Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
History Is No Longer Decorative–It’s a Debt
#940 | Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA court in Niger just billed Europe €115 billion for uranium, coercion, and a century of organized extraction. While Western leaders escalate tensions with Iran in the name of “international order,” the colonized are asking who ordered the order.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
TRUMP DECLARES WAR: Major US Military Combat Operations Begin in Iran
Times Now World - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - Trump's announcements: major U.S. military combat against Iran as "imminent threat" to US national security and global allies. The U.S. military is currently engaged in a massive operation to dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, neutralize its naval capabilities, and destroy its long-range missile industry. Ultimatum to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard: surrender or face "certain death."
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Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz & Strikes U.S. Bases
Jackson Hinkle interviews Ray McGovern | Legitimate Targets – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - In a moment of cascading escalation — with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and retaliatory strikes reported against U.S. military installations across the region — former CIA analyst Ray McGovern provides a sobering assessment of what he described as “uncharted territory.”
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
War Is a Racket
Major General Smedley Butler – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious; the only one international in scope. A racket is not what it seems. Only a small “inside” group knows it, 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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Other Commentaries
SPOTLIGHT
Iran Confirms Khamenei Killed In US-Israel Strikes, Announces 40-Day Mourning
News18 - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Mar 2026 - A photograph of Khamenei’s body was shown to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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USraeli Attack on Iran: At Least 148 Girls Killed in Strike on Elementary School
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - Eyewitness say that girls 7 to 12 years old lied dead across their school.
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Going to War, again, for Israel
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - Once again, the US is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including US service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, ...
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Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Mar 2026 - Proponents of foreign intervention in Iran are unlikely to get the sudden rupture and regime change they hope for.
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Iran: 100 Years of Foreign Interference
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFrom the British invasion of neutral Persia during both WWI and WWII; to the CIA-directed overthrow of the first democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953 due to oil interests...
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Hearing Coherently the Diversity of Contrasting Voices
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Feb 2026 - Cognitive and Strategic Implications of Numerically Articulated Sets - The following extensive interaction with AI provides an explanation for the methodology of the argument made separately (Nasruddin Walks the Coaction Cardioid as a Triptych of Geopolitical Crises, 2026).
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The USrael Attack on Iran on the 40th Anniversary of the Murder of Olof Palme
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - Today, USrael attacked Iran for the second time in one year. It also marks the 40th Anniversary of the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme who condemned the US bombings of Hanoi, Vietnam, and revealed the places where crimes were committed up till then. He paid a price for it: his life.
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The Epstein Entrapment Network: Revelations of Crime and the Predatory Erotic Lives of the Rich and Powerful
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOne lesson to be learned is that money and class often speak louder than law in such high-profile situations, even in the United States where the rule of law is sanctified in public discourse.
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APA’s Council Meeting: Human Rights Win, Fear Loses
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Feb 2026 - Last weekend, the 180-member governing Council of the American Psychological Association held its annual meeting. In a series of crucial votes, human rights were pitted against fear. Defying the odds, human rights remarkably won out every time.
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Remembering Aaron Bushnell
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Feb 2026 - In front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, a memorial to Aaron Bushnell took place on Feb 25, the second anniversary of what Aaron called his "extreme protest" against Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Harn Yawnghwe, an Extraordinary Life in Public Service & a Barricade against the Erasure of the Shan from Myanmar’s Memory (Part 3)
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Feb 2026 - Post-colonial national vision for Myanmar came from a combination of leftist progressive analyses and non-blood-and-soil secular civic nationalism, both of which seek to honour ethnic group equality and right to self-determination.
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Empire Has an Identity Crisis — and the Global South Has a Memory
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIf you missed the speech by Marco Rubio, here is the short version: the West must be restored, civilization must be defended, and naturally, the US should lead the parade. Preferably with Europe marching in step. He rose to defend “Western civilization” — that sacred, endangered species that somehow only becomes visible when its dominance is challenged.
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The Global Geometry of Peace: From Triangles to Trinity to Transcendence, a Peace Convergence: When Science, Spirit, and Story Become One (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace as Humanity’s Missing Frequency. Human aggression comes from biophotonic disruption and reptilian-brain dominance.
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Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media ServicePublic banks — local and national — are not alternatives to the private sector. They are the missing infrastructure that makes the private sector work.
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IN FOCUS
How to Imagine a World of Peace and Human Unity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIgnorant and Egoistic Leaders are a Menace to Peace and World Order
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ANGLO AMERICA
Trump Starts a Major Regime-Change War with Iran, Serving Neoconservatism and Israel
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 - This is the definitive war of choice. It is the exact type of war that Trump and his movement spent a decade vowing to end. And the potential for destruction is infinite.
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From Midnight Hammer to Midnight Nightmare
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn history, empires on last legs are run by delusional imbeciles, too drunk on the swagger of invincibility & uber-greed, like teenagers on dance floor, not knowing or caring self-destructive risks.
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After Greenland, Antarctica?
Jun Ohashi and Takashi Yamaguchi | TBS News Dig (Japan) – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Feb 2026 - The U.S. ‘Diplomacy’ Heads for Southern-Edge of Argentina, Ushuaia City, the "Gateway to Antarctica"
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon Doesn’t even Know What to Do with Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Feb 2026 - Trump is pushing for another $500 billion for the Pentagon as he moves the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. But Pentagon officials are reportedly uncertain about where to put the money, “because the amount is so large.”
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EUROPE
The Williams Brothers: Afro-Basque Hybridity
Joan Pedro-Carañana, Toby Miller and Israel V. Márquez – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMost black immigrants come to Spain for work. The majority in low-paid jobs or outside formal labor and education. Two-thirds are Muslim. A quarter experience discrimination. They are routinely stopped and searched by police without reason—at higher levels than the rest of the population.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Legal Sovereignty in the Face of Orbital Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Feb 2026 - In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty. The confrontation is not simply Brazil versus Musk. It is the symptom of a global dilemma: who governs digital space when key infrastructure belongs to private actors with transnational ambitions?
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US Military Used Anthropic’s AI Model Claude in Venezuela Raid, Report Says
William Christou | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Feb 2026 - Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir, was used by the US military to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.
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UNITED NATIONS
Remarks on the Palestinian-Israeli Issue by Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong at the UN Security Council
Ambassador Fu Cong - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Feb 2026 - China firmly supports the just cause of the Palestinian people in restoring their legitimate national rights. We will continue to work with the international community to promote a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire in Gaza, alleviate the humanitarian crisis, ...
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CAPITALISM
Should Billionaires Have It All?
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOxfam: One-fourth of the world’s population is afflicted by hunger and nearly half live in poverty. Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 percent in 2025 to $18.4 trillion―its highest level in history. The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity, over four billion people.
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RELIGION
What Life Has Taught Me
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHistory’s great minds teach us that greatness is not measured by applause, but by fidelity to truth under pressure. Albert Einstein warned that blind obedience to authority is the enemy of truth, reminding us that silence in the face of wrongdoing is itself a moral failure.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) I Giochi Olimpici Invernali di Milano-Cortina 2026: Un Trionfo Italiano che Ha Illuminato il Mondo!
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMilano-Cortina 2026 non sono stati solo Giochi: sono stati un’ode all’Italia, un trionfo che ha unito sport, cultura e umorismo in un pacchetto irresistibile. Con entusiasmo dico: bravi tutti!
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Iran’s Missiles Smash US Bases, Trump-Israeli War Backfires
Elijah Magnier & Mohammad Marandi | Danny Haiphong – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Feb 2026 The US and Israel launched strikes into Iran in the early hours of February 28. Iran has already retaliated in a massive way, leaving several US bases and Israel itself under heavy fire. War correspondent Elijah Magnier joins the show to break it all down.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
How the U.S. Military (Pentagon, NATO) Is Destroying the Planet
Abby Martin | BreakThrough News – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAbby Martin discusses her new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, which exposes how the U.S. military — “the army of fossil fuel companies” — drives global climate destruction.
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Forever Young (Music Video of the Week)
Alphaville – TRANSCEND Media Service(Official Video HD) - 2024
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