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The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service The Peace President – by Mr. Fish Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. 10 Aug 2026 – There is no ceasefire in Gaza. There is no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is no roadmap to ending the genocide or mechanism to creation of a Palestinian state.

Zhang Weiwei and Gita Wirjawan | Global Thinkers - TRANSCEND Media Service A heavy-hitting interview seldom seen in the Western world. Professor Zhang Weiwei opens up about Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and the granular details of how Chinese politics actually works. 24 Jun 2026 – Is democracy the only road to national development and human well-being, or is it simply one governance model among many?

Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service 11 Aug 2026 – Let us conduct a thought experiment. Suppose we take the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) seriously—not as a tool for prosecuting drug cartels or human traffickers, but as a lens for examining the global economic system itself. Suppose we ask: does capitalism, as currently constituted, meet the UN’s definition of transnational organized crime? The answer, when examined forensically, is yes.

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service Introduction: This article, generated by Google’s AI model (from Quote to Unquote below), explores an alternative history of Harry S. Truman as a hibakusha and serves as the continuation of “St. Francis of Assisi: The Prayer of Peace in the Atomic Age”. It is my profound hope that humanity will never again face the use of nuclear weapons.

Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service Dear friends, it is with a heavy heart that I must, once again, apologize for an incomplete TMS Weekly Digest, the culprit being the same as before: the scoliosis installed on my spinal cord manifested into a deep, painful crisis–again. For the moment I am crippled, unable to sit and work on my laptop.

Dariel Pradas | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service 10 Aug 2026 – It used to be a point of pride. At the William Soler Pediatric Hospital in Havana, more than 90 percent of the newborns who needed neonatal surgery survived their procedures. But in recent months, Alioth Fernandez, the head of the hospital’s surgical unit and anaesthesiology department, has witnessed an alarming decline. “Now, that figure has plummeted,” Fernandez said.

Massachusetts School of Law at Andover – TRANSCEND Media Service 11 May 2010 Did the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki save millions of lives on both sides or is that a total myth? Howard Zinn, who himself participated in World War II as a bomber, insists we killed several 100 thousand people unnecessarily.

Irfan Ali | Instagram - TRANSCEND Media Service Tags: Canada, Elections, Mexico, USA This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 17 Aug 2026. Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: More Food for More North American Thought…, is included. Thank you.

#964 | Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service From Washington’s Mineral Peace to a Genuine Great Lakes Settlement In a village in Congo, I once met this elderly woman who spoke with the grave confidence of someone who had survived several governments without ever being properly governed. She had often heard that the country’s problems came from “Mister Constitution.” She therefore wanted to meet this troublesome man. “Who is Monsieur Constitution?” she asked. “Where does he live?

Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service — Ceuta was not the main battleground; Western Sahara was. 11 Aug 2026 – Within a day, crowds of people moved from Morocco to Ceuta, a Spanish city with a population of about 85,000. Initial news reports stated that about 50,000–60,000 people came to this place, and at least 72 people lost their lives. At the same time, the latest news stated that the number of immigrants had increased.