Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity: Teetering on the Brink of Armageddon
#878 | Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war in Central Asia, shatters ‘international justice’ by not halting the televised genocide in Palestine, and runs into the technocracy, the bulk of the human population yawns while scrolling the latest entries in chat groups on their phone.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The True Scale of Modern Nuclear Weapons
Science Time – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Oct 2024 - The terrifying true scale of modern nuclear weapons is beyond what most people can imagine. Nuclear weapons today are far more powerful than those used in World War II. For example, the B83 nuclear bomb, …
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Perpetual Peace by Johan Galtung
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServicePerpetual peace advocates for conflict resolution, transformation, and management through peaceful and prosperous means. The aim of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Professor Johan Galtung and his efforts towards achieving perpetual peace.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, et al. | International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn collaboration with the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security, PeaceMOMO, and an international group of scholars and peace leaders from the Indo-Pacific, the U.S., and Europe, we are proud to share this Report.
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Tearing Down Our Emotional Walls
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2024 - War, war and more war. It’s possible because of the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. Is there a way to get things to change?
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Other Commentaries
NEWS
Syria War Live News: Al-Assad in Russia; Search for Detainees at Sednaya Prison
Stephen Quillen and Umut Uras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Dec 2024 - Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow; has been granted asylum. Israeli forces seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights and carried out dozens of air strikes across Syria. UNSG Antonio Guterres: “After 14 years of brutal war and the fall of the dictatorial regime, today the people of Syria can seize an historic opportunity to build a stable and peaceful future.”
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Dec 2024
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Visualizing the Coherent Configuration of Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAI-Assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion - Faced with the challenges of the times, many initiatives could be claimed to be "logical" or "rational". Many initiatives of the past were held to be rational and appropriate, although history now calls such appreciation into question.
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Armed Conflict in Syria again: Outcome Uncertain
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2024 - Conflicts in Syria involve a large number of different armed groups who are known to have changed sides since the armed conflicts began in 2011 in Deraa with police repression of students. It is a situation to watch as closely as possible and to put forward proposals for a ceasefire and serious negotiations.
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Genocide and Coloniality
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - I am frequently asked about the future. To answer pragmatically and logically requires a sober assessment of the variables towards a sustainable future. You do not have to be a researcher to realize that our species is in deep trouble.
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25th Anniversary of the UN Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2024 - In September 1999, the UNGA adopted this Declaration, which many have compared to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Having been involved in its preparation, I provide the historical details.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
6th International Conference for World Balance
Submitted by Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFollowing the high level of attendance at the 2023 edition - over 1,100 delegates from 89 countries - the José Martí International Solidarity Project announces the planned holding of the 6th International Conference FOR WORLD BALANCE, in Havana on January 28-31, 2025.
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
Who Are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
Thalif Deen | IPS/Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - If and when the military conflicts and civil wars in Syria, Myanmar, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, DRC, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will be the world’s arms manufacturers. Revenues by the top 100 companies reached $632 billion in 2023. Homo Sapiens? Think again.
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Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
Robert Scheer - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2024 - “The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It's omnicide. It's not war.”
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IN FOCUS
Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2024 - The Path to Disaster - What is the future likely to bring? Try to look at the human species from the outside. Imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer trying to figure out what’s happening here or imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now.
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Racism
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - Racism is at the core of Western societies complicity in Israeli’s genocide against Palestinians. The US and Britain are co-belligerents in atrocities of the most heinous kinds. Racism, though, is a multifaceted phenomenon.
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Beyond Trump and Nukes: Unmaking War, Remaking Men
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2024 - Trump as a macho warrior. What if his "machismo" is a psychological trait which increases the likelihood that he will impulsively order a nuclear strike to prove that he (the U.S.) is “the boss”?
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BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
Forced Recruitment Causing Serious Problems in Ukrainian Society
Lucas Leiroz | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Nov 2024 - Ukraine’s unpopular mobilization measures are causing serious problems in the country and worsening internal tensions. Ukrainians have spoken about conscription, revealing the brutal reality behind the Kiev’s army.
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EUROPE
The End of the EU and Euro
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - German government has collapsed and the far-right party AfD-Alternative für Deutschland, gaining support and seats, pledged that Germany will withdraw from the EU, the Euro, the Paris Agreement on climate change, end sanctions and resume imports of oil and gas resources from Russia.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
War on Humanity: Gaza Tells Horrors of Crimes against Humanity and Genocide
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2024 - The Gaza genocide is happening alive on screen in daily media coverage because there are no Arab or Muslim leaders to challenge the Israeli myth of being a Middle East superpower. The Arab -Muslim leaders do not exist on this planet except being after dinner jokes across the Western world.
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Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2024 - The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza and the growing threat of a major regional war.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
The West Bank Villages Wiped Off the Map by Israeli Settler Violence
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2024 - Over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.
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Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2024 - Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You Feel like You Are Subhuman’ - This report documents Israel’s actions during its offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip from 7 Oct 2023.
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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database of War Crimes in Gaza
Nadav Rapaport and Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2024 - Internationally recognised Israeli historian Lee Mordechai concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting war crimes.
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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.
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The Holocaust of Our Time
Susan Abulhawa | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Servic3 Dec 2024 - If the world were watching the livestreamed systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide.
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‘No Food, No Water’ – UNRWA Warns Besieged in Northern Gaza ‘Will Die of Hunger’
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Dec 2024 - Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that has been ongoing for more than 60 days. “This is an absolutely unprecedented level of tragedy. It’s an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” said Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA’s Senior Director of Communications.
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SYRIA IN CONTEXT
Syria: Assad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is In
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2024 - It looks like Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on his way out, to be replaced by a US puppet regime, whether the nation maintains its borders or is carved up into separate states. The evil empire notches another win.
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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2024 - As the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intensifies the offensive after capturing Aleppo, Washington distances itself from the attack although its complicity was laid bare in leaked cables: Al-Qaeda “is on our side in Syria.”
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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2024 - The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy. "History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’" - Eduardo Galeano
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Mapping Who Controls What in Syria
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2024 - Opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seize control of large parts of Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities.
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UNITED NATIONS
The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2024 - Article 106 of the UN Charter provides for a Transition from armed peace to a disarmed peace. Political scientist Quincy Wright (1890-1970) wrote about the transition: "The activities of the transitional period should be guided by four preeminent purposes:
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REVIEWS
We the People: Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the United Nations
Jorgen Johansen | Irene Publishing - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2024 - The United Nations internal justice system ignores or harms the vast majority of its whistleblowers, sobering new book documents.
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ENVIRONMENT
Over 100 Countries Want an Ambitious Plastics Treaty as Oil-producing Nations Are Getting in the Way
Joseph Winters | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2024 - “If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here.”
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TRADE
China Bans Export of Critical Minerals to US as Trade Tensions Escalate
Amy Lv and Tony Munroe | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Dec 2024 - China today banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington's latest crackdown on China's chip sector.
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POETRY FORMAT
I Have Learned a few Things
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2024 - I have learned a few things in my time on this earth. Not many, but a few. I have learned that western regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous…
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INSPIRATIONAL
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear–>Toni Morrison on the Artist’s Task in Troubled Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOften, the pulse-beats of chaos that feel most unsurvivable are those which artists must most urgently interpret in order for us to indeed survive. It’s the task of the artist as a grounding and elevating force in turbulent times.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Food NOT Bombs!
Submitted by James Albertini | Malu Aina - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo Comment
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump told reporters that the appointment of El Chapo was consistent with his policy of surrounding himself with “only the best people.” When asked about El Chapo’s ten felony convictions, he said, “I wish he had more, but I still think he’s qualified.”
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) A lode del non-allineamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dicembre 2024 - Questo editoriale è stato originariamente pubblicato il 22 marzo 2010 – #105. Lo riproponiamo per la sua rilevanza in quanto allusione a USA/NATO come terrorismo di stato da guerra nucleare per eccellenza.
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(Castellano) Reseña: Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung
Beatriz Martínez Pérez | Dykinson Books – TRANSCEND Media ServiceCosmología, Conflicto, Violencia y Paz - Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung by Beatriz Martínez Pérez; Dykinson Books; ISBN 9788410707252; 181 pp; Madrid 2024
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(Français) 25e Anniversaire de la Déclaration et du Programme d’Action des Nations Unies sur Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service1er décembre 2024 - En septembre 1999, l'Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies a adopté cette Déclaration, que beaucoup ont comparée à la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme. Ayant été profondément impliqué dans sa préparation, j’ai pensé qu’il serait approprié d’en fournir les détails historiques.
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(Italiano) Le sfide della riconversione
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dicembre 2024 - Nell’articolo precedente si è rivolta l’attenzione soprattutto a sottolineare la crescente militarizzazione nel mondo e nel nostro Paese, e ad alcune conseguenze che ciò porta al mondo del lavoro.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Doomsday Glacier Collapse–Time for MORE Human Intervention??
Just Have a Think - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dec 2024 - Five meters sea level rise! The West Antarctic ice sheet is perched precariously on islands and held back by huge glaciers the size of small countries. Those glaciers are rapidly giving way, and when they go, we've got a problem!
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
One Direction – TRANSCEND Media ServiceForever Young is the first song that One Direction sang in studio. I hope this video will give you good feelings and good memories of our boys. Enjoy!
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Any War Any Time
Lena Herzog – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2024 -Though one can debate the reasons, statistics and precedent of nuclear war, what is often left out of the conversation is the reality of it: destruction of the world as a whole. Lena Herzog throws this reality literally right in the faces of viewers.
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