Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Courage to Be: Adapting to Unknowability in a Dangerous World
#938 | Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs human beings we share deep emotional impulses to foretell the future, whether to foresee action on the basis of dread as to what the future will bring or to offer oneself and others reassurance that the future will deliver us from an ominous catastrophe or bring us the gifts of life that we most covet.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Corrupt, Filthy, Degenerates: Killing with Impunity
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Feb 2026 - Trump is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files with FBI Agents redacting millions of documents. Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges on Netanyahu in DC to press gang the US into his war on Iran.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Munich ‘Security’ Conference–The West’s Premier Has Become a €20 Million Militarist Echo Chamber
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Feb 2026 - The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades.
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Other Commentaries
MILITARISM
Munich Security Report 2026: Under Destruction
Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger | Munich Security Conference - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFebruary 2026 - The Munich Security Conference 2026 is taking place at a moment of profound uncertainty. Rarely in the conference’s recent history have there been so many fundamental questions on the table at the same time: about Europe’s security, the resilience of the transatlantic partnership, and the ability of the international community to manage an increasingly complex and contested world.
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Foolish Europe and the Enfant Terrible of the United States
Yurii Sheliazhenko | World BEYOND War - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Feb 2026 - The MSC, held on Feb 13-15, was all about preparation for a big war, with Ukraine showing AI-generated video of Russian drones attacking European cities. Rubio: “Europeans invested in massive welfare states at the cost of the ability to defend themselves” — i.e. on improving their lives and not on enriching U.S. shareholders in the arms industry.
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European Security Paradox and a World without Order
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParadox of Time and History and the Myth of New World Order
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Reimagining the Gaza Peace Plan: From Governance to (Co)existence
Derya Yüksek – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Feb 2026 - At moments of profound violence, the question is not only whether peace is possible, but who gets to envision and build it, and on what terms. In the Israeli-Palestinian context, decades of governmental, military, and procedural interventions have repeatedly failed to secure even the minimal conditions for shared life, let alone the end of armed hostilities.
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Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal to the United States
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Feb 2026 - The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the US finally seize it?
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We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate–Here Are the First Three Steps
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Feb 2026 - Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp.
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ENVIRONMENT
Trump Halts Environmental Policies: The Danger of Brutal Ignorance in Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Feb 2026 - The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Visual Articulation of Heartfelt Concerns with AI
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Feb 2026 - The erosion of trust and commitment is currently of considerable concern with respect to long-term international treaties and "special relationships".
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Geopolitical Obstacles to International Law Enforcement: Deficiencies in the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Feb 2026 - International law is definitely being marginalized in contemporary international relations by the rise of ultra-nationalist political leaders and authoritarian governments.
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Epstein Was the Fuse–The System Is the Bomb
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Feb 2026 - Jeffrey Epstein was not the scandal. He was the safety mechanism. A replaceable fuse: visible, disposable, convenient. The kind of villain a system can afford to “deal with” without ever dealing with itself.
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A Democratic Future for the USA?
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Feb 2026 - The tide may be turning in the fight against a Trump-led dictatorship replacing the US Constitution and whatever remnants of democracy were in place before him. A return to Constitutional government will require nothing less than putting Donald Trump in prison for his crimes. But only if we pass this 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
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More on Politics in Sports
Marilyn Langlois | Marilyn's Musings – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - The International Olympic Committee's blatant double standards, plus follow the money...
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Zionists as Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s ‘Beasts’: “From Humanity to Bestiality”
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Feb 2026 - Von der Humanität über die Nationalität zur Bestialität - Like Hitler's "race-state" notion of Germany spelled out in Mein Kampf, Zionism is a manufactured ideology that promotes a Pavlovian sense of entitlement to other peoples' land while crying "victims".
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Kuan Yin: She Who Hears the Cries and Crises of the World
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service19 February, in countries influenced by Chinese culture, is a day devoted to honoring Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion for the Taoists and a Bodhisattva for the Buddhists, "She who hears the cries of the world and restores harmony."
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From Possession to Presence, From Posture to Pilgrimage: A Trans Tradition Framework for Endogenous and Exogenous Peace Part 1
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceCollectively, peace texts have implications for Moral Economy and Public Culture, as these texts articulate a counter‑economy of contentment in which value is measured by integrity, sufficiency, and relational harmony rather than accumulation and status comparison.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 2)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media ServicePART 2 — Diplomacy, Law and Nonviolent Power
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Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now (Part 3)
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media ServicePart 3 — Citizens and Government Actions in Economics, Trade and Financial Sovereignty
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CENTRAL ASIA
Revisiting India and Pakistan Perpetuated Animosities
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIndia and Pakistan have an enriched history to blame games for their failure to preserve freedom, security and the ideological foundation of their existence.
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EUROPE
Europe Now Needs the Courage to Pursue Peace
Harald Kujat and Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Feb 2026 - A call for peace on the 4th anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Medea Benjamin – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Feb 2026 - Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s response to the fuel crisis. "With no gasoline, buses don’t run, so we can’t get to work. We have electricity only three to six hours a day. There’s no gas for cooking, so we’re burning wood and charcoal in our apartments. It’s like going back 100 years."
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Russia Invited Back to the Middle East
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Feb 2026 - Israel (i.e. the Likud faction), which is becoming a hegemonic power in the Middle East, is extremely strong.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israel still Strangling Medical Supplies to Gaza: “The Fungus Is Eating Her Face”
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Feb 2026 - “UNICEF noted that children continue to be affected by airstrikes and the disruption of essential services, with 37 children reported killed since the beginning of the year, 109 Palestinians killed, 252 injured, and 10 bodies recovered from under the rubble . . .”
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Investigation Reveals Israel ‘Evaporated’ Nearly 3,000 Palestinians with Thermal Weapons in Gaza
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Feb 2026 - “We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part.”
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Israel’s War on Gaza’s Healthcare Continues in Full Force under ‘Ceasefire’
Dr. Mads Gilbert | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Feb 2026 - Missiles and gunfire continue to target Gaza’s medics while tens of thousands of patients remain trapped without treatment as the world looks away.
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MEDIA
The Media Navigator (2026)
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Media Navigator classifies 72 leading media outlets based on their political stance and their establishment bias. In many cases, the latter is more significant.
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EDUCATION
Peace Education in the New Millennium
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace education is essential for human survival in the New Millennium. It is needed for individual, national and global peace. In the world of physical and structural violence, peace education has a great importance.
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EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
Epstein & the Banality of Evil
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSex trafficking and rape of minors, blackmail, financial duplicity, espionage, treason, abuse of their powers by public agencies and private institutions, establishment coverups that span decades, perjury – among others. There is not a sinful action missing from its multifaceted violation of law and human morality.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Nel decennale della morte di Nanni Salio–La pace è saper vivere
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLaureato e ricercatore di fisica, ha dedicato tutta la sua ricerca all’ambiente naturale, alla pace, alla nonviolenza política ed economica, alla spiritualità ed educazione unitaria di questi profili della condizione umana, nella drammatica attualità del mondo.
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(Français) Les Politiciens et Leur Vigilance à Géométrie Variable : L’Ukraine, ce Tabou Doré qui Cache une Mafia en Guerre
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDans l’arène politique, la vigilance ressemble souvent à un projecteur de théâtre : éblouissant sur les scènes qui arrangent, mais curieusement tamisé ailleurs. Ainsi va la saga ukrainienne, où les discours enflammés sur la démocratie masquent une réalité plus trouble.
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(Français) 5 leçons de psychologie jungienne pour transformer vos conflits
Pascal Gemperli – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEn médiation, ignorer nos propres émotions ou celles des parties n'est pas une preuve de professionnalisme, c’est une erreur stratégique.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Cat & Mouse Deadly Game of Rotten Politics…
Carlos Latuff – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUncle Sam: The Evil Empire of the West
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D.O.P.P
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media ServicePam Bondi should be arrested for contempt of Congress. She was ordered to release the unredacted Epstein files and only withhold the victims’ names, not the perpetrators. What the DOJ did was the opposite. They have outed many victims while hiding the names of the billionaire Epstein class evil perverts.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show (Music Video of the Week)
NFL – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Feb 2026 - Watch the world's biggest artist on the world's biggest stage at the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. Please click on Watch on YouTube
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