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The 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) 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 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
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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 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 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 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 articleRohingyas, the Victims of Sustained Genocidal Persecution for Nearly 40 Years
Amine Tuna Ertürk - İHH İnsani ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi (Turkey),
27 Jul 2015
Interview with Dr Maung Zarni – “Humanitarianism is all well and fine. It plays an ameliorative role. But the root cause is politically and racially driven genocide. In situations of genocide, humanitarianism is woefully inadequate. It is a band-aid, not a cure.”
→ read full articleElephant in the Room: The Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Footprint
Lisa Savage - CounterPunch,
27 Jul 2015
According to its own study, in 2013 the Pentagon consumed fuel equivalent to 90,000,000 barrels of crude oil. This amounts to 80% of the total fuel usage by the federal government. If burned as jet fuel it produces about 38,700,000 metric tons of CO2. The Pentagon is also exempt from an executive order by President Obama requiring other federal agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
→ read full articleCapitalism, Engineered Dependencies and the Eurozone
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
27 Jul 2015
Syriza in Greece can be as ‘socialist’ as it wishes to be as long as the broad reorganization of society that the term implies ends at the foot of an armchair. The Troika, piling on to historical IMF structural adjustment policies, is fine with economic democracy as long as markets are open, public resources and processes are for sale to politically approved bidders, a capitalist banking system has free-rein over the creation and allocation of financial capital, labor is unorganized, desperate and pliable and public policies are dictated by external creditors.
→ read full article(Italiano) TPP-TTIP-Tisa: la soglia critica per la democrazia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Questo editoriale vede i tre accordi come una soglia critica per la democrazia; ma, verso dove? Lontano dalla democrazia come processo del e da parte del popolo, e lontano dalla democrazia come società per il popolo, eccetto che nel senso di prezzi più bassi. Addio Lincoln.
→ read full article(Italiano) T-tip, il nostro futuro greco
Francesco Martone, Comune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 luglio 2015 – Per uno paradosso o una significativa coincidenza lo stesso giorno nel quale processava Alexis Tsipras, il parlamento europeo avrebbe votato il rapporto Lange sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-tip). Raffigurazioni plastiche ed evidenti di come il progetto europeo di spazio di cittadinanza comune abbia ceduto il passo a quello elitario dell’austerity, e dell’ordoliberismo a tutti i costi, ed agli interessi delle imprese e dei mercati anche a costo della sopravvivenza di uomini e donne in carne ed ossa.
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Deal, a Great Achievement, but Hard Work Ahead
Prof. Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015 – The announcement of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is a rare moment in history that gives us hope and provides a basis for optimism. By contemplating what the alternative would have entailed, any agreement, no matter how defective, is a great achievement and has to be welcomed.
→ read full articleRacism: Focus on Myanmar’s Islamophobia!
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal – Asian Tribune,
20 Jul 2015
Racism sponsored or promoted by a state, like terrorism of all sorts, remains an ugly embodiment of modern corrupt civilization. Today, in the post Sept-11 hoax setting, Islamophobia and media targeting of Muslims serve the racial cause for brutality in many anti-Muslim nations.
→ read full articleCongratulations and Thank You, Iran!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
It is a revolution – namely, solving problems at the table rather than through yet another failed, counterproductive and self-defeating Western war on a Middle Eastern country. A victory for nonviolence and intelligence over violence and human folly; for civilisation, for civilised manners – and with the “object” itself being a civilisation.
→ read full articleAesthetics as One Road to Peace?
Johan Galtung, 20 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The focus is on one Sultan, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of the central Indian kingdom of Bijapur, between Mumbai and Goa; we are talking about early 17th century. The Sultan is described as “an erudite scholar, a lute player, poet, singer, calligrapher, chess master and aesthete”. How different from Western rulers with military-political skills; how similar to many Chinese rulers, emperors, mandarins with poetry, calligraphy and more as indelible part of their legitimacy.
→ read full article(Italiano) OXI o NAI?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
OXI, No, ce l’ha fatta, come ci si aspettava, con il 61%. Un gran giorno per la Democrazia, per la Grecia, per l’Europa, per il mondo.
→ read full articleOne Lesson from Srebrenica
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
12 Jul 2015 – World is busy commemorating yet another anniversary of a genocide. One major lesson from Srebrenica is that there is no lesson learned or incorporated into today’s responses to Myanmar’s genocide. The world of power and influence is in the final instance a world of shameful deeds, dishonest policies and business-as-usual inhumanity. Sad, unconscionable and outrageous – but painfully true.
→ read full articleTPP-TTIP-Tisa: A Tipping Edge from Democracy
Johan Galtung, 13 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
This editorial sees the three agreements as a tipping edge from democracy; but, to what? Away from democracy as a process ‘of and by’ the people, and away from democracy as a society ‘for’ the people, except in the sense of lower prices. Goodbye Lincoln.
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Johan Galtung on the Greek Drama Unfolding
Naakow Grant-Hayford and Johan Galtung,
13 Jul 2015
11 Jul 2015 – Naakow Grant-Hayford’s Skype interview with Johan Galtung: OXI, NAI, Tsipras, Varoufakis, IMF, Troika, Financial Crisis, Conflict Resolution…
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
July 1, 1968 – The U.S., U.K., the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Preamble of the agreement, which today includes 191 state parties, referred explicitly to the need for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which has not yet been realized due mostly to the U.S. Senate’s unwillingness to ratify it.
→ read full articleUnited Church of Christ Votes [80%] to Boycott & Divest from Companies Profiting from Israel’s Occupation
United Church of Christ Palestine-Israel Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
June 30, 2015 – UCC PIN hopes that this modest initiative will help encourage the Israeli government to end the occupation.
→ read full articleNot Just Apologies but Repentance
Nassrine Azimi – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
Few countries have been as mired in as much warfare within as brief a period of history as the United States. Since WWII, the number of revolutions, coups d’état, invasions and wars it has directly or indirectly instigated has been staggering. The United States has yet to apologize for unleashing nuclear terror on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleOXI or NAI?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
OXI, No, made it, as expected, with 61%. A great day for Democracy, for Greece, for Europe, for the world.
→ read full articleGreek Crisis Awaits Other NATO Partners
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
The US military-industrial complex and its German, French and British counterparts stand to rake in billions of dollars over the coming years from the junior NATO members who are suitably scared witless from the “Russian spectre”. But if the history of militarism in Greece is anything to go by, a Greek-style debt crisis is in store for the Baltic states, Poland and the Scandinavians. US-led NATO protection? More like US-led NATO protection racket.
→ read full articleA New Mode of Warfare: The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets
Michael Hudson - CounterPunch,
6 Jul 2015
I’m in Germany now and have heard from Germans that the Greeks are lazy and don’t pay taxes. There is little recognition that what they call “the Greeks” are really the oligarchs. They have gained control of the old coalition Pasok/New Democracy parties, avoided paying taxes, avoided being prosecuted (New Democracy refused to act on the “Lagarde List” of tax evaders with nearly € 50 billion in Swiss bank accounts), orchestrated insider dealings to privatize infrastructure at corrupt prices, and used their banks as vehicles for capital flight and insider lending.
→ read full article(Italiano) La nemesi della razza
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
Ci è stato ammannito un dibattito ombra fra “delitto d’odio” e “terrorismo razziale, interno”, l’uno che la buttava sullo psicologico, l’altro sul politico. Va bene “assassinio”, legalmente. Ma è affiorato un altro dibattito ombra, su una bandiera a piena asta in cima al massimo edificio pubblico del South Carolina. Ci si può chiedere perché qualcuno non l’abbia tolta con discrezione; nessuno l’ha fatto, finché i candidati presidenziali non hanno temuto che potesse nuocere alla loro campagna.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Age at Seventy
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
The first explosion of a nuclear device took place at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Just three weeks later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days after that on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
→ read full articleThe Nemesis of Race
Johan Galtung, 29 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
We have been treated to a shadow debate of “hate crime” vs “domestic, racial terrorism”, one psychologizing, one politicizing. “Murder” will do, legally. But another shadow debate came up, about a flag on full mast on top of the key public building in South Carolina. One may wonder why somebody did not discretely remove it; nobody did, till presidential candidates feared it could hurt their campaigns.
→ read full articleWhy We Should All Be Indebted to Syriza: Three Victories of the Greek Government
Jacques Sapir - CounterPunch,
29 Jun 2015
It is from now on clear that the Greek Government has achieved a spectacular victory. It has been improperly labeled ‘a government of the radical left’ or ‘the Syriza government’, but in reality it is a coalition (and the fact that this union has been made with the ‘sovereignist’* party ANEL is significant).
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council—Report of Independent Commission: Israel’s Ravagement of Gaza
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch,
29 Jun 2015
Norman Pollack examines Israel’s array of war crimes.
→ read full articleOutrageus Attempt at Killing a Deal with Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
29 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015 – Internal elite power games in Washington are now putting Middle Eastern and global stability and peace at stake. The Iran nuclear issue can only be solved through mutual respect, dialogue and fairness and a principled policy that precludes the idea of “one set of rules for you and one for us”.
→ read full article(Italiano) Papa Francesco: teologia spirituale, liberatoria
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Che dono per l’umanità, questo papa! Scegliere il mutamento climatico globale come tema fra i principali del suo papato è nello spirito dei tempi. Ciò che è rivoluzionario, ed egli usa sovente la parola, è il punto focale sui poveri. Grazie, papa Francesco, per il tuo punto focale: la violenza strutturale.
→ read full articleThe Contrasting Fates of Tunisia and Libya
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
22 Jun 2015
Four years later, the current political situation in these two neighboring North African states could not be more different. The reason has much to do with how their authoritarian regimes were overthrown.
→ read full articlePope Francis: Spiritual, Liberating Theology
Johan Galtung, 22 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
What a gift to humanity, this Pope! To choose global climate change as a major theme of his papacy is in the spirit of the times. What is revolutionary, and he uses that word often, is the focus on the poor. Thank you, Pope Francis, for your focus–structural violence.
→ read full article(Italiano) Nel frattempo, sbocciano grandi narrative
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Il declino e la caduta: della presa dell’Impero USA sul mondo; dell’Occidente; del sistema statuale – con il sorgere del sistema delle transnazionali, delle organizzazioni governative internazionali, delle ONG, delle regioni, delle nazioni, delle autorità locali; il sorgere dell’Est e del Sud, della Cina – molti dettagli passano per il tavolo di un capo-redattore, ispirando qualche ripensamento.
→ read full article(Italiano) “Farla franca con l’omicidio”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
È il titolo della (come al solito) brillante analisi di Susan George sulla situazione bancaria dopo il collasso bancario USA dell’ 11 settembre 2001 e il crollo del 2008.
→ read full article
Why Are We Being Fed by [Monsanto] a Poison Expert?
The Undercurrent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
Jun 5, 2015 – Is the ‘old’ Monsanto, the one responsible for producing Agent Orange, PCB’s and DDT and a terrible record at covering up and denying the tragedies that have resulted from their use, the same as the ‘new’ Monsanto, the one at the forefront of research in plant gene technology?
→ read full articleMeanwhile, with Great Narratives Unfolding
Johan Galtung, 15 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The decline and fall of the US Empire’s grip on the world; of the West; of the state-system–with the rise of the TNC-IGO-NGO system, regions, nations, local authorities; the rise of the East and the South; of China–many details cross an editor’s desk; inspiring some rethinking.
→ read full article“Getting Away with Murder”
Johan Galtung,
9 Jun 2015
is the title of Susan George’s (as usual) brilliant analysis of the banking situation after the US banking 9/11, the 2008 crash.
→ read full article8 June: World Oceans Day
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The ocean is the heart of our planet. Like your heart pumping blood to every part of your body, the ocean connects people across the Earth, no matter where we live. It regulates the climate, feeds millions of people, produces oxygen, is the home to an incredible array of wildlife, provides us with important medicines, and so much more!
→ read full article(Italiano) Un avvertimento contro l’argomentazione di Kaplan per cui “È tempo di riportare l’imperialismo in Medio Oriente”
Johan Galtung e Naakow Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
Piuttosto li si aiuti a creare un califfato con le migliori qualità del suo predecessore ottomano: la tolleranza, i millet per le minoranze, addirittura la saldatura potenziale dello squarcio fra sunniti e sciiti. Si usi il peacekeeping militare per proteggere, difensivamente, le minoranze esposte e minacciate. Si negozi uno spazio per Israele. Ma non ci si perda in sterili rivalità di potere militari; già perse dagli USA.
→ read full articleJune: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
June 3, 1980 – President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was awakened by his military assistant, General William Odom, around 2:30 a.m. and informed that NORAD’s computers had detected a launch of 2,200 Soviet ICBMs heading for U.S. targets. The incident was one of many so-called “false warnings.”
→ read full articleBreaking the Promise to Russia
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
8 Jun 2015
President Bill Clinton decided to expand NATO’s membership to former members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact. George Kennan, America’s elder statesman on Russian issues, characterized it as the most dangerous foreign policy decision that the US had made since the end of the Second World War.
→ read full articleAs Nobel Winners Gather to Speak Out About Rohingya, Where is Myanmar’s [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi?
Robin McDowell, Associated Press – Star Tribune,
8 Jun 2015
The meeting featured video statements from Nobel laureates Desmond Tutu, José Ramos-Horta and Mairead Maguire, and others like philanthropist George Soros, who escaped Nazi-occupied Hungary.
→ read full article(Deutsch) IS-Terror Made in USA
Rainer Rupp - junge Welt,
8 Jun 2015
Ein am Wochenende bekanntgewordener, bisher streng geheimer Pentagon-Bericht beweist, dass die USA die Terrormiliz »Islamischer Staat in Irak und Syrien« (ISIS bzw. IS) geschaffen haben. Der IS sollte danach Washington als Werkzeug zum Sturz von Syriens Präsidenten Baschar Al-Assad und als Vorwand für die Rückkehr des US-Militärs in den Irak dienen.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons: Grand Bargain Is Not So Grand
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The five nuclear-armed countries that are parties to the NPT (US, Russia, UK, France and China) appear more comfortable working together to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals than they do to fulfilling their disarmament obligations under the treaty. Their common strategy appears to be “nuclear weapons forever.” The US plans to spend $1 trillion on modernizing its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades.
→ read full articleBurma’s Stateless Muslims: The World’s Most Persecuted Minority
Katrin Kuntz in Sittwe – Der Spiegel,
8 Jun 2015
In Burma, thousands of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority are fleeing persecution from Buddhists. Abused by smugglers, they are being turned away from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
→ read full articleThe Full Text of the Oslo Communique on Myanmar (Burma)
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Today (28 May, 2015) the Oslo Conference to End Myanmar’s Persecution of the Rohingya ended. It was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Voksenaasen. The call made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to end Myanmar’s genocide is supported by six additional Nobel Peace Laureates: Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi, Leymah Gbowee, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
→ read full articleAgainst Kaplan “Bring Imperialism Back to the Middle East”
Johan Galtung and Naakow Hayford,
1 Jun 2015
Rather, help them create a Caliphate with the best qualities of its Ottoman predecessor: tolerance, minority millets, even potentially bridging the Sunni-Shia gap. Use military peacekeeping to protect, defensively, exposed and threatened minorities. Negotiate space for Israel. But do not get lost in sterile military power rivalries; already lost by the USA.
→ read full articleThe Friends of Nukes Are Losing
Gunnar Westberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Jun 2015
There is more hope today for a ban on nuclear weapons than we have seen for twenty years. No less than 159 states agreed that they must be abolished. Even more important, 107 countries asked for legal measures for a prohibition of nuclear weapons – use, threat, production, storage.
→ read full articleMyanmar Officially Rejects the Oslo Conference to End Systematic Persecution of the Rohingya Since 1978
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Read press release from 31 May 2015.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Doppelte »Chance« – Westliches Interesse am »Islamischen Staat«
Rainer Rupp – junge Welt,
1 Jun 2015
Wären die sogenannten Qualitätsmedien, einschließlich Die Zeit, im Umgang mit der Wahrheit nicht so sparsam, wüsste der empörte Leser längst, dass der IS von den Mächtigen in Washington und den Hauptstädten der europäischen Verbündeten sehr schnell gestoppt werden könnte. Dadurch nämlich, dass die westlichen Regierungen aufhören, die salafistischen Gewaltextremisten insgeheim mit Waffen, Material und Geld zu unterstützen.
→ read full article(Italiano) Sulla violenza: suicidio, omicidio – e l’uno e l’altro
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2015
Ciò non vale per il terrorismo di stato a terra o dall’aria: l’omicidio di decine, centinaia di migliaia senza incorrere in rischi, né suicidi incorporati nell’atto, cioè più come un lavoro d’ufficio. Seppure il suicidio può arrivare in seguito, odiandosi per gli omicidi commessi.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Auf dem Weg zur EU-Armee (Teil I): Vereint marschieren
Sabine Lösing und Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
25 May 2015
Die Bündelung militärischer Fähigkeiten der Mitgliedsländer der Europäischen Union soll Kosten reduzieren und langfristig weltweiten Einfluss sichern.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Auf dem Weg zur EU-Armee (Teil II und Schluss): »Germanische Macht«
Sabine Lösing und Jürgen Wagner - Informationsstelle Militarisierung,
25 May 2015
Eine gemeinsame europäische Streitkraft wäre vor allem im Interesse der Bundesrepublik. Andere Mitgliedsstaaten stellen sich deshalb quer.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele, Germania, e tre vicini parenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
Nel bel mezzo del Medio Oriente c’è Israele, che culla sogni di un Israele ancor più grande che quello di re Davide. Gli stati seguiranno l’autorità morale del mondo d’oggi, papa Francesco, temendo di riconoscere la Palestina troppo tardi, tanto quanto temevano di farlo troppo presto. Il sionismo di Netanyahu è sconfitto, non militarmente ma moralmente.
→ read full article