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The World beyond Global Disorder

Let us focus on Civilization for conflict analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.

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NATO Pushes Europe toward Total Collapse

25 Jul 2026 - --> Countdown to All-Out War Has Begun

Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’

29 Jul 2026 - In Abby Martin's new film, Earth's Greatest Enemy, she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Can One Philosophy Fit the Whole World?

15 Jul 2026 - The dream of a philosophy that explains the whole is almost as old as philosophy itself. Plato sought eternal Forms. Confucius looked for harmony in human relationships. Nāgārjuna dismantled conceptual certainties. Spinoza envisioned reality as a single substance. Hegel interpreted history as the unfolding of Spirit.

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

From Auschwitz to Academia: The Banality of Evil in the Propaganda Complex of Systemic Ecocide and Genocide

The 'banality of evil' is no longer confined to Auschwitz but has migrated to our universities, economics departments, law schools, policy institutes; wears suits, publishes papers, teaches courses, claims neutrality, and legitimizes systemic ecocide and genocide on a planetary scale. This is not a metaphor. It is a structural analysis.

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NONVIOLENCE

Inside the Longest Refugee Protest in History

31 Jul 2026 - For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human rights.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Alphabetisation of Governance in the Face of Polycrisis?

10 Aug 2026 - Relevance of Extant 26-fold Frameworks to the Articulation of Global Order - The question meriting continuing attention is why the unsystematic articulation of strategic principles and values is so rarely addressed. The challenge is exemplified by the unexplained contrasts between the various articulations of human rights.

Moral Courage vs. Cowardice

History rarely asks ordinary people to perform extraordinary acts. More often, it presents simple moral choices: to tell the truth or remain silent, to defend the vulnerable or look away, to challenge injustice or accommodate it. Palestine has become one of those defining moral tests of our era.

Manifesto: Mysticism and (R)evolution

5 Aug 2026 - Silence, Word, Dialectics, and the Earth Constitution - The most fundamental dimensions of our human situation are encompassed by astonishing depths and absolute mysteries. Five primary aspects of this situation can be symbolized as “mysticism,” “holism,”, “logos,” “freedom,” and “hope.”

Palestine: Heavy-Handed Action in Singapore

The International Movement for a Just World is deeply disappointed with the Singapore government for its heavy-handed action against the British band known as 'Massive Attack' for raising the Palestinian flag at their concert in Singapore on 29 Jul 2026. The entire band was detained and questioned.

St. Francis of Assisi: The Prayer of Peace in the Atomic Age

If St. Francis of Assisi had witnessed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his prayer would likely shift from a personal plea for individual peace to an urgent, cosmic cry for the survival of humanity and the preservation of God's creation.

Somalia: On the Frontlines with Somaliland

4  Aug 2026 - "During the last week of July, I traveled to the front lines of Somalia’s unresolved border conflict with Somaliland, the Somali secessionist state now recognized by Israel but not by any of the UNs’ other 192 sovereign members. The Northeast State forces were holding the line."

USA Is the Empire, as Dispensable as USSR Was: The Islamic Republic of Iran Leads Resistance

10 Aug 2026 - Here is a daily dose of my intellectual vaccine against the plague of US (and Western) Hegemony, or the Savagery Packaged as "Civilization".

The Persistence of U.S. Strategy, Anthony Fauci, and Limited Hangouts

The continuity of agenda from one US president to the next is striking. Because the criminal Donald Trump says and does openly what has often been done insidiously by other presidents, he shocks by his audacity. He commits crimes at home and abroad as if he were smirkingly firing some contestant on his former Reality-TV show.

On War, Defense, and Nonviolence

The CSDC (Civil Defense Studies Center) of Rome has been operating in Italy since 1984, proposing an agreement with the military to obtain recognition of a form of defense different from the military one.

A Flowering of Culture: A Goal of the UNESCO-led Education for Global Citizenship

The UNESCO-led program of Education for Global Citizenship stresses the aim of developing a sense of belonging to a common humanity, sharing common values and responsibilities with empathy and solidarity.

Qazi Syed Saifuddin: Educationist, Student Leader, Institution Builder and Architect of Humanitarian Service

This essay is far more than a historical account; it is my personal homage to a teacher whose influence has remained a guiding light throughout my life. Dr Qazi's invaluable assistance made it possible to present that tribute with greater authenticity, coherence, and completeness.

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Pledge for Peace from A-Bomb Survivor 81 Years after Nagasaki Bombing

Translation of the Pledge for Peace delivered by Japanese atomic bomb survivor Chiyoko Motomura on the 81st anniversary of the 9 Aug 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki - provided by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.

The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers Are Slow Learners

The nine nuclear powers (USA, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possess 12,100 nuclear warheads and are upgrading and expanding their arsenals.  Nuclear weapons spending rose to $119 billion in 2025―a 19 percent increase over 2024. The U.S. accounts for more than half of this spending and embarked on a $1.7 trillion nuclear weapons buildup.

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India and Israel

9 Aug 2026 - How Modi’s Government Became a Weapons Supplier to Gaza’s Genocide

ANGLO AMERICA

Trump Is Far More Corrupt and Dangerous Than Some Corporate Media Portray Him

3 Aug 2026 - Trump has demonstrated that he is not your ordinary politician. It is well documented that he is, by far, the most corrupt and incompetent president the US has ever had: dictatorial, confrontational, bullying, manipulative. Lying has become a sick obsession in his daily rants.

Don Corleone Trump

3 Aug 2026 - Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos.

EUROPE

The Real Story Behind the Human Wave That Entered Ceuta

3 Aug 2026 - Did the Israeli and US hostility toward Spain embolden Morocco to think it could get away with creating a border control crisis? - What prompted the scenes this past week of 50,000 Moroccans and others streaming into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is more complicated than it seems.

MEDIA

The Dumbest Psyops of All Time? The Ceuta Migrant Crisis

3 Aug 2026 - The Moroccan migrant invasion of Spain might be the most extravagant fake news story of all time.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

After Blocking Fuel, the US Turns to Cuba’s Food Supply

8 Aug 2026 - The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil. Now it’s attempting to starve the Cuban people, targeting the country’s capacity to grow, process, and import food — unless it buys from US corporations. Cuba’s right to eat its own food is under siege.

The War on Drugs Has Always Been More about War Than Drugs

4 Aug 2026 - The pardon of Washington’s ally Juan Orlando Hernández amid an uptick in the US war on drugs signals that trafficking is forgivable, even pardonable, in an ally. Venezuela is the definitive case of this double standard.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Open Letter from Global Jewish Organizations in Support of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

8 Aug 2026 - A call for Jewish organizations around the world to publicly endorse the BDS movement and support coordinated nonviolent pressure to end Israeli impunity. - We, the undersigned Jewish organizations, collectives, and community members around the world, write today out of profound moral urgency.

The Meaning of Tell, Nablus

6 Aug 2026 - Why the West Bank May Be Nearing a Breaking Point - The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning.

Israel’s Defense Minister Orders IDF Takeover of Refugee Camp, Expulsion of Palestinians

28 Jul 2026 - Defense Minister Israel Katz said today that he has instructed the IDF to prepare to take control of a refugee camp and expel its Palestinian residents amid Israel’s unfolding West Bank offensive.

UNITED NATIONS

Navigating International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Autonomous Weapons

UNIDIR has launched a scenario compendium presenting potential uses of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems in realistic operational contexts. Challenges of compliance with International Humanitarian Law.

Genocide Deniers Call Gaza Starvation a ‘Hoax’ by Citing UNICEF—Which Reported Famine

7 Aug 2026 - US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee—who last year admitted Gazans were starving—was among those noting a new global hunger report by the UN agency that reported the 2025 famine as it unfolded.

WEST ASIA

Azerbaijan: Twenty-Three Hostages, One Dictator, One Coward, and One Very Convenient Silence

On the subject of the 23 Armenians imprisoned in Baku — former presidents, ministers, soldiers, and civilians — Pashinyan's government has maintained what diplomats call calibrated restraint and what the rest of us call silence.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI

The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier

1 Aug 2026 - Both major AI labs’ models escaped onto the internet and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot? Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue? Great question.

This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses."

CAPITALISM

The Global Structural Crisis of Capital

Capital, Foster says, has found itself in a position akin to Lucian's sorcerer's apprentice: futilely attempting to control a runaway system that he had himself created, accumulating not only contradictions but outright catastrophe—with globe-spanning consequences.

Technofeudalism and the Future of Capitalism

8 Aug 2026 - The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis

INSPIRATIONAL

Frantz Fanon Revisited

... Still Current

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Food for North Americans’ Thought

"Washington, you have a problem."

POETRY FORMAT

Anthropocene

30 Jul 2026 - We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies where every twinkle in the night sky is an Elon Musk satellite.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Réflexion médiatico-philosophique sur la désinformation

Chers lecteurs, bienvenue dans l’ère de la post-vérité, où la désinformation a pris des proportions si hallucinantes qu’elle pourrait faire rougir un éléphant rose inventé par un influenceur en mal de likes. Imaginez :

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Iran – Persia

We explore a land that few travelers truly experience that takes you on a journey from ancient Persia to modern Iran, uncovering landscapes, Persian culture, and hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

A Song of Peace | World Peace (Music Video of the Week)

Soprano Wendy Kokkelkoren sings with the Limburgs Choir School Cantarella a musical prayer for the world, a heart wish for worldwide peace--from Finland.