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EDITORIAL

They May Grow Up to Become Mothers One Day…

The Psychopathology of Murdering Innocents - The horror of US and Israel’s vicious, unprovoked attacks against Iran on February 28 (my 76th birthday) is breathtaking. The war commenced with a duo of atrocities.

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Peace Journalism – A Discussion of Systemic Peace

14 Apr 2026 - Georgia Kelly Interviews Antonio C. S. Rosa and Marilyn Langlois from TRANSCEND Media Service

PAPER OF THE WEEK

No to Barbarism in the World in Defense of Civilization

This paper aims to denounce the barbarism in which humanity is subjected throughout history that reached its highest level during the existence of capitalism in the contemporary era and to strive for its end in defense of the principles of civilization. 

Other Commentaries

CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION

Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations

20 Apr 2026 - Iran's leaders have learned how to deal with Trump's lies, threats and deception by swiftly correcting his lies, preparing their defenses to confront his threats, and not falling for his fake offers of negotiation. But there is still a path to peace.

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Toward Reframing Peace Initiatives of US and Iran in Seeming Opposition

27 Apr 2026 - This is written in a period in which the world is hanging on the outcome of the engagement between a 15-point plan (by the USA) and a 10-point plan (by Iran). One outcome is the threatened destruction of a millennial civilization in the name of the people of the USA.

Challenges of the Nuclear Age: Toward What Future for Humanity?

Text of the Kelly Lecture, 7 Apr 2026, sponsored annually by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It was delivered in early evening that coincided with the expiration of Trump’s first of several threats and deadlines directed at the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Trump, Sanity, and Obedience

18 Apr 2026 - Many people are saying that Donald Trump is insane. He may be. So too Benjamin Netanyahu. But if so, it is a form of insanity that includes the calm sanity of Adolf Eichmann and Harry Truman as they went about their business of mass extermination.

The Genocide Supply Chain: Open for Business

There is nothing inherently confusing here, nothing so complicated that it escapes understanding. Calling it “complex” or labeling regions as “fragile” doesn’t explain reality—it softens it. It creates distance. It turns something concrete and accountable into something vague and untouchable.

Genocidal in Essence, Settler Colonial Entities such as Israel Cannot Be Reformed

26 Apr 2026 - They Self-Destruct at Enormous Human Costs

Big Brother and the Israel Advocacy Machine

I sometimes find myself recalling Orwell’s Oceania when I read the daily distressing and outraging news from Palestine and the broader region. I think about how, much like Big Brother, today’s Israel Advocacy Machine demands complete allegiance, compliance, and submission.

The Imperial Pillars in British Colonial India: Lalvani vs Tharoor–a Critical Analysis of Peace Propagation or Peace Disruption Part 2

The Making or Breaking of British India: The “Told Story of British Enterprise revisited.

My Cruel Tryst with Kazi Clan

24 Apr 2026 - Few wounds cut as deeply, or endure as quietly, as betrayal within the family. Forgiveness does not erase the past, nor does it guarantee renewal. What it offers instead is a way of engaging with injury that neither falsifies reality nor allows it to define the whole of human experience.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International: The State of Human Rights in 2025/26

April 2026 - Throughout 2025, political leaders like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu, among many others, carried out their conquests for economic and political domination through destruction, suppression and violence on a massive scale. As AI has long warned, a global environment where primitive ferocity could flourish has been long in the making.

Iran War: What Has the War Done to the Cost of Humanitarian Aid?

16 Apr 2026 - As Save the Children warns of potential food shortages owing to the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a much more severe risk is being posed to the most vulnerable globally.

ACTIVISM

UK in Retrial Seeks to Jail Palestine Action for ‘Terrorism’

12 Apr 2026 - Amid a media blackout, British authorities and their Israeli collaborators are determined to curtail the activist group as they face their last legal chance to do so.

SPOTLIGHT

Iran’s Civilizational and Moral Strength

23 Apr 2026 - The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

How the International Community Obtained a Nuclear Weapons-Free Agreement with Iran―and Lost It Thanks to Donald Trump

21 Apr 2026 - If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration.

Nuclear Weapons Didn’t Save Lives in 1945–They Wouldn’t Today Either

24 Apr 2026 - Japanese surrender could have been ensured without instantaneous killing of more than a hundred thousand civilians and several hundred thousand people being subjected to third-degree burns, injuries, and radiation exposure that would eventually kill them, too.

MILITARISM

No to War, Yes to Peace: A Global Call to End Wars and Militarism

The defining crisis of our age is war. Endless, permanent, profitable war. War that has become not an aberration, not a last resort, but the very engine of a global economic system that cannot function without it.

TECHNOLOGY

Reprogramming the Technological Republic: Designing Futures Beyond Militarization

In a “manifesto” linked to Palantir Technologies’ CEO Alex Karp’s book, The Technological Republic, technological capacity is subordinated to state power, war is normalized as a persistent condition, and responsibility is redefined as participation in that order.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed

23 Apr 2026 - A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

IN FOCUS

The Cowardice of Qualification: When Anti-War Voices Speak the Language of Empire

As the late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said wrote in his essay “The Essential Terrorist”, “terrorism” has “acquired an extraordinary status in US public discourse” and has “displaced Communism as public enemy number one,” providing a flexible label through which enemies are constructed and violence against them normalized. The issue is the qualification itself.

ANGLO AMERICA

Another Close Call at Washington Correspondents’ Dinner

26 Apr 2026 - Trump’s Latest Brush with Danger, and the Predictable Political Gold Rush

Trump the God

20 Apr 2026 - Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.

Weakening Permanently and Maintaining the Hardliner Iranian Regime?

21 April 2026 --- I have begun to think that Israel's strategy for Iran war was initially to weaken and permanently maintain the current hardliner Iranian regime (Revolutionary Guard), manipulating Trump with misinformation and initiating the war against Iran at the end of February.

SPORTS

The Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.

24 Apr 2026 - Black Alliance for Peace New York City/New Jersey Endorses the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition’s Campaign to Move the World Cup from the U.S.

BRICS

Beyond Oil: Global Food Crisis Emerging from Hormuz — Why Brazil and BRICS Matter

15 Apr 2026 - The Iran war is triggering ripple effects far beyond energy prices. Global food systems, heavily dependent on fertilizers and shipping routes, are now under strain. Brazil, for one, faces heightened vulnerability despite its agricultural strength. BRICS itself is emerging as a potential critical geopolitical actor.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Israeli Soldiers Using Sexual Assault to Force Palestinians Out of West Bank, Report Says

21 Apr 2026 - Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.

Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst

20 Apr 2026 - Evidence of gruesome form of torture is ‘overwhelming’.

Satellite Images Reveal Israel Expanding Gaza Military Sites

19 Apr 2026 - Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.

EDUCATION

Development of Peace Education in India

Although India has contributed enormously to world peace through the adoption of the policy of Panchsheel and 'non-alignment, and not disregarding the great non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi, there is almost no trace of peace education either in the form of discipline or in the form of educational institutions in India.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Settler Criminals

Zionism, Americanism, Nazism

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Castellano) La derrota de Trump ante Aristóteles en Irán

18 abril 2026 - Aristóteles escribió hace más de dos mil años que ningún discurso puede persuadir si se traiciona a sí mismo. Sin embargo, frente al fenómeno de Donald Trump, la máxima aristotélica enfrenta su mayor desafío: ¿la contradicción debilita al orador o lo vuelve impredecible y poderoso?

(Italiano) Resistere al Nuovo Ordine Mondiale: Il tuo campo di schiavi tecnocratico

21 aprile 2026 - Molti autori e organizzazioni stanno commentando uno o più dei cambiamenti che si stanno imponendo al mondo a seguito di una serie di eventi, ognuno dei quali modificherà in modo significativo il funzionamento del mondo e la nostra percezione di esso.

(Français) La France Éternelle : Un Bijou de Contradictions en Plein Éclat

26 avril 2026 - La France. Cette terre bénie des dieux, ce phare de la civilisation occidentale, ce pays où le bon goût se conjugue encore au passé simple et où l’on sait, depuis des siècles, transformer la moindre contrariété en art de vivre.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

WATCH: Inside Iran

24 Apr 2026 - Dimitri Lascaris spent 11 days in Iran last month and was the first Westerner to show there was no military base near the school the U.S. struck, killing 168 schoolgirls.  Here are four of his films from Iran.

The Trump Administration’s War on Cuba (w/ Medea Benjamin)

15 Apr 2026 - The Trump Administration’s economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and what people can do to break the blockade.

Is There a Way out of the Iran War? (w/ John Mearsheimer)

21 Apr 2026 - As Iran agrees to resume negotiations in Islamabad, John Mearsheimer dissects the complicated challenges and competing interests facing the United States as the countdown to the end of the ceasefire begins.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Kajal Kajal (Music Video of the Week)

Exquisite!  Enjoy!