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What 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 articleNuclear 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.
→ read full article
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