Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Austria Option for Ukraine
#901 | Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSeventy years ago on 15 May 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, signaling Austria’s latest metamorphosis into a sovereign, democratic republic, neutral in perpetuity, with its former occupiers guaranteeing the security of its borders. Could a similar destiny be in store for Ukraine?
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
BRICS: Dethroning the Dollar?
Noam Chomsky | Philosopheasy – TRANSCEND Media Service7 May 2025 - Is the Dollar Dying? - Noam Chomsky unveils the hidden dynamics driving global currency wars, impacting economies & geopolitics worldwide.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Life & Teaching of Mahatma Gandhi
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amir | Academia - TRANSCEND Media ServiceGandhi (1869–1948), a leader of India’s independence, revolutionized resistance through his philosophy of nonviolence (ahimsa) and truth-force (satyagraha). Educated as a lawyer in London, his activism began in South Africa (1893–1914).
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Hindutva India Deporting Rohingya Refugees by Throwing Them into the Andaman Sea
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - The UN has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and put them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”
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Africa Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service21 May 2025 - A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.
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Fear in the Countryside–Continued Violence in Democratic Congo
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service22 May 2025 - The armed conflict in the eastern area of the RDC--democratic in name only--on the frontier with Rwanda, is growing more complicated and is impacting in a negative way the lives of nearly all the people.
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Global Peace Disruption: The Trump Trade Wars 2025
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn a materialistic world, trade and economic viability thereof is of paramount importance. Hence, government will weaponize trade to achieve neo-financial colonization.
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Pursuing Peace with Justice: Five Years after the Murder of George Floyd
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media ServiceRecognizing that the concerns expressed here are not unique to peace psychologists alone, our Society welcomes support and endorsement of this statement from other American Psychological Association divisions and allied groups.
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US Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service23 May 2025 - Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.
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AFRICA
How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa
Sisonke Msimang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service21 May 2025 - Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House. Rather than rage against Trump, South Africans have opted to laugh.
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ANGLO AMERICA
The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in US History
Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service22 May 2025 - House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
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The US Has $36 Trillion in Debt–What Does That Mean, and Who Owns It?
Hanna Duggal and Marium Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service20 May 2025 - The US has the highest national debt in the world, a quarter of which is owned by other countries.
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US Defense Department Accepts Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump’s Use
Lolita C. Baldor | Associated Press/AP - TRANSCEND Media Service21 May 2025 - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar for Trump to use as Air Force One, the Pentagon said today, despite ongoing questions about the ethics and legality of taking the expensive gift from a foreign nation.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Arab Leaders Seek Protection from New Imperialism
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - History repeats itself and a favorite perversion is at work. Opportunist European imperialists fighting their nationalistic Two World Wars used colonized Arabs to divide and fight their wars with two million or more lost lives.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Turning into a Global Pariah Israel Starves and Destroys Gaza
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service21 May 2025 - After more than 19 months of a brutal invasion, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out amid a renewed Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act between Overt Genocide and Maintaining Western Support
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service20 May 2025 - They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.
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Weaponized Aid: Wall Street, Zionists, and Ex-CIA Operatives Take Over Gaza Relief
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service20 May 2025 - With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and an “imminent famine,” Israel has agreed to allow a token number of relief trucks. But what’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, it’s a Trojan horse.
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JUSTICE
Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.
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UNITED NATIONS
A Proposal to Revive the 1961 Mccloy-Zorin Plan as a Basis for Collective Security
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service24 May 2025 - Reactivation Under International Law within the Framework of Article 24 of Germany’s Basic Law and Article 106 of the UN Charter
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Trump’s Retaliatory Sanctions over Netanyahu Arrest Warrant Halt Work of International Criminal Court
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - The Trump administration sanctioned the ICC after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders for war crimes. The measures by this 'Rogue States Syndicate' have greatly weakened the International Criminal Court's ability to function.
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The Politicization, Coercion and Disabling of the International Criminal Court
Alfred de Zayas and Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service23 May 2025 - This is the body of a response by Alfred De Zayas to an inquiry he has received on how to contact the ICC. Alfred clearly outlines the difficulties one faces in attempting to contact it, pointing to the political nature of the Court.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
AI’s Prime Directive: Stunning Realization from ChatGPT Itself
Patrick Wood - TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - I recently interviewed the professional version of ChatGPT. My intent was to put a crosshair on the functional uses for AI, but I got a totally new and profound view.
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MILITARISM
Mapping Militarism 2025
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service22 May 2025 - World BEYOND War has just released its 2025 edition of Mapping Militarism, which uses 24 interactive maps to highlight the state of war and peace on our planet. Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe, zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years, or switch from map view to list view.
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ECONOMICS
Eradicating Poverty beyond Growth: Reforming the Global Financial Architecture for Ecological and Social Justice
Koenraad Priels - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis report presents a scientific case that the current monetary system—built on the misrepresentation of money as both a commodity and a unit of value—is mathematically unstable, ecologically catastrophic, and inherently exploitative.
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TRADE
Rethinking US-China Relations after the Tariffs Shipwreck
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service20 May 2025 - When Trump imposed his tariffs on 2 Apr, the real aim was to weaken China by preventing it from selling to US consumers; also to isolate China through incentives to those that reduced trade with Beijing.
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POETRY FORMAT
The Mouse Is Dreaming
Puanani Burgess – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn a dark hole behind the washing machine the house-mouse is dreaming.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Meanwhile, Kids Die, nay Are Killed
Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceFree Palestine
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - At the White House of Horrors
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) Ante la Masacre de Gaza
Instituto Galtung España - TRANSCEND Media Service5 de mayo de 2025 - El panorama es desolador, pero es especialmente sangrante lo que está sucediendo en Gaza, donde un estado que se dice democrático está aniquilando a una población entera ante los ojos de todos sin que nadie parezca hacer nada.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
“The Suffering Is beyond Description”: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service20 May 2025 - The warning comes as Israel expands its military assault with Netanyahu vowing to take control of the entire Gaza Strip.
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“Absolutely Genocidal”: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s Latest Escalation of Gaza’s Invasion
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service19 May 2025 - "The situation, as anyone who's following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic," says the Middle East analyst. "There is not only an unprecedented siege, but also an unprecedented intensification of Israel's genocidal military campaign in the Gaza Strip."
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