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EDITORIAL

Russia Is Not a Threat to NATO or Neutral States. Full Stop.

NATO just turned 75. During all these years, we have heard repeatedly that the “Russians”--the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact/today’s Russia--are coming! Having been wrong all this time, why do we spend trillions guarding against a threat that never happens--a bit like waiting for Godot in Beckett’s equally absurd drama?

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How Do You Define Peace? — Johan Galtung

Is the USA global dominance in decline? Discussing the future of geopolitics with the father of Peace Studies, Prof. Johan Galtung. Interview from 26 Apr 2012 [Please read a note from TMS Editor]

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Peace Journalism Training for Journalists in Afghanistan

18 Mar 2024 - A Contribution to the 'Preventing Violent Extremism-PVE Project' in the New Afghanistan

NOBEL LAUREATES

Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Nominates Burmese Activist Maung Zarni for 2024 NPP

16 Apr 2024 - Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia and the Free Rohingya Coalition jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades.” Both are members of the TRANSCEND Network.

Myanmar Activist Zarni Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Questions Award’s Legacy

20 Apr 2024 - 'I was very happy but of course that is not to say that I see a Nobel Peace Prize as something that is perfect.'

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Apr 2024

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Russia Ready for Dialogue with Ukraine, Kremlin Says

17 Apr 2024 - Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his readiness for dialogue with Ukraine and that an aborted 2022 peace deal could serve as a basis for resuming negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas

19 Apr 2024 - If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”

Mathematical Modelling of Silo Thinking in Interdisciplinary Contexts

22 Apr 2024 - AI Perspectives on Balancing Integration and Identity Faced by Strategic Complexity - Mathematics, notably through the complexity sciences, is upheld as vital to insightful understanding of complexity. Governance of global society is faced with complexity. A question of interest is whether there are mathematical insights of great potential relevance that are a challenge to comprehension.

Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel

15 Apr 2024 - What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.

Transitional Justice (Part 57): Six-Pillar of Transitional Justice

Transitional justice is to address past atrocities by bridging the gap between old and new regimes during democratic transitions. It signifies the shift from conflict to peace and political reforms through peaceful means.

On the Ideological Battlefield for the European Parliament Elections

Currently in most of the states of Western Europe, political debate is often related to the 9 June 2024 elections to the European Parliament.  There is a certain irony in the fact that the representatives of narrow nationalist parties are among the most active in these discussions.

Germany Confirms Its Collaboration with Genocide

A three-day Palestine conference in Berlin was forcibly shut down after three hours on Friday [12 Apr]. Electricity was abruptly terminated in the midst of the presentation by Salman Abu Sitta, the 87 year old author of the authoritative “Atlas of Palestine.”

Violence and Terrorism in the World Today

When some unusual problems arise, many peace loving people and governments come together to follow dynamic principles of peace justice and harmony by overcoming economic or religious constraints.

The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda

17 Apr 2024 - The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.

The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point

17 Apr 2024 - The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”

Some Thoughts on Peace from Blue Danube

May peace flow from the Danube River, from the Motoyasu River, and from the Urakami River to every corner of the world!

Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century

Some conflicts – whether between spouses, labor and management, or nations – seem to escalate out of control. They follow a malignant course toward outcomes that nobody wants. People who are caught up in such conflict usually find ample justification for blaming the other party.

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Gaza Ceasefire Petition by International Lawyers

This petition offers international lawyers to show solidarity with the grave plight of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza that is continuing to endure daily onslaught by Israel that causes widespread suffering so far supported to varying degrees by the leading liberal democracies of the West.

ACTIVISM

Yale Students Launch Hunger Strike Over School’s Connection to Gaza

15 Apr 2024 - Fourteen student activists at Yale University are on a hunger strike over the school’s connection to arms manufacturers currently supplying Israel with weaponry. They have been pushing the school to divest from Israeli human rights abuses for months, but the administration has ignored their demands.

ANGLO AMERICA

The Staged “Boston Marathon Bombing” 11 Years Ago

15 Apr 2024 - 11 years ago today, the staged “Boston Marathon bombing” took place. A fully staged event involving two Hollywood-style smoke bombs, several civilian and military amputee actors, large amounts of stage blood, and photorealistic silicone wounds.

BRICS

Polling Begins in India: 969 million Voters to Participate in 7 Phases of the National Elections

19 Apr 2024 - The biggest electoral show on Earth begins in India as polling starts at 7 am today. Voters will exercise their franchise through the electronic voting machines to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years.

ANALYSIS

The New German Chauvinism (Part 1)

In Germany, people are currently forced to choose between two critical and profound commitments: to accept their government’s complicity in the mass murder of civilians or to be accused of antisemitism.

The New German Chauvinism (Part 2)

Does the German state’s adoption of Holocaust memorialization blocks the re-emergence of the far-right, strengthens democracy, prevents racism, and undermines antisemitism?

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Fanmi Lavalas on Haiti

16 Apr 2024 - Despite the insecurity and the gangs threatening people in poor neighborhoods, the struggle continues. This war has not weakened the determination of the population and will not succeed in making them accept the unacceptable. To succeed in the struggle for the development of our country, we must question the models and habits inherited from the colonial system.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

Likud Party Charter (1977) – Eretz Israel

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) - Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st

18 Apr 2024 - April 1st Pivot from Gaza: Damascus Massacre, Al Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Attack, the Biden/Netanyahu Diplomatic Dance, and Iran’s Retaliation - Developments arising from these convergent incidents on 1 Apr continue to reverberate, making updating a high priority.

Dead on Arrival

14 Apr 2024 - Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed...

Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities Off the Map’ in the West Bank

17 Apr 2024 - While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, Israeli soldiers have either passively watched or participated in the uprooting of at least seven communities in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.

Palestinian Paramedics Said Israel Gave Them Safe Passage to Save a 6-Year-Old Girl in Gaza. They Were All Killed.

16 Apr 2024 -For 3½ long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year-old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on. The paramedics were driving to their deaths.

In Gaza the Sniper Drones Are Crying like Babies

22 Apr 2024 - The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them.

15 Witnesses, Three Confessions, a Pattern of Naked Dead Bodies. All the Evidence of Hamas Rape on October 7

19 Apr 2024 - Hamas' acts of rape on October 7 have turned into one of the massacre's most contentious topics. Each testimony and detail that emerges is weaponized in the clash between Israel's supporters and its opponents. Now, based on conversations with dozens of sources, a Haaretz investigation delineates which proof exists for sex crimes committed by Hamas – and what is missing.

UNITED NATIONS

US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out

19 Apr 2024 - The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained. 

US & UK Again Fail Palestine

18 Apr 2024 - The Two Powers That Have Done the Most to Wreck the Middle East - Both are currently actively backing Israel in its horrific genocide of Gaza.

Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel

18 Apr 2024 - Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.

International Legal Transgressions Committed by Israel in Gaza

20 Apr 2024 - The International Court of Justice Case 192 Summarized & Its Implications for the World.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

Google Contract Shows Deal with Israel Defense Ministry

12 Apr 2024 - Google provides cloud computing services to the IDF and has negotiated deepening its partnership during Gaza’s genocide. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to computing infrastructure that allows the ministry to access AI services--Project Nimbus.

A Brief History of Kill Lists from Langley to Lavender

16 Apr 2024 - On Israel's use of AI-generated kill lists in the Gaza genocide, and the CIA's kill lists of thousands in country after country. How Israel's Lavender is just the latest of the U.S. and its allies' ever-increasing use of information technology to automate mass murder.

ENVIRONMENT

Creating a Hydrogel That Removes Microplastics from Water

16 Apr 2024 - A breakthrough in the fight against pollution. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in India have developed a sustainable hydrogel that removes microplastics from water by binding them and breaking them down under ultraviolet light.

More Than Fifty Species of Fish Circling and Spinning until They Die

Whirling Fish, Bees, Worms, Sheep, Turtles, Penguins - No cause for this has been found. There is no evidence of a red tide, low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites in the dead fish.

HISTORY

“Land of Israel” and Palestine: The First Phase of the Creation of Der Judenstaat

14 Apr 2024 - The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the Palestinians.

OBITUARIES

Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne (5 Nov 1931 – 16 Apr 2024)

Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lanka's great Gandhian nonviolent peace builder, passed away at age 92. He was the founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement.

POETRY FORMAT

Poem for Stillness

2020 - Amidst the bullets and the tanks sits the powerful desire for peace and love.

The Amputated Limbs of Children

“I want my legs back,” the girl cried in Arabic.“ I want my legs back.” You can’t have your legs back, little girl. They have been eaten by a hungry machine who needs them for fuel to power its gears.

INSPIRATIONAL

What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization

The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we have been — those vessels of personhood stacked within the current self.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Etiquette for US College Students

20 Apr 2024 - The University of Southern California recently cancelled the commencement address of its pro-Palestinian Muslim valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, after pressure from Jewish groups, and as of today has also cancelled the appearances of commencement speakers John Chu, director of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ and the tennis star Billie Jean King.

SPIRITUALITY

Death and Dying in the Vedic Tradition

In 1969, when I was a student of psychology at Brandeis University, I met my spiritual teacher, Srila Prabhupada. In 1970, after studying with him for a year and a half, I went with him to India, and I was based there for the next thirty years. And in 1977 he taught us by his example how to leave the world in proper consciousness.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!

Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.

(Italiano) La Valle Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele

Recensione del libro di Raniero La Valle, "Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele". La Valle ha esposto il contenuto del suo libro il 3 aprile, nella moschea Taiba, la maggiore moschea della città di Torino.

(Italiano) Non siamo innocenti: collaborare o non collaborare con il complesso militare-industriale-accademico-mediatico?

Non siamo IMPOTENTI, neppure ONNIPOTENTI, abbiamo un POTERE PERSONALE che possiamo esercitare. Cosa significa non collaborazione.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

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Comedy Hour

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

WATCH: US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out

19 Apr 2024 - Video of UNSC meeting Thu [18 Apr] when the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Armenian Christians under Siege by Israel

11 Apr 2024 - A 4th century community of Armenian Christians face displacement by a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.

Under the Rubble (Music Video of the Week)

Giving them a voice. Dándoles voz.