Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Why That Much Violence These Days?
#896 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceWe find it all over, as massive killings in connection with US and/or its allies [NATO] attacks on Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine, Israeli genocide of Palestinians, Sudan, Myanmar...--22 ongoing armed conflicts in 2025. There will probably be much more because of Trump's tariffs economic war against the world ["They're Kissing My Ass"] and threats of annexation of the Panama Canal and Greenland. [Updated by the TMS editor.]
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The “West” Is Imploding Faster after This
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2025 - The entire "western" narrative, its repressive dominance and hubris are about to collapse. To discuss the state of the European tragedy, two scholars from the region: Dr. Jan Oberg, a peace researcher from Sweden, and former British Diplomat Ian Proud.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Feb 2025 - Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
This Week’s TMS Publications
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NEWS
Pope Francis Has Died on Easter Monday Aged 88 (RIP)
Devin Watkins | Vatican News - TRANSCEND Media ServicePope Francis died today, 21 Apr 2025, at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Apr 2025 - Xi recalled that China and the EU are “firm defenders” of free trade and that “there are no winners in a tariff war.”
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Apr 2025 - The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.
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Eliciting Comprehension of Subtle Coherence of Strategic Relevance
Antony Judge | laetus in praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceExploration of Cognitively Resonant Configurations of Meaning and Order - In a period celebrated formally or informally as "holy" or "sacred", it is extraordinary to witness the pervasive violence between those who each claim allegiance to a spiritual worldview.
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SIPRI’s Ongoing Decay from Peace to Mainstream Military Security – Its New Director
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Apr 2025 - Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden.
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On Freedom: The Vision of a Contemporary North American Political Thinker
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFreedom is being defeated in the USA for failure to discern and protect these five aspects of freedom and because it is part of a fragmented world system that structurally defeats Personal Sovereignty, Creative Unpredictability, Mobility, Factuality and Truth-telling, as well as Human Solidarity.
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Syria: What New Structures of the State Are Needed?
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Apr 2025 - With the end of the long dictatorship of Bachar al-Assad and the naming of Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), as President, there is a need for the Syrians to consider the structures of the state.
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IN FOCUS
Armenia Betrayed: The Opposition’s Case against Pashinyan’s Surrender and the Folly of Western Dreams
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs Armenia stands at a crossroads in April 2025, it reels from the catastrophic fallout of the 2020 war with Azerbaijan and the subsequent actions of PM Nikol Pashinyan, whom the opposition brands as a traitor to the Armenian people.
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ANGLO AMERICA
“They’re Kissing My Ass”: Trump Says Tariffs Are Going Great, Promises Duty on Pharmaceuticals
Alex Galbraith | Salon - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump has a rosy take on the early days of his 'war on the world.' "I'm telling you these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They're dying to make a deal."
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US Concentration Camps
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Apr 2025 - Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2025 - The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.
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ASIA--PACIFIC
The Hawai’i Land Grab — And Trump’s Thirst for Greenland
Now It’s History - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow Hawaii's queen was dethroned by a group of white US businessmen eager to avoid tariffs on their sugar exports. In 1887, the heir to Hawaii’s throne attended a fellow royal’s grand party: the jubilee celebration marking Queen Victoria’s 50th anniversary as sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Historian on How Tariffs Played a Role in the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
DW Gibson | Hawaiʻi Public Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Apr 2025 - As for today, Williams said, “You look the news and you see using tariffs as a sword to get other countries to bend to our will, and that's exactly what happened in Hawaiʻi. Once we put all of our faith in the use of tariffs, the Kingdom was lost."
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EUROPE
The German “Drang nach Osten” Policy and Southeast Europe around 1900
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Apr 2025 - The unified German Empire, proclaimed in Versailles in January 1871, contemplated balancing the division of the world’s colonies, the markets, and the sources of the world’s raw material.
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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Trump Reconciles with Iran
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2025 - US Pres. Trump is moving towards a nuclear deal and reconciliation with Iran. Today, Trump's special envoy and the Iranian Foreign Minister began negotiations in Oman, a Middle Eastern country friendly with Iran.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Despite Threats, nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force Reservists Demand End of Gaza War, Hostage Deal
Bar Peleg and Michael Hauser Tov | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2025 - 'Currently, the war serves mainly political and personal interests, not security interests,' wrote active reservists and former senior officials in the letter that was published despite the Israeli Air Force Commander's threats to oust signatories.
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Global Charade: Israel, Palestine and the ‘Rules-Based Order’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Apr 2025 - The ‘international rules-based order’ in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been a charade. But Israel’s Gaza genocide, carried out with impunity, with the participation of the US and its allies, has exposed the charade like never before.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Some Chess Game
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media ServiceInequality, corruption... what?
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) La matrice stragista e i depistaggi
Alessandro Marescotti | PeaceLink – TRANSCEND Media Service4 aprile 2025 - Strage fascista di Brescia: sentenza dopo 51 anni conferma le complicità istituzionali e atlantiche. La definizione ormai abusata di “servizi segreti deviati” non regge più alla luce di questa sentenza. I depistaggi furono un’azione consapevole, deliberata, volta a mantenere l’Italia all’interno dell’orbita atlantica e a garantire l’“ordine”, anche a costo di sacrificare vite innocenti.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Jeffrey Sachs Goes Off, Roasts Donald Trump’s Trade Talk
ET NOW - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Apr 2025 - Says 'Mickey Mouse Is Smarter Than Him'
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
China Cuts Off Boeing, Crippling US Manufacturing
Breaking Points - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Apr 2025 - Krystal and Saagar discuss China cutting off Boeing in a major retaliation to the US.
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