Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
1987 Right Livelihood Acceptance Speech – Johan Galtung
#913 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace appeals to the heart; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Heartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Aug 2025 - Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more...
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
94-Year-Old Seizes Chance to Tell Her Story of Atomic Bombing
Akari Uozumi | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - When Michiko Sakamoto opened the questionnaire sent to atomic bomb survivors nationwide, ideas for what she wanted to write came in a rush. The 94-year-old sat at her “kotatsu” heated table and gripped a pen at her home in the western Tokyo city of Kodaira.
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91-Year-Old Man Exposed to Atomic Bombs Both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Nagasaki Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - “It’s still too hard for me to remember the hells that I experienced twice. I walked past piles of bodies.”
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Open Letter to Pres. Donald Trump
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2024 - The children of Gaza are being starved and killed. Israel has killed 18,592 Palestinian children in the last two years and there are 39,000 children orphaned in Gaza. This forced starvation is an Israeli policy leading to famine.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
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From the TMS TeamYour donations make up 100 percent of our budget. Since 2008, the Peace Journalism of the TMS Weekly Digest arrives at your Inbox without fail and the only way we can keep up with this service is with YOUR support. We must pay our bills!
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NEWS
Full Text: Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China - TRANSCEND Media ServiceA new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken system.
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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 25 Aug 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
The Attainment of Peace: A Multidimensional Perspective
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“A comprehensive analysis of the current state of global peace and peace theories proposed as antidotes, from antiquity through to the 21st century, by giants of peace propagation”.
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Gaza’s Urgency and Lessons for the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Aug 2025 - Responses to questions posed by Naman Bakaç, an independent journalist in Turkey. The interview was published by FOCUS, an independent online media platform
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Awarding Noble Piece Prize to Trump and Netanyahu?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 - Appropriate Appreciation of Transactional Commodification of Honour in a Fragmenting World - Donald Trump has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by multiple countries...
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Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Aug 2025 - Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show...
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How to Open Communicative Dialogue for All Humanity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSri Aurobindo saw the evolutionary spirit as moving humanity toward “world union.” Teilhard de Chardin saw the cosmic process moving humanity toward an “Omega point” of unification through love and cooperation. Ken Wilber sees humanity growing toward “integral” and “holistic” modes of consciousness bringing us together...
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Israel Is Hell-Bent on Dispossessing All Palestinians Including Christians of Their Land
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Aug 2025 - Tales of Accelerated Land Theft in the Holly Land of Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem
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IN FOCUS
Guilty Silence: Western Writers and Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Mukul Kesavan | The Telegraph India – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Aug 2025 - The IDF-induced famine in Gaza became a Live Aid moment; weirdly, starvation depoliticised the genocide, bleaching it into a humanitarian cause that writers could finally get behind.
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Over 360 Humanitarian Workers Were Killed in 2024 — 200 in Gaza Alone, Making It the Deadliest Year on Record
UN News/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday, 19 Aug 2025, we mark the World Humanitarian Day — a time to honor those who step into crises to help others, and to stand with the millions of people whose lives hang in the balance.
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NATO
NATO’s Imperialist March and Its Victims
Biljana Vankovska | Valdai Discussion Club - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn the summer of 1999, months after NATO bombed Yugoslavia, I attended a lecture by Prof. Johan Galtung, the father of peace research. Known for his integrity and intellectual courage, he didn’t mince words: “This world has a problem. That problem has a name, and its name is: the United States of America.”
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ANGLO AMERICA
The Alaska Summit Was a Spectacular Distraction
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Aug 2025 - Trump needed a break from the infighting in MAGA so he decided an inconsequential meeting with Putin would do the trick.
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On The Smithsonian and Slavery: Trump’s Whitewashing of History
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Aug 2025 - On Tue 19 Aug, Trump attacked the narrative taught in US schools and documented in museums about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery, focusing on The Smithsonian Institution, the world-renowned center of learning and culture based in Washington, DC.
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The US Military’s Bioweapon Labs
Helena Glass | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Aug 2025 - Scrolling thru Twitter I came across a video of RFK, Jr. telling Congress that the Covid vaccines were actually developed by the DoD and given to Pfizer and Moderna so they would appear to be from Big Pharma which is why Big Pharma was given the ‘no liability’ clause.
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Washington’s Nightmare: Modi and Xi Break the Ice
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Aug 2025 - A potential India–China border breakthrough could mark a turning point in Asia, easing decades of hostility while undermining Washington’s grip on New Delhi.
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Why Japan Is an “Accomplice” in the Occupation of Palestine
Machi Kunizaki | Huffington Post Japan – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Similarities between the Colonial Rule in East Asia and the Israeli Settlement
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ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
8 Years On: Accountability Needed for Myanmar Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya in the Rakhine State. Burma/Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed women, men and children throughout northern Rakhine.
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BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
The Ukraine War Will End with Ukraine Going Back to Be “Pro-Russia”
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump and Putin, who want to destroy the existing US hegemony and shift the world to a multipolar structure, claim to want to end the Ukraine War quickly, but in reality intend to prolong it.
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Remembering Daria Dugina: A Beacon of Russian Thought and Patriotism
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThird Anniversary of Her Tragic Death
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BRICS
Trump’s Tariffs Backfire: India Moves Closer to China, Strengthening BRICS Unity
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Aug 2025 - The US government has long tried to recruit India for its new cold war on China. Donald Trump’s tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening BRICS.
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EUROPE
Toward Transformative Accountability
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAddressing Rentier Capitalist Capture and Restoring the Public Good in (Flemish) Higher Education
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
First Person: ‘Tomorrow Is Too Late’ to Scale Up Humanitarian Aid in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Aug 2025 - As gang violence across Haiti escalates, and the United States and other donors reduce their humanitarian funding, 1.3 million people who have fled their homes are facing the direst of consequences.
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SPOTLIGHT
The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide
Protect Palestine - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Jun 2025 - A powerful new briefing has been published presenting a comprehensive legal, moral, and strategic argument for urgent international military intervention to halt the ongoing genocide by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.
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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says
Frances Madeson | Truthout - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Aug 2025 - For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israel’s Assassination of Memory
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Aug 2025 - Israel’s razing of Gaza is not only about ethnic cleansing. It is about the erasure of a people, a culture and a history that expose the lies used to justify the Israeli state.
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Most Israelis Not Bothered by Reports of Suffering and Famine in Gaza, New Poll Shows
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Aug 2025 - Vast majority of Israelis said they were not troubled at all by reports, with a majority saying Israel's army was careful to avoid civilian suffering.
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Observations from the West Bank: The Jewish Supremacy Monster Cannot Be Contained
Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Aug 2025 - Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. "Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil," writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.
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Classified IDF Intel Reveals 83% of Palestinians Killed in Gaza Are Civilians
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Aug 2025 - The data show "a proportion of civilian slaughter with few, if any, parallels in modern warfare."
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Bulldozing Gaza
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Aug 2025 - The singularity of the Israeli campaign in Gaza lies in the asymmetry of power, its intensity, its enclosure, its direct connection to a settler colonial project. All this leads us back to the 1940s and Raphael Lemkin’s definition of genocide, which he modeled on Nazi-occupied Poland.
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UNITED NATIONS
Why Palestine Is Already a State
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Aug 2025 - The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply.
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Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Aug 2025 - If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into US politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations.
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JUSTICE
International Criminal Court: New US Sanctions ‘a Flagrant Attack’ on Judicial Independence
UN | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Aug 2025 — The ICC has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States yesterday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push-back surrounding investigations into US and Israeli officials.
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CAPITALISM
Trump vs. Musk: The Break-up
Hagar Omran | Forbes Middle East - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jul 2025 - When Elon Musk and Donald Trump clash, it sends ripples through the markets. Here’s a timeline detailing their turbulent relationship and its impact on Tesla and Musk’s wealth.
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ENVIRONMENT
Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Other Big Oil Allies Sabotage Progress
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Aug 2025 - "The vast majority of governments want a strong agreement, yet a handful of bad actors were allowed to use process to drive such ambition into the ground," said one environmentalist.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Fascism at the Gate
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Aug 2025 - Donald Trump and his regime has turned our national capital into a totalitarian state. His regime is sending cops, soldiers, and ICE to control and scare people—especially Black and brown people. This isn’t about safety. It’s about power and fear.
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Modigliani’s Eyes
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media ServiceModigliani’s models’ eyes are pupil-less, iris-less, (or, sometimes, one’s inverted, the other looking not-quite out).
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Energia nucleare ‘pulita’? Un nodo irrisolto
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Ago 2025 - La sperimentazione sull’energia nucleare, con il primo, clamoroso successo sancito dall’esplosione del Trinity Test, nel luglio del 1945, diede origine a decenni di sciagure. I giapponesi che morirono a Hiroshima e Nagasaki non furono le sole vittime.
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(Português) A Paz e a Guerra sob Trump
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service"Trump já deixou claro: não irá fazer diplomacia. Atuará com a força, tanto bélica quanto econômica e comercial. Sua construção de uma nova ordem não passa pela paz mas pela capitulação do adversário”. Os acertos das tarifas são imposições dele e não frutos de negociação.
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(Français) L’Épopée d’un Titan des Horizons : Hommage à Gérard Chaliand
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDans les brumes d’un Bruxelles hivernal, le 15 février 1934, naquit un astre errant, Gérard Chaliand, fils d’Arméniens exilés, dont le sang portait l’écho des montagnes oubliées et des génocides murmurés.
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(Italiano) Orrore sistemico in Palestina: tutto un equivoco?
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Ago 2025 - “Per ogni vittima del 7 ottobre, 50 palestinesi sono dovuti morire. Non importa se sono bambini. Non sto parlando per un senso di vendetta, ma per trasmettere un messaggio alle generazioni future. Non c’è niente che possiamo fare: hanno bisogno di una Nakba di tanto in tanto, per sentirne il prezzo”.
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(Italiano) 80 anni dopo Hiroshima: proprio ora di un altro INIZIO
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMentre l'orologio dell'apocalisse segna attualmente solo 89 secondi alla mezzanotte, riflettiamo su come siamo arrivati al punto zero 80 anni fa, non solo per riportare indietro le lancette dell'orologio e impedire qualsiasi futuro dispiegamento, ma anche per liberare completamente la Terra da questi dispositivi demoniaci.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Jan Oberg: If You Want Peace, Be Creative and Focus on the Future
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Aug 2025 - Dr. Jan Oberg is a Danish peace researcher in Sweden. We talk about the escalating rhetoric toward Russia in Europe and what peace-oriented folks can do about it.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Who Are the Inner Elite and the Origins of the Jewish Bankers
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Aug 2025 - Dive into the hidden history of banking dynasties, from the Rothschilds to the Warburgs—and the ancient power structures that control them.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Couldn’t Be Better!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Aug 2025 - Still Trump, MAGA, RFK, Jr. Yawn...
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