Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Emerging Powers – and Retiring Powers
#891 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn the name of justice and symmetry any focus on what is emerging invites a focus on the opposite: "demerging", vanishing, retiring powers. There is not that much space at the top, in the limelight.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Collective West Is Over – Peace Activism Can Prevent Complete Self-Destruction
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Feb 2025 - Talk with Dr. Jan Oberg in Sweden and Dr. Ulrike Guérot in Germany - The traditional Anglo-European powers are no longer able to assert themselves, neither discursively nor physically, on the world stage. At the same time, they lost their peace movements. What happened?
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Artificial Intelligence Explained for Nonexperts
Narges Razavian, Florian Knoll and Krzysztof J. Geras | HHS Public Access - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn this paper we briefly summarize in an accessible way the current state of the field of AI. Furthermore, we highlight the most promising approaches and describe the current challenges that will need to be solved to enable broad deployment of AI in clinical practice.
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Other Commentaries
NONVIOLENCE
Town Hall Violence and a (Hypothetical) Nonviolent Response
Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2025 - At a time when political violence is celebrated, well-meaning citizens must be prepared to respond with nonviolence. This essay provides a recent example of how attitudes of domination (cultural violence) can lead to injurious actions (direct violence), and how nonviolent intervention can give people a way out.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
From the Art of War to the Art of Being Bullied?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Mar 2025 - From Playground Bullies to Imperial Powers--and Beyond - The world is currently witness to various explicit assertions by the self-acclaimed leader of the free world--speaking in the name of the American people of the North.
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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Mar 2025 - A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody
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World Water Day: Time for Cooperative Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service22 March is World Water Day, set by the UNGA to take into consideration the water challenges that humanity faces.There is a need for an integrated approach to water resources management backed by a cooperative international framework.
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Ungovernable: Nonviolent Mass Solidarity against Corruption and Despotism
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOnly constitutional democracy, founded on human dignity, gives us government that we are morally obligated to obey. When such constitutional democracy is subverted, “it is our right and our duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute such government as shall effect the people’s freedom, happiness, and dignity.”
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Endogenous Pursuit of Peace: Care about Your Microbiota
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceYou Will Achieve Peace and Your Body Will Last Longer
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A Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service14 Mar 2025 - The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.
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A Quadruple Ethics in a Society Including Robots
Prof. Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAbout human interaction with a robot, first of all one has to choose which kind of theory he wants to build. No axiomatic theory is suitable for fulfilling our purpose. Rather, the wanted theory has to be based on a basic problem.
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IN FOCUS
Myths and Reality: How and Why a False Narrative on Ukraine Was Created
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Mar 2025 - At the time of the break-up of the Soviet Union and unification of Germany a promise was made by representatives of the USA, Germany and others that NATO would not advance towards Russia. This promise was hastily broken and several new members joined NATO in the course of its eastward journey.
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The Ukraine Ceasefire and Then, What?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Mar 2025 - Trump's US negotiated with Zelensky's Ukraine a 30-day ceasefire plan. Trump engineered a fight at the end of February, when Zelensky visited the US, and stopped the supply of military intelligence (GPS, etc.) and weapons from the US to Ukraine.
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Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIs this the beginning of a new Cold War between the U.S., NATO and Russia or the end of one? Will Russia and the West remain implacable enemies, with a new iron curtain through what was the heart of Ukraine? Or can the US and Russia resolve the disputes and hostility?
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International Relations 2.0
Mireille Fanon Mendes France | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Mar 2025 - Since Jan 2025 we have entered into a world where the law of the strongest prevails, where this law is accepted in international relations, and where those who reject it become the enemies of those who draw the contours of the axis of good...
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ANGLO AMERICA
USA: #1 Worldwide Arms Dealer
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Mar 2025 - The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China and five times more than Russia.
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Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2025 - Christian extremists in the US bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism.
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On Stupidity
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDenouncing China as US’ enemy on whom it plans to impose severe economic sanctions and then beseeching Beijing for assistance in keeping the dollar the global currency by ending its sale of U.S. securities; and then demanding that China slow its economic growth… - that’s stupid.
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EUROPE
Europe’s Shameful Role in the War in Congo
Marc Botenga | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Mar 2025 - European countries are stepping up military aid and economic investment in Rwanda, said to be an ally in keeping order in the region. The reality: Rwanda’s authoritarian government is massively destabilizing eastern Congo by backing rebel forces.
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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Mar 2025 - The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
‘Haiti’s Survival Is at Stake,’ Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Mar 2025 - Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country, William O’Neill.
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Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti
Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Mar 2025 - Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti released to commemorate International Women’s Day as a clarion call for solidarity.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
How Arab-Muslim Leaders Betrayed the People
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhat if Arab-Muslim Leaders were Intelligent and Honest? Are they deaf or dead conscience not to see what is happening on the ground across Gaza and other parts of Palestine?
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Boatless in Gaza: Using Old Fridge Doors to Catch Fish—In Pictures
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2025 - Palestinians use makeshift paddleboards to fish in Gaza City’s port after Israeli bombing destroyed local fishing boats.
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Our Enemies Commit Genocide, Not Our Friends
Sebastian Shehadi | The New Arab - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Mar 2025 - Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on why Israel's genocide in Gaza, including its self-defense rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court; the double standards applied to Israel's horrific crimes in Gaza.
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Fighting the Shock Strategy
Amos Gvirtz – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2025 - We must not let Trump and Netanyahu’s shock strategy distract us from the coup they are carrying out. Both came to power after being indicted for criminal offenses. It seems there is a kind of "legal" logic when such leaders initiate regime change to elevate themselves above the law.
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Anyone Who Goes Near the Water Risks His Life–But if We Leave the Sea, We Die
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Mar 2025 - Little remains of Gaza’s fishing industry, devastated by the war and years of Israeli restrictions. Yet fishermen are still clinging on to their livelihood.
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SYRIA IN CONTEXT
Syria’s Sectarian Massacres Are Blowback for Foreign-led Dirty War
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Mar 2025 - By arming the sectarian insurgency that now rules Syria, the US and its allies bear responsibility for the current slaughter of Alawite civilians and other minority groups.
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‘No Safe Streets’: Lawlessness Takes Hold of Syria under HTS-led Government
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Mar 2025 - Syrian women fear leaving the house at night amid a rash of kidnappings and ongoing security vacuum.
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JUSTICE
Statement of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor on the Arrest of Former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
International Criminal Court-ICC - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Mar 2025 - The International Criminal Court welcomes the arrest and transfer today of Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte, former President of the Philippines, criminally responsible for the crime against humanity, in the context of the Office’s ongoing investigation.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
I Stink Therefore I Am
Mr Fish - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump’s Assault on Education and Attacks on Colleges and Universities
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Bertrand Russell’s Message on Palestine/Israel the Day before He Died
Bertrand Russell - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis statement on the Middle East was dated 31 Jan 1970 and read on 3 Feb, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.
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Finlandia-This Is My Song (Music Video of the Week)
Indigo Girls – TRANSCEND Media ServiceComposed by Jean Sibelius, English lyrics by Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness, from the album 'Rarities.'
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