Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
“Iran Can’t Have a Nuclear Weapon,” Says Trump. Why The Hell Not?
#905 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe question that not even Congressional opponents to a war against Iran ask: Why the Iranians can’t have a nuclear weapon if they want one? US citizens have been taught to believe that there are good and evil nations and regimes, Iran being an evil, “rogue” state that only wants nukes to destroy Israel.
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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
TRANSCEND News
TMS Donations LOW!
TMS TeamDear readers, supporters, friends, unfortunately the low level of financial contributions to our work have made our budget to reach the Red Line again. At a time when the maniacs leading the world’s destiny are bent on more destruction, mayhem, WWIII, our Peace Journalism becomes more crucial, important and relevant than ever.
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SPOTLIGHT
Trigger-Happy States and the Death of Diplomacy
Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Jun 2025 - Diplomacy is being dragged into the street, executed and buried under the rubble of Israeli airstrikes—Washington with shovel in one hand, arms shipment in the other. The latest target in this grim theater of annihilation is Iran.
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How U.S. & Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jun 2025 - General Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, provided diplomatic cover for the Israeli/U.S. war on Iran. We contrast Grossi's conduct with that of former IAEA Director Mohamed El Baradei, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for standing up to the kind of political pressures that Grossi gave in to.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
NATO’s 5% of GDP Military Expenditures Is a 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jun 2025 - Currently, none of these NATO/EU leaders have a clue about how to finance it except by taking loans (to be paid back by future generations) and reducing expenditures for a broad range of civilian purposes, such as health, education, and culture.
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Requisite Appreciation of “Bullshit”?
Anthony Judge - TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhen Leadership Knows Not "What the Fuck" Iran and Israel Are Doing - An extraordinary period in which the widely acclaimed leader of the free world is especially recognized for his tendency to "bullshit."
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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Must Not Suffer the Fate of Kizito Mihigo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jun 2025 - Kizito Mihigo and Victoire Ingabire both challenged Rwanda's foundational genocide narrative. He died in jail, and she is now in custody. On 19 Jun, Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was once again arrested in Rwanda.
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California Legislation Designed to Protect Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Rick Sterling and Marcy Winograd – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jun 2025 - Pro-Israel California legislators are trying to prevent K-12 educators from presenting a realistic and accurate portrayal of Israel/Palestine. Their legislation censors educational materials, punishes educators who deviate from Israeli versions, and invites complaints with needless investigations of teachers.
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USA: ICE-Watch Teams
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere are videos online of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents claiming drivers have “swerved” toward them or have been “following” them. It is important to record and document all such interactions because ICE is the vanguard of the emerging fascism in the US.
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Through an African Lens: The Israel-Iran Conflict and a Call for Peace
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAfrican nations have responded to the Israel-Iran conflict with a spectrum of positions, reflecting their diverse political, economic, and historical contexts. South Africa has been a prominent voice, condemning Israel’s airstrikes on Iran as violations of international law.
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Peace and War: The B2 Hot Chips and Hot Wars 2025 (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Future Chip will determine the outcome of the Future Wars.
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
Carl von Clausewits’ and the Clausewitzian Viewpoint of Warfare: A Theoretical Approach
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn dealing with both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?...
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NATO
NATO Summit in The Hague: Militarization Surge Exposes Imperialist Ambitions amid Global Instability
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jun 2025 - NATO leaders pledge to nearly triple defense spending by 2035, revealing imperialist intentions that threaten global peace and exacerbate geopolitical tensions.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Washington Green-Lights $30M for Gaza Aid Scheme Tied to Mass Killings of Palestinians
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jun 2025 - Over 500 Palestinians have been killed at GHF aid sites that are now set to receive US funding, on top of tens of billions in military support sent to Israel.
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EUROPE
Raised in a Colonial Death Cult: 600 Years of KU Leuven and still…
Koenraad Priels – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAfter six centuries, it’s time for KU Leuven to grow up—and to grow beyond its colonial roots.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
China Must Provide More Substantial Aid to Cuba
Salim Lamrani | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Jun 2025 - Suffocated by an economic siege for more than six decades, Cuba is facing an extremely serious situation. China, a strategic partner and long-standing ally of the island, is in a position to provide more robust support to help it face current challenges.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Signing and Spreading the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People’s Tribunal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jun 2025 - The Gaza People's Tribunal, at the public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize basic rights, above all their inalienable right to self-determination. Please read, sign and spread it widely.
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Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Unarmed Palestinians Waiting for Aid: Report
Nikki McCann Ramírez | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jun 2025 - The Israeli military is managing aid distribution sites with live fire against crowds of unarmed civilians. Hundreds are dead. Israeli soldiers told Haaretz that aid distribution centers in Gaza have become “a killing field.”
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Gaza’s Hunger Games
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jun 2025 - Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-GHF is a Mossad-funded creation of Israel’s Defense Ministry run by former members of the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. GHF is headed by Rev. Johnnie Moore, a far-right Christian Zionist with close ties to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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In Gaza You Can Choose Only Humiliation or Death
Malak Hijazi | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jun 2025 - Israel has been starving us for months. It cut off all aid to Gaza in March, only to recently approve a US-led, militarized aid site run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” The consequences are not abstract – they are visceral, immediate and devastating.
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Israel’s Expulsion of Palestinian Communities in West Bank Hits Record High with State Support
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Jun 2025 - The eviction of residents from a Bedouin community marked the final piece in a chain of Palestinian communities that have vanished. Settlers no longer feel the need to hide their goal: the ethnic cleansing of Area C.
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Dear Israel Apologist
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jun 2025 - We have truth, facts and morality on our side, and you have a bunch of words. Nothing will stop me from opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities. Call me an antisemite or a Nazi. The name-calling stopped having any effect a long time ago.
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HISTORY
History of US-Iran Relations: From the 1953 Regime Change to Trump Strikes
Al Jazeera Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jun 2025 - Iran remains the US’s adversary in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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UNITED NATIONS
‘Our Kids Cry for Food’: Most Gaza Families Survive on One Meal a Day
UN News - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMost families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of food aid seekers on the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme.
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ECONOMICS
From Private Profit to Public Power: World’s Richest 1% Increased Wealth by $33.9 Trillion Since 2015
OXFAM – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jun 2025 - Since 2015, the richest 1 percent have gained at least $3.9 trillion in wealth in real terms, enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over. Billionaires—roughly 3,000 people—have gained 56.5 trillion in real terms, more than the $4 trillion estimated annual cost of achieving the SDGs.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
We Are All So Tired
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Jun 2025 - An Ongoing Series Chronicling the USA's Descent into Greatness
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Understanding the Great Reset as a Cybernetics Religion
Matt Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMatt Ehret explains the historic roots of Russian-US friendship from 1776 to the defeat of Hitler, plus an in-depth analysis of cybernetics as the foundation for the cultish monstrosity known in modern times as the Great Reset.
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