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(Italiano) L’anno 2015: rapporto sul primo quadrimestre
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2015
La Cina è proattiva nei “cortili” UE e USA; realizzando guadagni in modo nonviolento quando altri ci perdono violentemente per inazione e sfruttamento. Perché? Forse la Cina considera Africa e America Latina in ascesa come più competitive che UE e USA in declino; pensando in grande, a lungo termine, come fanno loro.
→ read full articleOn Violence: Suicide, Homicide — and Both-And
Johan Galtung,
25 May 2015
This does not apply to state terrorism on the ground or from the air: homicide of tens, hundreds of thousands with no risk incurred, no suicide built into the act, more like an office job. The suicide may come later, though, hating oneself for the homicides
→ read full articleIs Everything for Sale? The Ethical Demise of the American Psychological Association
Geoff Gray - CounterPunch,
25 May 2015
13 May 2025 – The conscience of the APA is slowly dying as it facilitates torture, cheats its own members, and hussles junk science boondoggles to the defense industry. But the APA wasn’t always this way.
→ read full articleStatistics Reveal the Link They Wanted to Hide: Breast Cancer and Nuclear Sites
Dr. Chris Busby - CounterPunch,
25 May 2015
Do nuclear sites cause increases in cancer in those living nearby? This is the question which has always been the key to stopping the development of nuclear energy. For if the answer is Yes, the laws would cut in; human rights would cut in. Check Mate. The nuclear industry and its supporters have always known this, just as the cigarette companies and the asbestos makers recognised their own specific nemesis.
→ read full articleMore Than a Newsman – Behind the Media’s Assault on Seymour Hersh
Shamus Cooke - CounterPunch,
25 May 2015
19 May 2015 – He’s the most respected journalist in U.S. history, and for decades Seymour Hersh has consistently broken major international stories, winning him the Pulitzer Prize among other prestigious awards of journalism. Hersh’s recent report on the killing of Osama Bin Laden and his prior investigation of Obama’s aborted 2013 bombing of Syria have attracted a synchronized media smear campaign.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton, Phosphates, and the Western Sahara
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
18 May 2015
Morocco has ignored a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions and a landmark World Court decision underscoring the right of the Western Saharan people to self-determination. In 2002, then U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Hans Corell determined that the exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara is a “violation of the international law principles applicable to mineral resource activities in Non-Self-Governing Territories.”
→ read full articleIsrael, Germany, and Neighbors Three Removed
Johan Galtung,
18 May 2015
In the middle of the Middle East is Israel, harboring dreams of an Israel even greater than King David’s. States will follow the moral authority in today’s world, Pope Francis, being as afraid of recognizing Palestine too late as they were of being too early. Netanyahu’s Zionism is not militarily, but morally defeated. Think peace.
→ read full articleBurundi: Plan Genuine Humanitarian Intervention Now!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
18 May 2015
The coup d’etat of May 13 [2015] has failed, its masters being arrested. President Nkurunziza who was in Tanzania when ousted will return as soon as he feels he can trust enough loyalists; there may well be increased repression of the people everywhere and violence between loyalists and opposition. Toward civil war? Toward genocide?
→ read full articleThe Year 2015: First Third Report
Johan Galtung, 11 May 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
A third of the year 2015 has now passed; let us take stock.
→ read full articleToday’s V-Day as a Lost Opportunity for Peace-Making
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Today, May 9, Russia commemorates V-Day – 70 years ago they won over Nazi Germany. The price they paid were 20-26 million human beings of which 9 million soldiers. But on the order of Washington, all European leaders–recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize–with the remarkable exception of Chancellor Merkel, today ignore the sufferings of the Soviet citizens and stay away as a protest. Permit me to call it insensitive, shortsighted and narrow-minded.
→ read full articleUniversities, Inc. – How Academia Became a Business
Ben Agger - CounterPunch,
11 May 2015
We use shorthand for evaluating faculty: “She is productive.” Factory work may be too grubby a metaphor for genteel academics. The antonym is worse: Loser, slacker, non-publisher. Universities are forced to become business-like, produce human capital; we need gadflies, poets, and activists, too. We want a university—and society– in which people question the meaning of “productivity.”
→ read full articleU.S. Reveals It Has Known About Israel’s Nuclear Program for Over 50 Years
The National Security Archive, George Washington University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
April 15, 2015 – Despite denials for decades, the U.S. has finally declassified information affirming its knowledge of Israel’s Dimona nuclear program since 1960. Included in the report are a myriad of other documents indicating dubious practices on the part of the U.S., Israel, the UK and even international agencies.
→ read full articleBurundi: Denying or Hoping Won’t Do
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Everyone who cares will see all the red lamps and hear the alarm bells. We have a history of genocide in this country and neighbouring Rwanda just a few years ago. There is something to build our early warnings on. But who is listening? Who is taking action, serious political action?
→ read full article(Italiano) Il discorso del primo ministro giapponese Abe al Congress USA – e commenti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Seguono 18 punti selezionati del discorso di Abe nella seduta parlamentare congiunta USA del 30 aprile 2015, “Verso un’alleanza di speranza”, con relativi commenti.
→ read full articleMay: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
May 1, 1982 – The Washington Post featured an article by Bill Prochnau titled, “With the Bomb, There Is No Answer,” in which he reported that marijuana was discovered in one of the underground missile control launch centers of a Minuteman ICBM squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.
→ read full articleHubris versus Wisdom
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
Humankind must not be complacent in the face of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. The future of humanity and all life depends upon the outcome of the ongoing struggle between hubris and wisdom. Hubris is an ancient Greek word meaning extreme arrogance. Wisdom is cautionary good sense.
→ read full articleIn Praise of the Four “R”s: Riot, Rebellion, Resistance and Revolution
J.A. Masko – CounterPunch,
11 May 2015
There are at least three potential audiences for this piece: those that are saying, “What the hell is this guy saying? Violence is good? Criminal thuggery revolutionary?” And then there are those who are wondering, what does he mean exactly? Is he just being sensationalists or radical chic? And then there are those who get it.
→ read full articleCriminalizing Palestinian Resistance – Amnesty International: Whitewashing another Massacre
Paul de Rooij - CounterPunch,
11 May 2015
Palestinians should be wary of Mother Teresas peddling human rights snake oil. In exchange for giving up their resistance and complying with AI’s norms, it is not likely that Palestinians will obtain a pixel of justice. One should be wary of human rights groups that don’t push for justice, play the role of Israel’s lawyer, and are bereft of solidarity with the victims.
→ read full articleUS Sends Hundreds of Troops to Quake-Stricken Nepal
W. A. Sunil, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
4 May 2015 – The United States has significantly increased its military presence in Nepal as part of the relief operations underway following the devastating earthquake that struck the country on April 25. As it has done in previous disasters in other countries, the Pentagon is exploiting the tragedy to forge closer ties and collaboration with its Nepalese counterparts.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente contro se stesso
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Si prenda il 70° anniversario demarcazione della vittoria sul nazismo… La Polonia perse il 20% della sua popolazione; l’Unione Sovietica 27,1 milioni, 16%, con 1.710 città e 70.000 villaggi cancellati; il Regno Unito l’1.1%; gli USA 0.4%; la Norvegia 0.32%.
→ read full articleJapanese Prime Minister Abe’s Speech in US Congress
Johan Galtung,
4 May 2015
Below are 15 selected points from the Abe Joint Session US Congress speech 30 Apr 2015, “Toward an Alliance of Hope,” with comments.
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Galtung Book Launching
Perdana Global Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, launches Johan Galtung’s two new books at the closing of the International Conference The ‘New World Order: A Recipe for War or Peace!’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
→ read full articleBehind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
These boat refugees run away to another continent without shoes, money or belongings because their lives are unbearable and they have absolutely no hope. Refugees are not happiness-seekers. Using “migrants” instead of “refugees” takes away our attention from why they flee, from our own complicity in all this and it reduces our responsibility to protect refugees.
→ read full articleBurundi: Early Warning and Violence Prevention
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
The present conflict is rooted in power politics, structural-economic inequality throughout society and in woefully inadequate international attention and assistance. The Hutu-Tutsi difference is not a basic cause, but, of course, cynical manipulators may later use it to mobilise energy for violence.
→ read full articleOklahoma Mysterious Iron Cup Embedded in Million-Year-Old Coal
Universe Explorers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
It’s a perfect piece of metal and it was discovered in 1912 in a mine in Wilburton, Oklahoma. The coal that originated from those mines is estimated to be around 300 million years old. This is where the story ignites and goes cold according to some.
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Chopin “Fantasie” Impromptu (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Yundi Li – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Li Yundi, born Oct 7 1982 in China, was the youngest pianist to win the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2000 at the age of 18. He resides in Beijing.
Did you know that Chopin disliked this piece? He composed it when he was 24 years old and regretted it.
How the U.S. Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis
Stephen Zunes – Foreign Policy In Focus,
27 Apr 2015
Washington’s support for Yemen’s former dictatorship — and of Saudi efforts to sideline the country’s nonviolent pro-democracy movement — helped create the current crisis.
→ read full articleThe West against Itself
Johan Galtung, 27 Apr 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Take the 70th anniversary demarcation of the victory over nazism… Poland lost 20% of its population; the Soviet Union 27.1 million, 16%, with 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages erased; UK 1.1%; USA 0.4%; Norway 0.32%.
→ read full articlePowerful Nonviolent Resistance to Armed Conflict in Yemen
Stephen Zunes and Noor Al-Haidary – Open Democracy,
27 Apr 2015
As with the initial uprising against the Saleh regime four years ago, an unarmed civil society movement rises up to challenge the Huthi militia.
→ read full articleMass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
Bill Blunden - CounterPunch,
27 Apr 2015
The Lesson of Hacking Team’s Malware – In a nutshell: contrary to talking points that depict hi-tech companies as our saviors, they’re accomplices if not perpetrators of mass surveillance. And you can bet that CEOs will devote resources towards public relations aimed at obscuring this truth.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Günter Grass: Was gesagt werden muss
Günter Grass (Literatur-Nobelpreisträger) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Günter Grass (16 Oktober 1927-13 April 2015) warnt in der “Süddeutschen Zeitung” vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. In seinem Gedicht mit dem Titel “Was gesagt werden muss” fordert der Literaturnobelpreisträger deshalb, Israel dürfe keine deutschen U-Boote mehr bekommen. Dieses Gedicht hat eine hitzige Debatte in Deutschland und Israel.
→ read full articleGünter Grass (16 Oct 1927–13 Apr 2015): ‘What Must Be Said’
Günter Grass (Nobel Literature Laureate) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Poem published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung created a heated debate in both Germany and Israel.
→ read full article“Consciousness Creates Reality” – Physicists Admit the Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual
Arjun Walia – Collective Evolution,
20 Apr 2015
Consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality. What is consciousness? It includes a number of things. It’s how we perceive our world, our thoughts, being aware, our intentions and more.
→ read full articleCriminalizing War: Twenty Recommendations
Johan Galtung,
20 Apr 2015
20. Criminalization is ambiguous and may also harden and prolong wars; should go together with the positive approaches to the right to peace, of removing war causes, and removing war as a socially evil institution.
→ read full article(Português) Universidade Brasileira Forma Sua Primeira Turma Composta Só por Índios
Bruna Angélica Pelicioli Riboldi – Conexão Lusófona,
20 Apr 2015
14 Abr 2015 – A Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina formou a sua primeira turma composta só por índios. O grupo se gradua em Licenciatura Intercultural Indígena do Sul da Mata Atlântica. São 85 alunos das etnias guarani, kaingang e laklãnõ/xokleng.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gandhi e Mandela: due sudafricani
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Il SudAfrica offrì ai due avvocati un tirocinio per mutare la legge in uno strumento di libertà trasgredendola – implicito anche nel concetto di Legge – operando contro l’aspetto del castigo che diede a tutti e due l’aura di icone sofferenti per la propria causa.
→ read full articleGandhi and Mandela: Two South Africans
Johan Galtung,
13 Apr 2015
South Africa offered a stage for the two lawyers to turn law into an instrument for freedom by breaking it–also implicit in the Law concept–working against the punishment aspect that gave both the aura of icons suffering for their cause.
→ read full article(Deutsch) NATO: Aufrüstung gegen Russland
Tobias Pflüger - Zeitung gegen den Krieg,
13 Apr 2015
Deutschland führt Speerspitze der NATO
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra: venti raccomandazioni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
La criminalizzazione è ambigua e può anche inasprire e prolungare le guerre; dovrebbe accompagnarsi agli approcci positivi al diritto alla pace, alla rimozione delle cause di guerra e alla rimozione della guerra quale mala istituzione in termini sociali.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stalin il comunista e Mao il comunitarista
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Churchill e Hitler fecero la storia ma non la cambiarono; dopo la guerra le loro società ritrovarono le proprie vecchie forme. Stalin e Mao cambiarono sostanzialmente le loro società molto più grandi, e conferirono nuove linee di faglia e alleanze al sistema statuale westfalico.
→ read full articleIran Nuclear Deal – They’ve Done It!
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Apr 2015
The truth of the matter is that both sides have made some concessions and sacrifices, with Iran making the greatest concessions in return for as yet uncertain rewards. However, under the present circumstances and in the current highly charged climate this was the best outcome that one could hope for.
→ read full articleTraitors From Developing Countries Unite! – Those Who Collaborate with the West
Andre Vltchek - CounterPunch,
13 Apr 2015
It is much easier to rule over those people who have lost all their dignity. Now there is a great number of countries fighting for a better arrangement of the world. Almost all Latin America, Russia, China, South Africa, Eritrea, and Iran, refuse to succumb to the Empire. Others are joining.
→ read full article(Português) O Big Bang nunca existiu e o Universo nunca teve começo e nunca terá fim, dizem novos cálculos complexos
Bruno Rizzato – Jornal Ciência,
13 Apr 2015
O nosso Universo, de acordo com as teorias de Einstein, possui cerca de 13,8 bilhões de anos de idade e foi formado a partir de um ponto infinitamente pequeno. Enquanto a maioria das pessoas aceita este modelo, os cientistas ainda não conseguem explicar o que aconteceu dentro deste pequeno ponto ou o que veio antes dele.
→ read full articleSituation Assessment of Yarmouk Refugee Camp: What Happens Next?
Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies & Consultations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
8 Apr 2015 – Sudden fighting broke out at the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Damascus between groups affiliated to ISIS and the Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis group. ISIS took control of nearly 80% of the RC area. While the Palestinian groups remain under siege by ISIS in the south and the regime in the north, the option to withdraw could be unlikely, meaning the Palestinian groups’ options boil down to reaching either settlement or engaging in a suicidal battle with ISIS or the regime.
→ read full article(Italiano) Mao e Gandhi: due asiatici
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Cominciamo col riassumere. Stiamo considerando sei importanti capi di forze e movimenti che plasmano i secoli – Churchill-Hitler-Stalin-Mao-Gandhi-Mandela – confrontandoli, due alla volta.
→ read full article(Italiano) Hitler e Stalin: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Hitler riguardava la razza, Stalin la classe. Due secolarismi genocidi versati in vecchie bottiglie di chiesa.
→ read full articleDid Israel Lobby “Bullying and Threats” Push Univ. of Southampton to Cancel Conference?
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
13 Apr 2015
2 Apr 2015 – Organizers of an academic conference on Israel are proceeding with an urgent legal challenge after the UK’s University of Southampton today confirmed that it has canceled the event. More than 900 academics from all over the world have signed on to a statement in support of the conference.
→ read full articleMao and Gandhi: Two Asians
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2015
Gandhism went beyond India, Maoism stopped at the borders of China. Hinduism sees itself as universal whereas China sees itself as unique. What remains from both of them is the fight against oppression-exploitation, the search for horizontality, and from Gandhi nonviolent struggle, satyagraha.
→ read full articleYemen Beware as It Threatens US-Backed Order
Finian Cunningham - Strategic Culture Foundation,
30 Mar 2015
The old order has been backed by the United States and its allies among the Persian Gulf Arab dictatorships as a bulwark against a popular uprising that could lead to democratisation in the poorest Middle Eastern country. If such an outcome were to succeed, the repercussions for the autocratic Gulf monarchies would be deeply destabilising.
→ read full articleEmpire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa’s Future
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
In return for receiving aid money and corporate investment, African countries have to change their laws, making it easier for corporations to acquire farmland, control seed supplies and export produce.
→ read full articleNazi Extortion: Study Sheds New Light on Forced Greek Loans
Manfred Ertel, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr – Der Spiegel,
30 Mar 2015
Is Germany liable to Athens for loans the Nazis forced the Greek central bank to provide during World War II? A new study in Greece could increase the pressure on Berlin to pay up.
→ read full articleStalin the Communist and Mao the Commune-ist
Johan Galtung, 30 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
Churchill and Hitler made history but did not change it; after the war their societies found their old forms. Stalin and Mao changed their much bigger societies basically, and gave the Westphalian state system new fault-lines, alliances: anti-Russia-USSR, anti-China-DPRC.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Der ›Friedenswinter‹ macht die Friedensbewegung kaputt
Stefan Huth und Sebastian Carlens – Junge Welt,
30 Mar 2015
24 März 2015 – Gespräch mit Monty Schädel. Über die Schwäche der antimilitaristischen Kräfte in der BRD, organisierte Einflussversuche von rechts und fragwürdige Bündnisse mit den sogenannten Montagsmahnwachen
→ read full articleFight the Real Killers: Meet the Real Nuclear Terrorist Organization
Miriam German - CounterPunch,
30 Mar 2015
The Nuclear Terrorist Organization has cells in many countries with the main branch and leaders in the United States. Each cell has a different name, each one unique to its own killings: TEPCO, Areva, Duke, GE, Dominion, Westinghouse, Energy NW, Sellafield, Cameco, Nukem (yes, their real name from Germany), and these are just a few. This is a war of the zealots, cashing in the Earth for dominance, power and greed where there is such blindness as to not see that the end for one is the end for all.
→ read full articleHitler and Stalin: Two Europeans
Johan Galtung, 23 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Hitler was about race, Stalin about class. Two genocidal secularisms poured into old Church bottles.
→ read full articleDementia Now Affects over 47 Million People Worldwide, 75 Million by 2030, and Expected to Triple by 2050
UN World Health Organization – Human Wrongs Watch,
23 Mar 2015
Participants in this first ministerial conference on this issue included 80 Member States, 80 philanthropic foundations, 45 NGOs and 4 UN Agencies.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Friedensgepräche: Kritischer Gegenpol zu “Lobbyarbeit”
Holger Scheerer - Heidenheimer Zeitung,
23 Mar 2015
Auf reges Interesse stießen am Donnerstagabend [12.3.2015] die ersten Königsbronner Friedensgespräche im evangelischen Gemeindehaus. Gedacht sind diese Gespräche als kritischer Gegenpol zu den vom Bundestagsabgeordneten Roderich Kiesewetter initiierten Königsbronner Gesprächen, in deren Mittelpunkt die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik steht.
→ read full articleStatement from the Family of Rachel Corrie on the Twelfth Anniversary of Her Murder by Israelis in Gaza
Rachel Corrie Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Rachel was crushed to death March 16, 2003 by an Israeli military, US-funded, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer in Rafah, Gaza, while nonviolently protesting the impending demolition of the home of a Palestinian family.
→ read full article(Italiano) Churchill e Hitler: due europei
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
La Germania è diventata filosemita, combatte il razzismo, non ha colonialismo residuo, nega la guerra come strumento (salvo che a scopo difensivo), e cerca la cooperazione con la Russia. L’Inghilterra, con gli USA, sfida la Russia. L ’Anglo-America è la più belligerante nel mondo d’oggi, un colonialismo residuo sopravvive nel Commonwealth e nell’uso dell’inglese per la conquista; il razzismo è rampante in Inghilterra.
→ read full articleKiev Shifts Goalposts as Merkel Skews Wide
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
23 Mar 2015
If Merkel cannot see the truth by now, and how the Kiev regime is an incendiary time-bomb for EU-Russia relations, there is no hope for a realistic political position on Ukraine. How can she not see that the Ukrainian time-bomb has been planted by Washington, aimed precisely at destroying European-Russian relations?
→ read full articleWhy I’m Relieved Netanyahu Won
Ali Abunimah – Electronic Intifada,
23 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015 – Many had hoped that Benjamin Netanyahu would be defeated in yesterday’s Israeli election. I was not one of them. The Israeli Jewish public’s choice to re-elect Netanyahu should make it clear to people around the world that Israel does not seek peace and does not seek justice. It will continue to oppress and ethnically cleanse Palestinians until it is stopped.
→ read full articleHow Exciting: The Birth of a New Official Enemy!
Jacob G. Hornberger, The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Through an official decree by President Obama declaring that Venezuela now poses a grave threat to the “national security” of the United States, a new official enemy — Venezuela — was brought into existence as the latest Official Enemy of the U.S. Empire. How exciting is that!
→ read full articleChurchill and Hitler–Two Europeans
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Germany has become philo-semitic, fights racism, no residual colonialism, rejection of war as instrument (except defensive), and seeks cooperation with Russia. England, with the USA, challenges Russia. Anglo-America is the most belligerent party in today’s world, residual colonialism survives in the Commonwealth and in the use of English for conquest; racism is rampant inside England.
→ read full articleThe CIA in Latin America: From Coups to Torture and Preemptive Killings
Nil Nikandrov – Strategic Culture Foundation,
16 Mar 2015
At least 500 reinforcements have arrived [until January 2015] at the US Embassy and other US headquarters in South America in order to help the other operatives escalate their subversive and espionage activities. Those agents are focusing on countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba.
→ read full articleRadiating the Pacific: Why Fukushima Ended All Debate about Nuclear Power
Miriam German - CounterPunch,
16 Mar 2015
We can protest loudly inside the UN that we are in the midst of the most international Earth Crisis ever faced in the history of Earth from the triple meltdown at Fukushima-Daiichi. With no Pacific, we have no life. We need our oceans to remain alive in order for us to live.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il “Nuovo Ordine Mondiale”
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
…è il titolo della nostra conferenza. Non ci sarà mai qualcosa del genere. “Nuovo”, sì; “Mondiale”, sì; “Ordine”, no. Dovunque ci sia vita, c’è contraddizione, dialettica, forze e contro-forze. A livello quanto mai ovvio, si pone la domanda: Ordine, nell’interesse di chi, contro chi?
→ read full articleWhy Are White People Expats when the Rest of Us Are Immigrants?
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin – The Guardian,
16 Mar 2015
Surely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people. Africans are immigrants. Arabs are immigrants. Asians are immigrants. However, Europeans are expats because they can’t be at the same level as other ethnicities. They are superior. Immigrants is a term set aside for ‘inferior races’.
→ read full article(Italiano) I Von Weizsäcker, Kennedy di Germania
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
Il Presidente Richard von Weizsäcker è deceduto il 31 gennaio u.s., molto celebrato in Germania per la sua brillante presidenza nel normalizzare una Germania con un passato turbolento e per giunta divisa. Escludendo però ampiamente le sue prospettive globali menzionate qui sotto.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Philippinen: Umsetzung des Vertrags mit Befreiungsfront MILF stockt. Rücktritt des Präsidenten gefordert
Rainer Werning – Junge Welt,
16 Mar 2015
6 Mar 2015 – Auf den Philippinen mehrt sich die Kritik am Regierungsstil von Präsident Benigno S. Aquino III. – sowohl inner- wie auch außerhalb des Kabinetts.
→ read full articleWikimedia vs. NSA: Challenge to Mass Surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are: Wikimedia Foundation, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International USA, PEN American Center, Global Fund for Women, The Nation Magazine, The Rutherford Institute, and The Washington Office on Latin America.
→ read full articleFrom Preventing to Making Peace in Ukraine
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
16 Mar 2015
You’ve heard everybody involved in the Ukraine conflict solemnly declared that there is no military solution. And what do they all do? Right, they militarise the situation further, use bellicose language, speak bad about each other, take provocative steps, use propaganda and flex their military muscles. These men – sorry, but they are all men – who are competent in war and violence run our world.
→ read full articleThe “New World Order”
Johan Galtung,
10 Mar 2015
…is the title of our conference. There will never be any such thing. “New”, yes; “World”, yes–“Order”, No. Wherever there is life there is contradiction, dialectic, forces and counter-forces. At the very obvious level the question arises–Order, in whose interest, against whom?
→ read full articleTragedy of Nemtsov’s Death Hijacked by Denigrators of Putin
William Dunkerley – Oriental Review,
9 Mar 2015
2 Mar 2015 – The day following Boris Nemtsov’s murder on Friday, February 27, Western media were in a gluttonous frenzy over the tragedy. The death is being offered as affirmation of the nearly-unanimous villainous image that Putin has in the West.
→ read full articleUS War on ISIS a Trojan Horse
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
ISIS could not be a more effective part of America’s plans to overthrow the Syrian government and destroy the Syrian state if it had an office at the Pentagon. A Hollywood villain this popular and effective is surely destined for a sequel in neighboring Iran or southern Russia, coincidentally where the US would like to create strife and carnage the most.
→ read full articleInternational Women’s Day – 8 March
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
2015: Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Picture It! – A time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
→ read full articleMarch: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Mar 2015
March 1, 1982 – President Ronald Reagan watched the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center rehearse a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and Soviet Union…
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Watch Launched
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Mar 2015
On March 3, 2015 major news sources broke the quite extraordinary story that the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee had been demoted; it’s the first time it has ever happened. The ‘Lay Down Your Arms Association’ was incorporated and registered in Sweden and set up the Nobel Peace Prize Watch where you can acquaint yourself with the Prize, its history, background, the criticism over time, etc.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Charlie und die Heuchler
Peter Vonnahme - Neue Rheinische Zeitung,
9 Mar 2015
Millionen behaupteten am 11. Januar 2015, dass sie Charlie sind („Je suis Charlie“). Die meisten von ihnen hatten bis zur Nachricht über die Ermordung der zehn Journalisten keine Ahnung, dass es eine Satirezeitschrift namens Charlie Hebdo überhaupt gibt. Dessen ungeachtet nahmen sie über Nacht eine neue Identität an.
→ read full articleStudents Occupy University of Amsterdam (De Nieuwe Universiteit)
De Nieuwe Universiteit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The general motivation behind all these demands is discontent with the current ways of management. Top-down, efficiency-oriented management damages the very thing a university should revolve around: research and education.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’ipocrisia occidentale della libertà d’espressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
Stato-Legge, Capitale, e Cultura. Che sono al loro meglio quando indipendenti l’uno dall’altro. Lo Stato non dovrebbe interferire con il mercato, il Capitale non con la politica, né con la Cultura. Guardiamo anche solo come il Capitale cambi parti importanti della Cultura come gli sport, le arti e la scienza, trasformandoli in prodotti d’acquisto, vendita e investimento, esigendo dalle università che servano il Capitale, non la Verità.
→ read full articleThe Von Weizsäckers, Germany’s Kennedys
Johan Galtung, 2 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
President Richard von Weizsäcker passed away 31 January and was very much celebrated in Germany for his brilliant presidency to normalize a Germany with a troubled past, even divided on top of that. But, by and large leaving out his global perspectives mentioned below.
→ read full articleHow Gazan Natural Gas Became the Epicenter of an International Power Struggle
Michael Schwartz – CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Great Game in the Holy Land – After 25 years and five failed Israeli military efforts, Gaza’s natural gas is still underwater and, after four years, the same can be said for almost all of the Levantine gas.
→ read full articleThe Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet?
Alexander Jung, Horand Knaup, Samiha Shafy and Bernhard Zand – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – World leaders decided in Copenhagen that global warming should be limited to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that target, though, would take nothing less than a miracle. With another round of climate negotiations approaching, it is becoming increasingly clear that mankind has failed to address its most daunting problem.
→ read full articleFact Not Fiction – US Aggression against Venezuela
Eva Golinger - CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
White House spokesman Josh Earnest denies any U.S. government role in the coup attempt against Maduro, calling such allegations “ludicrous”, but further reveals, “The Treasury Department and the State Department are considering tools that may be available that could better steer the Venezuelan government in the direction that we believe they should be headed”.
→ read full articleNATO Finds Arab Backdoor to Arm Kiev
Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation,
2 Mar 2015
The tiny UAE with its $13 billion military budget is a NATO arsenal par excellence. The weapons sales deal is just a backdoor for NATO to embark on further warmongering in Ukraine and toward Russia.
→ read full articleThe Self-Enrichment of the Elites: Economic Hegemony and the Federal Reserve
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Federal Reserve has always based its policies on ‘managing’ Western economies to protect the value of bank assets from inflation. Economic life is arranged around Wall Street’s interests. This can be seen across the global periphery framed by class interests under the guise of social neutrality. Western economists are professional apologists of these class interests.
→ read full articleThe Western Freedom of Expression Hypocrisy
Johan Galtung, 23 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
State-Law, Capital, and Culture. They are at their best when independent of each other. State should not interfere with the market, Capital not with politics, neither with Culture. Just look at how Capital changes such important parts of Culture as sports, arts and science, transforming them into products for buying, selling and investing, demanding of universities to serve Capital, not Truth.
→ read full articleIronman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe
Mike Whitney – CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
The ongoing dispute between the German and Greek governments is nothing less than a democratic revolution against German hegemony and the attempt of the Germans and their paladins in the EU to dictate Greek domestic policy.” Varoufakis’s plan in a nutshell: Revolution from within. Just don’t tell anyone in Berlin.
→ read full articleMarx, Syriza and the Future of Greece – The Not So Erratic Philosophy of Yanis Varoufakis
Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer - CounterPunch,
23 Feb 2015
He has just written a smashing op-ed for The New York Times that forcefully outlines his government’s approach to the negotiations. It deserves a standing ovation. Varoufakis has described himself as an “erratic Marxist.” He is far more of a Marxist than a Kantian. It’s the only moral thing to be.
→ read full article(Italiano) Che cosa comportava il colonialismo: il caso della Malesia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Uno sguardo a questa dichiarazione di Cecil Rhodes: La mia idea favorita è una soluzione al problema sociale, vale a dire, al fine di salvare i 40.000.000 d’abitanti del Regno Unito da una sanguinosa guerra civile, noi statisti coloniali dobbiamo acquisire nuove terre per insediarvi la popolazione di troppo che fornisca nuovi mercati per le merci prodotte nelle fabbriche e nelle miniere. L’IMPERO: È UNA QUESTIONE PANE E BURRO. SE SI VUOLE EVITARE UNA GUERRA CIVILE, BASTA DIVENTARE IMPERIALISTI.
→ read full articleAcross 100 Miles of Ocean
Akio Tanaka, University of Massachusetts Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
In 1989 the Soviet Union collapsed, and the United States saw it as a victory of Capitalism over Communism. The Democratic Party joined the Republican Party’s full embrace of the corporate agenda, and the corporations felt empowered to seek profits with absolutely no regard for the consequences to Earth and all its life forms. The US became a corporate-military empire using its military to secure oil for its oil based economy.
→ read full article(Italiano) Una teoria sulla Cina
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Una teoria serve alla comprensione, predizione e identificazione delle condizioni per il cambiamento. Per la Cina si riportano sette indicatori teorici storico-culturali, usando l’Occidente in generale e gli USA in particolare a mo’ di confronto. La presentazione attinge a innumerevoli dialoghi avuti in Cina per oltre 40 anni, dal 1973.
→ read full articleIslam Is Not the Problem – But Keep Your Own House in Order
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Feb 2015
The revolts of the so-called Arab Spring show that most Muslims of the Middle East want democracy even though they also want their country to be Islamist. An overwhelming majority of the worldwide community of close to 2 billion Muslims abhor both authoritarianism and terrorism. (Not to be overlooked is that as recently as 1945 there were only 10 democracies in the Western world.)
→ read full articleFebruary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Feb 2015
February 17, 1953 – Years after serving as the civilian director of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer gave one of many speeches opposing the growing nuclear arms race, this one at the Council on Foreign Relations.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Iberia mille anni fa
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Può essere utile una macchina del tempo disposta su un lungo periodo nel passato per capire il presente in tale luce. Per esempio la penisola iberica, oggi con due stati, Spagna e Portogallo.
→ read full articleWhat Colonialism Was About: The Case of Malaya
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Statement by Cecil Rhodes: “I was in East End London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed… My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e. in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and the mines. THE EMPIRE–IS A BREAD AND BUTTER QUESTION. IF YOU WANT TO AVOID A CIVIL WAR, YOU JUST BECOME IMPERIALISTS.
→ read full article(Català) Justícia Distributiva
Francesc Torralba – El Punt Avui,
2 Feb 2015
La pau no és una casualitat, tampoc el resultat d’una fatalitat. Requereix la justícia distributiva. Quan hi ha injustícia, hi ha ràbia, indignació, ressentiment i, com a conseqüència d’això, es crea el camp de conreu idoni per a la violència i la confrontació.
→ read full articleBig Business “Regulators” and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Opening the Floodgates to Corporate Plunder
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
2 Feb 2015
A new leak concerning the talks around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) indicates that the floodgates could be opened even further for corporate influence.
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Teach Your Children (Music Video of the Week)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
From the 1970 Album “Déjà Vu” – A classic for teachers & parents.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’anno 2015: che cosa dobbiamo aspettarci?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
Stanno dispiegandosi tre, forse quattro drammatici processi globali. E poi questo: il Treno-Merci della Ferrovia della Seta Yiwu dalla Cina costiera a Madrid, 8.111 miglia [13.053 km], che connette tutti i mercati in Eurasia da un’estremità all’altra – e da Madrid all’America Latina, ovviamente.
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