Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
On Human Suffering and Dialogue: Lessons from the 11 Sep 2025 UNSC Mtg. Regarding Israel’s Airstrikes on Doha
#916 | Tatsushi Arai - TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhile the significance of this UNSC meeting spans political, legal, diplomatic, geostrategic, economic, and other dimensions, I will focus on two often underrated aspects: the universality of human suffering and the role of dialogue in addressing it.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The UN’s Hidden Power to Launch Military Action in Gaza
Palestine Deep Dive - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2025 - Former UN speechwriter Mark Seddon urges member states at the UNGA to invoke the Uniting for Peace resolution and establish a protective international force to defend Palestinians in Gaza. He outlines how the General Assembly can bypass the U.S. veto at the Security Council.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The Role of Information in Building a New World
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Sep 2025 - Research as a Key to Fighting Militarism and Repression
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA, WEST BANK 15 Sep 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Being a Terrorist by Implication in a Terrific Environment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Sep 2025 - Celebrating Complicity in the Terrifying Experience of Gaza - How will the future describe a period in which the major strategic determinant was held to be the response to terrorism?
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A Call to Citizens Everywhere: Choose Your Action for Justice
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. et al. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Sep 2025 - A series of proposals that you can advocate for, send in a letter to your government or do yourself. It's called people's power or citizens' diplomacy. SHARE!
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Israel is Inventing the “Concentration Camp” for Gaza
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 - It begs belief! Israel’s defense minister outlined plans to create a concentration camp where he intends to herd two million Palestinian citizens of Gaza …. The ones whom the Israeli army have not yet killed.
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India-China Trade Route Warfare: Sandwiching Nepal
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Sugauli Treaty of 1816 led to the loss of more than 50 percent of Nepal’s land to the British East India Company.
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We Are Inspired
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Sep 2025 - The holocaust/genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza strip continue. Calculations show that excess mortality has been much higher than the reported 64,000 violent deaths (71% women and children).
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Albert Einstein, Palestine and Israel Today
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAlbert Einstein is one of the most famous and influential scientists of all time. His theories and equations regarding time, energy, space, and gravity are foundational to modern physics. Less well known, Einstein was very political, with strong beliefs and a willingness to act on them.
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The Deafening Silence of the ‘Holocaust Industry’ on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Sep 2025 - On September 1, the International Association of Genocide Scholars adopted a resolution: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For nearly two years, the world watched in silence as the Jewish state massacred thousands of unarmed Palestinians laying waste to their homeland.
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We Are Not Your Scapegoats: In Memoriam to Tamima Nibras Juhar
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Sep 2025 - Across much of Europe, the right wing sharpens its weapons on the backs of the vulnerable. Immigration, Islam, Blackness — these words have been turned into alarms, into shadows that politicians project against the wall to frighten an anxious electorate.
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The Lord of the Dances, a Sanctuary of Motion
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAnalysing Cultural and Religious Dance Forms as Modalities for Generating Endogenous Personal Peace
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U.N. General Assembly Starts with UN 80 Report as Guideline for the Future
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Sep 2025 - The United Nations General Assembly has started in New York with the world grappling with armed violence, massive migration, deepening inequalities, and eroding trust in its effectiveness as indicated by the shrinking budgets of the U.N. and its Specialized Agencies.
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Ethiopia: National Aspiration, Identity, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEthiopians officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Mon, 8 Sep, an awesome achievement: it generates up to 6,540 Megawatts, doubling present generation; Ethiopians themselves paid for it without IMF, WB or funding outside the Ethiopian diaspora.
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SPOTLIGHT
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Robin D. G. Kelley, et al. | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media ServiceSummer 2025 - Fourteen years ago, Noam Chomsky published “The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux” in these pages. He used the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to revisit his classic 1967 essay on the subject.
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Spheres of Security versus Spheres of Influence: A Reconsideration of Great Power Boundaries
Jeffrey D. Sachs and John Mearsheimer – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Sep 2025 - Few concepts in international relations are as contested as “spheres of influence.” From the colonial carve-ups of the nineteenth century to the Cold War division of Europe, great powers have repeatedly claimed the right to intervene in their neighbors’ politics, economics, and security arrangements.
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ANGLO AMERICA
519 of 533 in US Congress Voted to Continue Sponsoring the Mass Murder of 2.4m Palestinians
Christina Macpherson | After the Truth-Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Sep 2025 - Depraved! Only 14 of the 533 corrupt members of Congress refused to endorse and pay for ongoing Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, torture, bombing, kidnapping, starvation and sadistic murder of thousands of innocents. That is a mere 5% of 260 Democrats in Congress.
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US War Department (Pentagon) Plan Prioritizes Homeland (Latin America) over China Threat
Paul McLeary and Daniel Lippman | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Sep 2025 - This marks a major departure from the first Trump administration, which emphasized deterring Beijing.
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To Hell with US Empire
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Sep 2025 - Empires collapse. Every single one before got burned and buried. It's End Times. But history is not ending for the rest of humanity. We revive ourselves with Love, Solidarity, Empathy. So, here is To Hell with your empire, greater or lesser. Go fuck yourselves!
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The Assassinations of Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Warning of Impending Civil Unrest in the USA
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Eurasia Realigns in Face of Late-Stage Barbarism: The New Post-Western World Order
Michael Hudson | Geopolitical Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Sep 2025 - At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, Eurasia discussed a new international economic order based on mutually beneficial trade and investment.
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EUROPE
Spain Announces Arms Embargo on Israel and Other Steps ‘to Stop the Genocide in Gaza’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Sep 2025 - "This is not self-defense," Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez asserted, "it is the extermination of a defenseless people and a violation of every international law."
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Brazil Supreme Court Sentences Bolsonaro to 27 Years over Coup Plot
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Sep 2025 - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison, shortly after a majority of a Supreme Court panel voted to convict him on charges related to an attempted military coup.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
300,000 Palestinians Forced to Flee as Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza City
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Sep 2025 - The displaced people will be forced to al-Mawasi. A so-called safe zone that Israel has repeatedly bombed.
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Gaza’s Hunger Crisis Dominates Headlines, but Most Deaths Come from Israel’s Airstrikes
Nir Hasson and Rawan Suleiman | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Sep 2025 - Around 70 people were killed daily in Gaza in August 2025; an attempt to clarify why 29 Israeli strikes that killed 180 people were carried out was met with vague answers, or silence.
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Denial in Plain Sight: Rights Groups Show Evidence of Gaza Genocide, Israel Continues to Reject It
Kazim Alam | TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Sep 2025 - After killing more than 64,000 Palestinians over the past two years, Tel Aviv argues the legal definition of genocide has been distorted by rights groups to target and vilify Israel.
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‘We Took the Gloves Off’: Ex-IDF Chief Confirms Gaza Casualties over 200,000
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Sep 2025 - A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
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Death of the Holocaust Industry
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Sep 2025 - The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
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Humanity to Insanity: Urgent Global Action Needed to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEthnic Cleansing and the Western Leaders
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Some Days There’s Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy to Write about
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Sep 2025 - An assassination strike in Qatar, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals.
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EDUCATION
Universities Worldwide Sever Ties with Israeli Academia, Netherlands to Boycott Eurovision
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Sep 2025 - Universities and scholarly associations across Europe and South America have announced suspensions of cooperation with Israeli institutions, citing their role in aiding the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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UNITED NATIONS
Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P. | UN Human Rights Council - TRANSCEND Media ServiceJul 2025 - Report of the UN Special Rapporteur Ashwini K.P.
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MILITARISM
How Can We All Live Peacefully in a World with Rising Violence, Militarism and Warmongering?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Sep 2025 - The year 2025 has had unprecedented levels of violence. According to data by Uppsala Conflict Data Programme, last year experienced more violent conflicts than any other since War War II, with 61 state-based full blown wars.
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OBITUARIES
Ex-ICJ Judge Shigeru Oda Dies at 100
Nippon - TRANSCEND Media ServiceShigeru Oda, International Court of Justice judge for 27 years, died of natural causes at the age of 100 on 4 Sep 2025. As the leading global figure in the theoretical field of ocean law, Oda, a native of the northern Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, had a massive impact on the operations of diplomacy.
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REVIEWS
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
Hans G. Despain, Ph.D. | London School of Economics - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe alliance of corporations, finance, and states underpinning the capitalist system that drives inequality, stifles democracy and enriches elites. Combining theory, analysis and practical solutions, this book offers a blueprint for reclaiming power through economic democracy.
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Across Mountains, Land and Sea
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSep 2025 - A review of Mir Rahimi’s memoir, Across Mountains, Land and Sea – The book opens with a stunning scene of his mother giving birth to Mir in the freezing dark alone in a war-torn village in Afghanistan.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) ¿Es justificable la violencia en defensa propia?
Alejandro A. Tagliavini – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLa violencia, en todos los casos incluyendo la urgente defensa propia y de terceros, es inmoral. No es lo que opino y muchas veces no es lo que “me gustaría” -mi impulso primario- es lo que tengo que aceptar y divulgar
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(Français) La Débâcle Française sous Macron : Un Président Tourné vers l’International au Détiment de son peuple
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLa France traverse une crise profonde qui menace son identité même. Sous Emmanuel Macron, le pays semble s’enfoncer dans une débâcle sans précédent, marquée par un abandon des préoccupations nationales au profit d’une ambition internationale démesurée.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Hungary Joining BRICS, Breaking Away from the EU?
Ancient Craft – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Aug 2025 - Hungary’s Eastward Shift: Orbán Redefines Europe’s Future
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Video: 11 Sept 2001 “the Global War on Terrorism”
Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis video production focuses on the unanswered questions of 9/11. What was the role of Al Qaeda and the alleged “act of war” by Afghanistan against the USA on the morning of Sep 11, 2001.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Meanwhile, in Brasilia…
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Sep 2025 - Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for Coup Plotting against Pres. Lula.
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