Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Climbing the Path of Self-Acceptance: An Autobiographical Narrative
#904 | Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceI submitted this editorial to TMS on the psychic healing process of physical injury because it seemed so congruent with healing in public spheres of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and transcendence, so brilliantly articulated by Johan Galtung throughout his long life experience.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Oliver Stone: They Always Kill the Socrates
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service25 May 2025 - US film director Oliver Stone addresses the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day for the Allies in World War 2.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Peace in an Authoritarian International Order Versus Peace in the Liberal International Order
Oliver P. Richmond | The Royal Institute of International Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service2025 - There may well be a correlation between the recent increase in war and displacement and the retreat of peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding as effective tools since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Just Say No!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media ServiceI know where I stand, I will not join the mad call to war by any government, and invite young men and women to join me in refusing to kill fellow humans, or to die, or get injured--their lives are sacred and precious.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
TMS Donations LOW!
TMS TeamDear readers, supporters, friends, unfortunately the low level of financial contributions to our work have made our budget to reach the Red Line again. At a time when the maniacs leading the world’s destiny are bent on more destruction, mayhem, WWIII, our Peace Journalism becomes more crucial, important and relevant than ever.
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SOCIALISM - MARXISM
Einstein: Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service“Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.”
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Ambivalence toward Resistance as a Human Right: Matters of Law and Policy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jun 2025 - I publish here my foreword to Shannonbrooke Murphy’s path-breaking book on the right of resistance. Murphy provides readers with a comprehensive framework for thinking about resistance to public authority in a variety of settings.
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Fundamental Strategic Importance of Skin as a Metaphor
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jun 2025 - Comparison of Relevance to Leadership by Distinct Artificial Intelligences - The strategic and operational significance of "skin" has been clarified at length by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his discussion of "skin in the game" as a metaphor.
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NY Times and Roger Cohen Promote War Again
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe NYT has been a major promoter of US "regime change" operations for decades. Today, regarding a US attack on Iran, it is again performing this role despite many readers being skeptical or opposed.
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Prediction with the Main Reasons: The US Will Bomb Iran to Bring about a Regime Change
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jun 2025 - We’ve seen it repeatedly: You invent a pretext based on deliberate lies, fake news, exaggerations or a false flag operation which serves to construct a story that country or leader X is a threat to “us” which legitimates that we do a ‘preemptive’ strike against that – obviously invented – threat to eliminate it.
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Annual Peace Odyssey: The Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServicePilgrimage in every religion is commercialized by entrepreneurs, often detracting from the original peace essence of a pilgrimage; the undertaking is a spiritual journey involving introspection and reflection, literally in conversation with the Divine.
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21 June: A Joyous Summer Solstice
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Summer Solstice, the longest light of the year, has featured strongly in European folklore and spirituality: a time to worship the deities of the sun.
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Gaza Genocide: Day 624
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jun 2025 - Two nuclear armed regimes run by lunatics bombing a non-nuclear country now to bring on the looked for Armageddon! Sirens blaring here in Bethlehem on day 624 of the accelerated genocide.
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ACTIVISM
Resistance Works
David Vine | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jun 2025 - How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
The Folly of a War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jun 2025 - Israel and its neoconservative allies in the United States have long attempted to start a war with Iran, a war that neither Israel nor the U.S. can win and will engender ferocious blowback.
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The War against Iran: 30 Years in the Making
Dr. Piers Robinson | Int'l Center for 9/11 Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jun 2025 - Western publics should be under no illusion as to how this situation has come to be. The ongoing conflicts are the direct consequence of our governments pursuing policies of war and, to do so, engaging in major deceptions, including 9/11.
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Stop Netanyahu before He Gets Us All Killed
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jun 2025 - We could soon see several nuclear powers pitted against each other and dragging the world closer to nuclear annihilation.
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The Key Nuclear Allegation That Started the Iran-Israeli War Was Coaxed from a Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm
Alastair Crooke | Conflicts Forum’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jun 2025 - The IAEA Board's 12 Jun 2025 'Non-Compliance Resolution' was the planned precursor for Israel's strike on Iran the next day. The plan to go to war with Iran was grounded in 'the opportunity' to strike, and not the intelligence that Iran was speeding towards a bomb.
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After Iraq There’s No Excuse for Buying the War Lies about Iran
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jun 2025 - “OMG nuclear weapons!” Shut up, idiot. If you’re a grown adult with internet access still swallowing this load of bull spunk in the year 2025 you’re either stupid or evil.
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The Illegal Attack on Iran
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jun 2025 - Israel’s attacks on Iran, backed by the US and EU, violate international law aiming to maintain regional dominance. Since the 2020 U.S. assassination of General Soleimani, Washington and Tel Aviv had been working to weaken Tehran. Now Israel smells an opportunity to overthrow the Iranian government by force. Big mistake.
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IN FOCUS
Rogue States: The illegality of the U.S.-backed Israeli Attacks on Iran
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jun 2025 - The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat.
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The Evolution of Leftist and Liberal Ideas from the 18th Century to Today
Prof. Ernesto Kahan – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jun 2025 - From Enlightened Liberty to Global Double Standards - The American and French revolutions not only transformed political power but also set in motion a radical shift in how human beings understand themselves within society.
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ANGLO AMERICA
War with Iran: We Are Opening Pandora’s Box
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jun 2025 - Blinded by hubris, believing their own hallucinations, they have learned none of the lessons of the last two decades of warfare in the Middle East. A war with Iran will be a self-defeating and costly quagmire, one more nail in the rotting edifice of the empire.
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NATO
NATO, USA, WWIII: World’s Peoples Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 24 and 25 June, members of NATO will strut around the streets of The Hague for their annual summit. As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Nepal: Proto-Nationalism Entrapped in the Musical Chair Circle of Political Parties and Floundering Economy
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNepal’s location between India and China should have been a blessing. However, Nepal’s leaders, policymakers and economists failed to grasp the socio-economic transformations ushered in by technology, innovation and the digital revolution; they remain locked in an outdated “black-box-thinking” of the past.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Persia, Iran, and the Great Arab Mix-up: A Sarcastic Stroll through History to Today’s Messy War
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIranians are not Arabs. They are Persians, predominantly, with a rich history that stretches back to when most of the world was still figuring out how to make fire.
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Will Israel Continue to Attack Iran until the International Community Approves the Eradication of Palestine?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service16 June 2025 - The Israeli attacks on Iran that began on 13 Jun were initially limited to homes of Iranian military officials but gradually began to target the oil and gas infrastructure and Iranian government buildings.
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Crusade against Iran and the Complicity of Western Decadent Civilizations
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWestern Political Morality Lost its Values
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s Aid Death Traps for Starving Gazans
Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jun 2025 - Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’
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Israel Is Out of Control: “A Terrorist Government That Endangers International Peace”
Alfred de Zayas | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jun 2025 - Currently Israel has a terrorist government that endangers international peace and security within the meaning of article 39 of the UN Charter. Hitherto action by the Security Council has been blocked by the abuse of the veto power by the United States.
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Israeli Tanks Kill 59 Palestinians Trying to Get Food Aid in Gaza, Medics Say
Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jun 2025 - Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating; Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd in Khan Younis; Hundreds have been killed trying to get food in past three weeks.
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIsrael’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Chief ‘Gravely Alarmed’ by US Bombing of Iranian Nuclear Sites
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jun 2025 - António Guterres described the US bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a “dangerous escalation” today following eight days of deadly strikes and counter strikes between Tehran and Tel Aviv.
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UN Rights Office ‘Horrified’ by Deadly Violence at Gaza Food Distribution Sites
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jun 2025 - As the pall of starvation hangs over Gaza, UN agencies have sounded the alarm over deadly violence at food distribution points, where over 400 Palestinians have reportedly been killed in recent weeks while trying to access desperately needed humanitarian aid.
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ENVIRONMENT
Climate Misinformation Turning Crisis into Catastrophe, Report Says
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jun 2025 - False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.
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ACADEMIA-KNOWLEDGE-SCHOLARSHIP
Academia at the Crossroads: Indoctrination, Systemic Violence, and the Security Risks of Rentier Capitalism
Koenraad Priels | TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jun 2025 - As the world faces an accelerating socio-ecological catastrophe, the role of academia has become both more crucial and more contested than ever before.
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RELIGION
The Profound Influence of and Dialogue with Islam on Mahatma Gandhi’s Peace and Ethical Philosophies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUnveiling the Overlooked - Presently, in Narendra Modi’s India, the media, academics, film producers, authors, researchers and politicians are absolutely cautious in mentioning and crediting, Muslims and Islam for any contribution made to India, now officially called Bharat.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
The Decider
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jun 2025 - A Clown at the White House
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) Evolución de las Ideas de Izquierda y Liberales Desde el Siglo XVIII Hasta Hoy
Ernesto Kahan | El Diario de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jun 2025 - De la Libertad Ilustrada al Doble Rasero Global - Las revoluciones americana y francesa no solo transformaron el poder político, sino que pusieron en movimiento una mutación radical en la forma en que los seres humanos se comprenden a sí mismos dentro de la sociedad.
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(Italiano) La coscienza dice NO alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSono state presentate le iniziative in corso su questo tema e si è aperta una importante riflessione collettiva che ha portato i presenti a interrogarsi su quali possibili iniziative sarebbero urgenti in un contesto sempre più contrassegnato da una incontrollabile escalation bellica che rischia di travolgere tutti.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Has Become a War Project
DiEM25 - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Jun 2025 - At an event hosted by The Left in the European Parliament and M5S Europa, and joined by Jeffrey Sachs and Giuseppe Conte, Varoufakis made the case that Europe’s military Keynesianism is not only deepening inequality and debt but also locking the continent into permanent conflict.
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