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Israeli Spyware Firms Are Fueling the Global Surveillance State
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – The Pegasus hacking tool was just the beginning. A new survey of spyware firms reveals Israeli companies are being used by agencies in Western nations to build perfect dictatorships under democratic guise.
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International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
IAGS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
Recognising that Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc. of Gaza, which, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children;
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We Are Grateful
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
7 Sept 2025
We are grateful for those who resist and remain,
Who struggle through genocide, bearing the pain.
For doctors in Gaza who heal night and day,
Risking their lives so that others may stay.
A Peace Odyssey: The Duality of the Human Brain from Reptilian Instincts to Humane Consciousness
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
“The brain of homo sapiens sapiens, is an amazing biological computer in all its majestic glory and functionality. Some learn to control it, others are controlled by it”. This is a powerful encapsulation of the human condition and the delicate balance between instinct/empathy, right/wrong, and good/bad.
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The Neo-Platonic Invisible College: Rosicrucians, Theosophists and Tavistock to the Rise of Silicon Valley’s Transhumanist Priests
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
3 Sep 2025 – What was it about Bacon’s work that served to inspire this new organization which would come to influence scientific thinking across the entire world?
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China Celebrates 80th Anniversary of Victory over Japanese Occupation, Calls for an Equitable and Just World Order
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
3 Sep 2025 – The massive military parade was attended by leaders from over 20 foreign nations, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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The State of the ‘State of Palestine’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – To put the point simply, Israel has murdered, starved and terrorized too many Palestinians for this year’s gathering at the Secretariat in Manhattan to conclude without some conclusions. It remains only what these conclusions will be.
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
If Donald Trump is a genuine tyrant or is determined to become one, we should probably not be talking openly about trying to defeat him in the next election. We should be working to depose him “by any means necessary,” as Malcolm X used to say.
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Democracy, Freedom and Evolution: A Key to Defeating MAGA Tyranny
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – Freedom, within a democratic context, can be understood as “self-determination.” And self-determination for individual persons requires a complex social order for its context. A democracy is a society organized for the common good of its citizens.
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Is Violence Justifiable in Self-Defense?
Alejandro A. Tagliavini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
Violence, in all cases, including the urgent defense of oneself or others, is immoral. It’s not what I think, and often not what I «would like»—my primary impulse; it’s what I have to accept and disseminate, because science says so.
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Declaration
TASS Press Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
The SCO Tianjin Summit 2025 is the 25th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, held from 31 Aug to 1 Sep in Tianjin, China. It is the largest in SCO’s history. The Summit themes were respect of civilization diversity and pursuit of common development.
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What’s Wrong with ‘Nuclear Deterrence?’
NBC-Nagasaki Broadcasting Corporation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Exploring the Footholds Needed to Move Toward Nuclear Abolition
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The West Empire Is Ending–The World Is Moving On
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – For three decades, we were fed a comforting myth: the Cold War was over, liberal democracy had triumphed, and the West would remain history’s final victor. Francis Fukuyama declared it “the end of history.”
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Google under Fire for $45m Deal with Netanyahu’s Office to Spread Gaza Genocide Propaganda/Fake News
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
4 Sep 2025 – Google signed a $45 million contract with the Israeli prime minister’s office to run a global digital advertising campaign promoting Israeli state messaging during its ongoing genocide in Gaza, reported Drop Site News.
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The Role of Information in Building a New World
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
2 Sep 2025 – Research as a Key to Fighting Militarism and Repression
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The UN’s Hidden Power to Launch Military Action in Gaza
Palestine Deep Dive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Former UN speechwriter Mark Seddon urges member states at the UNGA to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish a protective international force to defend Palestinians in Gaza. He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council.
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What Is Peace Journalism and Why Does It Matter?
Peace Day Philly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
Peace Journalism is about what to report and how to report it in a way that creates non-violent responses to conflict. Unlike traditional reporting that is often divisive and sensational, Peace Journalism is conflict-sensitive, peace-oriented, and human-centered.
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Secretary of War
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
He hung up a sign that said Secretary of War,
snapped a picture for the socials,
shut the door,
took a swig of Jameson straight from the bottle,
then sat down and fondled the revolver in his desk drawer
like a little boy playing with his penis.
We’re Sailing to Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – When the World Stays Silent, We Set Sail – We are a coalition of everyday people—organizers, humanitarians, doctors, artists, clergy, lawyers, and seafarers—who believe in human dignity and the power of nonviolent action.
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Ukraine’s Corruption Crisis: Assassination, Oligarchs, and a Regime under Fire
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – Ukraine, labeled by critics as one of the world’s most corrupt nations, faces relentless scrutiny over its governance. Allegations of Zelenskyy’s extravagant property purchases, ties to far-right groups like the Azov Battalion, political repression, and involvement in assassinations and terrorism paint a grim picture.
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Unproductive Interpretation of Work and Employment as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Faced with polycrisis and forms of governance which are proving “unfit for purpose”, there is a case for a more radical assessment of what “work”, “employment” and “productivity” mean for those affected by those framings in their daily lives.
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How Western Media Helped Turn Israel’s Genocide into ‘Fake News’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC.
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‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michael and Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
21 Aug 2025 – In recent weeks, through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw was of catastrophic proportions.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza
Wahid Ben Ali | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
28 Aug 2025 – The Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocide. It is composed of dozens of small civilian vessels from over 39 national delegations.
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How Israelis Turned Atrocity Denial into an Art
Ron Dudai | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”
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The Epilogue of Gaza City: The Demolition
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – The last 48 hours in Gaza City have been marked by a series of relentless bombings that have destroyed the last habitable neighborhoods in the city.
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US Revokes Visas of Palestinian President and Other Officials Ahead of UN General Assembly
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
29 Aug 2025 – Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
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Transnational Capitalism: Organized Crime Fueling Global Destruction for Profit
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
29 Aug 2025 – In the pursuit of sustainable development and true world peace, social ecological economics and peace studies require the lens of critical criminology to illuminate the structural roots of violence and injustice that mainstream approaches too often overlook or obscure.
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A New Foreign Policy for Europe
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Europe’s subservience to the U.S. stems almost entirely from its overriding fear of Russia, a fear that has been amplified by the Russophobic states of Eastern Europe and a false narrative about the Ukraine War.
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The Ramzy Baroud/Palestine Chronicle Case: When Truth Becomes the Crime
Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – What is sought is not justice but intimidation—to cast suspicion on every Palestinian voice, to brand their words as weapons, their witness as crime: Travesty of Justice.
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Why India Dropped the U.S for China
Cyrus Janssen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – Trump Just Handed Beijing a Win You Won’t Believe!
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Sudan: A Staggering 30 million People Are in Need as War Grinds On
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
31 Aug 2025 – The Capital, Khartoum, Now “Completely a Ghost Town” – Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA, WEST BANK 1 Sep 2025
Alligator Alcatraz’ to Be Vacated in Compliance with Court Order to Shut It
Richard Luscombe and AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed.
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Palantir’s Tools Pose an Invisible Danger We Are Just Beginning to Comprehend
Juan Sebastian Pinto | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
24 Aug 2025 – Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work.
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All Ears to the Ground: Resisting Mass Citizenship Stripping and Citizenship Violence
Natalie Brinham – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
This paper explores ground-level collective modes of resistance that highlight state practices associated with mass citizenship stripping. It identifies challenges in anti-statelessness work and suggests that these and other forms of resistance can be important.
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DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
Matt Sledge | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
26 Aug 2025 – US Democratic National Committee members voted today to kill a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt arms sales to Israel put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
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The People of Haiti Are in a Perfect Storm of Suffering’
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing families to flee,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UNSC on 28 Aug 2025.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
→ read full articleAwarding 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.
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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.
→ 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.
→ read full articleHow 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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Toward Transformative Accountability
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
Addressing Rentier Capitalist Capture and Restoring the Public Good in (Flemish) Higher Education
→ read full articleCouldn’t Be Better!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
18 Aug 2025 – Still Trump, MAGA, RFK, Jr. Yawn…
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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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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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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 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.
→ read full articleRemembering 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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