Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Collapse of the US Empire and Rise of New Fascisms
#921 | Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhat Would Galtung Do or Say?
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
“Genocide Is the Means, Not the Ends” – Norman Finkelstein
Ashfaaq Carim | UNAPOLOGETIC/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Oct 2025 - Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Islam and Gandhi on Peace and Nonviolence
Cemil Kutlutürk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIslam and Mahatma Gandhi’s approaches are remarkable. Both share same aims about common ethical concepts such as nonviolence, compassion for all creation, freedom, justice, patience and tolerance.
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Other Commentaries
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 20 Oct 2025
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
The Masks Have Come Off
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Oct 2025 - If you believe what is written on those hats worn in the Israeli Knesset – “Trump the Peace President” – you are deluded beyond hope. Halloween may be coming, but you don’t need a frightening mask to realize the horrors that confront us. Trump is the culmination of a long developing horror story.
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Trump’s Diplomatic Initiative: A New Dawn or Just Another Dusk?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Oct 2025 - What to expect in the weeks ahead to follow from the Trump diplomatic offensive to bring an Israeli crafted peace to fruition in Gaza, and broader stability to the entire Middle East.
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The Impact of Nonviolent Accompaniment
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Oct 2025 - Third-party nonviolent intervention is the physical presence of a third party into an area of conflict in such a way as to reduce the level of violence. Accompaniment of persons in danger was developed as a technique in the early 1980s by Peace Brigades International, which I represented in Geneva.
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Dr. Denis Mukwege’s Nobel Peace Prize Brought No Peace to the Congolese
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Oct 2025 - Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to “the man who heals women” made Euro-Americans feel good without interrupting their catastrophic proxy war for Congo’s resources. An incisive critique of that deeply flawed institution, Oslo's Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
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The Inner Lamp: Deepavali’s Philosophy of Peace in a World of Conflict and Belligerence
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“Lighting the Way: Deepavali and the Pursuit of Global Peace is the inescapable Victory of Light Over Darkness, Good over Evil: Deepavali's Narrative is a Shared Human Aspiration for Sustained Global Peace “
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IN FOCUS
I Decide Who I Am —> No Longer Jew or Jewish
Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Oct 2025 - I am not Jewish because I do not practise Jewish religion. There is no such thing as ‘Jewish blood’--only human blood. Our identity is influenced by family, upbringing, culture, and society but mature persons choose their own identity and the values they hold. I decide who I am--not Israel, not anyone else.
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Genocide Two Years On: It Is the West, Not Gaza, That Must Be Deradicalised
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Oct 2025 - This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism.
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ANGLO AMERICA
A Critique of Pure Stupidity: Understanding Trump 2.0
William Davies | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?
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The Imperial Tango: How the US “War on Drugs” Dances around Venezuela’s Oil Wells
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Oct 2025 - Ah, the United States of America—land of the free, home of the brave, and apparently, the self-appointed global sheriff in a never-ending Wild West showdown against “narco-terrorists.”
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Columbus Day vs. Indigenous People’s Day
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMore Profound and Irrelevant Than Presently Understood
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Joint Statement by International Organisations against Trump’s Attendance to ASEAN Summit
ASEAN - TRANSCEND Media ServiceWe, the undersigned organisations, fully condemn Trump’s attendance at the upcoming ASEAN Summit in Malaysia. We make this condemnation based on our common stance against US imperialism which is the primary antagonist of our world today.
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BRICS
The China-Russia-India Energy and Trade Triangle: Reshaping Global Markets in a Multipolar Era
Philip Carter | InfoBRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Oct 2025 - China-Russia-India alliance challenges U.S. economic dominance via energy/trade integration and BRICS expansion.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Trump Approves CIA Operations in Venezuela: What We Know, and What’s Next
Elizabeth Melimopoulos and Sarah Shamim | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Oct 2025 - Trump confirmed he has green-lit CIA covert operations in Venezuela, and that ground attacks might be next.
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Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina
Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Oct 2025 - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.”
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Palestinians Freed from Israeli Prisons Denied Reunion with Families, Deported Instead
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs Trump Claims a ‘Forever’ Peace: Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deported them.
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Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as “Transition”
Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Oct 2025 - The imperial project to formalize occupation under international management via a transition authority would embed permanent colonial control, deepen division, and ensure that Gaza be permanently subjugated.
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A History of Deception: US-Israeli Pacts and the Gaza Proposal
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Oct 2025 - The history of Zionism is fundamentally one of deception. This assertion is critically relevant today, as it contextualizes the so-called ‘Trump Gaza proposal,’ which appears to be little more than a veiled strategy to defeat the Palestinians...
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The Middle East after the Gaza ‘War’
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Oct 2025 - The Gaza War ended based on the Trump plan. Israel is prepared to resume attacks (crimes against humanity) if necessary, so this may be a temporary ceasefire rather than a groundbreaking end.
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Inverting Reality: The Optics of Trump’s “Peace” Plan–A Powerful Message from Palestine
Rima Najjar | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Oct 2025 - Restoration is not symbolic. It is material, legal, and historical. Justice is the return of what Israel, the colonizer and occupier, took.
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Why Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Is a Disaster for the Palestinians
Ismail Patel | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Sep 2025 - By demanding submission and making self-determination entirely conditional and vague, the plan constitutes a colonial subjugation of Palestinian national aspirations.
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ACTIVISM
Statement by the Last Releasee of the Global Sumud Flotilla from Israeli Jail
Huwaida Arraf | Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHuwaida Arraf, a US attorney, Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, was on the Sumud Flotilla that Israel illegally intercepted on 1-2 Oct 2025 in international waters. She was taken to Israel, had a sham hearing, was physically abused, refused to sign a statement, and was then expelled. She is fearless. Here is her story.
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CAPITALISM
Whitewashing Gas Exploration in Post-Genocide Gaza
Dan Steinbock | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Oct 2025 - Amid its lethal bombarding campaign, Israel awarded licenses for gas exploration in offshore Gaza, which is not under its sovereignty. Hence, the ceasefire smokescreen to disguise the struggle for the gas reserves. Making Gaza safe for US capitalism.
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Trump’s Plan to Deprive Palestinians Any Say in Their Future
Sunjeev Bery | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Oct 2025 - Trump’s vision for Gaza is yet another page from the Trump family playbook for corruption and self-enrichment. The long-term implications of the “peace plan” appear startlingly similar to the goals that US white settlers had for Native Americans.
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EU Billionaires’ Wealth Surges by over €400 Billion in First Half of 2025
OXFAM | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Oct 2025 - The combined wealth of EU billionaires increased by more than 400 billion euros in just six months this year--over two billion euros a day.
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Faces ‘Race to Bankruptcy’ as Guterres Unveils Sharply Reduced 2026 Budget
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Oct 2025 - The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General António Guterres warned today, presenting a sharply reduced $3.238 billion regular budget for 2026.
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ENVIRONMENT
Carbon Dioxide Levels Increase by Record Amount in 2024
World Meteorological Organization - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Oct 2025 - CO2 levels in the atmosphere soared to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the WMO.
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Abolish the World Cup!
Toby Miller and Joan Pedro-Carañana – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Oct 2025 - Football is more popular than Jesus of Nazareth and John Lennon combined. And at first glance, it seems like a pastime that doesn’t harm the environment: players just need a ball, some space, and the desire to run. But the data are shocking:
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EDUCATION
Education, Altruism and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe basic problem of the whole world today is the establishment of peace. But peace based on human nature will be foundational, lasting, eternal permanent and endurable in a nuclear age.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Pensare il conflitto
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGli USA hanno un approccio immaturo, autistico, ai propri conflitti, da bambino viziato. Una leadership deve affrontare direttamente le radici dei conflitti – non i sintomi come l’odio e l’ostilità – ossia la contraddizione stessa, un problema in cerca di soluzione. Ed essere un bravo giocatore di squadra come sono sovente gli statunitensi, dove la squadra è il mondo.
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(Italiano) 35 anni dal punto di svolta della Germania
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Ottobre 2025 - In una recente visita alla capitale tedesca, ho dato uno sguardo attento a tutto il sentiero ciclopedonale di 160 kilometri del Muro di Berlino (Berliner Mauerweg) lungo il percorso che racchiudeva Berlino-Ovest come un’isola durante la Guerra Fredda.
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(Français) La Rencontre Trump-Zelensky : Triomphe de la Vision Russe et Débâcle de l’Europe sous Macron et von der Leyen
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLa rencontre historique du 18 octobre entre Donald Trump et Volodymyr Zelensky à la Maison Blanche a redessiné la géopolitique mondiale en 2,5 heures d’échanges tendus. En refusant catégoriquement de livrer les missiles Tomahawk demandés par Kiev pour frapper la Russie, Trump a scellé un virage décisif.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Jeffrey Sachs: Is Israel/Hamas Deal for Real?
Judge Napolitano | Judging Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Oct 2025 - Judge Andrew Napolitano Interviews Prof. Jeffrey Sachs
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Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
Media Education Foundation - TRANSCEND Media ServiceSpeaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein dissected Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza; the long history of Israel’s brutal occupation, siege, and successive "high-tech killing sprees" and atrocities in the Strip.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Oct 2025 - Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the ICC.
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Wish You Were Here (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd - TRANSCEND Media ServiceA Classic from 1975 – Lost Souls and War (with lyrics)
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Something Happened on the Way to Heaven…
TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo comment...
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