Articles by Glen T. Martin
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The USA Crisis of Law and Human Dignity: Philosophers of Law Reveal the Deeper Issue
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
4 May 2025 – In the light of the Donald Trump administration’s disregard of the rule of law, of due-process, of the rights and dignity of citizens that the law is meant to protect, and of the US Constitution that he has sworn to uphold, it is well worth our effort to reflect on what they have to say.
→ read full articleOn Freedom: The Vision of a Contemporary North American Political Thinker
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
Freedom is being defeated in the USA for failure to discern and protect these five aspects of freedom and because it is part of a fragmented world system that structurally defeats Personal Sovereignty, Creative Unpredictability, Mobility, Factuality and Truth-telling, as well as Human Solidarity.
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Ideology and the Failure of Democracy: The Tragic Fate of the USA and Our Real Hope for the Future
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The horrific fate of the USA being played out in the present is the result of governance by ideology, rather than by value-informed rationality. This is the legacy of both the Democratic and Republican parties and this article describes the ideologies of each of these parties and contrasts…
→ read full articleTyranny and “Efficiency” — How True Efficiency Empowers Our Resistance
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
25 Mar 2025 – The “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” is dismantling the US government. Why is the word “efficiency” applied to this group of institution-wreckers delegated by a tyrant?
→ read full articleThe Human Struggle for Positive Freedom
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Mar 2025 – Clinging to the Light in the Darkest of Times – Recently, those trying to destroy the diverse institutions of the US government, attacking multiplicity, and hence freedom, forced their way into the US Institute for Peace in Washington, DC.
→ read full articleUngovernable: Nonviolent Mass Solidarity against Corruption and Despotism
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
Only constitutional democracy, founded on human dignity, gives us government that we are morally obligated to obey. When such constitutional democracy is subverted, “it is our right and our duty to alter or abolish it, and to institute such government as shall effect the people’s freedom, happiness, and dignity.”
→ read full articleHow to Base Human Institutions on Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – The Necessary Failure of Trumpism and Fascism
→ read full articleThe Worldwide “TRANSCEND International” Network
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
12 Jan 2025 – I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”
→ read full articleThe United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity
Dr. Glen T. Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.
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