Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline–and Fall–of the US Empire
#893 | Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media ServiceEmpires have different profiles. The US Empire has a configuration articulated by a Pentagon planner: "The de facto role of the US Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing". Direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Mar 2025 - Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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The Unraveling: Zionism, October 7, and the Ongoing Nakba
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service12 Mar 2025 - Is the Zionist narrative collapsing? Historian Ilan Pappé breaks down the ideological contradictions at the heart of Israel’s settler-colonial project and why October 7 exposed the impossibility of being both a Zionist and a democrat.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Regional Neorealism: Rethinking Geography and Geopolitical Competition
Anthony Heron | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service29 Mar 2025 - Neorealism, a cornerstone of international relations theory, is a comprehensive lens through which to analyse state behavior in a disordered world. States, whether driven by survival or ambition, are expected to balance power or maximise it, yielding predictable patterns of interaction across the global stage.
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TMS PEACE JOURNALISM
Growing Up with Fear and Self-Awareness
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Mar 2025 - When I write about personal matters, I quickly stumble into one of life’s puzzling ironies: Every one of us is unique, and we’re also part of a collective whole. Self-awareness essentially means straddling that divide.
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Other Commentaries
JOHAN GALTUNG MEMORIAL
Reminiscing: Johan Galtung and I
Antonio C. S. Rosa, Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Feb 2025 - Slices of Reality, One Year after His Passing
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NEWS
Junta Continues Dropping Bombs after Myanmar Earthquake as Opposition Puts Down Arms
ABC News - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs the death toll from the Friday's [28 Mar] earthquake rises sharply, Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government announced a unilateral partial ceasefire. But Independent Myanmar media reported that the military continued air attacks in the wake of the earthquake.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Trump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media ServiceTrump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.
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From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Mar 2025 - There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.
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Judicial Sovereignty for Congo and Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Mar 2025 - Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. I spoke to Bénédicte Njoko of 'The Case for the Land.'
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Peace Promotion or Peace Disruptions: To Classify or Declassify Government Documents
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service“Classified Documents are the nemesis of various governments. Whatever is done, the entire citizenry cannot be pleased.
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Tyranny and “Efficiency” — How True Efficiency Empowers Our Resistance
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Mar 2025 - The “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” is dismantling the US government. Why is the word “efficiency” applied to this group of institution-wreckers delegated by a tyrant?
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Tigers Still at the Gates
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Mar 2025- Philosopher F.S.C. Northrop in his pathmaking book, "The Taming of Nations" (1953), likened nation-states to wild animals largely driven by instincts of power - the tigers at the gates.
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IN FOCUS
Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Mar 2025 - Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.
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Trump and Putin’s Unofficial Covert Alliance
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Mar 2025 - In preparation for the US's withdrawal from NATO, the UK has proposed to send its troops to Ukraine from more than 30 European and British countries, including France and Canada, to maintain hostility towards Russia.
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We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Roger Waters | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Mar 2025 - The following is a lightly edited version of a speech by musician Roger Waters on the 75th anniversary of the Yalta conference.
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ANALYSIS
Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
Nel | Worldlines - TRANSCEND Media Service29 Mar 2025 - Inside the Social, Economic, and Psychological Drivers of Elite-Driven Militarization in Global Politics
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ANGLO AMERICA
Surrendering to Authoritarianism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Mar 2025 - Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception... Resistance will be left to us. Enemies of the state.
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The F-Word
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Mar 2025 - “Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but false and harmful.
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Nemesis
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service25 Mar 2025 - The convulsions wracking the US body politic impact the nation’s foreign relations. The USA today defies all conventional categories. Its leader(s) are abnormal, its government is abnormal, its conduct is abnormal – and, perhaps, its society itself is abnormal.
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ACTIVISM
CODEPINK Responds to US Senate McCarthy-Style Attack
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service26 Mar 2025 - “We must push back” — Retired Army Colonel Ann Wright takes on AIPAC-funded Tom Cotton, charging him with reckless libel.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Gaza Is Our Holocaust
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service24 Mar 2025 - Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them. If Hamas struck a hospital treating Netanyahu it would not be justifiable. But the laws of war are forgotten when Israel violates them.
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Israel Kills 9 Medics and Destroys Their Ambulances in Rafah
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service28 Mar 2025 - Israeli occupation forces executed nine missing Palestinian medics from the Red Crescent and Civil Defence in Rafah, buried them and destroyed their ambulances, the Palestinian Civil Defence confirmed yesterday.
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WEST ASIA
Biological Apocalypse in Armenia Is Not Far Off
Valeriy Krylko – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Mar 2025 - In recent years, Armenia's medical and sanitary-veterinary centers have been actively involved in U.S.-funded projects of international scientific and technical cooperation under the scheme previously implemented by the U.S. side in Georgia and Ukraine.
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Armenia’s Biological Laboratories: A Pandora’s Box Unleashed by Reckless Leadership
Diran Noubar – TRANSCEND Media ServiceAs of 27 Mar 2025, Armenia finds itself at the center of a simmering controversy over the presence of U.S.-funded biological laboratories on its soil—a development Armenians view as a dangerous gamble with national security and sovereignty.
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UNITED NATIONS
Putin’s Proposed UN Control Over Ukraine Is Well Intentioned but Will Be Tough to Implement
Andrew Korybko – TRANSCEND Media Service28 Mar 2025 - The odds of everything perfectly unfolding – the UNSC agreeing to have the UN assume control only over “rump Ukraine” and without Kiev’s consent, the UN speedily assembling the large-scale resources required, and then successfully neutralizing all armed Ukrainian resistance – are low.
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ECONOMICS
Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service26 Mar 2025 - Half the world’s population (3.3 billion) lives in countries that allocate more of their budget to pay off the interest on debt than to pay for either education or health services.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The Lord of the Flies
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo comment
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Jeffrey Sachs Just Exposed the Truth They Don’t Want You to Hear
Kim Iversen - TRANSCEND Media Service6 Mar 2025 - Sachs on how Europe has no independent foreign policy as a loyal follower of U.S. interests—even when it leads to war. He exposes how Washington dictates Europe’s decisions, while Israel wields enormous influence over U.S. foreign policy.
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Illusory Peace?
Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service27 Mar 2025 - CrossTalking with Mats Nilsson, Jan Oberg, and Jeremy Kuzmarov
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Oh Palestine, Oh Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Seth Staton Watkins – TRANSCEND Media ServiceOriginal Song
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