Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The First Trump Presidency, 2017 – Ring Any Bells?
#918 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere is no greatness in what Trump does, he makes USA smaller. Trying rebirth instead of rust, canceling stupid deals like TPP: OK. But retracting into a self-glorifying strong state is not greatness, it is isolation. Greatness is not in what you are but in how you relate. And Trump relates awfully.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
“We Must Not Look Away: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice”
Roy Eidelson | PeacePsychology48 – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association) hosted this webinar on 9 Sep 2025. Our speaker was TRANSCEND Member, Psychologist Roy Eidelson, the President of Division 48.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Peace Journalism in the Digital Age
Annika Sehl, et al. | Weizenbaum Journal – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe model of peace journalism originates from Johan Galtung: War/violence journalism vs Peace/conflict journalism. War/violence journalism is a zero-sum game oriented toward war/violence, propaganda, elites, and victory. Peace/conflict journalism is a win-win-situation oriented toward peace/conflict, truth, the people, and solutions.
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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 29 Sep 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Assessing Israel’s Attack on Hamas Negotiating Team in Doha: Defying Law, Morality, and Prudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Sep 2025 - Israel’s Qatar Strike Undermines Sovereignty and International Law - In the aftermath of this Israel-Qatar attack that seemed at first to threaten the Western interests in the Middle East, is a strange combination of verbal denunciation of Israeli violation of Qatari sovereignty with a political status quo in play.
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Beyond both Rhyme and Reason in the Face of Polycrisis?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMemorable correspondences between Dante's poesis, trigrams, genetic codons, triplicities, and polyhedra... Much interest has been evoked by the challenge of AI and the potential of quantum computing. The latter is based on the obscurities of quantum mechanics.
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A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt’s a sentiment more and more people can identify with as dark, dangerous, and duplicitous news reports loot the public’s mind of any sense of logical understanding by presenting stories that contradict themselves, while inducing great anxiety.
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The Christian Narrative of Nonviolent Struggle against Structures of Violence (or Sin)
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGandhi extended the ancient teaching of Jainism (ahimsa) to the ability to fight nonviolently against every negative structure in society. In order to find inspiration in the Hindu sacred texts, he reinterpreted the Bhagavad-gita.
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World Citizens Appeal to Uphold International Humanitarian Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - The current military attacks on Gaza by Israel have led to increased violations of International Humanitarian Law. Medical facilities and medical personnel have been bombed; civilians have been targeted and murdered; educational facilities destroyed.
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We Must Not Look Away: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNote: This essay is adapted from the author’s August 2025 address at the American Psychological Association annual convention and from a webinar he presented in early September.
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How Nonviolent Action Might Save Gaza
Charles Webel, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - Gaza has become the harshest test of international humanitarian law since Rwanda — yet the world’s most vital protection framework remains unused.
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The Unflinching Sentinel: Guru Tegh Bahadur in the Pursuit of Eternal Propagation of Peace, Justice and Righteousness (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“A Timeless Beacon of Peace and Conscience: Guru Tegh Bahadur, The Shield of Conscience.”
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Congo’s $6 Billion Heist: Lawmakers Feast, Teachers Starve
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Sep 2025 - In Kinshasa, thieves don’t hide in shadows—they wear suits, sit in Parliament, and call themselves “leaders.”What follows is not rumor. It is a record of organized plunder that has crippled one of Africa’s richest nations.
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Gaza Is Not Rwanda: Its Suffering Should Not Perpetuate that of Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Sep 2025 - Likening the suffering of Gazans to that of Rwandan Tutsis perpetuates the narrative that has dominated the African Great Lakes Region for 30 years, allegedly justifying the sacrifice of millions of Congolese.
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Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFor scholars and literary persons who write books and articles and generally have an interest in a person and scholar and his writings and links, Franz Kafka is a well-known writer and scholar.
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IN FOCUS
These Countries Recognized Palestine, but Still Send Arms to Israel
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - Canada, France, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestine as a state this week but continue to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Hypocrisy?
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West’s Grip Slips with Saudi–Pakistan Security Deal
F.M. Shakil | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Sep 2025 - By aligning with nuclear-armed Pakistan, Riyadh asserts greater independence from the western military order and signals the emergence of a multipolar Persian Gulf security architecture increasingly shaped by Global South coordination, not western diktats.
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From Auschwitz, to Bosnia, to Gaza: The Price of Silence
Damir Mitrić and Jill Klein | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - Genocide thrives when the world averts its eyes, and history is repeating before us.
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Our Age of Unreason
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Sep 2025 - We have lost that connection between reason and morality …. We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.
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NATO
In Move That Could Bring in NATO, Spain Joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - Yesterday, the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez in Spain announced that it would dispatch a rescue ship to be in the vicinity of the 50 ships that make up the Sumud flotilla aiming to provide humanitarian relief to the Gaza Strip.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Trump’s War on the USA
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - Trump’s newest memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, those who fight racism and gender discrimination. Fascists, historically, are candid about the world they intend to create. Those they target, despite this transparency, are surprisingly obtuse about what is coming.
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What Is ‘Antifa’ and Why Has Trump Branded It a ‘Terrorist Organization’?
Tess Owen | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Sep 2025 - There is no such formal entity called antifa, yet the US president has designated it an ‘anarchist enterprise’, raising concerns from civil liberties experts.
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ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
The World’s Most Persecuted People
The Economist - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - “No food, no health, no education, no jobs. Just insecurity and uncertainty.” Dumb Ideas Are Worsening the Rohingyas’ Dire Plight
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EUROPE
A Dangerously Divided World Highlights the Need to Empower International Institutions
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Sep 2025 - On 13 Sep, the British public was startled when more than 110,000 people turned out for a raucous far-right rally in London featuring racist conspiracy theories, anti-Muslim hate speech, and violent assaults upon police.
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ACTIVISM
Italian Workers’ Strike in Solidarity with Gaza Brings Disruptions Across the Country
The Hindu | After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Sep 2025 - Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israel Should Let the Aid Flotilla Reach Gaza or Risk Adding to Its Global Indictment
Haaretz | Editorial - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Sep 2025 - Dozens of ships have been making their way through the Mediterranean Sea toward the Gaza Strip. This is the Global Sumud Flotilla, an effort by hundreds of international activists to break Israel's siege on Gaza and to draw international attention to the humanitarian crisis, the hunger and the massive death caused by Israel's military operation there.
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The Recognition of Palestine: What It Does, What It Doesn’t Do, and Why Now
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Sep 2025 - The recognition of Palestine as a state is more of a symbolic gesture than a act, like imposing sanctions on Israel would be. Still, even Israel's allies have been forced to take action as the genocide in Gaza deepens.
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Israel’s Twelve Tactics of Genocide Denial
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceSep 2025 - Israel was founded after the Holocaust as a nation-state where Jews could have a homeland and defend themselves. However, the territory granted to Israel was already occupied by Palestinians as well as Jews.
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The “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” Exposed
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites quickly turned into death traps. More than 859 Palestinians seeking food have been killed at GHF places since it began operating in May: Deadly “humanitarian aid,” engineered for mass starvation.
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UNITED NATIONS
Israel’s Netanyahu Addresses Empty UN General Assembly with Genocidal Claims after Mass Walkout
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Sep 2025 - Many news outlets reported that “some” or “dozens” of delegates walked out of the UNGA as Netanyahu prepared to address them. The truth is: Netanyahu addressed mostly empty chairs. I don’t know why editors think they can pull the wool over peoples’ eyes.
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UNICEF Aid Trucks Robbed at Gunpoint in Gaza City
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHumanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, UNICEF said on 19 Sep 2025, following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
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JOHAN GALTUNG MEMORIAL
Crowd Sourcing for Galtung’s Biography
Tor Egil Førland – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe death of Johan Galtung on 17 Feb 2024 left a void at the heart of peace research… Letters and other documents, recollections, and reminiscences that might help me put the puzzle together and get a clearer picture of Galtung’s life and achievements are much appreciated.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Senate of Argentina to Alberto Portugheis
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn recognition of his tireless promotion of Peace, his denunciation of the immorality of war and the arms industry, and his inspiring commitment to building a fairer and violence-free world, is hereby awarded this DIPLOMA OF HONOR.
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POETRY FORMAT
Breaking News from the UN Comedy Club
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Sep 2025 At the grand circus called the UN, the most shocking act is not the lion tamer, but the clowns in suits, juggling genocide with a smile.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Too Tragic to Be Comic…
Ron Filipkowski - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump Spoke at the UN General Assembly on 23 Sep 2025
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Netanyahu Speaks to a Practically Empty UN General Assembly on 26 Sep 2025
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEmpty chairs greet Netanyahu at UN as diplomats boycott his speech.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Glenn Greenwald Reacts to Netanyahu’s UN Speech
Glenn Greenwald | Systems Update - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Sep 2025 - Plus: Trump's Russia/Ukraine Policy, the Tom Homan Investigation, and More.
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Peace Journalism: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
Posted by Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Sep 2025 - Shared Screen with Speaker View
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Stop Funding Genocide with Your Bank Account and Grocery Bag
Francesca Albanese | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Sep 2025 - Francesca Albanese dismantles the illusion that ordinary people are powerless. She urges civil society to demand freedom for Palestinians and calls for universities, banks and municipalities to cut ties with Israel just as the world did with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Ugh, Here We Are…
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Sep 2025 - The Soap Opera Goes on...
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