Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Western Liberal Media New Messaging on Gaza: A Critique from the Perspective of Peace and Justice Journalism
#914 | Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe conflict as has been widely observed by many close observers bears a closer resemblance to ‘a massacre’ than a war because it is so one sided with the most modern weaponry of land and air possessed on the Israeli side and primitive weaponry or none at all on the Palestinian resisting side.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Heartbreaking Gaza Genocide Statistics
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Aug 2025 - Take as much as you can until your tears stop you.
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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Is Genocide Happening in Gaza?
Melanie O’Brien | OpinioJuris/International Commission of Jurists - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - As genocide scholars know, genocide is a process, not an event. The genocide process did not begin on 8 Oct 2023. It was prefaced by decades of human rights abuses against the Palestinian people; extensive violations of international law involving discrimination, persecution, apartheid and more...
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
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NEWS
We’re Sailing to Gaza
Global Sumud Flotilla - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Aug 2025 - When the World Stays Silent, We Set Sail - We are a coalition of everyday people—organizers, humanitarians, doctors, artists, clergy, lawyers, and seafarers—who believe in human dignity and the power of nonviolent action.
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Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods at Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday [29 Aug] that his country would completely cut economic relations with Israel, blocking Israeli ships from docking at Turkish ports and denying Israeli aircraft overflight rights over Türkiye.
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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 Sep 2025
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ANALYSIS
Rethinking Peace Thinking
Timothy Bryar - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Aug 2025 - In a text titled ‘Against Peace’, philosopher Agon Hamza succinctly summarises the problems with existing forms of peace thinking: Peace presupposes that there is a world of stability to return to...
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Unproductive Interpretation of Work and Employment as Misinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFaced with polycrisis and forms of governance which are proving "unfit for purpose", there is a case for a more radical assessment of what "work", "employment" and "productivity" mean for those affected by those framings in their daily lives.
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All Ears to the Ground: Resisting Mass Citizenship Stripping and Citizenship Violence
Natalie Brinham – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis paper explores ground-level collective modes of resistance that highlight state practices associated with mass citizenship stripping. It identifies challenges in anti-statelessness work and suggests that these and other forms of resistance can be important.
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The Rohingya and Gaza: Two Genocides the World Refuses to End
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 - As I watch Gaza, I can't help but think about what's been inflicted on the Rohingya in Myanmar and the role Israel has played in it.
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The Democratizing of Democracy
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Aug 2025 - Redeeming Ourselves from MAGA and Fascism
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFor the art of writing implies the art of reading. The writer creates and the reader recreates; both demand silence, the cessation of all noise that serves to prevent true thought. The machines must be turned off. “Our inventions,” Thoreau noted, “are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”
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Helsinki Process: Need for Renewal
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Aug 2025 - The difficulties to an end to the Russia-Ukraine armed conflict shows the need for a renewal of the Helsinki process of Pan-European Dialogue and Action, which began in 1973 and led to the creation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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Unaudited Power: The US Military Budget Nobody Controls
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2025 - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion, growing $1 trillion every five months. Interest exceeds $1 trillion annually. The military outlay, close to $1 trillion, consumes nearly half of the discretionary budget.
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From Swords to Solutions: A Comparative Analysis of Vegetius’ Military Doctrine and Modern Peace Theories
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAchieving a Sustained Peace: General Flavius Vegetius Renatus emphasized that military preparedness was essential to deter aggression and maintain peace. So does US VP Vance.
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
From Guernica to Gaza
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Aug 2025 - Mass Killers Have Been Above It All - Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match.
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AFRICA
Sudan: A Staggering 30 million People Are in Need as War Grinds On
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Aug 2025 - The Capital, Khartoum, Now “Completely a Ghost Town” - Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Alligator Alcatraz’ to Be Vacated in Compliance with Court Order to Shut It
Richard Luscombe and AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2025 - Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed.
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DNC Votes Down “Overwhelming Popular Position” Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
Matt Sledge | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Aug 2025 - US Democratic National Committee members voted today to kill a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt arms sales to Israel put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
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ASIA--PACIFIC
Memorial to the Massacre of Koreans in Japan: A Foundation for Coexistence
The Tokyo Shimbun | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Aug 2025 - During the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 Sep 1923 in Japan, many Koreans were massacred due to false rumors. Commemorating the victims means facing up to a "negative history" that must never be repeated.
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BRICS
Why India Dropped the U.S for China
Cyrus Janssen - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Aug 2025 - Trump Just Handed Beijing a Win You Won’t Believe!
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Three Giants at One Table: Can Russia, India, and China Rewrite the Global Rules?
Manish Vaid | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Aug 2025 - Russia has called for the RIC cooperation format to be revived. India sees it as an opportunity for greater autonomy in a multipolar world.
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EUROPE
Ukraine’s Corruption Crisis: Assassination, Oligarchs, and a Regime under Fire
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Aug 2025 - Ukraine, labeled by critics as one of the world’s most corrupt nations, faces relentless scrutiny over its governance. Allegations of Zelenskyy's extravagant property purchases, ties to far-right groups like the Azov Battalion, political repression, and involvement in assassinations and terrorism paint a grim picture.
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A New Foreign Policy for Europe
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEurope’s subservience to the U.S. stems almost entirely from its overriding fear of Russia, a fear that has been amplified by the Russophobic states of Eastern Europe and a false narrative about the Ukraine War.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
The People of Haiti Are in a Perfect Storm of Suffering’
UN News | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceState authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, “paralysing daily life and forcing families to flee,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the UNSC on 28 Aug 2025.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
North Africa: The Enduring Jewish-Berber Relationship
Rabah Arkam | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Aug 2025 - For more than two thousand years, Jews and Berbers (Amazigh) live together across the lands of North Africa building communities, sharing languages, trading in the markets, and celebrating side by side.
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SPOTLIGHT
‘He Got Out of Gaza, But Gaza Did Not Get Out of Him’: Israeli Soldiers Returning from War Struggle with Trauma and Suicide
Nadeen Ebrahim and Mike Schwartz | CNN/MSN - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEditor’s note: This story contains details of suicide and violence that some readers may find upsetting.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michael and Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Aug 2025 - In recent weeks, through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw was of catastrophic proportions.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla: Over 50 Ships Will Set Sail for Gaza
Wahid Ben Ali | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Aug 2025 - The Flotilla aims to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza, to deliver urgent humanitarian aid, and to expose the genocide. It is composed of dozens of small civilian vessels from over 39 national delegations.
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How Israelis Turned Atrocity Denial into an Art
Ron Dudai | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Aug 2025 - As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”
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The Epilogue of Gaza City: The Demolition
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Aug 2025 - The last 48 hours in Gaza City have been marked by a series of relentless bombings that have destroyed the last habitable neighborhoods in the city.
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Apathy to Peace and War: Palestine
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceEgoistic Leaders against Peace and Humanity
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Ending the Assault on Gaza: What Must Be Done Now
Gershon Baskin | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Aug 2025 - Israel’s military juggernaut will not be stopped in Gaza without significant international pressure and a range of conditional sanctions.
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Israel Hits Gaza Hospital, Killing At Least 20 People, Including Five Journalists
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 - Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip today, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
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MEDIA
How Western Media Helped Turn Israel’s Genocide into ‘Fake News’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Aug 2025 - Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC.
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The Ramzy Baroud/Palestine Chronicle Case: When Truth Becomes the Crime
Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2025 - What is sought is not justice but intimidation—to cast suspicion on every Palestinian voice, to brand their words as weapons, their witness as crime: Travesty of Justice.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Palantir’s Tools Pose an Invisible Danger We Are Just Beginning to Comprehend
Juan Sebastian Pinto | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service24 Aug 2025 - Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work.
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UNITED NATIONS
US Revokes Visas of Palestinian President and Other Officials Ahead of UN General Assembly
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Aug 2025 - Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, a step the Palestinian Authority decried as against international law.
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Can the UN Trusteeship Council Be an Important Part of the Solution in the Middle East?
Ingeborg Breines - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 - How can the US, Germany and others continue to pour funds and weapons into Israel despite decisions in the UN's highest bodies indicating complicity in accordance with the Convention against Genocide?
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JUSTICE
Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of Courts in Preventing Genocides and Punishing Perpetrators
Natalie Brinham and Maung Zarni | TRT Global – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn this day, August 25, eight years ago, the Myanmar army launched a campaign of genocidal violence against the Rohingya in their ancestral home in western Myanmar, to erase them; the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.
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CAPITALISM
Transnational Capitalism: Organized Crime Fueling Global Destruction for Profit
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Aug 2025 - In the pursuit of sustainable development and true world peace, social ecological economics and peace studies require the lens of critical criminology to illuminate the structural roots of violence and injustice that mainstream approaches too often overlook or obscure.
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ECONOMICS
US Lifeline Masks Israel’s Economic Freefall as Global Divestment Grows
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Aug 2025 - Now that Israel has become a bad brand, affiliated with unethical investments in the genocide and growing illegal settlements in the West Bank, the US has stepped in to fill the gaps--for how long?
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LITERATURE
The Seventy-Six-Year Curse: All Has Been Washed White
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service23 Aug 2025 - Some things resist being written. To write them is to be caught in a web of visions, distortions, and expectations. To remain silent would have been the easier path. Yet silence has its own weight, and so I write. Whether you agree or not, whether you exist in this perspective or outside it, I write—and after this, I will pass from it.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Templars, Transhumanists and War, Oh My!
ESW | RogueNewsTV – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Aug 2025 - In this episode of Rogue News, I took the time to chat with V about the world situation, and the interconnected nature of transhumanism, Gnostic Crusaders and technocracy with a look towards both ‘left’ and ‘right’ manifestations of the game.
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The Devil at Woodstock – A Modern Tragedy (Parts I and II)
The Chained Muse - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Aug 2025 - The first installment of our two-part “Devil at Woodstock” feature is an adaptation of poet Daniel Leach’s modern narrative verse tragedy. Is it a poem or a prophecy? We’ll let you decide. Watch Part II below.
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Distractions at the US of A
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Aug 2025 – Yawn
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