Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Peace Journalism: What, Why, Who, How, When, Where
#942 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceImagine 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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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWar 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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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Why Gandhi Matters?
K. V. Raghupathi, PhD | Erothanatos - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEinstein 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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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
A Note from the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceDear 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.
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SPOTLIGHT
These Targeted Attacks – Minab among Them
Elaheh Pooyandeh | TRANSNATIONAL Foundation - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTFF 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 ServiceThe 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).
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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 Service12 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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NEWS
UAE Billionaire to Trump: Who Authorized You to Turn Our Region into a War Zone?
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor | X - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Mar 2026 - The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
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 Service11 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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The Good War Business Model: How to Sell Destruction, Call It Security, and Send the Invoice Later
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 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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Sustained Indigenous Languages and Peace: The Mandela–Ubuntu–Language Interactivity Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“Peace speaks many languages, but it is heard most clearly in the mother tongue.”[2]
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Iran
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service5 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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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
The Brave New War Machine
Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service8 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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Quit ChatGPT: Right Now! Your Subscription Is Bankrolling Authoritarianism
Rutger Bregman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service4 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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ANGLO AMERICA
I Am Ashamed to Be an American
Lee Siegel | The New Statesman - TRANSCEND Media Service10 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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EUROPE
Spain Stands Up: Toward the Internationalization of ‘No a la Guerra’
Joan Pedro-Caranana and Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service11 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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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank
Theia Chatelle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2026 - The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.
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INTERVIEW
A World without Illusions–An Interview with Celso Amorim
Phenomenal World - TRANSCEND Media Service5 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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OBITUARIES
Remembering Civil Rights Icon Bernard Lafayette (29 Jul 1940 – 5 Mar 2026)
Kazu Haga | Waving Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service6 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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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
We Have a Dream…
ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhere they belong: In the dock...
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) Los pueblos originarios: nuestros maestros y doctores
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHoy 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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