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(Italiano) Discutiamo del futuro: un saggio sul tempo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Per agire sulle visioni di pace negativa senza violenza diretta-strutturale-culturale e positiva con pace diretta-strutturale-culturale, si utilizzi il dialogo. Si stabiliscano gli obiettivi – valori, interessi – degli attori e dei coinvolti; si sottopongano gli obiettivi a verifica di legittimità mediante il diritto, i diritti umani e i bisogni basilari a mo’ di guida; si crei quindi una visione di una nuova realtà sociale che soddisfi gli obiettivi legittimi.
→ read full article50 Years of Fidel
Johan Galtung,
28 Nov 2016
Yes, I would have preferred a Gandhi style, nonviolent revolt against imperialism, but it was in Cuban culture and their history as the revolt of black slaves against white plantation owners. Thanks, Fidel! And thanks to all who remain truthful, fidel, to his revolution!
→ read full articleDr. Maung Zarni on the Rohingya Muslim Genocide in Buddhist Burma/Myanmar
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
26 Nov 2016 – A journalist asked me a few questions to get sound bites and quotes. I turned them into a more comprehensive interview. Thought this may serve as a succinct backgrounder if you are interested in the contextual view of the current annihilation phase of the Rohingya genocide.
→ read full articlePracticing Disobedience: Social and Environmental Justice Depends on Our Capacity to Disobey
Max Wilbert - CounterPunch,
28 Nov 2016
From birth, we are trained to obey authority. For most of the history, our authority figures were elders and chiefs who would be trusted, wise individuals who put the needs of the community first. Today we live in a different world, a world run by sociopaths. It is hard to resist social pressures, especially when we have become accustomed to going along with norms. But it is essential that we learn how to disobey.
→ read full articleThe State of the World Right Now: A View
Johan Galtung,
28 Nov 2016
That world is today basically multi-polar, maybe with 8 poles: Anglo-America, Latin America-Caribbean, African Unity, Islam-OIC from Casablanca to Mindanao, European Union, Russia more region than state, SAARC from Nepal to Sri Lanka, ASEAN, Australia-New Zealand. And multi-regional Shanghai Cooperation Organization, SCO, with China and Russia, Islamic countries, India and Pakistan.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (X2)
#X2 | Johan Galtung from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Trump 5 was supposed to be the last mini-column, but things happen, calling for a Trump X for Extra. As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 2)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
• The – bizarre – White Helmet Mannequin Challenge video;
• The Swedish Institute of International Affairs’s event with the White Helmets on November 24;
• The Right Livelihood Award Foundation’s Award Ceremony to take place on November 25
The Trump Presidency (X)
#X | Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 23 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2016
As a businessman he marketed a product, his presidency, with unlimited praise and contempt for the other product on the market. He won in the sense of monopoly for his product, and then changed the product. No sense of contract with voter-buyer based on his publicity.
→ read full articleWelcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – We will be living among the myriad debris originated by the Trumpolitics IED. America invented the politically correct. Trump bombed politically correct. America is proud of corporate media. Trump bombed corporate media. These are already two important victories.
→ read full articleStanding Rock Resistance: Something to Teach Us about Living Well
David Smith-Ferri - CounterPunch,
21 Nov 2016
Somehow, through all of this, almost all of the protestors remained peaceful, calling out to each other “Stand in your prayer,” and holding their ground. And where they didn’t remain peaceful, setting fires that burned a couple of cars, they were rebuked by the movement’s leadership. In a statement made after the arrests, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II makes it clear that no form of violence by anyone is acceptable.
→ read full articleRecorded Webinar: Experiential Approaches to Peacebuilding
Bruce Dayton, John Ungerleider and Tatsushi Arai | School for International Training – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
Led by three scholar-practitioners with extensive experience in the field, this webinar explores the role of experiential learning in the transformation of social conflict. It also presents real-world examples of experiential learning for peacebuilding.
→ read full articleMyanmar: UN Expert Warns of Worsening Rights Situation after “Lockdown” in Rakhine State
United Nations Information Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – The Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, criticized the authorities for placing the region on “lockdown” for six weeks. She said a Government-led two-day visit to the area in early November by a UN official and nine ambassadors had produced only limited results in terms of addressing the humanitarian crisis.
→ read full articleHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 Nov 1864 – 9 Sep 1901)
Toulouse-Lautrec Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2016
His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in) tall, having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long. He is also reported to have had hypertrophied genitals. Toulouse-Lautrec is known along with Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gaugin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period.
→ read full articleThe Fight for Brazil’s Future
Rodrigo Nunes – Al Jazeera,
21 Nov 2016
The Brazilian youth is leading the resistance to legislation that would reverse social gains and protect wealthy elites. If one could speak of a coup in Brazil, it was not against Rousseff, but against Brazilian society.
→ read full articleBringing In the Future: An Essay on Time
Johan Galtung,
21 Nov 2016
To work on visions of negative peace without direct-structural-cultural violence and positive peace with direct-structural-cultural peace, use dialogue. Establish the goals–values, interests–of actors and parties; test the goals for legitimacy using law, human rights and basic needs as guides; then create a vision of a new social reality meeting the legitimate goals.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (1)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 9 Nov 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
And vast categories had suffered what the Greeks call a-timia, the loss of status, white-male-workers-Americans. 5-2 in favor of Trump. And the rust belt, the big mid-Western de-industrializing states, Ohio, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump catered to their interests in revival, indeed also in hitting their negations in very unacceptable ways: women, colored, elites, immigrants.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (2)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 10 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The focus turns to foreign policy, particularly China and Russia. Allies, but very different. China is bilateral, negotiating deals for mutual and equal benefit and good at it (Vietnam); Trump should go for the same. Russia is multilateral, they want a European House from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with US understanding of Crimea and Ukraine, cooperating with everybody for mutual benefit, but not meddling.
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla regionalizzazione alla globalizzazione: problematic
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Da trattare ci sono i loro rapporti e la globalizzazione politica, culturale, militare, economica. Politicamente dovrebbe funzionare per consenso, che vuol dire uguaglianza fra le regioni e veto per tutti. Culturalmente mediante il dialogo delle civiltà, non un monologo. Militarmente l’uguaglianza potrebbe far sì che l’ORU riesca là dove non è riuscita l’ONU con un Comando Militare. Economicamente: mediante condivisione – non monopoli – su base regionale.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (3)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 11 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Trump and his inner circle of executives now work hard on a presidency “for all Americans”, after having insulted most of them. His business model calls for a President Trump different from the Candidate Trump.
→ read full article(Italiano) Due Indie: Gandhi e l’India Moderna
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Gandhi era per i bisogni, la modernità per l’avidità; Gandhi per l’autosostentamento locale, la modernità per il commercio illimitato; Gandhi per costruirsi la propria identità, la modernità per l’americanizzazione come neo-nirvana; Gandhi per la risoluzione nonviolenta dei conflitti, la modernità per polizia, militari, guerra.
→ read full articleThe Very Positive Sides to Trump’s Victory: A Baker’s Dozen
Rachel Olivia O'Connor | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
I’m one of the most radical souls on earth, with many decades of having my head bashed in at the barricades (in the name of leftist causes) under my belt. I belt out what’s below now because of the highly unproductive commentary coming out of alternative media outlets and from mainstream sources freaking out about Trump’s downsides. I’m fully aware of his horrid downsides.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (4)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 12 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
The Washington Post listed on 11 Nov “Donald Trump’s Campaign Promises”; and on 12 Nov, “Trump advisors play down some of his campaign promises”. Trump’s new focus: health care, jobs, borders, tax reform. The 12:
→ read full articleThe Trump Ploy
Linh Dinh – The Unz Review,
14 Nov 2016
Since the deep state won’t even tolerate a renegade reporter at, say, the San Jose Mercury News, how can you expect a deep state’s enemy to land in the White House?! It cannot happen… The deep state ushered in Trump because he’s clearly their most useful decoy. As the country hopes in vain, the crooked men behind the curtain will go on with business as usual. Trump is simply an Obama for a different demographic. Nothing will change for the better.
→ read full article(Français) La politique est la solution
Megan Erickson, Katherine Hill, Matt Karp, Connor Kilpatrick, & Bhaskar Sunkara | Investig’Action – Jacobin Magazine,
14 Nov 2016
Nous ne pouvons pas nous déplacer au Canada ou nous cacher sous le lit. C’est le moment d’embrasser la politique démocratique, et non de la rejeter.
→ read full article(Français) Le projet de mondialisation de Wall Street rejeté: Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead!
Diana Johnstone | Investig’Action - CounterPunch,
14 Nov 2016
Le racisme et le sexisme sont-ils les ingrédients-clés de la réussite de Donald Trump ? Pas pour Diana Johnstone. L’auteure de Hillary Cinton, la reine du chaos revient sur la campagne désastreuse de la candidate démocrate et analyse les enjeux de cette élection.
→ read full article
Parents of the Peace/Conflict Research Field: Johan Galtung
George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Starting with founding the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway when he was only 29 years old, Johan Galtung became the ‘founding father’ of peace research in Europe and ultimately had a worldwide impact on our modern understanding of peace and the structure of conflict.
→ read full articleTwo Indias: Gandhi and Modern India
Johan Galtung,
14 Nov 2016
Gandhi was instrumentalized by Congress to get rid of Britons preaching against caste. India became independent, after a disastrous partition mainly caused by Lord Mountbatten; free to enter modernity, and to keep caste. The Congress Party got the cake and ate it too. So, I see two Indias, Gandhi and modernity, knowing there are more.
→ read full articleThe Trump Presidency (5)
Johan Galtung - from Washington DC, 13 Nov 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2016
Donald Trump passed the CBS 60 Minutes TV test on 13 Nov. What came through was a relaxed Trump, in command not only of voice and body language and short crisp answers, almost always straight to the points, but also of an amazing array of facts. A quick learner; but also considerably better educated (Wharton) than his competitors.
→ read full article[Member of UN Human Rights Council] Saudi Arabia Sentences Man to 10 Years in Prison and 2,000 Lashes for Being an Atheist
Felix Allen - The Sun,
7 Nov 2016
The Hardline Islamic State Has a Law Defining Atheist Beliefs as ‘Terrorism’
→ read full articleMassive North Dakota Oil Leak Proves Native American Protesters Right for Fighting Illegal DAPL Pipeline
Jeremiah Jones – Counter Current News,
7 Nov 2016
Are you still wondering why So many people support the #NoDAPL protectors? This spill is part of the reason. A North Dakota oil well owned by Oasis Petroleum Inc blew out over the [30 Oct] weekend and has yet to be capped, leaking more than 67,000 gallons of crude so far and endangering a tributary of the Missouri River. The well is about 15 miles south of White Earth, North Dakota, in Mountrail County.
→ read full articleNorth Dakota Had 292 Oil Spills in 2 Years–Officials Disclosed 1 to the Public
Nathan Wellman | US Uncut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
27 Oct 2016 – From Jan 2012–Sep 2013, these pipeline spills were just a part of approximately 750 “oil field incidents” that took place in the state without the public’s knowledge, according to a report by AP. In a tense standoff with heavily armed police forces, dozens of protesters – referring to themselves as peaceful water protectors – were arrested today for demonstrating against the construction of the pipeline on what police say is private property.
→ read full articlePrivatization Cure Often Worse Than Malady
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 Nov 2016
Privatization of SOEs has been a cornerstone of the neo-liberal counterrevolution that swept the world from the 1980s following the economic crisis. Developing countries, seeking aid from the IMF and the World Bank, often had to commit to privatization as a condition for credit support.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Says ‘Delicate’ Myanmar Conflict Handled by Rule of Law
Minami Funakoshi | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
The Myanmar government is responding to conflict in the troubled north of Rakhine state based on rule of law, Nobel Peace Prize leader Aung San Suu Kyi was quoted as saying on Thursday [3 Nov]. She faced mounting criticism abroad for her government’s handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority region, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians.
→ read full articleFukushima Cover Up
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
31 Oct 2016 – It is literally impossible for the world community to get a clear understanding of, and truth about, the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This statement is based upon the Feature article in Columbia Journalism Review (“CJR”) dated October 25, 2016 entitled: “Sinking a Bold Foray into Watchdog Journalism in Japan” by Martin Fackler.
→ read full articleJust How Grey Are the White Helmets and Their Backers? (Part 1)
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
While thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets. Their name of course makes you think of the UN’s Blue Helmet and white is the colour of those who should be protected in harm’s way – and the colour of innocence.
→ read full article(Português) As 7 Marcas de Chocolate que Utilizam Trabalho Escravo Infantil
The Uni Planet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Em setembro de 2015, foi apresentada uma ação judicial contra a Mars, a Nestlé e a Hershey alegando que estas estavam a enganar os consumidores que “sem querer” estavam a financiar o negócio do trabalho escravo infantil do chocolate na África Ocidental.
→ read full article(Português) A relação de uma galinha com seus ovos
Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
7 Nov 2016
Galinhas, como todos os animais, têm uma linguagem única para a sua espécie. Cada sequência de sons que emitem tem um significado social, emocional ou pessoal. E se você passar tempo suficiente em torno dessas amigas emplumadas, você começará, como eu, a ouvir as histórias que estão contando.
→ read full articleMansions and Slums: The Inequality of Living Space
Tamara Pearson - CounterPunch,
7 Nov 2016
Investigating the inequality of living space.
→ read full articleLiving Planet Report 2016
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Risk and Resilience in a New Era | 26 Oct 2016 – Global biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, putting the survival of other species and our own future at risk. This latest edition of the Report brings home the enormity of the situation – and how we can start to put it right.
→ read full articleIndependent Work: Choice, Necessity, and the Gig Economy
James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Kelsey Robinson, Jan Mischke, and Deepa Mahajan | McKinsey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
October 2016 – The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents.
→ read full articleIsrael: 1984 Everlasting
Stanley L. Cohen – CounterPunch,
31 Oct 2016
Empty Declarations of Democracy… Vacant Boasts of Humanity
→ read full article(Italiano) Vite più lunghe ma meno significative?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
La vita è un’espansione di un uovo fecondato a un essere umano maturo e una contrazione a uno spazio sempre più angusto attorno a sé finché il tempo finisce. La storia occidentale ha molte narrazioni riguardo all’espansione da qualche puntolino a un impero esteso e alla contrazione in spazi sempre più ristretti.
→ read full articleLiving Planet Index 2016
WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
26 Oct 2016 – The world’s biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate. Population sizes of vertebrate species have more than halved in little more than 40 years. The LPI, which measures trends in thousands of populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe shows a decline of 58 per cent between 1970 and 2012. If current trends continue, the decline could reach two-thirds by 2020.
→ read full article(Italiano) Spagna “senza governo” – e poi?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Ed entro la UE, cooperazione con (gli) altri paesi marginali GIPSI, ossia Grecia-Italia-Portogallo-(Spagna)-Irlanda, per forzare il guanto di ferro tedesco sulla regione [periferica] con la solidarietà e la produzione industriale. La Spagna sta vivendo il proprio dramma. E non c’è mai una parola finale.
→ read full articlePaypal Brushes-Off Request from Palestinian Tech Firms to Access the Platform
Mike Butcher | TechCrunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
PayPal currently does not work for Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, but does work for Israelis living in settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal by international law.
→ read full articleStockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, at 50. Now Change Name to SIMSI
Jan Oberg | Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
I have a proposal for this mainly government-financed and not exactly independent institute. Since its work has so conspicuously little to do with peace thinking and re-search into the vast and fascinating field called world peace, perhaps change its name to Stockholm International Military Security Institute, SIMSI?
→ read full articleStanding Rock Water-Protectors Waterboarded While the Cleveland Indians Romped
Paul Street – CounterPunch,
31 Oct 2016
Native Americans suffered their own Holocaust on the lands that were swallowed up as the United States. By some estimates more than 15 million First Nations people inhabited North America (most of them on land later seized as U.S. territory) before Columbus. Thanks to white-imposed disease, displacement, eco-cide, and murder, the number of “Indians” alive in the United States fell to less than 250,000 by 1890.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation in the Pacific (Revisited)
RP Siegel | Triple Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Servic,
31 Oct 2016
Greenpeace’s famed ship, the Rainbow Warrior, went out to sample the waters around Fukushima in February of this year with former Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan onboard. What they found was that radiation in the seabed off Fukushima “is hundreds of times above pre-2011 levels.” They also found levels in nearby rivers that were “up to 200 times higher than ocean sediment.”
→ read full articleFrom Regionalization to Globalization: Problematic
Johan Galtung,
31 Oct 2016
The answer is a United Regions, UR; 8 with North America, 11 with West Asia, Israel-Palestine and the Kurds, Central Asia split by the Durand line and East Asia by the East and South China Seas. 7, 8, 11 are good numbers around a table, better than the UN at 193. Mirroring global reality with diversity, UR stands a better chance than the UN.
→ read full articleGenocide of Rohingya in Myanmar May Be Entering New and Deadly Phase
Queen Mary University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
The International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London has warned that reports of attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar may signal a new phase in what ISCI researchers say is genocide.
→ read full articleLonger, but Less Meaningful Lives?
Johan Galtung,
24 Oct 2016
We are now living the accelerating history of the end of the US empire, in the wake of about 11 in Europe; and the general decline and fall of Western hegemony. Yet, EU creates an EU Army HQ, USA elects a president known for belligerence, Brexit England revives symbols of an empire long since gone; finding meaning in war and domination. Far better would have been for all three to lift up the bottom living in misery.
→ read full articleThe Invitation
Oriah | Mountain Dreamer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2016
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing…
→ read full article(Italiano) Paesaggio mediatico: una visita guidata
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
Il punto focale è su quanto i media rendano trasparente il mondo. Parole e immagini facilitano diagnosi, prognosi, terapia, (DPT), altrimenti definibili come analisi, previsione e rimedi? Sì e no.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo – In giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
11 ottobre 2016 – Il Dibattito: Qualcuno ha detto che il problema è la possibilità di ritrovarsi con Trump e la probabilità di ritrovarsi con la Clinton. Dunque una ben misera alternativa tra una persona autistica che vive nella sua bolla e una criminale di guerra che sta privatizzando persino la sua azione militare? Le notizie sull’evento hanno riguardato “chi ha vinto”, non qualche nuova linea politica.
→ read full article9 Reasons That Nobel Peace Prize to Juan M. Santos Was a Wrong Decision
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
[1] Only the government side got the prize 7 October, not FARC; the same mistake as the 1971 prize only to Willy Brandt, not also Brezhnev and the 2000 prize to Kim Dae-jung, not also to North Korea. It takes (at least) two to make a handshake; one hand is only shaking the air.
→ read full articleSpain “Without Government”–And Then What?
Johan Galtung,
17 Oct 2016
Better lift the bottom up. Cooperatives enlivening rural Spain. Small businesses. Separation of banks for savings and investment. Bank stockholders in banks–not taxpayers–held responsible for failures. Find other models than USA for Spain. Local communities, inspired by Marinaleda and Mondragon could do it for people’s benefit and for Spain. And inside the EU, cooperation with other GIPSI fringe countries, Greece-Italy-Portugal-Spain-Ireland, to break the German stronghold on the region.
→ read full articleWhat Is a Coup? Analysing the Brazilian Impeachment Process
Aline Piva and Frederick B. Mills - CounterPunch,
17 Oct 2016
Impeachment or Coup? To understand Rousseff’s impeachment, one must understand Brazil’s history of constitutional rupture. The civil and military coup of 1964 is the most exemplary of such ruptures, but there were similar attempts in 1930, 1937, 1954, and 1961. On all these occasions, sectors from the economic and political elite resorted to unconstitutional or undemocratic means to overthrow democratically elected governments that challenged oligarchic interests.
→ read full articleRebuilding Haiti, One Commune at a Time
Mark Schuller – CounterPunch,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – As Hurricane Matthew continued onto the U.S., the waters receded in Haiti, and it became apparent that the damage was immense. Just like many people who either are Haitian or work in Haiti, I’ve been asked by people who want to help for recommendations. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis devront-ils aussi payer pour leurs crimes en Irak?
Gilles Munier | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
L’Arab project in Iraq, un groupe de lobbyistes irakiens dirigé par Najeh al-Meezan, va demander au Parlement de Bagdad de voter une loi permettant aux Irakiens de réclamer des compensations aux Etats-Unis pour les «exactions » commises dans leur pays par les troupes américaines, les contractors et les escadrons de la mort créés par la CIA.
→ read full articleTrump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
Jomo Kwame Sundaram – Inter Press Service-IPS,
17 Oct 2016
Americans and Europeans are increasingly convinced that while elite interests are well served by ‘globalization’, the public interests of consumers and working people are not. The strong American popular opposition to the TPP, the Brexit vote and other recent developments in the West suggest growing rejection of the myth that national public and corporate elite interests are identical.
→ read full articleThe Surveillance State Descends on the Dakota Access Pipeline Spirit Camp
Sabrina King and Will Munger | American Civil Liberties Union-ACLU – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2016
10 Oct 2016 – For the past six weeks, the Morton County Sheriff’s Office has dramatically increased its surveillance of the gathering, militarized the county, and taken action to suppress the religious expression of the indigenous people gathered at Sacred Stone.
→ read full article9 Reasons Why Nobel to Santos Was a Wrong Decision
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2016
[1] Only the government side got the prize 7 October, not FARC; the same mistake as the 1971 prize only to Willy Brandt, not also Brezhnev and the 2000 prize to Kim Dae-jung, not also to North Korea. It takes (at least) two to make a handshake; one hand is only shaking the air.
→ read full articleHurricane Matthew in Haiti: Looking Beyond the Disaster Narrative
Mark Schuller – CounterPunch,
10 Oct 2016
I hesitate to write this given how Haiti has been politicized in the most cynical way by a candidate who has expressed his hostility to immigrants and black people generally, but frankly, Haiti was not “built back better” by the $16 billion relief effort to the 2010 earthquake, as UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton cheerfully promised.
→ read full articleThe Mediascape: A Guided Tour
Johan Galtung,
10 Oct 2016
The focus is on to what extent media make the world transparent. Do words and images facilitate DPT for diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, also known as analysis, forecasting and remedies? They do and do not.
→ read full article(Italiano) 21 settembre 2016: 10 indicazioni
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
I media sono stati aggiornati a riguardo della sanità, ma non sulla pace. Immaginiamo dei media gestiti dall’industria farmaceutica. Non sospetteremmo che un’informazione governata dai propri princìpi possa essere soppressa a favore di malattie che procedono per conto proprio fino a che sia arrivato il momento per le pillole? Le notizie sanitarie sarebbero brutte notizie; i media traboccherebbero di trattazione di malattie e minacce di malattie. Che sono appunto i media che abbiamo, sostituendo l’industria delle armi a quella farmaceutica. Le notizie sulla pace sono brutte notizie per alcuni; e i media sono zeppi di notizie di guerra e minacce di guerra. Non sanno neppure come identificare e scrivere di pace, dovesse mai succedere. D’altronde i soldi in questione sono quadrilioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo stato del Mondo – secondo il giornalismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
Quello che vogliamo dai giornalisti: che ci diano la situazione del mondo, da un “luogo di guai” – teatro di violenza passata-presente-futura – a un altro. Non lo specchio del mondo, ma renderlo più trasparente. Quali domande sarebbero da porre per fare un buon lavoro, sotto la superficie?
→ read full articleOctober: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
October 30, 1961 – The Soviet Union’s “Tsar Bomba,” the most powerful nuclear weapon ever constructed was detonated after being dropped from a TU-95 bomber at approximately four kilometers altitude over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Russian Arctic Sea. This hydrogen bomb formally designated RDS-220, which weighed about 27 tons and was eight meters long, had an estimated yield of 50 megatons or the equivalent of 3,800 Hiroshima bombs. The tremendous blast triggered a seismic shock wave, equivalent to an earthquake registered at 5.0 on the Richter Scale, that travelled around the world.
→ read full articleUkraine as the Border of NATO Expansion
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
3 Oct 2016
And Why Russia Doesn’t Have to Be a Threat to the West
→ read full articleMeanwhile, Around the World
Johan Galtung,
3 Oct 2016
The Debate: Somebody said the problem is Trump possibility and Clinton probability. A very poor choice between an autistic person in his own bubble and a war criminal even privatizing her warfare? It was short on concrete politics and long on ad hominem. The media after-focus was on “who won”, not on any new policy.
→ read full articleThe Simple Act of Pushing a Button
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
On one side of the ledger is everything natural and extraordinary about life with its long evolution bringing us to the present and poised to carry its processes forward into the future. On the other side of the ledger is “the button,” capable of bringing most life on the planet to a screeching halt. Also on this side of the ledger are those people who remain ignorant or apathetic to the nuclear dangers confronting humanity.
→ read full articleLoss of Planet Reflectivity an Impending Catastrophe
Robert Hunziker | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
19 Sep 2016 – The planet’s air conditioning system is on the blink, working intermittently, losing its glinting, lustrous white reflectiveness, as it turns deep blue, absorbing 90% of sunlight rather than reflecting it back into outer space. The repercussions of Arctic sea ice loss are immense.
→ read full articleThe Road from Standing Rock to Gaza Is a Straight Line
Stanley L. Cohen – CounterPunch,
26 Sep 2016
The ultimate question is who gets to decide what is to become with, in and on, Indian land and communities. And while the confrontation at Standing Rock has galvanized Indians and non-native supporters from across the continent, it’s but a symptom of a much deeper crises facing several million Indians holding on to endangered traditions and cultures that predate our arrival by several thousand years. Standing Rock is not “just” about the impact, one way or another, of a so-called development project upon Native land. It’s about the arrogance and greed of power and the trappings of illusion.
→ read full articleNon-Aligned to… Nowhere?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – The summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) came and went in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, virtually invisible to Western corporate media. NAM nowadays congregates every African nation except South Sudan; most of Latin America – except Brazil, Argentina and Mexico (they are observers); and most of Asia and the Middle East (China is an observer).
→ read full articleComputer Program Beats Doctors at Spotting Brain Cancer
Ajay Ghosh – The Universal News Network,
26 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016 – A computer program developed by a team of researchers led by an Indian American scientist has outperformed physicians in diagnosing brain cancer. The program was nearly twice as accurate as two neuroradiologists.
→ read full article21 September 2016: 10 Pointers
Johan Galtung,
26 Sep 2016
The media have been updated on health, but not on peace. Imagine media run by the pharma industry. Would we not suspect that self-control info might be suppressed in favor of diseases running their course till time has come for pills? Health news would be bad news; media would be filled with disease and the threat of disease. That is the media we have, substituting arms industry for pharma industry. Peace news is bad news to some; media are filled with war and threats of war. They do not even know how to identify and write about peace should it happen. The money involved: in quadrillions.
→ read full articleHow Ensuring Public Access to Information Can Help to Build Peaceful and Inclusive Societies
Univ. of Sydney Dept of Peace and Conflict Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
20 October, 2016 – 18:00-19:30h – In this webinar, Jake Lynch traces the debate over information and communication and their place in development and peace, with reference to interventions along a spectrum from journalist training, on the one end, to intended-outcome programming on the other.
→ read full article(Italiano) Wallerstein su Sinistra e Destra Globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Wallerstein è impareggiabile. Nessun altro ha presentato una teoria tanto coerente di quello che lui chiama il sistema-mondiale moderno, a partire “dal lungo 16° secolo” fino ad oggi; principalmente capitalista.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Auschwitz, 29 Luglio: Papa Francesco che prega e chiede a Dio la grazia per piangere (INYT, 30-31 Luglio) è stato molto, molto toccante. E così diverso dallo spettacolo che Obama ha provato ad allestire a Hiroshima.
→ read full articleMonsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn for the Worse
Colin Todhunter – CounterPunch,
19 Sep 2016
The mergers would mean that three companies would dominate the commercial agricultural seeds and chemicals sector, down from six – Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow, Monsanto and DuPont. Prior to the mergers, these six firms controlled 60 per cent of commercial seed and more than 75 per cent of agrochemical markets.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Islam oggi
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
Il mondo, anche gli USA, è stanco di guerre interminabili. Si metta fine alla disputa con l’Islam. L’Occidente e il Cristianesimo hanno un lavoro urgente da portare a termine.
→ read full articleThe State of the World–By Journalism
Johan Galtung,
19 Sep 2016
We want journalists to do that, give us the state of the world, by from one “trouble spot”–arenas of past-present-future violence–to the other. Not to mirror the world, but to make it more transparent. What questions should they ask to do a good job, below the surface?
→ read full article(Français) La Malveillance de l’Occupation
David Lloyd | Dublin Review of Books - Association des universitaires pour le respect du droit international en Palestine,
19 Sep 2016
Le boycott est, comme beaucoup se le rappellent fièrement, une invention irlandaise. Le premier boycott visait un célèbre propriétaire terrien, l’éponyme Captain Charles Boycott, qui avait essayé de se débarrasser de ses locataires… Avant tout, le boycott est un instrument aux mains de la société civile. Nous faisons appel au boycott lorsque les moyens de corriger une atteinte continue sont refusés par les institutions juridiques ou politiques qui devraient intervenir.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Europa del momento – UE, Russia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Ma l’Europa è percorsa da un altro inveterato conflitto che incombe più di prima: della UE con la Russia. O, più sostanzialmente, l’Europa cattolico-protestante contro l’Europa ortodossa, col confine all’interno dell’Ucraina. C’è qualche soluzione a parecchi conflitti che ne derivano, che possa costruire la pace? Le chiavi sono detenute da Germania e Francia, in linea di principio uguali nella guida dell’UE anche se una è più uguale dell’altra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Denaro, prassi e teoria economica
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Il denaro è la chiave: quella geniale innovazione per immagazzinare valore generale e scambiare valori specifici secondo il prezzo. Non sorprende che i capi di stato si facessero imprimere il viso su monete e biglietti di banca. Ma non sui centesimi e sugli euro. L’UE è senza volto. La Brexit non lo è.
→ read full articleWallerstein on the Global Left and Right
Johan Galtung,
12 Sep 2016
Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire with local elites killing for them; now they have to do most of the killing themselves. The Global Right, in power for a long time, is now faltering. Time for the Global Left? Or, does Zizek’s brilliant formula “the left never misses a chance to miss a chance” apply?
→ read full articleThe Death of One of Washington’s Favorite Tyrants
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
7 Sep 2016 – The death of long-time Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov has brought rare U.S. media attention to the Central Asian country of 30 million. Uzbekistan is ranked among the half dozen worst countries in the world for human-rights abuses. American taxpayers subsidized that regime and its brutal security apparatus for most of Karimov’s thirty-five years in power.
→ read full articleThrown under the Automated Bus
Rivera Sun | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
We can praise the timesaving efficiency of automation, but we must also deal with the unintended consequences. The potential of automation comes with a shadow side, which must be rigorously discussed and addressed in our nation and around the world. People will be replaced by machines. Profits for the already wealthy will soar. Millions will be left without jobs.
→ read full articleThe Sick Ocean
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
12 Sep 2016
8 Sep 2016 – A major new scientific report, “Explaining Ocean Warming” was released on 5 Sep. It is grim. The findings are based upon peer-reviewed research compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries. It is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on the subject of warming of the ocean.
→ read full articleControversial New U.S. Nuclear Bomb Moves Closer to Full-Scale Production
Len Ackland - Rocky Mountain PBS News,
12 Sep 2016
The most controversial and dangerous nuclear bomb ever planned for the U.S. arsenal has received the go ahead. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Aug 1 that the B61-12 – the nation’s first guided, or “smart,” nuclear bomb – had completed a four-year development and testing phase and is now in production engineering, the final phase before full-scale production slated for 2020.
→ read full articleDag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
→ read full articleHow Silicon Valley Follows the Money
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
There’s way more in common between Wall Street and Silicon Valley than meets the untrained eye. They are two of the key strategic hubs of hyperpower global domination. The others are the industrial-military-surveillance-security complex – of which Hollywood and corporate media are the soft power extensions – and the petrodollar racket/tributary system.
→ read full articlePolice Do Nothing as Armed Mercenaries Attack Native American Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
Counter Current | Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
3 Sep 2016 – Police stood idly by as private security guards who were working on behalf of the corporations building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline turned attack dogs on peaceful protesters.
→ read full articleSeptember 11, 2001: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy(*)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
Today is September 11, 2016 –
The TRANSCEND Reaction to 9/11/2001
Islam Right Now
Johan Galtung,
5 Sep 2016
Imagine Muslims abusing a Western sacred word, democracy, calling Western wars “democratism”. They would be right because people who profess democracy also often go to war. And they would be wrong by missing the whole idea. Like “jihadism”, “democratism” would locate the cause of war on the other side, and not in the relation between them; making the relation even worse instead of appreciating the profundity.
→ read full articleHow Did Western Europe Cope with a Much Stronger Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 Sep 2016
How did Western Europe survive the much stronger Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact 30-40 years ago? A pact that had about 70% of NATO’s military expenditures where today’s Russia has 8%? How did we get on after the Soviet invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia – and a Union with much more global military and political influence?
→ read full article(Italiano) Lo squilibrio del potere globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Chi scrive, nel 1976, paragonò il declino e la caduta dell’Impero Romano a un possibile declino e caduta dell’Occidente in generale e dell’Impero USA in particolare, fondati sulla sinergia di modelli che presentano un unico obbiettivo. I Romani si consideravano straordinariamente virtuosi e invincibili nel confronto con i barbari, ma i contropoteri li stavano disunendo; e vivevano sulle glorie del passato. La Clinton, venuta dritta dal passato con qualche rimodernamento domestico, imporrà quel passato; ogni valutazione realistica è considerata quasi un tradimento contro lo stato.
→ read full articleThe Ethics and Efficacy of the War on Terrorism: Fighting Terror without Terror? Or How to Give Peace a Chance
Charles Webel | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Throwing a bomb is bad,
Dropping a bomb is good,
Terror, no need to add,
Depends on who’s wearing the hood.
— Roger Woddis
The Poverty Challenge
Nuno Ramalho | Portico Brothers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Is being poor a challenge? A few insights…
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
20 Aug 2016 – Albert Einstein, the great 20th century scientist and humanitarian, wrote, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Let us exercise our imaginations.
→ read full articleThe Broken Chessboard: Zbigniew Brzezinski Gives Up on Empire
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
5 Sep 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Brzezinski, who was the main proponent of the US hegemony idea and who drew up the blueprint for imperial expansion in his 1997 book, has done an about-face and called for a revising of the strategy: “As its era of global dominance ends, the United States is no longer the globally imperial power.”
→ read full article