Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

When Pressure Becomes Architecture

#936 | Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service

Visa bans, Sanctions, escalation, and the quiet reordering of a world no longer waiting for Western permission.

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TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Deconstructing Trump’s ‘Peace’ Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein)

The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Jan 2026 - The resolution, Finkelstein points out, annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.

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PAPER OF THE WEEK

Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps

B'Tselem - TRANSCEND Media Service

The abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody since 7 Oct 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held and released, almost all with no charges. The transformation of more than a dozen Israeli prisons, military and civilian, into de-facto torture camps where every inmate is subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering as a matter of policy.

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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

The Spirit of the Mahatma in 2026 – An Introspection

Vivek Umrao Glendenning | Ground Report India - TRANSCEND Media Service

30 Jan 2026 - The observance on 30 Jan 2026, is far more than a scheduled national event in India; it is a date charged with profound moral, historical, and existential gravity, marking the seventy-eighth year since the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

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Other Commentaries

TRANSCEND News

Doomsday Clock: 85 Sec–Scientists Say the Danger Is Increasing

Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service

29 Jan 2026 - With today’s update, the Doomsday Clock stands at 85 seconds to midnight, 4 seconds closer than last year, when it was set at 89 seconds to midnight. It is now: 23.58.35

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SPOTLIGHT

Exclusive: Leaked “Board of Peace” Resolution Outlines U.S.-Led Plan to Rule Over Gaza

Jonathan Whittall | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service

26 Jan 2026 - The draft framework, obtained by Drop Site, would bestow sweeping authority on Trump to determine all aspects of Gaza’s governance and future.

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Portugal Will only Join Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ under Certain Conditions, Says Foreign Minister

Algarve Daily News - TRANSCEND Media Service

27 Jan 2026 - Portugal will only join the Peace Council created by the US president if the organisation’s remit is strictly limited to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel said today.

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Lula Sets Conditions for Brazil to Join Trump’s Board of Peace

Renan Truffi and Sofia Aguiar | Valor International - TRANSCEND Media Service

27 Jan 2026 - Brazilian president says group must focus on Gaza and include Palestine.

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UN Resolution 2803, the Board of Peace, and the Limits of Transition in Gaza

Safia Southey | American Society of International Law - TRANSCEND Media Service

The Security Council as Architect? On 17 Nov 2025, the UNSC adopted Resolution 2803, endorsing what Trump has termed his “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.” It authorizes two novel institutional mechanisms: a Board of Peace…

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Trump’s Board of Peace: Not an Anti-UN

Pascal Lottaz - TRANSCEND Media Service

20 Jan 2026 - Never have I seen the blueprints of an International Organisation so reminiscent of a feudal kingdom. If it weren’t so tragically linked to one of the worst genocides in my lifetime, it would almost be funny what Trump is doing with his “Board of Peace.”

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Trump’s “Board of Peace” Is an Institution for Israeli Hegemony

Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service

23 Jan 2026 - US President Trump announced on 16 Jan 2026 the creation of a "Board of Peace" as the second phase of a ceasefire plan for the Gaza genocide. The concept of the BoP began in September of last year.

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TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Complementarity of 64-fold Sets as an Elusive Rosetta Stone?

Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service

Circumventing irresponsible authoritarian imposition of incoherent patterns of connectedness.

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Is a Non-UN Conflict Resolution Framework Feasible, Desirable?

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service

29 Jan 2026 - Trump’s Board of Peace Is an Obstacle and Warning - It deserves to fail. It insults the Palestinian people, is blind to violations of the Genocide Convention, and undermines international law and UN authority with respect to global security.

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The Search for Common Interests in World Politics

René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service

In his reflections on the nature of political ethics in the middle of the Second World War, the U.S. theologian Reinhold Niebuhr stressed the need for a universalist ethic and the difficulty of achieving it.

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Collective Rationality and Human Self-Realization

Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service

27 Jan 2026 - Envisioning Our Common Human Future

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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 2)

Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service

30 Jan 2026 - For half-a-century, Harn Yawnghwe has been pushing for federalism based on ‘ethnic group equality and inclusive society’ as the only twofold viable solution for peace and reconciliation in his native Myanmar.

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The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking US’ Financial Plumbing

Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service

We subsidize the banks’ safety, underwrite their liquidity, and reward them for sitting on assets, without requiring them to invest in communities, build public wealth, or serve any public purpose. It all seems pretty outrageous; but as it turns out, the banks are doing what U.S. corporate law requires them to do.

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Understanding Fair Start Movement

Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service

The FSM advocates for justice by focusing on children's rights, birth equity, and ecological sustainability as the basis for legitimate governance. Its main principle is that every child deserves a fair start in life, rejecting inequalities based on caste, class, race, religion, gender, and wealth.

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Covenantal Abrahamic Peace and Dharmic Non Violence: Toward a Unified Framework for Global Harmony

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service

Integrating Abrahamic sacred law and dharmic ethical principles for 21st‑century peace, policy, and planetary care integrating tablets of stone and hearts of compassion:

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NONVIOLENCE

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn’t Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

Tim Hjersted - TRANSCEND Media Service

27 Jan 2026 - If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished—violence is what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.

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What Is the Most Basic, Most Severe Violation of Freedom?

Alejandro A. Tagliavini - TRANSCEND Media Service

Violence is equivalent to taking away freedom, diverting the intrinsic development—against one's will— of a being. Therefore, violence and freedom are logical opposites. Logic is a science, not my opinion.

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N… for Non-Violence

Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service

The teaching of non-violence, a double-negative word, summarizes the entire second tablet received from Moses, namely the six social commandments, also double-negative (e.g., "Thou shalt not kill").

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AFRICA

Patrice Lumumba: How to Kill a Man, Dissolve His Body, and Still Fail to Erase His Ideas

Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service

Lumumba was not assassinated because he hated Belgium. He was assassinated because he loved Congo too much—and loved it publicly, eloquently, and without apology. In the political etiquette of empire, that is an unforgivable crime. Let us rewind.

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ANGLO AMERICA

Idea Porfolios (Intro) How Governments and Citizens Can Stop the Trump Regime’s World-Threatening Designs

Jan Oberg, Biljana Vankovska, Pascal Lottaz, Annette Schiffmann and Christina Spannar | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service

Introduction to TFF’s Forthcoming Five Idea Portfolios of Diplomatic and Nonviolent Resistance

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Idea Portfolios (1) Resist and Build Alternatives to the Trump Regime Now: Part 1/5

Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service

20 Jan 2026 - Media, Culture and Information Sovereignty - This is the first of five idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the US and help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to the Trump administration’s confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies.

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ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE

Myanmar Genocide Emergency 2026

Jeanne Macé | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service

In 2026, Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State are still being systematically attacked, displaced, and killed by both the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw, which have been fighting each other since 2018 for control of Rakhine. The Arakan Army terrorizes the Rohingya population.

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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Iran’s Velvet Revolution: Where Mullahs Preach Love, the People Cheer, and the West Weeps in Confusion

Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service

Iran – that enigmatic pearl of the Middle East, where the air is thick with the scent of saffron, revolution, and just a hint of Western bewilderment. In these trying times, as headlines scream of impending doom and “regime change” fantasies dance in the eyes of distant pundits, ...

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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Despite Ceasefire, Israel’s Siege Allowing Only a Trickle of Aid into Gaza

Ahmed Ahmed | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service

26 Jan 2026 - Palestinians report a dire lack of healthy food, medicine, and winter shelter, while a new ban on humanitarian groups will push the enclave to the brink.

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Map Shows What Would Happen to Gaza Under the US ‘Master Plan’

Mohammed Haddad and Mohammad Mansour | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service

27 Jan 2026 - The plan treats Gaza as vacant beachfront property, a real state, proposing glass towers and industrial zones over historic sites.

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Replicating the Behavior of One’s Persecutor

Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service

13 Jan 2026 - Israeli culture mimics the genocidal mindset of Nazi-era Germans who once targeted them.

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IN FOCUS

Self-determination of Peoples: A Possibility through Democratic Set-up

Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service

Self-determination is concerned with real freedom. There is no real freedom, since men are determined by circumstances. The freedom means simply the absence of determination by anything outside, the presence of determination by oneself inside.

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WE, The Peoples, Time and Earth are Victims of Wars

Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service

Global Leadership Failure to Understand the Logic of Time, Peace and War

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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Castellano) Espectáculo trumpista de la violencia en las pantallas para la nueva fabricación del consentimiento

Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service

24 enero 2026 - ¡Es la economía, estúpido! Pero también ¡es la cultura, estúpido! Es la producción de beneficios económicos y la reproducción de la cultura gánster. Es el espectáculo de la mentira para justificar la verdad sanguinaria del imperialismo y es el espectáculo de la verdad de la violencia para ocultar la verdad del imperio que se desangra.

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(Italiano) N… come Non violenza

Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

22 Gennaio 2026 - L’insegnamento della non violenza, parola a doppia negazione, sintetizza tutta la seconda tavola ricevuta da Mosé, cioè i sei comandamenti sociali, anche essi a doppia negazione (ad es. “Non uccidere”).

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(Français) La Montée en Puissance de Tigrane Yégavian : L’Émergence d’un Porte-Voix Incontournable de la Communauté Arménienne en France

Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service

Dans le paysage intellectuel français, où les voix sur les questions géopolitiques et diasporiques se multiplient, un nom s’impose avec une autorité croissante : Tigrane Yégavian. Journaliste, essayiste, chercheur et professeur...

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