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EDITORIAL

A Manual for Benevolent Bombing

There is something deeply reassuring about a well-structured war. Not the explosions, the smoke, the screaming, the "inconvenient civilians" who insist on living where the bombs land. No, the comfort lies in the narrative. The choreography. The liturgical precision of turning high explosives into high-minded philosophy.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Why Israel Wants a War with Iran

26 Mar 2026 - Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state's destructive warpath will rage on.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles

23 Mar 2026 - As international law developed, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved — from the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 through the Congress of Vienna 1814-15, the League of Nations in 1919 and the UN Charter in 1945 as an incipient world constitution aimed at promoting peace, development and human rights.

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

How Structural Violence Leads to Life or Death

4 Apr 2026 - Structural violence is what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung defined as the “avoidable impairment of fundamental human needs” through unjust social structures-- the most potent cause of behavioral violence.

Why Americans instead of North Americans?

“Why only those born in the United States are officially called (named, labeled, known as) Americans”? The name of the country is United States of America--not America of the United States. Manifestation of a imperialist deep culture allied to a bullying, vain illusion that, We are #1. I am also an American--South American.

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Asymmetric Dialogue in a Period of Asymmetric Warfare?

16 Mar 2026 - The following exploration is effectively an annex to an extensive separate exchange with AI to clarify the nature of "UnChristian", "UnJewish" and "UnIslamic" from a cybernetic perspective.

Flirting with Apocalyptic War in Iran

3 Apr 2026 - From almost all perspectives the ongoing war of aggression known as the ‘Iran War’ is one of the greatest international blunders in modern history, and far worse than this, poses the highest risks of stumbling into an apocalyptic warfare since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Balen`s Hundred-Point Charter of Governance: Of, By, and For the Nepali People

Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, became Nepal's youngest prime minister in March 2026 after a Generation Z-led uprising against corruption and established political elites. His “Hundred-Point Charter of Governance” aims to bring transparency, accountability, and citizen-centered reform to Nepal.

The Empire vs. Iran: Which Side Are You On?

The current war is going from bad to worse for the American and Israeli imperialists. Good!  Let’s continue to oppose it and hope for its early end.  But don’t let the Empire off the hook.

Rwanda’s 30-Year Assault on Congo: The Crimes, the Criminals, and the Cover-up

1 Apr 2026 - Judi Rever prefaces her new book with a quote from the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II: “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

The New Planetary Awakening

18 Mar 2026 - Six Fundamental Principles for Democratic  World Law

Women Demand a Culture of Peace

1 Apr 2026 - Once again this year, we see around the world on International Women’s Day that women are demanding a culture of peace. In some cases this is quite explicit.

“Kill Any of the Natives Found in Their Way”

The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait: they all claim God and Law to be on their side.

The Escalating Belligerence in the Middle East: A Peace Propagator’s Academic Analysis of the Iran War of Choice

The current, international, political scenario is a short walk to World War III and Armageddon.

SPOTLIGHT

Gulf Limbo: Between War and a Hard Place

3 Apr 2026 - How the US 'Allies' in West Asia (the Sunni kingdoms/dictatorships) managed to maneuver themselves into the worst of both worlds.

A View from Tehran: War Caused a New Kind of Stability

4 Apr 2026 - Rather than triggering collapse, external pressure appears to be producing a form of internal consolidation socially, politically, and strategically that complicates expectations about the conflict. From within Tehran, the most immediate observation is not breakdown, but continuity under strain.

How Iran Should End the War

3 Apr 2026 - Iran did not start this war with the US and Israel. But more than a month in, the Islamic Republic is clearly winning it. US and Israeli forces have spent weeks bombing Iranian territory, killing thousands and damaging hundreds of buildings in hopes of toppling the country’s government.

New World Busy Being Born while Old One Is Busy Dying

26 Mar 2026 - Iran's real terms are harsh: Closure of ALL US military bases in the Gulf; guarantee of no more wars; end of the war on Hezbollah; lifting of ALL sanctions; war damage reparations; a new order in the Strait of Hormuz (already in effect: collecting fees just like Egypt in Suez); missile program intact. Conclusion: the infernal escalation machine keeps rolling as Trump's 15-point surrender is D.O.A.

Trump’s Hormuz “Masterstroke”: How Russia and China Just Hit the Geopolitical Jackpot

5 Apr 2026 - And Why the World May Never Look the Same - There’s an old saying: never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Apparently, Donald Trump never got the memo.

ANGLO AMERICA

North Americans Are Being Policed with Military-Grade Weapons–This Has to Stop

6 Mar 2026 - Predator drones and armored personnel carriers have become commonplace in US cities. Congress has the power to fix this.

INTERNATIONAL LAW

What Happens When the US President Ignores International Law? We’re about to Find Out, again

Is Maduro a defendant or a hostage? Is the Trump administration waging war on “narcoterrorists” or on the distinction between law enforcement and military force? And which legal framework—US courts or international law—gets to answer?

WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Beware Men Who Wage War to Prove They Are Men

A specifically masculine heritage of violence in the service of the nation oversees and delimits democracy and authority—a privileged area of social welfare.

The US-Israel War on Humanity: What Is Next?

The trajectory of war against Iran unleashed authoritarianism of dark ages propelling insanity and dystopian supremacy using democracy to shield their crimes against humanity. A hybrid culture, part human and part vulture.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

World Has Left Cuba Alone to Face Trump’s Global Fascism

28 Mar 2026 - The World Will Pay an Enormous Price if Cuba Falls

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Israeli Knesset Passes Death Penalty Bill for Palestinians

30 Mar 2026 - The Israeli Knesset passed a bill today that mandates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of 'acts of terrorism' with the 'intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.'

Israel Is Stepping Up Its Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

31 Mar 2026 - Even as Israel attacks Iran and Lebanon, it is also intensifying ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The military and settler militias are using a crisis Israel created as cover for its illegal takeover of the West Bank.

UNITED NATIONS

The Security Council Has Allowed Unchecked Power and Brutality–to Protect Peace, We Must Reform the UN

30 Mar 2026 - A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order.

UN Expert Warns Torture Has Become ‘State Doctrine’ in Israel, Making Prisons Instruments of Genocide and Torture

23 Mar 2026 - Israel’s systematic torture of Palestinians, long shielded by decades of impunity and political cover, has become a defining instrument of ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN expert warned today.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Macho Man… Really?

Terms Machismo and Male Chauvinism are semantically related or have similar meanings: Toxic Masculinity.

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Le Réarmement allemand : une élégante valse avec les spectres du passé, ou l’appel discret d’un monde multipolaire ?

Depuis le 1er janvier 2026, tout homme allemand âgé de 17 à 45 ans qui souhaite quitter le territoire pour plus de trois mois doit désormais solliciter l’autorisation bienveillante de la Bundeswehr. Une simple formalité administrative, nous assure-t-on, liée à la modernisation du service militaire. Rien de dramatique, bien sûr.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Power and Manipulation— Media as a Weapon

26 Feb 2026 - Is the West still a democracy or already a declining empire? The role of the US in Ukraine, Gaza, and the global power struggle. A crucial question: Is freedom of speech in the West being systematically restricted to protect geopolitical narratives?

Michael Hudson: World Will Not Be the Same after the US Military Aggression against Iran

1 Apr 2026 - Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently. 

Why Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity–an Arab Christian Perspective

Matt Ehret speaks with Myriam Charabaty about her life and experiencing as a Christian living in the Middle East, and her brilliant research exposing the true reasons for radical Islamism/Takfirism, Clash of Civilization doctrines, and the crusader doctrine across the ages.