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EDITORIAL

Prof. Johan Galtung

Norway: Decline and Fall

#900 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service

The Norway I was born into 80 years ago and grew up in the 20 years that followed is hopefully still there, sedimented in the archeology of recent history.  But there is an overlayer of something alien, distinctly not Norwegian...

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TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Galtung: 60 Years of Global Peace Studies (Part 1)

Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service

An oldie from the founder of Conflict & Peace Studies

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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

The Road to the Culture of Nonviolence

Dr. R. Vetrickarthick | The Gandhigram Rural Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service

Brutal Physical Strength or Determined Mental Strength or Spirited Soul Force - Which is the strong one?

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Other Commentaries

NONVIOLENCE

Statement for the International Day of Conscientious Objection to Military Service

14 May 2025 - Six civil society organisations – Connection e.V., European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, Pax Christi International, Quaker Council for European Affairs, Un ponte per and War Resisters International – are working together in Europe for the human right to conscientious objection to military service.

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Coming Soon: The Strategic Nonviolence Academy

Nonviolence Radio | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service

8 May 2025 - Organizer and strategist Joe Worthy discusses the new space he is building to holistically train a new wave of leaders in both the skills and values of nonviolent action.

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TRANSCEND MEMBERS

India-Pakistan Escalation of Conflict: Promoting Positive Peace Through a Bottom-up Approach

Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 May 2025 - Since the partition from India in 1947, Pakistan has been engaged in around a dozen significant and minor conflicts with India. Wars and negotiations are carried out based on the interests and directives of the respective central governments.

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The Gaza Ordeal: How Will It End?

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service

12 May 2025 - To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy...

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The Human Cost of Syria Sanctions

Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 May 2025 - On May 13,  U.S. President Trump announced  he is ordering the removal of sanctions on Syria.

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Peace Symbolism: Icons and Iconography Post 19th Century (Part 2)

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service

10 May 2025 - As stated in Part 1 of the series on Peace Symbolism, in the 21st century, the term icons conjure up images of computer software or branding for the younger generation.

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Growing Tensions in the Taiwan Strait

René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 May 2025 - Even before Taiwanese elected Lai Ching-te as president in Jan 2024, Chinese officials voiced opposition, calling him "a separatist" and "an instigator of war." Chinese officials attacks have become even harder, calling him a "destroyer of cross-Strait peace."

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A Win-Win Solution to the Flying Palace Problem

Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service

16 May 2025 - Applying Johan Galtung’s TRANSCEND Method of Conflict Transformation

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The Crisis of Truth and the MAGA Phenomenon

Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 May 2025 - Ultimate Denial Inevitably Leading to Genocide

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Let Me Now Praise James Agee

Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service

On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.

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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

On Some Capital Issues about Warfare

Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service

12 May 2025 - The destiny of warfare depends very much on actors’ relative capabilities. By definition, different capabilities are the means of the actor in international relations to achieve certain goals.

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IN FOCUS

India and Pakistan Need Soul Searching: What Is Next after the Ceasefire?

Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service

Looking Beyond the Formative History

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

Human Rights Foundation Launches First-ever AI for Individual Rights Initiatives

Bereket Alemayehu | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 May 2025 - The Human Rights Foundation announced that the program is the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence, used as tools of repression, to support open-source for those under tyranny.

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ANALYSIS

The New Dark Age

The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 May 2025 - The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.

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Russia’s Fight for Justice: How NATO’s Betrayal and Lies Fueled Distrust in Russia-Ukraine Negotiations

Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 May 2025 - For Russia, the ongoing war in Ukraine is not merely a conflict with its neighbor but a desperate stand against NATO’s relentless aggression, cloaked in lies and broken promises.

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AFRICA

New Study Reveals Changing Attitudes to Female Genital Mutilation among Sudanese Communities in Egypt

Equality Now - TRANSCEND Media Service

13 May 2025 - Since Sudan’s devastating war erupted in April 2023, over a million people have fled to neighbouring Egypt. Both countries have laws banning FGM, but despite this Sudan and Egypt have some of the highest rates of FGM globally.

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Burkina Faso’s 37-Year-Old Leader Draws US Ire

Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service

13 May 2025 - Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S.

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Peace Disruption: The Neo Exodus, in the 21st Century, of the South African, White Afrikaners to the US

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service

The morphological diversity, within the human race, from evolution, is so multifaceted that it is often hard to believe that all humans belong to the same species of Homo sapiens, sapiens.

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ANGLO AMERICA

Trump II: The Macro View

Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service

Chomsky acknowledges the U.S. Constitution as a framework that limits democratic responsiveness, with institutions like the Senate, Electoral College, and campaign finance system skewing power toward wealthy, white, and rural constituencies.

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ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE

India Must End Arbitrary Arrest, Detention, and Forced Returns of Rohingya Refugees

Fortify Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service

12 May 2025 - Indian authorities beat, blindfold, handcuff, and forcibly return Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Haiti: Restitution and Reparations

Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service

Since November 11th travel to and from Haiti has become difficult. A shooting at the capital’s airport triggered an immediate ban by the US government on all US flights. Our border with the Dominican Republic has been closed for over a year. 

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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 May 2025 - I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.

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The Gaza Genocide Is Worse Than the Nazi Holocaust

Alon Mizrahi - TRANSCEND Media Service

16 May 2025 - We have no military to defend Palestinians, but we have judgement, and we must use it fiercely. The Nazi Holocaust was committed in the dark, and most of humanity did not see it in real time. The Gaza Genocide is broadcast live for the whole world to see. It is an open challenge to human morality.

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The Exacerbation of Israel’s Gaza Massacre Situation

Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service

8 May 2025 --- Israel is trying to starve the people remaining in Gaza.  International aid organizations and others have been prevented from bringing food and other supplies into Gaza from outside.

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Imagine if Gaza Were Jewish and the People Bombing It Were Muslims

Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Serevice

16 May 2025 - If Gaza was populated by Jews and those massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words “genocide” and “Holocaust” would’ve been appearing in the news every single day.

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JUSTICE

Starvation and Potential ICC Warrants on Gaza: What Does International Law Say?

Anne van Mourik and Lucy J. Gaynor | JusticeInfo - TRANSCEND Media Service

6 May 2025 - “You have to hear this to believe this. The International Criminal Court in the Hague is contemplating issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli government and military officials, as war criminals.

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MEDIA

The Media Calls Israeli Captives “Hostages” and Palestinians “Prisoners”

Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service

13 May 2025 - Although he was a soldier captured at a military outpost, U.S. news outlets rarely described Edan Alexander as a prisoner of war.

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TRANSHUMANISM

Transgenic, Transgender, Transhuman: Techno-obsessive Agenda of the “Less Than Human”

Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service

12 May 2025 - The techno-obsessive trend of this time is the new pandemic, designed like its predecessor, to derail the human race.

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EDUCATION

Misconception and Right Concept of Peace Education: Theory and Praxis

Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service

Misconception about Peace Education: Wrong Diagnosis

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BIOGRAPHIES

Who Is Nikola Tesla?

Nikola Tesla and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service

12 May 2025 - They have heard of the Tesla electric car, but  generally the broader public is unfamiliar with Nikola Tesla, the Serbian scientist and his path-breaking inventions in electricity and wireless technology. Many of his inventions were stolen by US corporations. 

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POETRY FORMAT

Autumn Lullaby

Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media Service

In her hand she held, a green leaf from her Tutu's kukui nut tree.

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JOKE OF THE WEEK

Trojan Plane

Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service

13 May 2025 - The King of Corruption Solidifies His Title

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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Perché tutta quella violenza oggigiorno?

Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

Lo troviamo ovunque, come le uccisioni di massa in relazione agli attacchi degli Stati Uniti e/o dei suoi alleati [NATO] contro Iraq, Libia, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ucraina, il genocidio israeliano dei palestinesi, Sudan, Myanmar… – 22 conflitti armati in corso nel 2025.

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(Italiano) Incidenti Nucleari: Dalla Cronaca ai Dettagli

Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

Riflessioni a partire dal libro di Serhii Plokhy, Atomi e cenere. Dall’atollo di Bikini a Fukushima, storia di sei disastri nucleari, Le scie, Mondadori, Milano 2024.

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(Français) Le Quartier Arménien de Jérusalem : Une Histoire Millénaire et des Défis Actuels vus par les Arméniens

Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 mai 2025 - Le quartier arménien, niché dans le sud-ouest de la vieille ville de Jérusalem, est un joyau de l’histoire chrétienne et de la diaspora arménienne.

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