Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Will a World without Israel Be Safer and More Peaceful?
#962 | Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media ServiceBy all indications, Israel itself – that is, its apartheid policies towards Palestinians, its pursuit of Hitlerite “Mein Kampf in reverse” in the Occupied Palestine and its unmistakably Exceptionalist behaviour worldwide–has become the primary driver behind worldwide moral outrage.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
NATO Pushes Europe toward Total Collapse
Dr. Jan Oberg | World Affairs In Context – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jul 2026 - --> Countdown to All-Out War Has Begun
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Why the U.S. Military is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Abby Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service29 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.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Can One Philosophy Fit the Whole World?
Jan Krikke – TRANSCEND Media Service15 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.
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Why the Odyssey?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWe live at a time when the nature of reality and illusion is particularly fragile, time and space jumbled like dice in a cup, and nostalgia for a real or imaginary home quite intense. The sociologist Zygmunt Baumann coined it “liquid modernity."
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Trump, Elections, and Democracy: How We Can Move Beyond Electoral Fetishism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow could a vulgar upstart and political amateur like Trump defeat a seasoned professional like Hilary? It must have been a Russian plot! Few Democrats these days have much to say about “Russiagate.”
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The New Holocaust Deniers Are Netanyahu, Katz and Trump
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service“Israel Hit Gaza Refugee Camp" was the 29 July news headline on Al Jazeera. Who but war criminals would bomb a refugee camp filled with women and children? Have Israelis forgotten what the Nazis did to Jews in Europe?
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The ECO: Africa Does Not Need a New Name for an Old Leash
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2026 - The history of money and the money of history cannot be separated from that of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which is set to introduce the ECO currency in 2027.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Memorial Ceremonies
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service- William Stafford’s Peace Poem for the Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Ceremony on 6 Aug 2026. - St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Peace Speech for the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Memorial Ceremony on 9 Aug 2026.
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One Democratic State
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jul 2026 - The predicted imminent collapse in the West Bank (a prelude to the Gaza scenario) is beginning to happen: no gas, no money, ethnic cleansing, pogroms by settlers etc. This should remind us of certain truths.
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World Citizens Oppose China’s Ethnic Unity Law
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jul 2026 - The Chinese Government limits ethnic minorities with a new Ethnic Unity law which expands state control over identity, culture, and religious practice.
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Kazi Syed Gyasuddin: Life, Law, and Public Service in the Making of Maharashtra
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFrom the Deccan Sultanates to modern India, the office of the Qazi evolved from a judicial institution rooted in Islamic jurisprudence into a broader tradition of legal scholarship, public service, and constitutional leadership.
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IN FOCUS
Humanity at Crossroads: Where Are the Peacemakers?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGlobal Leaders Who Could Not Think as Normal Human Beings
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Militarism, Inequality and Poverty: Ways Out of the Vicious Circle
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2026 - While the world carries on business as usual, humanity moves from one tragedy to another. Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and many more. With bodies scattered, broken families, cities in ruins and endless suffering of people, it seems all value to life is lost.
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ACTIVISM
“Becoming an Activist Is Not a Rational Thing:” A Conversation with RLA Laureate Walden Bello
Right Livelihood - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jul 2026 - Walden Bello received the Right Livelihood Award in 2003 and remained a leading voice on the global left: an author, former member of the Philippine Congress, and lifelong activist. What set him on this path, the importance of conviction, and his advice for young people finding their way into activism.
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Israeli Defense Forces Mental Health Crisis Deepens
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2026 - Two Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide in the Past Two Days - Israeli High School Seniors Continue to Go to Prison Instead of Into the Israeli Military
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Protest in Venice, Italy as Trump’s Ambassador Shows Off Massive Yacht
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - 'MAGA - Make America Go Away' - The yacht cost $450 million (£341.6 million) and boasts six floors, two helipads and multiple swimming pools. People during the march were confronted by police force. They hear speeches and project their outrage at the US.
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JUSTICE
With Karim Khan’s Dismissal, the Elimination of the War Crimes Court (ICC) Is Near-Complete
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jul 2026 - Millions of people around the globe will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court.
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BRICS
‘Black Day for Democracy’: Indian Police Bash and Gas Youth-Led ‘Cockroach’ Protesters
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jul 2026 - Indian protesters rallying today in New Delhi under the banner of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party were brutally attacked by police. “It’s just shocking to see that the people we elected have turned a blind eye to youth dying,” said one protester.
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EDUCATION
India: Teaching a Lesson
Eram Agha | The Caravan/After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2026 - Over the past decade, the Narendra Modi government has attempted to centralise the multiple doors into higher education. Singular national examinations by the National Testing Agency were established in 2017. Medical entrances, the first to be centralised, were a portend of the effects this would have.
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EUROPE
The Ostrich and the Iron: Why Europe’s Geopolitical Somnambulism Is about to End
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe train of history is accelerating, and Europe is currently tied to the tracks, still arguing about the seating chart in the first-class carriage. The awakening will not be a conversation; it will be an impact.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Venezuela, Memory, and the Long Arc of U.S. Imperialism
Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2026 - Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state--by force.
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Cuba’s Influence in the Demise of South Africa’s ‘Apartheid:’ A Silenced History
Mirko Casale | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jul 2026 - In 1948, racial segregation was implanted in South Africa, by which the black African population was marginalized by laws from a white minority of European settlers. Cuba’s true contribution to the fight against ‘apartheid’ extended far beyond South Africa’s borders.
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New Forms of Political Criminalization in Latin America
Alejandra Garcia Elizalde | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jul 2026 - The meeting convened by Marco Rubio against “left-wing extremism” has reignited a debate in Latin America over the so-called “internal enemy.” It reflects the continuation of doctrines implemented during the Cold War.
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SPOTLIGHT
The Narco-Slavers of Chihuahua – ‘We Were Simply Animals’
Marcela Turati et al. | Equator - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2026 - What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
The World’s Silence on Gaza Once Headlines Fade
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jul 2026 - The tapering off of news coverage on the US-Israeli genocide has done little to abate the violence. In fact, its permanence is precisely what allows the world to look away.
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How Israel Uses Settler-Soldier Terror to Colonise the West Bank
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jul 2026 - Settler attacks are not isolated incidents. They are all part of a strategy to grab land and colonise.
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‘This Is Not a Ceasefire,’ Doctors Without Borders Says of Gaza, ‘It Is a Continuation of the Genocide’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2026 - “A ceasefire should ensure that hostilities are paused, weapons are silenced, and that people are safe from strikes.” Nearly 10 months into a “ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, Doctors Without Borders declared that “the wounds of war are not only unhealed—they are still being inflicted.”
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“It seems as if Hitler has won. He’s changed us Jews into this vicious, genocidal, nationalist nation.”
Miriam Margolyes - TRANSCEND Media Service-- British Jewish Actress Miriam Margolyes
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ACADEMIA-KNOWLEDGE-SCHOLARSHIP
How Neoliberal Academia Became the Propaganda Machinery for Perpetuating Systemic Ecocide and Genocide
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jul 2026 - Neoliberal academia presents itself as enlightened, critical, and globally connected. In reality, much of it has become one of the key legitimating institutions of the very order that produces ecocide, genocidal conditions, and massive human-rights violations.
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EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman
Loubna N Morris | Academia - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn his book, 'The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman' (2006), Peter Rost argues and reveals a big number of the fraudulent practices, the violations of the laws that govern the pharmaceutical industry, and the injustice he witnessed during his work with pharmaceutical companies Wyeth, Pharmacia, and Pfizer.
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COVID19 - CORONAVIRUS
Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-Led US Senate COVID Hearing
Ahmed Aboulenein | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media ServicePaul and Fauci have long clashed over COVID-19 origins Fauci accuses senator of "slanderous comments" Paul released 1,141 pages of Fauci's pandemic-era diary Fauci lawyer says Paul seeks "pathological" retribution
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SPIRITUALITY
Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe surety of science about what happens when we die, like the surety of religion, is only speculative, for it is conceived by the living.
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POETRY FORMAT
There Will Be Times, Oh My Child, When It All Seems Hopeless
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe sky is red, and the moon has a FOR SALE sign, and parts of Palestinians are turning up in our tap water.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) In Cammino Per La Pace E Il Disarmo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service2 ago 2026 - Monte Sole- Sant’Anna di Stazzema, 5-7 e 11-12 agosto 2026 - Il gruppo del Cammino per la Pace e il disarmo sta ultimando i preparativi per la partenza fissata per il 5 agosto prossimo.
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(Français) La France de Macron : Quand le « Pays des Lumières » éteint l’Interrupteur
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLe théâtre de l'Élysée ne change plus de décor, il change simplement de masque. Le 1er août 2026 restera sans doute dans les annales de la tartufferie républicaine comme le jour où l'arrogance du pouvoir a franchi le Rubicon de l'absurde.
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(norsk) Når rosene er borte: Norges kamp mot rasisme begynner dagen etter
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service28. juli 2026 - Norge minnes nå at det har gått femten år siden en høyreekstrem terrorist tok livet av 77 personer i regjeringskvartalet og på Utøya. Nå går vi inn i den mest krevende fasen: tirsdagen etter hendelse
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Exposing the Lies and Secrets of the Nuclear Era
Nobel Peace Talks – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe film and the conversation give unique insights into contemporary nuclear dangers, including the emerging threat of AI-enabled weapons systems in a launch-on-warning environment. Most critically, it outlines practical steps to help prevent nuclear catastrophe.
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Hiroshima: Minute by Minute
DocuReal - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis minute-by-minute account immerses you in the key turning points that reshaped the course of history - and redefined the boundaries of humanity, warfare, and global power forever.
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Complicit: How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jul 2026 - Since 7 Oct 2023, Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank; more than 230, children. Attacks by settlers on Palestinian communities have increased, destroying property and capturing livestock, driving families from their homes. The IDF has launched a large-scale assault on the densely populated Jenin refugee camp.
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