Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Detained by Canada: A Puzzling Experience
#927 | Hilal Elver & Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAt first, we were both amused and surprised by such a framing by the Canadian government, as the charge of threatening Canada’s national security seemed so disproportionately grandiose as compared to our long demonstrated actual capabilities or, for that matter our intentions. There is no hidden agenda. We are proud to be independent scholars...
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The Palestine Lab: Exporting Occupation Technology
The Chris Hedges Report w/ Antony Loewenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2025 - Gaza has become a testing ground for Israeli and Western weapons and surveillance tools — technologies that, as filmmaker and journalist Antony Loewenstein warns, will inevitably be used to target populations across the globe.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
The Mein Kampf of the “New” Global Far Right
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Meer – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - How Old Fascist Doctrines Are Recycled to Shape Today’s Authoritarian Politics
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
My Freedom from Zionism
Daniel Klein | Truth, Reconciliation, and Love - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Oct 2025 - A Testimony of What I Saw, Why I Left, and What I Learned - I was born and raised in a religious-Zionist home in a settlement in the West Bank, where I lived for the first 22 years of my life.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
Giving Tuesday (2 Dec 2025)
TRANSCEND Media Service TeamIt is a date when your generosity can really count because your gift—big or small—to our TMS Peace Journalism will be a building block for achieving Solutions, Conflict Mediation, Peace—in a world that suffers immensely due to its governmental leaderships (or lack thereof).
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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 1 Dec 2025
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
TFF Portfolio for True Peace in Ukraine
Jan Oberg, et al. | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Nov 2025 - It is time to stop misusing the word "peace" as if peacemaking required neither knowledge nor creativity. TFF presents a genuine portfolio of proposals for global dialogue - and not a fake plan.
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President Putin Reiterates the 14 Jun 2024 Conditions for Ending the War with Ukraine
Larry C. Johnson | Sonar21 - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Nov 2025 - In a press conference in Kyrgyzstan today, following the Collective Security Treaty Organization summit, Putin addressed Trump’s proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine for the first time in detail.
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ENVIRONMENT
COP30’s Three F-Words: Failure on Fossil Fuels
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Nov 2025 - The UN’s COP30 climate summit known as “the Amazon COP,” wrapped on 22 Nov. Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a roadmap away from fossil fuels in the summit’s concluding agreement.
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Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
People's Summit Towards COP30 | Z - TRANSCEND Media Service23 Nov 2025 - We, the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, on 12/16 Nov 2025, declare what we have accumulated in struggles, debates, studies, exchanges of experiences, cultural activities and testimonies.
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Plutonium Found at Former San Francisco Naval Shipyard – Navy Faces Cover-Up Claims
Rohit David | International Business Times - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Nov 2025 - Multiple tests have detected radioactive compounds in residents' blood and urine, including plutonium.
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The Hot Tub of Death? Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Civilization under Threat
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - The same week that U.N. officials spoke of an “apocalypse” in Jamaica, billionaire Bill Gates expressed an unease about officials and scientists who, he thought, were being hysterical. He urged them to chill the hell out; an arrogant and manipulative oracle, uttered with all the privilege of the world’s 19th richest man.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Revolutionary Holism: The Only Way to a Viable Human Future
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMature human beings understand that every person, no matter their religion, gender, nationality, culture, or other differences, has the right to equal treatment under the law, the right to peace, and the right to a healthy environment.
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Golden Lines: The UAE, Sudan’s Blood Gold, and China’s Quiet Facilitation
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Nov 2025 - Beneath Dubai's glittering skyline lies a darker treasure; gold mined in Sudan's war zones, traded through UAE vaults and polished by a global system that profits from human suffering.
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UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution against Torture
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 20 Nov 2025, the UNGA voted to adopt a resolution on the prohibition of torture, which affirms that the prohibition is a non-derogable right even during armed conflict or states of emergency. Three [rogue] member states voted against the resolution: the U.S.A. Israel, and Argentina.
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Mali, Lithium, and the New Scramble for Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - In recent weeks, international headlines have warned of Mali’s imminent collapse: “Bamako is about to fall.” “Terrorists are at the gates.” The real struggle, many in the region suggest, is not about ideology or terrorism. It is about lithium — the white metal that powers the world’s future.
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The United Arab Emirates Use a Black Sport to Whitewash a Genocide in Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Nov 2025 - National Basketball Association (NBA) players are 70-75% Black, so the game is commonly referred to as “a Black sport.” Now the United Arab Emirates are using it to whitewash a genocide in Africa.
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Ancient Peace Disrupting Echoes, Modern Wounds: Deconstructing Gender-Based Violence in the Hindu Mahabharata
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Swayamvara Interrupted: An objective and contextual elaboration of Female Autonomy and Its Violation, as narrated in this Hindu Scripture.
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IN FOCUS
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Murdering Thousands Who Sought Its Aid
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Nov 2025 - The aid group oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by sniper killings of Palestinians lured to receive food during famine--a criminal enterprise.
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ACTIVISM
Hunger-Strike of Pro-Palestine Political Prisoners in the UK
Sara Chessa | Canary - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Nov 2025 - Irish, Jewish Protesters Demand BBC End Silence on Hunger-Strikers - The nonviolent group Palestine Action was labelled ‘terrorist’ and its members can be jailed for 14 years for trying to prevent weapons from reaching Israel. The hunger-strikers have five demands for the UK government.
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ANGLO AMERICA
How the US-Israeli ‘Peace Plan’ Will Partition Gaza
Jonathan Whittall | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2025 - It is tapping into a well-known colonial strategy of isolating and fragmenting an occupied population.
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Venezuela: A Not-so-covert CIA Disaster in the Making
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn 22 Nov 2025, Reuters reported that the US is “to launch a new phase of Venezuela-related operations in the coming days”. Venezuela doesn’t even produce fentanyl, but Trump goes forward with regime change in Caracas as part of a spurious ‘war on drugs’.
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Prisons as Sites of National Reconciliation or Continuing Hells
Sai Tun Aung Lwin | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - In Vietnam, prison, a colonial and wartime instrument of brutality, has been turned into a memorial museum for national identity-building and reconciliation. Myanmar’s prisons continue to operate as spaces of systematic violence under successive authoritarian regimes.
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BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE
Resignations in Ukraine Signal Deepening Crisis Amid Ongoing War
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Nov 2025 - In a striking turn of events that echoes long-held predictions by some observers like myself, key figures in the Ukrainian government have begun to step down, highlighting the mounting pressures on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The Betrayal of Arab Leaders: Perpetuated Animosities and Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - Divided and defeated they are even though European colonization ended more than a half of century ago.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Continues Unabated Despite Ceasefire
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Nov 2025 - More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.
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How Does It Feel When Your City Is Destroyed?
Ahmed Abu Artema | Palestine Deep Dive - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Nov 2025 - What can people do when they have become without a city, without shelter?
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‘The Fire Devoured Everything’: Israeli Settlers Unleash Wave of Arson Attacks
Basel Adra | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2025 - At least five West Bank villages have been targeted as settlers lit Palestinian homes, cars, and a mosque ablaze, while the army delayed emergency vehicles.
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It Is Israel, Not Gaza, That Needs Stabilisation
Ahmed Al-Najjar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Nov 2025 - From the CMCC to plans for a stabilisation force, Gaza is treated as a problem to be managed, while Israel, the state that committed genocide and destroyed all stability here, is protected from accountability.
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UNITED NATIONS
Why China’s Warning Matters More Than Any UN Reform Debate
RT | Irish Sun - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Nov 2025- Beijing revives an uncomfortable truth: the global order belongs to the winners of WW2.
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The Question of Palestine
UN Committee on the Exercise of Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – TRANSCEND Media Service25 November: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
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UN Condemns ‘Brazen’ Israeli Killing of Surrendering Palestinians in West Bank
Brad Reed | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Nov 2025 - The UN today accused Israeli security forces of carrying out a “brazen” killing of two Palestinian men who were seen surrendering in video footage. A UN official decried the incident as “yet another summary execution” by IDF.
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UN Expert: UNSC Resolution Violates Palestinian Right of Self-Determination and UN Charter
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Nov 2025 - A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination and consolidates Israel’s unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
China’s Cultural Advantage in the AI Age
Jan Krikke | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Nov 2025 - Confucian value of collective flourishing will drive and transform AI’s purpose as world speeds toward a post-work era.
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Big Brother: It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Preserve Our Mental Sovereignty
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Nov 2025 - We’re on a trajectory where soon all our information will be stored and analyzed by artificial intelligence controlled by governments and billionaire megacorporations that can then use that information to surveil, manipulate and oppress us--1984 Redux.
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It Should Be Illegal to Use AI to Deceive People
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025 - AI products that deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal.
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Capitalism and the Cloud
Toby Miller and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Dangers and Costs of the AI Bubble
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TECHNOLOGY
Save Human Beings from the Abuse of Neurotechnologies
Mojmir Babacek | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Nov 2025 - Open Letter to Preachers, Ministers, Imams and Monks of World Religions - It is believed that human beings were created by God, Who endowed them their nature. Thousands of years later, God’s human nature is under the threat of development of neurotechnology (see this).
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EDUCATION
Education for Survival
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Nov 2025 - Today human survival is in danger. The greatest danger of humanity is world war in which if it happens, no one will survive. Nations have developed selfish tendency and they promote this tendency among their citizens directly or indirectly.
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MEDIA
The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Nov 2025 - Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN is imminent. The world’s seven richest individuals are all media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears; an oligarchical control and a blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.
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INTERVIEW
Hacking Creativity
Felipe Zamana | Creativity & Education – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWith a unique trajectory between education, business, and creativity, Jean Rosier is one of the minds behind Perestroika, a school of creative activities that transformed teaching in Latin America and is now flourishing in Europe. 'To begin with, what led you to study creativity? Was there a specific moment that set you on that path'?
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) ‘La invasió dels bàrbars’: memoria histórica por un futuro libre de fascismo
Joan Pedro-Carañana, et al. | Contexto y Acción - TRANSCEND Media Service19 de noviembre de 2025 - La película de Vicent Monsonís evidencia la propaganda y las mentiras, tanto del régimen franquista como de los sectores conservadores ya en tiempos de democracia.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Mali, litium og det nye kappløpet om Afrika
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service24. nov. 2025 – De siste ukene har internasjonale overskrifter advart om Malis forestående kollaps: «Bamako er i ferd med å falle.» «Terrorister står ved portene.» Den virkelige kampen, antyder mange i regionen, handler ikke om ideologi eller terrorisme. Den handler om litium – det hvite metallet som driver verdens fremtid.
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(Italiano) Il Piano di “Pace” per Gaza di Trump: una barzelletta crudele in un mondo analfabeta di conflitto/pace
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Novembre 2025 - Che il piano di “pace” stravagante e ciarlatanesco di Trump per la genocisa Gaza sia stato approvato dal Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU definisce la fine di ogni comprensione di autentica pace.
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(Français) Le pèlerinage audacieux du pape Léon XIV en Turquie : la diplomatie au service de la foi
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceÀ l’ombre des minarets et des anciens clochers, là où le Bosphore murmure les souvenirs d’empires disparus, le pape Léon XIV, premier pontife américain, vient d’accomplir un voyage d’une rare audace et d’une grande intelligence stratégique lors de ses quatre jours historiques en Turquie.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
State of the Free Press 2026 – Project Censored
23 Nov 2025 - The problem of censorship and suppressed news has exploded with the rise of social and independent media, said the panel at Politics & Prose on 21 Nov at the 50th anniversary of Project Censored and the publication of is annual review, State of the Free Press 2026.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
The Romanza-Spanish Romance (Music Video of the Week)
Miloš Karadaglić – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe stunning Miloš Karadaglić
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Thankful
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThu 27 Nov 2025 - Since a ceasefire began in October, the Israel Defense Forces have violated it almost 500 times in just 44 days, killing hundreds of civilians, children, women, and the elderly. Meanwhile, the media talks about the ceasefire as if it’s still fully in place.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Giving Thanks
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Nov 2025
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