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Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

Beyond Watching, what Can We Peacebuilders Do?

31 Jan 2025 - Yesterday, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, founded in 1995 to prevent deadly conflict, issued its "Watch List" of 10 countries at risk of deadly conflict or of escalation of ongoing ones.

TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Gaza Ceasefire: Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future

16 Jan 2025 Roundtable on the Gaza ceasefire with former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project, Gazan analyst Muhammad Shehada of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, and journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Before, With and After Johan Galtung

An (almost) Case Study: Symbolic Violence at the Restaurant

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 3 Feb 2025

SPOTLIGHT

How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.

TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Renaming and Reframing Continually in the Face of Hubris

3 Feb 2025 - Playing Creatively Along with Trump and Musk or Being Played - A feature of this period is renaming and the pressures to do so. Readers are free to amend the questions asked or to frame other questions -- whether with the same AIs, with others, or with those that become available in the future.

The Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant

30 Jan 2025 - My latest attempt to express support for the Gaza Tribunal Project seeking civil society enforcement of international law given the neutering of the global normative order.

Congo’s War: From Genocide to Living by Genocide

29 Jan 2025 - Rwanda --> the Israel of Africa - The Democratic Republic of Congo remains one of the most volatile regions in the world, plagued by persistent conflict, exploitation, and foreign interference.

Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?

29 Jan 2025 - The UN Security Council has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court, despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Media Culture of War

28 Jan 2025 - Since the news media give daily headlines from the many wars taking place, it is easy to say that they are part of the culture of war. I suppose CNN has a special department for background information on present and future wars, just as obituaries for famous people to be ready in advance when their deaths occur.

Is It High Time to Phase Out Int’l Laws, Conventions, Accords, Summits…?

31 Jan 2025 - On 10 Dec 1948, the UNGA adopted a Declaration setting out, for the first time, the fundamental human rights that should to be universally protected. Born from the atrocities of WW II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was the world’s first such declaration. Available in 577 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.

Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 – 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual

Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.

IN FOCUS

The Western Way of Genocide

1 Feb 2025 - The genocide in Gaza portends the emergence of a dystopian world where the industrialized violence of the Global North is used to sustain its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth.

How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt behind Holocaust Day Remembrance

31 Jan 2025 - The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year’s Auschwitz commemorations.

Human Security and Its Dimensions

The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.

They Don’t just Tell Us What to Think, They Train Us HOW to Think

31 Jan 2025 - And this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI

AI Going DeepSeek

28 Jan 2025 - DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released a model called R1 comparable to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but at a radically lower cost. What are the consequences and the possibilities in comparison to the capitalist version of AI?

The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker

16 Jan 2025 - Mythologized as created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its companies were birthed out of the national security apparatus of the USA. What appeared as a guiding light towards free speech and financial freedom is Uncle Sam’s boot making its next step.

US Capitalism just Got a Black Eye

27 Jan 2025 - The Story behind Today’s Stock Market Tank - Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google became too big, fat, and musclebound for innovation. Instead of invention, they specialized in marginal improvements. China's DeepSeek came up with more advanced AI than all US Big Tech companies.

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Replicate Itself — A Milestone That Has Experts Terrified

25 Jan 2025 - Scientists say AI crossed a critical "red line" by replicating itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.

What DeepSeek Says about Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War

1 Feb 2025 - What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out.

AFRICA

War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad

29 Jan 2025 - Since war broke out in Sudan, one million people fled into Chad. Nine out of ten are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence including torture, rape and sexual slavery.

ANGLO AMERICA

“Scorecard, Scorecard, You Can’t Tell al-Queda without a Scorecard”

2 Feb 2025 - U.S. tax dollars, errantly or not, poured into the hands of jihadists, al-Queda consorts, motley adventurers and soldiers of fortune, with the end of ousting Assad. The CIA -- is still the CIA. It scored big in Syria.

The Western Wild West

27 Jan 2025 - “Americans conquered the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions out of poverty, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens. There is nothing we cannot do, no dream we cannot fulfil." -- Trump's inaugural address

Trump’s Hidden Multipolarism

Trump had begun to express North Americanism, such as the recapture of the Panama Canal and the proposal to annex Canada, before taking office. His repeated statements show that Trump is serious about Americanism, one way of responding to the emerging multipolarity in the world order.

BRICS

New BRICS Banking System Would Render Sanctions Useless, ex-Chancellor Warns

29 Jan 2025 - Lord Lamont of Lerwick, a former chancellor of the Exchequer, has warned that a plan by BRICS countries to create a rival banking payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ and render international sanctions useless.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Biden or Trump, US Latin American Policy Remains Contemptible: Migration, Drugs, Tariffs

30 Jan 2025 - With Donald Trump, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. We look at some of the speculation and address three instances of how the US’s policy may be viewed from a progressive, L.A. perspective.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon

27 Jan 2025 - Not only Israel failed to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon according to ceasefire agreement, it also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109, some in critical condition.

PALESTINE - ISRAEL

In Historic Return March, Thousands of Palestinians Arrive in Northern Gaza

27 Jan 2025 - Late today, 300,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians returned to Gaza City and northern Gaza for the first time since the start of Israel’s genocidal military attacks.

Exhausted Palestinians Arrive in Gaza City to No Homes, Killed Family

28 Jan 2025 - Thousands of Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the second day, walking kilometres to reach home. In the crowds is a man with a white beard walking with determination. In one hand, he holds onto his adult son, who has Down Syndrome.

After Gaza Ceasefire, Israel Turns Its Firepower on the West Bank

28 Jan 2025 - Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel's military campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.

UNITED NATIONS

The Christian Zionist Leading the International Court of Justice

24 Jan 2025 - Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Now the court’s new president, the Ugandan judge plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories.

SPORTS

Chess Prodigy at Three: He’s Internationally Ranked but Is Confused and Scared by the Limelight

26 Jan 2025 - Anish Sarkar began playing chess on a train and now practices eight hours a day after becoming the world’s youngest ever FIDE-rated player.

POETRY FORMAT

Fathoms

And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft...

INSPIRATIONAL

Never Again

“Never again” means never again for anyone, anywhere, at any time.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Barbarity vs Civilization [Redux?]

“It’s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of “Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it’s a necessary blow for civilization.” --> Costumes & Mores - Ring any bells?

JOKE OF THE WEEK

The Mad King’s Court

Meanwhile, in the [White] House of [Black] Horrors...

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Norwegian-Norsk) Hva kommer etter USAs imperium?

En nøkkelhypotese i The fall of the US empire – and then what? er at etterfølgersystemet til det amerikanske imperiet verken vil være et hegemoni drevet av en stor aktør som Kina eller EU, eller globalisering drevet av transnasjonale selskaper, men en verden av regioner med regionale valutaer.

(Italiano) Geopolitica della follia dell’Elite (Parte 3): La pericolosa fissa che i governi, BRICS compresi, siano sovrani e possano fermare la presa di potere tecnocratica

29 Gennaio 2025 - Mentre l’ordine della geopolitica viene rapidamente riplasmato per meglio servire gli interessi dell’Elite, gran parte degli analisti che scrivono in merito vengono indotti a percepire i BRICS come una sorta di ‘alternativi’.

(Français) Culture Médiatique de la Guerre

28 janvier 2025 - Étant donné que les médias d'information donnent quotidiennement des informations sur les nombreuses guerres qui se déroulent, il est facile de dire qu'ils font partie de la culture de la guerre. Je suppose que CNN a un département spécial pour les informations de fond sur les guerres présentes et futures, tout comme les nécrologies des personnes célèbres pour être prêtes à l'avance lorsque leur décès survient.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism, and the New Cold War

28 Jan 2025 Yanis Varoufakis delves into the seismic developments of January 2025, spotlighting the transformative impact of DeepSeek—a groundbreaking Chinese AI company that has sent shockwaves through the global tech and financial landscapes.

Heroes of Human History (Music Video of the Week)

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