Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Innovation without Wisdom Is like Life without Love
#928 | Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTechnological innovation is outpacing social, economic, and political innovation. The implementation of technological innovation, driven by profit motives, is suppressing our potential to harness advancements to make life more wonderful for the entire human family, not just the privileged few.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The Palestine Lab: Exporting Occupation Technology
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Antony Loewenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2025 - Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that, as filmmaker and journalist Antony Loewenstein warns, will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
The Mein Kampf of the “New” Global Far Right
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Meer – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - How Old Fascist Doctrines Are Recycled to Shape Today’s Authoritarian Politics
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Did the Nobel Peace Committee Aid Venezuela’s Invasion by Trump?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSource of the information: Google AI - Can It Be Considered that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, by Awarding Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize, Has Indirectly or Politically Supported the Trump Administration to Invade Venezuela?
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND MEMBERS
The Narco Trap: When Power Chooses Its Criminals and Its Heroes
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2025 - There are moments in geopolitics where reality becomes so absurd it feels like satire — and yet, it’s official policy. The word “narcotrafficking” has now become one of those magic labels politicians use not to describe crime, but to justify power plays, invasions, coups, and sanctions.
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Appeal for Mediation in Sudan Civil War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThese conflicts were organized along ethnic and religious lines.The conflicts led to the creation of a new state, South Sudan, where tensions are also strong. Mediation efforts should be carried out under the responsibility of the United Nations. However, non-governmental organizations may play a positive role.
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Tetrahedral Configuration of Embodied Knowledge in Metabolic Cycles
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - The appropriateness of a tetrahedral model of disparate domains has been extensively discussed separately as a form of mnemonic geometry offering clues on how to "kiss-touch" and "make-up."
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Go Tell It on the Mountain: Genocide Is Wrong
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2025 - While Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues, the Israeli government paves the way for a ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank.
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Humanity Is Under the Rubble of 500 Years Old Racial Capitalism, Unipolar or Multipolar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2025 - Whatever the name of the state (or even states), US or BRICS, the logic of Capital has locked the policy options of these political entities and, consequently, the fate of humans in perpetual misery while ever increasing – not reversing – the ecological threat to our collective existence as a species.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki Stands with Sudan
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe UN and humanitarian agencies now describe Sudan as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world with estimates of the displaced ranging from 9 to 13 million, at least a million more than the 8 million displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Seven million remain within Sudanese borders with the rest sheltering in neighboring countries.
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Denmark’s Ritual of Militarisation: The Copenhagen Security Summit 2025
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 8 Dec 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes with 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, being one of Denmark’s largest gatherings on geopolitics and security. A showcase of the Military‑Industrial‑Media‑Academic Complex MIMAC, not wanting to know what peace and coexistence could be.
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Gender-Based Violence in Abrahamic Scriptures: A Comparative Analysis of Femicide, Malecide, and Gross Disruption of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Comparative Hermeneutic Analysis of Gendered Harm and Its Societal Consequences.
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IN FOCUS
Witch Hunt: The Heretic and the Inquisition–Why the West Fears Francesca Albanese
Michael Leonardi | Counterpunch - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories is the “witch” being hunted by the Western powers because she represents the truth of international law against the brute force of the geopolitical narrative. She dismantles the fiction that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
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Xenophobia Runs the World
Somdeep Sen | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - From Washington to Copenhagen and Pretoria, blaming migrants has become the easiest governing strategy of our time.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing “Narco-Dictator” Convicted of Drug Trafficking
Jared Olson and Noah Hurowitz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2025 - Juan Orlando Hernández received a pardon for drug trafficking. Trump is threatening to oust Nicolás Maduro over similar allegations.
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How Pearl Harbor Day Threatens Venezuela
David Swanson | Let's Try Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2025 - Trump is openly threatening war on Venezuela in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, and has already for nearly three months been openly murdering everyone aboard numerous boats — a crime whether it’s murder or whether it’s war.
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Kristi Noem Lies: Stop the Deportation of 340,000 Haitians with Temporary Protected Status
Charlie Hinton – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAccording to a new Department of Homeland Security notice issued on Wednesday [3 Dec], TPS for approximately 340,000 Haitian refugees will be terminated next year. DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, said that Haiti no longer faces ‘extraordinary and temporary conditions’ that would prevent nationals from returning.
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The Corruption Is the Point
Janine R. Wedel | Project Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Nov 2025 - While Donald Trump's use of the presidency to enrich himself is unprecedented in American history, it does have analogues. In fact, by appointing incompetent subordinates who owe him everything, Trump recalls a tried-and-tested Stalinist practice.
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A Master Class in Rhetorical Interventions
Oakley Thomas Hill - TRANSCEND Media ServiceUtah Governor Spencer Cox Responds to Kirk Assassination
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EUROPE
Public Broadcasters Quit Eurovision 2026 over Participation of Israel
Ana Vračar | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - Broadcasters from Slovenia, Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands plan to exit Eurovision 2026 after the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow Israel to participate.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Latin America: The Trump Corollary
Eric Ross | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2025 - Bloody U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro
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Hegseth ‘Responsible’ for ‘Murder’: Family Files Formal Complaint Over Killing of Colombian Fisherman
Jon Queally | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2025 - According to the official filing, Trump’s Defense Secretary “has admitted that he gave such orders despite the fact that he did not know the identity of those being targeted for these bombings and extra-judicial killings.”
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Maduro Rejects a ‘Slave’s Peace’ for Venezuela as US Ramps Up Pressure
Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2025 - Thousands rally in Caracas in support of President Nicolas Maduro as concerns grow over potential US military action against Venezuela.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Is The Arab Time Capsule Out of Time?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAuthoritarianism and Tainted Foods Changed the Arab Mindset
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted: Inside Gaza’s Fight for Privacy and Survival
Joshua Scheer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2025 - In Gaza, surveillance has become as relentless as the bombing. In “Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza,” author Mohammed R. Mhawish, describes how Israeli forces use cameras, drones and digital tracking to monitor — and control — every move of Palestinians.
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A Ceasefire in Name Only: Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
Binoy Kampmark | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2025 - A ceasefire can be a strange thing. Especially a Fake Ceasefire.
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Rebranding Genocide
Selma Dabbagh | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Nov 2025 - The ceasefire was a transition to another phase of land grabbing. The killing of Palestinians is now surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating in the West Bank, where armed settlers, backed by the army, strut freely into Palestinian homes and gardens.
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US Plan for Gaza: Forced Ghettoisation, Annexation, Mass Detention, Resource Plunder
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis plan entrenches long-term illegal control and the forcible de facto annexation of territory. It imposes unlawful collective imprisonment on the civilian population, in clear violation of international law and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.
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UNITED NATIONS
First ‘International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures’
Jill Clark-Gollub and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn June of 2025, the UNGA designated December 4 as the annual 'International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures,' urging States to stop using them (commonly called “sanctions,” "blockade") because they violate international law and impose collective punishment.
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Israeli Raids and Settler Attacks Deepen Humanitarian Crisis in West Bank
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2025 - A spike in Israeli military raids and settler violence across the occupied West Bank is driving new displacement, shutting schools and disrupting essential services for tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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The UN Cannot Save Us so We Need a World Parliament Now
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2025 - The world community's main protectors, the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, are denied adequate power to stop war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other world crimes. When the most powerful nations are rogue, the world community stands by, frustrated and helpless to prevent the carnage and injustice.
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CAPITALISM
Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise
Nelson Lichtenstein | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2025 - Review of Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert - Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.
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MILITARISM
Israel Uses Video from Gaza Genocide to Market Arms to European, Asian Countries
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - Israeli defence companies pitched weapons systems to dozens of European and Asian countries by highlighting their role in Israel’s onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza. Despite banning Israeli officials from a recent defence show, British officials turned up to check out Israeli weapons deployed in the Gaza genocide.
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Global Mine Ban Treaty Meeting Ends with Withdrawals by Five States
Beyza Binnur Donmez | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - The 22nd meeting of states parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention concluded in Geneva today with expressions of "regret" over the withdrawals of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland.
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Led by US, Revenue of Major Weapons Makers Hit All-Time High in 2024
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2025 - “Last year global arms revenues reached the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI as producers capitalized on high demand,” said researcher behind annual report.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Godfather of AI Predicts Total Breakdown of Society
Frank Landymore | Futurism - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Nov 2025 - Geoffrey Hinton, one of the three so-called “godfathers” of AI, never misses an opportunity to issue foreboding proclamations about the tech he helped create. Tech billionaires "are really betting on AI replacing a lot of workers."
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EDUCATION
Books on Peace Education
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServiceVictor Hugo once said, "A human being who can read has been saved." Reading to be saved means saved from oppression, dependence and hunger.
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MEDIA
The Billionaire Family Poised to Rewire U.S. Media in Israel’s Favor
Will Alden | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2025 - Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.
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Ah, Good Old War Propaganda
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2025 - The most common misconception about the free press of the western world is that it exists.
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Files Expose Britain’s Secret D-Notice Censorship Regime
Kit Klarenberg and William Evans | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2025 - Documents reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The Committee boasts a “90% + success rate” in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely.
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POETRY FORMAT
Too Heavy to Bear
Sanjeewani Rupasinghe - TRANSCEND Media ServiceInspired by the Landslides in Sri Lanka’s Mountains - 2 Dec 2025
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Dress Code (!?)
Rima Najjar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceImpeccable Hosts... (Ask Zelenskyy :-)
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
The War on Woke
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2025 - Our Modern World
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Detenuti dal Canada: un’esperienza sconcertante
Hilal Elver & Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dicembre 2025 - Detenuti dal Canada: l’accusa di minacciare la sicurezza nazionale del Canada pareva così sproporzionatamente enorme a confronto con le nostre effettive capacità lungamente dimostrate.
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(Catalan) “La invasió dels bàrbars”: memòria històrica per un futur lliure de feixisme
Joan Pedro-Carañana, et al. | Diari La Veu Del País Valencià - TRANSCEND Media Service9 de novembre de 2025 - Vicent Monsonís i el seu equip evidencien la propagada i les mentides, tant del règim franquista, com de sectors conservadors ja en temps de democràcia, incloent-hi les tècniques de manipulació orwelliana del llenguatge, simplificació, orquestració i construcció de l’enemic únic: qui no compartix les idees del mandatari és un roig perillós.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
How U.S. Surveillance State Expanded and Thrived Despite Snowden’s Revelations
Glenn Greenwald | System Update – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2025 - Glenn Answers Your Questions on Escalating War on Venezuela, an Un-American Candidate in TX, Trump's Loyalty to Miriam Adelson…
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Lonely Baby Elephant Surrounded by Hyena Pack —Watch the Happy Ending
People & Animals - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2025 - Something Good for a Change--Inspiring
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I Feel Love (Music Video of the Week)
Donna Summer - TRANSCEND Media ServiceDonna Summer's Unforgettable 1977 Hit
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