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Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

The Worker’s Pitch

Football, Labour, and the Architecture of Extraction - Let us begin with a scandalous sentence for people who believe a player’s weekly wage has abolished class: footballers are workers.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Abby Martin Went to Israel–It’s WORSE Than You Think

7 Apr 2026 - You DEFINITELY won't see this on BBC or CNN.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Record Conflicts Drive Peace to Historic Low as AI Warfare Surges

9 Jun 2026 - For the first time in history, machines are making life-and-death combat decisions faster than any human can review them, and the international frameworks meant to govern them barely exist.

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29 THOUSAND Visits per Day, 29 Donors in 2026–Too Large a Discrepancy among Our Readers

We at TMS will  not be able to continue disseminating our pioneer Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism unless readers decide to partner with us. Not charity, not alms, not coin in a hat, but a recognition of our work's value to the inhabitants of a very sick planet in need of solutions. Urgent solutions.

NONVIOLENCE

Nonviolent Solutions Are Everywhere

19 Jun 2026 - Campaign Nonviolence Action Days invites people into the existing movement toward a nonviolent, equitable and livable world. Imagine a world of nonviolent solutions. 

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De-signing a Poem of Re-signation in a Period of Polycrisis

Enabling Negative Capability with an Artificial I - In a period of polycrisis it is potentially fruitful to ask whether insight could be otherwise presented.

Strengthening Respect for International Humanitarian Law

26 Jun 2026 - Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, warned that there is a serious erosion of respect for international humanitarian law. The ICRC is the chief agency for the respect of the Geneva Conventions, the heart of international humanitarian law.

No One Bombs Their Way to Peace

22 Jun 2026 - The first lesson of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not that military power has become irrelevant. It is that military power, even when overwhelming, does not automatically produce political obedience.

The Abundance Paradigm: The Clarity Act and the Stablecoin Wars (Part 4)

Stablecoins are privately issued digital tokens that can circulate on blockchain networks independently of the banking system. They are designed to maintain a stable value, typically one dollar per token.

Doomsayers and Possibility Explorers

27 Jun 2027 - It is time for research, media, politics and citizens to stop and think: What is it we do too much and what is it we do too little.

My Farewell Note to Kazi Clan

I am an imperfect Muslim, and I question my own spiritual credentials. The issue is: how can a son tolerate the denigration of parents who did have impeccable credentials? This has become a common trend.

ACTIVISM

The Left Will Re-Emerge (Part 1)

23 Jun 2026 - By “the Left,” I mean all organised collective resistance against social injustice, inequality, and discrimination caused by the main forms of domination in the modern era: capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.

ANALYSIS

The Great Western Masquerade: Proxy Illusions, Battlefield Realities, and the Dangerous Game of Narrative Warfare

28 Jun 2026 - In the grand salon of Western capitals, where diplomats sip espresso and pronounce on “rules-based orders,” a curious pantomime unfolds. Europe and its Atlantic patrons, having funneled NATO’s arsenals into Ukraine at a scale that would have made Cold War planners blush, now insist this is not a proxy war designed to bleed Russia.

ANGLO AMERICA

Iran Challenges US Doctrine of Low-Intensity Warfare

22 Jun 2026 - The crisis of legitimacy and credibility facing US leaders as a new generation of humanity confronts the genocide in Gaza, the US-Israeli war on Iran and other US acts of force and coercion.

Fourth of July vs Juneteenth

26 Jun 2026 - As the US approaches its 250th birthday, listen to Frederick Douglass as he delivers a Fourth of July oration in the city of Buffalo, N.Y. in the year 1852. A black man, a runaway slave asked to celebrate white peoples’ freedom.

SPORTS

Soccer World Cup’s Rogue Host

28 Jun 2026 - Iran is the only team that can’t rest and recuperate after a match because Trump’s minions insist that they fly out of the US within hours of the full-time whistle.

BRICS

The Tribute System: The New World Order

18 Jun 2026 - On Chinese Culture, the Tribute System, the 100 Years of Humiliation, The Art of War, “One China with Taiwan Part of China,” Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Headed

EUROPE

Defending Israel’s Human Rights Violations–The Illusions of Western Virtue

26 Jun 2026 - The instrumentalization of human rights has long been a staple of Western foreign policy, despite mounting evidence that such commitments are rarely applied consistently--Ursula von der Leyen and Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy, Double Standards

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Advocates Renew Call for End to US Sanctions after Devastating Venezuela Earthquakes

25 Jun 2026 - Despite Earthquake, Trump Keeps Sanctions on Venezuela

APPEALS

Help Venezuela NOW through the Armenian Cathedral of Caracas

I am documentary film director and TMS writer Diran Noubar from France. In the heart of this tragedy is our community’s anchor, the Church of the Holy Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Caracas, with which I have a direct connection, and Bishop Bedros with whom I have a relationship and daily communication.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Israel’s Suicidal Rupture with the U.S.

22 Jun 2026 - Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.

Over 120 Israeli Teenagers Announce Their Refusal to Enlist in the Army

24 Jun 2026 - On the last day of the school year in Israel, 19 Jun, a letter from teens announcing their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army was distributed in thousands of copies across several schools around the country. The letter, titled “We refuse!” has by now more than 120 signatures from high school students who are intended for military service.

Israel and the ICC: News & Comment – Selected Articles

22 Jun 2026 - The International Criminal Court deals with the worst wrongs, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, that states and non-state entities inflict on civilian populations. Neither Israel nor the US signed the Rome Statute treaty which established the ICC but that hasn't stopped them from interfering with the court.

UNITED NATIONS

“The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed”: Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 Oct 2023

18 Jun 2026 - UN Report on Gaza's Children: Evidence Points to a Strategy of Societal Destruction - Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Psychological Fact: Nuclear Disarmament Requires World Federal Government

25 Jun 2026 - There is one word that explains why nuclear disarmament conferences have failed: DISTRUST. I came to this conclusion while studying reports from the recent "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" Review Conference. 

CAPITALISM

Cyber Warfare Markets

8 Jun 2026 – Cyber warfare is a key area of contemporary war policy. The global cyber warfare market size was valued at USD 134.72 Billion in 2025 and it is projected to grow to USD 303.71 Billion by 2034. North America dominated this market with a share of 48.22% in 2025.

The Money Changers: Rothschild Banking Dynasty Said to Be Worth $100 Trillion

There is a notion that European Illuminati bankers seek to bring the US back to the fold of the Crown of England, the key political vassal for the Eight Families who own every private central bank in the world — Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman, Goldman Sachs, Warburg, Lazard and Israel Moses Seif.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI

Datacentres Are Growing Target of Global Climate-Related Legal Cases, Report Finds

25 Jun 2026 - LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution.

ENVIRONMENT

Green Dashboard

4 Jun 2026 - China is placing environmental conservation at the heart of its modernization drive with practical governance measures.

MEDIA

Covering the Impact of Climate Change—without Mentioning Climate Change

26 Jun 2026 - Severe weather has gripped the globe this week, with record-shattering, deadly heat in Western Europe. Yet on 23 Jun, despite leading their shows with severe weather headlines, news shows on NBC, ABC and CBS failed to mention climate even in passing.

SCIENCE

If Consciousness Is Fundamental: A Dialogue on Neuroscience, Intentionality, and What It Means to Be Human

28 Jun 2026 - For more than a century, mainstream neuroscience has largely assumed that consciousness is something the brain produces. What if consciousness is not produced by the brain but a fundamental feature of reality, with the brain acting as the biological system that organizes, filters, or expresses it?

SPECIAL FEATURE

The World We Have Known Ends This July–a New One Begins

In July 2026, five planets will lock into a geometric pattern that French astrologer André Barbault called The Barbault Basket. It is a rare alignment that, he believed, marks periods when civilizations reorganize themselves.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) La Sagesse d’un Homme d’État face à la Provocation : La Frappe sur Voronej et le Sang-Froid de Vladimir Poutine

Le 22 juin 2026, l’Ukraine, avec le soutien actif de missiles de croisière franco-britanniques Storm Shadow, a osé frapper une usine militaire en plein territoire russe. Cette attaque révèle la profondeur de l’implication occidentale dans un conflit que certains à Kiev et à Paris semblent vouloir étendre sans limites.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Somewhere over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)

Loved all through the world, IZ's version of "Over the Rainbow" has touched millions. Video depicts his ashes being deposited in the ocean he loved so much around Hawai'ian Islands. 1,582,402,888 views on 12 Apr 2010