Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Political Taboos and the Failures of Conflict Resolution
#884 | Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThirty-five years ago, the great American peacemaker Elise Boulding offered a group of scholars and activists essential advice on how to practice effective conflict resolution. Envision as wide an array as possible of proposed solutions to the problems generating the conflict, she said,...
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Studio B | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMaria Ressa speaks to computer scientist Prof. Mike Wooldridge about the promise and the dangers of AI. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her investigative journalism on corruption in the Philippines.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media ServiceTo analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung's conflict theory.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
The Worldwide “TRANSCEND International” Network
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Jan 2025 - I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”
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TRANSCEND Member S.P. Udayakumar receives 2025 ‘Nuclear-Free Future Award’
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan 2025 - The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil / Germany) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.
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NONVIOLENCE
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Jan 2025 - The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
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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 GENOCIDE 20 Jan 2025
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Israeli Government Approves Hostage/Ceasefire Deal, to Take Effect Sun 19 Jan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - Netanyahu told his Security Cabinet he will not allow the agreement to end the attacks on Gaza.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Agreement: Key Points and Steps Toward Reconstruction
Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, set to unfold in three stages, establishes steps for military cessation, detainee exchanges, and humanitarian relief, ultimately aiming for Gaza’s reconstruction and lasting peace. Below are the confirmed details.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
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Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game — The Bank of North Dakota Model
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jan 2025 - The BND operates on the same principles as any capitalist bank, except that its profits and benefits serve the North Dakota public rather than private investors and executives. It provides a unique, innovative model.
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Happy 1984!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media ServiceJan 2025 - In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today’s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense…
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What Is Time? And when Is Time Up?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Jan 2025 - All we know is that the times they are a-changin’ constantly. So here are some thoughts about history, micro and macro time, productive time, ageing with joy toward the end of time – and why the future is more important than the past…
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Israelis-Palestinians: From a Ceasefire to Negotiations in Good Faith
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - On Sun, 19 Jan 2025, starts the implementation of the agreement between the authorities of Israel and Hamas concerning the Gaza Strip and Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. This agreement is a critical first step.
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IN FOCUS
Ukrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 - Why it is still the key to peace, just as when Ukraine negotiated a peace agreement with Russia in 2022, which the USA tragically rejected and blocked.
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In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - The fires burning Los Angeles have drawn renewed attention to the writings of Octavia Butler, a black woman science fiction writer. As early as 1993, she saw the threat of climate change as her prophetic book is set in the years 2024 through 2027.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.
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AFRICA
Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 - In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.
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ANGLO AMERICA
What We Don’t Know about the US Presidents We Elect
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - Notes on the Occasion of an Inauguration
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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 - A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.
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Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities against Palestinian Lives
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - This is an official statement of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, Division 48 of the American Psychological Association, and does not represent the position of the American Psychological Association or any of its other Divisions or subunits.
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‘Major Blow to Freedom of Expression’: US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Jan 2025 - The US Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok if its Chinese parent company does not sell the popular social media app by Sunday [19 Jan]. One ACLU campaigner blasted the justices for "giving the executive branch unprecedented power to silence speech it doesn't like."
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Never Mind the Propaganda, the World Should Know about the U.S. Countless Wars
Chaitanya Davé | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 - Throughout history, U.S. Administrations, for one fictitious reason or another, go to wars against weaker countries. The real reason is their insatiable appetite for other countries’ lands and resources. They don’t have permanent friends; they have permanent interests only.
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The Idea That the World Will Change when Trump Returns to Power
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan. 2025 --- With Donald Trump returning to the US Presidency at the inauguration on 20 January 2025, some pieces of the political expectancy are being made, including “many major conflicts in the world will be resolved.”
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BRICS
BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population by Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Jan 2025 - BRICS added Nigeria with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP.
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
‘Far too Little, far too Late,’ Say Critics as Biden Finally Removes Cuba from Terror List
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan 2025 - In a move likely to be reversed by Trump, Biden today notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list, a designation politically motivated and meritless.
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Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
Human Wrongs Watch | International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan 2025 - More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan 2025 - That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
‘I Felt like a Nazi’: Zionists Admit Genocide
Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - On 23 Dec 2024, Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza.
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Netanyahu’s Likud Party Says Ceasefire Deal Allows a ‘Return to Fighting under U.S. Guarantee’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a statement today that the Gaza ceasefire deal will allow “Israel to return to fighting under American guarantee.” It was a response to Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the Jewish Power party, who threatened to quit the coalition government if the ceasefire deal is approved.
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The Ceasefire Charade
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
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First Ceasefire Then Palestinian Liberation
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jan 2025 - Today, after 15 months of Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, supported and enabled by the U.S.A., a 42-day ceasefire was reported. We hope for a halt to military bombardments, an end to the starvation of Palestinians, and the return of hostages from Israel and Gaza to their families.
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UNITED NATIONS
The UN Can End the Middle East Conflict by Welcoming Palestine as a Member
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Jan 2025 - The UN's 80th birthday in 2025 can be the occasion for a solution to the conflict in the ME by welcoming the State of Palestine as the 194th UN member state. The UN Conference on Palestine, on June 2025, can be a turning point.
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CAPITALISM
Trillions in Dirty Money: How Hidden Loopholes Fuel Corruption and Inequality
IPS | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - It is no longer a secret that at major global summits there are more lobbyists than official delegates, who participate as ‘guests,’ most of them working for big business corporations.
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SPOTLIGHT
Brazil-USA: A Tale of Two Caudillos
Omar G. Encarnación | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Jan 2025 - Like Trump, Bolsonaro Waged War on Democratic Institutions—but in Brazil, the Institutions Are Winning
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NATO
What Do Greenland and Macedonia Have in Common?
Biljana Vankovska – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Jan 2025 - At first glance, the answer to what a distant, massive island and a small landlocked country have in common seems simple: absolutely nothing! Except that both territories are part of the NATO family—Greenland through Denmark, and Macedonia, after selling its name, identity, and culture to gain NATO membership.
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MILITARISM
Dolphins in the Military
Dolphins World - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt might seem from a Hollywood movie, but dolphins are trained to work for the military. It has nothing to do with their normal behavior, but their learning abilities and intelligence makes them perfect to be used for specific purposes. The USA and Russia have turned these cetaceans into authentic soldiers.
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INTERVIEW
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: ‘This Is the Last Phase of Zionism’
Anealla Safdar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Jan 2025 - Pappe talks on ‘neo-Zionism’, ceasefire talks, the second coming of Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.
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Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
Gill H. Boehringer | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 - Dialogue between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
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INSPIRATIONAL
Dervla Murphy’s Fierce and Poetic Account of Traversing the World on Two Wheels in the 1960s
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceIn January 1963, as Central Europe was entering its harshest winter in eighty years, Dervla Murphy mounted her bicycle named Roz and left Ireland for India, by way of France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Donald the Dove Takes Office on 20 Jan 2025!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump conducted more drone strikes in one term than Obama (the “Drone Warrior in Chief”) in two terms, removed the reporting requirements on future drone attacks, attempted a coup in Venezuela, and assassinated Qassem Soleimani from Iran...
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
The Conflagration
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Jan 2025 in the old US of A
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Jan 2025 - Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza
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Five-Year-Old Kindergarten Children Play Dovorzak (Music Video of the Week)
Izumi Kindergarten, Tokyo – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSymphony No.9 - "From the New World"
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