Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
80 Years after Hiroshima: High Time for a Fresh START
#910 | Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs the doomsday clock currently hovers at a mere 89 seconds to midnight, let us reflect on how we got to ground zero 80 years ago, in the interest of not only turning the clock back and preventing any future deployments but to rid the earth entirely of these demonic devices.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks
The Chris Hedges Report with Nick Bryant – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jul 2028 - Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein case, which saw the trafficking and sexual exploitation of thousands of young girls, the cabal associated with Epstein continues its conspiracy to suppress the ugly truth of the ruling class.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction: The Hidden Architecture of Transatlantic Hegemony
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jun 2025 - The Lansing Memo Comes to Berlin - From Nord Stream’s Sabotage to NATO’s 5% Arms Push: Why Western elites speak with one militarist voice and how pro-US/NATO militarism is promoted from behind the scenes. (Must-Read)
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Who Are the Civilized? Who Are the Barbarians? Who Are the Savages?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAn invitation for the reader to analyze and decide which countries, peoples, and/or cultures can be considered civilized in the 21st century—more specifically, in 2025.
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NOBEL LAUREATES
Israel Commits Genocide against Palestinians and Betrays Memory of Jewish Holocaust
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMany years ago, I visited the Auschwitz concentration camp and in tears asked myself, ‘How could the horror of this holocaust be allowed to happen?’ I ask the same question about the Gaza holocaust by Israel.
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Other Commentaries
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Lawrence S. Wittner – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSince August 1945 the world has been living on borrowed time but a nuclear war can be averted. A revival of public pressure for nuclear disarmament is essential. It could focus on the signing and ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which none of the nuclear powers has signed.
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80 Years after the Atomic Bombings: Changing Attitudes in Japan
Reiko Ota and Naoaki Nishida – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - The "Nuclear Taboo" Is Collapsed at Our Feet... What Is the Background for the Acceptance of This Statement?
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Korean A-Bomb Survivors in Japan Hold 1st Memorial in Hiroshima
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Aug 2025 - An association for Korean atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima held its first-ever memorial ceremony today to honor victims originally from the Korean Peninsula killed by the U.S. atomic bombing during World War II.
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Iran Foreign Minister Calls for Japan-Iran Cooperation to Abolish WMD
Islamic Republic News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Aug 2025 - Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi has called for cooperation between Japan and Iran to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and criticized Donald Trump’s comparison of recent U.S. aggression against Iran to Japan’s nuclear bombings in 1945.
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NEWS
Israel Preparing to Escalate Military Offensive in Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Aug 2025 - The Israeli military is drawing up plans to escalate its genocidal war in the Gaza Strip that will soon be presented to Israeli political leadership, Haaretz reported today. An Israeli official said Netanyahu is pushing for 'the release of hostages as part of a military resolution.'
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In Protest Over Gaza, Brazil Withdraws from International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Eman Abusidu | Middle East Monitor/ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has formally withdrawn Brazil from the IHRA. The act comes on the heels of Brazil’s decision to join South Africa in accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs labeled the move a “profound moral failure [sic].”
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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 4 Aug 2025
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century
Morton Deutsch, Ph.D. | Psychologists for Social Responsibility - TRANSCEND Media ServiceSome conflicts – whether between spouses, labor and management, or nations – seem to escalate out of control. Conflict research yields knowledge that has been successfully applied and can be productively applied to the conflicts between Palestinians and Israelis, India and Pakistan and other conflicts that seem to be stuck in the kind of escalating sequence that could lead to continued mutual harm.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2025 - These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.
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Global Configuration of Human Rights for a Global Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Aug 2025 - Insights Via AI in the Light of the Rosetta Stone, Philosopher's Stone and Cut Diamond
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Stronger Track Two Networks Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe armed conflict in Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, and tensions between China and Taiwan, without any governmental negotiations, forces us to ask if more can be done on the part of NGOs to encourage negotiations in good faith.
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Countering Genocide: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Aug 2025 - Interview with Mike Billington of the Schiller Institute on array of topics. Published in the 1 Aug 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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The Attainment of Sustained, Endogenous Peace: Sacred Postures for a Fractured World
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow Bodily Reverence Cultivates Peace, Health, and Moral Resilience - “The created who prostrates to the Divine, the world will prostrate to that creation.”
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The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - Congress passed the GENIUS Act. Critics variously argue that it anoints stablecoins as “programmable” central bank digital currencies, that it lacks consumer protections, and that government centralization destroys the independence of the cryptocurrency market.
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IN FOCUS
Survey: What the World Thinks about Israel in 2025
Marcus Lu | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAmong the 24 countries surveyed in early 2025, the majority of respondents had a negative view of Israel (median 62%). Just three countries had more positive responses than negative: India, Kenya and Nigeria.
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Israel’s International Isolation Has Begun
Philip Weiss | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Jul 2025 - U.S. and global politics surrounding Israel are shifting rapidly as the world recoils in horror at Israel’s starvation of Gaza. Here are several lessons the left should take note of.
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‘Welcome to Hell’: Inside El Salvador’s Megaprison Where Trump Deported Migrants
Samantha Schmidt, et al. | WP/Reader Supported News - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - Interviews with 16 former detainees of the Terrorism Confinement Center show the conditions at the notorious prison. One detainee was beaten unconscious, others emerged covered in bruises, struggling to walk, vomiting blood, another returned to cell in tears telling he’d been sexually assaulted.
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The Rule of Idiots
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers.
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AFRICA
On the Long March to Sovereignty: Niger’s Revolution against French Neocolonialism Enters Third Year
Pavan Kulkarni | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - Enduring a financial siege by France and terror attacks by its alleged proxies, the popular military government that replaced the puppet regime in Niger enters the third year of its rule, with concrete progress to show in agriculture, education, and power-generation.
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Sudan Gripped by Deadly Crisis as Hunger, Disease and Heat Intensify
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs raised the alarm yesterday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Bankruptcy Is Us
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this USA on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Trump as president (twice!) would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future.
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The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 million Poor People
Jonathan V. Last - The Bulwark – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - The monster Bloomberg profile of Luke Farritor: I cannot recommend it highly enough. He grew up in Nebraska and what struck me most reading the account of his life is the extent of his privilege. - What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?
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EUROPE
In Praising Israel’s ‘Dirty Work’, Merz Exposes the Orientalist Roots of German Genocidal Zionism
Hamid Dabashi | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2025 - The German chancellor's support for Israeli violence reflects the country's deep investment in Islamophobia, Orientalism and colonial domination across the Middle East.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Brazil Judge Hits Back at ‘Cowardly and Treasonous’ Plot Behind US Sanctions
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Aug 2025 - US put sanctions on Judge Alexandre de Moraes as an apparent move by Trump to help his ally Jair Bolsonaro.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
How The Arab and Israeli Leaders Betrayed Humanity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDehumanization of Palestinian People by Design
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Expansion of Israel’s Hegemony
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Jul 2025 - Israel continues to expand its own hegemony over a wide area from the Middle East to North Africa and the Caucasus.
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PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE
Denying Gaza’s Starvation Is No Less Vile Than Denying the Holocaust
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Jul 2025 - Denial is legitimate in Israel, it’s consistent with local political correctness – there is no hunger; descriptions of deliberate starvation in Gaza are an antisemitic conspiracy.
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The Mathematics of Starvation: How Israel Caused a Famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza: Palestinians cannot leave their open air prison, military attacks have annihilated farming, Israel has banned fishing. All food they need must be brought from outside--and that Israel will not allow. RIP
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‘Unequivocal’: Israeli Human Rights Orgs Describe Gaza Assault as ‘Genocide’ for the First Time
Stephen Prager | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2025 - This is not collateral damage. This is not a side effect of war. It is the systematic creation of unlivable conditions. It is the denial of survivability. It is a genocide. "Genocide is never supposed to happen," said the executive director of the human rights group B'Tselem. "Not here. Not anywhere. Not at all."
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Genocide in Gaza
Physicians for Human Rights Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2025 - This report documents the Israeli assault for what it is: a deliberate, cumulative, and ongoing dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system - and of the population’s ability to survive. Its meaning: genocide.
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A Betrayal of the Victims of the Holocaust
Orit Kamir – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Jul 2025 - A View from Israel - Silence in the Face of Gaza’s Starvation is Absolute Betrayal of Holocaust Victims
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WHISTLEBLOWING - SURVEILLANCE
BREAKING: Whistleblower Israeli Soldier Says IDF Burned over 1,000 Food Trucks Meant for Gaza
The North Star with Shaun King - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Jul 2025 - An Israeli soldier just became a whistleblower and admitted the IDF BURNED over 1,000 food aid trucks meant for Gaza and buried what was left in deep pits to hide the evidence.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
Zionist Spies Innovate AI Sexual Blackmail Tech
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOn July 19th, Ynet announced Israeli artificial intelligence startup Decart “has unveiled a real-time video transformation technology, setting a new benchmark in the field of generative media,” following “months of anticipation and extensive fundraising.”
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UNITED NATIONS
In Just One Year, Victims from 162 Nationalities Were Trafficked to 128 Different Countries
UN/Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHuman Trafficking Is Organized Crime - 30 July: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
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ENVIRONMENT
Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Aug 2025 - A new study published in ScienceDaily claims severe ocean overheating may be causing a fundamental climate shift. Starting in 2022-23, massive ocean heatwaves persisted for more than 500 days covering nearly the entire globe. This shocking event, never witnessed before, puts the entire global warming scenario on a new level that’s predictably negative.
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US Government May Be Abandoning the Global Climate Fight, But New Leaders Are Filling the Void – Including China
Shannon Gibson | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Il mondo si muove verso sud e est
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLe religioni e le visioni del mondo sono nei nostri cuori e nelle nostre menti. Enormi depositi di esperienze umane, le religioni sono un mix di gioielli di saggezza e fango di negatività, che riflettono traumi e glorie subite o subite da altri.
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(Italiano) Il digitale: alleggerirne il peso? Ridurre le chiacchiere?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media ServiceLa sobrietà digitale può contribuire in modo significativo alla costruzione di un mondo più pacifico, riducendo i contenuti tossici dei social, favorendo la diffusione di informazioni sugli eventi positivi, promuovendo la consapevolezza delle problematiche ambientali, e indirettamente ricreando tempi di vita da dedicare a relazioni interpersonali dirette, conviviali e collaborative.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A Japanese Child’s Dream to End All Wars
Gary Corseri & Mako Kumano – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMy 10-year-old third cousin-in-law, Mako Kumano, was assigned a composition subject in her 5th grade class: “If you were to be reborn, what would you be and what would you like to do?”
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Atomic Suicide
Rube Goldberg - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo Comment
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Former Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crimes
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Jul 2025 - A former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation security contractor tells he saw U.S. mercenaries and Israeli forces commit war crimes by indiscriminately shooting at starving Palestinians waiting for aid. "What I witnessed in Gaza, I can only describe as a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland."
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This Is Not a Drill (w/ Roger Waters)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Jul 2025 - Fascism Is Here - Co-founder of the legendary rock group Pink Floyd, Roger Waters discusses the genocide in Gaza, the deterioration of the West and his new movie.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
One Thousand Paper Cranes
Marilyn Langlois - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTRANSCEND member Marilyn Langlois describes her pilgrimage to Hiroshima, Japan, in April of 2025, recalling her family connection to the first atomic bomb, countering myths surrounding its use, and stressing the urgency of "never again."
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So Long, Mom–A Song for World War III (Music Video of the Week) 1
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis song speaks for itself.
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We Will All Go Together When We Go (Music Video of the Week) 2
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThis song could be a (sad) Lehrer profecy :-) Lehrer himself celebrated his 80th birthday on 9 Apr 2008. It was only right and proper to release it as a "happy birthday" to him.
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