Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Verdict of Conscience from the Gaza People’s Tribunal & a Way Forward
#923 | Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe images of 2025 Gaza resemble more ruined Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing than a site of urban warfare in a densely populated cityscape. The Jury’s verdict noted that Israel’s onslaught exceeded the Israeli Defence Force’s military objective of defeating the armed Palestinian resistance and destroying their physical infrastructure
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The Gaza Tribunal Charts a New Path
Gaza & the World | Just World International - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Oct 2025 - Prof. Richard Falk reflected on the final session of the Tribunal held in Istanbul and described how it began in London, continued in Sarajevo, and gathered evidence and testimonies from witnesses and experts to document the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Why Federalism Cannot Exist without Democracy
Manuel Galiñanes, Glen T. Martin, and Leo Klinkers – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Oct 2025 - Why a genuine world federation cannot coexist with authoritarianism, and why democracy must remain the cornerstone of any just and sustainable global order.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
The Final Statement of the Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - To expose the truth that emerges from respecting reality and evidence is necessary because of state propaganda and a filtered, biased media that either hides or slants the truth, even to the extent of punitive and lethal action against independent journalists and dismissing as irrelevant the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
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Other Commentaries
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 3 Nov 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
The US Targets Colombians by Sanctioning Gustavo Petro
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - As part of his escalating aggression toward Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, and Brazil, Trump sanctioned Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his wife, his son, and his Interior Minister for drug trafficking offenses.
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Renewed Appeal for Mediation in Sudan Civil War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Oct 2025 - A civil war has gone on since Apr 2023 in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces. Each created militias that rob, torture, rape, and use child soldiers in violation of U.N. treaties. It has led to some 150,000 killed and 10 million displaced.
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Where Faith and Diversity Unite: Southeast Asia’s Lesson for the World
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST/International Forum on Buddhist Muslim Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Oct 2025 - The recent ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, on the theme “Resilient Together, Prosper Together,” served as a reminder of a regional truth: Southeast Asia's shared diversity, when guided by compassion, is its greatest strength.
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When Sovereignty Becomes a Threat
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - For decades, the United States has punished nations that dared to act independently. From Venezuela to the Sahel, a new generation is rejecting the old empire’s script.
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Still Sleepwalking into the Elite’s New World Order: Gaza as the Vision of our Technocratic and Transhuman Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Nov 2025 - With the transformative program of the Global Elite now advancing rapidly, only a small number of analysts are paying close attention to understand the significance of this phalanx of threats. For most people, fundamental questions about what must be done to defeat these interrelated threats do not even arise.
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Philosophy of Peace in the Life of Maharishi Valmiki–The Sage from the Anthill to Spiritual Metamorphosis
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service" Maharishi Valmiki’s greatness stems from a different, equally powerful source: his own spiritual transformation (sadhana) from a fallen state of a criminal, to the highest state of enlightenment. He is a Swayambhu (self-manifested) sage in the sense that he achieved his status through his own efforts, not by being born, as a pre-ordained divine incarnation."
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IN FOCUS
The Death House
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Oct 2025 - The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.
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Human Rights for Development and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe mother of peace is justice which is yet to be born. Let the mother of peace i.e. justice take birth, peace will naturally come out. But we see everywhere there is injustice, exploitation, oppression and violation of human rights.
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AFRICA
Reported Massacre at Hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher Leaves 460 Dead
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.
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Rwandan Prisoner of Conscience Victoire Ingabire
Ann Garrison | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated to commemorate her Oct 2010 arrest. Rwanda has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, ranking in the top three countries per capita.
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ANGLO AMERICA
The World Confronts the Genocide Washington Is Trying to Bury
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump's Plan to Turn the Page on the Gaza Genocide and Rehabilitate Israel - On 4 Oct 2025 Trump stressed that his main goal behind the Gaza plan was to restore Israel’s international standing. "Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back.”
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It’s Just Wall-to-wall News Stories about the US and Its Allies Abusing the World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - The US and its allies are terrorizing the world. They make threats, impose sanctions, amass war machinery, and when the US is serious about attacking a country, it starts churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream war media.
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MILITARISM
A World on Fire: Breaking the Cycle of Endless Wars
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2025 - Flames of war scorch the earth, devour homes, uproot families, and spread despair. From Gaza to Ukraine, from Sudan to Yemen, from the scars of Iraq to Afghanistan, our world burns--fed by greed, nationalism, the relentless pursuit of power, and by militarism that thrives on human suffering for material gain and profit.
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EUROPE
Orban, the Only Statesman in Europe?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Nov 2025 - How Budapest Is Dismantling the EU and NATO’s House of Cards
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Trump’s Military Pressure on Maduro Evokes Latin America’s Coup-Ridden Past—Made in USA
Robert Tait | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2025 - US forces and CIA actions target Venezuela’s leader, echoing past US coups and assassinations across the region.
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MEDIA
Western Media Use ‘Peace’ Prize to Fuel War Propaganda
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Oct 2025 - The Nobel Peace Prize has long lost any credibility. With María Corina Machado’s award, it followed a tradition of aligning with Western foreign policy. And more predictable was the corporate media advancing its war and regime-change propaganda against Venezuela.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Istanbul Final Statement: Gaza Tribunal Concludes, the Gaza Genocide Continues
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Nov 2025 - We call on people of conscience everywhere to intensify their efforts for justice for Palestinians by isolating the Israeli regime and to hold it to account through boycotts, divestment, sanctions, military embargoes, criminal prosecutions of perpetrators, civil actions, education of our neighbors, public protest and civil disobedience, and calls for a free Palestine.
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In a West Bank ‘Firing Zone,’ Palestinians Are Erased as Jewish Settlers Lay Down Roots
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - While settlers' concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.
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The Gaza Tribunal Hears Evidence of Systematic Destruction of Health Care in Gaza
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Oct 2025 - “Genocide Is far from Over” - The Gaza Tribunal’s final session continued today at Istanbul University, with expert testimony asserting that Israel deliberately dismantled Gaza’s health care and systems as a policy of “mass harm to civilians.”
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EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS
‘No Restrictions’ and a Secret ‘Wink’: Inside Israel’s Deal with Google, Amazon
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Oct 2025 - To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.
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Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids the Gaza Genocide
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza genocide.
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UNITED NATIONS
Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967
Francesca Albanese | UN - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Oct 2025 - Report of the Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
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Obligations of Israel to the UN in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Hague, 22 Oct 2025 - Obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third states in and in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory.
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UN Committee Adopts Resolution to Keep Human Control of Nuclear Weapon Systems
Japan Broadcasting Corporation - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2025 - A UN General Assembly committee that deals with disarmament has adopted a resolution to keep nuclear weapon systems under human control in a bid to prevent artificial intelligence from using the weapons in an unintended way.
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From ‘Never Again’ to Again and Again: How the World Enabled Gaza’s Destruction
Javed Akbar - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, the UN’s rare voice of conscience amid its faltering moral architecture, has delivered a searing indictment — not only of Israel but of the global order that enables it.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
They Want You Relying on Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2025 - Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writing. What they are offering you is so very, very inferior to the immense treasure trove that you are swimming in just by existing as a human being on this planet.
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HISTORY
They Want Our Rhythm, but Not Our Presence
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Oct 2025 - There were twelve thousand ships. Twelve thousand vessels that crossed the Atlantic, carrying twelve and a half million Africans to the Americas. And yet, I grew up knowing the names of the Mayflower and the Titanic.
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REVIEWS
Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, MLK, and RFK
Elizabeth Woodworth | Integrate - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - Why has the public lost so many of its cherished humanitarian leaders to assassination? Bringing new research to light, this gripping book is a gift to our needed understanding of this phenomenon. A Review, by Elizabeth Woodworth
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Essays: New Books on Nonkilling Literature and Nonkilling & Nuclear Disarmament
Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Oct 2025 - The CGNK is preparing two new scholarly publications: A collection of essays on ‘Nonkilling Literature’ and an edited volume on ‘Nonkilling Activism and Nuclear Disarmament.’ Details below for potential contributors to contact the editors proposing a chapter.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Pogrom Redux on West Bank
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media ServiceJewish Settlers Violence
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Status Report
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2025 - Can you believe it?...
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Tribunale di Gaza: una dichiarazione storica all’insegna delle testimonianze
Tribunale di Gaza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service27 ottobre 2025 - Guidato dal Prof. Richard Falk, ex Relatore Speciale delle Nazioni Unite sui Diritti Umani nei Territori Palestinesi, la storia si è svolta in tempo reale. Dopo mesi di udienze, il Tribunale ha ora emesso la sua sentenza definitiva, che giunge alla coscienza del mondo.
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(Français) Le pari gazier de l’UE : sacrifier l’Arménie pour un rêve de pipeline – encore une fois
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service2 nov 2025 - Le député européen polonais Tomasz Froelich lâche une bombe de vérité qui fait grincer les dents des Arméniens jusqu’à la poudre. Remontons la bande de cette farce, voulez-vous ? Retour rapide aux belles années de l’Union soviétique, quand l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan n’étaient que des voisins gênants partageant une maternelle appelée URSS.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
A Propaganda Film by Zionist Betar USA
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2025 - A behind-the-scenes portrait of Betar USA, the militant Zionist street group that claims credit for guiding the Trump administration's jailing and attempted deportation of pro-Palestine student activists.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Gaza: There Is No Ceasefire
The Beinart Notebook - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Oct 2025 - On the Trump Plan - Our guest is Gaza-born political analyst Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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Nearer My God to Thee (Music Video of the Week)
André Rieu – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2024 - From the album ‘The Sound of Heaven’
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