: the UN simply mirrors our fractured geopolitical reality.

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The Eternal Waltz of Ukrainian Graft: A Symphony of Scandals since the So-called Maidan “Revolution”
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

8 Feb 2026 – The Maidan “Revolution” of 2014 – that glittering spectacle of Western-orchestrated idealism, where brave souls toppled a regime only to usher in a fresh cadre of opportunists, their pockets lined with the same old promises of transparency.

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The Greatest Gift, a More Human Face: Bantu Stephen Biko’s Prescription for a Divided, Selfish World in the 21st Century
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2026

“Steve Biko 1977–2026: Truth, Suppression, and the Resurrection of Justice” from Martyrdom to Legal Memory: The Reopened Inquest into Steve Biko’s Death”

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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Intro)
Jan Oberg, Biljana Vankovska, Pascal Lottaz, Annette Schiffmann and Christina Spannar | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Introduction to TFF’s Forthcoming Five Idea Portfolios of Diplomatic and Nonviolent Resistance

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Complementarity of 64-fold Sets as an Elusive Rosetta Stone?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Circumventing irresponsible authoritarian imposition of incoherent patterns of connectedness.

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Is a Non-UN Conflict Resolution Framework Feasible, Desirable?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

29 Jan 2026 – Trump’s Board of Peace Is an Obstacle and Warning – It deserves to fail. It insults the Palestinian people, is blind to violations of the Genocide Convention, and undermines international law and UN authority with respect to global security.

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Despite Ceasefire, Israel’s Siege Allowing Only a Trickle of Aid into Gaza
Ahmed Ahmed | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

26 Jan 2026 – Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.

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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 1)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

20 Jan 2026 – Media, Culture and Information Sovereignty – This is the first of five idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the US and help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to the Trump administration’s confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies.

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Exclusive: Leaked “Board of Peace” Resolution Outlines U.S.-Led Plan to Rule Over Gaza
Jonathan Whittall | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

26 Jan 2026 – The draft framework, obtained by Drop Site, would bestow sweeping authority on Trump to determine all aspects of Gaza’s governance and future.

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(Castellano) Espectáculo trumpista de la violencia en las pantallas para la nueva fabricación del consentimiento
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

24 enero 2026 – ¡Es la economía, estúpido! Pero también ¡es la cultura, estúpido! Es la producción de beneficios económicos y la reproducción de la cultura gánster. Es el espectáculo de la mentira para justificar la verdad sanguinaria del imperialismo y es el espectáculo de la verdad de la violencia para ocultar la verdad del imperio que se desangra.

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Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn’t Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience
Tim Hjersted - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we’d be finished—violence is what they’re begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they’re forced to concede.

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Self-determination of Peoples: A Possibility through Democratic Set-up
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Self-determination is concerned with real freedom. There is no real freedom, since men are determined by circumstances. The freedom means simply the absence of determination by anything outside, the presence of determination by oneself inside.

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Portugal Will only Join Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ under Certain Conditions, Says Foreign Minister
Algarve Daily News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – Portugal will only join the Peace Council created by the US president if the organisation’s remit is strictly limited to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said today.

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(Italiano) N… come Non violenza
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

22 Gennaio 2026 – L’insegnamento della non violenza, parola a doppia negazione, sintetizza tutta la seconda tavola ricevuta da Mosé, cioè i sei comandamenti sociali, anche essi a doppia negazione (ad es. “Non uccidere”).

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(Français) La Montée en Puissance de Tigrane Yégavian : L’Émergence d’un Porte-Voix Incontournable de la Communauté Arménienne en France
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Dans le paysage intellectuel français, où les voix sur les questions géopolitiques et diasporiques se multiplient, un nom s’impose avec une autorité croissante : Tigrane Yégavian. Journaliste, essayiste, chercheur et professeur…

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Map Shows What Would Happen to Gaza Under the US ‘Master Plan’
Mohammed Haddad and Mohammad Mansour | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – The plan treats Gaza as vacant beachfront property, a real state, proposing glass towers and industrial zones over historic sites.

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The Search for Common Interests in World Politics
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

In his reflections on the nature of political ethics in the middle of the Second World War, the U.S. theologian Reinhold Niebuhr stressed the need for a universalist ethic and the difficulty of achieving it.

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Iran’s Velvet Revolution: Where Mullahs Preach Love, the People Cheer, and the West Weeps in Confusion
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Iran – that enigmatic pearl of the Middle East, where the air is thick with the scent of saffron, revolution, and just a hint of Western bewilderment. In these trying times, as headlines scream of impending doom and “regime change” fantasies dance in the eyes of distant pundits, …

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What Is the Most Basic, Most Severe Violation of Freedom?
Alejandro A. Tagliavini - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Violence is equivalent to taking away freedom, diverting the intrinsic development—against one’s will— of a being. Therefore, violence and freedom are logical opposites. Logic is a science, not my opinion.

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Lula Sets Conditions for Brazil to Join Trump’s Board of Peace
Renan Truffi and Sofia Aguiar | Valor International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – Brazilian president says group must focus on Gaza and include Palestine.

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UN Resolution 2803, the Board of Peace, and the Limits of Transition in Gaza
Safia Southey | American Society of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

The Security Council as Architect? On 17 Nov 2025, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2803, endorsing what Trump has termed his “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.” It authorizes two novel institutional mechanisms: a Board of Peace…

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Collective Rationality and Human Self-Realization
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

27 Jan 2026 – Envisioning Our Common Human Future

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WE, The Peoples, Time and Earth are Victims of Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Global Leadership Failure to Understand the Logic of Time, Peace and War

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Replicating the Behavior of One’s Persecutor
Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

13 Jan 2026 – Israeli culture mimics the genocidal mindset of Nazi-era Germans who once targeted them. 

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Doomsday Clock: 85 Sec–Scientists Say the Danger Is Increasing
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

29 Jan 2026 – With today’s update, the Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight, 4 seconds closer than last year, when it was set at 89 seconds to midnight. It is now: 23.58.35

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 2)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

30 Jan 2026 – For half-a-century, Harn Yawnghwe has been pushing for federalism based on ‘ethnic group equality and inclusive society’ as the only twofold viable solution for peace and reconciliation in his native Myanmar.

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Myanmar Genocide Emergency 2026
Jeanne Macé | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

In 2026, Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State are still being systematically attacked, displaced, and killed by both the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw, which have been fighting each other since 2018 for control of Rakhine. The Arakan Army terrorizes the Rohingya population.

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The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking US’ Financial Plumbing
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

We subsidize the banks’ safety, underwrite their liquidity, and reward them for sitting on assets, without requiring them to invest in communities, build public wealth, or serve any public purpose. It all seems pretty outrageous; but as it turns out, the banks are doing what U.S. corporate law requires them to do.

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“Join ICE” (Music Video of the Week)
Jesse Welles | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Viral musical sensation Jesse Welles brings his GRAMMY-nominated tune from his latest EP, ‘No Kings.’ LIVE on The Late Show

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When Pressure Becomes Architecture
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Visa bans, Sanctions, escalation, and the quiet reordering of a world no longer waiting for Western permission.

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Trump’s Board of Peace: Not an Anti-UN
Pascal Lottaz - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

20 Jan 2026 – Never have I seen the blueprints of an International Organisation so reminiscent of a feudal kingdom. If it weren’t so tragically linked to one of the worst genocides in my lifetime, it would almost be funny what Trump is doing with his “Board of Peace.”

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The Spirit of the Mahatma in 2026 – An Introspection
Vivek Umrao Glendenning | Ground Report India - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

30 Jan 2026 – The observance on 30 Jan 2026, is far more than a scheduled national event in India; it is a date charged with profound moral, historical, and existential gravity, marking the seventy-eighth year since the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

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Viewpoints
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

What is your angle?

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Understanding Fair Start Movement
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

The FSM advocates for justice by focusing on children’s rights, birth equity, and ecological sustainability as the basis for legitimate governance. Its main principle is that every child deserves a fair start in life, rejecting inequalities  based on caste, class, race, religion, gender, and wealth.

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Patrice Lumumba: How to Kill a Man, Dissolve His Body, and Still Fail to Erase His Ideas
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Lumumba was not assassinated because he hated Belgium. He was assassinated because he loved Congo too much—and loved it publicly, eloquently, and without apology. In the political etiquette of empire, that is an unforgivable crime. Let us rewind.

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USA 2026
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

26 Jan 2026 – How Naive Was George Orwell…

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Trump’s “Board of Peace” Is an Institution for Israeli Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

23 Jan 2026 – US President Trump announced on 16 Jan 2026  the creation of a “Board of Peace” as the second phase of a ceasefire plan for the Gaza genocide. The concept of the BoP began in September of last year.

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N… for Non-Violence
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

The teaching of non-violence, a double-negative word, summarizes the entire second tablet received from Moses, namely the six social commandments, also double-negative (e.g., “Thou shalt not kill”).

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Covenantal Abrahamic Peace and Dharmic Non Violence: Toward a Unified Framework for Global Harmony
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2026

Integrating Abrahamic sacred law and dharmic ethical principles for 21st‑century peace, policy, and planetary care integrating tablets of stone and hearts of compassion:

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‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

24 Jan 2026 – It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.

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The Full Text of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Charter
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Board of Peace charter hands US president broad powers, and links countries’ membership to large financial contribution. Middle East Eye obtained a copy of the charter and is publishing it here in full:

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The US Military Operation in Venezuela and the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

23 Jan 2026 – The United States attack on Venezuela on January 3 should be understood not simply as an unlawful use of force, but as part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to the imperial management of global security.

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11 Wounded in IDF Raid on West Bank University–Vice President Detained
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

7 Jan 2026 – The raid at Bir Zeit University occurred during a student rally in support of Palestinian prisoners. The IDF fired live ammunition and tear gas. ‘Raids of the university have become commonplace, but this time they crossed all the lines,’ the university president said.

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Ordering the House of Mathematics with an AI Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

In Quest of Coherent Insights for Peaceful Governance – The point is often made that mathematics has many highly specialized branches and few of the people associated with any particular one have any interest in other branches or in mathematics as a whole.

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Imperial Boomerang
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

25 Jan 2026 – The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.

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Israeli Ban on 37 Aid Organizations Expected to Have Devastating Impacts across Palestine
Qassam Muaddi and Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

13 Jan 2026 – Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah.

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What Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Who Has Joined So Far?
Menna Alaaeldin and Alexander Cornwell | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

22 Jan 2026 – Trump has invited dozens of world leaders to join his Board of Peace. While some traditional allies responded cautiously, in a few cases rejecting, others such as Belarus have accepted.

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Davos: World Economic Forum – Board of Peace
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

22 Jan 2026 – Marx once quipped “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce” and Hegel stated that “what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Each reflects on their time.

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Sparky Gets ICED (Part 2)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

20 Jan 2026 – No Joke

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(Norsk-Norwegian) Returner til Avsender (et dikt)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Et dikt
Hvis «demokrati» kommer
Dundrende inn over himmelen
Som et F-35 over Ørland,
Pakket i ild,
Merket humanitær med rød tusj—
Returner til avsender.

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Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

20 Jan 2026 – Trump’s Board of Peace for the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise questions. The US president would be the helmsman of an outfit of selected corporate overseers tilling the soil for The Donald’s posterity fund. But to what end?

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There Is another War Israel Is Waging – One That Is Not Making Headlines
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

20 Jan 2026 – As the US protracts Israel’s genocide in Gaza through the theatrics of a ceasefire, another war is taking place in the West Bank where Israel has mobilised all military and settler-colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible.

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Understanding Trump’s Interventions: How Regional Imperialism Generates World War
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Trump’s recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Iran, and the Caribbean/Pacific high seas, represents a major turn toward military intervention in his foreign policy.

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The US-Israel Hybrid War against Iran
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – The question is not if the US and Israel will attack Iran, but when. They are waging war against Iran through crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyber warfare, stoking unrest, and unrelenting misinformation campaigns. It is called “hybrid warfare.”

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‘The Weak Must Suffer’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

23 Jan 2026 – The Eternal Fiction of the ‘International Rules-Based Order’ – These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe.

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Getting Even over a Coveted but Denied Nobel Peace Prize, Plus…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – Infantile Bullying: I’ll Show You! Letter the US president sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre.

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What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.

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Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps
B'Tselem - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

The abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody since 7 Oct 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held and released, almost all with no charges. The transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prisons, military and civilian, into de-facto torture camps where every inmate is subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering as a matter of policy.

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A Red Heifer and Zionists’ Bovine Excrement
Fritz Pointer | – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

21 Jan 2026 – It is important for us to remember that for the Israelis and the North Americans, the conflict in the Middle East (West Asia) is not just a geopolitical rivalry, it is also an eschatological war.  That is a war relating to the end of the world. 

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 1)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – The story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s 50-year exilic politics and the failed democratic transition that the Feb 2021 coup derailed.

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Reclaiming Peace against Procedural Capture: A Manifesto for a Civic Board of Peace
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

In the wake of a highly publicized announcement by Trump on what has been called the “Board of Peace”, one is forced to confront and contest not only what is being proposed, but who gets to define peace and on whose terms.

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Twenty-first Century School for Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Education is not animal training. The education of man is human awakening.

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A Planetary Awareness
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

The United Nations Charter begins with the promising words “We the Peoples…” Thereafter the peoples’ voice fades and that of governments takes over.

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Neither NATO Nor Trump’s Are a ‘Board of Peace’
John Mac Ghlionn | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

23 Jan 2026 – Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.

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Boléro (Music Video of the Week)
Hayato Sumino – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Composed by Maurice Ravel–from Hayato’s Album, Human Universe

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Trump’s “Creative Destruction” of the World Order through an Unusual Hypocritical Strategy
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

No one can stop the barrage of “evil” deeds from the president of the world’s most powerful hegemonic power.

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Deconstructing Trump’s ‘Peace’ Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

15 Jan 2026 – The resolution, Finkelstein points out, annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.

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“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

“Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, ‘Right, I’m taking over the world,’”

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“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton (1887)
Online Library of Liberty - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

“Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.”

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Recentering the Debate over ‘Greenland’ Begins with Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

21 Jan 2026 – Kalaallit Nunaat is the name of the country that Donald Trump is salivating over, according to the people who live there. The place the media call Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the right to secede by holding a referendum.

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Jeffrey Sachs Blows Up over Greenland Letter, Gaza Board of Peace
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jeff Sachs to discuss Greenland and Gaza.

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Trump’s Ideology Trashes Human Dignity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

21 Jan 2026 – Within a World System that Crushes Human Dignity – It is important to remind ourselves that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century.

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“Ayatollah, Please Send Help!”: Rotten to Its Core, USA Needs “a Regime Change” and a System Revolution
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

25 Jan 2025 – Every day I school myself through these voices, thoughtful, non-Pavlovian, humanistic and global: Cornel West, Amin Husain, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolf, John Mearshimer and Jeff Sachs.

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Nobel Laureates Nominate International Peace Research Association and Prof. Matt Meyer for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

Mairead Corrigan Maguire, a Northern Ireland leader of Peace People, was the 1976 awardee; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Argentinian who was brutalized as a political prisoner by a military junta, won in 1980. Both made the present nomination for the NPP.

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Greenland Is Not a Prize
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

22 Jan 2026 – Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North – the United States – forgets its manners. It has set its sights on Greenland due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But its people – the Kalaallit – are an afterthought in Washington’s machinations.

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Greenland Isn’t the Scandal–The System Is
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

20 Jan 2026 – Europe woke up in 2026 with a hangover and a revelation: Wait… we’re a colony? Apparently, watching Nicolás Maduro paraded in Nike gear like a petty criminal was funny—until Europeans realized they, too, are potential Maduros. Same script, better tailoring.

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Can Trump Demilitarize Gaza with Night Raids and Death Squads?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

22 Jan 2026 – Targeted killings by Israeli-backed Palestinian death squads and the appointment of the recent head of Special Operations Command to lead the so-called International Stabilization Force in Gaza. Trump’s plans to demilitarize Gaza are following the catastrophic pattern of past US wars and occupations.

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Forging a Righteous Future: A Five-Year Strategic Plan for Peace, Stability and Integrity in Post Liberation South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

“A Lesson in the Anatomy of Decline: The Interlinked Systems of Crime, Corruption, and Institutional Decay in Contemporary South Africa”

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Comprehension of the Dynamics of Collective Selfing and Othering via AI
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – This exploration is the development of an earlier exercise, Paradoxical Geopolitical Implications of Dynamics of Self-Other Overlap (2026), with the aid of AI — of relevance to the empathy-reification challenges of Israeli-Palestinian and Trump-Putin relations.

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The Machinery of Terror
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

11 Jan 2026 – The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late. Repression in Iran is merely a replica of the US version. ICE, our Gestapo, is being birthed.

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The U.S. Has Announced Phase 2 of the “Gaza Ceasefire”
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

TRAGICOMEDY OF THE WEEK: For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ‘ceasefire lie’ offers little hope that it will change the status quo Israel has established on Phase 1 in the past three months: A NEW FORM OF GENOCIDE.

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U.S. Senate Blocks Bid to Limit Trump’s Military Powers against Venezuela
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

15 Jan 2026 – A narrowly divided US Senate rejected a War Powers resolution that would have constrained President Donald Trump’s authority to launch new military actions in Venezuela, with Vice President JD Vance casting a decisive tie-breaking vote.

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Neither the US and Its Allies nor any Other State Has a Right to Intervene in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations
Jan Oberg, Pascal Lottaz and Annette Schiffman | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jan 2026

15 Jan 2026 – With a focus on possible war on Iran, we argue that the US must – and can – be stopped. It doesn’t have a God-given exceptionalist status. It has become “too arrogant.”

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