Articles by David Adams
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(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?
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The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?
→ read full articleUpdates on the Economic War and the Political Crisis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 May 2023 – The trip to China this month by Brazilian President Lula was marked by the installation of former Pres. of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to preside over the New Development Bank of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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(Français) Mises À Jour Sur La Guerre Économique Et La Crise Politique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
1 mai 2023 – Les événements récents ont des effets profonds sur les sujets de mes blogs précedents : NOUVELLES DU FRONT DE LA GUERRE ÉCONOMIQUE et L’ANALYSE EST SIMPLE ; C’EST ECONOMIQUE.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 mars 2023 – Le soutien américain et l’escalade de la guerre d’Ukraine sont au cœur de la politique de l’administration Biden et de ses stratèges NEOCON qui tentent de maintenir l’hégémonie américaine sur le monde entier. L’Ukraine est un pion dans la stratégie d’attaque contre la Russie considérée comme le principal ennemi de cette hégémonie avec la Chine.
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News from the Front of the Economic War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The US support and escalation of the Ukraine War is central to the politics of the Biden administration and its NEOCON strategists trying to maintain US hegemony. Ukraine is a pawn in the strategy of attacking Russia that is considered the principal enemy of that hegemony along with China.
→ read full articleSleepwalking to Armageddon: World Divides over the Ukraine War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – As the US, NATO and Russia escalate the war in the Ukraine, the risk increases for a global nuclear war that could destroy most life on the planet, corresponding to the mythical battle of Armageddon mentioned in the Bible.
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(Français) Somnambules vers Armageddon : Le Monde se Divise Sur l’Ukraine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 mars 2023 – Alors que les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie intensifient la guerre en Ukraine, le risque augmente d’une guerre nucléaire mondiale qui pourrait détruire la plupart des vies sur la planète, correspondant à la mythique bataille d’Armageddon dans la Bible qui marque la fin du monde.
→ read full articleThe Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic
→ read full article(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.
→ read full articleLooking Forward to 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
1 Jan 2023 – Before looking forward to 2023, let’s look back at 2022 from the perspective of the culture of peace.
→ read full article(Français) Dans l’Attente de 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
1er janvier 2023 – Avant d’envisager 2023, regardons 2022 du point de vue de la culture de la paix.
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(Français) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l’État moderne, qu’une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu’avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.
→ read full articlePrepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Hypocrisy
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the great documents of history. With that in mind, it is especially ironic and unfortunate when human rights is used by the culture of war as part of its weaponry.
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(Français) Hypocrisie à Propos des Droits Humains
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme est l’un des grands documents de l’histoire. Dans cet esprit, il est particulièrement ironique et malheureux que les droits de l’Homme soient utilisés par la culture de la guerre comme faisant partie de son armement.
→ read full articleMediation and Restorative Justice in Latin America
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Latin America continues to advance towards a culture of peace: Last month we reviewed results of elections in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia; a progressive government has returned to Bolivia following the coup d’état against Evo Morales; Lula da Silva is favored to win the presidency of Brazil in next month’s election.
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(Français) Médiation et Justice Restauratrice en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 septembre 2022 – L’Amérique latine continue de progresser vers une culture de la paix. Le mois dernier, nous avons passé en revue les résultats progressistes des élections au Mexique, au Chili, au Pérou et en Colombie. Lula da Silva est favori pour remporter la présidence du Brésil au cours de la prochaine l’élection du mois.
→ read full articleArab Spring, Russian Spring, Latin American Spring?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Consciousness becomes a determining factor in history when the dominant regime (i.e. the culture of war) collapses from its own contradictions. This occurred in the 60’s with the Vietnam War and in end of the 80’s with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. We approach another such moment with the imminent collapse of the US Empire.
→ read full article(Français) Printemps Arabe, Printemps Russe, Printemps Latino-Américain ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 août 2022 – La conscience devient un facteur déterminant dans l’histoire lorsque le régime dominant (c’est-à-dire la culture de la guerre) s’effondre de ses propres contradictions. Cela s’est passé dans les années 60 avec la guerre du Vietnam et à la fin des années 80 avec l’effondrement de l’empire soviétique. Nous approchons d’un autre moment de ce genre avec l’effondrement imminent de l’empire Nord Américain.
→ read full article(Français) Nécessité de Creer: Un Mouvement Mondial pour le Désarmement Nucléaire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Toutes ces questions devraient être à l’ordre du jour d’un mouvement mondial pour le désarmement nucléaire. Il n’y a rien de plus important pour l’avenir de notre espèce et de notre planète.
→ read full articleNeeded: A Global Movement for Nuclear Disarmament
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – The world faces many dangers at this moment of history, famines, global warming, wars in the Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, mass migrations, increasing electoral tendencies towards fascism. But all these are pale in comparison to the danger of a nuclear World War III which could put an end to all of these problems by a suicidal destruction of all human civilization.
→ read full articleCollapse of the Us Dollar
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Two years ago I wrote that the dollar would lose its global role and be devalued. Reasons: the bloated military budget and national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of U.S. sanctions on other countries, and the reaction of countries such as Russia, China, Turkey and India to trade their dollars for gold. According to Zero Hedge, this trend has intensified.
→ read full article(Français) Effondrement du Dollar Américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1er juin 2022 – Il y a deux ans, j’écrivais que le dollar perdrait son rôle mondial et serait dévalué. Raisons : le budget militaire gonflé et la dette nationale pour le payer, l’effet de retour des sanctions américaines sur d’autres pays et la réaction de pays comme la Russie, la Chine, la Turquie et l’Inde à échanger leurs dollars contre de l’or. Selon Zero Hedge, cette tendance s’est intensifiée.
→ read full articleWe Can Find the Truth, but Where Can We Find Hope?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
1 May 2022 – Devoted to the courageous individuals who dare to seek and publish the truth in the face of the censorship and outright lies of the information war between NATO and Russia.
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(Français) Nous Pouvons Trouver la Vérité, mais Où Pouvons-Nous Trouver l’Espoir ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
1 Mai 2022 – Consacré aux individus courageux qui osent rechercher et publier la vérité face à la censure et aux mensonges éhontés de la guerre de l’information entre l’OTAN et la Russie.
→ read full article(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.
→ read full articleHow the United States Created Vladimir Putin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
→ read full article(French) Comment Les États-Unis Ont Créé Vladimir Poutine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .
→ read full article(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.
→ read full articleThe Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.
→ read full articleDid the U.S. and NATO Promise Not to Threaten Russia by Moving the Military Forces of NATO to Its Borders?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.
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(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.
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(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.
→ read full articleWar Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`
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(Français) La Biennale de Luanda : Passé et Avenir de la Culture de la Paix en Afrique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Maintenant, l’avenir de la culture panafricaine de la paix est là où il devrait être, entre les mains de la jeunesse africaine et de la diaspora. Un nouveau jour se lève. Il a besoin de notre soutien.
→ read full articleThe Biennale of Luanda: Past and Future of the Culture of Peace in Africa
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Now the future of the Pan-African Culture of Peace is where it should be, in the hands of the youth of Africa and the Diaspora. A new day is dawning. It needs our support.
→ read full articleUpdating Dire Warnings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the US Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new North American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of US citizens.
→ read full article(Français) Mise à Jour des Avertissements
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 déc. 2021 – Il y a un peu plus d’un an, j’écrivais dans ce blog que nous étions à un tournant de l’Histoire de l’humanité, que l’empire américain s’effonderait et qu’il existe un risque sérieux d’une nouvelle guerre civile aux USA. Le blog était illustré par les armes automatiques accumulées par des millions de citoyens américains.
→ read full articleSpeech to Mayors for Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Text I provided to the first national forum of the AFCDRP (Association of Mayors for Peace, France) that took place October 13 in Montpelier.
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(Français) Discours pour l’Association “Maires pour la Paix”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
Texte que j’ai fourni au premier forum national de l’AFCDRP (Association Maires pour la Paix, France) qui a eu lieu le 13 octobre à Montpellier.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Gone to Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 Oct 2021 – To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists who have dared to defy government pressure. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov certainly merit the distinction. But there is another journalist who is even more deserving and his recognition would have contributed far more to the cause of world peace. That is Julian Assange.
→ read full article(Français) Le Prix Nobel de la Paix Aurait du Être Attribué à Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 oct. 2021 – Dans une certaine mesure, il faut applaudir le choix du prix Nobel de la paix de cette année à deux journalistes qui ont osé défier la pression du gouvernement. Maria Ressa et Dmitry Muratov méritent certainement la distinction. Mais il y a un autre journaliste qui le mérite encore plus et sa reconnaissance aurait contribué beaucoup plus à la cause de la paix mondiale. C’est Julian Assange.
→ read full articleAfghanistan Is Not the End
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – As Karl Marx put it, spending money on the military is like throwing money into the sea. It produces nothing of value. And eventually an economy that produces nothing of value will crash from its own internal contradiction. This is the contradiction that led Johan Galtung to predict the end of the American Empire by the year 2020.
→ read full article(Français) L’Afghanistan N’Est Pas la Fin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sept. 2021 – Comme l’a dit Karl Marx, dépenser de l’argent pour l’armée, c’est comme jeter de l’argent à la mer. Il ne produit pas de valeur. Et finalement, une économie qui ne produit pas de valeur s’effondrera à cause de sa propre contradiction interne. C’est la contradiction qui ont conduit Johan Galtung à prédire la fin de l’empire américain d’ici 2020.
→ read full article(Français) Mise à Jour Sur la Culture de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
Il ne semble pas probable que l’avancée de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre puisse renverser l’empire américain et sa culture de guerre, mais comme son prédécesseur, l’empire soviétique, finira par s’effondrer à cause de ses propres contradictions. Et à ce point lá, le développement de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre sera essentiel si on peut faire un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale, une ONU basée directement sur le peuple et promouvant une culture de paix.
→ read full articleCulture of War Update
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
1 Aug 2021 – It does not seem likely that the advance in democracy and anti-war consciousness can overthrow the American empire and its culture of war, but like its predecessor, the Soviet Empire, it will eventually collapse from its own contradictions. At that point, the development of democracy and anti-war consciousness will be essential if we are to make a radical change in global governance, a UN based directly on the people and promoting a culture of peace.
→ read full articleUN Security Council: Key Reform for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – The key is the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which at the present time is controlled by the nuclear powers and unable to act in the Middle East because of alliances with the State of Israel. What we have now is not promoting a culture of peace. What we need is radical change, and the UNSC is a key point to be changed.
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(Français) Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU: Une Réforme Clé Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1er juillet 2021 – La clé est la réforme du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, qui est actuellement contrôlé par les puissances nucléaires et incapable d’agir au Moyen-Orient en raison d’alliances avec l’État d’Israël. Ce que nous avons maintenant, ce n’est pas la promotion d’une culture de paix. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c’est d’un changement radical, et le CSNU est un point clé à changer.
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(Français) Une Vision Utopique pour Jérusalem
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 juin 2021- Il nous reste cinq ans avant les événements que j’imaginais dans ma nouvelle, “j’ai vu la terre promise.” Plus que jamais, je pense qu’il s’agit d’un tournant essentiel dans la voie que nous devons suivre pour passer de la culture de la guerre à une culture de la paix.
→ read full articleA Utopian Vision for Jerusalem
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
1 Jun 2021 – We have over five years remaining before the events I imagined as follows in my novella, “I have seen the promised land.” More than ever, I think that this is an essential turning point in the road we need to follow to achieve the transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
→ read full articleNews from Palestine: The Messenger Refuses to Be Killed
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
15 May 2021 – The Israeli government has bombed the headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera in Gaza, trying to limit messages from the Palestinian people to describe their suffering. But the messenger refuses to be killed. Here are some of the messages I have received from people in Palestine.
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Declaration for the Transition to a Culture of Peace in the XXI Century
David Adams, Federico M. Zaragoza and Roberto E. M. Caballero | Transition to a Culture of Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
1 May 2021 – We will be circulating the Declaration as widely as possible for signatures and dissemination, and a website is in preparation for this. Below is the short English version.
→ read full articleListen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 Apr 2021 – This month the women of the world give us reason to hope for the future. Around the world millions of women risked the Covid pandemic and took to the streets to demand radical change.
→ read full article(Français) Écouter les Femmes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
1 avril 2021 – Ce mois-ci les femmes du monde nous donnent des raisons d’espérer pour l’avenir. Partout dans le monde, des millions de femmes ont risqué la pandémie de Covid et sont descendues dans la rue pour exiger un changement radical.
→ read full articleAppeals Are Not Enough
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
“Many of the organizations above make demands of the nuclear states to begin the process of nuclear disarmament. And people are invited to sign appeals to these governments such as the Appeal for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World. But there is no indication that the nuclear powers are listening. We must do more than that.”
→ read full articleBad News for 2021
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
A crash of the global economic system would inevitably produce a crash of the system of global governance. And a crash of the global system of governance will give us a window of opportunity for the radical change that is needed from the culture of war to a culture of peace. But such a change requires advance preparation.
→ read full article(Français) Mauvaises Nouvelles Pour 2021
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2021
Un effondrement du système économique mondial entraînerait inévitablement un effondrement des systèmes de gouvernance. Et un crash du système mondial de gouvernance nous donnera une fenêtre d’opportunité pour le changement radical qui est nécessaire pour la transition de la culture de guerre à une culture de paix. Mais un tel changement nécessite une préparation préalable.
→ read full articleA New Level, a Historic Step Forward
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
1 Dec 2020 – For the first time there are so many virtual events for the culture of peace free and open to the public that we have begun listing them on CPNN. This makes possible a new step forward in the development of a global movement for the culture of peace.
→ read full articleFurther Analysis of US Elections
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
9 Nov 2020 – In order to understand the deep meaning of the US election results, and to compare them to the electoral situation in France, I have downloaded a series of maps from the Internet showing the relation between voting patterns, poverty and urbanization.
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(Français) Quelques Commentaires sur l’Election Nationale Anglo-américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
En 2017, j’avais comparé la base electorale de Trump à celle de Marine Le Pen en France. Aujourd’hui je pourrais également faire la comparaison à celles de nombreux autres démagogues à travers le monde: Au Brésil, en Turquie, en Russie, aux Philippines, en Hongrie, etc.
→ read full articleSome Comments on the US National Election
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Back in 2017, I compared Trump’s appeal to that of Marine Le Pen in France. Today I could also compare his appeal to many other demagogues that are thriving around the world in Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Philippines, Hungary, etc.
→ read full article(Français) Leçons Tirés de la Journée Internationale de la Paix de Cette Année
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – En regardant les résultats de notre enquête sur la Journée internationale de la paix cette année, je suis frappé par deux aspects, l’un à long terme et l’autre à court terme, qui sont de bon augure pour l’avenir.
→ read full articleLessons from This Year’s International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
2 Oct 2020 – Looking at the results this year from our survey of the International Day of Peace, I am struck by two aspects, one long term and one short term, that bode well for the future.
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(Français) L’espoir d’un atterrissage en douceur
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – Face aux prévisions pessimistes pour les États-Unis, pouvant aller jusqu’a la guerre civile, de nombreuses initiatives progressistes avancent. C’est la dialectique de l’histoire en action: «when the going gets tough, the tough get going» (quand les temps deviennent durs, les durs avancent.). Et cela fait naître l’espoir que le crash de l’empire pourrait avoir un “atterrissage en douceur.”
→ read full articleHope for a Soft Landing
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
1 Sep 2020 – In the face of pessimistic predictions for the United States, to the point of civil war, there are many progressive initiatives advancing. It’s the dialectics of history in action: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” And it raises the hopes that the crash of the empire could have a soft landing.
→ read full articleThe Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
1 Aug 2020 – The American empire is crashing. What will it be like. Let us look at recent precedents.
→ read full articleRacism and the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
1 Jul 2020 – To succeed, the struggle against racism needs to be understood in the context of the struggle against the culture of war. The recent uprisings against racist violence by the police is another step towards the radical transformation from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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Trump and the USA Can Escape, but the Empire Cannot
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
5 Jun 2020 – The USA is trapped. It is ravaged by the coronavirus with inadequate medical preparedness. It is torn apart by racist violence. And it now has an unemployment rate that rivals that of the Great Depression. The military budget must be totally converted in order to save the country. Its military bases around the world must be dismantled and the soldiers brought home and put to useful work.
→ read full articleInvasion of Venezuela: Is It Operation Just Cause, Bay of Pigs or Wag the Dog?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
1 Jun 2020 – On April 1 (April Fools Day) President Trump announced that the US will send a military force to Venezuela. If Trump does order an invasion, it may resemble the Bay of Pigs more than Operation Just Cause. The Venezuelan military, aided by Russian equipment and advisors, and backed, at least verbally, by China, is a force more similar to the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1961 than the Panamanian forces in 1989.
→ read full articleHas the Crash Arrived?
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23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – The headlines provide abundant details about economic shutdowns in order to slow the spread of the COV-19 virus. But behind the headlines, there is another story more important in the long run: the global economy is a house of cards based on speculation and military spending. It seems likely that the house of cards will come crashing down as a result of the global economic shutdown.
→ read full articleTowards a Mayors’ Security Council
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9 Mar 2020
1 Mar 2020 – Around the world we see the beginning of failed states, consumed by violence: Libya, Yemen, and a case can be made for Mexico. Johan Galtung has gone so far as to imagine that the United States will split into two countries as the American Empire crumbles. The situation is so serious that UN Secretary-General Guterres devoted his annual press conference on February 4 to the “wind of madness” sweeping the globe. ”
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi le budget militaire gonflé menace de faire tomber l’empire américain
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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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Why the Bloated Military Budget Threatens to Bring Down the American Empire
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3 Feb 2020
1 Feb 2020 – The American military budget is not paid from the profits of American exports. In fact the US regularly imports more than it exports and runs a deficit which for the year 2019 was more than $1 trillion dollars. As we have seen the military budget accounts for almost 75% of this.
→ read full articleA World without the Nation-State
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6 Jan 2020
2 Jan 2020 – The state is a culture of war. In this case the state is the United States and their culture of war is shown in their role in the overthrow of President Morales of Bolivia (precisely because he was promoting a culture of peace) and their threat to punish Julian Assange (precisely because he revealed the secrets of their culture of war.) Not to mention that the states of the world are unable to seriously attack the problem of global warming, and the USA is the worst in this regard.
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(Français) Le Pape, la Religion et la Culture de la Paix
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9 Dec 2019
2 décembre 2019 – Les initiatives du pape sont particulièrement opportunes, car elles soutiennent ce lien entre le désarmement nucléaire et le développement durable et envoient ce message aux églises catholiques du monde entier et à leurs fidèles qui sont plus d’un milliard.
→ read full articleThe Pope, Religion and the Culture of Peace
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9 Dec 2019
2 Dec 2019 – The initiatives of the Pope are especially timely because they support this linkage of nuclear disarmament and sustainable development and they send out this message to the Catholic churches around the world and their more than a billion religious followers.
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The International Day of Peace
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7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – The International Day of Peace, as officially proclaimed by the UN, is the most universal action for peace in our times, and it contributes to the consciousness from the culture of war to a culture of peace. It would be good to be able to measure the IDP actions each year, to know if they are increasing or not, and to know if this is occurring throughout the world, or more in some regions than in others.
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What Really Happened in Zimbabwe
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9 Sep 2019
8 Sep 2019 – Yesterday the New York Times carried several very long articles about former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who had just died, saying that he was a “tyrant” and that he “presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands.”
→ read full article(Français) La résolution des Nations Unies pour la culture de la paix
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12 Aug 2019
1er août 2019 – La lutte pour une culture de la paix pourrait gagner beaucoup plus de force si cette résolution était utilisée comme base d’analyse et de pratique par plus d’organisations dans le monde, mais malheureusement, elle est mal connue. La situation me rappelle l’utilisation d’un autre document historique des Nations Unies, la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
→ read full articleThe UN Resolution for the Culture of Peace
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5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The struggle for a culture of peace could gain much more force if this resolution were used as the basis for analysis and practice by more organizations around the world, but unfortunately it is relatively unknown. The situation reminds me of the use of another landmark UN document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
→ read full articleConsciousness + Institutional Change = Culture of Peace
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8 Jul 2019
2 Jul 2019 – People are taking to the streets to defend human rights and demand democracy around the world. We need more institutional change if we are to harness the consciousness of people in the coming decade when the global financial system has crashed and a window of opportunity opens for us to move from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
→ read full articleRoadmap for Peace Activism
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3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2019 – In this month’s bulletin of CPNN we try to identify those to whom we can look for peace leadership in these turbulent times. Let us consider their actions and advice. Let’s listen first to the new generation of youth activists.
→ read full article(Italiano) Perché Julian Assange è così importante
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13 May 2019
Il controllo dell’informazione è diventato un mezzo cruciale per la cultura dei guerra – esnza il quale non può sostenersi. In passato, solo alcuni dei segreti e delle bugie degli US e dei loro alleati sono state rivelate. Ma grazie a Julian Assange e alla sua organizzazione WikiLeaks, ne abbiamo appreso molti di più negli ultimi pochi anni. Come reagiscono i governi?
→ read full articleWhy Julian Assange Is So Important
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6 May 2019
The control of information has become a crucial means for the culture of war – without this control it cannot be sustained. In the past, only a few of the secrets and lies were revealed. But thanks to Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks, we have learned about many more secrets and lies in the past few years. How do governments react?
→ read full articleCan Students Become a Revolutionary Force?
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8 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 – It seems we are now starting to see student strikes to demand that their governments address the problem of climate change. Can this movement become revolutionary? Students are beginning to see that their world is being exploited by their governments and that their schools seem to be in complicity with the governments. The American Youth Climate Strike say in their mission statement that “if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then the system is forced to face the climate crisis and enact change.”
→ read full articleHow to Prepare for a Global Financial Crash: Rural-Urban Continuum and Electric Vehicles
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4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 In this blog we have often proposed that the culture of war is not sustainable and that the American empire is destined to crash for the same reasons that the Soviet empire crashed. It can be an opportunity for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. However, the crash of the American empire may well be accompanied (caused) by a global financial crash with suffering for ordinary people, as it did for the Soviet people 30 years ago.
→ read full article(Français) Où est la démocratie?
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11 Feb 2019
1er février 2019 – Au cours des derniers mois, deux élections ont eu lieu: en République Démocratique du Congo et au Venezuela.
→ read full articleWhere Is Democracy?
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4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – In the past few months we have a tale of two elections: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Venezuela.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock
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7 Jan 2019
2 Jan 2019 – Looking back at 2018, we see progress in all of the areas of a culture of peace except one: disarmament, and in particular nuclear disarmament. Symbolic of this, last year the “doomsday clock” of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was reset to only two minutes before midnight, the shortest it has been since 1953!
→ read full articleRationale for an Alternative to the UN Security Council
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10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – In last month’s blog, I returned to a previous theme of an Alternative UN Security Council. It has been pointed out to me that I did not provide a very explicit rationale about this proposal and why it should be given priority. So let me try to do that now in terms of the following strategy and tactics involved.
→ read full articleAs the Empire Crashes
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5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme. Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.
→ read full article(Français) La solution souffle dans le vent
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15 Oct 2018
7 octobre 2018 – Je suis tombé sur an article à propos de deux réunions le même jour aux Nations Unies sur les armes nucléaires. Les principaux États nucléaires (États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Chine et Russie) se sont tous rendus à la réunion sur la non-prolifération et ils ont boycotté ainsi la réunion sur le désarmement! Comme l’article le conclut à juste titre, les États nucléaires “n’accordent pas de priorité à leur obligation d’éliminer leurs propres armes de destruction massive, mais se concentrent plutôt sur l’empêchement des autres d’acquérir de telles armes”.
→ read full articleThe Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
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8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
→ read full articleThe Paradox of the United Nations: Peace vs. Culture of Peace
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3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the UN would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its allies.
→ read full articleMovement for Sustainable Development: Model for Culture of Peace?
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6 Aug 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Already we see that the paradigm of a culture of peace, as opposed to a culture of war, is becoming internalized in the consciousness of a large proportion of humanity. Can we not expect that the closer we come to a collapse of the present system, the more it will become evident that wise financial investment should seek out productive sectors instead of militarized sectors of the economy? If and when this occurs, then the time will be ripe for a social revolution from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
→ read full article“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
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9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
→ read full articleWhy There Is So Much Anger
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11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Wherever we turn, people are angry. In France and United States where I live, voters are angry and turn their anger against immigrants and people of color. And they vote for the Front National and for Donald Trump. And the struggle in the US between students protesting school massacres, gun sales and the National Rifle Association is fueled by anger on both sides. We are going through an especially dangerous period of history, and we need to analyze its causes and possible solutions.
→ read full articleConsequences of the Crash of the American Empire
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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.
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