Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The UN at 80: Still Humanity’s Most Important Organisation but Member States Deliberately Destroy It
#906 | Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe UN Charter is the most Gandhian document ever signed by the world’s governments. If member states lived up to their obligations in accordance with the UN Charter, including signed resolutions, the world would be more peaceful, just, democratic and lawful.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Starvation and Profiteering in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Francesca Albanese – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jun 2025 - Francesca Albanese joins Chris Hedges to break down the current starvation campaign in Gaza, and her upcoming report detailing the profiteering corporations capitalizing on the erasure of Palestinians.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Gandhi’s Philosophy of Nonviolence: Essential Selections
Brian C. Barnett | Academia - TRANSCEND Media ServiceA concise open-access teaching resource featuring essential selections from Gandhi on the philosophy of nonviolence.
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Other Commentaries
CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Nonkilling Conflict Resolution and Nuclear Conflict
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhat we face in the world today stems from an ideology that makes us believe that killing and violence are normal in politics and political science, leading us to think that we are naturally violent and that killing and violence are principles we must accept.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Spirit of Compassion: The Dalai Lama at 90
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service6 July marked the 90th birth anniversary of Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, celebrated with the traditional "Long Life" prayers at his monastic center in the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, India, where he lives.
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Boosting “Defence” Expenditure above 10% of GDP
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceGiven the failure of the The U.S. Department of Defense to achieve a "clean" audit opinion for over 30 years, and of questionable defence expenditure, systemic waste, fraud, and mismanagement, NATO countries might make use of a form of creative accounting.
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The Extermination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Gaza Strip Is Reaching Unprecedented Cruelty
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Jul 2025 - The US government is sending another $517 million worth of bombs to the Israeli regime to continue the genocide, while destroying themselves for the sake of the Zionist lobby. On 30 Jun Israel bombed the only still functioning cafe in the Gaza Strip.
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War in West Asia: Iran, Israel, the United States and the Rothschilds
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceUnderstanding Conflict - Why did the US want to ‘take out 7 countries’? Why does the US and Israel still want to ‘take out’ Iran? When tackling conflict at this level, it is imperative to understand the ‘conflict configuration’ as a preliminary step in addressing key elements of the conflict.
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Blood in the Sand: How Ashura Transformed Islamic History’s Greatest Tragedy into a Peace Destroying Sectarianism (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service” The Sunni-Shia Divide centered on Ashura is a Peace Disruptive Fracture as well as a Paradoxical, Peace Propagative Bridge, between Commemoration, Condemnation, and the Possibility of Sectarian Cohesion with harmonious Coexistence in the future”.
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Nothing to Say, Ma
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMadre, I’m running out of words. Please take my sighs and make them prayers of resistance to the ruthless actors who make this earth our home a bloody shambles.
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Is the Stage Set for a Global Anti-War Movement?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Jul 2025 - This month’s CPNN bulletin descries the massive street demonstrations in the United States, Europe and Middle East against the wars and war preparations that have peaked in recent months, and it concludes with the phrase, “The stage is set for a global anti-war movement.”
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INTERVIEW
Falcone Interviews Richard Falk, Lawrence Davidson & Stephen Zunes on Iran War and the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe wider meanings of the aggressive attack of 13 Jun 2025 by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear sites based on claims by Israel of an Iranian threat of becoming a nuclear weapons-possessing state.
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ANALYSIS
Krishnamurti on War
Krishnamurti Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday life. It is an outward expression of our inward state, an enlargement of our daily action." In this short but powerful quote, Krishnamurti sums up the causes of war, that it is the amplified result of what goes on inside ourselves.
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The Outlaw West: Between Bad Faith and Ineptitude
Stephen Sefton | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Jul 2025 - Failure of UN System Regarding Criminal Aggression against Iran and Genocide in Palestine
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Hallucinations
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jun 2025 - Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Feeding the Warfare State
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Jul 2025 - The Senate is on the verge of passing one of the ugliest pieces of legislation in living memory. The House's version would cut $1.7 trillion in domestic spending, providing the top 5% of taxpayers with $1.5 trillion in tax breaks.
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ACTIVISM
Actions in 70 U.S. Cities Say: ‘Hands Off Iran and West Asia! Free Palestine!’
Martha Grevatt | Workers World - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Jun 2025 - Although there is a temporary “ceasefire” in the U.S./Israeli effort to destroy Iran, many groups internationally are determined to stay mobilized. The horrific genocide in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank, continues, as do plots against Iran.
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BRICS
BRICS Expands to 56% of World Population, 44% of Global GDP
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Jul 2025 - BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The Time Has Arrived for a Comprehensive Middle East Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe attack by Israel and the US on Iran had two significant effects. First, it once again exposed Israel’s project to “reshape the Middle East” through regime-change and block a Palestinian state. Second, it highlighted the futility and recklessness of this strategy.
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Iran and Israel: The Meaning of the Current Ceasefire for These Countries
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAfter US President Trump launched the missile attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities with the bunker busters and other weapons on 22 June 2025, he announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire on 24 June, bringing the current war to a close.
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JUSTICE
Report: 60,000 Political Prisoners Held without Trial in Egypt
Women Journalists Without Chains/WJWC - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jun 2025 - WJWC published a human rights report, “Prisons Without Keys: How Egypt’s Detention System Kills Life, Rights, and Hope”, shedding light on the ongoing abuses faced by tens of thousands of political detainees since 2013.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Profiting from Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Jul 2025 - The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
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Historicide in Gaza
Lydia Wilson | New Lines Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jun 2025 - Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told. The utter destruction of Gaza is hard to fathom, the numbers too extreme to comprehend. With more bombs dropped than the equivalent of six Hiroshimas, schools, universities, administrative buildings, homes, hospitals, religious buildings and infrastructure lie in ruins.
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UN Calls Out Google and Amazon for Abetting Gaza Genocide
Harriet Williamson | Novara Media – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Jul 2025 - Economy of Genocide - Microsoft, Amazon and Google among major corporations identified as being part of a “joint criminal enterprise” in helping Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza.
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Says 613 Gaza Killings Recorded at Food Distribution Sites Near Humanitarian Convoys
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Jul 2025 - An OHCHR spokesperson says the figure is as of 27 Jun, adding that more incidents have taken place since then.
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ENVIRONMENT
Criminal Negligence in the Degrowth Movement? Why Transformative Criminology Matters for Systemic Change
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Jul 2025 - The degrowth movement has emerged as one of the most courageous and necessary responses to the ecological and social crises of our time. It dares to question the dogma of endless economic growth on a finite planet, and it offers a vision of sufficiency, solidarity, and ecological sanity.
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Mother Earth Cries: They Bombed Me Again
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhy Do Egoistic Leaders Scorch the Earth?
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Français) Le Monde Est-Il Prêt Pour un Mouvement Mondial Contre la Guerre ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service1er juillet 2025 - Le bulletin de CPNN de ce mois-ci décrit les manifestations massives aux États-Unis, en Europe et au Moyen-Orient contre les guerres et les préparatifs de guerre, qui ont atteint leur apogée ces derniers mois, et conclut par cette phrase : « Le monde est prêt pour un mouvement mondial contre la guerre.»
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Somewhere in My Heart (Music Video of the Week)
Aztec Camera - TRANSCEND Media Service"Somewhere in My Heart" is the twelfth single and biggest hit by the Scottish band released with their 1987 album "Love".
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