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‘Mind-Blowing Corruption’: Traders Placed Massive Bets Minutes before Trump’s Post on Iran
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
24 Mar 2026 – Just minutes before Trump momentarily boosted the stock market—and sent oil prices tumbling—with his disputed announcement of peace talks with Iran, unknown traders loaded up on positions to profit from the resulting movement in equities and commodities. Value of those trades: $580 million.
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Genocide Warning: Lebanon
Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026 – Although Israel claims self-defense for its war against Hezbollah, it has routinely violated humanitarian laws. It has struck hotels, bombed Lebanese medical teams and facilities and has used white phosphorus in its attacks on residential areas, a war crime.
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The Predatory Empire Has Turned Cruel, Criminal and Corrosive
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026 – The moral image and perceived legitimacy of the United States are now lower than at any time since 1945. There are numerous perspectives on this unique situation; here are three I consider central.
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Trump Has No Soul
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 – Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul.
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Chomsky Before the Court of Logic
Asier Arias and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
20 Mar 2026 – The total absence of evidence-based arguments—whether suggesting collusion, acquiescence, or culpable omission—is the defining hallmark of the statements issued by those seeking to distance themselves from Noam Chomsky amid the smear campaign following the Epstein disclosures.
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(Français) Médiation judiciaire : Ce que les magistrats attendent désormais de vous
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
14 Mar 2026 – L’ère de la médiation “informelle” est révolue. Avec le décret du 18 juillet 2025, le paysage français a basculé : nous passons d’un code de bonnes pratiques à un cadre juridique strict et codifié.
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Iran: Renewal Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
13 Mar 2026 – With the U.S.A.-Israeli -Iran armed conflict in a most destructive phase and spreading to Lebanon, a spirit of renewal and reconciliation in Iran is needed. This is the theme of Novroz, coming shortly.
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Israel Has Crushed UNRWA in Gaza – and the Rest of the World Has Done Nothing
Philippe Lazzarini | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
21 Mar 2026 – I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East.
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Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026 – In his introduction to Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change, filmmaker Oliver Stone calls it a warning against what regime change means for the people living in the nations targeted, and a call to organize to prevent future regime-change wars.
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How Western Media Sanitizes and Sells the Crimes of Empire
Nate Bear | Do Not Panic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026 – Yesterday The Associated Press said it was going to start using words that reflect reality and announced, after much deliberation and a newsroom vote, that it was going to start referring to Israel’s ground offensive into Lebanon as an invasion. It went into a long and convoluted explanation as to why this was the appropriate terminology,…
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How the Chechen Miracle Kick-Started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’
Scott Ritter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 – In early 2024, I traveled to Chechnya, where I met with people who once fought a bitter war against Moscow, but are now the country’s fiercest defenders.
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‘Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING’: New World Order
Chris Hedges at Princeton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026 – The genocide in Gaza is the beginning. Welcome to the new world order. The age of technologically-advanced barbarism. There are no rules for the strong, only for the weak. Oppose the strong, refuse to bow to its capricious demands and you are showered with missiles and bombs.
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U.S. Takes Aim at President Gustavo Petro, but He’s Akin to a Rock Star in Colombia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026 – All eyes are now fixed on the US-Israeli War on Iran, so there’s been little attention to US moves to undermine Colombian President Gustavo Petro. These could, at worst, see Petro in a US prison alongside Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the US kidnapped on 3 Jan.
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The ‘American Psychologist’ Publishes Another Misleading Article about Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
12 Mar 2026 – For reasons I don’t understand, the American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, has published another article that appears to misrepresent antisemitism and its prevalence within the mental health professions (this isn’t the first time).
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Why Israel Wants a War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Gideon Levy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 – Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on.
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The Tail That Wags the Dog
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
Teetering at the Brink of World War III – I have experienced wonderful Passover Seders in which the family group recites:
“Let all who suffer from oppression be our oppression. Let all who are downtrodden and crying for redemption be our burden and commitment for redemption.” The Seder connects Judaism with a universal compassion and struggle for human liberation.
ANTONIO C. S. ROSA – Peace Journalism
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
Antonio (born 8 Feb 1946) is a pioneer in Peace Journalism and the editor and co-founder with Norwegian peace negotiator, Johan Galtung, of TRANSCEND Media Service in 2008. Event Date: Fri 3 Apr, 7pm (GMT), 11am California time. Zoom – Live from Porto, Portugal
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48 Hours and What You Can Do
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
22 Mar 2026 – It is hard to come-up with adjectives to describe the lunatic president of the US who is a puppet of Netanyahu (Epstein Mossad files), another lunatic who just noted that Jesus Christ does not have an advantage over Genghis Khan. Israeli colonial settlers went on a rampage yesterday torching property in nine Palestinian villages.
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Tales from Iran: Nowruz under the Bombs—a Requiem for the Short Sighted
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026 – Imagine, for a single, brutal moment, a man who loses his father, his mother, and his wife in a single flash of US and Israeli bombs. This is not the opening scene of a gritty political thriller. It is the reality of Iran’s new leadership.
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The Most Dangerous Country
David Bromwich | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 – The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack.
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Psychology of Resilience: The Structural Roots of the “Resistance Environment” in Lebanon
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
26 Mar 2026 – By Dr. Mohammad Aloush for Al-Akhbar Newspaper
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Think of the Children
Michael J. Talmo | The Real Facts - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
How many more children must needlessly die? How do millions of dead children in the US and throughout the rest of the world make America great again?
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A Brutal War or a Brutal Regime…
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
When Civilians Are Forced to Choose Their Violence
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Israel: Genocide in the West Bank through Zionist Settlers
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
27 Mar 2026 – It’s not just Gaza—Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians, everywhere. We are one people being destroyed as one people.
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Defiant but Humane: Women of Resistance in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, My Teachers Today
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
17 Mar 2026 – Defiant Iranian, Lebanese & Palestinians set a high bar of revolution against the savage West, most specifically Israel-US empire that has leeched on our collective humanity & the environment.
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The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
12 Mar 2026 – Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and evil. It sickens me to state something so obvious, but I am afraid it is true that many are not distraught by the news.
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War on Humanity: USA-Israel vs Iran
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
Paradox of Political Wickedness – The US and Israel are entrenched in an ill-informed and irresistible impulse of wrong thinking, wrong actions and wrong leadership.
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Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles
Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
23 Mar 2026 – As international law developed, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved — from the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 through the Congress of Vienna 1814-15, the League of Nations in 1919 and the UN Charter in 1945 as an incipient world constitution aimed at promoting peace, development and human rights.
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(Français) Les Échos de l’Histoire : Quand la France Danse au Rythme des Tambours Américains
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
Dans les annales de la diplomatie, il est des motifs qui se répètent avec une élégance presque tragique. Aujourd’hui, alors que les cieux d’Iran s’embrasent sous les feux croisés d’une guerre qui n’en porte pas encore tout à fait le nom, on ne peut s’empêcher de percevoir un écho familier.
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How the US Became an International Serial Killer
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
25 Mar 2026 – For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. How the Church Committee’s investigation of assassination plots against Castro, Lumumba and others led to an executive order prohibiting assassination that is still on the books.
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The Shadows of Betrayal: How the War in Iran Is Shaking the Foundations of US Politics
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
15 Mar 2026 – In Washington, where electoral promises twist into illusions, a specter haunts the White House. The question is no longer “who will win in the Middle East?” but “who will survive politically?”—a query hanging like a dark cloud over the Atlantic horizon.
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What about the United Nations?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
The Bully Nations: Why the UN Is a Global War System – The United Nations has not been able to prevent wars, eliminate weapons of mass destruction, save the environment, or adequately protect human rights.
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Ramadan Kareem
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
14 Mar 2026 – As Ramadan draws to a close, for millions, this year, it has been lived not in comfort but amid hardship, conflict, and uncertainty, where each fast and prayer carries the weight of survival itself. In Gaza…
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Applied Peace: Ubuntu Humanism, Usage of Indigenous, Mother Tongue Language and the Practice of Peace in Plural Societies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2026
“The preservation and usage of the mother tongue, is the single most important pillar of Peace in multicultural societies, globally”.
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What Do You Think?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2026
Success vs Success
→ read full articleInterrogating the Iran War as a ‘War of Choice’: Political Realism vs Peace Journalism
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2026
Never before have the political organs of the UN given such support to a flagrant violator of the most basic of human rights or of its core prohibition of aggression in the UN Charter, and given it by a consensus that included countries of the Global South, including regional Islamic neighbors of Israel and Iran.
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From the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2026
Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
Our Weekly Digest today is again cut to a minimum. I am still unwell and unable to do my work.
A Note from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Dear friends, readers, supporters of TMS,
16 Mar 2026 – With a heavy heart, I acknowledge that our Weekly Digest today is shorter and lacking, and I explain.
I Am Ashamed to Be an American
Lee Siegel | The New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026 – It shames and enrages me to hear Pete Hegseth, the sycophantic Secretary of War, cry that “America is winning decisively, devastatingly and without mercy.” I am ashamed, as a Jew, to be associated with Israel in any way. For years, I bridled at the anti-Zionism that, almost always, concealed an anti-Semitism to some degree. No more.
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Remembering Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette (29 Jul 1940 – 5 Mar 2026)
Kazu Haga | Waving Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – Civil rights legend Dr. Bernard LaFayette helped reshape the course of the nation. But what I remember most was his joy and unwavering hopefulness.
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We Have a Dream…
ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Where they belong: In the dock…
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World’s Road to Hell Is Paved by Crusading US White Christians and Genocidal Messianic Israeli Jews
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026 – ALL faiths are susceptible to being weaponized for the savage ends of genocides, racist violence and wars of material gains.
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UAE Billionaire to Trump: Who Authorized You to Turn Our Region into a War Zone?
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.
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The Brave New War Machine
Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from an offhand outburst, his statement reflects a broader ethos taking hold in Silicon Valley’s military-tech sector.
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(Castellano) Los pueblos originarios: nuestros maestros y doctores
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Hoy todos nos sentimos más o menos perdidos. La situación de nuestra civilización, así nos parece, ha llegado a su límite. Perdida en las contradicciones que ella misma creó, se da cuenta de que el cuerpo de conocimientos y el arsenal de técnicas que ella misma produjo no ofrecen soluciones capaces de sacarnos de los graves problemas que enfrentamos.
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These Targeted Attacks – Minab among Them
Elaheh Pooyandeh | TRANSNATIONAL Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
TFF plans to publish more texts and pictures from Iran, to give you the sense of its civilisation, beauty – to put a human face on the USraeli barbarism.
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The New Barbarians
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
The barbarians are among us; they are not confined to any particular country or culture or religion. The USA and UK and Israel remain the vanguard of the natural history of destruction – the title of a book about their favourite activity: killing and destroying from the sky above. Luftkrieg und Literatur; (Air war and literature).
→ read full articleThe Good War Business Model: How to Sell Destruction, Call It Security, and Send the Invoice Later
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
In the next “Good War,” whose economy will rise… and whose cities will burn? Because empires never send themselves into the meat grinder. They outsource. The business model works until it doesn’t. And then the invoice comes due for everyone.
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Quit ChatGPT: Right Now! Your Subscription Is Bankrolling Authoritarianism
Rutger Bregman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley.
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“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare.
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A World without Illusions–An Interview with Celso Amorim
Phenomenal World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – The Chief Advisor to Brazilian President Lula discusses the assault on Iran, the concept of multipolarity, and how Brazil can defend its sovereignty in an age of imperial conflict.
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Dismay as Ancient Heritage Sites across Iran Damaged in US-Israel Bombing
Julian Borger and Deepa Parent | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
12 Mar 2026 – Golestan Palace in Tehran, a world heritage site, harmed despite UNESCO sending coordinates. “This is a declaration of war on a civilisation, an enemy that has no culture pays no heed to symbols of culture. A country that has no history has no respect for signs of history; that has no identity sets no value for identity.”
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Peace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Imagine a blackout on medical practice, therapies, cures. Disease, however, is to be reported fully, in gruesome detail. That journalism would be disease-oriented, the journalist being a disease journalist. There is not, yet, a tradition of “peace journalism” whereas “war and violence journalism” seem to be in good standing. But what could be that concept of peace journalism?
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Why Gandhi Matters?
K. V. Raghupathi, PhD | Erothanatos - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
Einstein absolutely venerated Gandhi. When Einstein moved to Princeton in 1935, from Berlin, he added Gandhi to his three portraits: Newton, Faraday and Clerk Maxwell. He said that the Mahatma was the “greatest man of our age. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”.
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With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank
Theia Chatelle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
10 Mar 2026 – The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.
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Spain Stands Up: Toward the Internationalization of ‘No a la Guerra’
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
11 Mar 2026 – President Sánchez’s voice has been the bravest in Europe. His peace communication and action have the potential to disarm the authoritarian brutality of war as events in Iran and the Middle East grip the hearts and minds of the peoples of the world.
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Sustained Indigenous Languages and Peace: The Mandela–Ubuntu–Language Interactivity Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
“Peace speaks many languages, but it is heard most clearly in the mother tongue.”[2]
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – How do you sort through lies in the fog of a regional war that is likely going to lead to a global war? More importantly how do you get crucial information that helps you act to stop the madness devastating people and our environment.
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An Unlawful War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – I write with a sense of urgency. The Second Iran War moves us closer to an abyss of unknowable depth. Neither the geopolitical actors, nor the UN, nor respect for law, morality, and decency are capable of resolving the multi-dimensional global crisis and promoting a justice-driven future for humanity. The alternative to struggle is despair.
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MAGA End-times from a Psychoanalytic Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Exploration of Neglected Implications with AI Assistance – There is considerable focus on the person and psychology of Donald Trump in provoking unpredictable change globally and evoking controversial reactions — with the support of a power base identifying with the MAGA slogan.
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The War on Iran—and Washington’s Missing Exit Strategy
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – We suggest a US exit strategy from this war that could finally begin to turn the page on decades of US and Israeli aggression and occupation in the Middle East.
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Mad Dog
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – Trump’s USA is like a rabid dog prowling the globe. It strikes ferociously at whomever gets in its way or encroaches on its deranged mental space or simply is available to satisfy its lusts. If the Middle East is your neighborhood, you live in dread of the equally depraved, murderous mongrel in Jerusalem. How can you deal with its menace?
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ASIL’s Statement Regarding the Use of Force against Iran
American Society of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – The Trump Administration has once again demonstrated its disregard for international law, violating the U.N. Charter’s prohibition on the use of force by launching an unprovoked military attack against Iran—less than two months after an unprovoked military attack on Venezuela.
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This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is also an Assault on the United Nations
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – Let us be clear about what the US and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the North American people but global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail.
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Schools, Hospitals, Playgrounds: Iran’s Civilian Sites Hit by US-Israeli Strikes
Katherine Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – Since the launch of the US-Israeli onslaught on Iran, the country’s schools, hospitals and even playgrounds have come under attack. A 12,000-seat stadium, UNESCO world heritage site, is among places attacked last week.
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The War for Greater Israel
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come. None of this is going to be good for anyone.
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A Gateway to Hell
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – How the War against Iran Will Harm the West
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UN Says Israel Has Suspended Humanitarian Movements into Gaza
Merve Aydogan | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – The UN said yesterday that Israel has closed all crossings into the Gaza Strip and suspended humanitarian movements in and near areas where Israeli forces remain deployed.’It is imperative that all crossings be reopened as soon as possible,’ says spokesperson.
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Iran in the Middle East: Persia Is Still a Great Nation
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – 0n 26th February at 21:38h Donald Trump launched his war against IRAN. He could not help himself. Drunk on his power and on his self-image of invincibility, egged on by the Israeli war-criminal Netanyahu, high on their joint destruction of Gaza, Trump agreed to bomb.
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Under the Shadow of the Iran War, Israel Finds another Way to Punish Gaza
Ohood Nassar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
1 Mar 2026 – The curbing of NGO operations and the blocking of aid due to closure of the border crossings are meant as another collective punishment.
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(Italiano) I frutti avvelenati della violenza–Come uscire dall’impotenza?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Marzo 2026 – La mattina del 28 febbraio è avvenuto il temuto attacco di Israele e Stati Uniti contro l’Iran, in aperta violazione della legalità internazionale. Un ulteriore, pericolosissimo passaggio, verso il caos e la guerra permanente…
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Petition: Global Conscience Initiative
Richard Falk | Global Conscience Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
9 Mar 2026 – As the Global Conscience Initiative, we are launching a joint initiative in response to the U.S. and Israeli attacks that resulted in the deaths of 170 young girls in Minab, Iran.
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Why Europe Remains Silent: After Gaza and Venezuela also No Criticism of the Illegal War on Iran
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – Here is exactly what the EU should have stated…
→ read full articleInternational Law, Peace Journalism, Incendiary Truths
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
In Times of Wars and Coloniality – In the face of the very real possibility of a world war wherein nuclear sable-rattling gets louder by the day, I have started to feel unbearably light and insignificant in seeking to uphold professional conventions of how to do things, what language and tone are appropriate in our articulations. When do lawyers, writers, peace journalists bin their craft and “fight”? What does their fight look like? Well, that’s for each to decide.
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Iran, Epstein and Human Sacrifice
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu regime, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. The modern punishments of Impeachment and trial by the Hague are insufficient to deal with beings such as Trump and Netanyahu..
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‘The River Won’: How Campaigners in Brazilian Amazon Stopped Privatisation of Waterway
Jonathan Watts | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States and a powerhouse of world trade.
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Iran, Israel, and the United States: A Path to De-escalation and Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – The basic needs of the conflict parties, the likely scenarios of further escalation, and a possible path toward de-escalation and resolution to avert undesirable outcomes.
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Israel Puts a Target on the Back of the Rules-Based Order
Jonathan Whittall | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – Israel’s foreign ministry suggests in a recent tweet that those seeking to enforce international law on Gaza will meet the fate of a destroyed Iranian warship.
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Palestinian Historian and Academic Walid Al-Khalidi (16 Jul 1925 – 8 Mar 2026) Dies Aged 99
The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi passed away today in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Jerusalem-born scholar leaves behind a legacy spanning decades of research and writing on the question of Palestine. RIP
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How Perceptions Shape Creativity
Felipe Zamana | Creativity & Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Creativity is rooted in sociocultural constructs, like other broad concepts such as beauty or justice; its interpretation may differ from culture to culture. If the expression and evaluation of creativity depend on context, then aren’t measures of creativity always, at least partly, measures of perception?
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With West Bank under Total Israeli Closure, Settlers Are Seizing the Moment
Oren Ziv and Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.
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Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty, Truth, and the Responsibility of the State
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
In an era of global power rivalries and information warfare, sovereignty is tested not only by military threats but by the state’s ability to act with clarity, truth, and responsibility.
→ read full articleCooperative Peacebuilding Efforts Urgently Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – At this time when there is armed conflict and strong political tensions in the world society, broadly-based efforts are needed to develop a harmonious political culture based on world law.
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War in West Asia: Iran, Israel, the United States and the Rothschilds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Understanding Conflict – Why did the US want to ‘take out 7 countries’? Why does the US and Israel still want to ‘take out’ Iran? When tackling conflict at this level, it is imperative to understand the ‘conflict configuration’ as a preliminary step in addressing key elements of the conflict.
→ read full articleThe Small Bodies of Minab: Da’amīs al-Jannah
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Some children die
as tragedies.
Others die
as footnotes.
Quite symbolic: the entity’s first strike
falls on the children
When Escalation Becomes Norm: Why Our Moment Requires Metamorphosis
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – When the use of force becomes normalized as routine policy rather than exceptional measure, the challenge is no longer confined to addressing crises. It concerns the structure of the order producing them. The recent U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is not simply another confrontation in a volatile region.
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International Law Needs International Enforcement
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling.
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Israel and the United States Cannot Win the War of Deception against Iran
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
5 Mar 2026 – In the middle of negotiations, the United States and Israel launched a new attack against Iran based on an old, and false, argument: that Iran was going to build nuclear weapons.
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Selective Justice and the Crisis of International Law
Irshad Ahmad Mughal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
7 Mar 2026 – Observers across the world have begun to question whether the principles of international law are applied equally to all nations. The realities of contemporary geopolitics increasingly suggest that these principles are often interpreted through the lens of power and strategic interests rather than justice and consistency.
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USA’s Abyss of Uselessness
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The ‘indispensable nation‘ marches on, toward a sinkhole of crashed empires, killing and maiming along the way. How many deaths? Wrong question–irrelevant.
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The EU in a World of Wars
Michael von der Schulenburg MEP and Ruth Firmenich MEP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The recent declaration by Macron, Merz, and Starmer, portraying the attacked state of Iran as the aggressor and even threatening it with military action, risks a reasonable European response. The EU must anchor its policies in principles of international law and the Charter of the UN. For this reason, we respectfully request that you convene a special session of the European Parliament.
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Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz & Strikes U.S. Bases
Jackson Hinkle interviews Ray McGovern | Legitimate Targets – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026 – In a moment of cascading escalation — with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region — former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides a sobering assessment of what he described as “uncharted territory.”
→ read full articleHumanity Is One Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – Humanity is one reality. The transcendental unity of consciousness is the same in all of us. We are gifted with language, and their universal intelligibility makes them translatable into one another. The solution to our human problems involves an awakening to the transcendental unity of consciousness that makes us all human and all “the same.”
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Collateral Benefit: US and Israel Aid Sudan by Attacking Iran
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
4 Mar 2026 – The US and Israel’s wholly unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Iran–and its retaliation–has given Sudan a hand in their own battle for sovereignty, as the retaliation prevents UAE from supplying the RSF that has been committing widespread atrocities there.
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Manohari (Music Video of the Week)
Lahari Music Telugu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
Full Video Song from Tollywood Movie Baahubali – The Beginning
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Explainer: How Important Is the Strait of Hormuz?
Xinhua - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
3 Mar 2026 – Following the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran that began on Sat 28 Feb, attention has turned to the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran warned it would disrupt transit through this vital waterway in retaliation, sending shock waves through international markets.
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Class, Struggle, and the Theft of March 8
Biljana Vankovska – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
8 Mar 2026 – Born into socialism and raised with the natural conviction that women and men are equals, I now find myself in a “democratic” world sinking deeper into decadence, militarism, and machismo. Every year, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, I wade through an avalanche of messages oscillating between banality and hypocrisy.
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Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers
Nick Turse | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
2 Mar 2026 – An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.
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‘The Military-Industrial Complex Is Winning’: While Bombing Iran, Trump Tells Weapons Contractors to Boost Production
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
6 Mar 2026 – The president and Lockheed Martin said that the expansion began months ago, but his comments followed a White House meeting held amid a US-Israeli assault on Iran and mounting threats against Cuba.
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100 Days from the World Cup, an International Coalition Is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games from the U.S.
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2026
The U.S. Is Unsafe for Non-Europeans and Is Operating as a Rogue State
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