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End of Mission Statement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
21 Jul 2017 – UN Special Rapp. Prof. Yanghee Lee: ‘astonished’ ‘disappointed’ ‘dismayed’ ‘delayed’ ‘denied access.’ “As ever, I stand ready to help in any way I can, to make Myanmar the rights respecting country I know it can be — to make Myanmar a country where the rights of all people are respected, upheld, and protected.”
→ read full articlePeace Study Day & March
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD Humanity United for Universal Demilitarisation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
TRANSCEND Members, Peace Study Teachers, Students: A few slots – forty minutes to one hour – are still available, for lecturers and workshop leaders. During the March to Whitehall, Downing Street and Parliament we’ll be carrying banners. Bring your own and publicize the peace organization or movement you represent.
→ read full articleMacro-History from Norway
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The US Trump ship is sinking and does not serve Norway’s interests. Time for the Norwegian rat to jump ship boarding increasingly accepted EU to build its own ship: defensive defense, neutral between West and Rest; with positions, not only jobs for less inequality; seeing the good in all, for projects linking good with good.
→ read full articleGod Exists, the Rest Is Speculation
Kevin Barrett – Unz Review,
24 Jul 2017
God Exists but Gawd Does Not is important precisely because it can cut through biases and convince open-minded atheists and agnostics that, based on the best available logic and evidence, God’s existence is far more likely than not. And while spreading not just belief, but knowledge of God’s existence might or might not save the world, Griffin ends the book with a postscript featuring convincing arguments that it could be helpful.
→ read full articleThe Truth about Soy – What Does the Science Actually Say?
Joey Bruno | Thrive Cuisine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017 – Soy has quickly gone from a relatively unknown in Western culture to a highly debated and controversial food. Of course, soy has not been embraced by communities that have been advocating against grain and legume consumption for decades. Even people who eat predominately plant-based diets will campaign against this humble legume. The question is: are these harsh criticisms warranted or does the scientific literature say otherwise?
→ read full articleThe Sexualities Revolution
Johan Galtung and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2017
Kinsey played a major role. Very solid, very empirical, vast, comprehensive, fought by some churches and no doubt by some patriarchs. But science prevailed… Unfortunately sex is generally confused with love both in literature and in reality. Sex is ephemeral pleasure of the genitalia—any genitalia. Love is emotion, energy, synergy between two human beings. Love and sex complement but do not replace each other, being of utterly different natures.
→ read full articleBestselling Revisionist Historian: Germany Was Just a Patsy!
Kevin Barrett – The Unz Review,
17 Jul 2017
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads: A New History of the World shows why we need to re-vision history. The word revisionist derives from roots meaning “to look again.” And since history is an ongoing project, whose main purpose is to help us understand where we have come from and where we are going, we obviously need to keep taking fresh looks at the past as we propose new visions of the future.
→ read full articleDraft Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
UN General Assembly - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
6 Jul 2017 – Negotiations, pursuant to paragraph 8 of General Assembly resolution 71/258 of 23 December 2016, on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination
→ read full article(Italiano) Freud-Einstein sulla Pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
“Perché la guerra?” era il titolo della corrispondenza tra Sigmund Freud e Albert Einstein, 1932. Tra poco saranno trascorsi 85 anni. Che cosa possiamo ancora imparare da questi giganti, e che cosa avrebbero potuto essi stessi imparare in questo lasso di tempo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Società pacifiche: dove si trovano?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
10 Jul 2017
Possiamo tentare di stabilire le caratteristiche del loro essere pacifiche. O possiamo cominciare con l’identificare le società bellicose e poi considerare le società pacifiche come loro negazione. Proviamo intanto questa.
→ read full articleMyanmar to Humanitarian Groups: THOU SHALL NOT FEED THE MUSLIMS – without Gov Knowledge & Monitor
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – Thou shall not feed the Muslims without approval from NLD-Gov (and police). All food supplies to Muslims in Meikhtila and Ramadan month food donations must be distributed only under the monitoring mechanisms and with the prior knowledge of local authorities.
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders Must Nurture the Country’s Many Potential ‘Aung La Nsangs’
Maung Zarni - Coconuts Yangon,
10 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – On Friday [30 Jun], in Yangon, something extraordinary happened to lift the spirit of all Myanmar’s peoples. Mixed martial arts fighter Aung La Nsang made history by becoming the first-ever world champion from Myanmar in any sport. In our long-running civil wars and waves of racial and religious violence, how many Aung La Nsangs have we killed, maimed or otherwise destroyed?
→ read full article“Modern” Business Owns You
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 articleUN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
→ read full article(Italiano) Povertà rurale? Cooperative!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Lo scopo primario delle cooperative rurali è garantire il sostentamento degli associati condividendo i rischi, e i proventi. Ne sono membri sia agricoltori sia lavoranti con capacità di assumersi rischi e di condivisione. Possono aderire poveri o disoccupati urbani, quanto meno ottenendo cibo in cambio di lavoro.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il genere umano nel 2050 – Un ambiente per sviluppare la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Il 2050 è soltanto 33 anni avanti; 33 anni indietro sta il 1984 di Orwell. Sono successe tante cose. Il muro di Berlino è caduto nel 1989; hanno fatto seguito l’Impero Sovietico, l’Unione Sovietica e il Comunismo. L’Impero Usa è decaduto, vecchi clienti si sono rifiutati di combattere le guerre degli Stati Uniti ma non quelle dell’Unione Europea, incrinando la NATO.
→ read full articleHersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried from View
Jonathan Cook - CounterPunch,
3 Jul 2017
27 Jun 2017 – Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004, is probably the most influential journalist of the modern era. Hersh’s investigations have not only undermined evidence-free claims being promoted in the west to destabilise Assad’s goverment but threatened a wider US policy seeking to “remake the Middle East”. Hersh’s new investigation was paid for by the London Review of Books, which declined to publish it. This is almost disturbing as the events in question.
→ read full articleOn The Mainstream Media Coverage of Nuclear War Risks and Nuclear Abolition
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Ask yourself whether you remember to have seen one or more of these essentially important initiatives and reports recently, all pertaining to nuclear weapons, the risk of nuclear war and advocacy of nuclear abolition.
→ read full articleCardinal Bo Takes Aim at Minority Abuses in Eid Message
Union of Catholic Asian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Prelate reiterates call for probe against persecution of minorities, especially Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articlePeaceful Societies – Where Are They?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
There are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to identify the characteristics of their peacefulness. Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
→ read full article(Français) Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
2 Jul 2017 – Faut-il s’habituer au terrorisme devenu partie intégrante de notre quotidien ? Ou bien analyser intelligemment ses causes pour le contrer ? Ancien rédacteur en chef à Radio France Internationale et aujourd’hui directeur du site spécialisé prochetmoyen-orient.ch, l’écrivain et journaliste franco-suisse Richard Labévière a publié Terrorisme, la face cachée de la mondialisation, un ouvrage remarquable qui dresse le bilan de quinze ans de « guerre contre la terreur » et apporte des clés d’analyse sur un phénomène complexe et de plus en plus répandu dans nos sociétés.
→ read full articleSalafism vs. Wahhabism: Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s Proxy War Rages in Syria Thanks to US Militarism
Steven Sahiounie – MintPress News,
3 Jul 2017
Salafi jihadist scholar Abdullah al-Muhaysini is one of many agents working on behalf of Qatar to combat Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabist ideology. Their battleground is Syria, where a so-called “civil war” is covering up a silent fight between competing political movements.
→ read full articleWashington’s New Threat against Syria, Russia and Iran: Invitation to False Flag Operation
Farhang Jahanpour | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – The world is poised at a very critical juncture. The events in Syria could either lead to the restoration of stability in that war-torn country whose people have gone through unimaginable hardships, or it can pave the way for a global confrontation the outcome of which is too frightening to contemplate.
→ read full articleMyanmar Cardinal Bo Calls Human Rights Campaigners, Researchers and Scholars on Rohingyas “Extreme” and Joins Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
26 Jun 2017 – My response to Myanmar Cardinal Charles Maung Bo’s Statement of his public denial of Rohingya ethnic cleansing.
→ read full articleOn World Refugee Day 20 Jun UN Urges Support, Solidarity for Record Number of Displaced People
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 June 2017 – With a record 65.6 million people last year forcibly uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution, UN Secretary-General António Guterres today called on the international community to provide support and solidarity. World Refugee Day is a moment to ask what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, “to welcome refugees to our own communities, and to counter narratives that would seek to exclude and marginalize refugees and other uprooted people.”
→ read full articleFukushima’s Radiation Will Poison Food “for Decades,” Study Finds
John Laforge - CounterPunch,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – According to a new study that focused on cesium-134 and cesium-137, “food in Japan will be contaminated by low-level radioactivity for thirty decades. It takes 10 radioactive half-lives for cesium-137 to decay to barium, and its half-life is about 30 years, so C-137 stays in the environment for roughly 300 years.
→ read full articleHelen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articleFreud-Einstein on Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
“Why War?” was the title of an interchange of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in 1932, 85 years ago. What can we still learn from these giants, and what might they have learned in the meantime? Let us look at their approaches, as fellow human beings searching for answers to a question for humankind at all times: the curse of war.
→ read full articleStatement by Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
There have been a number of alarming incidents of incitement of intercommunal tension and religious violence since my last update. In April, extremist Buddhist nationalists reportedly pressured authorities to close two Islamic schools in Yangon that traditionally have served as a prayer site, with no consultation and investigation. That they remain closed through Ramadan, a sacred month for Muslims when they not only observe the fasting but are also encouraged to conduct additional prayers, has resulted in a sense of greater isolation amongst the community.
→ read full articlePolitical Will, Financial Support Needed to Bolster New Approach to Cholera in Haiti – UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed today called on Member States to fund the Organization’s new strategy to counter cholera in Haiti. “Without your political will and financial support, we have only good intentions and words.”
→ read full articleRural Poverty? Cooperatives!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The primary purpose of rural cooperatives is to feed themselves by sharing risks, and share gains on top of that. Members are both farmers and farm workers with risk-absorbing capacity and sharing. Poor and unemployed from towns and cities may join, at least getting food in exchange for work.
→ read full articleJoint African Action Crucial to Protect Persons with Albinism from Violence, Highlights UN Expert
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017 – Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism.
→ read full article‘BRICS’ Countries Well Placed to Help Lead Global Efforts to Tackle Hunger
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 20187 – With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world’s most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the UN: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
→ read full articleChildren Hardest Hit as Cholera Spreads in War-Torn Yemen – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country’s health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
→ read full articleUN Chief Praises ‘Vision, Tenacity’ of the Late Helmut Khol, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il calendario ONU: coscienza del mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
È sorprendente. Le Nazioni Unite hanno decenni, anni, settimane e giorni, dedicati a valori, obiettivi e interessi, più di quanto ne siamo consapevoli. Lo si confronti con gli stati nazionali, di solito con un solo giorno, il loro giorno nazionale per la celebrazione di nessun altro che sé stessi… Siamo una Umanità in un mondo con molte linee di frattura; che la coscienza ONU sia la nostra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Intanto, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
Trump viola le norme internazionali come se non esistessero, che uccide in Yemen-Pakistan-Somalia con droni-bombardamenti-assalti, nonostante non fosse coinvolto in un conflitto armato né attaccato da nessuno di quei paesi. Quindi, nessun diritto di auto-difesa. Pura aggressione.
→ read full articleSupport the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the UN for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. SIGN THIS PETITION TODAY to tell the UN Conference that you support this essential step in the worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleCatastrophe of Aral Sea Shows ‘Men Can Destroy the Planet’, Warns UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
António Guterres today visited Muynak, Uzebkistan in the Aral Sea – once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement– the ‘cemetery of ships’ – once a port city but now devoid of all water. “It shows that if in relation to climate change, if we are not able to act forcefully to tame this phenomenon, we might see this kind of tragedy multiply around the world,” he warned.
→ read full articleHumankind 2050 – Peace Development Environment
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
2050 is only 33 years ahead; 33 years back is Orwell’s 1984. Much happened. The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989; the Soviet Empire, Soviet Union and Communism followed. The US Empire declined, former clients refused to fight US wars, but not EU wars; eroding NATO. The Cold war, threatening humanity with a nuclear arms race that in a hot war could obliterate the planet, melted away with a whimper.
→ read full articleAmerican Darkness vs. Bhutan Brightness
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
As Donald Trump axes America’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, the Kingdom of Bhutan finalizes Bhutan for Life, a fund that will allow the country to remain carbon neutral forever. By ignoring the pressing issue of climate change/global warming, America looks insignificant, undignified, and very weak whereas Bhutan’s carbon neutral commitment looks relevant, sophisticated, and very strong.
→ read full articleThe UN Calendar: The World’s Conscience
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2017
It is amazing. The United Nations have decades, years, weeks and days, dedicated to more values, goals and concerns than most of us are aware of. Compare it to nation-states usually with only one day, their day, their national day, celebrating nobody but themselves… We are one humanity in one world with many faultlines; let the UN conscience be ours.
→ read full articleA UN of the Future to Effectively Serve All Member States
UN Secretary-General António Guterres – Other News,
5 Jun 2017
In a letter to Permanent Representatives of 193 member states, the Secretary-General details his plan for a revitalization of the UN system.
→ read full articleTrump in Riyadh – A Gulf NATO to Gang Up against Iran and Syria
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
His visit must be seen in the light of a number of events and trends, and in what follows we do like the military when it scans the horizon for enemies: we look for patterns – not the least Saudi Arabia’s “surprising new military goals” as Forbes’ Ellen Wald appropriately calls them. Or, as they say – we connect some dots that, invariably, Western mainstream media have no capacity and probably also no interest in connecting.
→ read full article(Italiano) I Baschi in Spagna: pace positiva?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
La Spagna è in una transizione che richiederà un po’ di tempo: dalla “España: Una, Grande, Libre” alla “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“. La pace positiva si struttura sulla pace negativa, costruendo sulla riconciliazione dei traumi e la risoluzione dei conflitti. C’è da fare molto lavoro. Ma la Spagna, da vera comunità di nazioni, sarà di ispirazione per tutto il mondo.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quel che manca: la creatività politica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
L’impedimento sta nella nostra immaginazione politica così limitata. E’ necessario crescere, così che le visioni del mondo si aprano nelle nostre menti, siano condivise con altri in nuovi modi di dialogare, concretizzate in un nuovo agire. Possiamo riuscire se lo vogliamo. E lo vorremo se liberiamo l’immaginazione.
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
The basic demands of Pyongyang can easily be met: a peace treaty, normalization of diplomatic relations to Seoul and USA, a nuclear-free, UN-inspected Korean peninsula. An afternoon job for peace, USA?
→ read full articleCompetition and Collaboration in Conflict Resolution
Dr. Olga A. Vorkunova – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Peace-building is today central for shaping our human conditions, present and future. In terms of IR theory, the analytical distinction between ‘competition logic’ versus ‘cooperation logic’ implies that a realist perspective may be useful to analyze particular aspects of peace coalitions rather than military coalitions. There are no incompatible countries; there are incompatible goals of different actors.
→ read full articleGenetically Engineered Disappointments
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 May 2017
16 May 2017 – Advocates of genetically engineered crops have long claimed that it is necessary to raise crop yields and reduce human exposure to agrochemicals. GE promised two major improvements: improving yields affordably to feed the world, and making crops resistant to pests to reduce the use of commercial chemical herbicides and insecticides. There has been little compelling evidence to this effect after two decades.
→ read full articleMaking Sense of the “Super Fuse” Scare
The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
11 May 2017 – For weeks now I have been getting panicked emails with readers asking me whether the USA had developed a special technology called “super fuses” which would make it possible for the USA to successfully pull-off a (preemptive) disarming first strike against Russia.
→ read full articleThe Basques in Spain: Positive Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones”—“Spain: One, Great, Free” to “Spain: A community of nations.” Positive peace builds on negative peace building on conciliation of traumas and solution of conflicts. There is much work to be done, but Spain as a true community of nations will inspire the whole world.
→ read full articleRalph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief | Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
He had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adultation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
→ read full articleRadical Love
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
Perhaps people in the social justice movements don’t notice. The feelings of solidarity that can arise within movements can mask the ways hate for one’s opposition depletes the soul. More obvious is the effect within the opposition. Sensing hate from the movement, their hearts close off, the deficiency of love drops further, and they lash out violently, entrenching in defense of their actions.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Disturbo da Esuberanza Post-Gloria (PGED)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Questo si apre al comportamentismo : evitare il trauma, cercare la gloria. Ma l’idea va più in profondità. Un trauma grave e ripetuto comporta un disturbo da stress, non solo stress. Una gloria intensa e ripetuta può comportare un disturbo da esuberanza: facciamo altre guerre per mietere altre vittorie! Non solo per difesa!
→ read full article(Italiano) “Politica interna mondiale”
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Un’attenzione mondiale per le comunità più miserevoli, risollevare la parte di umanità più a fondo, questo è il mondo solidaristico di cui abbiamo bisogno. Fare questo sarebbe già Weltinnenpolitik. Oggi, non aspettando 50 e più anni.
→ read full articleMissing: Political Creativity
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
Overfed with the developed-developing dichotomy, many believe that the former have no problems whereas the latter have only problems. Much better is a Yin-Yang perspective: something is missing in all; something has been accomplished by all. The limitation is in our limited political imagination. Grow so that world visions will open up in our minds, shared with others in new speeches, enacted in new acts. We can if we will. And we will if we imagine.
→ read full articleHow to Stay Empathic without Suffering So Much
Amy L. Eva | The Greater Good, University of California Berkeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
Here are four steps to transform your empathic distress into a healthier, more helpful, and more sustainable form of empathy.
→ read full articleFive Ways the Meat on Your Plate Is Killing the Planet
Francis Vergunst and Julian Savulescu – The Conversation,
8 May 2017
Most people living in industrialised countries have historically unprecedented dietary choice. And if our nutritional needs can now be met by consuming foods that are less harmful, then we ought to choose these over foods that are known to cause more harm. Eating less meat and animal products is one of the easiest things we can do to live more ethically.
→ read full articleGrowing Inequality under Global Capitalism
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Income and wealth inequality has increased in recent decades, but recognition of the role of economic liberalization and globalization in exacerbating inequality has never been so widespread. The guardians of global capitalism are nervous, yet little has been done to check, let alone reverse the underlying forces.
→ read full article
Occupation of the American Mind – Video Documentary
Media Education Foundation | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
March 2017 – Occupation of American media and mind by a pro-Israel narrative that has diverted attention from conflict resolution: end the occupation and the settlements so that Palestinians can finally have a state of their own. Narrator: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
→ read full articleThe Post Glory Exuberance Disorder-PGED
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
This opens for behaviorism: avoid trauma, seek glory. But the idea is deeper. Deep-repeated trauma leads to stress disorder, not only stress. Deep-repeated glory may lead to exuberance disorder: let us have more wars to enjoy more victories! Not only for defense!
→ read full articleJust Because the Golden Arches Are in Vietnam Doesn’t Mean the US Won the War
Mark Ashwill – CounterPunch,
8 May 2017
5 May 2017 – As we reflect on the 42nd anniversary of the merciful and jubilant end of the American War in Viet Nam, I have good news to share with US Americans, especially those who remember, or came of age in, that turbulent era: Viet Nam is alive and well and, indeed, prospering in many respects. In fact, it’s faring better than the superpower it defeated in terms of optimism, dynamism, and hope.
→ read full articleImperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
Carl Boggs - CounterPunch,
8 May 2017
From the standpoint of Washington, “rational” pursuits are also imperial pursuits and imperial pursuits generally lead to military pursuits, as history demonstrates. Technowar managers are not especially sensitive to the prospects of massive civilian losses. Normal behavioral assumptions therefore do not apply to U.S. war calculations, whoever occupies the White House.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ridurre la violenza urbana
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Per ridurre la violenza diretta nelle città dobbiamo convertirci da una cultura della violenza urbana ad una cultura della pace urbana e dalla violenza strutturale urbana ad una struttura di pace. I nomi delle strade non devono glorificare guerre ed eroi violenti bensì la pace e i suoi eroi, sovente donne. Si spostino i monumenti di guerrieri a cavallo nei pressi dei cimiteri a mo’ di sepolture simboliche.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Messaggio di Pasqua
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Dagli USA di Trump non è stata resurrezione, ma morte. 59 missili Tomahawk per la Siria, la “madre di tutte le bombe” per l’Afghanistan; stati musulmani. Entrambi gli attacchi sono stati giustificati con menzogne. La vecchia menzogna che l’11 settembre 2001 aveva avuto origine in Afghanistan, la nuova menzogna che Assad aveva deliberatamente fatto uso di sarin [i]. La contro-narrazione può reggere – che gli USA hanno fornito il gas e hanno usato l’incidente quale pretesto per attaccare. Vediamo se USA-NATO acconsentono a che venga fatta una inchiesta; se avessero la coscienza pulita, dovrebbero acconsentire.
→ read full article(Português) Consumo de refrigerantes diet aumenta risco de demência e AVC
Nuno Noronha | Sapo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Bebidas adocicadas artificialmente, como o refrigerante diet, podem aumentar o risco de acidente vascular cerebral e demência, revela uma investigação da Universidade de Boston, publicada na revista científica americana Stroke.
→ read full articleJapan Should Be More Active Peace Contributor
Shinichi Kitaoka | The Japan News - The Yomiuri Shimbun,
1 May 2017
When Prime Minister Abe committed to making a “more proactive contribution to peace,” some commentators who criticized the new policy for being confusingly similar to the concept of “positive peace” popularized by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the father of peace studies. Galtung defined an ordinary state of peace with the absence of war as “negative peace” and a state of peace with the absence of structural violence, such as oppression, poverty and discrimination as “positive peace.”
→ read full articleEndless Atrocities: The US Role in Creating the North Korean Fortress-State
Robert J Barsocchini | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Paul Atwood, a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, provides a concise summary of the history that informs North Korea’s “relations with the United States” and “drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat”… In its full invasion of the North, the US acted under the banner of the UN. However, the UN at that time was “largely under the control of the USA”, and as Prof. Carl Boggs puts it, essentially ‘was’ the USA.
→ read full article“World Domestic Politics”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
A world focus on the world’s most miserable communities, to lift up the bottom of humanity, is a welfare world we need. Doing that would already be Weltinnenpolitik. Today, not waiting 50+ more years.
→ read full articleA Structural Theory of Aggression (1964)
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
This theoretical essay is concerned with the conditions of aggression. We shall define aggression somewhat vaguely as ‘drives towards change, even against the will of others’. The extreme forms of this phenomenon are crimes, including homicide, between individuals; revolutions, including elimination, between groups; and wars, including genocide, between nations. These forms make aggression negative and problematic, a cause of concern and prevention. But one can also turn the coin and look at the other face: aggression as the driving force in history, as the motivational energy that moves mountains.
→ read full articleShutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism
Henry A. Giroux - Tikkun Magazine,
1 May 2017
It is impossible to imagine the damage Trump and his white nationalists, economic fundamentalists, and white supremacists friends will do to civil liberties, the social contract, the planet, and life itself in the next few years. Rather than address climate change, the threat of nuclear war, galloping inequality, the elimination of public goods, Trump and his vicious acolytes have accelerated the threats faced by these growing dangers.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: “Communal Violence” Argument Being Peddled Again
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
What is fundamentally wrong with the “communal violence” argument in the paper below, ‘Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar,’ by Nick Cheesman.
→ read full articleWhy Does North Korea Want Nukes?
Paul Atwood – CounterPunch,
24 Apr 2017
21 Apr 2017 – Why has this tiny nation of 24 million people invested so much of its limited resources in acquiring nuclear weapons? North Korea’s stance cannot be separated out from its turbulent history during the 20th Century, especially its four decade long occupation by Japan, the forced division of the Korean peninsula after World War II, and, of course, the subsequent utterly devastating war with the United States from 1950-1953 that ended in an armistice in which a technical state of war still exists.
→ read full articleAn Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide
Alice Cowley and Maung Zarni | Middle East Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
Waves of state-directed violence and communal destruction … have been occurring since 1978 and are part of a process of ‘slow-burning genocide.’ Decades of facts relating to the instrumental role of the Myanmar State in the abuses of Rohingya are buried alongside very real human corpses.
→ read full articleReducing Urban Violence
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
World Forum on Urban Violence, Madrid, 19-21 April 2017 – To reduce direct violence in cities we have to move from urban violence culture to an urban peace culture and from urban structural violence to a structure of peace. Street names should not glorify wars and violent heroes but peace and their heroines, often women. Move warrior on horseback monuments close to the cemetery for symbolic burial.
→ read full articleOur American Pravda
Ron Unz | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 – Top academic scholars and seasoned Intelligence professionals have widely derided the alleged Syrian government Sarin gas attack as an apparent false-flag hoax. Yet our fanatically Trump-hating mainstream media has almost totally ignored these facts, instead fulsomely praising the President for immediately launching an unconstitutional missile attack upon Syria in retaliation, while congratulating him for his new-found “moderation” in potentially provoking a dangerous military confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia.
→ read full article(Italiano) Può darci pace la scienza empirica?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Il dito di Galileo indica due pilastri della scienza: la conoscenza scientifica deve basarsi sull’osservazione o la sperimentazione di fatti empirici; e la matematica è il linguaggio usato per esporre questa conoscenza scientifica. Prima obiezione: soltanto il passato può produrre fatti empirici; il che limita quello che potrebbe essere o che dovrebbe essere a ciò che già è manifesto in alcuni fatti. Ma gli esseri umani sono in grado di trascendere il passato e creare fatti nuovi.
→ read full article(Italiano) Frattanto, per il mondo …
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
Cominciando dall’Unione Europea, 60enne, che rende importanti i piccoli stati (il Lussemburgo!) rendendoli membri di qualcosa più grosso, ma ridimensiona stati più grandi, addirittura imperiali, rendendoli semplici “membri”.
→ read full articleThe Easter Message
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2017
From Trump’s USA was not resurrection, but death. 59 Tomahawk missiles for Syria, the “mother of all bombs” for Afghanistan; Muslim states. Both attacks were based on lies: the old lie that 9/11 had its origin in Afghanistan, the new lie that Assad deliberately had used sarin . The counter-narrative–that USA had provided the gas and used the accident as pretext for an attack–may stand. Let us see if USA-NATO accept an investigation; with a clean conscience, they would.
→ read full articleWho Owns the World? Tracing Half the Corporate Giants’ Shares to 30 Owners
David Peetz and Georgina Murray | Griffith University – The Conversation,
17 Apr 2017
11 Apr 2017 – When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders – and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, sometimes less than 5%, of the total shareholdings. But looking at it this way obscures the concentration that is taking place. The same organisations – usually finance capital, rarely families or individuals – own these public companies.
→ read full article(Français) Guerres et terrorisme: « l’effet boomerang »
Alex Anfruns | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
3 Avr 2017 – Est-ce que l’OTAN garantit notre sécurité ? Les gens s’interrogent de plus en plus à ce sujet. Aux élections présidentielles françaises, la sortie de l’OTAN figure noir sur blanc dans le programme de la France Insoumise de Jean-Luc Mélenchon. En Belgique également, quelques voix courageuses ont dressé le bilan des guerres menées au nom d’un organisme qui défend les intérêts des Etats-Unis. L’écrivain et militant pacifiste belge Ludo De Brabander en fait partie. Nous l’avons interviewé pour tirer au clair la stratégie de la France et la Belgique vis-à-vis des menaces terroristes, les intentions de l’administration Donald Trump dans le conflit syrien, ainsi que les enjeux du prochain Sommet.
→ read full articleRighteousness and Dignity: Thoreau, Malcolm X and the Crisis of Leadership in America
Kim C. Domenico - CounterPunch,
10 Apr 2017
In these times when we are cut off from a context or a genuine culture that could nourish and encourage our humanity, many of us get trapped into taking what the consumer culture offers. Captive in a dehumanizing culture, this is the way we take care of ourselves. It is not the way free, dignified, sovereign people answer their rightful wants and needs.
→ read full articleWhy These Missile Strikes Won’t Make Things Better for the Syrian People
Stephen Zunes – Yes! Magazine,
10 Apr 2017
There are serious questions as to whether Trump’s bombing of the Syrian base has anything to do with protecting civilians.
→ read full articleCan Empirical Science Give Us Peace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
Galileo’s finger points to two pillars for science: scientific knowledge must be based on empirical facts observed or by experiments; and the language to express scientific knowledge is mathematics. First objection: only the past can produce empirical facts; that limits what might or ought to be to what already have been facts. But humans are capable of transcending the past, and create new facts.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza contro le donne: Pace positiva
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
E in quanto ai monumenti: per favore, non l’uomo a cavallo, che brandisce la morte. Ci siano monumenti alle donne che fanno sbocciare nuova vita. Il punto fondamentale è aprire la mente maschile a un “noi insieme” per migliori matrimoni, e anche per cambiare la loro mentalità “noi contro di loro”. Meglio che trattare le donne come serve-prostitute pagate in moneta di “sicurezza” per rigovernare le stoviglie, lavare la roba, occuparsi dei bebé e insieme dei bambini, degli infermi e dei vecchi, e condividere la loro gratitudine.
→ read full article(Italiano) La politica e l’economia mondiale in questo momento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Un altro fattore chiave è la speculazione nell’economia finanziaria – in contrapposizione all’investimento nell’economia reale – consistente in serie di prodotti derivati con super-commissioni. Se i prodotti derivati dalla droga sono illegali e biasimati, perché non farlo anche con i derivati finanziari?
→ read full article“Rohingya Resistance”: The Media Is “Bigging It Up” without Analysis or Insights
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
31 Mar 2017 – For the mass media is now bigging up Rohingya Resistance, but it isn’t telling you anything I consider intelligent, analytical, researched or factual.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Four Tactics for Undermining Glyphosate Science Review
Genna Reed | Union of Concerned Scientists – TRASNCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017 – Emails unsealed in a California lawsuit last week reveal that agribusiness giant Monsanto engaged in activities aimed at undermining efforts to evaluate a potential link between glyphosate—the active ingredient of the company’s popular herbicide Roundup—and cancer.
→ read full articleUS Navy Prepares Decapitating Attack against Russia
Alex Gorka | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
27 Mar 2017 – The US preemptive nuclear strike capability has significantly grown. The Bulletin of American Scientists reports that as a result of improvements in the killing power of US SLBMs, they carry more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Starting with EU at 60, making small states (Luxembourg!) big by being members of something bigger, but making bigger, even imperial, states smaller by being “members”… UK outside and France inside are now paying the heavy immigration price for devastation wrought by their empires; with no EU solidarity… Trump is seen as psychotic with crazy policies: military up $54 billion at the expense of the poor, health, environment, climate, arts, culture. The US killings all over were not seen as crazy, but Trump kills at the cost of basics. He may not last 100 days, impeached or-?
→ read full articleHuman Rights Are Animal Rights!
Peter Tatchell - CounterPunch,
3 Apr 2017
29 Mar 2017 – Since we humans are an animal species, it is obvious that human rights are a form of animal rights; and that animal rights include – or should include – the human species. We need to recognise and accept our common animal nature. If we did that, the excuses and rationalisations for treating other species badly would fall away.
→ read full articleLearning to Be Fascists
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
Learning to be fascists, victims, and bystanders (and everything in-between). We learn to love, hate, kill, slaughter, rape, torture, etc. In my view, the Burmese society is undergoing this experience regarding the Rohingya victims of state terror, social ostracism/exclusion and the emerging sadistic culture of those who call themselves “Buddhists”.
→ read full articleGenocides Have No Winners
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
Genocides are what students of politics call ‘path-dependent’. Once a genocidal process is set in motion it is hard to recall. All genocides end in tears and destroy humanness in all involved in it, as perpetrators, on-lookers, whitewashers, collaborators, and victims.”
→ read full articleTrump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Henry A. Giroux | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt
Where We Drill, We Spill: Commemorating Exxon Valdez
Franz Matzner | EcoWatch, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017 – Twenty eight years ago today the world experienced a massive wake-up call on the hazards and harms of oil spills when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker split open and poured oil into Alaskan waters. At the time, images of oil coated wildlife and a devastated ecosystem in one of the world’s most delicate, iconic and majestic environments drew global attention. Today, oil still lurks under the surface of Prince William Sound, impairing wildlife and human lives.
→ read full articleViolence against Women: Positive Peace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
And as to monuments: please, not the man on horseback, wielding death, but to women giving birth to a new life. The basic point is to open the male mind to a “we together” for better marriages, also to change their “us vs them” mentality. Better than treating women as maids-prostitutes paid in “security” currency for doing the dishes, washing, caring for babies, children, the sick and the old together, and sharing their gratitude.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Anno del Karma” e conflitti in corso
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Conferenza d’inverno, Inland University, Rena, Norvegia, 16 Feb 2017 – Un Mondo Instabile: Analisi, Previsioni, Soluzioni
→ read full articleUN Launches Report on Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
15 Mar 2017 – UN Under-Secretary-General Rima Khalaf noted that Israel, encouraged by the international community’s disregard for its continual violations of international law, has succeeded over the past decades in imposing and maintaining an apartheid regime that works on two levels. First, the political and geographic fragmentation of the Palestinian people…
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria strutturale sull’invecchiamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
Wikipedia ha molto da offrire alla voce “invecchiamento”. Si raccomandano molto i 10 punti dell’uomo più vecchio al mondo, al momento del decesso avvenuto nel 2011, il 114enne Walter Breuning . Comunque i più anziani, come me che ho 86 anni, conoscono al meglio il proprio processo d’invecchiamento. Regola n. 1: Mantieni attivi mente e corpo; conserva una buona alimentazione.
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