Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The Rubio Doctrine and Huntington’s Ghost: Justifying Civilizational Warfare
#939 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMarco Rubio’s speech of Feb 14 to the Munich Security Conference was greeted by high praise on the right, mild criticism on the left, and sighs of relief in most European capitals. Upon receiving a standing ovation, it was clear that its real significance as a new and dangerous turn in global policy had not been recognized.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Corrupt, Filthy, Degenerates: Killing with Impunity
George Galloway interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Feb 2026 - Trump is mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files with FBI Agents redacting millions of documents. Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges on Netanyahu in DC to press gang the US into his war on Iran.
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PAPER OF THE WEEK
Munich ‘Security’ Conference–The West’s Premier Has Become a €20 Million Militarist Echo Chamber
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Feb 2026 - The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades.
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Nobel Laureate Perez Esquivel Slams Trump in Open Letter to Obama
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel sent a letter on 12 Feb 2026 to former President Barack Obama to denounce Donald Trump’s policies describing him as a “global dictator” and the “number one terrorist.”
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Other Commentaries
JOHAN GALTUNG MEMORIAL
Father of Peace Journalism Passed Away, Leaving Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism, which he and others launched in the 1960’s.
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Reminiscing: Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) and I
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2026 - Slices of an Amazing Reality
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Whither World Order: The Lamentable Present, the Unknowable Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Feb 2026 - My responses to Egyptian journalist, Muhamed Abd Elaziz on international law, Gaza, personal experience, and many other topics.
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A New Perspective and Blueprint: A Demilitarised Arctic for the Common Good — and Why It Is Rational
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Feb 2026 - This is not another geopolitical commentary on the Arctic.It is a visionary peace proposal that can save the region from militarised rivalry and ecological ruin.A blueprint for shared security, sustainable development, and human dignity —benefitting Greenland, the Arctic, and the rest of us.
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Boom! Boom! US Inc.: The End of Americo-Israel as We Know It
Zarni tells it like it is – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - The mirage of AI will crush the United States of Pedophiles & Zio-Blackmailers
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Trump Risks Igniting a Nuclear Wildfire
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2026 - The NYTimes Editorial Board states OUR BIGGEST FEAR: TRUMP SITS ON THE NUCLEAR CODES. The world is entering a dangerous new nuclear age.
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Nasruddin Walks the Coaction Cardioid as a Triptych of Geopolitical Crises
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Art of Being Bullied -- As Practiced by a Fool in Eight Chambers - The "fables" presented below in the form of a triptych have been generated by Claude-4.6 in the light of a previous argument.
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The Nowhere Box: Largest Area of the Human Mind
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceCan you still feel the boredom you felt staring out of the window at school? Did you focus on feeling it, more consciously, later? Or have you filed it in the nowhere box?... The most interesting thing about human beings is that they have no idea why they behave the way they do.
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Evolution, Consciousness, and Democracy
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServicePathways to the Earth Constitution
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The Carefully Contrived Spontaneity of the “Shocking” Epstein Files Release
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Feb 2026 - The Epstein files have been in the hands of the F.B.I. for eight years or more. Then why have redacted files been released just recently? Cui bono? And who is behind the release that did not occur over the course of the first Trump and the Biden administrations? Cui bono? We ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Israel’s Recognition of “Somaliland” Is Destabilizing Somalia and the Horn of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Feb 2026 - I spoke to the Black Alliance for Peace AFRICOM Watch Bulletin about Israel’s recognition of Somalia’s secessionist state, which is further destabilizing the volatile Horn of Africa.
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Justice for Imran Khan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Feb 2026 - In the midst of the earth-shaking events occurring in the planet, there is a political crisis around an individual with implications for humanity as a whole: the situation of the former PM of Pakistan, Imran Khan, a political prisoner since Aug 2023.
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From Diagnosis to Design, from Violence to Value: Ubuntu and the Transformative Peace Triangles of 21st Century – Part 2
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe need for an intercultural analysis of Ubuntu, Vawdaian Relational Architecture, and Galtung’s Diagnostic Lens in a Unified Peace Epistemology
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The Solkar Formula: A Study on Waqf Fraud, Coercive Strategy, and the Systematic Persecution of My Parents and Me
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMoral Standing, Purpose, and Locus of Duty: I place this statement on record as a consolidated and comprehensive account of fact, conscience, and reasoned grievance.
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MILITARISM
2025 Military Spending (% of GDP)
Global Military - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow much of a nation’s economic output is devoted to military purposes. Countries facing security threats often spend considerably more. This metric helps compare military commitment across economies of different sizes.
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IN FOCUS
Are We Angry Yet? The Time Has Come…
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Feb 2026 - The drug trade – and the ‘War on Drugs’ that polices it – unleashes a value chain of suffering on peasant communities in the Global South. You cannot explain such systematic brutality without anger.
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‘Unconscionable’: Arundhati Roy Leaves Berlinale after Jury Comments on Gaza
The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Feb 2026 - Indian author and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy withdrew from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival after remarks by jury president Wim Wenders that filmmakers should remain outside politics ignited a dispute linked to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, quickly turning the festival’s opening into a broader debate about the role of art during wartime.
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The Delhi That AI Summit’s VIPs Won’t See – and the One They Did
Shobhit Mahajan | The Indian Express - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Feb 2026 - The tech bosses no doubt would have been impressed with the wide though empty roads and the flawless arrangement made by Delhi Police in controlling the notoriously unruly traffic (not to speak of stray cattle) on Delhi roads. They would also have noticed...
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ANGLO AMERICA
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of the US Neoliberal War Machine
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Feb 2026 - After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and threaten Iran.
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BRICS
Anti-Hegemonism and the Dynamics of Relations in the Russia–India–China Triangle
Anton Bespalov | BRICS - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Feb 2026 - Russia—for which constructing a stable security order in Eurasia is overriding priority—is uniquely positioned as a catalyst between Beijing and New Delhi, both in bilateral conversations through multilateral platforms.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israel on the Brink
Stefan Moore | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2026 - Amid the largest genocide of this century in Gaza and the violent ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, two prominent Jewish historians believe that one democratic secular state in Palestine is not only achievable but inevitable.
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In 4 Minutes, Israeli Settlers Burned Down an Entire West Bank Bedouin Community
Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Feb 2026 - Evidence from videos, satellite images and eyewitness accounts show how a ruthless attack took place last month in a wave of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank. In just a few minutes the attackers – about 20 – set fire to a number of structures and escaped.
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Israel Just Started Legalizing Its Annexation of the West Bank–Here’s What That Means
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Feb 2026 - Israel just erased Palestinian existence from the West Bank by law, and it’s not an overstatement. Here’s what these changes mean and how they set the stage for annexation.
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Israeli Cabinet Approves West Bank Land Registration, Palestinians Condemn ‘De-Facto Annexation’
Steven Scheer | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - Israel's cabinet yesterday approved further measures to tighten Israel's control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, a move Palestinians called a "de-facto annexation".
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Algorithms and AI Have Turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death
Sayid Marcos Tenório | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2026 - The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of the contemporary war in Gaza, in which genocide is carried out not only by bombs and missiles, but by data, algorithms and global digital platforms.
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MEDIA
‘We Returned from Hell’: Report Details Israeli Torture against Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Feb 2026 - Fifty-nine Palestinian journalists shared their stories of torture and abuse at the hands of the Israeli military.
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UNITED NATIONS
No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.
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The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - The vicious and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territory, by Israel and the U.S. now includes the German, Italian, French, Austrian and Czech foreign ministers demanding her resignation.
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Education for Justice and Peace
Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Role of the UN International Year of Peace & Its Future Tasks
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Strengthen the United Nations
David C. Oughton - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe UNGA is not democratic because each of the current 193 countries has the same one vote, regardless of its population. A few countries have over a billion people while some have only a few thousand. It is thus possible for a resolution in the UNGA to pass by a two-thirds majority that represents only 8 percent of the world’s population.
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SATIRE
Europeans Declare Rubio a Slightly Smaller Asshole Than JD Vance
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2026 - In a joint communiqué issued at the close of the Munich Security Conference, European leaders declared US Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “slightly smaller asshole” than last year’s Vice President JD Vance. “Make no mistake, everyone here thought Marco was a ginormous dick,” French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters. “But JD was still worse.”
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Psycho…?
M. Werker - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe world is so... f*&%#d!!
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Better Things Are Possible
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIndeed
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Castellano) El fin del imperio tecno-estatal gringo y la lucha cooperativa por la vida
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Toby Miller – TRANSCEND Media Service18 febrero 2026 - Quieren desmoralizarnos, pero su imperio está débil. Es el momento de la resistencia y de construir alternativas al tecno-fascismo.
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(Português) Brasil: Petroleiros e Movimentos Sociais Articulam Campanha ‘Petróleo para Cuba’
FUP-Federação Única dos Petroleiros - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNesta sexta-feira, 13, a FUP enviou ofício à Diretoria Executiva de Logística, Comercialização e Mercados da Petrobrás, solicitando reunião para tratar da possibilidade de envio emergencial de combustível a Cuba.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
U.S. Declares War on Multipolarity & Europe Is Lost
Prof. Glenn Diesen interviews Einar Tangen - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Feb 2026 - Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI-Centre for International Governance Innovation. He discusses Marco Rubio's call to restore US dominance. Europe's choices: Act as the vassal of the US attempting to reverse multipolarity or adjust to the world as it is.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
“Extremely Dangerous Situation”: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Feb 2026 - "This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate," says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position."
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What Global Powers Found under Greenland’s Ice Explains the U.S. Push to Control It
NextGen Explorer - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Feb 2026 - Beneath Greenland's ice sheet, scientists have discovered trillions of dollars in rare earth minerals and a classified US nuclear base abandoned with cancer-causing chemicals and radioactive waste, left behind because the Pentagon believed the ice would hide it forever. It didn't.
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Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is “Obsessed” with Destroying Iran
Amy Goodman & Jeremy Scahill | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Feb 2026 - Despite chairing the first meeting of his new Board of Peace yesterday, Trump continues to threaten war against Iran as the Pentagon positions a massive fighting force in the Middle East. He said he would give Tehran about two weeks to reach a deal...
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Vincent – Starry Starry Night (Music Video of the Week)
Don McLean – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe video depicts a slide-show of van Gogh's work set to the song. With this beautiful song, Don McLean pays a tribute to the marvel and wonder Vincent left behind, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color – a contradiction to his troubled existence.
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