Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
How Do Wars End?
#823 | Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThey would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, neither experienced nor trained for it. To them it seemed dishonorable, hiding and shooting at men in the open who could not even see their enemies. A Redcoat wrote his family: "They did not fight us like a regular army, only like savages."
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
Galtung on Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media ServicePioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
The Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service7 Nov 2023 - How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War - A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022
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Other Commentaries
SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words (II)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceGAZA 20 Nov 2023 - Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Are We already in World War III?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - Can a Roadmap for Peace Change Culture of War to Culture of Peace?
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A Framework for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - This peace would not be the result of direct Israel-Palestine negotiations but instead be secured through the powers of the UNSC and UN General Assembly.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Nov 2023 - As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.
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US Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance.
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Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Expelled: International Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service16 Nov 2023 - The authorities of Pakistan are proposing to expel the majority of Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan where they face grave danger. The Hazara are largely Shi'a in religion but are considered as non-Muslim infidels or as heretics by the Taliban. There are some two million refugees who may be expelled.
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“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media ServiceSaturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.
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The Forgotten (Part 1): Kashmir, Heaven on Earth, Turned Hell on Earth by 21st Century India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service"The Mughal Emperor Jahangir described the region of Kashmir as “Heaven on Earth” when he first set his eyes there, forgotten today and occupied by the ethnophobic Indian Army ensuring ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region.”
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Working Children in Rural and Urban Areas
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWe know that many children in the age group of about 5 to 15 years work in rural and urban areas today.
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Will Palestine Ever Be Free? Understanding Elite Strategy in the Global Context
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Nov 2023 - How the genocidal assault on Gaza and the ongoing military attacks on the occupied West Bank constitute a fundamental threat to the people of Palestine while at the same time they are only a local manifestation of the wider assault on humanity.
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IN FOCUS
Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.
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Gaza: War on We, the People, and Arab-Muslim’s Shame
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - Conscientious scholars and realist humanistic leaders highlight the current catastrophic war on Gaza as “The Horror is beyond words and beyond imagination. The Horror is of blood and shredded children. The Horror is of maybe hundreds of thousands dead bodies disintegrating in the rubbles of indiscriminately IDF-bombed hospitals, apartment buildings, mosques."
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ACTIVISM
The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2023 - Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’
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ANGLO AMERICA
Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Nov 2023 - We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S.--and its allies and proxies like Israel--war crimes: illegal uses of military force to remove governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military atrocities justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities.
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My Tense Exchange on a Train with US Sen. Chris Coons over Gaza
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - After questioning Sen. Chris Coons about his opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, I was removed from a train heading to DC. A recap of our viral exchange and a response to false media coverage of it.
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Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Nov 2023 - Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony.
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BRICS
South Africa Asks ICC to Investigate Israeli Crimes in Gaza
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Nov 2023 - SA President Cyril Ramaphosa today called on the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into Israel's war crimes in the Gaza Strip. "We join many other countries and organizations in asking the ICC to investigate what is happening and, in fact, we can see with our own eyes in Israel," he said.
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EUROPE
Europe-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way - all in the name of supporting Jews.
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel
Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHumanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Nov 2023 - Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza - A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the "humanitarian" route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.
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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.
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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service11 Nov 2023 - A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war.
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Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests by Talking
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - How the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking. As Maya Angelou said, 'when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.'
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Thousands Trapped as Israeli Forces Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 – The IDF have raided al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. It said it was carrying out an “operation against Hamas in a specified area” at al-Shifa and that the raid was based on Israeli and US intelligence.
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Besieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis.
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‘The Hinge of History’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - Palestine and the New World Order - Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
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Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service14 Nov 2023 - Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population's minimum needs.
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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM
Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Nov 2023 - Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries.
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MEDIA
Disingenuous
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe devil is in the details...
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‘Are Hamas a Terror Group? Are They a Terror Group? Answer the Question!’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service17 Nov 2023 - The actual meaning of ‘terrorism’ was explained by Noam Chomsky: ‘It’s very simple: if “they” do it, it’s terrorism; if “we” do it, it’s counterterrorism. That’s a historical universal.’ In reality, ‘terrorism’ is a propaganda label that is slapped solely on Official Enemies and never ‘us’.
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UNITED NATIONS
UN Experts Call on International Community to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service16 Nov 2023 – Grave violations committed by Israel in Gaza point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of genocidal incitement, intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba,’ and the use of powerful weaponry resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
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GREAT RESET
Bill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society
Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service8 Nov 2023 - On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028.
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HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service20-26 November 2023
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Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media ServiceHomer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.
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POETRY FORMAT
Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service17 Nov 2023 - From Bethlehem 11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children But the victim we are told is the villain... ... No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES
(Português) Os Crimes de Guerra em Gaza; a Demência da Razão e a Falta de Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service16 nov 2023 – Assistimos à “era da guerra eterna” pelos EUA onde vivem a ideologia do “Destino Manifesto” de serem “o novo povo de Deus”, pela democracia (burguesa), os direitos humanos (individuais, esquecendo os sociais e ecológicos) e o valor supremo do indivíduo (base da acumulação capitalista). Farão guerra para impedir a multipolaridade.
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INSPIRATIONAL
Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceHow to Be a Living Poem
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Hey Joe
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media ServicePeace through Horror
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Special Delivery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Nov 2023 - Diplomacy? No Joke...
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
CRUDE: Wentworth Community vs Big Oil
Greenpeace International - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2023 - This documentary details the shocking knock-on impact of air pollution caused by big oil in the South African township Wentworth - including chronic poverty, gender-based violence and epigenetic changes which make community members prone to certain illnesses.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Mairead Maguire on Ending the Current Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service13 Nov 2023 - Making peace instead of wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
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Long Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media ServiceFrom Lowkey's Soundtrack to the Struggle 2
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