Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Destroy Hamas? No! End the Gaza War and Begin the Peace Process!
#844 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn Northern Ireland Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists learned to share power even though organizations like the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defense Alliance had both massacred “enemy” civilians. Black and white South Africans agreed on a new political order even though militants of the African National Congress and the National Party had terrorized each other for decades.... Destroying Hamas, it seems clear, is not the road to peace.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
October 7
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Mar 2024 - Hamas’s incursion into Israel on 7 Oct transformed the politics of the Middle East. Al Jazeera carried out a forensic analysis of the events and found that many of the stories that came out were false, such as the mass killing of babies and allegations of widespread and systematic rape. In particular, claims by the IDF that it found 8 burned babies were entirely untrue.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
How Can Peace Journalism Grow?
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace journalism aims to provide news from conflict zones focused on peacebuilding and the work of peacebuilders. This is in stark contrast to mainstream news coverage that focuses on violence, the voice of elites, propaganda and victory framing.
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Other Commentaries
SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUp to 14 Apr 2024: 33,686 + killed* and at least 76,309 wounded in the Gaza Strip. 462+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. *Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the over 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: Over 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
There Is No Grudge That Cannot Be Resolved: China’s Xi Jinping to Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service“[There is] [n]o problem that cannot be talked through. And there are no forces that can separate us,” Xi Jinping said in momentous Beijing meeting.
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Invitation: Beyond War and Violence as a Way to Resolve Conflict in the Territories of Israel and Palestine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - Israeli peace activist calls for the creation of a new forum to explore nonviolent solutions to the ongoing horrific violence in Israeli and Palestinian territory.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Harmonizing Dissonance via a Rubik’s Cube Framework
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Apr 2024 - Experimental Guide to Navigation of Hypersensitive Global Polarization - There is no lack of reference to global division and polarization: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Vaccination-Antivax. Each of these now constrains discourse -- even to the point of dividing families, friends, communities, or collegial groups.
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Rwanda Genocide: The Lasting Consequences of Armed Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 7 April 2024, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, lit the memorial flame of the monument to the victims of the 1994 genocide during which some 800,000 persons, mostly ethnic Tutsi, were killed. Paul Kagame in 1994 was the head of a Tutsi-led militia, the Rwanda Patriotic Front which put an end to the massacres in Rwanda.
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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2024 - Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
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Gaza Destroyed, Aid Workers Murdered: A Deliberate Israeli Strategy?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - The missile attack on WCK was a war crime; a crime against humanity and part of a genocidal Likud plan to eliminate Gazans from the Mediterranean coastline that they have occupied for a thousand years.
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Israeli Milestones: From Six Day Victory to Six Month Failure
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - We have passed the tipping point. The unrelenting slaughter of Palestinian civilians over the past six months has forever changed the perception of Israel in the West. Israel is now widely seen internationally as a “bad guy” similar to how the US was seen in the late 60’s in Vietnam.
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Elections in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva: A Lesson in the Transformation of Democracy in Religious Autocracy (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis paper is written as an objective analysis of the current political climate in India, prior to the general election, being the largest democracy in the world. Readers are invited to discuss any statements, perceived as biased and prejudiced, with the author.
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Regressive Populism and the Resilience Imperative: Evading Global Challenges
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis is the foreword I wrote to a recent book on the rise of ultra-nationalist populism around the world by the distinguished British author and historian, Deepak Tripathi. What is depicted in the book is emblematic of the populist and inter-governmental myopia that has become a menacing characteristic of the global setting.
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Politics of Road Show
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA new technique has been evolved by political parties in India to come in contact with the electorate and canvass for their support and vote. This technique is popularly called Road Show.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Praxis Peace Institute – Mondragon Seminar and Tour
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media ServicePraxis Peace Institute offers a 5-day seminar at the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondragón businesses, a Research & Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondragón University, and much more!
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SPOTLIGHT
Gaza Asks Us a Question about What Kind of Future We Want to Have
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2024 - A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. [Are 21st century human beings savage under the illusion of being civilized? --TMS Editor]
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire.
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IN FOCUS
Ukraine and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant: The Samson Solution
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 -A Biblical story: Having been betrayed and captured by the Philistines, Samson ends his life by exerting his great strength and pulling down the pillars he was chained to. The building falls down killing everyone.
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Violating Diplomatic Missions
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 - The Premises of the Diplomatic Missions Shall Be Inviolable - From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.
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EUROPE
Germany Bans Yanis Varoufakis from Entering the Country
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Apr 2024 - The German Ministry of the Interior has issued a ban against DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis including online participation at political events in the country after the police shut down the Palestine Congress to take place from April 12 to 14 in Berlin.
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The Speech That I Could Not Deliver Because German Police Burst to Disband Our Palestine Congress
Yanis Varoufakis | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2024 - Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words (1930s style):
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For Roma, Justice Truly Is Blind
Jonathan Lee | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2024 - Europe’s courts fail to deliver justice to Roma abused by police even presented with overwhelming video evidence.
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Ukraine May Have to Compromise with Russia, Says NATO Chief Stoltenberg
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceUkraine may ultimately have to agree to some kind of compromise with Russia to end the conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC published on April 6, adding that it is up to the West to ensure Kiev achieves an “acceptable result.”
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Twenty Years Commemoration of the “March Pogrom” in Kosovo
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - Kosovo was the first time in European history that a terrorist-style and mafia-ruled (quasi)independent state was created by a full diplomatic, political, economic, military, and financial sponsorship by the West under the umbrella of the NATO's and the EU's protective administration.
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JUSTICE
Five Years at Belmarsh: A Chronicle of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 - Calls for Assange's freedom are renewed as the WikiLeaks founder marks five years in Belmarsh prison.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Horror and Hope in Haiti after 20 Years of Occupation
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2024 - The immediate crisis in Haiti goes back to the 29 Feb 2004 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the imposition of occupation forces, first by the US, France and Canada, then by a larger UN force, dubbed MINUSTAH, which, while overseeing the police, participated in several documented massacres, and introduced cholera in 2010.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 191: Iran Launches Retaliatory Strikes on Israel as Israeli Settlers Rampage in the West Bank
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Apr 2024 - Iran said that its retaliation for Israel's 1 Apr attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus would be "deemed concluded," while Biden reportedly told Netanyahu that the U.S. would not back an Israeli counterattack.
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44% of All Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 7 Are Children
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
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‘Come Out, You Animals’: How the Massacre at Al-Shifa Hospital Happened
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 - Human heads eaten by crows, unidentified and decomposing body parts, and hundreds of corpses piled up and buried in mass graves are all that remained of the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital where the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, executing hundreds of civilians.
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Weaponising Underwear: Genocide with a Semi-Pornographic Twist
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2024 - Let’s pretend for a moment that Hamas militants from Gaza were posing for social media with lingerie from Israeli women who fled their homes or were killed. Imagine the moral outrage that would ensue, entailing racist and self-righteous allegations of Arab perverseness, the barbaric sexism of Islam, and the tendencies of sexually repressed Muslims.
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Israel’s Message: ‘Don’t Feed the Palestinians or You Will Die’
Andrew Mitrovica | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2024 - The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” The killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israel’s brutal ‘rules of engagement’.
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UNITED NATIONS
Israel’s UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood
Bradford Betz | Fox News - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2024 - Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)
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As Palestine Applies for Full UN Membership, What’s in the Way?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2024 - History set to be repeated as the US prepares to wield veto, cynically insisting Palestine must negotiate statehood with Israel first.
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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2024 - In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).
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United Nations Continues to Face Aid Access Denials in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2024 - Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in Geneva. “They deny and that is it, and it ends there. We do not get an explanation,” he said.
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EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
British Media and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceApril 2024 - An Exploration of Modern British Media and Propaganda - This analysis shows that Britain, although no longer a formal empire, remains a leading player in the field of international war propaganda and atrocity propaganda.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
A.I. Systems That Manipulate the Human Nervous System, Thoughts, Emotions and Perceptions Should Be Banned Outright
Michel Chossudovsky and Mojmir Babacek | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Apr 2024 - They Derogate Fundamental Human Rights - Open Letter to the European Parliament
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Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2024 - Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the DOD build software for military operations months after OpenAI ended its prohibition against military work. Contradiction: OpenAI describes its mission as developing AI that can benefit all of humanity.
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI
Cade Metz, et al. | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 - OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
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ENVIRONMENT
World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2024 - The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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GREAT RESET
World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2024 - Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!
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The Dark Origins of the Davos’ Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2024 - Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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REVIEWS
Extractivism in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media ServiceApril 2024 – The idea of extractivism is a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth’s resources since the mid-twentieth century threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.
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POETRY FORMAT
The Moon
Mosab Abu Toha – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHer small belly, her chest, her forehead, her hands, her cold feet bare in the night.
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Eclipse
Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHaiku Poem on the Total Solar Eclipse of 8 Apr 2024
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INSPIRATIONAL
Socrates Redux
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAssange as Socrates
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Dopo Impero USA: un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media ServiceNonviolenza, sofisticazione, mondo, e norme di traffico domestiche/nazionali anziché interminabile interventismo per qualunque scopo. Possa l’attuale miscela asiatica di antica saggezza ed energia giovanile ispirare un mondo saturo di pessimismo e paura.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service8 Aprile 2024 - C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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(Português) O Silêncio de Deus e a Morte dos Inocentes: Deus Por Que Te Calas?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service10 abril 2024 - Vivemos globalmente num mundo trágico, cheio de incertezas, de ameaças e de perguntas para as quais não temos respostas. Para onde estamos indo? para o prolongamento do atual modo de habitar a Terra, devastando-a para um maior enriquecimento de poucos, ou mudaremos de rumo?
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Extractivism
Dio Cramer | Science for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service?????????????
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
All the News That Fits
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSame old, same old...
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Why India’s Election Is Such a Big Deal
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIndia’s Election Explained
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Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen
Arwa Damon | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Apr 2024 - "Nothing goes in and out of Gaza without Israel's approval. That includes aid, and that includes people. The zone needs to be flooded not only with aid but also with humanitarian workers."
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Sri Narasimha Prayer for Protection from Fear and Anxiety (Music Video of the Week)
ISKCON Bangalore Music – TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday I offer you a Music Video very different from the usual mundane. Enjoy the music, the choreography and the setting: beautiful, captivating and pleasant, exuding spirituality.
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