Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
Think Cosmically, Act Globally, Eat Locally…
#895 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceA unifying story calls for something above all individual humans, something out there, and in here; like life itself, human life, humanity as such, the net of human relations, the god(s) of our faiths. It cannot be I-me-my-mine, that is egocentrism.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
The “West” Is Imploding Faster after This
Neutrality Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2025 - The entire "western" narrative, its repressive dominance and hubris are about to collapse. To discuss the state of the European tragedy, two scholars from the region: Dr. Jan Oberg, a peace researcher from Sweden, and former British Diplomat Ian Proud.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The Militarization of Movies and Television
Tanner Mirrlees | Costs of War/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Feb 2025 - Consuming War: Looking at the Militarization of Pop Culture
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Other Commentaries
NONVIOLENCE
Understanding and Countering Agent Provocateurs in Nonviolent Movements
Scot Nakagawa | The Anti-authoritarian Play Book - TRANSCEND Media Service4 Apr 2025 - A Strategic Perspective
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Problematic Global Secular Celebration of Passover?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Apr 2025 - Paradoxical Contemporary Deification of a Negligent International Community - There is no lack of commentary on the surreal nature of the current times and the challenges it poses for strategic governance.
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The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service3 Apr 2025 - Last week I participated in a panel discussion on the weaponization of antisemitism at the annual conference of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
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Have Militaristic ‘Culture,’ Enemy Images, and Threats of War Become the Unifying Force in Our Society?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media ServiceToday is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Even though this article focuses on Denmark and Sweden, this applies to the Western world as a whole.
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The Odyssey of the Prince of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“The Prince of Peace came with the Lord’s Blessings, and we have not only heeded Him, but also ignored Him totally and eventually killed Him. Even in the present era we, as collective humanity, have brazenly transgressed His Peace Doctrines. Oh! you pathetic humankind, in eternal pursuit of materialism."
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Through a Jeffa Native’s Eyes: A Century of Settler Colonial Project by European Zionists
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2025 - A Conversation with Sami Abu Shehadeh, activist, historian and political leader of Palestinian Israelis.
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McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2025 - Trump has expressed his admiration for Republican Pres. William McKinley for his use of tariffs as a model for economic policy. But critics say Trump’s tariffs have instead fueled a stock market nosedive.
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The Persian Gulf War and the Gulf Peace Team
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe Gulf Peace Team had its origins in the idea of sending a team to the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia as part of the struggle to prevent war in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The idea in one form or another had occurred to several people simultaneously around the end of September 1990.
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At the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service1 Apr 2025 - The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.
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IN FOCUS
The Paradox of Israel’s Role in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: A Christian Bastion Betrayed?
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe narrative that Israel is a defender of the Western world against radical Islam; a nation fighting for its own survival and for Judeo-Christian values against an encroaching Islamic tide, is starkly contradicted by Israel’s extensive military support to Azerbaijan, a Muslim-majority nation.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2025 - Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.
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Giving Birth to the New International Order
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2025 - The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
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Is This the World We Created? This Is Hell
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2025 - Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind. We lack an equivalent of Bertrand Russell or Noam Chomsky, whose careful exposition of societal analysis and ideals is being superseded.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
On AI and Consciousness
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2025 - Artificial Intelligence isn’t conscious. Saying AI should replace humanity is the same as saying fire should replace humanity, or white noise static from old televisions should replace humanity.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Israel Is About to Empty Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Apr 2025 - The Israeli government, backed by the Trump administration, is laying the groundwork for the full expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, a move that has the potential to ignite a regional conflagration.
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The Israeli Army Is Facing Its Biggest Refusal Crisis in Decades
Meron Rapoport | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Apr 2025 - Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the country's atrocities illegitimacy.
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Israeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service7 Apr 2025 - One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, "we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their graves."
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Gaza Death Toll Soars with Dozens Killed in Single Day of Relentless Israeli Bombing
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Apr 2025 - Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the past 24 hours, as the Israeli army continues to relentlessly pound the strip with airstrikes.
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MILITARISM
Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Apr 2025 - Trump, Hegseth Say It's Happening - Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.
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EDUCATION
Relevance of Peace Education
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media ServicePaper based on a keynote speech delivered at the National Convention of International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) on the theme: Relevance of Peace Educationon 8 Feb 1991 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
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POETRY FORMAT
Choosing My Name
Puanani Burgess - TRANSCEND Media Service“Choosing My Name” is a poem written by Hawaiian author, Puanani Burgess. It can be found in her book, Growing Up Local: An anthology of poetry and prose from Hawai’i.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Think Twice…
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo Comment...
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
State of Emergency
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media ServiceMeanwhile, at the Trump Fiefdom...
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Italiano) Costruiamo le alternative alla guerra
Redazione | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Aprile 2025 - Contro questi venti di guerra, contro le politiche che vedono nel riarmo la sola strada per garantire la pace, occorrono ampie alleanze politiche sia a livello istituzionale che da parte dei Movimenti: costruiamo, insieme, le alternative alla guerra.
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(Romanian-Română) Geopoliticile Elitei Demente (Partea 3): Transformarea întregii lumi într-o tehnocrație planetară
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | SACCSIV - TRANSCEND Media ServiceIluzia periculoasă conform căreia guvernele, inclusiv BRICS, sunt suverane și pot opri păpușarii ce transformă întreaga lume într-o tehnocrație mondială populată de sclavi transumani.
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Yanis Varoufakis Explains Trump’s Tariffs
Nexus - TRANSCEND Media Service10 Apr 2025 - Varoufakis was Greece’s finance minister during the Greek debt crisis in 2015. Some called him the rock star finance minister for resisting the faceless bureaucrats from the European Union, the IMF - and the rapacious bankers.
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