Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Ministries of Peace?
#911 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe text, the message of a ministry, is revealed in its subsections, like the 64 US Congressmen headed by Dennis Kucinich did so well in the proposal for a US Department of Peace. Three major tasks: mediation of present conflicts, conciliation for the traumas of past violence, and construction of a more solid pace for the future.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Palestine/Israel: UN Chief Urges Action to Implement Two-State Solution for Lasting Peace
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service“The only realistic, just, and sustainable solution is two States -- Israel and Palestine -- living side-by-side in peace and security, within secure and recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as the capital of both – in line with international law, UN resolutions and other relevant agreements.”
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Aug 2025 - The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems. It’s high-time to rethink how state IDs and identification technologies are linked to mass atrocities. My new research brief is a small step towards this rethink. Here’s the thinking behind it.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Changing the Narrative: Why West African Media Is Embracing Peace Journalism
Mohammed Ibrahim | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Jul 2025 - In a media landscape often dominated by sensationalism and conflict-driven content, a quiet revolution is taking place. Across West Africa, radio stations are shifting their focus to peace journalism, using their platforms to promote dialogue, resolve conflicts, and build resilient communities.
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Other Commentaries
SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA, WEST BANK 11 Aug 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Israel’s National Security Cabinet Approves Netanyahu’s Escalation, Hiding Defeat in the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Aug 2025 - Relations with the Trump presidency seem to be finally fraying and the announced cause seems to be Israel’s stubborn refusal to allow food, water, and medicines to reach starving Palestinians rather than the controversy inside and outside of Israel to extend military operation to the yet unoccupied parts of Gaza City.
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Cognitive Fullerene as a Rosetta Stone for Patterns of Systemic Constraint
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Aug 2025 - Reconciliation between Disparate Frameworks in the Light of Global Familiarity with the Football
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Children of Light and the Human Interest
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe task of strengthening the human interest against armed violence, poverty, ecological decay, and the gross violations of human rights is still before us. We must not underestimate the difficulties nor the persistence of narrow self-interest. There is much to be done. Join in this vital effort.
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Gaza Genocide-Complicit States’ “Conditional Recognition” of Palestine Is “Elastic Words”
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - Words can’t liberate people under oppression in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, much less end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Cyprus: US and Israel Clash with Turkey over Control of the Eastern Mediterranean
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Aug 2025 - The Island of Cyprus finds itself caught in the eye of the corridor-hegemony storm with Washington, Israel, and the UK on one side, and Turkey, China, and Russia seeking dominance and influence. This connects to the global war against Humanity - the reduction of nation states to money laundering hubs for the ruling transnational elite.
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Biophotons and the Peace Crusade: A 21st Century Manifesto Written in Light (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFrom Global Hegemony to Global Harmony Deploying Quantum Biology
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The Liquidation of Hope: Gaza’s Televised Agony
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - The sheer, unrelenting horror unfolding in Gaza is not unique in its scale of human suffering. Sudan has endured catastrophic famine for over a year, reaching the same "fifth stage of starvation" Gaza now tragically enters.
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Eritrea: We Won’t Kneel Down
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - This year’s US Eritrean Festival was held in Stockton, California. Eritrean Americans were as gregarious and joyful to be together as ever, speaking their native language, Tigrinya, and celebrating their culture.
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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceRight from the start the US colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”
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EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
Catastrophe Capitalism Complicit in Israel’s Genocide
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMark this down...
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IN FOCUS
A Wasteland of Rubble, Dust and Graves: How Gaza Looks from the Sky
Lorenzo Tondo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Aug 2025 - The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.
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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on 6 Aug by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 80 years since the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
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How Long Will They Talk to Us about the Holocaust?
Leopoldo Alberto Cook – TRANSCEND Media ServiceBut the Zionists (because it's them, not the Jews) never stop talking about the Holocaust, as if they had exclusive ownership of the suffering. Fundamentalist Zionism has taken over Palestine and seeks to extend its dominance to all of Western Asia. They are doing to others what the Nazis did to the Jews.
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The US and Russia Pretend to Be False Enemies
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAfter the conflict between Russia and the US and Europe became decisive with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Medvedev was likely appointed by Putin to continue issuing provocative accusations and sarcasm against the US and EU which the Russian government cannot officially announce but wants to convey to the world.
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AFRICA
Children Are ‘Skin and Bones’ in Sudan: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Aug 2025 - It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying violence, this have become the grim norm. “This is a looming catastrophe,” said Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative in Sudan.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Walls Closing in on Squirming Pedophile Trump
Joachim Hagopian | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAttorney General Pam Bondi is aiding and abetting pedophiles that include Trump when he was Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend in his 40s. New York Magazine: I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. – Trump
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A New Report Exposes How Major US Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2025 - It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.
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Trump Officials’ Gaza Tour Slammed as ‘Blatant Theatrical Display’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - Cynically Stage-Managed Humanitarian Aid - "The goal is clear—to erase the truth, discredit thousands of recorded videos, and wash away the blood," said one Palestinian photojournalist.
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EUROPE
Nazis Murdered My Family in the Holocaust—Now Germany Is Punishing Me for Protesting Zionists’ Genocide in Gaza
Rachael Shapiro | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Aug 2025 - This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.
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Europe Is Going Down Like the Titanic Because It Has Learned Nothing from Its Past
Peter Noordendorp | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - Europe is repeating bad things from the past because it learned nothing from its colonial past and its warmongering on European soil. About the past of the US, it is good to say that it lost all wars from Vietnam up until Afghanistan after WW2. Ukraine is now its latest fiasco.
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What’s Cooking in Macron’s Mind with This Palestine Stunt? A Sarcastic Stroll Through Eight Years of French Flops
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - Oh, Emmanuel Macron, you enigmatic maestro of French flair, what fresh folly have you conjured now? In a move that’s got the world raising its eyebrows higher than the Eiffel Tower, Macron has announced that France will recognize the State of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September 2025.
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A Flash Mob for Gaza Bounces from Milan to Berlin – Video
Andrea De Lotto | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - Several flash mobs have been held in Milan to denounce the genocide in Palestine, but one in particular has been repeated many times in other Italian cities and also in Berlin.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Euro-Med: Israel Recruits Gangs and US Mercenaries to Kill Civilians Near Gaza Food/Aid Points
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn a report, the human rights group said the IDF is coordinating with the “Abu Shabab gang” and foreign mercenaries from a US private security firm to incite chaos and carry out extrajudicial killings as snipers.
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What to Know as Israel Considers Reoccupying Gaza in What Would Be a Major Escalation of the War
Joseph Krauss | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Aug 2025 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering ordering the full reoccupation of the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media, a move that would draw fierce opposition internationally and within Israel.
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Building Power for Palestine and for a New World Order
Ray Acheson | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - A coalition of states met in Bogotá, Colombia in mid-July to try and disrupt Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Their commitments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law are important to counter the militarism and profiteering of Western states. People power is the strength behind these commitments; what will lead to their implementation.
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The Nightmare in Gaza
Aviva Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance drafted a definition of antisemitism. It was founded in 1998 to promote Holocaust education and to “strengthen governmental cooperation to work towards a world without genocide.” Right now, its definition is being used to criminalize opposition to genocide.
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1,500 Killed while Seeking Food Aid in Gaza since May: UN
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that many people reportedly continue to be killed and injured, including those seeking food along the UN convoy routes and militarized distribution points."
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Bombed Clinic and Conquest Decision: Netanyahu Hastens Gaza’s Final Collapse
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - The image is brutal. The explosion—like a torn throat—shatters the silence of the night and lights up the ruins of Gaza surrounding the UN clinic, which blew into a thousand pieces. This is not an excess. It is a message. The missile did not only strike a medical facility: it struck the very threshold of imaginable horror. This destruction was no accident. It was the result of a war logic forged behind closed doors.
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HEALTH
FDA Orders COVID ‘Vaccine’ Makers Pfizer and Moderna to Warn Public about Heart Damage Risk
Frank Bergman and Prof Michel Chossudovsky – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Aug 2025 - The United States Food and Drug Administration has ordered Pfizer and Moderna to issue warnings that their Covid mRNA “vaccines” carry a high risk of heart damage, particularly for young men. That was known to the FDA and the CDC but they failed to act.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Institute for Disarmament Research UNIDIR - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Jul 2025 - An Evidence-Based Road Map for Future Policy Action
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JUSTICE
Threats and Intimidation Stalling Top ICC Prosecutor’s Israel Case: Report
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Aug 2025 - Report says Karim Khan ‘privately threatened’ by then-Foreign Secretary David Cameron with UK’s withdrawal from International Criminal Court. - Intimidation campaigns including threats to safety and sanctions directed at the chief prosecutor of the ICC as he investigates war crimes by Israeli officials in Gaza.
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ENVIRONMENT
From Thinking to Action in the Fight against Plastics
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Global Plastics Treaty was supposed to be finalized last year but negotiations broke down between two blocs of nations, those seeking controls on plastics and harmful chemicals, and those reliant on fossil fuel production. Since then, of course, Trump began his second term, with his MAGA mantra of “Drill, Baby, Drill.”
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HISTORY
Karl Marx Letter to US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Karl Marx - TRANSCEND Media ServicePresented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams on 28 Jan 1865
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LITERATURE
In the Penal Colony
Franz Kafka | Library of Short Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service“It’s a remarkable apparatus,” said the Officer to the Explorer and gazed with a certain look of admiration at the device, with which he was, of course, thoroughly familiar. It appeared that the Traveller had responded to the invitation of the Commandant only out of politeness, when he had been asked to attend the execution of a soldier condemned for disobeying and insulting his superior.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Gaza Genocide + Syria…
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The Gestapo and ICE Walk into a Bar
This is not normal, and it is not okay. ICE must be dismantled. Everyone who works there that is “just following orders” while breaking the law thousands of times a day must be arrested, tried, and sentenced for their crimes!
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A Totally Normal Thing to Sell
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhile I was at the gym, I saw a man on the machine next to me wearing an Alligator Alcatraz T-shirt. That shirt is merch for a literal concentration camp. The people being held there aren’t criminals who were found guilty in a court— they are people whom Trump has deemed undesirable.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
AP Reveals Armed Contractors Fired on Starving Gazans at US-Backed Aid Sites
The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAn AP investigation exposes how untrained US security contractors used live fire, stun grenades, and pepper spray on hungry Palestinians at GHF-run food/aid centers in Gaza.
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Video Report: Israel Imposes No-Build Zone in Southern Lebanon
Drop Site News - TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 17 July, an Israeli drone strike killed at least one person and injured two others in Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh governorate, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The missile struck a civilian vehicle—part of the Israeli military’s ongoing aerial campaign in southern Lebanon, carried out in defiance of the declared ceasefire.
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Randy Newman – Political Science: Let’s Drop the Big One Now (Music Video of the Week) 1
Joe Ramen – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Video I Put Together Using Randy Newman's Song as a Vehicle
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Genocide Musical… B. Netanyahu Sings: “We Are the Killers!” (Music Video of the Week) 2
Red Creators Network - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo description has been added to this video.
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