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Julian Assange Arbitrarily Detained by Sweden and UK, UN Expert Panel Finds
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
In a public statement, the expert panel called on the Swedish and British authorities to end Mr. Assange’s deprivation of liberty, respect his physical integrity and freedom of movement, and afford him the right to compensation.
→ read full articleEurope Is Built on Corpses and Plunder
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch,
8 Feb 2016
Speech given in Rome at the Italian Parliament on January 29, 2016. I grew up on your films, on Fellini and de Sica, Rossellini, Antonioni and others. They had tremendous influence on my work, and on how I see the world. But your heart, it seems, is not an internationalist heart. It does not believe that all people are equal. It is because your country is a member of NATO, and NATO is behaving like a fascist thug with some clear mafia behavioral patterns.
→ read full articleFebruary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
February 1, 1958 – As part of the U.S. strategy of massive (nuclear) retaliation, the UK agreed to station 60 nuclear-armed Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles at four U.K. military bases. Royal Air Force personnel staffed the bases, but all the nuclear weapons that were provided remained in full U.S. ownership, custody, and control. These same missiles were put on high-alert status during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung Replies to Prof. Ada Aharoni’s Critique
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
There are two drawbacks that bother me in TRANSCEND and mars it from making it a true PEACE JOURNAL.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo in giro per il mondo: problemi – rimedi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Diamo un’occhiata, e vediamo che cosa si può fare.
→ read full articleSigning Polluter-Friendly TPP Trade Deal Is Gambling Away Our Future
Michael Brune, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
For years, the Sierra Club has reported on and campaigned against the TPP’s threats to our air, water, climate, families and communities. The U.S. Trade Representative is gambling away our jobs, our clean air and water, and our future by pushing the polluter-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership, so it only makes sense that it was signed in a casino and convention center.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione di polizia: un’idea ormai d’attualità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Il sistema statuale emerse nel 17° secolo, con istituzioni per l’uso della forza: una era adibita all’uso interno e un’altra per l’uso esterno, rispettivamente la polizia nazionale e l’apparato militare nazionale, intendendosi per nazionale quello della nazione dominante nello stato.
→ read full articleThe Deeper Reason Syria Negotiations Are Doomed
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Feb 2016
Governments are still so much more professional and resourceful when it comes to wars and militarism than they are when it comes to conflict-resolution and peace. The main reason everywhere is the vested elite interests in MIMAC, the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex – a cancer that kills hundreds of thousands of people, create refugees and work against both democracy and peace.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and Nuclearism: Abolish or Be Abolished
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Feb 2016
The nuclear age is an age of terror. Nuclear weapons are the ultimate weapons of terror. You can’t use them without killing millions of innocent people. Targetting innocent people, people who are not part of a conflict, is a central defining characteristics of terrorism.
→ read full articleMeanwhile Around the World: Problems-Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Let us have a look, and see what can be done.
→ read full articleMyanmar Nazi Monk Wirathu, TIME Magazine’s “Face of Buddhist Terror”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
Myanmar’s “Nazi monk” Wirathu (and networks), plot to unleash new Islamophobic waves of violence against Myanmar’s Muslims and Rohingya.
→ read full articlePolice Mediation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Johan Galtung, 25 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The state system emerged in the 17th century, with institutions for force. One was for internal and one for external use: the national police and the national military, national standing for the dominant nation in the states… May police mediation take roots and blossom. For more peaceful societies. For peace in general.
→ read full article(Italiano) Venti pii desideri per il 2016: prestare attenzione alle menti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Empiricamente, l’Occidente è sovente sul versante sbagliato. Tuttavia, come ogni cosa empirica, è soggetto alla legge del cambiamento. Gli occidentali non sono schiavi delle mentalità dell’Iliade e di Beowulf che si estendono per l’Europa. La liberazione è attesa da troppo tempo. Prestando attenzione alle menti.
→ read full article(Italiano) Migliorare la democrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
La gente può creare e riconquistare con lotte nonviolente un processo decisionale democratico. Rafforzare il livello locale. Riflettere le differenze etniche. Boicottare i deputati comprati. Più referendum. Più decisioni con dialogo-consenso, da continuarsi in coalizioni. Più decentramento. Più diversità. E molta più creatività.
→ read full articleGates Foundation’s “Corporate Merry-Go-Round”: Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Global Justice Now’s analysis of the BMGF’s programmes shows that the foundation’s senior staff are overwhelmingly drawn from corporate America. As a result, the question is: whose interests are being promoted – those of corporate America or those of ordinary people who seek social and economic justice rather than charity?
→ read full articleRelationships – Reflections on Refugees
Dr Hakim, Afghan Peace Volunteers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
As relationships are built on various aspects of love, they are powerful. If we build more and more relationships, they will be an alternative power to the abusive power of governments and corporations, and that’s when governments and corporations will become more obvious in their efforts to sabotage relationships.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch,
25 Jan 2016
Foreign imperialism in the form of NGOs. As Gina Athena Ulysse has powerfully demonstrated, Haiti needs new narratives. Maybe the earthquake story has run its course, in the foreign memory at least.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria (Prestare attenzione alle menti, II)
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
La Siria ha offerto una scelta povera fra una dittatura di minoranza provvista di tolleranza e una dittatura di maggioranza – la democrazia – sprovvista. Così ha prosperato la violenza, resuscitando vecchi sospetti di guerre per procura. “Bombardiamo la Siria” è stata la panacea, dopo “bombardiamo la Libia”. Che vergogna. Fatela finita.
→ read full articleCan Targeted Killing Work as a Neutral Principle?
Jeremy Waldron, New York University School of Law - Social Science Research Nework,
25 Jan 2016
Abstract. This paper casts doubt on the prospects for legitimizing what is known as “targeted killing” – the use of assassins, death squads, or other murderous techniques – against identified civilians whose continued existence is thought to pose a serious threat of some kind to a given community and its members.
→ read full articleImproving Democracy
Johan Galtung,
18 Jan 2016
People can through nonviolent struggle create and reconquer democratic decision-making. Strengthen the local level. Reflect ethnic differences. Boycott bought deputies. More referenda. More decisions through dialogue-consensus, to be continued in coalitions. More decentralization. More diversity. And much more creativity.
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‘O Mio Babbino Caro’ (Music Video of the Week)
Amira Willighagen & André Rieu, Talented Young Musicians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
11-year-old Amira Willighagen performs ‘O mio babbino caro’ with André Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra at a concert in Maastricht, The Netherlands. 10 thousand standing ovation…
→ read full articleWelcome to Israel’s Version of Apartheid
Jonathan Cook - CounterPunch,
18 Jan 2016
Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off from Greece, three Israeli passengers demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel’s Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. Like a parable illustrating Europe’s bottomless indulgence of Israel, Aegean staff caved in to the pressure and persuaded the two Palestinian men to disembark.
→ read full articleThe Lady and the Generals
Soe Lin Aung & Stephen Campbell – Jacobin Magazine,
18 Jan 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi’s electoral victory could bring political reform to Myanmar. Economic justice is another story.
→ read full articleSpecial Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territory Resigns Due to Continued Denial of Access by Israel
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
4 Jan 2016 –The independent expert expressed deep regret that, throughout his mandate, Israel failed to grant him access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “Unfortunately, my efforts to help improve the lives of Palestinian victims of violations under the Israeli occupation have been frustrated every step of the way,” said Makarim Wibisono.
→ read full articleSuu Kyi Govt Must Not Continue State Persecution of Rohingya
Dr. Maung Zarni, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
As Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to take over the reins of the new government [Burma/Myanmar], the international community – of diplomats, world leaders, journalists, human rights researchers and world citizens – needs to press the Burmese leader to reflect critically on her stances on the Rohingya.
→ read full articleAttacks on Hoffman Report from Military Psychologists Obfuscate Detainee Abuse
Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner - CounterPunch,
11 Jan 2016
In the wake of the July 2015 Hoffman Report, which found that the American Psychological Association colluded with the Department of Defense to ensure that no APA policy would constrain psychologists’ participation in DOD’s “enhanced interrogation” program, the APA passed an historic ban on the involvement of psychologists in national security interrogations and at detention sites that operate outside or in violation of international law, including Guantánamo Bay Detention Center.
→ read full articleBlame Capitalism for Doping in Sports
Bhaskar Sunkara – Al Jazeera America,
11 Jan 2016
Players who take performance-enhancing drugs are only responding to the incentives of the free market. When it comes to corruption in sports, don’t hate the players—scapegoats for capitalism; hate the game.
→ read full articleWe Are Living at the Edge of a Nuclear Precipice
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
With nuclear weapons, what could possibly go wrong? The short answer is: Everything. The ever-present dangers of nuclear proliferation, nuclear accidents and miscalculations, nuclear terrorism and nuclear war. Instead of nuclear deterrence and modernization of arsenals, we need to negotiate in good faith for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. That is, we need to break free of our acidic complacency and commit ourselves to achieving a nuclear zero world.
→ read full articleSyria (Minding the Minds II)
Johan Galtung, 11 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Syria offered a poor choice between a minority dictatorship with tolerance and a majority dictatorship–democracy–without. Violence flourished, attracting old suspects for proxy wars. “Bomb Syria” was the panacea, after “bomb Libya”. What a shame. Bring it to an end.
→ read full articleThis Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 Jan 2016
January 9, 1987 – Dean Rusk (1909-1994), a former Secretary of State (1961-69) under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who received many awards during his career including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, spoke out against nuclear weapons with a statement that, “Nuclear war not only eliminates all the answers, but eliminates all the questions.”
→ read full articleTwenty Pious Wishes for 2016: Mind the Minds
Johan Galtung, 4 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Empirically, the West is often on the wrong side. Nevertheless, as anything empirical, it is subject to the law of change. Westerners are not slaves of the violent mind-sets in the Iliad and Beowulf spanning Europe. The liberation is overdue. By minding the minds.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Jihadism
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
4 Jan 2016
There is nothing unique about Islam in its providing a basis for ‘holy war’: look, for example, at Christianity’s Crusades, and at the Thirty-Years War in Europe. What’s unique is the Saudi-U.S. petrodollar alliance, which is spawning wars for both god and greed. When a nation’s aristocracy and its clergy are supporting one-another, it’s like the flame that ignites the fuel. That’s what’s igniting the world.
→ read full articleVenezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
William Camacaro, Frederick B. Mills and Christina M. Schiavoni – CounterPunch,
4 Jan 2016
1 Jan 2016 – The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro.
→ read full articleA Secret History of the Monarch: How the Biotech Industry Conspired to Knock Off One of the World’s Rarest Butterflies
Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn - CounterPunch,
4 Jan 2016
On May 20 1999, Nature magazine sounded what might have been the death knell of the biotech food industry. John Losey, a professor of entomology at Cornell University, reported the ominous results of his laboratory study: Monarch caterpillars fed on milkweed leaves dusted with genetically modified corn pollen ate less, grew more slowly and suffered a higher mortality rate than those fed on leaves with normal pollen, or with no pollen at all. Nearly half of the GM pollen-fed caterpillars in the study died.
→ read full article(Italiano) Anglo-America, UE, Occidente: una prognosi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Grazie, cari studenti di Oxford, per il regalo di Natale, sfidare il culto di Cecil Rhodes – colonialista, classista, razzista. Sa di TV Reality. Gli USA reclamano il monopolio sulla “leadership” concedendo “un rapporto speciale” al Regno Unito. E la Paura dei Tedeschi divenne Paura dei Rossi, divenne Paura dei Cinesi, divenne Paura dell’Islam, divenne Paura della Russia. La paura del giorno divenne paranoia; di facile combinazione col narcisismo UK-USA.
→ read full articleDying of Neglect: The Indigenous Peoples of Ayutla, Mexico
Kau Sirenio Pioquinto - CounterPunch,
4 Jan 2016
La Concordia, an indigenous ñuu savi town, lacks virtually all basic necessities: medicine, potable water, transit, phone service, food. The inhabitants must make the trek down to Ayutla to buy their basic needs. They leave at five in the morning and come back at two in the afternoon. Those are the only times they can get a ride on the trucks that go down to the plaza.
→ read full articleComments to Paris Atrocities Editorial – A Reply
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
I grew up in Norway, forced into Christianity, dedicated to Western colonialism to spread Christianity, and fought both. Against the same from Islam, I favor using the military to defend the many exposed to IS brutality. But not to kill and escalate by using their approach. And in favor of negotiation based on understanding both.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Dabeisein ist alles!
Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI),
4 Jan 2016
Deutsche Syrien-Interessen und der erste Hauptsatz internationaler Machtpolitik
→ read full articleRenewable Energy Soars in 2015
Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
With Tax Incentives’ Renewal, Expect More of the Same in Years to Come – The truth is, 2015 has been one in a series of very good years for these pollution-free, renewable resources—years that are helping us get on track for the low-carbon future we need and need now.
→ read full article(Italiano) Cina vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Cina, il più popoloso; Russia, il più vasto; USA, il più militarizzato. E qui c’è l’ipotesi chiave, presumibilmente più giusta che sbagliata: Cina-Xi: pace positiva; Russia-Putin: pace negativa; USA-Obama: guerra. Ci vogliono almeno due per fare la guerra, e due per fare la pace. La domanda è: chi cederà all’altro, Cina-Russia a una guerra estesa, o gli USA a una pace estesa?
→ read full articleA Perfect New Year Gift: A Calendar Dedicated to the Rohingya Victims of Myanmar’s Slow Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Here is a perfect gift for this holiday season, especially for those with a social conscience. And Myanmar authorities will arrest you if it is found in your possession!
→ read full articleAnglo-America, EU, the West: A Prognosis
Johan Galtung, 28 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes–colonialist, classist, racist. Sounds like Reality TV: The USA claims monopoly on “leadership” granting “special relation” to the UK. And German Scare became Red Scare became China Scare became Islam Scare became Russia Scare. The scare of the day paranoia; easily combined with UK-US narcissism.
→ read full articleGot Fascism? The 1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis Has Answers
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5.
→ read full articleSpain Says “No”
Conn Hallinan - CounterPunch,
28 Dec 2015
Following in the footsteps of Greek and Portuguese voters earlier this year, Spaniards soundly rejected the economic formula of the Troika. The game is changing, and Spain is a new piece on the board, one that the Troika will not be able to bully quite as easily as Greece and Portugal.
→ read full articleThe First Christmas without Our Santa Claus: Remembering Dietrich
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
He was a thoughtful human being born to strengthen a shared future that would uphold nonviolence, humanity and peace. Either ordinary life problems or peace building studies, Dietrich had answers to most situations, not through complex political theories but rather through simple short stories or jokes.
→ read full articleTurkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Russia All Accuse Turkey of Smuggling Oil (Part 1)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
Russia is not alone in accusing Turkey of being involved in the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil. Turkish opposition politicians, Turkish media, and various governments in the Middle East have also raised their voices about the role of Turkish officials in smuggling from the conflict zones in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleFukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Why nuke plants are as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleTurkish-ISIL Oil Trade: Did the Turkish Military Enter Mosul to Protect Its Oil Trade? (Part 2)
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
21 Dec 2015
The move can be seen as a compensation for the weakening of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ISIS / IS / DAESH) and the ISIL’s oil smuggling infrastructure. It can also be viewed as a Turkish preparation for the aftermath of the future defeat of the ISIL in Iraq.
→ read full articleAs the World Debates Syria, Palestine’s Ignominy Continues in Silence
Ben Morris – CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
17 Dec 2015 – As the prophetic Orwellian concept of perpetual war is made manifest in Syria and Iraq, and the attention of the planet is understandably diverted towards the apocalyptic scenario currently being played out there, the subjugated and forgotten nation of Palestine limps quietly on under the curse of a media blackout.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il clima contro il pianeta
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
Hanno commesso un grosso errore a Parigi, anzi a Le Bourget: un gran parlare a proposito della struttura legale, ben poco rispetto al come. Le innovazioni non arrivano da sole; già molte ne esistono, si utilizzino; si chiedano innovazioni specifiche da condividere con l’umanità; per favore, niente brevetti, niente “forze di mercato” – che in genere rendono i ricchi ancora più ricchi.
→ read full articleWhat the Women of Berlin’s Rosenstraße Protest Can Teach Us about Trump
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The parallels between the 1930s-40s in Germany and the United States in 2015 are frightening. It is clear to many citizens that the rise of bigotry and fascism in our nation cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Organized resistance is essential. In this effort, revisiting the history of resistance to the Nazis offers us some tantalizing concepts.
→ read full articleNorthern Arakan as Rohingya’s Ancestral Land: G.H.Luce Citing the Stone Inscription from Ava Period
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
According to the late Gordon H. Luce, essentially the founder of modern historical studies of the ancient Myanmar or Burma and the mentor of Professor Than Tun, the presence of the Rohinjas in Burma was evidenced in the stone inscriptions from the Ava period (AD 1400).
→ read full articleSanctuary for Refugees: André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
What are we going to do? The moral obligation of compassion is clear. U.S. governors, like the officials in Europe, like the Vichy government and the Nazis, and all the cruel oppressors throughout history, must be resisted nonviolently. Like André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, we must make our communities havens for those fleeing violence and death.
→ read full articleThe U.S. and the Rise of ISIS
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
21 Dec 2015
The rise of ISIS (also known as Daesh, ISIL, or the “Islamic State”) is a direct consequence of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. While there are a number of other contributing factors as well, that fateful decision is paramount. And there are no clear answers as to how to best respond to the threat from ISIS.
→ read full article(Português) Violência Contra Qualquer Espécie É Inaceitável
Malu Nunes - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
21 Dec 2015
Animais, plantas e micro-organismos silvestres estão desaparecendo em um ritmo avassalador, em decorrência de atividades humanas; e essa perda de biodiversidade também é uma forma de violência, que jamais poderia ser encarada como natural. A taxa de extinção atual é mil vezes superior ao ritmo normal da natureza, ou seja, a sociedade contemporânea é mais perigosa que o meteoro que dizimou os dinossauros em uma das outras cinco ondas históricas de extinções em massa.
→ read full article(Italiano) La trasformazione dei conflitti con mezzi pacifici – Il Metodo TRANSCEND
Johan Galtung – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
21 Dec 2015
Manuale dei/delle partecipanti – Manuale dei/lle formatori/trici
United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme
China vs. Russia vs. USA; Xi vs. Putin vs. Obama
Johan Galtung, 21 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
China, the most populous; Russia, the largest; USA, the most military. And here is the key hypothesis, presumably more right than wrong: China-Xi: positive peace; Russia-Putin: negative peace; USA-Obama: war. It takes at least two to make wars, and two to make peace. The other side has to play the same role. The question is: who will yield to the other, China-Russia to major wars, or the USA to major peace?
→ read full articleSyria: Ultimate Pipelineistan War
Pepe Escobar – Strategic Culture Foundation,
14 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015 – Syria is an energy war. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate Pipelinestan war, the term I coined long ago for the 21st century imperial energy battlefields.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le nubi stanno diventando più nere
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Come fa notare Robert Savio, “combattono tutti fino all’ultimo siriano”. La sola speranza fra le grandi potenze: la Russia. Bombardando e reagendo con moderazione, potrebbe far sì che gli sciiti Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain arrivino a una tregua, aprendo a negoziati. Putin l’ha già fatto in passato. Cionondimeno, l’Occidente può preferire la guerra per far sì che sia Putin a risolvergli i problemi.
→ read full articleThe Climate vs. the Planet
Johan Galtung, 14 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
They made a major mistake in Paris, or Le Bourget rather: much about what to do and the legal framework, too little about how. Innovations do not come by themselves; many already exist, use them; demand specific innovations to be shared with humanity; no patents, no “market forces”–generally for the rich to become richer–please.
→ read full articleRearranging the Deck on Capitalism’s Sinking Ship
Andrew Smolski - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
We need to consider that any perceived incorporation of ecological rationality is “partially attributable to the growth of carbon-intensive manufacturing in less developed countries via the transnationalization of production.” We are just moving our problems around.
→ read full articleBack to Basics: Clearing the Fog of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Sami Al-Arian – CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
Oftentimes Israel and its enablers in the political and media arenas try to obfuscate basic facts about the nature and history of the conflict. Despite these attempts, however, the conflict is neither complicated nor has it existed for centuries.
→ read full articleThe Destroyer
UNILAD TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Powerful 1m47s message on the world environment. The video speaks for itself…
→ read full articleDestroying Syria to Create Sunnistan
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
14 Dec 2015
What is the connection between the US bombing of a Syrian military base in Ayyash, Syria, and the Turkish invasion of northern Iraq? Both of these seemingly isolated events are part of a larger plan to Balkanize the Middle East, to strengthen Washington’s grip on dwindling resources, to draw Russia into a costly and protracted war, and to ensure that ME oil remains denominated in US dollars.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Myanmar’s Leaders
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
May I, from the bottom of my heart, urge you to use your most precious time, while alive, to endeavor to end the hell of a slow genocide of the Rohingya and to bring about the cessation of all armed conflicts and wars against our own ethnic brethren in Eastern Myanmar, namely the Kachin, the Shan, the Pa-Oo, the Kokant, etc. May the Rohingya be free from the State’s genocidal persecution.
→ read full articlePortugal: The Left Takes Charge
Conn Hallinan – CounterPunch,
7 Dec 2015
1 Dec 2015 – After several weeks of political brinkmanship, Portugal’s rightwing president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, finally backed off from his refusal to appoint the leader of a victorious left coalition as prime minister and accept the outcome of the Oct. 4 national elections. Suddenly Portugal is a little bit kinder place than it was a month ago. Small things can lead to big things.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Weshalb ein überstürztes Eingreifen in Syrien falsch ist
Deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung an der Philipps-Universität Marburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
eine Antwort der deutschen Fachschaften Friedens- und Konfliktforschung auf das Vorhaben des Militäreinsatzes der Bundesregierung.
→ read full articleISIS Oil
Vijay Prashad - CounterPunch,
7 Dec 2015
ISIS controls Iraqi oil fields near Mosul. They have been making millions of dollars each day by selling oil from these fields. How does ISIS get the oil from the fields in Mosul to the market? Vijay Prashad unravels the allegations that Turkey is in cahoots with ISIS.
→ read full articleWhy Did the “Retired” Senior General Than Shwe Meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
5 Dec 2015 – The prevailing view is that the Old Man wants to ensure that he is safe from any form of retribution, that his extended family are safe and that their ill-gotten gains – estimated at US$ billions – remain intact. And for the Rohingya, the deal excludes their genocide.
→ read full article(Italiano) Giornalismo di pace: funziona?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
In breve: No. Gli avvenimenti di Parigi hanno innescato un giornalismo di guerra; non si è osservato alcun giornalismo di pace. Dubitare che la violenza anti-IS funzionerà non è giornalismo di pace, solo giornalismo di guerra con degli interrogativi.
→ read full articleThe Clouds Are Getting Dark
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
As Robert Savio points out, “They all fight to the last Syrian.” Only hope among the Big Powers: Russia. Bombing and reacting with moderation, it could get Shia Assad-Iraq-Iran-Bahrain to arrive at a cease-fire, opening for negotiations. Putin has done it before. Nevertheless, the West may prefer war to have Putin solve problems for them.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (I)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Le professeur Almada a été victime de la torture et de la répression militaire dans le cadre de l’ « Opération Condor » en Amérique du Sud. Malgré cela, Martin Almada n’a jamais renoncé à ses idéaux et il a été celui qui, en 1992, a découvert au Paraguay les « Archives de la Terreur », mettant au jour les preuves de l’existence d’un vaste réseau et d’un système de répression coordonné à l’échelle internationale entre les dictatures militaires, appuyé par la CIA.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (II)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
C’est pourquoi il est urgent de mondialiser les luttes contre l’Impunité du Terrorisme d’État. Le capital prédateur s’est mondialisé ces dernières années. Maintenant, c’est à notre tour de mondialiser nos convictions en faveur d’une citoyenneté active, d’une authentique démocratie adaptée à nos réalités. Il nous faut surtout vivre solidairement pour empêcher que la moribonde ALCA ne ressuscite.
→ read full articlePeace Journalism: Is It Working?
Johan Galtung, 30 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Short answer: No. The Paris event triggered war journalism; no peace journalism was observed. To doubt that anti-IS violence will work is not peace journalism, only war journalism with question marks.
→ read full article(Italiano) Violenza a Parigi e da Parigi: quale via d’uscita?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Immagino che Occidente e Islam si focalizzino non sul peggio, come la violenza occidentale per la prevenzione e quella islamica per la rappresaglia, ma sul meglio; come la capacità d’innovazione e di libertà in Occidente, di solidarietà e condivisione nell’Islam. Immagino che dialoghino pubblicamente ad alto livello su “come poter imparare vicendevolmente”?
→ read full article(Italiano) Mediazione scolastica: problemi, e soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
L’ondata mondiale della mediazione ha raggiunto i sistemi scolastici un po’ dappertutto; meno in qualche paese, più in altri.
→ read full articleWhen the News Reads You Back: Why Journalists Need to Stand Up for Reader Privacy
Josh Stearns – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
23 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015 – When you are reading the news, it is reading you back. According to new research out of the University of Pennsylvania visiting news websites exposes you to more than twice as much tracking software as the rest of the web.
→ read full articleThe Attacks in Paris and Our Responsibility to Work toward an Open and Tolerant Society
Heiner Flassbeck - CounterPunch,
23 Nov 2015
We can act as if skin colour is somehow correlated with being a terrorist risk, but we would be wrong. We need to stop all of this and work towards an open and tolerant society with equal rights and equal treatments and dignity for all. That is our only chance to overcome the hatred.
→ read full articleSmoking Out a Boko Haram Closet Supporter
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Boko Haram, the terrorist Islamic organisation crashed into the Nigerian national stage with fury (2002), fire (2007) and firestorm (2009). The word Boko, a Hausa adulteration of the English word “book,” and haram, the Hausa word for forbidden, together mean ‘aversion to Western education.’
→ read full articleViolence In and By Paris: Any Way Out?
Johan Galtung, 23 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
I have a dream. Like an American from Atlanta, Georgia, MLK Jr. Imagine West and Islam focusing not on the worst, like Western violence for prevention and Islamic for retribution, but on the best. Like the capacity for innovation and freedom in the West, togetherness and sharing in Islam. Imagine them dialoguing publicly at a high level “how can we learn from each other”?
→ read full articleDam Collapse in Brazil Destroys Towns and Turns River into Muddy Wasteland
Bruno Weis – Greenpeace,
18 Nov 2015
On Thursday, November 5th, two dams holding millions of cubic meters of mining waste gave way – launching one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazilian history. Over 25,000 Olympic swimming pools worth of mud – full of dangerous metals like manganese and mercury – quickly overtook the nearby mining community of Mariana in Minas Gerais state.
→ read full articleMeeting Ed Snowden – “We Brought You the Promise of the Future, but Our Tongue Stammered and Barked…” (II)
Arundhati Roy – Outlook India,
16 Nov 2015
My phone rang at three in the morning. It was John Cusack asking me if I would go with him to Moscow to meet Edward Snowden…
→ read full articleMeeting Ed Snowden – What Shall We Love? (IV)
Arundhati Roy – Outlook India,
16 Nov 2015
The Moscow Un-Summit wasn’t a formal interview. Nor was it a cloak-and-dagger underground rendezvous. The upshot is that we didn’t get the cautious, diplomatic, regulation Edward Snowden. We talked about war and greed, about terrorism and an accurate definition of it. We spoke about countries, flags and the meaning of patriotism.
→ read full articleWhy Aung San Suu Kyi’s ‘Mandela Moment’ Is a Victory for Myanmar’s Generals
Maung Zarni – The Guardian,
16 Nov 2015
With a constitution that safeguards its immense power and wealth, the military knows that, unlike in 1990, it doesn’t need a crackdown to keep its regime intact.
→ read full articleSchool Mediation: Problems, And Solutions?
Johan Galtung,
16 Nov 2015
The world wave of mediation has reached school systems all over; in some countries less, in others more.
→ read full article(Français) Portugal : la droite veut changer la constitution pour rester au pouvoir
Romaric Godin - La Tribune,
16 Nov 2015
Le premier ministre lusitanien, renversé mardi [10 nov] par le parlement, demande une modification d’urgence de la constitution pour permettre de nouvelles élections.
→ read full article(Italiano) Culture di guerra, culture di pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Abbiamo guerra e pace, teoria e pratica. E più in fondo culture di guerra e di pace, nozioni di com’è o potrebbe essere il mondo. Una cultura di pace non è necessariamente pace, potrebbe anche voler dire rimozione degli ostacoli per la guerra.
→ read full articleThe Saudi Prince and Two Tons of Narcotics
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch,
16 Nov 2015
“Yes, they will let him go”, lamented a prominent Lebanese political analyst who did not want to be identified (out of fear that Saudis would retaliate). “They have a license to kill, rape, smuggle with complete impunity. Last month, another Saudi prince was arrested in Los Angeles accused of taking cocaine, sexually assaulting a maid, threatening to kill women who refused his sexual advances and having sex with his male aide.” The India Times ran a story with the title: “Saudi Prince Caught With 2 Tons Of ISIS’s Favorite Drugs In Lebanon”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quo Vadis Europa, dove stai andando?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Molto addentro erano invece gli USA che, isolati dietro ai loro due oceani, provocarono devastazioni in Europa Occidentale e Asia Orientale. Facciamo ospitare agli USA molti migranti, molti di più. Comunque, aldilà di ciò consideriamo i migranti come risorse, non solo una minaccia: poiché riempiono gravi vuoti di popolazione, come manodopera che sviluppa molte zone dell’Europa, come portatori di altre culture per dialoghi e apprendimento reciproco.
→ read full article(Italiano) La politica con altri mezzi
Arundhati Roy – Z Net Italy,
16 Nov 2015
Arundhati Roy spiega perché restituisce il suo Premio Nazionale alla massima istituzione letteraria dell’India.
→ read full articleQuo Vadis Europe, Where Are You Going?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The enormous move of people from devastated countries must be handled by those who caused it… Very much in it was the USA, causing havoc in Western Europe and Eastern Asia from behind its two oceans. Make USA take many, many more. However, beyond that see the people on the move as assets not only threats: as filling serious population gaps, as labor developing many areas of Europe, as carriers of other cultures for dialogues, mutual learning.
→ read full articleBurundi’s Crisis and the World’s Inability to Prevent Violence
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – The big – not great – powers of the world have embassies everywhere, plenty of intelligence services, special forces on the ground and satellites in space. They can even hit and kill individuals they don’t like.
→ read full article‘Intolerance Is the Wrong Word for the Lynching and Mass Murder of Human Beings’ in India
Arundhati Roy, Conscientious Objector – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
5 Nov 2015 – The respected author has issued a statement about her decision to return the national film award she won in 1989 for writing the screenplay of ‘In which Annie Gives It Those Ones’.
→ read full articleIs Genocide Taking Place in Myanmar?
Joshua Kurlantzick – Council on Foreign Relations,
9 Nov 2015
If the violence in western Myanmar qualifies as genocide, it puts the United States, Japan, the European Union, and other democracies that have pursued rapprochement with Myanmar in a difficult position.
→ read full articleFukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to opening Pandora’s box, there’s no stopping a ferocious atom-splitting insanity that knows no end.
→ read full articleUnited Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 10 Nov 1975
United Nations General Assembly,
9 Nov 2015
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on November 10, 1975 by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), “determine[d] that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”.
→ read full articleIndia Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy
Colin Todhunter and Oliver Tickell - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
4 Nov 2015 – A secret application has been made to India’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee for a new variety of GMO mustard . If accepted, this would be the first GMO variety to be approved in India – and could open the way for many more such applications for other major crops including staple foods like rice, wheat and chickpeas.
→ read full articleTime for Nuclear Sharing to End
Xanthe Hall – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Nov 2015
You have to keep threatening to use nuclear weapons to make nuclear deterrence work. A view from Germany on the planned deployment of new US nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleNovember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
November 16, 1994 – After receiving formal promises of security assurances from the leaders of the U.S., Russia, and Britain, President Leonid Kuchma recommended that Ukraine formally accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a nonnuclear weapons state and agree to transfer its stockpile of strategic nuclear warheads to Russia, which was accomplished on June 1, 1996.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Myanmar Mistake
Rachel Wagley, The Fletcher Forum - Tufts University,
9 Nov 2015
If Rwanda was Bill Clinton’s greatest regret and Darfur was George W. Bush’s, Myanmar may well become President Barack Obama’s. Reports from the Yale Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic, the International State Crime Initiative, and an Al Jazeera investigation have concluded that there is strong legal evidence for classifying persecution against Rohingya as state-sponsored genocide.
→ read full article