Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
God, Science and Civilizational Destruction: US-Israel’s Pursuit of Domination
#946 | Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUnprecedented in the post-Holocaust history: the world's most technologically advanced killing machine--USA--is being used against targeted civilian populations in Lebanon, Palestine and Iran by the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel, despite overwhelming popular US opposition.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The Western Empire Is Going Down!
Boris Malagurski interviews Jan Oberg - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAt a moment when global tensions are escalating — from the confrontation of the US, Israel and Iran to rising military spending across Europe and the Middle East — voices calling for diplomacy are becoming rare. Øberg has long argued that the international system has moved away from preventing conflicts to managing them once they explode.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
The Track Record of the Collective West in Regards to Human Rights and International Law
Prof. Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Apr 2026 - A detached observer who wants to assess where countries stand on fundamental issues of human rights, international law, peace, development and multilateralism need only look at the voting record of States at the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Human Rights Council and other international agencies.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Reclaiming the Feminine for Peace in Times of War
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDominant models of power continue to privilege violence over dialogue. War, in this sense, is not simply about men, but about particular performances of masculinity tied to control, securitization, and the need to assert power—often rooted in insecurity.
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On Behalf of the Tehran Peace Museum
Shahriar Khateri and Mona Badamchizaedh – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Mar 2026 - Dear colleagues, friends, members of the International Network of Museums for Peace, it has now been more than a month since the onset of this unlawful and unprovoked war against Iran. During this period, hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and thousands more injured.
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Other Commentaries
NEWS
70+ Boats Launch Historic Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza in Bold Solidarity Stand
teleSUR English - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2026 - The Global Sumud Flotilla with 70+ boats and 3,000 participants sails from Barcelona today to break Israel’s illegal Gaza blockade. This massive civilian mission demands urgent humanitarian aid and an end to violations amid a fragile Middle East ceasefire.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Conceptual Complexity Compactified within Fundamental Polyhedra
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Apr 2026 - Progressive Emergence of Explicit Complex Patterns Implicit in Simplest Forms - This exploration was triggered by the suspicion that the complexity evident explicitly in the array of 13 semi-regular Archimedean polyhedra was implicit in some manner in the 5 regular Platonic polyhedra.
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Peace for Iran: Declaration of Global Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - Two texts relevant to ongoing US/Israel war of aggression against Iran in the context of a failing ceasefire agreement. Iran’s Conditions and Declaration of Global Conscience signed and individually affirmed by listed non-Iranians.
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Avoid Being Kept in the Dark, Follow a Variety of Iranian Media Too
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2026 - No Conflict Can Be Understood by Listening only to One Party
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War by Design: Kagame’s Script in Eastern Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - There’s nothing strange about the “war choreography “ in eastern Congo. It’s precise. Deliberate. Directed from Kigali. Surprise. Forget the diplomats’ favorite lullabies—“stabilization,” “regional mechanisms.” That’s just complicity with a thesaurus.
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The Declining Empire on Steroids
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service28 March 2026 - With disastrous news hitting the headlines daily, it is often difficult to keep the big picture in mind. Yet the big picture is of vital importance for establishing a future for humanity beyond war, torture, murder and slavery. Is there an alternative?
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Building on the US/Iran Ceasefire
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - Recalling the words of a Leonard Cohen's song, "There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in", there is now a two-week crack in the war on Iran with the possibilities of negotiations led by the Pakistani authorities in Islamabad with the active support of the Chinese government.
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No Easter Miracle for Trump: Neither Bogus Ceasefire with Iran nor Uranium from Isfahan
Maung Zarni | Manufacturing Dissent - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2026 - A leading specialist on Iran affairs and former MI6 officer, along with Palestinian military analysts, exposes Israel–US propaganda that spins the Pentagon’s mission failure as “a rescue miracle.”
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Iran’s Nuclear Rights
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2026 - I know I wasn’t the only one listening to the clock tick all Tuesday afternoon, right up to Trump’s 8 pm deadline for putting Iran’s 7000-year-old civilization to death, “never to be brought back again.”
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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2026 - In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny.
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Peace in the Shadow and Shade of Colonial Imperialism: A Protagonist’s Call to Decolonize the Diasporic Mind (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“Neo Colonialism is the same philosophy of occupation, by imperialist, in a novel, refined guise of a cultured approach.“
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SPOTLIGHT
War on Iran–a Word from the US President: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, You Crazy Bastards’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2026 - The utter collapse of the world economy and the depopulation of vast parts of the Middle East. That is what is at stake in the hands of a madman. Exactly what happened in the Iranian desert in the aftermath of the downed F-15 yesterday?
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Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2026 - When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Which Way to US National Security?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media ServiceRather than throw up our hands at the latest outbreak of horrific violence by marauding nationalist bullies, let’s use the challenge afforded by the current international crisis to create a new and better world.
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The Epstein Files: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Paradise, or Just Another Day in Elite Wonderland?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFirst, the Lazarus theory: Jeffrey Epstein, alive and well (or at least bearded and flanked by bodyguards) in Tel Aviv. Social media lit up earlier this year with purported photos of the man himself strolling Israeli streets, looking suspiciously hale for someone who’d been autopsied six years prior.
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MEDIA
Why North Americans Turned to Al Jazeera Instead of CNN or Fox During Iran War
Zvika Klein | The Jerusalem Post - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up. Nobody in Jerusalem is tracking this news. Nobody in Washington is either. Good!
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MILITARISM
Creating US Military Bases on the Moon
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2026 - NASA outlines this $20 billion project to build bases on the moon.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Ending Israel’s War on Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank check to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognized borders of June 4, 1967. While Trump was telling the world that Iran was begging for a ceasefire, it was Trump himself who was begging for a ceasefire.
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INTERNATIONAL LAW
Destroying Iran’s Electric and Water Supply Is a War Crime
Karolina Bonde | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2026 - The Illegality of Trump’s Threats to Destroy Civilian Infrastructure in Iran
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CAPITALISM
Want to Know Capitalism’s Endgame? Just Look at Private Equity–It Has Captured Our Everyday Lives
Hettie O’Brien | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2026 - It was the free croissants that gave it away. And the Scandinavian-style furniture. And the tasteful pastel walls. It was different from other nurseries: marginally more expensive. These companies now own everything from nurseries to care homes, squeezing vital services for profit while we foot the bill.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Artificial Intelligence Issue
The Nation - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis is not the last time The Nation will address the technological revolution that is already raising fundamental concerns about the future of work, surveillance, and existential questions of war and peace. We will be in the thick of these debates, arguing for a future in which we take the steps that are necessary to assure that we can all Stay Human.
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INTERVIEW
What Germany Could but Didn’t Do for Peace
Petra Erler interviews Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media ServiceYou have been working for many years to make the United Nations the ultimate guardian of peace. So far, to no avail. Are you a Don Quixote? No. I am one of many who oppose nationalism and advocate for international peace based on law and order.
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POETRY FORMAT
To Posterity (1938)
Bertold Brecht – TRANSCEND Media ServiceI came into the cities in a time of disorder As hunger reigned. I came among men in a time of turmoil And I rose up with them.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Français) Comment les Américains ont Perdu l’Iran sans même y Poser le Pied !!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service« Armes de destruction massive » de Saddam Hussein: Depuis ce jour fatidique où le monde entier a compris que Washington pouvait inventer une menace nucléaire pour justifier une guerre, l’Amérique a perdu quelque chose d’irremplaçable : le bénéfice du doute. Et c’est précisément ce capital envolé qui vient de sceller, en Iran, une défaite plus cuisante que n’importe quel retrait précipité de Kaboul ou de Bagdad.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Mearsheimer: No Signs of Quick End to US-Israel War on Iran
Al Jazeera | The Bottom Line – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Apr 2026 - US political scientist John Mearsheimer argues that Israel – not Iran – is the Middle East country that is ‘highly aggressive’.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
“Fahrenheit 11/9” – This Is How Fascism Starts
Michael Moore – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2026 - A scene from Michael Moore's 2018 film, "Fahrenheit 11/9." This sequence maps the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany onto the rise of fascism in the United States.
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Furious World Leaders Finally Ban Trump over War Crimes
The Critic Brief - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2026 The "special relationship" is OVER. In a stunning 24 hours, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Austria have all slammed the door shut on US warplanes — refusing airspace and air bases as Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Age."
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Europe Pushes Back at Trump, Refuses US Military Access for Iran War
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Apr 2026 - Several European countries including Austria, Spain, Italy, France and Switzerland have restricted or denied U.S. military access linked to operations against Iran, highlighting growing divisions within the Western alliance.
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I Visited My Destroyed Home in Gaza after 900 Days
Amir Ismail – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Apr 2026 - Shocking Reality… I went back to where I lived my whole life… They erased the walls, but they couldn't erase our souls. 904 days later, we still have hope. From the ashes of Gaza, we will rise again.
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Lebanon Declares Day of Mourning after Israeli Attacks Kill over 200 People
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2026 - The deadliest day of Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon so far saw warplanes strike more than 100 locations across the country, hitting densely populated neighbourhoods in Beirut and areas beyond traditional frontlines.
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Families Crowd Khan Younis Charity Kitchens as Hunger Deepens in Gaza
Roya News English - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Apr 2026 - Residents crowd charity kitchens in Khan Yunis as many families struggle to buy food despite goods returning to Gaza's markets.
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