Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and Other Bedtime Stories for Grown Nations
#929 | Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIf everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged by geopolitical puppeteers—would you really be surprised? The last two decades have taught us one thing: nothing sells like fear, and nothing pays like chaos.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Venezuela/USA: War, Oil & Narcotics
Michel Chossudovsky & Drago Bosnić | Lux Media – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Nov 2025 - Trump is intent upon waging war on Venezuela for allegedly supporting the trade in narcotics. Nonsense. Venezuela is the World’s Number One Oil and Gas Economy. “And we want the Oil”… And another unspoken U.S. military agenda: The protection of the multibillion dollar illegal trade in narcotics.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Mahatma Gandhi’s Role in Championing Human Rights and Human Dignity
Prof N. Radhakrishnan - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTwo incidents that changed the course of history of human rights movement and campaigns: (1) the eviction of Mohandas Gandhi from the train at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa (1893) and (2) Mrs. Rosa Parks’ stout refusal to vacate a seat she had occupied in a public bus in Montgomery in Alabama, USA (1956).
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Other Commentaries
SPOTLIGHT
Israel Apologists Hasten to Use Bondi Shooting to Attack Anti-Genocide Activists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Dec 2025 - It’s so gross watching the tail-wagging excitement of Israel supporters in response to this shooting. They’re so happy they have another rhetorical weapon with which to bludgeon pro-Palestine voices into silence. They can barely contain their glee.
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Reflecting on the Day the Pacific War Japan/USA Began: Beyond the Elimination of Anti-Military Speeches
Editorial | Tokyo Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - 84 years ago, (8 Dec 1941 in Japan, 7 Dec 1941 in the USA), Japan entered combat with the United States and Britain. This marked the beginning of the Pacific War, the armed conflict initiated by Japan in the Asia-Pacific theater of WWII... The country was reduced to ashes and the war finally ended with 3.1 million Japanese killed.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA, WEST BANK 15 Dec 2025
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
The Visionary Palestinian Peace Plan for Israel and Gaza That You’ve Never Heard of
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media ServiceA 51-page document by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers offers a much clearer path to Middle East peace than the UN resolution or Trump's 20-point plan.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
As Authoritarianism Grows, Psychologists Must Not Be Silent
Roy Eidelson and Ana Figueiredo – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - The authors had envisioned that this would be published by the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence—Division 48 of the American Psychological Association. However, APA's policies prohibited and it does not represent the official positions or policies of Division 48 or the APA.
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Gaza and the Unravelling of the Post-1945 World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Dec 2025 - The tragedy in Gaza lays bare the contradictions of a world order built to manage power, not deliver justice or enforce its legal commitments.
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NATO Rutte’s Berlin Speech: Not about Russia, but about the End of Rational Politics
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - And How It Made Me Think of Hitler
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Mexico Is Transforming for the Good
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn Sat 6 Dec, 600 thousand packed the "Zocalo" plaza in Mexico City to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Mexico's "Transformation." But there is very little coverage of the big changes that have taken place in Mexico over the past seven years. The New York Times failed to even report the December 6 celebration.
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Comprehension of the Sustainability of Elusive Fourfold Dynamics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceUnexplored Psychosocial Insights Embodied in the Heart, Gait and Dance
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Trump, Kagame, Tshisekedi & the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace: A Peace Deal Short on Peace
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2025 - Let’s start with the basics.
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Rwanda-Democratic Congo: Peace Efforts Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere is a need to create an enabling political environment, to develop the rule of law, and to build a vital civil society. There are tasks which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can undertake. There is an urgent need for peace efforts.
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World Parliament Declares a “State of Planetary Emergency”
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - The Provisional World Parliament in India concludes on this alarming note.
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Theory of the Gen Z Nonviolent Uprising in Nepal
Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media ServiceGeneration Z represents a powerful, dynamic, and tech-savvy cohort driving global change. Innovative, creative, and energetic, these youths are united by their commitment to authenticity, transparency, and accountability.
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Threads of Muslin Exploitation: The Brutal Unravelling of India’s Peace and Prosperity under the British Raj
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“Gross Disruption of Peace, Plunder by Policy: The Trillion-Pound Theft of Indian Muslin and the Fabrication of England's Fortune”
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IN FOCUS
Towards Piracy 2.0
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Dec 2025 - What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension," it is the normalization of plunder. We are heading toward piracy 2.0 not because norms are lacking, but because the powerful decided they do not apply to them. The USA is playing at the edge of the precipice--a rogue state par excellence.
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You Are Chosen if You Say You Are
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Dec 2025 - The very idea of a “Chosen People” is one of the most pernicious, dangerous and deadly ideas still in existence. It is, at the very least, naïve, deficient in worldly wisdom and informed judgement. It is, in fact, a primitive idea, and certainly not and idea that should guide foreign policy of any country.
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Manifestation of Inherent Human Elements in Creating Values for Sustainable Peace
Surya Nath Prasad - TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday every part of the world is in the grip of valuelessness with the expression of mindless killing of innocent people not only by the terrorists, extremists and naxals but by their own people, own relations, kin and clans, and by killing themselves also.
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Great Power Imperialism or Democratic Global Governance?
Lawrence S. Wittner - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - Pundits frequently remark on the warm and friendly relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. In explanation, some suggest that Putin possesses compromising material on Trump. Others point to their autocratic style and their rightwing agendas.
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ANGLO AMERICA
US War Crimes
Peter Maguire | Sour Milk - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Dec 2025 - Recently, many people have asked me if the Trump administration’s decision to target and destroy the Venezuelan boats is a war crime? The simple answer is yes and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ultimately bears responsibility.
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Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Dec 2025 - The president’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States.
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If Trump Is Serious about Peace, Marco Rubio Has to Go
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - Donald Trump campaigned on ending endless wars and now boasts that he has resolved eight wars. In reality, this claim is delusional, and his foreign policy is a disaster.
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Trump’s Multipolar Global Strategy
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 4 Dec, Trump released the National Security Strategy. The basis on democracy and human rights has been wiped out. "It was a mistake for the US to continue shouldering global hegemony after the Cold War. The US military did not need to provide free defense for its allies," he said.
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From Rosa Parks to National Parks: Trump’s Racism and Bigotry Demand Resistance
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Dec 2025 - This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus boycott, launched the career of a young preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr., and changed the world.
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EUROPE
EU: Ministers Propose Unprecedented Detention, Sanctions, and Stripping of Rights Based on Migration Status
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - EU ministers’ position on the Return Regulation reveals the EU’s misguided deportations, raids, surveillance, and detention at any cost, an unprecedented stripping of rights based on migration status that will leave more people in legal limbo.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Venezuela Charges Washington with ‘Theft, Piracy’ after Seizure of Oil Tanker
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Dec 2025 - Venezuela has accused the US government of “blatant theft” and “piracy,” following Washington’s seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker off the Latin American country’s coast yesterday. The US claimed it was involved in the Iranian oil trade.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Nearly 795,000 Displaced Palestinians at Flood Risk after Storm Byron Makes Landfall in Gaza
International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - Storm Byron, a severe storm that triggered flooding in Greece and Cyprus, has now made landfall in Gaza bringing rainfall that has flooded multiple displacement sites and placed nearly 795,000 Palestinians at heightened risk.
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Deep Concerns for Palestinians amid Intense Israeli Raids in Occupied West Bank
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Dec 2025 - The UN human rights office has expressed alarm at reports of a “settler road” being built in the occupied West Bank where 100 hectares of Palestinian land have been confiscated for the new route, another step towards the fragmentation of the West Bank.
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Anatomy of a Settler Abduction
Faiz Abu Rmeleh | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Dec 2025 - Ambushed, dragged to a hilltop outpost, beaten unconscious: Palestinian teen Owais Hammam recounts his brutal torture by Israeli settlers and soldiers last week.
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IDF Chief Says ‘Yellow Line’ in Gaza Is a ‘New Border’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Dec 2025 - Israel currently controls more than 50% of Gaza's territory and is eyeing a permanent occupation.
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Strongly Condemns Israel’s Invasion of UNRWA Compound in East Jerusalem
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Jerusalem early today, representing “a new challenge to international law.” The UN flag was pulled down and replaced with an Israeli flag.
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Global Atrocity Risks Rising, Warns New United Nations Adviser on Genocide Prevention
Human Wrongs Watch | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - The world is witnessing an alarming erosion of respect for international law, with conflicts increasingly targeting civilians and heightening the risk of atrocity crimes, warns the United Nations’ newly appointed Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.
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UN Approves Resolution for International Day against Colonialism in All Its Forms
The People's Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Oct 2025 - The UN passed a resolution that proposes the establishment of the The International Day against Colonialism, proposed to be 14 Dec. US and Israel Voted Against-- Netherlands and France Abstained
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ORGANIC, GMO, GENETIC ENGINEERING
Seeds of Resistance: GMO Deregulation and Grassroots Mobilization
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Dec 2025 - Navdanya has released a report that documents the spread of old and new GMOs and the dismantling of biosafety across continents. The European Union moves toward deregulating next‑generation GMOs paving the way for gene‑edited organisms without labeling, traceability, or proper risk assessment.
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CAPITALISM
‘They’re Trying to Get Rich Off It’: US Contractors Vie to Rebuild Gaza with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Team in the Lead
Aram Roston and Cate Brown | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Dec 2025 - Infamous group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal.
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy–All Those Who Feared a Capitalist Dystopian Future Got It Wrong
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Dec 2025 - A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Fortunately, these bleak visions never came to pass.
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The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Dec 2025 - As Global North rich countries fail to meet their climate finance obligations, the recent COP30 exposed the importance of class struggle in winning binding commitments for climate justice.
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Report Calls Attention to Capitalism’s Destruction of the Press and Media System
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Dec 2025 - The history and analysis laid out by the Roosevelt Institute is a worthwhile plea for a radical shift that enables “a truly democratic information ecosystem”
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COVID19 - CORONAVIRUS
Definitive Proof: COVID-19 Lockdowns Didn’t Work
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Dec 2025 - A study from 30 Oct on COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures was published in Health Affairs Scholar, a sister publication of Health Affairs of Oxford University.
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POETRY FORMAT
When Kathy Kelly Went to Jail
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media ServiceKathy Kelly has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of U.S. military bombardment and among inmates of US prisons.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Indeed!
Utah Phillips - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo Comment
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) L’energia nucleare ad uso civile: emissioni ‘zero’? Dosi, tempi, limiti.
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Dicembre 2025 - Il 17 novembre 2025, a margine della COP30 a Belém, in Brasile, la World Nuclear Association, che guidava la presenza dell’industria dell’energia nucleare al convegno, ha annunciato il suo programma di sostegno alla triplicazione della capacità energetica nucleare globale entro il 2050.
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(Italiano) Innovazione senza saggezza è come vita senza amore
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Dicembre 2025 - L'innovazione tecnologica sta superando l'innovazione sociale, economica e politica. L'implementazione dell'innovazione tecnologica, guidata da motivazioni di profitto, sta sopprimendo il nostro potenziale di sfruttare i progressi per rendere la vita più meravigliosa per l'intera famiglia umana, non solo per pochi privilegiati.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Ode to Joy – Beethoven Symphony # 9 w/Choir (Music Video of the Week)
Ludwig van Beethoven - TRANSCEND Media ServiceOfficial Anthem of Europe
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