Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL

Political Maturity and Rational Empathy for the Enemy
#745 | Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAfter the breakup of the USSR, even though Putin felt it “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” he requested that Russia join NATO and the European Union, following proposals made by Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Peace Building
Charles Eisenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Mar 2022 - Recording of a live call I hosted last week on peace-building. The basic premise we worked with is that all levels of peace and conflict, from the international to the relational to the internal, are interconnected.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Apr 2022 - The rapid financialization of nature that is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
IMPORTANT APPEAL FOR DONATIONS TO TMS
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Memorability, Mnemonics, Maths, Music and Governance
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMemory Enhancement Ensuring Strategic Credibility - In a period in which great emphasis is placed on the complexity of governance and the issues which it is required to address, remarkably little is said of the challenges to memory.
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It Is Foolish for Finland and Sweden to Join NATO and Ignore both the Causes and Consequences
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service12 May 2022 - Today, Finland decided to become a full NATO member. Sweden will do the same next week. What caused this ill-considered and panicking but fateful policy change and what its consequences will be.
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Inequality Tightens Its Grip on the Most Vulnerable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2022 - Please do not say you were not aware that the world produces enough food to feed all human beings on Earth, while nearly double the combined European Union’s population go to bed hungry… every single night.
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Extend the Spirit of Partisans to Fight New Fascisms: Homophobia, Discrimination, Exclusion and Racism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service9 May is officially the Europe or Victory Day, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies–-USSR, USA, France and UK–-in 1945. For the first time since the ethnic cleanings in 1992-95, Bosnian human rights activists explore the possibility of international solidarity networks, linking their local activism with those from other parts of the world.
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Tears and Hope from the Last Few Days
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2022 - World renowned journalist Shireen AbuAqleh was intentionally murdered by an Israeli sniper in Jenin. We planted ten trees in her honor. The constellation of events and circumstances and her background actually were so amazing that it provided a huge dose of sadness but also a big ray of hope for us.
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The Global Killing Fields of Journalists: The Death of Shireen Abu Akleh (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDedicated Journalists Are the Foundation of a Solid, Democratic State
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Notes from Eritrea (Part II)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2022 - If Eritreans or other peoples of the world choose multi-party democracy, fine, but the US/NATO shouldn't be trying to ram it down their throats with sanctions or using it as an excuse to bomb them into submission.
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Nakba – To Strive for Justice till Liberation
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2022 - Today is Nakba--the day that Palestinians remember as the Great Catastrophe when the illegitimate entity called Israel was formally established on Palestinian land. It was the beginning of the dispossession of the Palestinian people which has continued for the last 74 years.
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The Final Battle for Humanity: It Is ‘Now or Never’ in the Long War against Homo Sapiens
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIf we lose this battle, the Long War against humanity will have been lost. This battle is for everything that it means to be human – human identity, human freedom, human rights, privacy, dignity, free will and anything else that makes life worth living – and for control of the Earth and all its resources.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Homo Sapiens
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Book Announcement - Humans, in their arrogance, call themselves "Homo sapiens sapiens", the "wisest of the wise"! Admittedly, our species has enormous technical, cultural, and scientific progress to its credit. But wisdom? That is another matter entirely.
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IN FOCUS
Empire of Bioweapon Lies
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2022 - An ongoing U.S. bioweapons program in Ukraine was one of the Top Three reasons that led to Operation Z. So just when we thought we could enjoy the summer by watching Europe commit hara-kiri, it’s time to stock up on those Aperol Spritz. Get ready for a new hit series, season 1: Inside the American bioweapon racket.
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Progressive International: The Athens Declaration on Ukraine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday, 13 May 2022, three members of the Progressive International, Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran, called a press conference to make public the Athens Declaration on the Russian invasion and the war in Ukraine. Here is the text.
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How to Follow the Ukraine War
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service16 May 2022 - How to Bypass Official Propaganda and Disinformation
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ANGLO AMERICA
Biden Wanted $33B More for Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised It to $40B. Who Benefits?
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2022 - Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as North Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. government, and for whose benefit.
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Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of U.S. Fascism
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service9 May 2022 - The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election by running against the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Christian fascists believe military power, and its “manly” virtues, are blessed by God. No military budget is too big. No war waged by the US is evil. Violence is the primary form of communication. Vengeance is the highest good.
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The Last Good Guys? Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service8 May 2022 - Why has the United States already become so heavily invested in the Russia-Ukraine war? And why has it so regularly gotten involved in so many other wars on this planet since it invaded Afghanistan in 2001? Persistent warfare should never be confused with strength and certainly not with righteousness, especially on a planet haunted by a growing sense of impending doom.
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White House Rejects Rep. Seth Moulton’s Characterization of a “Proxy War” with Russia
Ryan Grim | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service11 May 2022 - Biden has dished out his own escalatory rhetoric, calling Putin a war criminal and suggesting that the Russian president couldn’t remain in power.
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Medical Bigotry: Jim Crow in a White Lab Coat
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2022 - Bigotry is an ugly thing. In my country, the US, it has had a long and nasty history. From treating black people and women as second class citizens via slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and blaming Eve for the fall of the human race in Genesis, to persecuting gay and transgender people, to barring atheists from holding public office.
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The Bizarre, Unanimous Dem Support for the $40b War Package to Raytheon and CIA: “For Ukraine”
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service14 May 2022 - "The US Anti-War Left Is Dead--The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It." Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened?
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Marcos Dynasty Back in Power: What’s Next for the Philippines?
Richard Javad Heydarian | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service12 May 2022 - The Marcos dynasty is returning to power in the Philippines. Almost exactly 50 years after Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and a dictatorship, his namesake son secured more than 30 million votes, nearly double that of his nearest rival, current Vice President Leni Robredo. Will he replicate his father’s dictatorial ambitions?
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EUROPE
Ukraine’s Partial Gas Cut to Europe Could Force Activation of Nord Stream 2
Paul Antonopoulos | InfoBRICS – TRANSCEND Media ServiceKiev attempts to blackmail Europe by partially halting gas flow from Russia.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Acclaimed Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service12 May 2022 - Shireen was a beloved journalist known for her tireless reporting on Palestine. As news of her death spread, crowds turned out in a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief gathered outside her home in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers then raided the home in an act both pointless and cruel.
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Israeli Police Attack Funeral Procession for Shot Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh
Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service13 May 2022 - Israeli forces have attacked a funeral procession for a Palestinian American journalist shot dead this week, kicking and hitting people with batons and causing mourners carrying her coffin to lose balance and drop it to the ground.
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‘All the Questions Were about Israel’: Inside Deutsche Welle’s Purge of Arab Journalists
Hebh Jamal and Lena Obermaier | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service5 May 2022 - When Deutsche Welle fired seven Arab journalists over accusations of antisemitism, many in Germany took its decision at face value. But a closer look shows DW's investigation was riddled with political motives.
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‘Boycott’ Is a Powerful Film That Needs to Be Seen
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAn important new documentary tells the story of anti-BDS laws and the people who have stood up to them.
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ENVIRONMENT
Brazil’s Amazon Breaks another Deforestation Record
Olivia Rosane | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service10 May 2022 - Another month in 2022, another announcement of record deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. “The cause of this record has a first and last name: Jair Messias Bolsonaro.”
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POETRY FORMAT
Sanctions
Laini Mataka | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service15 May 2022 - the hateful’s favorite tool for dismantling dissension, their weapon of choice for punishing those who refuse to gap their legs wide for rape w/out protest.
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Evil Intent
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe seeds of evil have been sown. To each country it’s own. Crimes of evil, crimes of hate.
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Buddha Poornima
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday the 16 May is Buddha Poornima The day that Buddha — Siddharth Gautam Sitting under a Baudhi tree obtained enlightenment
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BIOGRAPHIES
Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media ServiceCivil Rights Activist, Minister - African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s.
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INSPIRATIONAL
How to Face the Centuries with Confidence: The Mystery of the World’s Most Majestic Tree
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSome great poetic truth quickens as you stand beneath one of the world’s oldest trees--older than your most distant known ancestor, your country, your country’s religion: 3,266 years old. “The calm deposition of the rings… has gone on millimeter by millimeter for millennium after millennium — advancing ripples in the tide of time.”
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Norsk-Norwegian) Farene ved Svensk og Finsk NATO-medlemskap
Bjørn Eidsvig – TRANSCEND Media Service15. mai 2022 - De foreslåtte medlemskapene kan forventes å forårsake store, mer spesifikke problemer. Les og tenk nøye gjennom hva du ønsker å gjøre i denne saken.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Seeing vs Believing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media ServiceRing any bells?
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
The Absolutist
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis Modern World - 2 May 2022
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Putin’s Monroe Doctrine against NATO
John Mearsheimer | Economy & Geopolitics – TRANSCEND Media ServiceRussia Ukraine War Update by John Mearsheimer – 5 May 2022
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U.K. Orders Zelensky to Stop Peace Negotiations with Russia
The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had two simple messages to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: 1- Putin should be pressured, not negotiated with. 2- Even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements with Putin, NATO/Western allies are not.
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Tears in Heaven (Music Video of the Week)
Eric Clapton - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTears in Heaven is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards.
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