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Peace Journalism Perspective

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Decapitation Wars: The Latest Strategy of an Empire in Crisis

Decapitation wars are large-scale struggles in which attackers attempt to defeat an enemy regime by targeting and assassinating a substantial number of its civilian and military leaders. The current war in Iran, begun by the U.S.  and Israel during negotiations without any immediate provocation or threat by Iran or its allies, is one of the first such wars.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Why Israel Wants a War with Iran

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.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles

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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ANTONIO C. S. ROSA – Peace Journalism

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

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Ending the War through Diplomacy Is the only Path Forward

20 Mar 2026 - That the U.S. is awash in hypocrisy and mendacity should come as no surprise to the people of the world who have watched the U.S. launch one war and/or regime change operation after another over the past 80 years.

How the Chechen Miracle Kick-Started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’

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.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Think of the Children

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?

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Unquestionable Reframing of the Unrighteous with AI?

15 Mar 2026 - Clarifying UnChristian, UnJewish and UnIslamic from a Cybernetic Perspective

The Predatory Empire Has Turned Cruel, Criminal and Corrosive

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.

Iran: Renewal Needed

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.

Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change

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.

The ‘American Psychologist’ Publishes Another Misleading Article about Antisemitism

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).

The Tail That Wags the Dog

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.

48 Hours and What You Can Do

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.

Tales from Iran: Nowruz under the Bombs—a Requiem for the Short Sighted

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.

Psychology of Resilience: The Structural Roots of the “Resistance Environment” in Lebanon

26 Mar 2026 - By Dr. Mohammad Aloush for Al-Akhbar Newspaper

The Inner Cabinet and the Outer Media

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.

Defiant but Humane: Women of Resistance in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine, My Teachers Today

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.

Ramadan Kareem

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...

Applied Peace: Ubuntu Humanism, Usage of Indigenous, Mother Tongue Language and the Practice of Peace in Plural Societies

“The preservation and usage of the mother tongue, is the single most important pillar of Peace in multicultural societies, globally”.

IN FOCUS

Chomsky Before the Court of Logic

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.

ANGLO AMERICA

The War against Iran: Decades in the Making

11 Mar 2026 - Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.

Trump Has No Soul

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.

The Most Dangerous Country

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.

How the US Became an International Serial Killer

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.

The Shadows of Betrayal: How the War in Iran Is Shaking the Foundations of US Politics

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.

CAPITALISM

‘Mind-Blowing Corruption’: Traders Placed Massive Bets Minutes before Trump’s Post on Iran

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.

MILITARISM

A Brutal War or a Brutal Regime…

When Civilians Are Forced to Choose Their Violence

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Ending the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East

16 Mar 2026 - If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.

War on Humanity: USA-Israel vs Iran

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.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

U.S. Takes Aim at President Gustavo Petro, but He’s Akin to a Rock Star in Colombia

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.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Genocide Warning: Lebanon

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.

Israel: Genocide in the West Bank through Zionist Settlers

27 Mar 2026 - It’s not just Gaza—Israel wants to exterminate all Palestinians, everywhere. We are one people being destroyed as one people.

UNITED NATIONS

Israel Has Crushed UNRWA in Gaza – and the Rest of the World Has Done Nothing

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.

What about the United Nations?

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. 

MEDIA

How Western Media Sanitizes and Sells the Crimes of Empire

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,...

EDUCATION

Education for Democracy to Build a Global Common Society for Peace

13 Mar 2026 - The position is that there is no democracy in all nations of the World. In today's world, maximum States are dictatorships of one kind or another, where one or a dozen persons hold the decision-making power that enables them to declare which persons or groups of nations should die.

RELIGION

The Image of the Non-violent Trinity

Christians, with the incarnation of the Son of God on earth, had a human mediator with the divine. Therefore, representing His human figure cannot be considered idolatry.

POETRY FORMAT

An Ode to ‘No Kings’ Royalism

as if restless a crown prince impatient to catch a crown falling from heaven

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Castellano) Chomsky ante el tribunal de la lógica

La ausencia de argumentos con base en evidencia que sugiera connivencia, aquiescencia, encubrimiento, silencio cómplice u omisión culpable por parte de Noam Chomsky es el rasgo característico de los comunicados de quienes han tratado de desvincular sus figuras de la de Chomsky en el contexto de la campaña de denigración en curso.

(Français) Médiation judiciaire : Ce que les magistrats attendent désormais de vous

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.

(Français) Les Échos de l’Histoire : Quand la France Danse au Rythme des Tambours Américains

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.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

‘Iran and Gaza Are ONLY THE BEGINNING’: New World Order

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.