Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Understanding Trump’s Interventions: How Regional Imperialism Generates World War
#935 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump's recent attack on Venezuela on the heels of U.S.-financed genocide in Gaza, as well as US air strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Iran, and the Caribbean/Pacific high seas, represents a major turn toward military intervention in his foreign policy.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Deconstructing Trump’s ‘Peace’ Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service15 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 ServiceThe 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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NOBEL LAUREATES
Nobel Laureates Nominate International Peace Research Association and Prof. Matt Meyer for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMairead Corrigan Maguire, a Northern Ireland leader of Peace People, was the 1976 awardee; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, the Argentinian who was brutalized as a political prisoner by a military junta, won in 1980. Both made the present nomination for the NPP.
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Other Commentaries
SPOTLIGHT
The Full Text of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Charter
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media ServiceBoard of Peace charter hands US president broad powers, and links countries' membership to large financial contribution. Middle East Eye obtained a copy of the charter and is publishing it here in full:
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What Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ and Who Has Joined So Far?
Menna Alaaeldin and Alexander Cornwell | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jan 2026 - Trump has invited dozens of world leaders to join his Board of Peace. While some traditional allies responded cautiously, in a few cases rejecting, others such as Belarus have accepted.
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Reclaiming Peace against Procedural Capture: A Manifesto for a Civic Board of Peace
Derya Yüksek - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn the wake of a highly publicized announcement by Trump on what has been called the “Board of Peace”, one is forced to confront and contest not only what is being proposed, but who gets to define peace and on whose terms.
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Neither NATO Nor Trump’s Are a ‘Board of Peace’
John Mac Ghlionn | The Hill - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jan 2026 - Trump’s “Board of Peace” might sound ridiculous, and perhaps it is. But it’s no more ridiculous than claiming NATO is a board of peace.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
The US Military Operation in Venezuela and the Management of Global Security
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jan 2026 - The United States attack on Venezuela on January 3 should be understood not simply as an unlawful use of force, but as part of a broader shift towards nihilistic geopolitics in which international law is openly subordinated to the imperial management of global security.
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Ordering the House of Mathematics with an AI Perspective?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn Quest of Coherent Insights for Peaceful Governance - The point is often made that mathematics has many highly specialized branches and few of the people associated with any particular one have any interest in other branches or in mathematics as a whole.
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Davos: World Economic Forum – Board of Peace
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jan 2026 - Marx once quipped "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce" and Hegel stated that “what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Each reflects on their time.
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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2026 - The story of a remarkable Myanmar exile, (born a Shan prince), who sat on Chairman Mao’s laps in the Forbidden City, and proceeded to became one of the predominantly Buddhist country’s most prominent exiles, guided by his Christian faith. It is properly contextualized within both Myanmar’s 50-year exilic politics and the failed democratic transition that the Feb 2021 coup derailed.
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A Planetary Awareness
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe United Nations Charter begins with the promising words "We the Peoples..." Thereafter the peoples' voice fades and that of governments takes over.
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Trump’s Ideology Trashes Human Dignity
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jan 2026 - Within a World System that Crushes Human Dignity - It is important to remind ourselves that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was perhaps the greatest accomplishment of the 20th century.
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Greenland Isn’t the Scandal–The System Is
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jan 2026 - Europe woke up in 2026 with a hangover and a revelation: Wait… we’re a colony? Apparently, watching Nicolás Maduro paraded in Nike gear like a petty criminal was funny—until Europeans realized they, too, are potential Maduros. Same script, better tailoring.
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Forging a Righteous Future: A Five-Year Strategic Plan for Peace, Stability and Integrity in Post Liberation South Africa
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“A Lesson in the Anatomy of Decline: The Interlinked Systems of Crime, Corruption, and Institutional Decay in Contemporary South Africa"
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MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton (1887)
Online Library of Liberty - TRANSCEND Media Service"Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."
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ANGLO AMERICA
‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All to See
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jan 2026 - It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
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Imperial Boomerang
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jan 2026 - The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.
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‘The Weak Must Suffer’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jan 2026 - The Eternal Fiction of the ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe.
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Trump’s “Creative Destruction” of the World Order through an Unusual Hypocritical Strategy
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo one can stop the barrage of "evil" deeds from the president of the world's most powerful hegemonic power.
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“Ayatollah, Please Send Help!”: Rotten to Its Core, USA Needs “a Regime Change” and a System Revolution
Zarni tells it like it is - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jan 2025 - Every day I school myself through these voices, thoughtful, non-Pavlovian, humanistic and global: Cornel West, Amin Husain, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolf, John Mearshimer and Jeff Sachs.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The US-Israel Hybrid War against Iran
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2026 - The question is not if the US and Israel will attack Iran, but when. They are waging war against Iran through crushing economic sanctions, targeted military strikes, cyber warfare, stoking unrest, and unrelenting misinformation campaigns. It is called “hybrid warfare.”
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
11 Wounded in IDF Raid on West Bank University–Vice President Detained
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Jan 2026 - The raid at Bir Zeit University occurred during a student rally in support of Palestinian prisoners. The IDF fired live ammunition and tear gas. 'Raids of the university have become commonplace, but this time they crossed all the lines,' the university president said.
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Israeli Ban on 37 Aid Organizations Expected to Have Devastating Impacts across Palestine
Qassam Muaddi and Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2026 - Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means "cutting off a lifeline for over two million people," says Rahma Worldwide's Dr. Shadi Zazzah.
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Gaza Vanishing: Trump’s Board of Peace
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jan 2026 - Trump’s Board of Peace for the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise questions. The US president would be the helmsman of an outfit of selected corporate overseers tilling the soil for The Donald’s posterity fund. But to what end?
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There Is another War Israel Is Waging – One That Is Not Making Headlines
Mariam Barghouti | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jan 2026 - As the US protracts Israel’s genocide in Gaza through the theatrics of a ceasefire, another war is taking place in the West Bank where Israel has mobilised all military and settler-colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible.
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A Red Heifer and Zionists’ Bovine Excrement
Fritz Pointer | – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jan 2026 - It is important for us to remember that for the Israelis and the North Americans, the conflict in the Middle East (West Asia) is not just a geopolitical rivalry, it is also an eschatological war. That is a war relating to the end of the world.
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Can Trump Demilitarize Gaza with Night Raids and Death Squads?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jan 2026 - Targeted killings by Israeli-backed Palestinian death squads and the appointment of the recent head of Special Operations Command to lead the so-called International Stabilization Force in Gaza. Trump's plans to demilitarize Gaza are following the catastrophic pattern of past US wars and occupations.
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SCANDINAVIA
Greenland Is Not a Prize
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Jan 2026 - Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North – the United States – forgets its manners. It has set its sights on Greenland due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But its people – the Kalaallit – are an afterthought in Washington’s machinations.
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MEDIA
Recentering the Debate over ‘Greenland’ Begins with Calling Kalaallit Nunaat by Its Actual Name
Jim Naureckas | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Jan 2026 - Kalaallit Nunaat is the name of the country that Donald Trump is salivating over, according to the people who live there. The place the media call Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the right to secede by holding a referendum.
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EDUCATION
Twenty-first Century School for Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEducation is not animal training. The education of man is human awakening.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Getting Even over a Coveted but Denied Nobel Peace Prize, Plus…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2026 - Infantile Bullying: I'll Show You! Letter the US president sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Sparky Gets ICED (Part 2)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jan 2026 - No Joke
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Norsk-Norwegian) Returner til Avsender (et dikt)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEt dikt Hvis «demokrati» kommer Dundrende inn over himmelen Som et F-35 over Ørland, Pakket i ild, Merket humanitær med rød tusj— Returner til avsender.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service“Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’”
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Jeffrey Sachs Blows Up over Greenland Letter, Gaza Board of Peace
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2026 - Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jeff Sachs to discuss Greenland and Gaza.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2026 - Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.
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Boléro (Music Video of the Week)
Hayato Sumino – TRANSCEND Media ServiceComposed by Maurice Ravel--from Hayato's Album, Human Universe
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