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Nuclear Power: Dead in the Water It Poisoned
John Laforge - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
The future of nuke power is bleak. So how is it that Congressional representatives, TV network pundits, FOX ditto heads and even CNN program directors still promote nuclear power? Part of the answer comes from American University researcher Judy Pasternak and her students.
→ read full articleThe Stubborn Regime
Maung Zarni - Himal Southasian, Nepal,
9 Nov 2015
2015 Elections in Burma Will Be neither Historic nor Consequential – The military has internalised the self-serving justification that without its strong hand – that is, concentration of power and control in the military and its loyalists – the multi-ethnic country is going to disintegrate.
→ read full article(Italiano) Corruzione: teoria, prognosi, soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
La definizione di corruzione si basa su una distinzione fra aspetti palesi o nascosti delle transazioni, “sopra o sotto il tavolo”, dove il nascosto è anche illegale o almeno illegittimo. Aggiungere alla trasparenza e al castigo le modalità positive verso l’integrità, rendendo la corruzione su vasta scala un episodio triste ma breve.
→ read full articleCultures of War, Cultures of Peace
Johan Galtung, 2 Nov 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
We have war and peace, theory and practice. And deeper down cultures of war and peace, notions of what the world is or could be. The latter is not necessarily peace, could also mean removing obstacles to war.
→ read full articleCampaigns of Violence towards Rohingya Are Highly Organised and Genocidal in Intent
Queen Mary University of London – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Persecution of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been orchestrated by the government, state-level officials and Buddhist monks, according to the findings of an 18-month investigation into state crime in Myanmar.
→ read full articleCome Hack on SecureDrop and Celebrate the Third Annual Aaron Swartz Day
Trevor Timm – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
2 Nov 2015
Saturday November 7 [2015] is the third annual Aaron Swartz Day, which celebrates the life of Aaron and the many wonderful Internet projects he created or worked on during his brief but brilliant life. One of Aaron’s last projects was SecureDrop, the open-source whistleblower submission system, which Freedom of the Press Foundation adopted after his untimely passing in 2013.
→ read full articleAutomakers and Their Dark, Deadly Conspiracies
Yves Engler - CounterPunch,
2 Nov 2015
28 Oct 2015 – Over the past eighteen months two of the world’s largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry’s previous scandals.
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2-Minute Speech Dedicated to Rohingya Victims of Burma/Myanmar’s Genocide
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was the presenter on behalf of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Salt Lake City, Utah, 18 Oct 2015. Both Dr. Zarni and Mrs. Maguire are members of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
→ read full articleMyanmar’s Neo-Nazi Buddhists Get Free Rein
Maung Zarni, Ph.D. – Asia Times,
2 Nov 2015
As a new nationalist movement with a clear message of ”racial and religious purity”, a false sense of Buddhist victimhood, and cultural and economic nationalism – not dissimilar to Germany’s Nazism in the 1930s – 969 is gaining popularity for three main reasons.
→ read full articleSeymour Hersh’s News Report Banned in U.S. Is Finally Confirmed in Turkey
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
2 Nov 2015
30 Oct 2015 – The news-report that the famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh could not find an American publisher for, and was published only in Britain, has now been publicly confirmed by a research study into the matter and published in Turkey’s leading newspaper, Zaman.
→ read full articlePalestine/Israel: Summary of the Current Situation and Ways Out
Dr. Walid Salem, Center for Democracy and Community Development – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Jerusalem, 21 Oct 2015 – After the collapse of the Kerry initiative last year and the deterioration that followed, leading to the current escalation, what the today situation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is? Where are we in the peace process? What is the situation on the ground? What this wave of violence in Jerusalem means? What decisions will be taken by the Palestinians now? And what are the proposed ways out.
→ read full article(Italiano) In memoria di Dietrich Fischer
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
18 ottobre 2015 – Cari Membri di Transcend – molti di voi proposti da Dieter! – il mio caro amico, cofondatore di Transcend nel 1993 con me e Fumiko Nishimura, ci ha lasciato oggi dopo una breve degenza ospedaliera in coma, sostanzialmente a causa del suo diabete da molti anni.
→ read full articleCorruption: Theory, Prognosis, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 26 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
The definition of corruption rests on a distinction between open and hidden transaction aspects, “above and under the table”, when the hidden is also illegal or at least illegitimate… Add to transparency and punishment the positive ways to integrity, making large-scale corruption a sad, but a short episode.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sparatorie nelle scuole USA: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Al Community College dell’Oregon “la 45^ sparatoria scolastica quest’anno negli USA; la 142^ dal massacro di Newton nel 2012” . 25% delle donne subiscono violenza domestica, 6 milioni di bambini vi assistono ogni anno, 28% dei bambini subiscono atti di bullismo ogni anno esponendosi a una probabilità di suicidio da 2 a 9 volte maggiore della media. Che cosa si può fare?
→ read full articleSee Jerusalem through Palestinian Eyes
Yousef Munayyer – Al Jazeera,
26 Oct 2015
Israel should take concrete steps to reverse its Judaization efforts in occupied East Jerusalem. For Palestinians, Israel’s actions – past and present – leave an impression that the walls are closing in on them and what little is left of their sacred city, including the holy sites.
→ read full articleTen Articles on the Nuclear Treaty with Iran
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Oct 2015
Given the generally insufficient and/or biased knowledge in media and politics about Iran and this cluster of issues, we have a world renowned expert with Iranian roots sharing his knowledge: Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford University.
→ read full article(Castellano) “La paz consiste en hacer preguntas y los especialistas en hacer preguntas son los periodistas”: Johan Galtung
Yo vivo de preguntar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Cuando el sociólogo y matemático noruego Johan Galtung visitó Bogotá a finales de septiembre 2015, invitado por la Universidad Santo Tomás de Bogotá para su IV Congreso Internacional de Comunicación para la Paz, los pocos medios de comunicación que lo entrevistaron ahondaron en preguntas en las que le pedían su opinión sobre la creación de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, que hacía pocos días habían anunciado el Gobierno y las FARC en La Habana.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
Relazione introduttiva, 13^ Sessione del Forum Pubblico Mondiale “Dialogo di Civiltà” – Rodi, Grecia, 9 ottobre 2015 – La forza di questo forum è la sua attenzione focalizzata sulle civiltà; usiamola per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le principali forme di disordine utilizzano la violenza; la guerra è violenza di stato organizzata. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, ambedue con radici di civiltà.
→ read full articleThe World beyond Global Disorder
Johan Galtung, 19 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Keynote, 13th Session World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” – Rhodes, Greece, 9 Oct 2015 – The strength of this forum is its civilization focus; let us use it for analysis and remedies. Major forms of disorder use violence; war is state organized violence. The most belligerent states are the United States of America and Israel, both with civilization roots.
→ read full articleRadiation and Cancer: Risks of Leukemia in Nuclear Workers More Than Double Previous Estimate
Ian Fairlie - CounterPunch,
19 Oct 2015
16 Oct 2015 – In 2013, I discussed several epidemiological studies providing good evidence of radiogenic risks at very low exposure levels. A powerful new study has been published in Lancet Haematology which adds to this evidence. However the study’s findings are more important than the previous studies, for several reasons.
→ read full articleThe Elephant in the Room: Capitalism and Sustainable Development
Garry Leech - CounterPunch,
19 Oct 2015
Capitalism requires a constantly expanding production and consumption of goods, which can only be achieved through the increased exploitation of the planet’s natural resources at an unsustainable rate. Because of this reality, sustainable development cannot be achieved without a dramatic reduction in the levels of production and consumption, which directly contradicts the growth logic that drives capitalism.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli accordi di pace in Colombia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Terapia: Per alleviare la sofferenza e ridurre la disuguaglianza si debbono migliorare le condizioni dei ceti sociali più bassi. Si cominci: dei 32 dipartimenti [territoriali] si selezionino i 3 più miserabili per vita media e inoltre i 3 meno violenti; dei 1.119 comuni si scelga il 10% più miserabile e il 10% meno violento.
→ read full articleTTIP: The Aristocracy Aren’t Satisfied – They Demand More
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
19 Oct 2015
Anyone who wants to know the mechanisms by which Obama’s mega ‘trade’ treaties — TTIP, TPP, and TISA — will operate, can find that machinery (the basic means to enslave the public to the aristocrats) described here. And here is a description of the family that will benefit the most from these agreements.
→ read full articleAfter Ankara: Why Erdogan and NATO’s Strategy Is in Ruins
Tariq Ali – CounterPunch,
19 Oct 2015
Tariq Ali: Turkey (leaving aside the Gulf States for the moment) was the principal promoter of ISIS as a new force to bring down Assad. Without this support ISIS could not have proceeded so far, so fast. A stalemate was finally broken by Putin’s recent demarche.
→ read full articleProfessor Dietrich Fischer, Ph.D., Co-Founder of TRANSCEND, Passed Away Today, 18 October 2015
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND in 1993 with myself and Fumiko Nishimura left us today after a short hospital stay in coma, basically due to his diabetes for many years. Let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
→ read full articleSchool Shootings in the USA: 10 Points
Johan Galtung, 12 Oct 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
The Oregon community college was the 45th school shooting this year in America; the 142nd school shooting since the Newton massacre in 2012. 25% of women experience domestic violence, 6 million children witness it every year, 28% of children are bullied during the year and they are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide. What can be done?
→ read full article(Italiano) Politica USA contro sfidanti: 10 punti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
La giovane repubblica degli Stati Uniti, non disposta a spartire il litorale Atlantico con Londra, emerse vittoriosamente nel 1812 con un forte esercito centrato nel Sud. Il Destino Manifesto puntava a Ovest, poi anche a Sud, e, sostituendosi al morente impero spagnolo nel 1898, al mondo intero.
→ read full articleFusion Reactors ‘Economically Viable’ Say Experts
Science Daily, Durham University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Fusion reactors could become an economically viable means of generating electricity within a few decades, and policy makers should start planning to build them as a replacement for conventional nuclear power stations, according to new research.
→ read full articleOctober: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
5 Oct 2015
October 4, 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite, as the Space Age began. U.S. government leaders concerned that a missile capable of launching satellites might soon be able to place a nuclear warhead on U.S. or allied territory led to fears of a “missile gap.”
→ read full article(Deutsch) Japan – 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende
Eiichi Kido - Informationsstelle Militarisierung-IMI,
5 Oct 2015
Erinnerungskultur – Pazifismus-Gebot – Remilitarisierung? Wird Deutschland damit die Militarisierung und die Verneinung der Rechtstaatlichkeit Japans weiter unterstützen? Das würde viele BürgerInnen in Japan stark enttäuschen, die für Freiheit, Frieden und Demokratie engagiert sind, weil sie in Deutschland ein Vorbild sehen.
→ read full articleThe Colombia Peace Accords
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
Therapy: To alleviate suffering and reduce inequality the bottom has to be lifted up. Get started, of 32 departments select the 3 most miserable by low average lifespan and the 3 least violent; of 1119 municipalities select the 10% most miserable and 10% least violent.
→ read full articleRight Livelihood Awards 2015: The Laureates
The Right Livelihood Award Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
2015 Right Livelihood Awards honour courageous and effective solutions to secure human rights and respond to global crises.
→ read full articleRussia and Iran Are Coordinating in Syria to Preserve Regional Stability
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
5 Oct 2015
Similar to Russian-Chinese cooperation in Eastern Eurasia and Asia-Pacific region, Iran and Russia are collaborating together in the Middle East and the central portion of Eurasia. From the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus to the Levant and the Mediterranean Sea, Tehran and Moscow have been acting as forces of stability.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, Peace for Ethnic Rights
Maung Zarni – International New York Times,
28 Sep 2015
Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups must stand together and hold out on signing the nationwide cease-fire until all of them are included in the deal and they have secured concrete military and political concessions. If the government is as serious as it claims about wanting peace, it must let go of its oppressively majoritarian mind-set and recognize ethnic minorities’ legitimate aspirations for more autonomy.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’asse del male
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
La NATO è spaccata, con Germania e Francia in contrasto con gli USA che vogliono che l’Ucraina, neonazista o meno, contrasti la Russia e la Cina. L’opposizione franco –tedesca può voler dire liberazione dell’UE dagli USA. Leggendo i segni premonitori sul muro, i grossi stati UE possono non voler affossarsi con gli USA. Interpretando questi segni, può darsi che gli USA si preparino esattamente a tale scopo.
→ read full articleU.S.-Trained Fighters in Syria Gave Equipment to Al-Qaeda Affiliate
Karen DeYoung – The Washington Post,
28 Sep 2015
In a statement correcting earlier assertions that reports of the turnover were a “lie” and a militant propaganda ploy, the command said it was subsequently notified that the Syrian unit had “surrendered” some of its equipment — including six pickup trucks and a portion of its ammunition — to Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria.
→ read full articleUS Policy toward Challengers: 10 Points
Johan Galtung,
28 Sep 2015
The young US Republic, unwilling to share the Atlantic Seaboard with London, emerged victoriously in 1812 with a strong army centered in the South. Manifest Destiny pointed West, then also South, and, stepping into the shoes of the dying Spanish empire in 1898, to the whole world.
→ read full articleYemen as Laboratory: Why Is the West So Silent about This Savage War?
Martha Mundy - CounterPunch,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence?
→ read full articleThe Next American Revolution (Trailer)
Gar Alperovitz – Media Education Foundation,
28 Sep 2015
Pointing to efforts already under way in thousands of communities across the U.S., from co-ops and community land trusts to municipal, state, and federal initiatives that promote entrepreneurship and sustainability, Alperovitz marshals years of research to show how bottom-up strategies can work to check monopolistic corporate power, democratize wealth, and empower communities.
→ read full article17 Sustainable Peace Goals [21 Sep Int’l Day of Peace]: The TRANSCEND Approach
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations is adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with nothing about peace. Here are 17 Sustainable Peace Goals, based on much experience, for consideration and comment.
→ read full article(Português) Onde Augusto Boal investiga a ‘banalidade do mal’
Ovidio Poli Junior – Outras Palavras,
21 Sep 2015
Em dois livros quase desconhecidos, dramaturgo narra sua prisão pela ditadura. Não faz panfleto: quer enxergar engrenagens que transformam tortura em ritual quase burocrático. Leitura difícil porque gráfica, do dia-a-dia dos prisioneiros e das torturas físicas e psicológicas. Documentos históricos.
→ read full articleInternational Day of Peace – 21 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
The United Nations invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.
→ read full articleFrom the Dept of Sacred Satire: God Responds to Kim Davis
Rob Okun, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
To: Kim Davis
From: God
Re: My Authority
I’m writing to clarify my position on your citing Me as the reason you refused to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The Axis of Evil
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
NATO is split, Germany-France opposing the USA, which wants Ukraine, neo-Nazi or not, to contain Russia and China. German-French opposition may spell EU liberation from USA. Reading the signs on the wall, big EU states may not want to go down with the USA. Reading the sign-readers, the USA may prepare for exactly that.
→ read full articleWhen Senegalese Writer Fatou Diome Kicked European Union Butt
Oumar Ba, Africa Is a Country – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
“It’s as if letting them drown is used as a deterrent to prevent migrants from coming to Europe. But let me tell you something: that doesn’t deter anyone… because the individual who is migrating as a survival instinct, who believes that the life they are living isn’t worth much, he’s not afraid of death. Sir, you guys will not remain like little goldfish in the European fortress. “
→ read full articleISIS Is US: The Empire and the Evil Genie It Released
Paul Street - CounterPunch,
21 Sep 2015
Choosing ISIS and the Saudi Kingdom over Assad and Iran—in the Name of Democracy – Rosa Luxembourg got it right: it was socialism or barbarism. Adding in the problem of climate change, the Pope appears to agree with Istvan Meszaros’ ecological update of Rosa for the warming 21st century: “or barbarism if we’re lucky.”
→ read full article(Italiano) Islam e Occidente: strade verso la pace
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Conflitto principale: non Israele contro Palestina, ma Israele-USA contro il mondo musulmano. La sciagurata formula “giudaico-cristiana” esclude la terza religione abramitica, l’Islam. USA e Israele si costituirono come paesi scelti dalle loro divinità con terre promesse abitate da Altri. Requisiti minimi qui sono la piena autonomia e dignità per gli spossessati.
→ read full articleInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – 26 Sep 2015
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
As of 2015, some 16,000 nuclear weapons remain. Countries possessing such weapons have well-funded, long-range plans to modernize their nuclear arsenals. More than half of the world’s population still lives in countries that either have such weapons or are members of nuclear alliances.
→ read full articleIslam and the West: Roads toward Peace
Johan Galtung, 14 Sep 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Major conflict: not Israel vs Palestine but Israel-USA vs the Muslim world. The unfortunate “Judeo-Christianity” formula excludes the third Abrahamic religion, Islam. USA and Israel came into being as chosen by their gods with promised lands inhabited by Others. Full autonomy and dignity for the dispossessed are minimum requirements. Migrants should be received by those who caused the problem; for Syria-Iraq, above all USA; for Africa, above all the colonial powers.
→ read full article“Radiation Is Good for You!” And Other Tall Tales of the Nuclear Industry
Karl Grossman - CounterPunch,
14 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015 – The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering a move to eliminate the “Linear No-Threshold” basis of radiation protection that the U.S. has used for decades and replace it with the “radiation hormesis” theory—which holds that low doses of radioactivity are good for people.
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia degli studi per la pace: Descartes-Vico-Taoismo e l’Europa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Intervento introduttivo, European Peace Research Association, Tromsö, Norvegia – L’epistemologia è la branca della filosofia che si occupa della conoscenza valida; e il punto focale di questa conferenza è la pace in Europa. Viviamo in un mondo meraviglioso benedetto da molte civiltà, ciascuna delle quali con un’epistemologia, e in un continente con una ricca varietà. Mio compito è attingere a qualcosa di tutto ciò e applicarlo alla politica di pace dell’Europa.
→ read full articleThe US and the Militarization of Latin America
Eric Draitser - CounterPunch,
14 Sep 2015
The United States is countering the independent development of Latin American countries by using its military power and influence. Whether this allows the Empire to reassert control, or is simply a doomed attempt at reestablishing hegemony, only time will tell.
→ read full article(Italiano) La scottante attualità di Fanon
Raúl Zibechi, Commune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Alla decolonizzazione del pensiero critico e delle pratiche di emancipazione ispirate dallo psichiatra nero della Martinica, Raúl Zibechi ha dedicato il suo ultimo libro. In questo articolo riassume le cinque principali ragioni della straordinaria attualità politica della lezione antirazzista e antieurocentrica di Fanon, un pensatore lontano dall’accademia che ha messo la vita intera al servizio della lotta anticoloniale in Algeria e nel mondo.
→ read full articleBurma: Divisive Ceasefire Won’t Bring Peace
Maung Zarni and Saw Kapi, DVB – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Burma’s leaders, particularly generals past and present, lack both genuine acceptance of multi-ethnic peace on equal terms and an appreciation for the decades of bitter experiences of war-torn communities. Without these two essential pillars, sustainable peace in my country of birth is not conceivable, formal ceasefire or not.
→ read full articleGaza Could Become Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years Due to Ongoing ‘De-Development’– UN Report
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – A new report by UNCTAD warns that the Gaza Strip could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 if current economic trends persist. In addition to eight years of economic blockade, over the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated infrastructure, and left no time for reconstruction and economic recovery.
→ read full articleRegime Change Refugees: On the Shores of Europe
Vijay Prashad - CounterPunch,
7 Sep 2015
The West believes that it is acceptable for it to overthrow governments and bomb its enemies in the lands of the Third World. It sees this as the limit of its humanitarian interventionism or, in the language of the UN, “responsibility to protect” (R2P). When it breaks states, as it did in Libya, the West takes no responsibility for the broken lives of the people in those zones.
→ read full articleU.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame – This Is Insane
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations’ responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this American bombing-campaign in Libya, and then by the one in Syria.
→ read full article“Swarms” Entering the UK? What We Can Still Learn about the Migrant Crisis from Che Guevara
Susan Babbitt - CounterPunch,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel-prize-winning author, Gabriel García Márquez, noticed in Cuba “the near mystical conviction that the greatest achievement of the human being is the proper formation of conscience”. Guevara is part of the legacy. He saw moral, not material incentives driving the world forward, meaning by “moral” the broader, more interesting sense of experiencing humanness. This means that it is not virtuous to pursue solidarity but practical.
→ read full articleSeptember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
September 4, 1978 – War Resisters League (WRL) members and their supporters demonstrated against nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear power plants simultaneously in Red Square near the Kremlin in Moscow and on the White House front lawn in Washington, DC.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Der „unsichtbare“ Krieg gegen den IS – Ein Blick auf die Folgen
Michael Haid - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
7 Sep 2015
25. August 2015 – Der Krieg aus der Luft mit Kampfflugzeugen, Hubschraubern, Marschflugkörpern oder Drohnen für Angriffe auf Einzelpersonen oder Personengruppen sowie als Kampfunterstützung für am Boden eingesetzte eigene Einheiten oder für verbündete Kriegsparteien scheint in den vergangenen Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen zu haben.
→ read full articleCultural Imperialism and Perception Management: How Hollywood Hides US War Crimes
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Strategic Culture Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
There is an unspoken, yet very clear, bond between Hollywood and the US government that overtly supports US foreign policy. The movie industry in Hollywood has been active in hiding US war crimes and sanitizing the US military campaigns.
→ read full articlePeace Studies Epistemology: Descartes-Vico-Daoism
Johan Galtung,
7 Sep 2015
Keynote, European Peace Research Association – Tromsö, Norway.
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy dealing with valid knowledge; and the focus of this conference is peace in Europe. We live in a wonderful world blessed with many civilizations each with an epistemology, and in a continent with rich diversity. My task is to draw on some of this, and apply it to the peace politics of Europe.
Humanize, Not Modernize
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
In the Nuclear Age, our technological capacity for destruction has outpaced our spiritual and moral capacity to control these destructive technologies. The Foundation is a voice for those committed to exercising conscience and choosing a decent future for all humanity.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Flucht und ihre Ursachen
Johannes Becker und Ulrike Krause - Wissenschaft und Frieden Online,
31 Aug 2015
22. August 2015 – 2014 waren fast 60 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht und 2015 wird diese Zahl wohl weiterhin steigen, wobei die meisten Menschen vor gewaltsamen Konflikten und Verfolgung flohen und fliehen. Obwohl das politische Ziel der Fluchtursachenbekämpfung von der deutschen Regierung immer wieder betont wird, bleiben eben diese Parallelen zwischen Konflikt und Flucht vernachlässigt. Seit Jahren. Mit fatalen Folgen.
→ read full articleThe Korean Peninsula: A View of the Future
Johan Galtung, 31 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
I rejected any idea of one collapsing and the other taking over–“the German model”. Unification is symmetric, neutral, a nuclear-free UN-monitored Korean peninsula with non-provocative, defensive defense. However, there is a need for the Koreas to look beyond and not fall into the U-trap of unification only. They need a vision of the future beyond themselves, with projects.
→ read full articleThe Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators?
Colin Todhunter - CounterPunch,
31 Aug 2015
The US government is to blame for glyphosate onto the commercial market because of a global campaign to support the US biotech industry to dominate global agriculture. Our health is being sacrificed for the commercial interests of a few powerful corporations. At the very least, the public would like regulators to regulate, not product promote.
→ read full articlePrivatization Is at the Core of Fascism
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
31 Aug 2015
Privatizations are increasingly fashionable, such as in Greece, Ukraine, the U.S., and UK — and privatizations are a central feature of fascism. The core of fascism is the idea that there is some elite, whether ‘Aryan’ or ‘chosen by God,’ or otherwise, who should run things, and that everyone else exists in order to serve that elite.
→ read full articleToward a Northeast Asian Community
Johan Galtung, 24 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Abe’s policy of “collective self-defense”, an alliance with the most belligerent country in the world, USA, with 248 military interventions abroad since 1805–78 after the Second World War– is a policy of national insecurity.
→ read full articleAnonymous Hacks Israeli Government, Officials Blame Hamas, So They Hack Again to Prove It Was Them
Zeidy David – Counter Current News,
24 Aug 2015
August 16, 2015 – This past week we reported on a new wave of #OpIsrael attacks by Anonymous on the State of Israel. A new attack, being termed #OpBurnedAlive was reported on in an article entitled Anonymous Hacks Israel After Police Release Terrorist Who Murdered Toddler
→ read full article
Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony – Canada
Nuno Ramalho, PeaceQuest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony takes place every year on August 6 to remember the atomic bombings by the United States of America over Japan.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Code of Silence Is Deafening
Colin Todhunter - CounterPunch,
24 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 – In his book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, US public interest attorney Steven Druker exposed the fraudulent practices and deceptions that led to the commercialisation of GM food and crops in the US. He followed up by delivering a challenge to Monsanto’s headquarters on May 20, 2015 calling on the company to address the evidence presented in the book.
→ read full articleMyths of the Green Revolution and GMOs
A backgrounder by Dr Vandana Shiva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 – I wrote a book for the United Nations University titled ‘The Violence of the Green Revolution’, which has been republished by many publishers globally, including the Kentucky University Press. Extracts from the book are available on Google.
→ read full articleScotland Bans Growing GM Crops
Stephen Lendman - CounterPunch,
24 Aug 2015
12 Aug 2015 – Independent evidence shows GM foods and ingredients harm human health. UN General Assembly measures and international humanitarian laws say all nations are responsible for protecting the health, safety and welfare of their people. Harmful to human health GMOs should be universally banned. Scotland acted responsibly.
→ read full articleSustainable Debt — And West-Russia-China-Japan?
Johan Galtung, 17 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The game is dirty and has lasted 70 years. The formula for big profit is simple: give credit to a country poor enough not to be able to pay it off quickly, yet not so poor that it cannot go on servicing the loan for years. To be worthwhile the project must be capital-intensive, like (air)ports and highways to the (air)ports for import-export, assembling cars–something for the rich.
→ read full articleMeet ‘Moderates’ U.S. Is Supporting in Syria: They’re Al-Qaeda
Eric Zuesse, Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
13 Aug 2015 – Increasing evidence is coming in that the groups the U.S. is trying to install into power in Syria are actually contending groups of Sunni Islamic jihadists who seem to agree on only one thing: they want to replace the secular government of the Shiite Bashar al-Assad with a Sunni Islamic government. In Syria, al-Qaeda goes under the name Jabhat al-Nusra.
→ read full article(Italiano) Norvegia rivisitata: Due crisi – una chiazza di petrolio – e…?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
La Norvegia, in cima all’indicatore ONU per la buona vita da anni, è ora colpita da due diverse crisi; una per l’aspetto meno sviluppato e una per il più sviluppato. Eppure i cittadini sono protetti da una massiccia chiazza di petrolio, il maggior fondo sovrano al mondo, il Fondo Pensioni Governativo per una popolazione in corso d’invecchiamento quando il petrolio si prosciugherà.
→ read full articleHow I Learned to Hate Animals
Jon Hochschartner - CounterPunch,
17 Aug 2015
How are we socialized into accepting systematic violence against animals? Like anything else, I think we learn the rationales for non-human exploitation in drips and drops. This education — or more accurately, miseducation — probably takes place throughout our lifespan, with different answers formulated to meet our ideological needs at different times and places.
→ read full articleCall It Murder: The Ecological Basis for Hawai’i’s De-Occupation
Will Falk - CounterPunch,
17 Aug 2015
A new generation of Kanaka Maoli that have been educated in the country’s first language immersion schools after the legality of the Hawaiian language was restored in 1978 understand their nation’s history, understand the genocide their people have endured, and are demanding that the United States leave. Right now, most of the arguments for de-occupation rely on appeals to justice.
→ read full articleGreece: Raped, Humiliated, Frightened but Standing!
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch,
17 Aug 2015
In the recent history, Greece already lost countless sons and daughters during the German, Italian and Bulgarian fascist occupation. It was also choked by North American and British imperialism, which supported Greek military and its horrid dictatorship. That is when the Pinochet-style disappearances, torture, and assassinations took place. Hundreds of thousands of Greek patriots had to flee, and seek asylum at distant shores.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Syrien: Wie Luftabwehr und Völkerrecht ausgehebelt wurden
Christoph Marischka - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
17 Aug 2015
Planlose Außenpolitik der USA?
→ read full articleThe Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
10 Aug 2015
When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s ability to govern the country without physically removing him from office. The idea is simple: Deploy US-backed “jihadi” proxies to capture-and-hold vast sections of the country thereby making it impossible for the central government to control the state.
→ read full articleNorway Revisited: Two Crises-An Oil Slick-And?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Norway, on top of the UN indicator of good life for years, is now hit by two different crises; one for the less developed aspect and one for the more developed. Yet the citizens are protected by a massive oil slick, the biggest sovereign fund in the world, the Government Pension Fund for an aging population when oil dries out.
→ read full articleU.S. Is Destroying Europe
Eric Zuesse – Strategic Culture Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
In Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries at the periphery or edges of Europe, U.S. President Barack Obama has been pursuing a policy of destabilization, and even of bombings and other military assistance, that drives millions of refugees out of those peripheral areas and into Europe, thereby adding fuel to the far-rightwing fires of anti-immigrant rejectionism, and of resultant political destabilization, throughout Europe, not only on its peripheries, but even as far away as in northern Europe.
→ read full articleReflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing some 90,000 people immediately and another 55,000 by the end of 1945. Three days later, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing some 40,000 people immediately and another 35,000 by the end of 1945.
→ read full articleIn Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The heat of summer is oppressive.
Children pass by in groups, chattering.
August: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
August 6, 1945 – Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets piloted the 509th Composite Group’s B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay, in honor of the pilot’s mother, from Tinian in the Marianas chain of Pacific Ocean islands to Hiroshima, Japan where the enriched uranium-fueled fission bomb code named “Little Boy” was dropped over a city of a quarter million inhabitants at 8:15:17 a.m. local time.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone rivisitato
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Guerra, colonialismo, atrocità sono state considerate l’essenza del Giappone, accidentali in Germania. Ecco all’opera il razzismo occidentale: impunità per i bianchi, non per i gialli. Giudicato dalle potenze coloniali occidentali i cui crimini coloniali gridano al cielo rispetto a quel che fece il Giappone. Me compreso, che ho attribuito il colonialismo occidentale al Giappone. Chiedo scusa.
→ read full articleJournalists around the World Stand Up in Support of Netzpolitik after Outrageous ‘Treason’ Investigation
Trevor Timm – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
5 Aug 2015 – Last week, the German government informed the popular news site Netzpolitik that two of its journalists were under investigation for treason for reporting on their government’s mass surveillance programs – in other words they were being investigated for doing their job.
→ read full articleJapan Revisited
Johan Galtung, 3 Aug 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
War, colonialism, atrocities were seen as the essence of Japan, as accidental in Germany. Western racism at work: impunity for white people-not for yellow. Judged by Western colonial powers whose colonial crimes cry to the heavens relative to what Japan did. Including me, attributing Western colonialism to Japan. Sorry.
→ read full articleHumanitarian Occupation of Haiti: 100 Years and Counting
Mark Schuller - CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
There are several parallels between the contemporary aid regime and the U.S. Marine administration. First and foremost, foreign troops are on the ground, controlling the country; the military regimes operated with complete immunity and impunity. Second, a new constitution was installed, centralizing power in the executive. Third, both occupations involved Haiti’s gold resources.
→ read full articleWake Up!
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The alarm is sounding.
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the bells
of Nagasaki
ringing out for peace?
Big Pharma’s Profiteers: You Want Us to Pay What for These Meds?
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
Drug makers are even not above scaring the populace if it sells drugs for rare diseases. Your back pain may not be from working out at all but from a disease called ankylosing spondylitis, says AbbVie, a condition that can be treated with its biologic drug Humira for as much as $20,000 a year. (Injectable “biologic” drugs are a new drug industry push because they are so expensive and less susceptible to generic competition than pills.)
→ read full article(Italiano) Dalla sicurezza alla pace: un cambiamento di paradigm
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
L’accordo è stato fra un Iran con 0 bombe e i 5 membri del Consiglio di Sicurezza ONU+1 + l’UE con 16,565 bombe (con altre 20 bombe USA in Germania, 240 nell’UE, e 80? in Israele). In un accordo c’è in genere un dare e prendere da entrambe le parti; l’Iran ha dato, dall’altra hanno smesso di picchiare con le sanzioni, dando nulla. Ci diranno che “le sanzioni funzionano” e ci proporranno altre dosi di quest’approccio molto negativo.
→ read full articleThe Logic of Illogic: Narrow Self-Interest Keeps Israel’s “Existential Threats” Alive
Andrew Levine – CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
Israel thrives on “existential threats;” one could say that it survives on them. But for existential threats, Israeli Jews would be at each other’s throats and “diaspora” money would stop flowing in.
→ read full articleDeath by Debt in Greece: My Response to the German Finance Ministry
Jeffrey Sachs - Süddeutsche Zeitung,
3 Aug 2015
While the policy prescription of Dr. Ludger Schuknecht, senior economist at the Germany Finance Ministry, is certainly correct most of the time – countries should repay their debts and take the reform actions necessary to do so – it is also sometimes wrong. It was wrong in the case of Weimar Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s. It was wrong in the case of many Latin American countries in the 1980s. It was certainly wrong in Poland in 1989.
→ read full articleObama Walks Fine Line in Kenya on LGBTI Rights
Aruna Dutt, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
But LGBTI [Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex] Kenyans are not in agreement about whether Obama’s presence will help or hurt their struggle, according to the Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Jessica Stern.
→ read full articleThey Say Paraguay Is in Africa: Mosaic of Horror
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch,
27 Jul 2015
Almost everything that could went wrong for the Paraguayan people, or at least for its indigenous majority. Before Evo Morales became the President, Bolivia had been the most destitute country in South America. Paraguay was slightly “above it” – the second poorest nation. Now, most likely, it is the most deprived.
→ read full articleMyanmar [Burma]: How the Rohingya and Other Resident Minorities Became Disenfranchised
Luicy Pedroza, European University Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
17 Jul 2015 – Over the past weeks, the plight of Rohingya refugees has caught the eye of the international media. They are emigrants from Myanmar (Burma) who were adrift for weeks in the seas of South-East Asia after having fled from appalling living conditions in their native Myanmar, only to be firmly rebuffed by neighbouring countries who refused to admit them on their shores.
→ read full article(Italiano) Estetica: una strada per la pace?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
La figura centrale è un sultano, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, del regno di Bijapur nell’India Centrale, tra Mumbai e Goa; stiamo parlando dell’inizio del 17° secolo. Il sultano è descritto come “uno studioso erudito, suonatore di liuto, poeta, cantante, calligrafo, maestro di scacchi ed esteta”. Quale differenza rispetto ai governanti occidentali dotati di abilità politico-militari; quale somiglianza con i sovrani cinesi, imperatori, mandarini con poesia, calligrafia e altre arti come parte indelebile della loro legittimità.
→ read full articleFrom Security to Peace: A Paradigm Shift
Johan Galtung, 27 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
The deal was between Iran with 0 bombs and the UNSC 5+1 + EU with 16,565 (20 US bombs in Germany, 240 in EU, and Israel, 80? behind). In a deal there is usually give-and-take on both sides; Iran gave, they stopped beating with sanctions, and gave nothing. We will be told that “sanctions work” and get more of that very negative approach.
→ read full article