Articles by AJ
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World Leaders Who Would Not Make Peace but Wars Disdained Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Modern economies are embedded in producing weapons of extinction and political leaders’ heavy investments support the industrialized nations’ war economies. We, the Conscientious People of the world, do not foresee time and history, no matter how you define it, being on our side.
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One Humanity and the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Reflections on the Aftermath of Earthquakes and Human Survival
→ read full articleWar and Peace: Animosity and Insanity Destroying the Earth and Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
In Search of Moral and Intellectual Human Consciousness
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Farruca: Flamenco Dance (Music Video of the Week)
Melina Najjar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Dancer: Melina Najjar
Guitarist: Yazan Ibrahim
World Peace and Conflict Resolution: Ukraine, Russia, and We the People
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
Voices of the Oppressed
→ read full articleReimagining Global Peace and One Humanity beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Towards Critical Thinking of Time for Change, Peace and Future-Making
→ read full articlePeace or War: To Be Optimistic or Pessimistic about the Future of Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Realism has its own moral and intellectual properties and truth cannot be made truer simply by numbers and fake political statements. We, the People of globe have no passion for war; it is incompatible with human nature.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Humanity: We the People Are Victims of Failed Global Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Looking Beyond the Obvious Lens of Human Consciousness
→ read full articlePakistan: Imran Khan a Victim of Hope for the Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Pakistan Looks for a Navigational Change – Pakistan’s trajectory of current affairs unfolds multiple crises of critical nature for its freedom, security and future-making. Wherever the military comes into power, it destroys the culture of positive thinking, morals and hope for change.
→ read full articlePakistan in Search of Freedom and Security
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – People and nations once colonized by the European Empires remain colonized in thoughts, behavior and practices forever. Pakistan is no exception in contemporary global affairs. Its systems of political governance, public institutions, legal systems and delivery of services to public are replicas of British colonial systems.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Conflict Management: Ignorance and Wickedness Pushing Humanity to Third World War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – The global leader’s mental microscope obsessed with ignorance and wickedness appear to have an irresistible necessity to deprive humanity of its peaceful future. The favorite perversion sees people just in numbers and digits, not voices of reason for change and human unity.
→ read full articleTowards Understanding Injustice, Inequality, Violence and Social Problems Blocking Human Progress
Mohammad Momin Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
Our Human Culture and Our Problems
→ read full articleFlamenco Dance Farruca (Music Video of the Week)
Melina Najjar with Yazan Ibrahim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Dancer: Melina Najjar – Guitarist: Yazan Ibrahim – Kick back and enjoy…
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Human Security: Are We, the People, and Global Leaders at Crossroads?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
Global Leaders Lack Understanding of the Nature, Peace and Human Security
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Conflict Resolution Need Leaders of Proactive Vision, Intelligence and Effective Communication
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Egoistic Leaders Are Misleading Humanity
→ read full articleEuropean Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost 14-15 Aug 1947 National Freedom
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – A Critical Analysis as both India and Pakistan Celebrate Their National Freedoms – Pakistan and India need desperately new, educated and intelligent proactive leadership to facilitate friendship, resolution of major political problems and a sustainable future to exist in peace.
→ read full articleThe Clash of Leadership, Global Peace and Humanity at Crossroads
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Most contemporary leaders appear to be the product of elusive manifestations – an egoistic mysticism of unthinkable military triumphs and glory originating from primitive times of history.
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Droupadi Murmu Is the New President of India
Ajay Ghosh | UNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
Mrs. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old tribal politician and former teacher from the Orissa state, was sworn in as the 10th successive president of the Republic of India on 22 July 2022 in New Delhi becoming the constitutional head of India.
→ read full articleRussia, Iran and Turkey Hold Tehran Summit While the Paranoid West Views It Suspiciously
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022 – Despite political discards, they met and shared their differences to cooperate for change and future-making. Why can’t the US, NATO and the EU do the same to end the military confrontations and agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine? The Teheran summit demonstrated that Putin and Raisi could engage with the West in dialogue to stop the acceleration of military conquests and perpetuated political animosities.
→ read full articleGlobal Conflicts, Time and Humanity: Are the Leaders Making Extinction a Reality?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – The raging conflicts between Russia, NATO, the EU and Ukraine and its spilled-over impacts across the globe are dehumanizing our perceptions and actions to make us redundant as rational beings. Time and history, no matter how you define them, are not on our side as we so-called intelligent beings could not learn from the consequences of our own wrong thinking.
→ read full articleGlobal Conflict Management: Why Russia, NATO, the EU and Ukraine Cannot Make Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
19 Jun 2022 – To stop the war in Ukraine, the US, the EU, NATO should have a direct face-to-face communication with President Putin under the G20 auspices. It is logical when the parties come to talk directly that tensions and evil mongering is reduced. This has not happened except military options for weapon supplies and enlargement of the scope of the conflict.
→ read full articlePakistan Looks for Political Change and Stability but Nation Suspects Military Intervention
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
29 May 2022 – The current chaotic culture carries a lingering suspicion of the coming of martial law and some form of military dictatorship in alliance with most corrupt, known thugs and indicted criminals of the recent past. The evidence supports the alliance of the defunct Bhuttos, Sharif’s, military generals, MQM and other infamous so-called Islamic parties.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution: We, the People, Witness the Coming of an Insane Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
17 May 2022 – The quest for a peaceful resolution of the current crisis is more important than other imperatives of global concern. The global leaders who claim to possess greatness of mind have failed miserably to stop the ongoing slaughter of humanity in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq…
→ read full articleWestern Leaders Witness Loss of Ukraine National Freedom and Russians Are Coming and Coming!
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – To stop the war in Ukraine, the US, the EU, NATO should have a direct face to face communication with President Putin. It could be facilitated under the G20 auspices. It is logical when people of diversity and opposing ideals come to talk directly, tensions and evil mongering is reduced to reason and mutual interest. This has not happened except military options for weapon supplies and enlargement of the scope of regional conflict.
→ read full articleUkraine, Russia and the Easter of Insanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – We, the People witnessing a planned scheme of things to exterminate humanity with superior weapons hitting targeted civilian towns and daily bloodbath as a new normal. Have we not learned any lessons from the European nationalistic wars of First and Second World Wars?
→ read full articlePakistan: Politics of Deception and Betrayal
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Politics of the Few Criminals Waits for Dark Future
→ read full articleUkraine Being Destroyed by Proxy War, Not for Peace or Sustainable Future-Making
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – Witness to Killing and Destruction: Ukraine Fast Becoming the Epic Centre of Cataclysm
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Nation-States Are Destroying the World – Could ‘Bioregions’ Be the Answer?
Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo and Ashish Kothari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature.
→ read full articleUkraine, Russia and the West to Rethink Dialogue for Peace, Not War
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
In an age of Reason, the cause of humanity calls for peace, freedom and respect for human dignity… Isn’t true that intelligent leaders and people always readily accept reasoned advice?
→ read full articleUSA, NATO and Russia: Why War and Not Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – The ongoing war syndrome between the U.S., NATO and Russia typifies what can go wrong when human thinking evolution is restricted to imaginary temptations and compulsions of animosities. Often myth of war is manifested in self-interest and its evolution becomes unquestionable on the rational screen of reason and moral values.
→ read full articleUSA, Russia and NATO Look for New Frontiers of Influence
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Why the Lessons of History Are Ignored – USA, Russia and NATO’s Geneva diplomatic talks ended in failure without any formal course of action to avoid military confrontation on Ukraine’s border.
→ read full articleBritish Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
29 Dec 2021 – Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism – A challenging new historic viewpoint and critical analysis for many obsessed with systematic colonization of poor and helpless masses across the globe.
→ read full articleClimate Change COP 26: ‘Planet SOS’ and Leaders Who Betrayed People’s Hopes for Sustainable Future
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
“Climate change” describes a change in the average conditions in a region over a long period of time. Earth’s climate is always changing and has been hotter and cooler than it is now, but the pace of change has sped up significantly. Scientists are concerned about the changes since the Industrial Revolution.
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Why Israel Calls Human Rights ‘Terrorism’
Raja Shehadeh | The New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – In a widely condemned move, the Israeli government has banned the group I founded. This is how it enforces impunity for its illegal policies of occupation.
→ read full articleHow the Western Leaders Destroyed the Muslim World: We, the People, and Revival of Colonization
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Arab geography is the by-production of European colonization. Historically, Arabs were nomadic people free to move and trade all over the Arabian Gulf Peninsula and beyond. British, French and Italian demarcated the national borders and extended superfluous nationalities to keep the Arab divided and defeated.
→ read full articleGlobal Leadership, Peace and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Rationality
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
We, the People of the globe must realize the truth and urgency at a time of challenging transformation and our sensual abilities for survival under circumstances of extreme geopolitical problems – continuous wars, COVID19 pandemic, climate change, violations of human rights, and dangers of insane cruelty in policies and practices to endanger our own future on this planet.
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Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger
Raj Patel | Scientific American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – “We know how to do better. Agroecology more than fits the bill—not only because the crops grown are more diverse but because the social arrangements that surround them are more cognizant of power. Industrial agriculture’s hidden costs are precisely the ones agroecology makes explicit.”
→ read full articleGlobal Leaders Waging Wars against Humanity Claim Peace and Success
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
In a time of humanitarian crisis as is COVID-19, we must allow truth of being One Humanity to support our existence and sustainable future. We must rethink that we are not alone, how we care about others, the neglected and tormented mankind. Often, politically aligned thoughts in Europe and the USA have ignored the humanitarian vitality of Asia, Africa or China and Russia for convenient political expediency.
→ read full articleAfghanistan: How the USA and NATO Betrayed the Global Humanity
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – US leadership and allied NATO countries blame the Taliban for the prevalent chaos and insecurity across Afghanistan. The Western news media appears biased and unprepared to recognize the new Taliban administration as a legitimate transformational entity for peace and stability in the region. The myth of Taliban as an extreme “Islamist”, “militant” and sometimes a “terrorist” group is kept functional in all of the recent reporting.
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Be like a Pencil
Natarajan Ravendhran, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
A pencil writes, but in fact it is the hand that guides it, and the mind that guides the hand. Similarly,…
→ read full articleWitness to Turbulent U.S. Democracy: The Paradox for Soul Searching of Anglo American Acclaimed Values
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
29 Jul 2021 – Nancy Pelosi, the US House Speaker wanted an independent and non-partisan congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021 Trump planned mobbed invasion of the US Congressional complex in Washington, D.C. – The Myriad Drama at the US Congressional Committee Hearings
→ read full articleUS-led NATO in Afghanistan: Crimes against Humanity Call for Accountability
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jul 2021
7 Jul 2021 – After 9/11, America led NATO’s invasion of Afghanistan was a revulsion against truth as it was in complete disconnect to the living consciousness of global community. When falsehood goes unchallenged, it attracts shallow and puppets accomplices into the fold. Pakistan military ruler General Musharraf and many puppet Arab dictators were conveniently hired to promote the bogus war on terrorism.
→ read full articleG-7 Aftermath: Western Leaders in Search of New Animosities
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jun 2021
24 Jun 2021 – Has civilization taught us to be friendlier towards one another? Asked Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher and intellectual. The G-7 used to be G-8 inclusive of Russia, but it shrunk to being the “West and America First” and anything else is a matter of opinion to be relevant for global peace and harmony.
→ read full articleGlobal Humanity Paralyzed by COVID-19 Pandemic and Politics of Conflicts Looks for Change and Unity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
22 May 2021 – COVID-19 Pandemic Deserves Critical Thinking and Human Unity
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The Aryan Invasion of India: History or Politics?
Prof. N.S. Rajaram - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
The evidence of science now points to two basic conclusions: first, there was no Aryan invasion, and second, the Rig-Vedic people were already established in India no later than 4000 BC. How are we then to account for the continued presence of the Aryan invasion version in history books and encyclopedias? Now thanks to the contributions of science we are finally allowed a glimpse into the ancient world of the Vedic Age. The Aryan invasion theory and its creators and advocates are on their way to the dustbin of history.
→ read full articleWe, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
6 Apr 2021 – Looking Beyond the Erroneous Logic of Contemporary Professional Intellect and Political Leaderships – Are we living in an era of false truth, feigned piety and alternate transient facts of human affairs? To answer a rational question, we need to look for critical thinking of our own lives being managed by distorted narratives coming from those who cannot even think for themselves in political governance.
→ read full articleBeyond COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Peace and Imperatives of our Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
What will be our future like beyond the compelling horizon of COVID-19 Pandemic and its aftermath? Are ‘We, the People and Humanity’ going to be learning for global unity and consciousness of One Humanity to cope with immense problems arising from unpredictable socio-economic, medical, humanitarian and political imagination terrified by the dreadful threats of unknown future?
→ read full articleAmerica and Turbulent Democracy Look for Change
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
True wisdom needs soul searching and tranquility of human behavior – the manifestations of true wisdom. If Americans are intelligent, they should listen to voices of Reason and Wisdom before it is too late. Its pains, horrors and cruelty are within itself.
→ read full articleAmerican Democracy on Trial: Trump vs. Biden
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
3 Jan 2021 – President Trump’s Fault lines and Delusional Concept of Power–America is entrenched in deep political crises of multiple dimensions. The working of political institutions, politicians, human character, morals and responsibility signal rituals of evil eye paradigms and a future of miseries of innumerable multitudes.
→ read full articleUSA at Crossroads: Presidential Election and the Clash of Democracy
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – “We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
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A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawai’i
Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
U.S. military contamination in Hawai’i comes from the military bases on four of the islands. The island of Kauai has the large Pacific Missile Test Facility. The Big Island of Hawai’i has the massive 130,000 acre firing range. The island of Kahoʻolawe is still contaminated from being bombed for decades. 43,000 active duty military personel, 9,600 Guard and Reserve, 60,000 dependents and 20,000 military employees live in Hawai’i. The military complex population of 132,600 comprises 10% of the 1.4 million population of the state.
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I Lived through a Stupid Coup–The USA Is Having One Now
Indi Samarajiva | Indica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
11 Nov 2020 – What else do you call Donald Trump refusing to leave, consolidating control of the military, and spreading lies across the media? That, my friends, is just a coup. You take the power, you take the guns, and you lie about it. American commentators say “we’re like the third world now” as if our very existence is a pejorative. You’re no better than us. The third world from the Sun is Earth. You live here too.
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Kamala and Joe [Satire]
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
‘Kamala, now that we have a moment to ourselves, let me offer you my own personal congratulations for a glorious victory! The victory is as much your doing.’ ‘No, Joe, no! You are too modest! The Glory is all yours!’
→ read full articleAmerican Presidential Election and Democracy Look for Change, Moral and Intellectual Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – When false claims challenge the truth, it breeds fearful and ferocious public outcomes. No wonder, why the American masses are more divided today than any time in recent history. American presidential elections failed to produce a viable prospect for the working of democracy.
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Grand Illusions
Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 issue – Today, those who insisted that there was no practical alternative to Western-style liberal democracy and capitalism have no concepts with which to explain how China, a Communist-ruled country, became central to global networks of trade and finance. It’s time to abandon the intellectual narcissism of cold war Western liberalism.
→ read full articleFrance and Muslims Live on One Earth: From Animosity to Politics of Reason
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron – What He Said and What He Meant? Politics is a game of pretension, saying something and meaning something else. Macron appears to be no exception in a hybrid political culture of uncanny coincidence to blame Islam for the criminal acts of one individual.
→ read full articleStrange Celebrations of the UN 75th Anniversary: Leaders Hated and Feared Make False Claims of Global Peace, Security and Justice
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
We continued to experience political deceptions in the name of peace and security, phony wars for peace-making, destruction of human habitats, racial injustice and violations of basic human rights and dignity at every step of the UN ladder of convenience for fair and foul narratives.
→ read full articlePakistan and India’s Leaders Mark Freedom from British Colonialism: But Masses Look for Navigational Change
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
17 Aug 2020 – In situation of crises, responsible leaders provide assurances and comforts to the masses – would leaders of India and Pakistan come out of the psychologically neurosis box and see the enlightenment of the 21st century of informed humanity and honor the rights of self-determination of the people of Kashmir and let them decide their own future and freedom and once for all rewrite a history of peaceful co-existence and friendship?
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Fulfilling Needs of the Poor Is Also a Sacrifice
Majid Parekh - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
I believe the single major cause of human being’s misery and hurdle to achieve peace and growth is superstition/polytheism. The concept of the Vedas, Qur’an and all heavenly scriptures is that all human beings are equal and no one is superior to others.
→ read full articlePerpetuated Insanity against Besieged Humanity: Racial Injustice, Kashmir and Palestine – Dark Days Ahead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
There are seeds of unimaginable and destructive Western cultural absolutism that could destroy the sense of time and rational consciousness of living history… Often the extreme Western political propaganda enflames hatred against colored and indigenous people, Islam, and blames Muslims as being “terrorists.”
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
In March 2020 the war in Yemen enters its sixth year since the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, with the effective participation of the UAE and logistical support by the U.S., launched the military campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis.
→ read full articleWe Are One Humanity – All Lives Matter
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Racism and racial disharmony is a chronic problem created by the socio-economic disparities and political injustice – the perpetuated Capitalism. The insanity of arbitrary power and injustice needs urgent change and reformation.
→ read full articleCOVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – We desperately need to re-organize our thoughts and genius for unity and coordination to pool the humanitarian resources to fill the political gaps of egoism and anarchy between inept patriotism and its global outreach to restructure our policies and practices to extend humanitarian help to all those who needed most, not the weapons of mass destruction, not the claims of individual greatness but a revitalized sense of One Humanity ready to protect the present and future of human civilizations.
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Year Six of the War in Yemen
Abubakar Ben Rajeh | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
26 Mar 2020 – The Yemeni parties must rally around a comprehensive national project, in order to find consensus on the shape of the Yemeni state and its territorial integrity; and the establishment of a transitional authority based on the principle of partnership, leading to a comprehensive political process that is separate from subnational projects and regional polarisation. Otherwise, Yemen will remain subject to international and regional polarisation, which will prolong the war and exacerbate the suffering of the Yemeni people.
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War Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
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“War Is a Racket”
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired US Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his extensive military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit, profiteering from warfare. He made a nationwide U.S. tour in the early 1930s giving this speech.
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Mahatma Gandhi on Conversion
Swami Aksharanandaji | Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
“I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never to be to undermine another’s faith. This implies belief in the truth of all religions and, therefore, respect for them. It implies true humility.” (Young India: April 23, 1931)
→ read full articleWe the People, We the Humanity are Victims of Political Insanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
22 Dec 2019 – “We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
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China Detaining Millions of Uyghurs? Serious Problems with Claims by US-Backed NGO and Far-Right Researcher ‘Led by God’ against Beijing
Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
21 Dec 2019 – Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz.
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Beyond Macron’s Subversive NATO Comments: France’s Growing Unease with the Alliance
Hajnalka Vincze | Foreign Policy Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
26 Nov 2019 – Most European governments prefer discreet but concrete steps to appease the United States and to reinforce the U.S.-dominated Alliance. To Paris, this is utterly illogical. But as Robert Cooper had said precisely on the issue of EU autonomy: “The world does not proceed by logic. It proceeds by political choice.” In the French vision, the path of strategic autonomy and away from dependence on les Anglo-Saxons has not yet produced the expected results.
→ read full articleThe Decline of Arab World: Leaders Who Could Not Lead
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2019
Once the Arabs were leaders in knowledge, creativity, science and human manifestation, progress and future-making; the Islamic civilization lasting for eight hundred years in Al-Andalucía, Spain. But when they replaced Islam, the power and core value of their advancements, with petro-dollar transitory economic prosperity, they failed to think intelligently and fell in disgrace and lost what was gained over the centuries.
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ICE Arrests 90 More Students at Fake University It Created in Michigan
Niraj Warikoo | Detroit Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
27 Nov 2019 – A total of about 250 students have now been arrested since January on immigration violations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a sting operation by federal agents who enticed foreign-born students, mostly from India, to attend the school that marketed itself as offering graduate programs in technology and computer studies. Attorney: Fake Farmington University Sting by ICE Was Entrapment
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“We Refuse to be Burned”: 500 Years of Resistance, Colonization, and Coups in Bolivia
Maya Ajchura Chipana | The Red Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – I am writing this because I don’t see many Bolivian voices represented in the media. Here is my story.
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The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
Suzanne Fiederlein and SaraJane Rzegocki | James Madison University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
19 Sep 2019 – Costs of War – Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University – Afghanistan ranks as one of the most landmine- and unexploded ordnance-impacted countries in the world, even after thirty years of clearance operations supported extensively by the UN and a number of major donors.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Human Security: India and Pakistan Itching for Showdown on Kashmir
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
7 Aug 2019 – History made India and Pakistan enemies and geography made them neighbors. The State of Jammu and Kashmir is at the heart of all political and strategic problems which characterize the nature of relationships between the two nuclear rivals. This week, Indian parliament using a legal stipulation of its own paperwork has changed the status of Kashmir without any consent or reference to the people of Kashmir.
→ read full articleAmerica and Pakistan in Search of Peace and Conflict Resolution
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
25 Jul 201 – President Trump and young looking Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan met this week at the White House. Trump is master to transform rhetoric into reality as he did to North Korean leader. Both were trying to overcome the historic indifference and prejudice to bridge the ever widening gaps between the reality and perceptions of relationship.
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Defining Constructive Resistance
Majken Jul Sørensen | Journal of Resistance Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
What does it mean when people start to build the society they desire independently of structures of power?
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Security: World Leaders Betray the Canons of Truth, Wisdom and Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
6 Jul 2019 – Global politics is overwhelmingly becoming robotic. Global political leaders are fast becoming actors on stage – issuing abstract statements of outrage and phony sense of grief when thousands and millions of human lives are constantly bombarded by the weapons they manufacture and sell to crush the human soul and to support the war economies.
→ read full articleRomantic Peregrinations Searching Peace Activism
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2019
‘Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! ‘We Know Who’s Gonna Win!’ – In the 1960s it was most heartening for me to see a small ragged group of young Canadians standing outside the US embassy in Ottawa chanting this slogan, much hated by the American military. Brought up by idealistic parents, I had emigrated to Canada to enter what I thought was ‘the modern world,’ away from feudalistic practices, caste oppression, and gross insensitivity towards women. However, I was shocked to see on TV every evening American war planes bombing the life out of helpless Vietnamese peasants 30,000 feet below.
→ read full articleAmerican Militarism Destroying the Future of Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
22 May 2019 – The wars of 9/11 continue, with no end in sight. Now, the Pentagon is investing heavily in technologies that will intensify them. By embracing the latest tools that the tech industry has to offer, the US military is creating a more automated form of warfare – one that will greatly increase its capacity to wage war everywhere forever. America or its allies in the Arab Middle East face no formidable enemy except themselves against their own naïve designs of military superiority.
→ read full articleGlobal Peace and Security: Why Wars on Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
9 Apr 2019 – Remember that civilizations and humanity are not developed by the political-military-industrial complexes led economies, or IMF operative bankers, ruling elite, speculatory stock markets, legal judgments, kings and queens, morally and spiritually decadent generations and crime riddled authoritarian rulers, but are the tangible progressive outcomes of the proactive intellectual and moral visions of the societal thinkers, poets, philosophers, knowledge, truth, compassion and continuous movement by man to support the humanity and its natural strive for new thinking, change and progress.
→ read full articleGlobal Humanity Looks to Unity of Minds in Crisis: Massacres of Muslim Worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
Killing of the innocent people undoubtedly is a crime against humanity. The global political consciousness is obsessed with terms like “terrorism”, “Islamophobia” and “extremism”, not knowing its reality and how and why it is happening across the globe. The 21st century global humanity is conscientious how some political propagandists besiege the people with false flags and imagery to incite hatred, violence and human destruction in societies having systematic liberal democracies.
→ read full articleGlobal Wars and Peace: Insanity against Humanity – What Next?
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
The UNO, The Geneva Conventions, The Hague Conventions, The Declaration of Human Rights, The Human Rights Commission and so many other paper-based laws and conventions often are a distraction from the prevalent reality of raging global conflicts needing urgent and forceful action for peace and human security.
→ read full articleTyranny against Humanity: Human Rights and Global Politics
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
27 Nov 2018 – The tyranny of human rights violations – planned and alleged goes unabated across the globe. Late American historian Howard Zinn must have sensed the human cries against the Nature and called “Tyranny is tyranny.”
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Specially Organised Retreat for TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut Members in Nilgiris Hills, South India
Prof. Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
If you are going to the IPRA Conference in India in November 2018, here is an opportunity to include a stay at a Bed&Breakfast Retreat in the green and peaceful Nilgiris Hills of South India. Vithal Rajan, a TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut member and an old friend of Johan Galtung, will help organise your stay on concessional terms, and guide your visits to nearby historic and cultural places, and wildlife reserves in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Karnataka states of India.
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Mankind Must Know: The UN and Global Leaders are a Menace to Peace and Problem-Solving
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
Mankind is constantly victimized by the willful deceit of triumphalism of the few who use extreme rhetoric of peace and harmony but deliver nothing except self-serving fantasies and neglect of prevalent truth.
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Drifting Away from Peace
Sajjad Hussain | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent.
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What a Green and Peaceful Future Could Look Like
Paula Tejón Carbajal | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – We’re experiencing a deep systemic disconnection: an ecological, social and spiritual cultural divide. There’s a discernible disconnect between the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet Earth; between private ownership and the best societal use of property; between GDP and well-being. “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
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Migration Crisis Is One of Mismanagement: The Figures
Nikolaj Nielsen and Damiano Bacci | EUobserver - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
The article gives the basic data on people trying to enter the EU over the last few years and the very marked decrease in the number of those who come over the Mediterranean. The peak point was the latter half of 2015 when about 1,2 million sought asylum in Europe having fled, it should be remembered, predominantly from countries ravaged by Western NATO/EU members’ military interventions.
→ read full articleSpecially Organised Retreat for TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut Members in Nilgiris Hills, South India
Vithal Rajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
Vithal Rajan, a TRANSCEND and Galtung-Institut member and an old friend of Johan Galtung, will help organise your stay on concessional terms, and guide your visits to nearby historic and cultural places, and wildlife reserves in Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and Karnataka states of India.
→ read full articleWorld Affairs and Insanity as Entertainment: Are We at the End of Human Morality?
Mahboob A Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
To enhance global peace and to undo the continuing bogus war on terrorism, there is an urgent need for teamwork by all concerned across the globe. The teamwork if undertaken with unbiased mind and without pre-conceived notions could usher sustainable change and a new beginning between those who claim to be at peace and somewhat superior than the ordinary folks and those who are fighting reactionary wars of freedom against insanity and catastrophic devastation of the human habitats.
→ read full articleThe UNO at Crossroads While Warriors Are Destroying Humanity
Mahboob A Khawaja, PhD. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Is There a UNO to Protect the Beleaguered Humanity? Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen are destroyed by design. Some of these places were the hub of ancient cultures and human civilizations and will never be rebuilt by the warmongers and raging sectarian bloodbath. It reminds us all of the man-made sadistic events leading to the First and the 2nd World Wars. As a conscientious global community, what have we learned from history?
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Why Gina Haspel, the Queen of Torture, Was Able to Rise to the Top of the CIA
Lisa Hajjar – The Nation,
26 Mar 2018
16 Mar 2018 – While Pompeo is a torture enthusiast like Trump—Haspel is the real deal. A career CIA agent, she played a leading role in the agency’s program of torture, kidnapping, and forced disappearance during the Bush administration.
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March 16, the Blackest Day in Kashmir History
Mohamad Ashraf Khwaja | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2018
The 16th of March is the blackest day for all Kashmiris. On this day in 1846, an inhuman sale of Kashmir and Kashmiris was made with a person (Gulab Singh) whom Lord Hardinge called ‘the greatest rascal of Asia’ by a nation (Britain) to which Napoleon called ‘the country of shopkeepers’. Ironically, this sordid sale of the transaction was erroneously termed as ‘The treaty of Amritsar’.
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Japan Plans to Kill Hundreds of Whales AGAIN – Urge the EU to Refuse Trade Deal until This Ends!
Aleksandra Pajda | One Green Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
8 Feb 2018 – Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister, has made his opinions about Japan’s whale hunts very clear. Abe stated that the country “will pursue all possibilities in order to resume commercial whaling” and he wants Japan to use whale meat, fat, and baleen “just like other marine resources.” His stance on the cruel practice is blatant, and he does not even try to conceal the real nature of the hunts under the typical guise of scientific research.
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(Français) La responsabilité de protéger le monde… des États-Unis
Ajamu Baraka | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2018
L’une des armes de propagande les plus ingénieuses jamais mises au point est que les puissantes nations occidentales dirigées par les États-Unis ont la responsabilité morale d’utiliser la force militaire pour protéger les droits des peuples opprimés par leurs gouvernements. Cette «responsabilité de protéger» (R2P) a toujours eu un statut juridique douteux, mais sa justification morale exigeait aussi un désengagement psychologique et historique de la réalité sanglante des 500 ans d’histoire du colonialisme américain et européen, de l’esclavage, du génocide et de la torture qui ont créé l’ «Occident ».
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Ajamu Baraka - CounterPunch,
22 Jan 2018
12 Jan 2018 – One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect the rights of people being repressed by their governments. This “responsibility to protect” (R2P) always had a dubious legal standing, but its moral justification also required a psychological and historical disengagement from the bloody reality of the 500-hundred-year history of U.S. and European colonialism, slavery, genocide and torture that created the “West.”
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Martin Luther King’s Revolutionary Dream Deferred
Maj. Danny Sjursen – Truthdig,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – My King is the provocative King, the critic of bigotry but also of capitalism and the Vietnam War. The King, in truth, who has been willfully concealed from view. Read, study, unearth the real King, the radical King, and take up the torch of his fight—a dream deferred—against the three evils still alive and well in the United States: racism, materialism and militarism. The owners of this country are counting on your apathy. Prove them wrong.
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God’s Oppressed Children
Pankaj Mishra | New York Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2017
Many Indian houses still have a simple pit toilet, which consists of a large hole in the floor. The feces are collected at night by manual scavengers who carry away human shit and whose tools are nothing but a small broom and a tin plate. Most are women. One out of six Indians is a Dalit, untouchable, but for years I neither witnessed nor imagined the life of one, although almost every week small columns in the newspapers reported the murder, rape, and torture of them.
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