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Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2016
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the “US Empire” by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.
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Johan Galtung on ‘The Fall of the US Empire’
Amy Goodman – Democracy NOW!, 14 Jun 2010
The amount of money the United States has spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq surpassed the $1 trillion mark last week, according to the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter. To date over $747 billion has been appropriated for the war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war in Afghanistan. The US is spending over $136 billion on the wars this year. I’m joined now by Johan Galtung, who has spent the past half century pursuing non-violent conflict resolution in international relations. He’s known as a founder of the field of peace and conflict studies.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung on his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2009
Interview with Prof. Johan Galtung about his latest book, ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming?’ – Washington-DC, Oct 30 2009 (http://www.transcend.org/tup/) httpv://www.youtube.com/v/SfcoNlhxRow&hl=en&fs=1
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace. Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.
→ read full articleAfter the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024
The successor system to the US empire will be neither a hegemony run by one big actor like China or the EU, nor globalization run by the TNCs, but a world of regions. A global common currency may come but the regions will dominate as the state system is fading.
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Beyond Palestine: A Burmese Activist Salutes Anti-Genocide US Campus Protestors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – US students’ courageous and passionate activism is inspiring their peers in other institutions of higher learning in places as diverse as Waseda University in Tokyo, the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris, and Britain’s universities at Warwick and Bristol.
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(Italiano) Dopo Impero USA: un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
Nonviolenza, sofisticazione, mondo, e norme di traffico domestiche/nazionali anziché interminabile interventismo per qualunque scopo. Possa l’attuale miscela asiatica di antica saggezza ed energia giovanile ispirare un mondo saturo di pessimismo e paura.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024
Nonviolence, sophistication, world, and domestic traffic rules as opposed to endless interventionism for whatever purpose. May the current Asian blend of age-old wisdom and youthful energy inspire a world filled with pessimism and fear.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” Dies at 93
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024
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A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024): The Man for Just Peace
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024
“USA? I love the Republic, but I hate the Empire.” Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.
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On the Ongoing Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States 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”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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“Peace”: Are Religions the Cause of Peace Disruption in Humanoids? (Part 3)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022
Oh, you warring Humanoids, pray to the Lord rather than the religious rituals.
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“Peace”: The Odyssey of the Relentless Pursuit of Humanoids of an Elusive Philosophy (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022
16 Apr 2022 – The concept of peace was first introduced into academic literature by the Norwegian pioneer of peace research Johan Galtung, who distinguished between two types of peace: positive peace and negative peace. Defining Peace itself is an arduous process and Galtung, the patriarch of formal Peace Research, has formulated the “Mini Theory of Peace”.
→ read full articleFiddling as Rome Burns: While the U.S. and China Prepare for War, USA Pundits Dither
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021
Those in the USA beating the drums of war are driven by concerns they may be unaware: fears that the social fabric is disintegrating, that white rule on a global level is obsolescent, or that their nation’s role as a global hegemon (or “leader”) is ending. The main task of US peace advocates today is to help citizens to understand that preparing for a war with China will not allay any of these fears or solve the problems, which can only happen by confronting the homeland elites that monopolize wealth, power, and social status for their own agendas.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the U.S. Empire–And Then What?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system in macro-space and macro-time with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, exploiters/exploited as inequity; militarily, killers/victims as enforcement; politically, dominators/dominated as repression; culturally, alienators/alienated as conditioning. Empires have different profiles.
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UN: Two Empires Crumbling–and Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021
The USA is out of touch. Stop droning, killing; make a beautiful North America with Mexico and Canada. Add it all up: the fall of the US empire is on track. How about Israel? Heading for a cliff of its own making: suicide. Israel is out of touch. A regime change from within is needed.
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Johan Galtung: Peace and Conflict Studies and COVID-19/لقاء خاص مع مؤسس علوم السلام يوهان غالتونغ
Brighten Your Mind – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020
4 Jul 2020 – Norwegian scientist and founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, Johan Galtung touches on a number of important points. – تموز (يوليو) 2020 – يتطرق العالم النرويجي ومؤسس دراسات السلام والصراع ، يوهان غالتونغ ، إلى عدد من النقاط المهمة.
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After the Fall… What?
EnvisionPeaceMuseum | Johan Galtung & Amy Goodman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2020
Fascism or Blossoming after the Fall of the US Empire?
10 Jul 2012 – Prognosis/Prediction
On the Coming Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2020
[Paper written in 2015] -> Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States 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”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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Johan Galtung on the Future of the USA: Fascism or Blossoming?
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Oct 2020
Prediction/Prognosis: 7 Jun 2010 – Prof. Galtung on his book, “Fall of the US-Empire: And Then What?”
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Johan Galtung’s Conflict Transformation Theory for a Peaceful World
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Oct 2020
The paper highlights how the contributions of Johan Galtung has been able to change the institutional and individual attitudes, conviction systems, psychological understandings, and lifestyle of behaviors through applying transcend technique of conflict transformation.
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End of US Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – Trump will win and the US is finished as an empire. Many of us had predicted this a while back but the speed of the decay is stunning. But let us not rejoice; let us re-imagine a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality–and work extra hard to achieve it.
→ read full articleCoronavirus as an Opportunity: Reboot Humanity and Change Security Thinking, Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2020
Connecting dots is neither the trend of our times nor of day-to-day political decision-making. Over the years, time, space and intellectual focus has shrunk. It’s deplorable and dangerous for an increasingly complex world facing increasingly existential challenges.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: Peace and Conflict Studies and COVID-19
Brighten Your Mind – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2020
* The world after COVID-19
* Teaching peace and resolving conflict between individuals
* Teach young children peace
* Keeping children from violence from video-games
* Fall of the U.S. empire, not the U.S. Republic
* Islam in promoting peace and transforming conflicts
* “Peace Journalism” in promoting nonviolence and resolving disputes
* Rising powers
(русский-Russian) Норвежский «Нострадамус» еще 20 лет назад предрек крах США к концу 2020 года
Григорий Карачев | The Russian Times – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2020
12 апреля 2020 – Йохан Галтунг, который известен своими точными прогнозами, связанными с распадом Советского Союза и терактом в Америке 11 сентября, также предрек крах США. Данные его прогноз вызвал небывалый ажиотаж в сети.
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(Italiano) Riflessione di Politica Non Violenta Sulla Pandemia del Coronavirus
Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020
La scienza occidentale è criticabile perché, nascondendo essa i suoi fondamenti (che in realtà sono divisi in un pluralismo di direzioni), si pone come verità assoluta e inevitabile. Con ciò dà autorità sociale ad una tecnologia che, allettando in continuazione gli uomini con la promessa di sempre sempre maggior benessere, invade la vita umana fino a soffocarla nell’intimo.
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le budget militaire gonflé menace de faire tomber l’empire américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2020
1 fév. 2020 – Le budget militaire américain n’est pas payé par les bénéfices des exportations américaines. En fait, les États-Unis importent régulièrement plus qu’ils n’exportent et accusent un déficit qui, pour l’année 2019, était supérieur à un billion de dollars. Comme nous l’avons vu, le budget militaire en représente près de 75%.
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America, an Empire on Its Last Leg: To Be Kicked Out from the Middle East?
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research, 20 Jan 2020
7 Jan 2020
• A US president committed to war crimes,
• A failing “War on Terrorism” narrative,
• Weakened military command structures,
• Failing alliances,
• Sleeping with the enemy,
• Unpredictable foreign policy analysts,
• Deception and mistakes.
At this juncture: The US’ most powerful weapon remains dollarization, neoliberal economic reforms and the ability to manipulate financial markets.
Iran/USA: Assassination Aftermath–Is There a Win-Win Way Out?
Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2020
Is there a way to create a new reality that addresses the interests of major parties? The TRANSCEND Method is based on the central thesis that to prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. Normal conflicts are complex and involve many actors, goals and issues.
→ read full articleWhat Happened (or What Is Happening) to the US Empire?
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
This article refers to Professor Johan Galtung’s claim that the US empire will fall by 2020. Its main purpose is to explore current and recent events that may be related to that claim.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung Predictions: Fall of U.S. Empire, End to U.S. Wars
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2019
Galtung suggests solutions based on 50 years of research in the areas of conflict transformation, mediation, peace studies, and related disciplines.
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Johan Galtung: The American Empire Will Fall by 2020
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2019
Jan 2017 – Famous researcher-prognosticator, father of Peace Studies John Galtung explains his prediction.
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Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich Discuss the Proposal for a Department of Peace
Paul Jay | The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Feb 2019
Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich interviewed by Paul Jay
→ read full articleJohan Galtung: The American Empire Will Fall in 2020
BGS IBMOR – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018
Famous prognosticator John Galtung explains his prediction of the fall of the American Empire. Podcast from Jan 2017
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Consequences of the Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – In last month’s article, I mentioned the prediction of Johan Galtung that the American empire cannot last more than another two years. Is that likely, and if so, what will be the consequences? Having witnessed the crash of a previous empire, I think is likely.
→ read full article“Decline and Fall” of the US Empire – Introduction to the American Edition
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Mar 2018
America itself may look at the map and discover that they are located in North America, with two neighbors, big in population and in land, and conclude that MEX-US-CAN, Mexuscan, makes a lot of sense. At least worth contemplating. Making USA not America First as somebody proclaims while producing America Last. But America Normal.
→ read full articleA Stream of Consciousness about Stream of Time
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Mar 2018
This essay about time is actually about human dignity. We are not drifting along something called time willy-nilly, like falling down pulled by something called gravity. Time is change; being masters of much change relevant to us we can create new contexts and call that moving forward in time, and recreate old contexts and call that moving backward in time.
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Galtung on Trump’s USA: Demoralization, Destructuration, Deculturation
Sebastian Eck | Galtung Institut – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2017
Prof. Johan Galtung on the U.S. Empire’s Disintegration
→ read full articleThe State of the Empire in the Age of Trumpism
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2017
“I hate the US Empire, but I love the US Republic.” For years I have been hearing this mantra from Johan Galtung my dear friend, mentor and colleague. As events unfold, it takes on new meaning.
→ read full articleProf. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2017
Galtung was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. He agreed to serve an extra 6 months if he could work for peace, but that was refused. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 170 books, plus.
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Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2017
12 settembre 2017 – “Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing,” (Uno studio del Pentagono sostiene che l’impero americano sta crollando) è il titolo di un saggio di Nafeez Ahmed che fa un’analisi del suddetto studio. Sembra interessante. Sottotitolo: “Rapporto sollecita una massiccia espansione del complesso militare-industriale per garantire l’accesso globale alle risorse”. Suona famigliare.
→ read full articleUSA–Where Are You Heading?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2017
Declare the end of the empire and explore cooperation for mutual and equal benefit with all. Make them friends, not military “allies”. USA: you are so innovative; you have so incredibly much to offer.
→ read full articlePentagon Study Declares American Empire Is ‘Collapsing’
Nafeez Ahmed | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – The solution proposed to protect U.S. power in this new “post-primacy” environment is more of the same: more surveillance, more propaganda (“strategic manipulation of perceptions”) and more military expansionism. The Pentagon study’s recommendations call for an intensification of the very imperial policies that futurist Professor Johan Galtung, who accurately forecasted the demise of the USSR, predicts will accelerate the “collapse of the U.S. empire” by around 2020.
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Johan Galtung and Malvin Gattinger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2017
The housing market used to be a way for people to organize themselves and share costs and risks. Now in bigger cities it seems to be mainly about selling people to housing corporations. The online markets used to be extensions of “real” ones, selling goods and services. Now the central market is ‘attention,’ essentially selling people to advertisement companies.
→ read full article(Castellano) Johan Galtung: “La UE va a sobrevivir, pero tiene que ser más modesta”
Ana Carbajosa – El País, 1 May 2017
Son diligentes en su trabajo y han logrado éxitos enormes, pero hay una cierta arrogancia. Para empezar, han logrado 40 años de paz, y no solo entendida como ausencia de violencia, sino también paz positiva, es decir cooperación. El problema es que todo viene de arriba y los viejos miembros se han sentido anulados, sentían que Bruselas no contaba con su opinión.
→ read full articleUS Power Will Decline under Trump Says Johan Galtung, Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
Nafeez Ahmed | Vice Motherboard – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Dec 2016
The Norwegian professor at the University of Hawaii and Transcend Peace University is recognized as the ‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies as a scientific discipline. He has made numerous accurate predictions of major world events, most notably the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
→ read full articleDonald Trump Will Cause US Power to Collapse Says Johan Galtung, Who Correctly Predicted Fall of USSR
Harriet Agerholm – The Independent, 12 Dec 2016
Norwegian professor Johan Galtung is known as the “founding father” of peace studies as a scientific subject and is recognised for correctly predicting numerous historical events, among them the Tiananmen Square uprising in China and the September 11 attacks. He attracted controversy in 2000 when he predicted US global power would collapse by 2025. But under the Bush administration he revised his forecast for the collapse to 2020.
→ read full articleIs Peace Possible? A Dialogue with Johan Galtung on Ukraine, Trump, Putin, Gandhi, and…
Dr. Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2016
I was particularly interested in a statement made by a member of the Trump team about the 200-year relationship between Russia and the United States: the point was made that Russia supported what became the United States, against the French and the English empires. And that was Tsar Alexander I! So, from the beginning of the American War of Independence in Concord, up to the end of it in 1812….
→ read full articleTrump: Peacemaking Revolution of the US Aggressive Geopolitics
20 coauthors (*) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2016
Trump’s shocking victory has spawned a flurry of very different opinions. We, as the peacemakers, above all, interested in the peacemakers views about the US foreign policy during Trump’s presidency.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2016
Johan Vincent Galtung was born in Oslo, Norway on the same day that the UN would come to existence 15 years later. He was jailed for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi’s Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Næss. This event would trigger a world-changing lifetime work for peace: 167 books, plus.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung’s Conflict Transformation Theory for Peaceful World: Top and Ceiling of Traditional Peacemaking
Prof. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media service, 29 Aug 2016
Galtung has developed the TRANSCEND Method (conflict theory and practice, violence theory and practice, peace transformation, dialogue, and negotiation) to transform the conflict by peaceful means constituting a three-step approach, generally called TRANSCEND or Galtungian method.
→ read full articleOn the Coming Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2016
An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery:
• economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity;
• militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement;
• politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression;
• culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning.
Can the US Turn Fascist?
Şahin Alpay, Today’s Zaman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2016
31 Jan 2016 – Johan Galtung, the Norwegian mathematician, political scientist, sociologist and the founder of the field of peace and conflict resolution studies, argued in his book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (TRANSCEND University Press, 2009) that just as the Roman Empire disintegrated, the American Empire (or the US and Western hegemony over the world) would collapse not later than the year 2025.
→ read full articleUS Policy toward Challengers: 10 Points
Johan Galtung, 28 Sep 2015
The young US Republic, unwilling to share the Atlantic Seaboard with London, emerged victoriously in 1812 with a strong army centered in the South. Manifest Destiny pointed West, then also South, and, stepping into the shoes of the dying Spanish empire in 1898, to the whole world.
→ read full articleIberia a Thousand Years Ago
Johan Galtung, 26 Jan 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2015
A time machine set on the long haul backward may be useful to understand the present in the light of the past. For instance Iberia, the peninsula, today with two states, Spain and Portugal.
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Sep 2014
US Fascism? Yes, indeed. A deeply tragic development. Such an innovative country and nothing better to offer than macro bombing, meso droning and micro sniping. We sense the military-industrial complex at work–the bomb industry upfront.
→ read full articleUSA-Israel vs. Arab-Muslim Worlds: What Happens?
Johan Galtung, 25 Aug 2014
Nothing good. But let us have a look at it in the standard peace studies way: Diagnosis-analyzing, Prognosis- forecasting, and Therapy–remedies, even solutions.
→ read full articleProfessor Galtung: Erdoğan Should Focus on Foreign Policy
Yonca Poyraz Doğan – Today’s Zaman, Istanbul, 18 Aug 2014
August 17, 2014 – Galtung spoke with us during his recent visit to İstanbul for the International Peace Research Association’s (IPRA) biannual conference.
→ read full articleJustice as Arbiter: Educating for Moral Authority, Legitimacy, and Credibility
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Aug 2014
This paper is about justice! The term “justice” is widely used in our daily life in media, politics, economic, and religion sectors. This has resulted in surplus meaning, and perhaps a dulling of its implicit power as a historical force. There can be no doubt “justice” is an enduring human virtue and value.
→ read full articleInterview with Johan Galtung: The Pioneering International Peace Research Association He Founded in 1964
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jul 2014
Interview conducted on the occasion of IPRA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the Istanbul Conference, Turkey, August 11-15, 2014.
→ read full articleGaltung’s ‘Structural Violence’ and the Sierra Leone Civil War c.1985-1992
Philip Leech, Globalization Café – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2014
This paper, however, also notes that no theoretical concept can tell the whole story and while Galtung’s concepts and terminology are useful, awareness and appreciation of their short comings is also fundamental for full appreciation of a case study such as Sierra Leone.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intervista – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jul 2014
Quel che importa è come le macroregioni si rapporteranno fra loro e la lotta contro la violenza del sistema economico – “potere morbido” che uccide ben più che il potere militare – e lo stato, addirittura il mondo, “securitario”, di marca USA – e Cinque Occhi! – la sorveglianza, ora allo stadio NSA.
→ read full articleInterview – Johan Galtung
Al McKay, E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jun 2014
In 1985, I was amazed by the US inability to learn from the Vietnam disaster about limits to military approaches to politics, and, looking for something deeper than rationality, came up with such Deep Culture concepts as DMA – the Dualism-Manicheism-Armageddon syndrome of archetypes. I am now also working on Deep Nature, a fascinating topic.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il contributo di Johan Galtung alla teoria ed alla pratica della pace e della nonviolenza
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – Centro Studi Sereno Regis, 2 Dec 2013
Galtung è sicuramente uno degli studiosi che ha più contributo allo sviluppo teorico- pratico di questo settore, grazie alla sua prolificità nello scrivere (fino al 2012, 1785 saggi, 165 libri, scritti o curati da lui o insieme ad altri; molti dei quali tradotti in 34 lingue, compreso l’italiano1), sia grazie al lavoro da lui svolto in molti paesi del mondo (anche per le Nazioni Unite, ed altre importanti O.I.G) soprattutto per la mediazione di conflitti, con risultati importanti cui avremo occasione di accennare in seguito.
→ read full article(Italiano) NSA e caduta dell’Impero USA
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2013
Eppure, essendoci una cerchia interna di élite auto-nominate, c’è anche una cerchia interna di alleati di cui ci si può presumibilmente fidare, i “Cinque Occhi”: Regno Unito, USA, Canada, Australia, Nuova Zelanda; Anglo-America per esteso. Un circolo di paesi selezionati su base razzista-culturalista. Bianchi e anglo, uccisori di popoli indigeni ovunque: gli USA degli indiani nativi, il Canada un po’ meno degli appartenenti ai Popoli Nativi, l’Australia degli aborigeni, la Nuova Zelanda un po’ meno dei Maori, Il Regno Unito dappertutto – facendo sì che gli altri si lanciassero su quel pendio scivoloso del genocidio e del sociocidio.
→ read full articleNSA and the Fall of the US Empire
Johan Galtung, 4 Nov 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2013
Yet, as there is an inner circle of self-appointed elites there is also an inner circle of allies that presumably can be trusted, the “Five Eyes”: UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand; Anglo-America writ large. Who are they? A club of countries selected on a racist-culturalist basis. White and Anglo, killers of indigenous peoples all over: USA of Native Indians, Canada a little less of First Nations, Australia of Aborigines, New Zealand a little less of Māoris, UK all over–getting the others launched on that slippery slope of genocide and sociocide.
→ read full articleNepal’s First Peace Event 2013 with Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung
Dr. Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Feb 2013
Perhaps an internationally acclaimed person of authority on conflict transformation by peaceful means may ignite the political consensus process amongst the concerned stakeholders and actors of Nepal. In the context, it is natural to have great expectations from the Founding Father of Peace Studies in the world, Professor Dr. Johan Galtung, who is visiting Nepal for the first Peace Event in Kathmandu from February 10th to 18th, 2013.
→ read full articleUN: Two Empires Crumbling – And Then What?
Johan Galtung, 3 Dec 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Dec 2012
There is History in the UN 29 November 2012 vote: 138 YES to giving Palestine the UN status as “nonmember observer state”, only 9 NO, and 41 abstentions. Beyond Middle East politics the vote also mirrors the limits to the US global, and the Israeli regional, empires: 138 defy their grip and favor change, 41+9=50 do not, for various reasons. A crucial vote on a crucial issue is a crucial test. Who wants what?
→ read full articleMemories Conscious and Subconscious
Johan Galtung, 30 Apr 2012 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Apr 2012
Two kinds of memories serve politics: glories and traumas. The glories–victory, liberation, constitution–are celebrated as the birth of a nation. The traumas–defeat, invasion-occupation, decline and fall–are surrounded with the oath NEVER AGAIN! We are guided not only by future goals, but also by past memories. They set the discourse, the frame for what happens. Anybody attacking the USA on US territory invokes Pearl Harbor; 9/11 is then sedimented on top of that, tripling the response should there ever be one more. Better know the wounds imprinted on the collective soul
→ read full articleUSA-Pakistan-Afghanistan: A Global Perspective
Johan Galtung, 24 Apr 2012
Pakistan can probably only survive as a federation with very much autonomy for the parts, and as part of a Central Asian community with eight Muslim neighbors. The more open the border the more will the Durand wound heal, not by Pakistan or Afghanistan yielding territory to the other, or a new Pashtunistan, but more creatively. And that region will be more interested in good relations with China–already owner of enormous resources in Afghanistan–than with the USA.
→ read full articleFrom Empire to Global Fascism
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Mar 2012
A disconnect between speech and action is Obama’s trade mark. A key to his global fascism: instead of acknowledging wrongs of US foreign policy, he hides his extra-judicial killings with drones and JSOC’s (Joint Special Operations Command) in, maybe, 120 countries. Covert, CIA, less overt, Pentagon; with little Congress control. JSOC has been operating an extra-legal “kill-capture” campaign that a former counterinsurgency adviser calls “an almost industrial scale counterterrorism killing machine”.
→ read full articleTen Social Justice Trends Changing the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2012
Global Trends:
[1] The Decline and Fall of the US Empire; [2] The Decline of the West; [3] The Decline of States and Rise of Regions; [4] The Rise of the Rest; [5] The Rise of China.
Social Trends:
[6] The Rise of Nations; [7] The Rise of Civil Society; [8] The Rise of Youth; [9] The Rise of Women; [10] The Rise of Inequality and Revolts.
Who Was Jesus?
Johan Galtung, 26 Dec 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Dec 2011
Jesus rejected the finance system in the Jerusalem temple, encouraged tax boycott, and had disciples-apostles from a caste known for violence. He enters with the disciples the enormous 262mx262m temple, carefully divided into sections also for non-Jews, only for Jews, also for women, only for men, only for priests and the Most Holy. He overthrew the tables of the money exchangers and seems to have propagated a very concrete political message about the Jewish people in a federally structured country, independent of Rome, with apostles as political leaders. When asked by Pontius “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus replied, “Yes, it is as you say” (Mark 15,2). INRI (Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum), Jesus from Nazareth, the King of Jews they wrote ironically, but that may have been exactly how he saw himself. This is politics.
→ read full articleAnd Then the Decline and Fall of China?
Johan Galtung, 3 Oct 2011
Talk given in Beijing at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, 27 Sep 2011 – Yet a rule is written in the stars: nothing human is forever. There is an organic curve: birth-rise-peak-decline-fall. China is human if at a higher level: the comparative advantage of China is not cheap labor or such economisms but the culture, drawing on the san fa, the three teachings of daoism-confucianism-buddhism. The Occident would have been much better off drawing on judaism-christianity-islam and secularism instead of wasting time fighting each other to death.
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Johan Galtung on US Radio – Wide Awake News (Video of the Week)
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2011
Charlie McGrath and Warren Pollok, hosts of Wide Awake Radio-Alternate Radio Show in the US, conduct an original interview with Prof. Galtung talking about his recent book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?” Dr. Galtung provides solutions.
→ read full articleFall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2011
21 Feb 2011, New York – Some analysts say the US – bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers – will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the “US Empire”. “Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,” he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas – for instance, in Afghanistan – will not even be decided in Washington.
→ read full articleThe Decline of the US Republic?
Johan Galtung, 28 Feb 2011 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2011
That the US Empire is falling with the structure so laboriously built in the Middle East crumbling is clear even if there will be fall-back positions. But the US Republic is also in bad shape, with the threat of government shutdown March 5, like in 1995. Why? Because the US polity is inadequate to the challenge.
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Interview with Johan Galtung (Part 1 of 2)
Mera Szendro Bok | Communicaton is your Right! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2011
In this Dec 9, 2010 interview Johan Galtung talks about his experiences, insights, views, and his new book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?”
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Interview with Johan Galtung (Part 2 of 2)
Mera Szendro Bok | Communicaton is your Right! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2011
In this Dec 9, 2010 interview Johan Galtung talks about his experiences, insights, views, and his new book “The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?”
→ read full article(German) Interview mit Johan Galtung
Schattenblick – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2010
17. September 2010 in Hamburg
→ read full articleThe Decline and Fall of Norway
Johan Galtung, 15 Nov 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2010
Then the third revelation. Wars among states decrease as wars among nations increase; the state system going down and the nation system up in salience. What could make young men kill Afghans when Norway is not attacked? Constructing Norway as a killer nation, digging deep down in Norwegian archaeology, to the Vikings, invoking their symbols, helmets and Valhalla, with craniums to boot. Like SS. Quisling, from the Telemark province, also used the Germanic cult of anything old Nordic for his fascist Norwegian Legion. Name of the Norwegian Afghanistan ISAF battalion: Telemark. Ominous.
→ read full articleAudio Podcast Interview with Johan Galtung
Panopticon Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2010
Prof. Galtung discusses the fall of the US empire, its wars, conflict resolution, and more.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (Part 1)
Paul Jay interviewing Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich -The Real News Network, 2 Aug 2010
Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich discuss the proposal for a Department of Peace.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (Part 2)
Paul Jay interviewing Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich - The Real News Network, 2 Aug 2010
Dennis Kucinich and Johan Galtung discuss the proposal for a Department of Peace.
→ read full articleSpying for the USA-And for Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Aug 2010 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2010
To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace. Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.
→ read full articleTwo Empires Falling – But How?
Johan Galtung, 14 Jun 2010
The significance of the Rosenstrasse nonviolence in the heart of Berlin in the middle of the war is neglected, just like Obama neglected the role of nonviolence in ending both colonialism and the cold war in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, probably the most belligerent ever given (and his contempt for the prize was emphasized by giving the money away to organizations that had nothing to do with peace).
→ read full articleThe Trilateral Conflict USA – North Korea – South Korea
Johan Galtung, 9 Nov 2009
Seoul: Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen; a great honor to be invited for a keynote on unification–a key concern of mine since 1972–in a room in the National Assembly, the symbol of democracy. And we are meeting in the context of the 20th anniversary of that 1989 miracle, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and then […]
→ read full articleAfter the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Johan Galtung, 27 Jul 2009
A key hypothesis in the recent The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (www.transcend.org/tup) is that the successor system to the US Empire will be neither a hegemony run by one big actor like China or the EU, nor globalization run by the TNCs, but a world of regions with regional currencies. […]
→ read full articleJohan Galtung on “Class, Nation and the Philippines”
TMS Interview, 21 Feb 2009
TMS: Professor Galtung, as you write in your TMS editorial [week of 16-22 February] “Class, Nation and the Philippines,” about conversations you maintained from 4 to 9 February 2009 in Manila, you met with Government and Parties for a dialogue about the future of the peace process in the Philippines on issues of class and […]
→ read full articleThe Economic Crisis And The US Empire
Johan Galtung, 10 Nov 2008
The crisis in the US economy would also have happened even without the empire. The crisis is an outcome of US hyper-capitalism, capitalism at maximum pressure, with no constraints or “regulation” as the market forces say. And more particularly of the pumping, sucking up of wealth from below, placing 90 million US citizens in misery, […]
→ read full article(A MUST READ) THE FALL OF THE U.S. EMPIRE–AND THEN WHAT?
Johan Galtung, 22 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Oct 2008
[Economic Contradictions- (2)]- between productive and finance economy: Domestic and global market turnover being high even if the growth is sluggish in the productive economy in many countries, and distribution being low, there will be heavy accumulation of liquidity high up searching for an outlet. Luxury consumption and productive investment being limited, the obvious outlet […]
→ read full articleReconstructing USA
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Oct 2008
Greensboro and the Blue Ridge, North Carolina, 20/Oct/2008 There is tremendous excitement in the air, carried by the name Obama. Change. The mantra word. The feeling that a New Beginning may be around the corner. For one who has the privilege of organizing workshops on the concrete content Americans might like to see happen, there […]
→ read full articleThe US Economic Crisis: 10 Proposals
Johan Galtung, 29 Sep 2008 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2008
Stavanger-Norway, September 29/2008 What a cynicism to talk about “crisis” as a phenomenon of a month or a year or two, when every day about 125,000 die from system-produced hunger and curable-preventable diseases! Much of the responsibility lies buried in an economism privileging the transaction system above the basic needs of the actors. Economics as […]
→ read full articleAbout Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
→ read full article(Italiano) Dopo l’impero statunitense: Un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024
Un’ipotesi chiave è che il sistema che ci sarà dopo l’impero statunitense non sarà né un’egemonia gestita da un unico grande attore come la Cina o l’UE, né la globalizzazione gestita dalle TNC, ma un mondo di regioni. Potrebbe arrivare una moneta comune globale. Ma le regioni domineranno, il sistema statale sta svanendo.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts/humanities as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation–a thesis, a text, a painting-sculpture, a piece of music–when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
→ read full articleGaza Redux
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocities, a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses? A sledgehammer for a toothache? Déjà vu.
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination: How About a 5-State Solution for West Asia?
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
The beauty of a one-state solution within a five-state community is that no one would be displaced or forced to move. All the interior borders, walls, barbed-wire fences, surveillance towers and checkpoints would be eliminated. With a robust constitution guaranteeing equal rights for all, Muslims, Christians and Jews could freely choose to live in any part of the country, from the river to the sea.
→ read full articleGaza Redux
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung wrote this seminal Editorial in 2009 and is being republished to offer a context to Gaza 2024. What has changed? What remains the same? What devolved? What if…? Israel, beware the grave you are digging for yourself.
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