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From Planes and Trains to World Order Change

2 Dec 2023 - Two days ago, I returned from 30 days of traveling around China with my dear wife and TFF co-founder, Christina Spannar. From a visitor’s point of view, China is a service society where things work and people are remarkably kind and helpful (of course with the exception of a few who, like everywhere else, are rude, incompetent, or both).

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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars

Mini Documentary: What the Private Central Banks DON'T WANT YOU to Know! Truths we are not allowed to learn in school.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Peace out of Healing within: Integrating Trauma into Peace and Conflict Studies

11 Nov 2023 - Trauma as a root cause of conflicts: The need to address and heal trauma to prevent escalation to violence. Integrating insights from Galtung’s conflict transformation, Kingian nonviolence, and Daoist “peace out of harmonization,” I introduce the concept of 'peace out of healing within.'

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

How to Build Peace while Covering War: Peace Journalism and the Israel-Hamas Massacre

Peace News Network spoke with three experts on Peace Journalism: Prof Jake Lynch, Prof Steven Youngblood, and Vanessa Bassil. They shared their thoughts on the current media coverage of the conflict, and how this could change to enhance the prospects for peace.

NOBEL LAUREATES

Kissinger: A War Criminal with a Nobel Peace Prize

The former US secretary of state left a legacy of bloody policies, some still embraced today. Kissinger was directly responsible for the murders of three to four million people during his eight years in office, 1969-1977.

From Cambodia to Bangladesh: A Brief History of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Henry Kissinger’s War Crimes

2 Dec 2023 - Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of many millions of innocents.

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TMS Holidays Fundraising—‘Please, don’t let us sink!’

Dear reader and supporter, this is a rather emotional appeal. We need your cooperation to stay afloat. Contributions from readers continue dwindling. Meanwhile, the war industry thrives. Our mottoes, Peace by Peaceful Means – Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism are from TMS co-founder Johan Galtung. Not merely mottoes but ways of living. Thank you!

SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

GAZA 4 Dec 2023 - Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence

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Gaza: After Genocide What Future?

29 Nov 2023 - My responses waver between fears of a resumed Israeli military operation and hopes of confronting day-after issues of post-genocidal economic reconstruction and scenarios of political transformation.

How Can War Crimes Be Stopped?

1 Dec 2023 - Julian Assange languishes and may die in prison for having documented the war crimes of the American Empire. The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch agree about daily war crimes by Israel against the people of Gaza, crimes that are financed and supplied by the USA and its allies.

Gaza Hostilities Renewed: New Mediation Efforts Needed

1 Dec 2023 - There is a need for more go-betweens, third-party mediators who can help to overcome barriers and to start negotiations.  Mediation is an effort to change perceptions both of the nature of the conflict and of the nature of the enemy. There is a need to lessen misconceptions and exaggerated fears. 

Assault on Education

1 Dec 2023 - Over 56 days, the Israeli Occupation Forces denied water, food, electricity and fuel to 2.3 million Gaza residents. The IOF killed over 14,500 civilians (72% women and children) and injured over 27,000 in 40 days. Zionism is a genocidal settler project built on false mythology and sustained through perpetual violence against Indigenous Palestinians.

Religions and Religious Flavours

As we all know there are many religions in India — Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism,  Islam, Judaism, Baha’i Faith, Zoroastrianism and some other smaller faiths such as  Dev Samaj.

The Forgotten (Part 3): Buddhist Directed Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar

In the Buddhist Religion, Buddha, Siddhartha Gautam, achieved the awakening at Bodh Gaya, India, creating universal philosophy of Peace, seated under the Bodhi Tree, while the Buddhist monks and military junta of Myanmar are brutally killing the Rohingyas.

ENVIRONMENT

Regeneration Is Life – An Agroecological Paradigm to Overtake the Climate Crisis

Nov 2023 - On the occasion of the 28th Climate COP. There are two main paradigms of thinking of ourselves in the world and of our relationship with the Earth. We either think of ourselves as being separate from Nature or as being one and part of it.

Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels

3 Dec 2023 - The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

A Corrupted Dubai COP28

28 Nov 2023 - Revelations that the host nation [UAE] had used its official position to leverage new oil and gas deals around the world were a reminder that there are nations that operate as oil companies, with the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell.

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai

27 Nov 2023 - US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.

The Real Cost of Bottled Water

30 Nov 2023 - The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.

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War on Gaza and Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Rational Questions Need Rational Answers

ANGLO AMERICA

Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?

29 Nov 2023 - The US is threatening to attack any forces from neighboring countries that come to the defense of the Palestinians. Can this help to prevent a wider war, or does it only help Israel to continue the massacre and ignore global calls for a lasting ceasefire and political solution, making a wider war more likely?

EUROPE

This Simple Move by China Could Demolish the EU’s Aggressive Agenda

29 Nov 2023 - Beijing announced that the citizens of Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain will be allowed to visit China for a 15-day period visa-free. It may throw a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing.

Germany’s ‘Military Schengen’ Proposal Shows EU as Geopolitical Pendant of NATO

28 Nov 2023 - To Ease the Movement of NATO Troops Across the European Union

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 58: Israel Kills 700 in Gaza over 24 Hours as Palestinians Get Forced Further South toward Egypt

3 Dec 2023 - At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel pushes people south to Rafah. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque Iman Shiekh Ekrima Sabri.

Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Brief History in Maps and Charts

27 Nov 2023 - As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.

‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza

30 Nov 2023 - Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest assault on Gaza, investigation reveals.

Israel’s Insidious Narrative about Palestinian Prisoners

26 Nov 2023 - More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were arrested as children.

While Fire Rages in Gaza, the West Bank Smolders

22 Nov 2023 - While global attention is focused on Gaza, Israeli authorities are tightening their repression in the West Bank and settler attacks on Palestinians are surging. That repression was already at a peak before the 7 Oct Hamas-led attack, but it has gotten much worse since.

Israel’s Objective in the Gaza Incursions: Kill the Buildings

24 Nov 2023 - People die when buildings get bombed. But killing people is not the Israelis’ goal. They’re out to flatten Gaza. Flattening some Gazans is a side effect of flattening buildings. Ethnic cleansing with the goal of annexing Gaza is the only plausible explanation for Israel’s behavior.

Israel Reopens the Gaza Slaughterhouse

1 Dec 2023 - The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. The Gazan concentration camp is a cacophony of explosions and cries for help beneath collapsed buildings. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery shells. Tank shells. Mortars. Bombs. Missiles.

Israel’s Savagery Is So Shocking It’s Sometimes Hard to Take in

30 Nov 2023 - If there’s anything positive to be found in this living nightmare, it’s that it’s so earth-shakingly ugly that it just might shake the world awake.

Gaza: A Pause Before the Storm

23 Nov 2023 - The US and its allies will continue backing Israel's war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for 'genocide' grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos.

EXPOSURES - EXPOSÉS

False Flag: Documents Expose Israeli Conspiracy to Facilitate Hamas 7 Oct Attack

2 Dec 2023 - Yesterday the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border on 7 Oct. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials made a deliberate decision to stand down to facilitate the attack. 9/11 Redux.

FOI Request Reveals Bellingcat Collusion with Western Intelligence

30 Nov 2023 - An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies.

UNITED NATIONS

Palestine-Israel Crisis: Gaza City a ‘Ghost Town’, Reports UN Aid Agency

29 Nov 2023 - Amid hopes of a deal to extend the pause in Gaza bombing today, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees reported that humanitarian assistance had reached its shelters in northern Gaza for first time since atrocities erupted last month.

West Votes against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN–Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions

26 Nov 2023 - The West voted [as a block] against the rest of the world on United Nations General Assembly resolutions opposing democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity, while supporting mercenaries and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).

MILITARISM

Trilateral Missile Defense System a Step towards Asian NATO

29 Nov 2023 - The United States, Japan and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOfication” of the three countries.

WHISTLEBLOWING - SURVEILLANCE

New York Governor Announces Plans to Implement Pre-Crime Surveillance, Target Online “Hate”

21 Nov 2023 - In a press conference today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul outlined her administration’s aggressive new strategy for combating online “hate” and implementing pre-crime-esque online surveillance.

MEDIA

Media’s Fatal Compromises

28 Nov 2023 - The practice of “embedding” struck me as a repellent compromise with power. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We are on the way to huge, bloody, consequential wars fought without any witnesses.

Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool

29 Nov 2023 - NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.

OBITUARIES

Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923 – 29 Nov 2023) War Criminal Finally Dies

30 Nov 2023 - Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100. In my humble opinion, he should have been considered a war criminal. One telling illustration was Kissinger’s role in overthrowing the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile, and encouraging the mass murder of thousands of innocent Chileans under the Operation Condor (war on Communism).

HISTORY

This Week in History

4-10 December 2023

INSPIRATIONAL

What Happens When We Die

Here we are, each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.

SPIRITUALITY

Sutra on the Eight Realizations

This is the first of the things to remember: Throughout all the world there is nothing that's permanent. Even the Earth has the nature of transience. Bodies are centers of sorrow and emptiness.

POETRY FORMAT

How to Apologize

Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Paradox of Doing the Right Thing

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) Comment Arrêter les Crimes de Guerre?

1 décembre 2023 - Les événements récents nous amènent plus que jamais à nous demander : pourquoi ne peut-on pas faire quelque chose pour arrêter et prévenir les crimes de guerre ?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The Sound of Silence

Meanwhile, in the Homo Sapiens' 21st Century...

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Courtship

Hungry?

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said

21 Nov 2023 - The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

The Moment Israelis Destroyed the Hamad Residential City in the Gaza Strip

2 Dec 2023 - People run to take cover as strikes hit a residential complex in southern Gaza. Israel pushed on with its ethnic cleansing campaign in densely-inhabited Gaza.

Drone Footage Shows Shocking Gaza Destruction

30 Nov 2023 - See exclusive drone footage revealing the full extent of Israel's devastation of Al-Zahraa, a densely populated area southeast of Gaza City.

Hamas Uses Human Shields? The Evidence

28 Nov 2023 - For years we have heard in Western corporate media that Hamas uses civilians as human shields. So, what does the evidence show?

Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)

Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!