Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Peace and Security: Women and Men
#874 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceMy approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues in formal and informal politics, in mediation and mediation training, in peace-keeping and peace-building operations, and in meetings.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service9 Oct 2024 - A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at war crimes in Gaza posted in social media by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film, 'Investigating War Crimes in Gaza,' now available online.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Perpetual Peace Plan for the Russia-Ukraine War
Dr. Bishnu Pathak, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Oct 2024 - The Russia-Ukraine war is the most destructive and contentious since WWII. The involvement of the USA with financial aid, strategic defense guidance, and military supplies to Ukraine has transformed it into a war between the USA and Russia.
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NOBEL LAUREATES
USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Nov 2024 - When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
Fundraising Appeal
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere is no way to continue producing our TMS Weekly Digest without an increase in readers' financial contributions. Sad reality. Since 2008 promoting Johan Galtung’s legacy of Peace by Peaceful Means – Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism. The end? I have faith…
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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 LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Nov 2024
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
11 November: Armistice and Remembrance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday, the images of war in the Middle East and Ukraine have not led to new creative literature nor to proposals for peace-making. However, the need for dialogue among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians has led to a reading of Martin Buber (1878 -1965).
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The Gaza Tribunal: Law, Conscience, and Compassion
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Nov 2024 - The Gaza Tribunal, of which I am president, had a successful launch meeting with many members of its Advisory Policy Council. As the article below in the Palestine Chronicle notes, the aim of the Tribunal is to legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.
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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service5 Nov 2024 - North Carolina: The raging floods were triggered by unprecedented rainfall and winds. On Sept 27, when the floods hit, evacuation orders were issued to residents near a number of critical dams due to their reported “imminent failure” or “catastrophic collapse.”
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Tackling Corruption
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Nov 2024 - We must challenge corruption and greed that lead to war and conflict. We see both large scale greed and corruption: Trump, Biden/Harris, the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, General Sisi of Egypt, and our own corrupt Palestinian “leaders”.
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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Nov 2024 - Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
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Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Nov 2024 - Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”
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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2024 - When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
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ENVIRONMENT
Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – a Glimpse into the Near Future
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Nov 2024 - What are we trying to avert by focusing on climate change/global warming? The catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain offer a sample of how human societies will ultimately be dismantled and destroyed in the absence of a drastic action that is nowhere on the horizon.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
World Peace Summit in Argentina
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHeld in-person and via Zoom - Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:00 - 17:00 GMT-3
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IN FOCUS
How to Go on in a World Full of Cruelty
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIt’s not hope that keeps me going, it’s love. Love for this beautiful planet and all the weird little critters scuttling around on it, especially the fingery ape monsters walking about on their hind legs making mouth noises about their mind noises.
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How to Be Human under the Tyranny of a War Culture?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe truth is we have serious problems defining ourselves as moral beings when the on-going wars in Gaza and Ukraine and bombing and killings of innocent people create data for daily abnormal doses of humanity to be the new normal of socio-economic and political consumption.
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AFRICA
Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 2): What Really Happened in 1994
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Standard Official Narrative is that Rwandan Tutsis were brutally set upon by the majority Hutus whose ethnic hatred for the minority Tutsi group found spontaneous expression in a frenzied bloodlust that left close to a million, mostly Tutsis, dead.
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ANGLO AMERICA
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service6 Nov 2024 - It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
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Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service4 Nov 2024 - Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream.
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This Is Why I Am Releasing the Epstein-Trump Tapes
Michael Wolff | Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Nov 2024 - The Predator and the President: The author of Fire and Fury has caused shockwaves with his recordings of Epstein talking about Trump. Here is their true story.
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BRICS
Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2024 - The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The Success of Shameless Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service2 Nov. 2024 - Israel is in the final stages of both the massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. It has begun the indiscriminate killing of the remaining Palestinian citizens in the north of Gaza.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Israel Keeps Trying to Devise New Ways to Play Victim while Committing Genocide
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Nov 2024 - It keeps inventing new abuses to be victimized by--like the imaginary Amsterdam “pogrom” and the fake mass rape narrative months after 7 Oct--because it can’t sit comfortably in the role of victimized while on trial for genocide in international courts.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2024 - Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Nov 2024 - A report from Haaretz published today detailed the situation. There is no longer a single house people can live in, and the Israeli military fires artillery rounds to ensure that any remaining civilians leave.
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CAPITALISM
Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide
American Friends Service Committee - TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria since October 2023.
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MEDIA
Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service9 Nov 2024 - Only after 11 full paragraphs of transmitting the Israeli line did Kershner manage to insert the disclaimer that “the Israeli claims could not be independently verified.” But by that time, of course, the damage had been done, the reader having already been persuaded that south Lebanon was one big Hezbollah military installation.
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Obliterating Context Obliterates the Truth–Israel Detains 9,400 Hostages, Hamas Detains 111
Mark Taliano - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Nov 2024 - Western mainstream messaging has fabricated the Big Lie that somehow the Western-supported Zionist holocaust of Palestinian civilians is justified because Apartheid Israel is a victim and Hamas has Israeli hostages.
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UNITED NATIONS
How the UN Can Be Liberated from Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2024 - Interview conducted in October by Daniel Falcone with Hans von Sponeck and myself on our collaborative book, Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope. Since then Donald Trump has been elected President of the US, which would augur bad news for the UN.
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2024 - When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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SEXUALITIES
After Their Son Came Out, This Conservative Christian Couple Went into a Closet of Their Own
John Blake | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service5 Nov 2024 - The moving story of a gay boy and his conservative parents. “There is no hate like Christian love.”
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POETRY FORMAT
The Air in Gaza Smells like Corpses
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2024 - The newspapers keep saying the air in Gaza smells like corpses. Like rotting human flesh; the entire Gaza Strip. They say it emanates from the rubble. Pervades everything.
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INSPIRATIONAL
The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe very need for forgiveness springs from “the irreversibility and unpredictability of the process started by acting” — a process fundamental to what it means to be alive.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Hoax?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service31 Oct 2024
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Gaza e Libano: rovesciare il paradigma
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service43.000 morti a Gaza, alcune migliaia tra morti e profughi in seguito ai raid israeliani in Libano, assalti all’Unifil, l’Unwra, agenzia delle Nazioni Unite, accusata di appoggio al terrorismo e messa in condizione di non poter più intervenire in soccorso alle popolazioni civili martoriate dai bombardamenti e assediate nella prigione a cielo aperto di Gaza…
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media ServiceDemocracy in the USA
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Israeli Settlers Are Coming for Gaza
Noah Samsen - TRANSCEND Media Service3 Nov 2024 - Given that they have full support from their government and military, they just might get it.
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What about Palestinian Hostages???
Mark Albert | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2024 - The numbers tell a different story about the justification for genocide against Palestinians by Zionist Israel.
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Apocalypse Now – The End (Music Video of the Week)
The Doors – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFirst four minutes of the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1979). The song is "The End" by The Doors (1967).
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