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Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

Rethinking Peace at a Time of Lucrative Genocides

Peace thinkers and advocates need to start thinking hard when Gramsci’s “monsters” in the time of collapsing empires are billionaires who stand to profit from the wars of annihilation, be it in Sudan’s vast gold mines, or Rohingya’s fertile agricultural soil, or Gaza with its offshore natural gas, or Palestine's beautiful seafront in Gaza.

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They Are Planning a Complete Financial Lockdown

29 Oct 2025 - Whitney Webb reports on a monetary conversion into all-digital control called Central Bank Digital Currency, which will be linked to electronic or digital IDs which, in turn, are linked to each individual’s biometrics (finger prints, face recognition, iris-scans and more). The traditional Tavistock method to keep people on their toes, obedient and submissive.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Global Gaza: The Political Economy of Genocide

4 Nov 2025 - The killing fields of Palestine, in all their debauchery, breathe new life into the prospects for capitalist expansion in the Middle East even as it offers the Palestinians and the poor majorities in the region and beyond nothing but endless accumulation of bloodshed, grief and misery. 

NOBEL LAUREATES

Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado Offers to Sell $1.7 Trillion of Venezuela’s Assets to US Corporations

13 Nov 2025 - The far-right Venezuelan coup leader vowed “massive privatization.”

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Prominent Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Detained at Canadian Border as Security Threat on His 95th Birthday

TRANSCEND Media Service Board Member, Falk says he and his wife, on the way to a conference on Palestine, were held and interrogated for some 4 hours in Toronto on 13 Nov, his 95th birthday.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Winter in Gaza

10 Nov 2025 - Media blockade on Gaza: Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinians, who refuse to be silent. To date, Israel has assassinated over 240 Palestinian journalists. The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes.

COP30 in the Amazon: Saving the Planet, One Cocktail at a Time

10 Nov 2025 - Ambition, Irony, and the Amazon’s Uneasy Role in the Climate Show

Use and Abuse of the Genocide Convention

5 Nov 2025 - Genocide crime, as defined by the UN Convention on Genocide, is sadly common. When does the world decide to respond? 

Myanmar’s Youth & Rohingyas Die in the Country’s Multifront Conflicts and Ongoing Genocide

11 Nov 2025 - In the post-colonial period (since the country’s independence in 1948), Myanmar has been trapped in a vicious cycle of internal conflicts with political, commercial, ethnic and religious dimensions.

The Eternal Peace Flame: From Heretics at the Stake to Rogue States in the Crosshairs

A Study in the Political Instrumentalisation of Orthodoxy

IN FOCUS

Digital Chains: How Central Banks Are Building a No-Escape Economy

11 Nov 2025 - Money is becoming a digital leash. The transformation is happening quietly, without consent, and most people will not recognize what has been built until the gate locks behind them.

AFRICA

Let the Sudanese People Walk toward Peace

13 Nov 2025 - Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for the Sudanese people.

ANGLO AMERICA

The USA Is a Banana Republic

10 Nov 2025 - El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.

Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington

11 Nov 2025 - Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes. The day came yesterday, when the jihadist arrived at the White House for a sit-down with Trump. A freak-show terrorist amid all that retro Oval Office elegance: Who could have imagined so offensive a tableau? 

We Choose Fascism! (?)

10 Nov 2025 - Is the USA choosing Fascism? That is the question that will occupy historians – probably Asian – in the second half of the 21st Century. There are indications suggesting that the answer is ‘Yes’ – or, we are in the process of doing so. Let’s examine them.

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

US Capitalism Is Laughing Behind the Scenes of the Gaza Tragedy

14 Nov 2025 - US Defense Industry Is Making Huge Profits - The Reality of the War Business Exploiting a Humanitarian Crisis

US War Chief Announces Operation ‘Southern Spear’ to Destabilize Venezuela

14 Nov 2025 - US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced today the launch of a US military operation in Latin America, claiming to target “narco-terrorists” as part of its broader campaign to destabilize Venezuela. Trump has stated that a land invasion of Venezuela may be next.

EUROPE

The Comedic Catastrophe: How Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” Became the Punchline for Europe’s Wallet

16 Nov 2025 - Once upon a time, in the fairy tale scripted by Hollywood hopefuls and Western virtue-signalers, Volodymyr Zelensky was the plucky comedian-turned-hero, striding out of a bunker in olive drab to rally the free world against the big bad bear.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Ecuador Rejects Foreign Military Bases

16 Nov 2025 - People of Ecuador 1--Military Industrial Complex 0 - In 2007, then-President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said he wanted a military base in Miami if the US were to continue using a military base in Ecuador. Bye bye, U.S. bases!

“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is Euphemism for U.S.-inflicted Carnage and Chaos

11 Nov 2025 - The fate that awaits the people of Venezuela if Trump should launch an invasion or a coup, as his predecessors did to Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, Honduras, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen: Destruction, destabilization and years of corruption and chaos - in every case.

The Significance of the Venezuela Attack by the US Administration

The U.S. military has already attacked several Venezuelan ships in the Caribbean (on the high seas) for allegedly secretly transporting narcotics (including fentanyl). However, there is no evidence that large amounts of fentanyl are flowing from Venezuela to the United States, and this is (allegedly) a false accusation.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

How Many Times Has Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire? Here Are the Numbers

11 Nov 2025 - Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks killing at least 242 Palestinians and injuring 622.

Gaza – A Toxic Wasteland and Environmental Disaster

11 Nov 2025- Gaza is a toxic waste hole. The depth to which Gaza has been subjected to toxicity could easily fall within the 30-year threshold for assuring it is habitable after different methods of cleanup, leaving Netanyahu, Kushner and Trump holding a worthless land grab in Palestine. 

Israeli Soldiers Speak Out on Killings of Gaza Civilians

5 Nov 2025 - IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked, and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy. “I feel like they’ve destroyed all my pride in being an Israeli – in being an IDF officer,” Daniel says. “All that’s left is shame.”

Five Reasons to Keep Our Eyes on Palestine

12 Nov 2025 - A ceasefire went into effect in Gaza one month ago. A lot has happened in the four weeks since. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find Palestine in the news but it remains critical to keep our eyes on Palestine. Here are five reasons:

EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS

PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees

10 Nov 2025 - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era.

UNITED NATIONS

Gaza: War (Genocide) Has Made Children Violent, Sad and Bereft

13 Nov 2025 - More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.

Trump’s Ploy at the UN Is U.S. Imperialism Masquerading as a Peace Process

13 Nov 2025 - The Trump administration is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council this week aimed at eliminating the possibility of a State of Palestine. The resolution does three things:

EDUCATION

Teaching Peace: A Challenge to Teacher Education

15 Nov 2025 - No magic formula, no password, no political device can lead us to peace.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

AI Warlords and the Military-Industrial Complex

30 Oct 2025 - In August, Foreign Affairs published Alphabet-Google billionaire Eric Schmidt’s essay “The Dawn of Automated Warfare”—co-authored with Greg Grant of the Center for New American Security, a nonprofit funded by Schmidt and the military industry.

AI Companies Are Encouraging Users to Believe Chatbots Are People, and It’s Insanely Creepy

14 Nov 2025 - They’re trying to manipulate us into believing we are much, much less than what we are, just so they can become billionaires and trillionaires. They are attacking the most sacred parts of us for the stupidest reasons imaginable.

SCIENCE

Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution

13 Nov 2025 - CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)-based technology is advancing rapidly, driving international competition. Its promise to transform medicine is colliding with political and social realities, even as applications expand.

INSPIRATIONAL

A Nurse Recorded 300 Final Breaths—and Found Only Seven Things That Truly Matter in Life

13 Oct 2025 - After listening to the confessions of 300 dying people, I decided to completely change my life. Your next breath is promised only once. Use it wisely.

POETRY FORMAT

We Have Not Long to Love

We have not long to love. Light does not stay. The tender things are those we fold away.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The Aftermath

10 Nov 2025 at the Good Old U.S. of A. Circus

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(Français) Les Codes Civil et Pénal : Une Odyssée Juridique Française

(Ou comment transformer la loi en comédie absurde – Version Noms Propres Inclus) Partie 1 : L’Histoire Sérieuse (Toujours sans blagues) - Le Code Civil : L’Enfant Chéri de Napoléon

(Norsk) Fredsfabrikken™ — eller hvordan man kan ha det bra mens verden brenner

10.november 2025 - Det er noe dypt rørende ved Europas evne til medfølelse. Den kommer med trådløs internett, en dobbel espresso – og en god samvittighet. En gammel venn av meg – en skandinavisk misjonær som bor i Kongo av eget valg – forteller meg med vemmelse hvor misogynistiske folk kan være.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Palestine Maps in 2000-Year History

3 Nov 2025 - An Exhibition of Palestine maps showing Al Nakba, before and after, with other unique maps of Palestine on the 25th anniversary of Palestine Land Society. Salman Abu Sitta explains them.

META Is Reading Your Private Messages to Feed Its AI!

12 Nov 2025 - Great news! Starting December 16, Meta will begin accessing and analyzing users’ private messages, photos, and voice notes across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, all to feed the company’s AI development and, of course, profit margins.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Haiti Today Through an Anti-Imperialist Lens

9 Nov 2025 - With an Introduction by Marilyn Langlois - Our guest provides an update on the current situation in Haiti, explains who the players are and debunks media narratives about the nature of so-called “gangs” that have been covertly supported by imperialist and outside forces.