Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
35 Years since Germany’s Turning Point
#919 | Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn a recent visit, I got a close look at the entire 160 kilometer Berlin Wall bicycle and pedestrian path along the route that enclosed West Berlin during the Cold War. What once imposed separation and hostility has transitioned into an inclusive and welcoming recreation zone, emblematic of a trend one might encourage for the whole world.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
How Germany’s Fight against Anti-Semitism Is Empowering the Far Right
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Sep 2025 - Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the antisemitism that led to the Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Memories of the Future
Gianmarco Pisa – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - Monumental Heritage and Redefinition of Hopeful Public Space in Former Yugoslavia
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
What Does Peace Journalism Mean to Peace Journalists in East Africa?
Meagan Doll | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media ServiceDeveloped by Norwegian sociologist and peace researcher Johan Galtung, peace journalism focuses on structural causes of conflict, multiparty interactions, and opportunities for peacemaking through careful attention to word choice and broad framing narratives.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
A Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.
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SPOTLIGHT
Does Gandhi Still Matter? Yes, and Rajmohan Gandhi Explains Why
Akshita Singh | India Today - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - On the occasion of Gandhi's anniversary, here is an excerpt from the renowned historian-biographer's book that lays out the main arguments on the contemporary relevance of the Mahatma (2 Oct 1869 - 30 Jan 1948).
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NEWS
Trump’s ‘Comprehensive’ Plan to End the Gaza Genocide
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceReleased by the White House on 29 Sep 2025
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Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Interception Triggers Protests, Diplomatic Expulsions and Calls for Strikes
Jonathan Yerushalmy, Carmela Fonbuena, Sam Jones and Lisa O’Carroll | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - Israel’s long-anticipated interception of the pro-Palestinian aid flotilla has prompted criticism and condemnation around the world, triggering mass demonstrations, diplomatic rebukes and retaliation, and the threats of massive labour strikes.
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Kidnapped Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla Begin Hunger Strike in Ketziot Prison
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Oct 2025 - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived at the port of Ashdod on 2 Oct staging a scene designed for public humiliation. From that port began the transfer of more than four hundred activists kidnapped in international waters toward an equally infamous destination: Ketziot prison, in the heart of the Negev desert.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Palestinian Statehood and the Winding Road to Palestinian Self-Determination
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - My responses to a Brazilian journalist to questions about the recent diplomatic surge of recognitions of Palestinian statehood.
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Don’t Be Fooled: Others Could Have More Interest in Sending Drones to the Nordic Countries Than Russia
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - Drones over Nordic airports. No damage. No trace. No answers. Most assume Russia—but what if that’s not so? Why is there so much we are not told? Who else might benefit from sending drones into NATO airspace?
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Gaza Future Poetically Reframed under Threat of Hell
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Oct 2025 - Memorable Visualization in 3D of Connectivity of a 20-Point Plan - Framed as a long awaited breakthrough, Trump has presented -- with the support of Netanyahu -- a 20-point plan to resolve the tragic conflictual situation in Gaza.
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For a Free Palestine, against US-Israel Empire: Italian Voices from Below
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHear some of the voices of Italians who contributed to the nationwide mobilization on 22 Sep 2025 for a Free Palestine, and against the genocidal Imperialists of the decaying West.
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The Transformation of Kashmir: From Peaceful Heaven on Earth with Shikaras and Pashminas to Hell on Earth, Amidst Gross Peace Disruption (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Kashmiri Odyssey from Serene Paradise to a Region of Turmoil. A Chronicle of Lost Peace in the 21st Century.
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Gaza Strip Peace Plan
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Gaza Peace Plan has some of the approach of the TRANSCEND proposals with in addition the possibility of violence if it is not carried out. Threats of violence are not among TRANSCEND's tools.
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Speech to Montpellier Peace Days
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Sep 2025 - We have been living in a new era of history since 1945, when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by nuclear bombs. In our time, the question of peace has become urgent.
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The Trumpian Bluff: A Unipolar Fantasy in a Multipolar World and What It Means for Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Sep 2025 - The spectacle of a UNGA is often a theater of global power dynamics. When Trump took the stage, it was a performance of deliberate disruption. He distributed “bad grades,” mocked the institution’s malfunctioning escalators and teleprompters, ...
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Will California Zionise K-12 Education?
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - Factual information about Israel and Palestine may soon be outlawed in the California K-12 school system. Assembly Bill 715 aims to "prevent antisemitism." It asserts, "Jewish and Israeli pupils are facing a widespread surge in antisemitic discrimination, harassment, and bullying.
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CAPITALISM
Gaza and the Economy of Genocide
Matan Kaminer | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - Even before 7 Oct 2023, Gazans had been reduced to the role of a surplus population with minimal employment within Israel. Their expulsion from Israel’s capitalist economy helped to lay the groundwork for genocide.
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AFRICA
Democratic Republic of the Congo Genocide Emergency 2025
Omar Kausar | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - Since 1996, wars and ethnic conflicts in the DRC have caused six million deaths. The First Congo War began after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda when up to two million Hutus crossed into the DRC and sought refuge in camps in North and South Kivu.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Trump’s 20-Point Gaza Plan: A Rubber Stamp of Legitimacy on Israel’s Subjugation of Palestine
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service30 Sep 2025 - Three weeks after Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas’s negotiators in Doha, Trump hailed the public announcement of his 20-point plan to end the 'war' in Gaza as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.”
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Trump’s Gaza “Peace Proposal” Has Chilling Echoes of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
FORSEA-Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - The 157 UN member states, out of a total of 193, have recognised Palestine as a sovereign state. That recognition carries not just symbolism but binding moral and legal obligations. They must act, and act now, to halt the US-Israeli war of annihilation against a people under occupation.
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ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE
Rohingya Plight in Myanmar, a ‘Test for Humanity’
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service30 Sep 2025 - “Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those words, UNGA President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference today over Myanmar’s deepening crisis, which threatens to destabilise the wider region.
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BRICS
China Supports Palestine’s Incorporation into BRICS: New Momentum for the Palestinian Cause?
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - Resounding across the geopolitical stage, China officially supported Palestine’s integration into BRICS at the end of Sep 2025, days after the Palestinian National Authority submitted its application to join the influential bloc.
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EUROPE
Is a Reunified Germany Back on the Warpath?
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGiven our history, we Germans should know better than anyone else that a policy of war does not pay off. Especially in these times of geopolitical tension, a policy guided by the UN Charter and the international law based on it represents a real political alternative – and could help Germany find its way back to a policy of peace.
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Germany Is Shamelessly Weaponising Its Nazi Past to Justify Support for Genocidal Israel
Charlie Jaay | The Canary – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Sep 2025 - A new YouGov survey shows that most Germans believe Israel is committing genocide. This view challenges their government’s position of unconditional support for the Israeli occupation rooted in Germany’s dark Nazi past.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Haiti on the Brink: Violence Cuts Off Capital and Humanitarian Assistance Pushing Families to Starvation
UN Food Program - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - Armed groups now control nearly 90 percent of Port-au-Prince. More farmers are cut off from markets with devastating consequences for food prices and insecure families. A staggering 1.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes in search of food and shelter.
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Neocolonialism through Debt: How French and U.S. Banks Underdeveloped Haiti
Steve Cushion | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn 1825, fourteen French gunboats sailed into the harbor of the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, and forced the government to pay an indemnity of 150 million francs. This threw Haiti into a cycle of debts that reduced the majority of the population to an abject poverty that survives to this day. Thomas Piketty has described this as “neocolonialism through debt.”
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Israeli Defense Minister Says Half a Million Palestinians in Gaza City Will Be Considered ‘Terrorists’ if They Don’t Evacuate
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - Question is: evacuate to where? They are trapped by the Israeli military in the world’s largest open-air prison!
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The Fractured Chorus: Jewish Elites, Gaza, and the Weight of Selective Silence
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Oct 2025 - In the shadow of the ongoing attack on Gaza, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since October 2023, a narrative has emerged: the “shameful silence” of Jewish elites across global industries.
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The Fallacy of Gaza “Peace Plan” and Failure of Arab-Muslim Leadership
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAre We, the People, at the end of a world of wars or at the end of an age of reason, peace and accountability? The preposterous 20 points ‘Gaza Peace Plan’ is a paper plan, a recipe of cataclysmic process unfolding in historic but complex hybrid culture of politics.
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Trump Says Israel Can ‘Finish the Job’ in Gaza if Hamas Rejects Latest ‘Ceasefire Plan’
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - Donald Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu accepted the latest U.S.-backed "peace plan" in Gaza and threatened Hamas that if it rejects the proposal, Israel would have his "full backing to finish the job" of destroying Gaza.
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The Single Dumbest Conspiracy Theory in the Entire World
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Sep 2025 - The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide.
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IN FOCUS
Trump’s Gaza “Peace Proposal” Has Chilling Echoes of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia-FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - US President Donald Trump’s Gaza “peace proposal” revives the playbook of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-Israeli “aid distribution” scheme that was less lifeline than death trap, weaponising hunger against Palestinians.
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Tony Blair to Rule over Gaza? What Fresh Hell is This?
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Sep 2025 - Starmer is the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history and Blair being made effectively Governor of Gaza is so sickening as to be beyond belief.
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Open Letter to Israel Foreign Minister Sa’ar
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service"In your speech your failed to recognize why almost the entire world, including many Jews such as myself, are aghast at your government’s behavior... The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of Israel’s extremist government. "
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MILITARISM
What Abolishing Militaries Includes
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Oct 2025 - Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely and creating institutions that do things very differently. Abolishing war, and preparations for war, and weapons of war, and militaries means working for a world in which there exists not a single member of a single military or a single weapon.
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COVID19 - CORONAVIRUS
The Plain Truth about Vaccines
Michael J. Talmo - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Sep 2025 - To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? This has been the contentious and controversial question for over three hundred years. Since COVID-19, that question has intensified.
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OBITUARIES
Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall (3 Apr 1934 – 1 Oct 2025)
Jane Goodall Institute - TRANSCEND Media ServiceJane Goodall, example of courage and conviction, working throughout her life to raise awareness about threats to wildlife, promote conservation, and inspire a more harmonious relationship between people, animals, and the natural world, passed away on 1 Oct 2025 at the age of 91 of natural causes. RIP
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SCIENCE - SPIRITUALITY
Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Consciousness
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Oct 2025 - Near-death experiences blend science, spirituality, and the unknown, raising profound questions about what it means to be alive, what it means to die, and whether we truly understand either.
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EDUCATION
Utopia, Oughtopia, Edutopia and Peace
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHuman beings have been dreaming and thinking about impossible, unrealizable and realizable ideas since their existence.
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POETRY FORMAT
Eternal Assata
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Sep 2025 - RIP, Assata Shakur— but not in silence, not in chains.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) La prima presidenza Trump, 2017 – Ricorda nulla?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNon c’è alcuna grandezza in quel che fa Trump, rende anzi gli USA più piccoli. Tentare una rinascita anziché languire nella ruggine, cancellare accordi stupidi come il TPP: d’accordo. Ma ritrarsi in uno stato forte in auto-glorificazione non è grandezza, è isolamento. La grandezza non sta in quel che si è ma in come ci si relaziona. E Trump si relaziona davvero terribilmente.
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(Italiano) Soglia antropologica: il già Occidente ora (auto)Occiso
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Ottobre 2025 - Il superamento di una soglia antropologica significativa, una massa critica, in una storia che matura già da decenni stagliandosi su altre, tragiche e ignorate, dell’imperialismo/colonialismo.
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(Français) Discours a la Semaine de la Paix de Montpellier
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Sep 2025 - Nous vivons une nouvelle ère de l’histoire depuis 1945, année de la destruction d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki par les bombes nucléaires. À notre époque, la question de la paix est devenue urgente.
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(Français) La Menace Russe : Le Grand Barnum de la Peur, avec le Covid en Guest Star pour Vider Vos Poches
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media Service4 oct 2025 - Oh, mesdames et messieurs, bienvenue au spectacle de l’année, où l’Occident remet le couvert avec un nouveau monstre sous l’oreiller: la “menace russe” ! Après le triomphe planétaire de l’opération “Covid”.
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