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(Italiano) Cooperazione fra università per l’equità e l’empatia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Immaginate un seminario cooperativo di quattro settimane con molte università su come pensare (ri-cercare), parlare (anche insegnare) e agire (prassi) nei campi delle relazioni internazionali e dell’epistemologia; una gran NOVITA’!
→ read full articleWilling Accomplices: The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators
Bill Blunden - CounterPunch,
12 May 2014
These gestures are likely theater, being performed by executives on behalf of quarterly earnings. Such is the beauty of PR. Hi-tech companies don’t really need to fend off government spies but merely provide users with the perception of resistance.
→ read full articleTAP+TPP = “All But China” = TAP+TIPP?
Johan Galtung,
12 May 2014
Washington is working hard to reconquer slipping world hegemony; in the Anglo-American tradition assuming that No. 2–this year maybe No. 1 economically–is an enemy, instead of deepening cooperation. China has a formula: inequality and corruption are rampant but they also lift the bottom communities up to participation in the market economy. The United States let them sink further down.
→ read full articleUkraine: Stop Escalation and Think Peace
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
12 May 2014
Vladimir Putin’s statements that separatists should not hold referendums on May 11 [2014], that he welcomes the elections in Ukraine on May 25 and that Russia is withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine should be welcomed. If he has been ”aggressive” and this is a ”turnabout” as many in the West believe, this turnabout is even more welcome.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleBRICS Building Parallel IMF
Patrick L Young – Russia Today,
5 May 2014
The post war consensus on financing bodies appears to be breaking down as the West clings desperately to the reins of the IMF and World Bank. In exasperation, the BRICS nations are pushing forward with alternative institutions.
→ read full articleHomage to International NYT
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
Why homage? Not for the news coverage; usually the news “fit to print” that do not contradict US and Israeli foreign policies. Nor for the editorials, usually on the same line and also, frankly, often boring. The homage is for the articles, essays even, at a very high level, often carrying discourses that are wide ranging, way back into the past, far into the future. We are not talking about agree-disagree but about broadness, openness, even globally.
→ read full articleThe West’s Hypocrisy in Ukraine
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 May 2014
When it comes to Ukraine the US and the EU are adopting a holier than thou attitude which, unfortunately, leads them not to worship at the altar of truth. Take the issue of the fuss made over alleged soldiers wearing Russian uniforms.
→ read full articleAbe Taking Pacifist Constitution Away from the People
The Asahi Shimbun, Editorial – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
May 3, 2014 – Japan’s Constitution cannot be revised with a simple majority vote in the Diet. Any constitutional amendment must first be initiated through a vote of two-thirds or more of all members of each house in the Diet and then approved by the public with a majority vote in a special referendum.
→ read full articleMuch Different from What You’ve Heard – The Story of Venezuela’s Protests
Mark Weisbrot - CounterPunch,
5 May 2014
The strategy of Venezuela’s extreme right is to make the country ungovernable, so as to gain by force what they have been unable to win in 18 elections over the past 15 years. It is clear from the statements of Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva and current president Dilma Rousseff that they have no illusions about what is going on in Venezuela.
→ read full article(Castellano) Como a Obama, hay que pedirle cuentas a Vladimir Putin en materia de espionaje
Edward Snowden – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
5 May 2014
El jueves pasado [10 de abril 2014] cuestioné en directo en televisión la implicación de Rusia en el espionaje masivo. Le hice al presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, una pregunta que no puede responder negativamente de un modo creíble ningún líder que dirija un programa moderno e intrusivo de vigilancia: “¿Intercepta [su país], analiza o almacena las comunicaciones de millones de individuos?”
→ read full articleWhat about Cooperatives as a Solution? – The Case of Mondragon
Vincent Navarro - CounterPunch,
5 May 2014
Mondragon is a cooperative that has 147 companies employing 80,000 workers. It was established by a Catholic priest, Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, in the Basque country in Spain in 1956.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full article(Italiano) Mari cinesi e isole: soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Conferenza all’Università di Nanchino – Proverbio cinese: meglio che dare a un affamato grave del pesce è insegnargli a pescare. Cioè, non solo soluzioni ma anche come risolvere i conflitti.
→ read full articleReagan Redux – Honduras: Gangsters’ Paradise
Nick Alexandrov - CounterPunch,
28 Apr 2014
The thousands of child prostitutes and street children, the prisons teeming with inmates, the scores of slaughtered peasants and dozens of murdered journalists—all indicate the type of nation Washington helps build in a region where it’s free to operate unimpeded, revealing which “American values” really drive U.S. foreign policy.
→ read full articleA Vindication for the Public: The Guardian and Washington Post Win the Pulitzer Prize
Edward Snowden – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
28 Apr 2014
I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year’s reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill, and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
→ read full articleWhy 21st Century Capitalism Can’t Last
Bhaskar Sunkara – Al Jazeera America,
28 Apr 2014
The response to French economist Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” has been surprising, to say the least. Though the Amazon best-seller is well written and artfully translated from French by Arthur Goldhammer, the 696-page text is filled with enough charts and footnotes to occupy experts for months.
→ read full articleUniversity Cooperation for Equity and Empathy
Johan Galtung, 28 Apr 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
The joint search for common ground is fascinating. And that leads us to a deeper field for university cooperation: joint exploration of epistemology, the criteria for valid knowledge. Imagine a four-week cooperative seminar with many universities about how to think (re-search), speak (also teach) and act (praxis) in the fields of international relations and epistemology; great NEWS!
→ read full articleTPP Is Right Where We Want It: Going Nowhere
Maira Sutton – Electronic Frontier Foundation,
28 Apr 2014
Despite some reports of movement on some of the most controversial topics during meetings between Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Abe, it seems that the Trans Pacific Partnership is still effectively at a standstill.
→ read full articleThe Perils of Intervention – Ukraine: From Crisis to Catastrophe
Patrick Cockurn - CounterPunch,
28 Apr 2014
By accepting as legitimate a government in Kiev installed by direct action, the US and EU irresponsibly destabilised a tract of Europe, something that should have been obvious at the time.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il Giappone e la comunità mondiale
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
Svegliati, Giappone. Non c’è bisogno di scegliere fra USA e Cina; sii neutrale, in termini amichevoli con entrambi. Immaginiamo un Giappone trilingue con l’inglese e il cinese, che abbondanza! Accetta l’invito dell’Asia dell’Est e del Nord Est di congiungere le loro famiglie, come la Germania e il Sud Africa hanno congiunte le loro. Diventa Giappone, potenza di pace.
→ read full articleEast-South China Seas, Islands–Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 21 Apr 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
A Chinese proverb: better than giving a starving person a fish is teaching her to fish. So, not only solutions but how to solve conflicts.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleJapan and the World Community
Johan Galtung, 14 Apr 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2014
Wake up, Japan. No need to choose between the USA and China; be neutral, on friendly terms with both. Imagine a trilingual Japan with English and Chinese, what a wealth! Accept the invitation by East Asia and Northeast Asia to join their families, as Germany and South Africa joined theirs. Become Japan, the peace power.
→ read full articleAmerica — A Failed State?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its citizens and by not coming to terms with other states. Actually the two are closely related as often pointed out.
→ read full articleBritish Aid for Myanmar Ethnic Cleansing
Maung Zarni – Asia Times,
7 Apr 2014
Britain, the largest donor country and former colonizer of Myanmar, is effectively aiding and abetting the unfolding “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya by helping to finance the country’s controversial 2014 national census.
→ read full articleFor Sea Shepherd – A Vindication: The Whales Have Won!
Cap. Paul Watson - ConterPunch,
7 Apr 2014
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been insisting for more than a decade that Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is illegal. The ICJ has vindicated our position.
→ read full article(Italiano) Stati Uniti d’America — Uno stato fallito?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Dipende, ovviamente, dai criteri. Uno stato ha una politica interna verso i propri cittadini, e una esterna verso il sistema statuale. Dipende dalla politica interna ed estera, in altre parole. Questo vuol dire che può fallire in due modi, col non occuparsi dei propri cittadini e col non venire a patti con altri stati. Effettivamente i due aspetti sono strettamente correlati come sovente è stato fatto notare.
→ read full articleYOU Can Stop the Slow Burning Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya and Muslims!
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
One of the legacies of the 50 years of military rule and societal isolation (from the world) is multifold: ultra-conservative versions of various faiths, particularly Buddhism, thrive there; the high level of public ignorance is matched only by the extremely low level of critical popular thoughts.
→ read full articleHere Is How We Are Fooled About the Threat of Nuclear Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
31 Mar 2014
What about a solid research report by a world expert documenting that all you’ve heard about Iran going nuclear is based on fake documents? What about evidence that it is Israeli disinformation of world media and political establishments?
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full article(Italiano) Non abbastanza bene, signor Putin!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
La storia conta, non solo il diritto; come il modo in cui Crimea e Abkhazia-SudOssetia – fondamentalmente russo-ortodosse – divennero ucraina-georgiane. Due dittatori sovietici, Khrushchev e Stalin, attaccati rispettivamente all’Ucraina e alla Georgia, decisero così, per editto. Non chiesero alla gente del posto, come neppure agli hawaiiani quando gli USA si annessero il loro regno nel 1898 – per editto.
→ read full articleKosovo 15 Years Later: A Personal Memory and a Word about Free Research
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Mar 2014
Media with a pro-Western bias usually remind us of Sep/11 based on a victim narrative. We just passed Mar/20 – the 11th anniversary of the war on Iraq. Every year they forget Oct/7 (Afghanistan) and Mar/24, the destruction of Serbia-Kosovo in 1999.
→ read full articleTony Benn – The Vegetarian
Nitin Mehta, Gandhi Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Tony was a passionate campaigner for stopping all wars and advocated pacifism. The following quote shows his concern for animals: ‘The case for animal testing is now being directly challenged by scientists and doctors and their judgement must be taken seriously.’
→ read full articleFar From Good Enough, Mr. Putin!
Johan Galtung, 24 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
History matters, not only law; like how Crimea and Abkhazia-South Ossetia–basically Russian-Orthodox–became Ukrainian-Georgian. Two Soviet dictators, Khrushchev and Stalin, attached to Ukraine and Georgia, so decided, by dictate. The local people were not asked, nor were Hawaiians when the USA annexed their Kingdom in 1898–by dictate.
→ read full articleUkraine as Stalking Horse: The Rise of Fascism in the West
Norman Pollack - CounterPunch,
24 Mar 2014
We can say that the primal factor in fascism’s internal composition is capitalism, not your everyday Smithian variety happily ensconced in Econ. 101 textbooks, but the real thing at an advanced form of development.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il cinquantenario del Gruppo dei 77. Congratulazioni!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Per uno che ha lavorato molto sulla teoria e la pratica del cambiamento da sistemi di gerarchia a sistemi di equità, il 15 giugno 1964 non sarà mai dimenticato. Quelli in fondo al sistema mondiale degli stati, frammentati gli uni dagli altri da strutture coloniali e imperiali, marginalizzati, sfruttati, si adunarono, 77 di loro, e formarono un Gruppo – termine non proprio rivoluzionario.
→ read full articleAl Qaeda’s Second Act: How Syria’s Secular Uprising Was Hijacked by Jihadists
Patrick Cockburn - CounterPunch,
24 Mar 2014
Patrick Cockburn reports how Jihadists have taken over the uprising in Syria. “Peace, if it ever comes, will come in stages and with many false starts such as the failure of the Geneva II peace talks.”
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleEncryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance
Micah Lee – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
24 Mar 2014
Defending yourself against the NSA, or any other government intelligence agency, is not simple, and it’s not something that can be solved just by downloading an app. But thanks to the dedicated work of civilian cryptographers and the free and open source software community, it’s still possible to have privacy on the Internet, and the software to do it is freely available to everyone. This is especially important for journalists communicating with sources online.
→ read full articleHow California Will Use Renewables to Replace Massive Nuclear Plant
Sierra Martinez, Natural Resources Defense Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
California took another major and symbolic step this month [Mar 2014] with its decision to rely significantly on energy efficiency and other clean energy resources to help replace electricity once generated by the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station serving San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area.
→ read full articleIn Contrast to Huffington Post, the New York Times Misleads the Readers on Myanmar Government’s Central Role in the Rohingya Pogroms
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
It is in fact Burma or Myanmar military leadership that has self-consciously pursued what amounts to genocidal policies towards the Rohingya, in fact, a borderland people of Burma like Karen, Chin, Kachin, Rakhine, etc, whose roots spread across new boundaries of the post-WWII nation-states.
→ read full articleCrimea: The Referendum, the Mote and the Beam
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
17 Mar 2014
Generally, citizens-decided conflict-resolution is likely to last longer and help healing wounds of the past than any type of solution imposed by outside actors. In Switzerland citizens go and vote on all kinds of issues on many a Sunday throughout the year.
→ read full articleASEAN and the New Orwellianism
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Human rights harm Asean harmony.
Profits unite, human rights divide.
Thank you, Mr. Orwell.
“War is Peace”, no more.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Trap or Trajectory for Sri Lanka?
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
17 Mar 2014
Recommendations: • Independent international investigation into mass atrocities that took place throughout the armed conflict in the island of Sri Lanka. • Immediate steps to stop the structural genocide of the Tamil nation, particularly the demographic changes through land grabbing, military occupation, Sinhala settlements process and sexual violence against Tamil women…
→ read full articleThe Group of 77 at Fifty. Congratulations!
Johan Galtung, 17 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
For one who has worked much on the theory and practice of change from systems of hierarchy to systems of equity, June 15 1964 will never be forgotten. Those at the bottom of the world system of states, fragmented away from each other by colonial and imperial structures, marginalized, exploited, came together, 77 of them, and formed–not a very revolutionary word–a Group.
→ read full articleThe Systematic Repression of the Rohingya Minority Continues
Maung Zarni – The Dissident Blog,
17 Mar 2014
In my view, despite growing evidence, the international community has avoided calling this “genocide” because none of the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council have the appetite to forego their commercial and strategic interests in Myanmar to address the slow-burning Rohingya genocide.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ucraina-Crimea-Georgia: l’Occidente e la Russia
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
In modo anche più importante, la linea divisoria dell’Impero romano fin dal 395, confermata dallo scisma fra cristianesimo cattolico e ortodosso nel 1054, si riflette nella storia estremamente complessa dell’Ucraina. Odessa è a ovest, Donets a est, Ucraina a ovest, più russa a est. E Kiev, la capitale – culla della Russia, Rus – nel mezzo. Un paese spaccato in due, due uniti in uno: entrambi veri.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleArchbishop Tutu Adds Voice to Israeli Apartheid Week
Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime. I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.”
→ read full articleBoycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and the American Jewish Community
Donna Nevel – Tikkun Daily,
17 Mar 2014
Many American Jewish organizations claim to be staunch supporters of civil and human rights as well as academic freedom. But when it comes to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, they make an exception. In their relentless opposition to BDS, they leave even core principles behind.
→ read full articleUkraine-Crimea-Georgia–the West and Russia
Johan Galtung, 10 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
The dividing line of the Roman Empire from 395, confirmed by the schism between Catholic and Orthodox Christianity in 1054, is reflected in Ukraine’s extremely complex history. Odessa is in the West, Donets in the East, Ukrainian in the West, more Russian in the East. And Kiev–origin of Russia, Rus–the capital, in the middle. One split in two, two united in one: both true.
→ read full articleThe Doctor and the Saint: Ambedkar, Gandhi and the Battle against Caste
Arundhati Roy – The Caravan,
10 Mar 2014
Arundhati Roy raises many important questions regarding the contributions of Gandhi and Ambedkar. She does it brilliantly and courageously.
→ read full article(Italiano) Pakistan: e adesso che cosa fare?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministero degli Esteri (28 febbraio 2014) – Il punto basilare è che il Pakistan non otterrà quella merce detta “pace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan e Asia Centrale perseguendo solo i finie i mezzi di Washington e di qualche élite locale. Perché sbocci la pace bisogna considerare pure gli obiettivi di altre parti; e sono molti.
→ read full articleHugo Chavez: A Giant under the Moon
Eva Golinger - CounterPunch,
10 Mar 2014
A Personal Tribute – Men like Chavez don’t disappear, though some wish they would. Chavez’s legacy lives today and grows beyond the Bolivarian Revolution. He will never disappear. His presence will continue to grow and multiply in every soldier of peace, every warrior for justice.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full article“We Don’t See Things As They Are but As We Are”
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Mar 2014
Stop It! Dangerous Reductionism about Ukraine – How can we begin to understand the events in Ukraine? Who are the conflict parties and elements? Here is a quick checklist of 13, just a selection.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articlePakistan – What Now?
Johan Galtung, 3 Mar 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Islamabad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (28 Feb 2014) – The basic point is that Pakistan will not get that commodity called “peace” in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Central Asia by pursuing the ends and means of Washington and some local elites only. For peace to blossom the goals of other parties also have to be considered; and they are many.
→ read full articleFDA Panel Debates Technique That Would Create Embryos with Three Genetic Parents
Ariana Eunjung Cha and Sandhya Somashekhar – The Washington Post,
3 Mar 2014
The provocative notion of genetically modified babies met the very real world of federal regulation Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], as a government advisory committee began debating a new technique that combines DNA from three people to create embryos free of certain inherited diseases.
→ read full article(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra di aggressione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Pochi, o nessuno, lo sostengono con forza oggi come Mahathir Mohammad, quarto primo ministro della Malaysia, da 22 anni. Egli confronta quello che facciamo quando una persona ne uccide un’altra con tutto quello che non facciamo quando milioni ne uccidono milioni in guerre di aggressione.
→ read full articleUkraine – What Would YOU Like to Know about It?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
3 Mar 2014
Like millions of other citizens, I rely on media reports to understand at least some of the very serious developments. Why do I feel so frustrated at what I get? Why do I have so many questions still after weeks of coverage? And how much will fellow-citizens who have just a few minutes per day to acquaint themselves with issues such as this understand (except that Putin is a bad guy)?
→ read full article(Português) Cerveja: o transgênico que você bebe
Flávio Siqueira Júnior e Ana Paula Bartoletto – Outras Palavras,
3 Mar 2014
Sem informar consumidores, Ambev, Itaipava, Kaiser e outras marcas trocam cevada pelo milho e levam à ingestão inconsciente de OGMs.
→ read full articleClever, Clever – Was the Ukraine Coup America’s Main Event at the Sochi Olympics?
Peter Lee - CounterPunch,
3 Mar 2014
Clever, clever America, if this was the case. Because an alternate possibility is that the United States did it for revenge, to punish Putin for not going along with the US program on Syria.
→ read full articleIn the Shadows of the Mafia Regime: Algeria’s Renewed Despair
David Porter - CounterPunch,
3 Mar 2014
To date, despite internal divisions, the regime has continued its manipulation and suppression of any organized resistance, of any orientation, thus assuring huge difficulties for any independent radical or revolutionary force from emerging.
→ read full article
God Loves Uganda – Trailer
Ford Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The feature length documentary God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with sexuality values imported from America’s fundamentalist Christian Right.
→ read full articleContamination and Bio-Pollution: The Criminality of the GM Biotech Industry
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
3 Mar 2014
There is currently a battle waging across the planet over genetically modified crops. The GM biotech industry tries to assure governments and the public about the safety and efficacy of their products, while study after study calls into question its claims.
→ read full articleCriminalizing Aggressive War
Johan Galtung,
25 Feb 2014
Few, if anybody, today argue this so forcefully as Mahathir Mohammad, Malaysia’s fourth prime minister, for 22 years. He compares what we do when one person kills another to all we do not do when millions kill millions in aggressive wars.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’International Peace Research Association ha 50 anni
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Nota come IPRA, fondata nel 1964 a Londra, e il sottoscritto, 34enne a quel tempo, unico fondatore ancora in vita. L’IPRA ruota ogni due anni da un centro di ricerche per la pace all’altro, ed è ora in mani turche molto competenti. E che cos’è più naturale che tenere il 50° anniversario del fulcro degli studi per la pace in quel fulcro del mondo, Istanbul, dal 10 al 14 agosto di quest’anno!! Affrettatevi, iscrivetevi!!!
→ read full articleInternational Peace Research Association at 50
Johan Galtung, 17 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder. IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to the other, and is now in very competent Turkish hands. And what is more natural than having the 50th anniversary for the hub of peace studies in that hub of the world, Istanbul, 10-14 August this year!! Hurry up, register!!!
→ read full articleCluster-Bomb Imperialism: The Lethal Legacy of US Interventions
Sheldon Richman - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
“The tragic upsurge of violence in Iraq in recent months, including the temporary takeover of two major cities by al-Qaida, is a direct consequence of the repression of peaceful dissent by the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad and of the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation…” 40 years after America’s war of aggression against the people of Southeast Asia, American munitions continue to kill people.
→ read full articleObama’s Arms Sales Policy: Promotion or Restraint?
William D. Hartung – Foreign Policy In Focus,
17 Feb 2014
The United States is far and away the world’s leading arms trafficking nation, with $60 billion in arms transfer agreements last year [2013] alone. In 2011, the last year for which full global statistics are available, U.S. companies and the U.S. government controlled over three-quarters of the international weapons trade.
→ read full article(Italiano) Studi per la pace e risoluzione dei conflitti: necessità della transdisciplinarietà
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Gli studi per la pace cercano di capire come evitare la violenza attraverso la trasformazione dei conflitti, la cooperazione e l’armonia prendendo spunto da molte discipline, tra cui psicologia, sociologia e antropologia, scienza politica, economia, relazioni internazionali, diritto internazionale e storia.
→ read full articleIsn’t the Nationalist a Mental Patient?
Dr E W Adikaram - Groundviews,
17 Feb 2014
Species of birds differ by birth from one another. Between the eagle and the dove, between the quail and the peacock there is a natural difference. Is there such a difference between the Sinhalese and the Tamil, between the Englishman and the German? There are natural characteristics that differentiate the tiger from the bear and the horse from the bull. Is there such a difference between the Japanese and the Jew or between the Chinaman and the Eskimo?
→ read full articleLooting Syria’s Archaeological Treasures – Destruction of the Idols
Patrick Cockburn - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The systematic destruction of antiquities may be the worst disaster to ancient monuments since the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited the giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan in 2001 for similar ideological reasons.
→ read full article(Italiano) Saddam, Osama, Gheddafi, Chavez – e Obama
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chi è questo Obama, a proposito? Responsabile, secondo Nick Turse di The Nation, di uccisioni in 134 paesi, e come tale seminatore di 134 contraccolpi (blowbacks)? Un presidente con una retorica da democratico di sinistra e politiche estere da repubblicano di destra, che ha tradito i suoi elettori e la democrazia stessa, senza alcuna visione mondiale.
→ read full articleMunich Olympics, Revisited: Do Only Some Massacres Matter?
Alison Weir - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 Munich Olympic Games.” Unfortunately, it gets a few things wrong and provides a one-sided context for the tragedy. Allow me to correct the report and fill in a few of the missing facts.
→ read full articleCaught Red-Handed: Secret Tape Reveals US-backed Plot to Topple Ukraine’s Democratically-Elected President
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The taped conversation demonstrates in clear detail that while Secretary of State John Kerry decries any foreign meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, his State Department is virtually managing the entire process.
→ read full articleMedia Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger Be Stopped?
David Rosen - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The merger will be one more step in the further consolidation of the media marketplace that includes “last mile” connections for wireline delivery, wireless communications, Internet access and, increasingly, programming.
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Dr Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Metropolitan University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Feb 6, 2014 – Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, political correspondent for Sky News and Sydney correspondent for the Independent, is Associate Professor of Peace Journalism and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and the advisor for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS.
→ read full articleThird World America’s Trade Agreements
Charles Sullivan – The Picket, Shepherd University,
10 Feb 2014
If enacted, TPP will permit privately-owned corporations to have hegemony over the governments of sovereign nations.
→ read full article(Italiano) Israele-Palestina: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
La pace non si ottiene costringendo la Palestina in un ambiente bi-statale con controllo israeliano militare-politico-economico e intervento USA negli altri stati vicini. Per tale via non c’è equilibrio stabile, ma solo lotta senza fine.
→ read full article14 African Countries Forced by France to Pay Colonial Tax for the Benefits of Slavery and Colonization
Mawuna Remarque Koutonin, Silicon Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
For historical comparison, France made Haiti pay the modern equivalent of $21 billion from 1804 till 1947 for the losses caused to French slave traders by the abolition of slavery. African countries are paying the colonial tax only for the last 50 years, so I think one century of payment might be left!
→ read full articleSaddam, Osama, Gaddafi, Chavez–And Obama
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Who is this Obama, by the way? Reported, by Nick Turse of The Nation, killing in 134 countries, sowing 134 blowbacks? A president with left wing Democrat rhetoric and right wing Republican foreign policies, betraying his voters and democracy itself, with no world vision.
→ read full articleIsrael-Palestine: 1-2-6-20
Johan Galtung, 3 Feb 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Peace does not come by forcing Palestine into a two-state setting with Israeli military-political-economic control and US intervention in the other neighboring countries. Along this road there is no stable equilibrium, only endless strife.
→ read full article(Italiano) Ginevra I-II: la cattiva gestione dei conflitti
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Diciamo, semplificando brutalmente, che ci sono sette conflitti, non uno solo, tutti quanti direttamente o indirettamente violenti, che si svolgono in Siria… Per trattare una complessità a tale livello – più complessa che il VietNam – ci vuole una conferenza di lunga durata gestita dall’ONU, con tutti i contendenti, ovviamente con Iran e Israele partecipanti, e solo quelli coinvolti, senza spettatori e senza condizioni.
→ read full article(Italiano) L’economia: un brutto aspetto
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Come risultato il pianeta è ora ostaggio di debiti non rimborsabili: il PIL mondiale è già più basso del debito combinato mondiale dovuto alle banche. Il debito è superiore alla somma di denaro sul pianeta. Ma che cosa si può fare con i bankster al comando? Non granché; donde la cattiva prospettiva. I decisori delle multinazionali dominanti e delle banche, combatteranno qualunque controllo, non uccidendo ma corrompendo. I decisori degli stati dominanti, anglo-americani, combatteranno qualunque controllo uccidendo, corrompendo e spiando.
→ read full articleThe Sadism of the Japanese Dolphin Slaughter: The Blood-Stained Shores of Taiji
Joshua Frank - CounterPunch,
27 Jan 2014
The shores and ocean waters were stained a blood red as the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan commenced. As of late-January, over 250 dolphins were netted, including a very rare albino calf. Another three dozen were killed for their meat, and the killing, despite media reports to the contrary, continues.
→ read full articleMyanmar Leaders and Their 34 Concrete Ways of Control, Deception, and Manipulation
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Here is MY list of concrete, empirically verifiable acts the Burmese generals and ex-generals have been engaged in over the past 50 years since General Ne Win introduced the military rule on 2 March 1962. These acts are a given, irrespective of which general is in charge. They are getting worse.
→ read full article(ελληνικά-Greek) Βία, Ειρήνη και Έρευνα της Ειρήνης
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Translation to Greek by Mariana Kapetanidou of Johan Galtung’s paper “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research” (1969).
→ read full articleDown and Out in Paradise: Homeless in Hawai’i
Cosme Caal - CounterPunch,
27 Jan 2014
There are countless blog postings by tourists complaining about the police not mobilizing enough force to get rid of homeless people. Truth be told it takes a particular sense of entitlement to travel another land and expect for local people to reproduce a world likeable to the tourist, because they can always encroach on another people’s land, somewhere else in the world.
→ read full articleOpen Ended Dead End
David Colquhoun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
→ read full articleWhy Single Out the Case of the Rohingya Vis-A-Vis Other Unfolding Atrocities Around the World?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
I am singling out the case of the Rohingya, subject to a 35-year state-policy which rests on the INTENT to erase the Rohingya as a group, a memory, an identity and the literal existence.
→ read full articleTrumpet of Conscience: Remembering the Officially Deleted Dr. King
Paul Street - CounterPunch,
27 Jan 2014
The Trumpet of Conscience does not jibe well with the conventional domesticated and whitewashed image of King that is purveyed across the nation ever year during and around the national holiday the bears his name.
→ read full articleGeneva I-II: The Mismanagement of Conflicts
Johan Galtung, 27 Jan 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Let us say, brutally simplified, that there are seven conflicts, not only one, all directly or indirectly violent, unfolding in Syria… To handle a complexity at this level–more complex than Vietnam–a long-lasting UN-managed conference with all parties, of course with Iran and Israel participating, and only those involved, no spectators, and no conditions, is needed.
→ read full articlePeoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Bremen, Germany, 7-10 December 2013. Organized by International Human Rights Association and Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. Conducted by Permanent People’s Tribunal – Fondazione Lelio Basso Sezione Internazionale, Roma- Italia.
→ read full article“Failed Everywhere It’s Been Tried” – The Deadly Wages of Free Trade
Daniel Kovalik - CounterPunch,
20 Jan 2014
Since the passage of the Colombia FTA the violence has only increased and sadly bears resemblances to the violence in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico after the passage of NAFTA. The founding father of the “free trade” treaty, former President Bill Clinton, admitted to the US Senate in 2010 that it has “failed everywhere it’s been tried.”
→ read full article(Italiano) L’Occidente si contrae in un “Medio Evo”? Bene!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
L’Illuminismo trasformò la nozione teologica di un Dio onnipotente-onnisciente-onnipresente nella logica statuale di uno Stato onnipotente, nella logica capitalistica di un Mercato onnipresente, e nella logica aristotelica di una Scienza onnisciente. Come prevedibile, l’Occidente, e gli USA in particolare, cercano di fondere le tre logiche e i tre poteri più che mai in una copia dell’unità divina.
→ read full article(Italiano) 2014: Dieci conflitti, soluzioni, conciliazione
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
Gli USA si auto-ingannano costruendo magazzini anziché fabbriche. Il punto non è la clemenza per Snowden bensì mollare la NSA e punire i trasgressori ai diritti umani, anche alleati. L’Occidente tenta di guadagnare terreno propizio a livello morale cambiando il discorso su qualcosa che ritiene di possedere che altri non hanno: la democrazia. Che gestisca un enorme sistema colonial-imperiale contro la propria volontà? Un po’ di democrazia!
→ read full articleThe Economy: Looks Bad
Johan Galtung,
20 Jan 2014
But what can be done with banksters in control? Not much; hence the bad outlook. The decision-makers in the leading corporations, the banks, will fight any control, not by killing but by bribing. The decision-makers in the leading states, Anglo-American, will fight any control by killing, bribing and spying.
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