Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Moving Beyond Personalism: How the Obsession with Donald Trump Undermines Hopes for Progressive Change
#950 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhen Trump is criticized, when his mental stability as well as his moral character is called into question, he has a ready answer: TDS- "Trump Derangement Syndrome..." Time passes quickly. To remain obsessed by a leader’s personal failings plays his game and leaves oppressive systems in place. Let’s focus – now! -- on creating something better.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The World This Week: Playing with Fire
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2026 - There was a strange series of events over the past seven days in the war in the Gulf. U.S. officials insist that the war is over. France is contemplating transfer of nukes to Finland and Poland. Britain and Germany are shooting long-range missiles from Ukraine, doing serious damage to Russian oil facilities, etc.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
US Sanctions and the Sharp Rise in Infant Mortality in Cuba
Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot and Guillaume Long | CEPR Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Apr 2026 - New Comprehensive Report Shows That Hardening of US Sanctions on Cuba Since 2017 Fueled a Sharp Increase in Cuba’s Infant Mortality Rate
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
TRANSCEND Member Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Awarded 2026 Berrigan-McAlister Award
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service5 May 2026 - Kathy Kelly, a Chicago-based peace activist and nonviolence innovator, has been named the sixth recipient of the Berrigan-McAlister Award, presented by DePaul University’s Department of Catholic Studies.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The Global Epidemic of Violence in an Age of Impunity
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2026 -Global violence today is metastasizing, not contained; over 180,000 violent events reported globally by the International Institute for Strategic Studies signal a world in which violent conflict has become a baseline condition rather than an exception.
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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion
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A Declaration to the Conscience of Humanity
Gordon P. Duff | The Intel Drop - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Mar 2026 - To the peoples of the world, to thinkers, to scholars, and to those who believe in justice: A specter now haunts the conscience of humanity—the return of predatory power— and it shall no longer go unchallenged.
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ENVIRONMENT
The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service3 May 2026 - Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet: the highest point of the Himalayas; the deepest depths of the sea; the snow of Antarctica.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is a Plastic Trash Nightmare–It Could also Be Part of a Much Bigger, Hidden Problem
Laura Paddison | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service4 May 2026 - Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic trash more than twice the size of Texas. As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Living with Bipolar: a Life in Awareness
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2026 - Over the past four decades, I have lived with bipolar disorder that has often cut deeper than any physical pain I have ever known. Yet what has been equally difficult to bear is not only the illness itself, but the silence and incomprehension that so often surround it.
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Mnemonics of Achieving Strategic Lift-off and Sustainable Flight
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 - Imaginative Misrepresentation of Viable Systemic Connectivity by Magic Carpets and Dragonification - There are many extensively articulated strategies in response to the crises of governance -- and to the polycrisis of the times.
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Sanctions for the Script, Minerals for the Taking–No Victory, only Congolese on the Flight
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service5 May 2026 - So, the U.S. Treasury just slapped Joseph Kabila onto its blacklist, accusing him of “sowing instability” by bankrolling the M23. In Kinshasa, Tshisekedi’s court is uncorking the cheap champagne. Victory at last!
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Emerging World Law
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service5 May 2026 - The Transition from the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) to the Provisional World Parliament (PWP)
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End Europe’s Resurgent Militarism and Israel’s Genocidal Regime
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 - Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire, Dr John Reuwer of Doctors against Genocide, and Bisan Owda of Gaza Call for Peace, Humanity and Harmony.
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The Abundance Paradigm: Why AI Forces Rethinking Money Itself (Part 1)
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 - Rather than a subsistence stipend, Universal High Income (UHI) would be a level of income allowing ordinary people to live well in a world where machines do most of the work.
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From Imperial Tsars to Digital Sovereigns
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAn odyssey of Structural Violence, Peace Disruption, and the Preventable Failure of Galtung’s Positive Peace from the 20th to the 21st Century
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IN FOCUS
Ending Western Warmongering Should Be Our Number One Priority
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2026 - The world’s most urgent problem is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and from different cultures, Westerners just compartmentalize them away--normalization.
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War on Humanity and Earth and the US-Israeli Moral, Intellectual and Political Bankruptcy
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe US-Israel War on Mankind and Fear of the Future
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The Possibility of Israel’s World Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service3 May 2026 - The US and Iran continue their mutual naval blockades, halting much of the oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf countries to the world.
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Moments of Bifurcation
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service7 May 2026 - From Gibraltar to Hormuz - The Moment of Bifurcation
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Palantir and the New Order
Yanis Varoufakis | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Apr 2026 - Neoliberalism Is Dead—Say Hello to Techlordism - A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour.
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A Few More Thoughts on AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service7 May 2026 – Vowed atheist Richard Dawkins is the subject of laughter and ridicule for admitting that a sycophantic Chatbot might be conscious. I am confident the Chatbots aren’t conscious in the same way I’m confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren’t conscious.
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AFRICA
US Seeks to Turn Eritrea into “a Bulwark against Iranian Influence”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Apr 2026 - The Wall Street Journal published a piece headlined “U.S. Seeks to Reset Ties with Reclusive but Strategically Vital African State.” As the militarization of the Red Sea escalates, the US tries to enlist Eritrea in exchange for sanctions relief.
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Eritrea and the “Internal Government Document Seen by Reuters”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service6 May 2026 - Reuters reports on a mysterious government document seeming to confirm that sanctions will be lifted on Eritrea.
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ANGLO AMERICA
USA’s Suicide Pact
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2026 - USA’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
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The Limits of Power
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares | Savage Minds – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2026 - The War on Iran Will Likely End in US Retreat
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BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
The Man Who Refused to Kneel: Vladimir Putin at 26 Years
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2026 - On 7 May 2000, an unknown former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin took the oath of office. Russia was on its knees--economically shattered, militarily humbled, territorially fragile, and diplomatically irrelevant.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Trump and Lula at the White House: A Relationship Built on Pragmatism and a Broader Regional Calculus
Guilherme Casarões | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2026 - For about three hours of closed-door talks between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and US President Donald Trump at the White House yesterday, many observers in the two countries held their breath.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Lebanon Under Fire again – Israel Escalates Despite Ceasefire
Ranjan Solomon | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2026 - Despite the ceasefire agreement reached in April, southern Lebanon continues to endure relentless Israeli military attacks. What was announced as a step toward de-escalation increasingly appears to have been little more than a temporary pause in an expanding regional conflict.
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As Israel Continues to Destroy Lebanon’s South, Locals Are Turning to Hezbollah
Jason Ditz | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service1 May 2026 - Occupied by Israel, and watching Israeli military bulldozers destroy their homes and villages, many have less and less time to hold Hezbollah responsible, and are instead turning to Hezbollah for protection, as the only faction that is in any way resisting the ongoing attacks.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank
Natan Odenheimer, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service4 May 2026 - When Israeli settlers attacked his West Bank village, Moatasem Odeh saw his son Amir, 28, fatally shot. Then he was stabbed repeatedly and beaten unconscious. Israel has failed to arrest a wave of settler violence against Palestinians, prompting military officials to urge the government to intervene.
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SYRIA IN CONTEXT
‘Highly Protected’: OPCW Confirms It Buried Critical Evidence in Syria Chemical Weapons Probe
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service7 May 2026 - The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Chief Says US Unpaid Dues Worth Billions Are ‘Non-Negotiable’
Namrata Sen | NewsBreak - TRANSCEND Media Service2 May 2026 - Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the UN, has affirmed that the billions of dollars that the U.S. owes to the international body are “non-negotiable.” He clarified that the outstanding amount, known as “assessed contributions,” is a mandatory obligation of member nations and cannot be negotiated.
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NATO
Covert NATO Initiative Turns Film into Anti-Russia Battleground
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service9 May 2026 - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has sought to infiltrate film and TV for decades, with UK intel operatives taking the lead.
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MEDIA
Freedom (of the Press) and Peace Are Not Ideological but Scientific Facts
Alejandro A. Tagliavini – TRANSCEND Media Service4 May 2026 - The RSF report says that in the 25 years that it has published the World Press Freedom Index, freedom of information has been deteriorating, and journalists continue to be killed or imprisoned. Norway tops the rankings for the tenth consecutive year, while Eritrea consolidates in last place (180th).
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HEALTH
Using Food as Information to Improve Health and Well-Being
Dr Michael S. Fenster | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFood is not just fuel; it is not merely a list of nutrients. Meals carry aroma, texture, memory, and meaning. Cultural traditions shape how foods are prepared, combined, and shared. Emotional states influence appetite and response. These elements are not superfluous add-ons to dietary health; they are part of how the body interprets what we eat.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Un’altra narrazione è possibile
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Aprile 2026 - "Se senti dolore sei vivo ma se senti il dolore degli altri sei umano." --Lev Tolstoj - Per un giornalismo di pace, c’è anche un’altra narrazione. Un contributo del Centro Studi Sereno Regis alla marcia della pace Ciriè-Lanzo del 19 Aprile 2026
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(Italiano) Un’altra difesa è possibile: NO alla guerra, SI alla difesa civile, non armata e nonviolenta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Aprile 2026 - Il 16 marzo scorso è stata depositata in Cassazione la proposta di legge di iniziativa popolare “Un’altra difesa è possibile”, promossa dalla Conferenza nazionale degli Enti di Servizio civile, dalla Rete italiana pace e disarmo, e da Sbilanciamoci.
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(Français) Netanyahu, le visionnaire qui nous sauve… de nos assiettes
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service10 mai 2026 - On nous l’avait promis : une guerre « rapide », « chirurgicale », « nécessaire ». Benjamin Netanyahu et Donald Trump nous l’avaient juré sur la Torah et la Bible réunies. Quelques semaines, tout au plus, et l’Iran serait maté, la région stabilisée, et le monde enfin en paix. Résultat, en ce mois d’avril 2026 ?
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(Français) L’argent : le dernier tabou qui paralyse vos négociations
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media Service8 mai 2026 - Pourquoi est-il plus facile de parler de nos échecs que de notre compte en banque ?
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
First Time in History Younger Generation Scores Lower IQ
WION - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Feb 2026 - For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a 'cognitive catastrophe.'
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