Articles by William T. Hathaway
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Germany’s New Political Landscape
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – A new party, Alternatives for Germany, became the second strongest force in parliament. The AfD are libertarian-conservatives favoring less government and stricter asylum laws, calling for an end to the NATO-sponsored wars of regime change that have generated waves of refugees.
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William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
24 Mar 2025 – “Fascism” is the current malediction of the left media to evoke fear and loathing of Trump, Alternatives for Germany (AfD), and other right-wing movements. It’s a strongly charged term, but false and harmful.
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Is Fascism on the Rise in Germany?
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
17 Feb 2025 – The German establishment is in crisis. Is has ruled for 80 years by charting a middle course between progressive and conservative policies. The fundamental cause for this crisis is the decay of capitalism.
→ read full articleIn Search of Kindness
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
5 Dec 2023 – Now is the season when priests proclaim, “Peace on earth, goodwill towards men” and mainstream media soothe us with stories and images of kindness. But why do peace and goodwill remain just dreams?
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My Dear Other
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,
loving the other without understanding the other,
A Proven Path to Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution of UNESCO: “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”
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Surf the Apocalypse
William T. Hathaway - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
We stand on doomsday’s beach
watching waves rise and crash,
breathing the brisk and final breeze.
Silex Scintillans
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Seek and ye shall find,”
I keep telling myself,
seeking along in my sneakers,
trying to find the way back to you,
Vacanas
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Vacanas are short, informal poems of devotion to Shiva. They originated in South India during the tenth century, a time of social upheaval, and took the side of poor against the rich, of spontaneous free expression against established orthodoxy, of passion against propriety. Our times are similar to those.
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The Tide Has Turned
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
This is an excellent time to make changes in our lives that we’ve been wanting but haven’t been able to achieve. The influx of higher-consciousness energy will support our efforts. We are now at the dawn of a new era.
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The New Thoughtful Generation
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
This new synthesis asserts that the entire universe consists of divine consciousness vibrating at different frequencies which emerge from the unified field. Quantum physics has established that all matter and energy manifests from this nonmaterial unified field. These discoveries refute the materialist worldview.
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Conscious Peace: World Peace Depends upon Our Collective Consciousness
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Recent research has shown that the effects don’t stop with the individual. Large groups of people meditating together produce coherence and stability not just in themselves but also in the society around them.
→ read full articleMeditation: A Lifeline to Sanity in a World Gone Crazy
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
We need to stay grounded in ourselves so we can act effectively amid all the seismic shocks that keep rolling through us. Meditation helps us develop an inner unshakability, a great asset in times like these.
→ read full articleEscaping the Military–Healing the Virus of Violence
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our U.S. warrior culture. A young Buddhist novice contributed this account, which we then revised together.
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Where Matter Doesn’t Matter: “Consciousness and the Quantum”
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Quanta aren’t physical particles but energy frequencies. They exhibit mass at the macro scale only because of their energy, as Einstein established with his discovery that energy is interchangeable with mass.
→ read full articleSAMs for Uncle Sam
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our US warrior culture.
→ read full articlePioneer Jews of North America
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
The first European settlers in what is now the USA weren’t English Puritans or French fur trappers but Sephardic Jews. Before the Mayflower sailed to the United States, Jews had fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled in what are now Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
→ read full articlePatriarchy in India Is Beginning to Crumble
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – In the Vedic tradition of India the feminine side of creation is given equal importance as the masculine.
→ read full articleKeep On Rockin’
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. An American exchange student in one of my courses here in Germany contributed the following essay about how she became an anarchist for peace.
→ read full articleThe Last Days of the Lilliputians
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
The ruling elite have tied the working class in bondage. Small in number but great in power, the elite have designed myriad mechanisms of control to hold the much larger working class down and force it to work for them.
→ read full articleComrades in Arms
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
A Letter from an Ex-US Soldier
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Einstein’s Prescience
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
War and many other forms of violence are generated by the underlying structural violence of capitalism, which is intrinsically unjust and inevitably produces conflict. This outmoded, destructive system chains us also into working to make its owners rich.
→ read full articleSaboteur
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
An interview with a domestic insurgent from the book Radical Peace: People Refusing War
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Privatizing Nature
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – The financial wizards of Wall Street have devised a new way to profit from Mother Nature. They’ve created a class of stocks called Natural Asset Companies that will control the earth’s resources such as water, wildlife, forests, minerals, and farmland.
→ read full articleThe Surge
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
After getting his college degree, a former student of mine worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a senior suit was even worse. He’s now a janitor and says it’s a much better job.
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San Diego: At the Intersection of Militarism and Patriarchal Gender
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
In the pool
a girl,
slim and new-breasted, treads water,
Generations of Resistance to War
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
My 1950’s parents’ generation had grown up in the Depression and fixated on stability and security, measuring progress by their possessions: buying their first car, first television, first house. Their morality centered on controlling sexuality and protecting private property. Their deepest philosophy was, “There is no free lunch.” The peak of their scientific achievement was the hydrogen bomb.
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Vedic Peace
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Author’s note: I’m grateful to TMS contributor Stephen Knapp for much of the historical information in this paper. We honor the source of the Sanatana Dharma in India and rejoice that it is now once again becoming a global reality – Hari Om!
→ read full articleExit Free
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. The following report was contributed by one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps women leave the military by discharge or desertion.
→ read full articleThe Afghan Debacle
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – Establishment journalists and politicians are despairingly asking: Why did we fail in our well-meaning efforts to help the Afghan people? What were our mistakes? Wrong questions as they ignore the first mistake: creating the Taliban.
→ read full articleComparing Evils
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
From ‘RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War,’ which presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change the U.S. warrior culture.
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The Supreme Awakening – A Review
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
‘The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment throughout Time–And How You Can Cultivate Them’ is the ultimate guide to higher states of consciousness. This latest book from Craig Pearson presents inspiring experiences from mystics and saints and shows us how we ourselves can live these states permanently in enlightenment.
→ read full articleFrom Cheerleader to Enemy of the State
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
RADICAL PEACE presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture.
→ read full articleVarieties of Violence
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Prof. Johan Galtung, the founder of TRANSCEND, denies that human nature condemns us to violence; instead he gives another explanation of its etiology based on three interacting forces: structural, cultural, and direct.
→ read full articlePeace Chaplain
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
21 Jun 2022 – Radical Peace presents the experiences of war resisters, deserters, and peace activists who are working to change our warrior culture. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she wishes to remain anonymous.
→ read full articleSquelching Dissent on Both Sides of the Atlantic
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 202 – The current repression of dissent in Germany is startlingly similar to that in North America. In 2019 as the virus started to spread, the government ordered drastic measures against it.
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Refugees Welcome – Sometimes
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – Posted on streetlamps all over Germany are stickers showing fleeing silhouettes with the caption, “Refugees welcome – bring your families”. Some have been blacked out with felt markers or ripped partially away.
→ read full articleIs Lasting Peace Possible?
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
4 Jun 2022 – The wise men of the establishment are again telling us that hopes for lasting peace are a delusion. They declare that human nature makes it impossible, that war is built into our genes. They point to research by evolutionary biologists that indicates our closest genetic relatives, the chimpanzees, make war. Therefore war must be part of our heredity.
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Varieties of Violence: Structural, Cultural, and Direct
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020 – Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s just the way people are. Peace researcher Johan Galtung denies that human nature condemns us to violence.
→ read full articleVarieties of Violence: Structural, Cultural, and Direct
William T. Hathaway – Counter Currents,
21 Oct 2013
Where does it come from? The Norwegian peace researcher Johan Galtung denies that human nature condemns us to violence; instead he gives another explanation of its etiology based on three interacting forces: structural, cultural, and direct.
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