Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Ending the War on Iran Depends on Ending Iran’s Vulnerability to Future U.S./Israel Aggression
#961 | Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServicePushing Iran Toward Nuclearism - The current situation stems from an unprovoked war of aggression started by the US on February 28 and soon joined by Israel, and resumed from time to time since. For those who seek genuine peace in the world, the plight of Iran has many lessons that need to be learned by liberal democracies.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
“A Man of Peace–Tribute to Tony Marsella”
Anthony (Tony) Marsella was a distinguished peace psychologist and transformative academic leader. His groundbreaking work challenged long-standing Western psychological paradigms, emphasizing the critical importance of cultural context in understanding human behavior.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Deliberative Technologies in Youth, Peace & Security
Lena Slachmuijlder | Toda Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jun 2026 - Promise, Practice, and the Uptake Gap - When peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) coalition leaders put AI-enabled deliberative tools into practice, what do they enable, what obstacles do they face, and how can we take forward their lessons learned?
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Mirrored Primes as Bridges between Incommensurable Strategic Frameworks
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAn earlier quest for coherence in a society faced with polycrisis took as its point of departure the "basket" as a container metaphor. "Basket-case" commonly features in the deprecation of strategic inadequacy.
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International Law in Gaza: Legality and Legitimacy Perspectives
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jul 2026 - The generally neglected interplay between legality and legitimacy as important modes of assessing controversial transnational behavior of states, especially with respect to the war/peace agenda of geopolitical actors, which for reasons of convenience I identify as the five Permanent Members of the Security Council.
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NGOs in an Evolving World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jul 2026 - The United Nations (UN) Charter begins with the promising words “We the Peoples…”. However, thereafter the peoples’ voice fades and that of governments takes over.
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Why Do We Love Sad Songs?
Edward Curtin and Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service“Life is the best play of all,” a seven year-old Sophie once said to me as we talked about acting, music, writing, and sports.
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Nicaragua Did NOT Cancel Elections
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jul 2026 - A Lie That Went Half Way Round the World
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We Are Already Fighting World War III and You Are the Target
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceResisting the Elite Program to Kill or Technocratically Enslave Us All
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The Global South’s Grocery Bill
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - (With apologies to no one) Why the world's poorest are invoiced for everyone else's wars.
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HUMAN RIGHTS
Human Rights after 1945 and the Neoliberal Unmaking of Morality
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - Humanity came out of WWII staring into an abyss of its own making. The concentration camps, the mass bombings, the industrialised extermination of entire peoples and ways of life—these were not accidents or misunderstandings.
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SPOTLIGHT
Becoming the Stranger
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - The road to fascism, as Ece Temelkuran writes in “Nation of Strangers,” was constructed over the last six decades of neoliberal assault. We have arrived at the terminus.
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I’m a Scholar of Genocide–We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era
Omer Bartov | The New York Times/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jul 2026 - How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them and accountability ensues.
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The Psychological Experience of Swana Americans in Contemporary Western Life
Dr. Mona Abuhamda | New Washington School of Psychiatry – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere is a grief that has no diagnostic code. It is the grief of watching, from this side of the ocean, from inside a life that looks perfectly functional, the erasure of your people. A literal one. I am a psychologist. North African. Arab.
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IN FOCUS
The Weaponization of Atrocity: Israel’s Tactical Gambit and the Aliyev Veto
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jul 2026 - History should never be transactional. Yet, in July 2026, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Israel transitioned from a long-awaited gesture of justice into a stark display of leverage-based “diplomacy”.
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ACTIVISM
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Arundhati Roy | The Wire/Equator – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jul 2026 - The student-led protests that have convulsed the Indian capital this week are showing us a different future for India and spreading to other cities. The cautious hope stirred by this youth uprising – and the Modi government's desperate struggle to contain it.
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The Generation That Refuses to Crawl
Julian Vigo | Savage Minds - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - India’s Gen Z Revolt - Thousands of young people attempted to march to Parliament but the Delhi Police answered them with barricades, batons, and tear gas. Some protesters were detained. The protesters call themselves the Cockroach Janta Party.
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ANGLO AMERICA
What’s Driving the Trump Administration’s Push to Dismantle the ICC?
Stewart Patrick | Emissary/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jul 2026 - The United States never joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) but is now pushing to dismantle it. Why? The move is an escalation of its war on multilateralism.
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Ukraine, the US Enduring Proxy War on Russia
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jul 2026 - Eisenhower’s warning that US policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite supplies a specific reason the US sustains the Ukraine war: Ukraine has become a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
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Location, Location, Location
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt might be said, and well said, that the United States succeeded despite itself, much like the man who fell off a cliff and thereby found a huge virgin deposit of gold.
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Trump’s Phantom Enemies
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jul 2026 - The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
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BRICS
BRICS 2026: Members, Goals & India’s Role
BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jul 2026 - What BRICS is, its full form, member countries and the recent expansion, goals, the New Development Bank, the BRICS-currency debate, and India's role.
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Why the West Keeps Missing the Point on Russia
Sajid Farid Shapoo | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Jul 2026 - West fails to understand Russian society is cultivating a unique national identity that would exist with or without Putin.
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I Was Part of the Protest March in Delhi–>Democratic Politics Took a New Turn
Yogendra Yadav | The Indian Express - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jul 2026 - More than direct sufferers, the protesters were primarily potential sufferers, those who know that it could be their turn tomorrow, those who realise that the education-employment system has broken down.
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India Launches First Hydrogen-Powered Train Built in the Country
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jul 2026 - Expanding Clean Energy on Railways - India rolled out its first domestically built, hydrogen-powered train today, a move aimed at expanding the use of clean energy in its vast rail network.
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GLOBAL SOUTH
To Imagine a New Development Theory from the Global South
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jul 2026 - The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Don’t Look Away from Cuba
Chris Mills Rodrigo | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jul 2026 - The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The Subsidized Occupation: Palestine and the Arabs
M. Reza Behnam | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - Oil-rich Arab states possess some of the most concentrated geopolitical and economic leverage on the planet. Yet, they have declined to use their economic indispensability in defense of Palestinian statehood and to uphold their own sovereignty.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
West Bank: Six Attacks Every Single Day
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jul 2026 - After Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, settler violence across the Occupied West Bank reached record highs. In recent months, settler violence has accelerated in both the frequency and brutality of attacks.
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64,000 Orphaned Children in the Gaza Strip–a Project for Concrete Action
La Scuola per la Pace | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jul 2026 - In Gaza, amidst near-total silence from the mainstream media, attacks have intensified, and the situation is worse than ever… The messages we receive daily from Gazans via the “Aid for Palestine” Committee tell us that the bombing and gunfire are constant.
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Israel Is Building a Miles-Long Earthen Barrier Inside Gaza, Entrenching Its Division
AP | Courthouse News Service - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jul 2026 - The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI
‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI Says AI Models Autonomously Hacked Another Company
AP/Reuters | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jul 2026 - ChatGPT maker OpenAI says an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers. The “unprecedented cyber incident” took place during an internal exercise meant to test its models’ cyber capabilities.
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ENVIRONMENT
The Data Center Fight Is Going Global
Cathy Rogers, Saul Levin, and Philip Eubanks | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jul 2026 - As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.
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SPORTS
FIFA-Trump: The Game Was Never Their Own
Emese Ilyés | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - The 2026 World Cup was a lesson in how authoritarians capture what we love and how we refuse to let them.
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INSPIRATIONAL
Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media ServiceBOTH!!
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Deutsch) Der Winter de Neutralität: Wenn Bern seine Seele für fröstelnde Drohnen verkauft
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAm 13. und 14. Juli, während die Welt mit den üblichen, vom Westen inszenierten Ablenkungen beschäftigt war, gönnte sich der Schweizer Rüstungschef einen diskreten Ausflug nach Israel. Das Ziel? Die militärischen Bande zwischen der „neutralen“ Helvetia und dem jüdischen Staat enger zu knüpfen.
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(Italiano) Quando il Presidente della Repubblica offre la deterrenza francese a Berlino e gli Champs-Élysées a Kiev
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIl 2 marzo 2026, dalla base dell’Île Longue, Emmanuel Macron ha solennemente annunciato l’avvento della «deterrenza avanzata». Una bella formula, quasi poetica. In chiaro: la Germania, questo partner «chiave», potrà d’ora in poi partecipare agli esercizi nucleari francesi.
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(Français) Et si écouter une seule personne suffisait à transformer un conflit ?
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jul 2026 - Quand une médiation classique n'est pas possible parce qu'une des parties refuse, que reste-t-il ?
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(Français) L’Empire fatigué : la force spectaculaire et la puissance introuvable
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDepuis la fin de la Guerre froide, les États-Unis ont maintenu un statut de première puissance militaire mondiale qui défient l’imagination. Pourtant, lorsqu’on examine les résultats concrets de cette immense machine de guerre sur les trente-cinq dernières années, un étrange paradoxe apparaît.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Piano Prodigy Young Boy (Music Video of the Week)
Unknown/Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAwesome...
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