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Myanmar and Its Manufacturing Genocidal Racism towards Rohingya
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
There was inter-ethnic solidarity for the Rohingya/Muslims of Arakan dating back to 17 May 1978. Now in 2014, even the Kachin Independence Organization’s spokesperson ex-Colonel James L. based in BKK denied any knowledge of Rohingya and denied showing any sympathy for the Rohingya.
→ read full article“Eternal, Undivided Jewish Capital”? – A Brief History of Jerusalem
Gary Leupp - CounterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
26 Nov 2014 – The most recent Zionist reiterations of the claim to “eternal” Jewish ownership of East Jerusalem—as part of an “undivided, eternal capital of Israel” as specified by a “Basic Law” passed by the Israeli Knesset in 1980—make me want to review the Bible tales about Israel and specifically the city of Jerusalem.
→ read full articleThanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans
Gilbert Mercier - ConterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundred years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the “land of the free, home of the brave” are a mere spin.
→ read full articleBurma’s Struggle for Democracy: A Critical Appraisal (DRAFT)
Maung Zarni with Trisha Taneja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Reclaiming Activism – Drawn upon the author’s direct political engagement in Burma’s pro-change opposition, and on his own research, to reflect critically on the struggle of the last twenty-five years between the ruling military and the opposition movements.
→ read full articleJust Torture?
Shunzo Majima, Journal of Military Ethics – Centre for Digital Philosophy,
1 Dec 2014
The purpose of this paper is to develop and analyse a possible theory of “just torture”, by reference to the framework of just war theory, which proposes moral criticism of war, in order that we can critically consider the morality or otherwise of torture, including that undertaken for interrogation purposes.
→ read full articleCivilization Clashes Occident-Orient?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The conflict? Buddhist historical rights vs Muslim human rights. No religious conversion to the other, no secular neither-nor, no half-Buddhist/half Muslim compromise, no both-and amalgam: Buddhism with State power is also exclusive . How about political solutions?
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Futuro della Mediazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
Per il miglioramento di sé competere con se stessi, non con altri, per una società di vincitori e sconfitti. Se s’impara il baricentro positivo, auto-miglioramento, buoni rapporti con equità e armonia, capacità di riconciliazione dei traumi e soluzione dei conflitti, si sarà ampiamente ricompensati con felicità e benessere.
→ read full articleDoes the Name “Strauss-Kahn” Ring a Bell? – Trotsky at the IMF
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
1 Dec 2014
Let’s face it; Strauss-Kahn was headed in a direction that wasn’t compatible with the interests of the cutthroats who run the IMF. That much is clear. Now whether these same guys concocted the goofy “honey trap” at the Sofitel Hotel, we may never know.
→ read full article(Italiano) Territori malesi: sicurezza e sovranità
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
La Malaysia ha recentemente esperito la massima insicurezza per due territori sovrani extra-territoriali: i voli Malaysian Airlines MH370 per Pechino e MH17 da Amsterdam. Se la Malaysia è stata vittima di un’aggressione, la risposta è la criminalizzazione. Per altri problemi la risposta è la rimozione delle cause di guerra, la soluzione dei conflitti sottostanti, e la costruzione della pace.
→ read full articleAnimal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
Brian Czech – Counter Currents,
24 Nov 2014
Yet if we are serious about animal welfare, we have to get beyond the mere adoration of hedgehogs and hippos. We have to face up to the big-picture, systematic erosion of wild animal welfare. It’s all around us and getting worse by the day, and our public policies precipitate it. The most prevalent source of animal suffering is habitat destruction. Habitat includes food, water, cover, and space.
→ read full articleMalaysian Territories: Security and Sovereignty
Johan Galtung,
24 Nov 2014
Malaysia has recently experienced maximum insecurity for two extra-territorial sovereign territories: Malaysian Airlines flights MH370 to Beijing and MH17 from Amsterdam. If Malaysia has been the victim of aggression, the answer is criminalization. For other problems the answer is removing war causes, solving underlying conflicts, and building peace.
→ read full articleInvitation for Nominations to the International Bremen Peace Award 2015 – Crossing Boundaries/Breaking Vicious Circles
Schwelle Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
With this award we want to honour people and organizations that set an example through their work contributing to reconciliation, human rights, overcoming of racism, sustainable handling of nature and environment as well as to intercultural and inter-religious understanding.
→ read full articleUN Presses Myanmar over Rohingya Rights
ReliefWeb – UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
24 Nov 2014
The United Nations adopted a resolution Friday [21 Nov 2014] urging Myanmar to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority, ramping up pressure on Yangon to scrap a controversial identity plan.
→ read full articleIt’s No Accident: Afghan Opium Production Hits All-Time High
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
24 Nov 2014
The proliferation of drugs helps to keep the “little people” in line so the adults can get on with the business of looting.
→ read full articleUS Joins Somalia and South Sudan in Failing to Support Child Rights
Arjun Sethi – Al Jazeera America,
24 Nov 2014
25 years later, as the world celebrates Universal Children’s Day, only three countries bear the shame of not having ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia, South Sudan and the United States.
→ read full articleFrom the Bottom Up: Democracy Works in Haiti
Daniel Raventos and Julie Wark - CounterPunch,
24 Nov 2014
Democracy, the kind the mainstream media ignores, belittles or calls “utopian”, works from the bottom up. If justice is to be achieved in Haiti social change must come from the bottom. The elites aren’t going to build legal systems to favour the poor (and limit their own power).
→ read full articleBrisbane – A Show of Western Weakness
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Nov 2014
No matter what you may think of Putin and Russia this is simply not the way international politics should be conducted, particularly not at the personal level. If it wasn’t an offence to children, one would aptly characterise it as childish behaviour.
→ read full articleUS and Europe Conceal Their Bankruptcy with Hostility to Russia
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
24 Nov 2014
18 Nov 2014 – US President Obama was joined by European leaders last weekend in trying to turn the G20 summit in Australia into a forum for baiting Russia, rather than dealing with the more onerous problem of a failing world economy.
→ read full article(Italiano) La cristianità fra l’attività bancaria ebraica e quella islamica
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2014
Il capitalismo ha due contraddizioni fondamentali: la classe, capitale vs lavoro, con una diseguaglianza crescente; la finanza vs l’economia reale, con crescente dominanza dell’economia finanziaria. Le alternative? Cooperative che condividano benefici e rischi, non aziende per azioni con compratori di manodopera e venditori di manodopera che (si) procurino “posti di lavoro”. E criminalizzazione dei rapporti puramente monetari, guidata dal sistema bancario islamico.
→ read full articleThe Future of Mediation
Johan Galtung,
18 Nov 2014
For self-improvement compete with yourself, not with others, for a society of winners and losers. If you learn the positive focus, self-improvement, good relations with equity and harmony, capacity for trauma-conciliation and conflict-solution, you will be amply rewarded with happiness and well-being.
→ read full article(Português) Os 5 Muros Que Ainda Dividem Populações no Mundo
Felipe Amorim, Opera Mundi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Israel, EUA, Coreia, Grécia e Ceuta: 25 anos após queda do Muro de Berlim, episódio que simbolizou diminuição de fronteiras, barreiras físicas ainda existem em diversos continentes. Conheça cinco muros que ainda estão de pé.
→ read full articleWe Shouldn’t Be Surprised: Turkey Is Supporting ISIS
Ben Norton - CounterPunch,
17 Nov 2014
In one of the most contemptible of recent political developments, we now know that the great secular, democratic nation of Turkey is directly aiding ISIS to crush the Kurdish resistance. This proud member of NATO sat on its hands for weeks, watching across the Syrian border as Daesh fascists tried to take over the town of Kobane.
→ read full articleBurma: What Obama Should Tell Thein Sein
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
17 Nov 2014
The country’s various oppressed constituencies are intensely resentful of both meek, mild and ineffectual UN officials and China’s narrow interests and slanted policies in favor of their common oppressor in Naypyidaw. They still hold out hope that the US’s involvement and pressure on the country’s current military leaders will eventually bring genuine democratic reforms and an end to decades of internal conflict.
→ read full articleThe Bee’s Vanishing Act: Man Made Disaster
Dady Chery - CounterPunch,
17 Nov 2014
“Colony collapse disorder” entails the disappearance of a hive’s 5,000 to 100,000 or so individuals in a few days without leaving even a trace of their bodies. If the honeybee decline continues at its current rate, by 2035 honeybees will disappear permanently from our world, along with much of its color and fragrance.
→ read full articleEight Dangerous Warning Signs of Genocide in Burma-Myanmar [Infographic]
Rachel Monteagudo, United to End Genocide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
Hundreds have been killed, tens of thousands have fled under the most hazardous conditions, and 140,000 have been forced into horrible, overcrowded camps where they face severe restrictions and are denied basic necessities, including medical care. Many experts are warning of genocide. Here’s why:
→ read full articleClass Interests as Economic Theory
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh – CounterPunch,
17 Nov 2014
Mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification, more obfuscation than elucidation. Economic “science” has, indeed, become “an ideological construct which serves to camouflage and justify the New World Order”
→ read full articleChristianity between Jewish and Islamic Banking
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Capitalism has two major contradictions: class, capital vs labor, with increasing inequality; finance vs real economy, with increasing finance economy dominance. The alternatives? Cooperatives sharing benefits and risks, not companies with labor-buyers and labor-sellers getting “jobs”. And criminalization of purely monetary relations, guided by Islamic banking.
→ read full articleThe Corporate Assault on Latin American Democracy
Justin Doolittle – CounterPunch,
10 Nov 2014
The corporate war on Latin America has entered a new phase in which battles are being decided on the World Bank by an obscure and powerful institution known as the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. It has the authority to make binding decisions that affect entire populations.
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Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict: Johan Galtung
University of California Television (UCTV) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
A noted pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world. University of San Diego.
→ read full articleA Brief History of US-Israel Relations
Amb. Andrew I. Killgore - CounterPunch,
10 Nov 2014
How Zionists Outmaneuvered and Replaced State Department Experts
→ read full articleWhy Russia Is Growing Tough • Berlin Wall Down 25 Years
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Nov 2014
Is it his early economic success? Or is it because of a new stability? Or the nation’s growing self-respect after the ignominious years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union? Or is it a sense of besieged defensiveness because of the advantage the West undoubtedly took of Russia after that demise. The answer is a bit of all these. Now Russia, not just Putin, is in a very assertive mood.
→ read full articlePeace Leadership
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Nov 2014
We live in a time of war and in a world that sacrifices its children at the altar of violence. There are children growing up today who have never known peace. Can you imagine what this must be like?
→ read full article(Italiano) Cristianesimo vs Islam: controciclicità?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
PROGNOSI I: conversione massiccia all’islam; meno dogma, più azione.
PROGNOSI II: il sistema bancario islamico ispirerà l’economia occidentale.
PROGNOSI III: il cristianesimo si volge all’amore di Gesù-Maria, l’islam segue.
Christianity vs Islam: Countercyclicity?
Johan Galtung, 3 Nov 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
PROGNOSIS I: massive conversion to Islam; less dogma, more action.
PROGNOSIS II: Islamic Banking will inspire Western economy.
PROGNOSIS III: Christianity turns to Jesus-Mary love, Islam follows.
No Country for Refugees
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
No British rescue missions for drowning Afro-refugees.
Really, it’s in their Karma, in their DNAs to suffer.
Give them Burmese “Buddhism” or cheap opium from Afghanistan.
Have they no wit to know Foreign Policies ain’t about human welfare?
Governments ain’t no churches. We ain’t your Messiah.
(Italiano) Il conflitto sunniti-sciiti: soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Attingere alle ricche esperienze di tutti gli islam, focalizzarsi sul meglio, estirpare le erbacce violente che rendono alcuni musulmani non-islamici nel loro ricorso alla violenza; molto diretti l’uno contro l’altro. Il tempo è un fattore per lavorare con entrambe le parti, sui fondamenti e sulla teologia, per andare oltre.
→ read full article(Italiano) Epistemologia: sull’uso delle dicotomie
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Talvolta viene criticato l’uso delle dicotomie, tagli netti come maschio-femmina, democrazia-dittatura, pace negativa-positiva: il mondo è più complicato. Che il mondo della vita organica, individuale e collettiva, sia complesso, non v’è dubbio. Che una divisione semplicistica noi-loro del mondo in due blocchi o poli, una polarizzazione, appunto, sia un passo verso la violenza e la guerra, è chiaro.
→ read full articleCamps Bring Further Danger to Rohingya Muslims Fleeing Potential Genocide in Burma
Nic Dunlop - Newsweek,
3 Nov 2014
For now, the situation is on edge. A tense normality has returned to Sittwe, but there are no Muslims to be seen. They are either in the ghettos sealed by police, or in the camps outside. Nazir quarter where they once lived is now an empty lot, reclaimed by tropical vegetation.
→ read full articleUnder Israeli Apartheid, Palestinians Cannot Ride Israeli Buses
Ben Norton – CounterPunch,
3 Nov 2014
28 Oct 2014 – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has officially banned Palestinians from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank, according to a new report by Haaretz, Israel’s most prominent newspaper.
→ read full articleFinancial Terrorism: The Wonga Payday Lending Experiment
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
27 Oct 2014
Keeping people poor in a world of seedy abandonment. Borrowing at phenomenal rates. Loan sharks running wild, dressed by the language of assistance and salvation.
→ read full articleSri Lanka Revisited: The Whitewashing of a War Crime by Corporate Lobbyists
Andrew Buncombe – The Independent,
27 Oct 2014
The Sri Lankan government is hurriedly trying to boost the country’s image by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire corporate lobbyists as it awaits a UN report into alleged war crimes.
→ read full articleWhat Submarine in Sweden?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
27 Oct 2014
You have heard that Sweden is hunting a”submarine” and that it is”presumed to be Russian”. Not the slightest evidence.
→ read full articleThe Sunni-Shia Conflict: Any Solution?
Johan Galtung, 27 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
Drawing on the rich experiences of all Islams, focusing on the best, weeding violent weeds making some Muslims non-Islamic in their recourse to violence; much directed against each other. Time is there to work from both sides, on the basis and the theology, to go beyond.
→ read full articleUnder Cover of Reconstruction, UN and PA Become Enforcers of Israel’s Gaza Siege
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The UN has agreed to become the chief enforcer of Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. Under the guise of reconstruction, the UN will be monitoring and gathering private information about Palestinian households to be passed onto Israel, which will have a veto over which families get aid to rebuild their homes. Truly revolting.
→ read full article(Italiano) ISIS: Negoziato, non bombardamento
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Altri bombardamenti insensati di musulmani, altre sconfitte per USA-Occidente, altri movimenti di tipo ISIS, altra polarizzazione Occidente-Islam. Qualche via d’uscita?
→ read full articleLibya: From Africa’s Richest State under Gaddafi, to Failed State after NATO Intervention
Garikai Chengu – CounterCurrents,
20 Oct 2014
19 October, 2014 – This week marks the three-year anniversary of the Western-backed assassination of Libya’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi, and the fall of one of Africa’s greatest nations.
→ read full articleEpistemology: On the Use of Dichotomies
Johan Galtung, 20 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Sometimes the use of dichotomies, simple cuts, male-female, democracy-dictatorship, negative-positive peace is criticized: the world is more complicated. That the organic world with life, individual and collective, is complex, there is no doubt. That a simplistic us-them division of the world in two blocs or poles, polarization, is a step on the way to violence and war, is clear.
→ read full articleBaby Doc Is Dead but His Shadow Lingers over Haiti – Duvalier vs. Aristide
Ben Terrall - CounterPunch,
20 Oct 2014
The October 4 [2014] death of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in Port-au-Prince has justly garnered worldwide attention. But too much about current Haitian politics has been left out of this round of media coverage.
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(Castellano) Torero arrepentido defensor de los derechos del animal
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
Álvaro Múnera, ex-torero, actual defensor de los derechos del animal y contrario a las corridas de toros:
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize Is Not a Human Rights Prize
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Committee Again Ignores Nobel’s Will – This prize is not a human rights or do-good prize. Change from an amateur to a professional committee.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hong Kong e oltre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
A Pechino va una lode non piccola per mantenersi imperturbata. Non c’è stato nulla come la brutalità della polizia militarizzata USA contro il movimento Occupy. La Cina non è sprofondata al livello di “Come Israele zittisce il dissenso”: cantando Morte agli arabi, Morte ai sinistrorsi; picchiando i dimostranti senza protezione della polizia, minacciando assassinii, difendendo lo status quo con ogni mezzo, “fascismo strisciante”.
→ read full articleWorkers Versus Owners (Again): The New Old Capitalism
John K. White - CounterPunch,
13 Oct 2014
It isn’t right that 400 people in the United States have more wealth than the GDP of all but six countries, including Canada, Brazil, and Italy.
→ read full articleInstead of bombing IS: Concrete Proposals (Part B)
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
Stop the financing of ISIS – sadly it is non-democratic allies of the West – Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, UAE etc – that seem to pay its bills. Joe Biden apologised – for being truthful.
→ read full articleThe University of Al-Qaeda? America’s “Terrorist Academy” in Iraq Produced ISIS Leaders
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
13 Oct 2014
“Since 2003, Anglo-American power has secretly and openly coordinated direct and indirect support for Islamist terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda across the Middle East and North Africa. This ill-conceived patchwork geostrategy is a legacy of the persistent influence of neoconservative ideology, motivated by longstanding but often contradictory ambitions to dominate regional oil resources, defend an expansionist Israel, and in pursuit of these, re-draw the map of the Middle East.”
→ read full articleISIS: Negotiation, Not Bombing
Johan Galtung, 13 Oct 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Oct 2014
More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for USA-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarization. Any way out?
→ read full articleCuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas
Smitha Mundasad - BBC News,
13 Oct 2014
Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists travel to Sierra Leone in October and stay for six months.
→ read full articleHong Kong and Beyond
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
No small praise goes to Beijing for keeping its cool. There has been nothing like the US militarized police brutality against their Occupy. China has not sunk to “How Israel silences dissent”: chanting Death to Arabs, Death to leftists, beating demonstrators with no police protection, threatening murder, defending status quo by all means , “creeping fascism”.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ambiente: molto olistico, molto dialettico
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
Il sottoscritto non è in grado di prendere posizione pro o contro l’ipotesi sulla CO2, o che cosa sia meglio per la vita, se il riscaldamento o il raffreddamento rispetto al livello attuale. La posizione assunta qui è per opinioni più complesse e in particolare più dialettiche.
→ read full articleFrom Ukraine to Syria: UN’s Selective Defense of Human Rights
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
When international law is enforced selectively by certain UN member states, using it as a platform to legitimize otherwise illegal actions, the world teeters on the edge of global lawlessness leaving the remaining members of the UN to ponder alternatives in resolving injustices perpetuated rather than challenged by the UN and its Charter.
→ read full articleU.S. Nuclear Policy: Taking the Wrong Road
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Oct 2014
On September 21, 2014, the International Day of Peace, The New York Times published an article, “U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms.” Federal study put the price tag for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal at “up to a trillion dollars” over the next three decades.
→ read full articleHonouring Gandhi’s Legacy, UN Reaffirms Power of Peaceful Protest
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 October 2014 – UN urges the international community to reaffirm the power and potential of change through peaceful means, following Mahatma Gandhi who inspired today’s International Day of Non-Violence.
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: US Bomb Attack on Islamic State ‘Likely to Kill More Civilians’ Than Fighters
Associated Press – The Tribune,
29 Sep 2014
U.S. bombing attack against the Islamic State forces in Iraq could end up killing more civilians than militants unless there are American spotters on the ground, former President Jimmy Carter said Monday [22 Sep 2014].
→ read full articleMove Over Keynes, Make Room for Marx – Radical Ideas for Radical Times
Carl Finamore – CounterPunch,
29 Sep 2014
To save the earth, declare young activists, we need earth-shaking change going beyond the narrow constraints of a system that unapologetically prioritizes profits over people.
→ read full article(Italiano) La pace possa prevalere sulla Terra! — Giornata Internazionale della Pace 2014
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
Che buona idea, questa giornata! Per riflettere, fare l’inventario, godersi la pace, deplorare la non-pace.
→ read full articlePalestine: Israel’s Arms Testing Lab
Dr. Elias Akleh - CounterCurrents,
29 Sep 2014
Israel had turned Palestinian occupied territories, especially Gaza Strip, into a laboratory for refining, testing and showcasing its own weapons systems as well as other countries’ new experimental and illegal weapon systems. . Some experts consider Israel as the sixth largest weapon trader, while others consider it the fourth.
→ read full articleDanish F16s to Fight ISIS: Government More Loyal to the U.S. Than to Its Own Citizens
Jan Oberg –Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
29 Sep 2014
During the last good 15 years Denmark has participated in wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, was an occupying force in Iraq for four years and a main bomber of Libya. Denmark is a rogue state. Rogue states, big and small, are a problem to the whole world. And the sooner they change the better for all.
→ read full articleThe Environment: Very Holistic, Very Dialectic
Johan Galtung,
29 Sep 2014
This author is not in a position to take a stand for or against the CO2 hypothesis, or what is better for life, warming or chilling relative to the present level. The position taken here is in favor of more complex and particularly more dialectic views: there may be more to it, action generates re-action.
→ read full articleUS-Russia Talks in Moscow: Hot
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
22 Sep 2014
There seems to have been a total breakdown in communication compared with the Cold War when high-level discussions were held at regular intervals.
→ read full articleHow Corporate Power Converted Wealth into Philanthropy for Social Control
Arundhati Roy - AlterNet,
22 Sep 2014
What follows might appear to be a harsh critique. On the other hand, in the tradition of honoring one’s adversaries, it could be an acknowledgment of the vision, flexibility, sophistication, and unwavering determination of those who dedicated their lives to keeping the world safe for capitalism. There’s a lot of money in poverty, and a few Nobel Prizes too.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ombra lunga della storia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA, vi piace emettere certificati di pariah ai vari paesi; giù e fuori. Il nostro certificato a voi dice irrilevanza – ci è impossibile cooperare con voi. Non possiamo costringervi a cambiare, dovete volerlo voi stessi. Ma possiamo togliervi la palla dal vostro cortile e giocarcela per conto nostro. La leadership dovrebbe essere collettiva, come nei BRICS; la leadership non dovrebbe mai essere di un solo paese, o una sola persona.
→ read full articleThe NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy, Massalijn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
→ read full articleMay Peace Prevail on Earth! — International Peace Day 2014
Johan Galtung,
22 Sep 2014
What a good idea, this day! To reflect, take stock, to enjoy peace, to deplore non-peace.
→ read full articleIsraelis: Stop Swimming in Our Shit! – Destroying Gaza’s Water System
Sam Bahour - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
One product is making its way freely across the border into Israel. Actually, this product flows undetected by the almighty Israeli military and rolls right up on to the shores of Tel Aviv. The product is Palestinian shit, or more accurately, to maintain the media bias of the times, Palestinian terrorist shit.
→ read full articleSeptember 11: The War on Terror Is a – Predictable – Fiasco
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 11, 2014 – President Obama’s speech last night was a record low in terms of moral and intellectual analysis: What it boils down to is war – i.e. killing every single ISIS person anywhere, people who he compares to cancer cells.
→ read full article(Italiano) Difetti nel pensiero USA – e qualche rimedio
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Difetto 2. Confondere il conflitto con la violenza. O i “disordini”. Trattare il conflitto diventa gestire la violenza verso una tregua o la capitolazione, poi ripulire la situazione “post- conflittuale”, solo per scoprire che la violenza riappare, forse sotto forma di vendetta. Nulla di risolto. Rimedio: Separare i concetti.
→ read full articleIraq: Yazidis’ Genocide?
René Wadlow, UN Geneva Association of Word Citizens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With the incomplete evidence at hand, I would maintain that the ISIS policy is genocide and not just a control of territory. Although the UN “track record” of dealing with genocide is very mixed, the first immediate step is for a State to raise the issue within the UN.
→ read full articleDenying Palestinians Their Humanity – A Response to Elie Wiesel
Sara Roy - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
I read your statement about Palestinians, which appeared in The New York Times on August 4th [2014]. I cannot help feeling that your attack against Hamas and stunning accusations of child sacrifice are really an attack, carefully veiled but unmistakable, against all Palestinians, their children included.
→ read full articleAcademics and Israel
Johnny E. Williams – CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Why Remaining Silent about the Perils of Zionism is Not an Option
→ read full article(Galego) A paz é o camiño… 21 de Setembro, Día Internacional da Paz
Manuel Dios Diz - Fundacion Cultura de Paz,
15 Sep 2014
A paz é o camiño, e facemos camiño ó andar. A paz é un descubrimento, non unha conquista. A guerra e a violencia non son fatalidades biolóxicas. Aprendemos a ser violentos. Por iso temos que “desaprender” para ser pacíficos, que non submisos, nin súbditos, nin mansos. A paz é moito máis que unha toma de postura, é unha auténtica revolución, un modo de vivir, un modo de habitar o planeta, un modo de ser persoa.
→ read full articleHow the West Created the Islamic State
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Missing from the chorus of outrage has been any acknowledgement of the integral role of covert US and British regional military intelligence in directly sponsoring the Islamist militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond, which broke away from al-Qaeda to form the Islamic State (IS).
→ read full articleThe Long Shadows of History
Johan Galtung, 15 Sep 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
USA, our certificate to you says ‘irrelevance.’ You always too quickly resort to violence, no good at deeper causes. We cannot force you to change, you have to will that yourself. But we can take the ball out of your court and play it ourselves. Leadership should be collective, like BRICS; leadership should never be one country, or one person.
→ read full article(Português) A politização sem dogmas do Teatro do Oprimido
Ovídio Poli Junior – Outras Palavras,
15 Sep 2014
Entre os nomes de nossa dramaturgia, Augusto Boal (1931-2009) figura não apenas como autor e diretor, mas sobretudo como teórico da arte teatral. Aos 70 anos, declarou em entrevista considerar-se um exilado em seu próprio país, em virtude de seu trabalho ser mais conhecido no exterior do que no Brasil.
→ read full articleBoeing & Inmarsat Need to Come Clean: Unraveling the Mess of Disappeared Flight MH370
Nile Bowie - CounterPunch,
15 Sep 2014
Six months have passed since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in March [2014], which took off from Kuala Lumpur carrying 239 people en route to Beijing. The aircraft veered wildly off course while flying over the South China Sea before turning back over the Malaysian peninsula toward the Indian Ocean, where it is presumed to have crashed.
→ read full articleAfter All This, What? A Couple of Messages to NATO’s Summit
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
The malaise of the world is not conflicts but violence – and that people and media mix the two. Conflicts – that we want different things and see the world in different ways – are good, the stuff life and democracy is made of. Violence is what must be abhorred, condemned and treated normatively as we do slavery, cannibalism, pedophilia.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleHow to Boycott Israel: Updated Guidelines for Academics
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
8 Sep 2014
2 Sep 2014 – The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) recently updated its guidelines on how to apply the international academic and cultural boycott of Israel.
→ read full article(Português) Banco Mundial: Cuba Tem o Melhor Sistema Educativo da América Latina e do Caribe
Salim Lamrani - Opera Mundi,
8 Sep 2014
As conclusões do relatório são implacáveis. O Banco Mundial enfatiza “a baixa qualidade média dos professores da América Latina e do Caribe”, o que constitui o principal obstáculo para o avanço da educação no continente.
→ read full articleCrushing Debt: Argentina in the Shadow of the Vultures
Emiliano Gullo – CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
President Cristina Fernandez launched a legislative proposal to make Buenos Aires the place of payment for creditors and in this way, get out from under U.S. legislation that has trapped the country in a financial-judicial labyrinth. Now the government’s problem is internal: the opposition refuses to approve the law in Congress.
→ read full articleKiev’s War against Freedom of Speech – Ukraine: The Ugly Truth
Vladislav Gulevich - CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
Western journalists prefer not to speak with the people living in the war zone. They avoid citing any word which could cast doubt on Kiev`s policy. On the other hand, they easily rely on official Ukrainian sources and repeat their false, office-made “news” about Russian aggression and rebels killing their own population.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council – Opening Statement
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
My first address to this Council takes place at a time when conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa regions, in particular, are escalating dramatically… My Office will be open to dialogue with all stakeholders; and within the limits of our resources, we will extend every possible assistance to States, to heighten their protection and promotion of human rights.
→ read full articleFlaws in US Thought–And Some Remedies
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Flaw #2: Confusing conflict with violence. Or “trouble”. Handling conflict becomes handling violence toward cease-fire or capitulation, then tidying up the “post-conflict” situation, only to discover that the violence reappears, perhaps with a vengeance. Nothing solved. Remedy: Separate the concepts.
→ read full articleCeasefire in Eastern Ukraine: Now Withdrawal by Russia, the UN In, and NATO Out
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
Firstly, an agreement over a phone is only a beginning; the devil is in the details. Secondly, there is no mention – yet – of the East Ukrainian fighters are onboard. Thirdly, a credible ceasefire should be monitored by neutral observers and competent people. The only ones who can do that are the UN peacekeepers.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Owns the Narrative on Ukraine – Return of the Evil Empire
Ason Hirthler - CounterPunch,
8 Sep 2014
The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media.
→ read full article(Italiano) La caduta dell’Impero USA – e poi che cosa?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Fascismo USA? Sì, indubbio. Un’evoluzione profondamente tragica. Un paese così innovativo con null’altro da offrire che macro-bombardamenti, meso-droneggiamenti e micro-cecchinaggio. Percepiamo il complesso militare-industriale all’opera – l’industria delle bombe in prima fila.
→ read full articleA Perfect Example of a Capitalist Abuser: Coca-Cola and Its Egregious History
Heather Gray - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
I find it hard to say anything positive about Coke, but apparently it is good for cleaning toilets. But remember, if you clean your toilet with Coke know what it took to create that one can/bottle of Coke from the following scenario in India:
→ read full articleStop Playing the Anti-Semitism Card & Get Real about the Rise of Fascism in Israel
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Each time the subject of Israel’s on-going genocidal treatment of Palestinians, many Jewish individuals throw around the anti-Semitism card, and non-Jews take a default position: self-censorship, rather than frank and brutally honest look at the empirically genocidal situation.
→ read full articleThe Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
US Fascism? Yes, indeed. A deeply tragic development. Such an innovative country and nothing better to offer than macro bombing, meso droning and micro sniping. We sense the military-industrial complex at work–the bomb industry upfront.
→ read full article(Italiano) USA-Israele vs. mondi arabo-musulmano: che succede?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Nulla di buono. Ma diamo uno sguardo con le modalità standard degli studi per la pace: diagnosi-analizzare, prognosi-prevedere, e terapia–rimedi, perfino soluzioni.
→ read full articleWashington’s “Pivot” Hits a Brick Wall: Obama’s “Catastrophic Defeat” in Ukraine
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Barack Obama has pushed Ukraine to the brink of political, economic and social collapse. Now he wants to blame Russia for the damage he’s done. It’s absurd. That’s all Washington’s doing, just as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now Syria were Washington’s doing.
→ read full article(Italiano) Unirsi per la pace, costruire una pace sostenibile con valori universali nel centenario della I guerra mondiale – criminalizzando la guerra
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
La Pace di Westfalia del 1648 stabilizzò due cristianesimi al prezzo di un sistema statuale con il “diritto alla guerra”. Quel mandato istituzionale deve sparire.
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