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(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 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 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 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.
→ read full articleThe Death Grip of Neoliberalism – Keynes Is Dead; Long Live Marx!
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Marx characterized capitalism’s ability to create a big pool of the unemployed (in order to create a poor and meek working class) as “immiseration” and submission of labor force—a built-in mechanism that is essential to the “general law” of capitalist accumulation: It follows that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer must grow worse.
→ read full articleThe Fukushima Nuclear Accident as Told by Plant Manager Masao Yoshida
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
The document remains the only available official transcript of the testimony by Yoshida, the on-site commander of efforts to bring the situation under control, who died in July 2013 of esophageal cancer without having disclosed much to the media.
→ read full articleThe US Government Can Brand You a Terrorist Based on a Facebook Post. We Can’t Let Them Make Up the Rules
Arjun Sethi – The Guardian,
1 Sep 2014
Innocent people’s lives are being ruined. Why isn’t anyone watching the watchlist?
→ read full articleThe Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza: How the US Enables Israel
Ron Forthofer - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
Many Americans may think this foreign policy issue doesn’t concern them. If they think about this issue at all, many say that it’s not our business and we should just let them fight it out. However the US has been deeply involved in this conflict since before Israel declared its existence.
→ read full article(Italiano) Galtung: Erdogan dovrebbe concentrarsi sulla politica estera
Yonca Poyraz Dogan intervista Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
Galtung ha parlato con noi trattando più ampiamente la tematica durante la sua recente visita a Istanbul per la conferenza biennale dell’ International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
→ read full article90% of TEPCO Workers Defied Orders, Fled Fukushima Plant in 2011
Hideaki Kimura – The Asahi Shimbun,
1 Sep 2014
Almost all workers, including managers required to deal with accidents, defied orders and fled the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant at a critical juncture when the disaster was unfolding in March 2011, documents showed.
→ read full articleObese Intelligence – The NSA Search Engine
Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch,
1 Sep 2014
The Intercept was already getting the intelligence community excited with its revelations that the NSA decided to mimic inspector Google. The revelations have a few implications, the most obvious one confirming the transition between intelligence work and the policing function.
→ read full articleHalf-truths, Omissions and Distortions: Palestine, Israel and CNN
Robert Fantina - CounterPunch,
25 Aug 2014
An article on August 18 [2014] on CNN indicates clearly the kind of misinformation it is presenting about the situation, including half-truths, omissions and distortions that may be more damaging that outright lies. The following are some examples, with commentary.
→ read full articleUkraine Crisis: 300 German Intellectuals Support Putin, Criticize US-NATO Influence in Europe and Mainstream Media Propaganda
Neue Rheinische Zeitung – Global Research,
25 Aug 2014
The Soviet Union made unparalleled sacrifices in its decisive contribution to the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Nevertheless, in 1990 it was ready to support German reunification in 1991, to dissolve the Warsaw Pact and accept NATO membership of the reunified Germany. This was not honored by the West.
→ read full articleThe New Yorker, GMOs and Chemical Farming: Gunning for Vandana Shiva
Louis Proyect – CounterPunch,
25 Aug 2014
Perhaps nothing symbolizes the decline of the New Yorker magazine more than the hatchet job on Vandana Shiva that appears in the latest issue. The article is a meretricious defense of genetically modified organisms relying on one dodgy source after another.
→ read full articleSupport Richard Branson’s Ukraine Dialogue Initiative
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
25 Aug 2014
We are drifting towards a new Cold War. The reason is the woefully incompetent way in which politicians and media focus on violence and ignore underlying conflicts and civilian means – of course there are exceptions but… Escalation doesn’t create peace.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Report and the Turning Tide against Mass Spying
Parker Higgins and Katitza Rodriguez – Electronic Frontier Foundation,
25 Aug 2014
This new report constitutes an impressive and thorough new addition to the global debate about privacy and mass surveillance. It stresses the applicability of human rights law to areas where overreaching governments have tried to claim no law applies, and pushes for greater accountability and transparency for the institutions engaging in wholesale privacy violations.
→ read full articleUSA-Israel vs. Arab-Muslim Worlds: What Happens?
Johan Galtung,
25 Aug 2014
Nothing good. But let us have a look at it in the standard peace studies way: Diagnosis-analyzing, Prognosis- forecasting, and Therapy–remedies, even solutions.
→ read full articleAn Interview with Richard Falk on the Crisis in Gaza
Ken Klippenstein – CounterPunch,
25 Aug 2014
“The [Sisi] government is determined to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood and they view Hamas as an extension of the Brotherhood. So they’re, in a certain way, on the same side as Israel on this particular confrontation.”
→ read full article“Muslim Rage” and the Hypocrisy of the Western Liberal Elite
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
The western liberal élite has a problem with Muslims, in particular with Muslim Rage, as Newsweek’s cover called it. It reminds me of that priceless, old misogynist quotation from Sigmund Freud: women–what do they want? What do Muslims want? They want to be part of the modern world yet they import these age-old hatreds that are so–well, primitive and unmodern. Muslims aren’t ready for civilization-primetime.
→ read full articleJapan’s “Peace Constitution” Is in Jeopardy
Akira Tashiro, Chugoku Shimbun – Hiroshima Peace Media Center,
18 Aug 2014
The concepts of “negative peace” and “positive peace” that Dr. Galtung devised have taken root . The former defines a state without war. The latter indicates a situation where not only war but also structural violence such as poverty, oppression, and discrimination do not exist. I expect that Dr. Galtung would no doubt criticize the term “positive pacifism,” a pet phrase of Mr. Abe which makes the military a higher priority, as a “distortion.”
→ read full articleBuilding Sustainable Peace — Criminalizing War
Johan Galtung,
18 Aug 2014
The 1648 Westphalia Peace stabilized two Christianities at the price of a state system with the “right to war”. Remove that mandate from the abrahamic god’s countless massacres via rex gratia dei–the King by God’s grace–transferred to the state–and via vox popoli vox dei–the voice of people being the voice of god–perverting democracies into killing machines.
→ read full articleNeeded: Regime Change in Israel
Johan Galtung,
11 Aug 2014
My intuition tells me that some may even be preparing a regime change. Not even the USA can force change upon Israel. Antisemitism certificates will be issued, history will be invoked. But everything has its limits. And the present regime has overstepped theirs.
→ read full articleMourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel
Rabbi Michael Lerner – Tikkun,
11 Aug 2014
My heart is broken as I witness the suffering of the Palestinian people and the seeming indifference of Israelis. Israeli behavior toward Palestinians is destroying Judaism and creating a new kind of hatred of Jews by people who never before had any issue with Jews.
→ read full article(Italiano) Marx e Freud, il Taoismo e Gandhi
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Lo Stato stabilizza con il controllo esterno – punizione e ricompensa; lo Spirito con il controllo interiore – buona o cattiva coscienza. Voler fare ciò che va fatto semplifica l’esistenza umana.
→ read full articleBulldozing the Truth: Atrocities and the War on Investigative Journalism
John Kendall Hawkins - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Without protecting confidentiality, investigative journalism required for accountability and democracy will wither and disappear.” And that would be the final atrocity for Democracy, with no one left to witness the bulldozing of our emaciated truths about unbridled power into a shallow grave.
→ read full articlePrinciples of International Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 3074 (XXVIII) of 3 December 1973
→ read full article(Italiano) BRIC(K)S [mattoni] per un Nuovo Ordine Economico Mondiale!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
Ce l’hanno fatta, con alternative costruttive – la Nuova Banca di Sviluppo e il Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA) – alla banca Mondiale e al Fondo Monetario Internazionale dominati dagli USA, due pilastri fondamentali degli accordi di Bretton Woods nell’infrastruttura economica dell’ impero USA, nelle mani del proprio Congress (parlamento).
→ read full articleIndia: Selling Out to Monsanto – GMOs and the Bigger Picture
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
11 Aug 2014
The political backing for GMOs by the US State Department, the strategic position of the US GM biotech sector in international trade agreements and the push to get GMOs into India and to contaminate agriculture via open-field trials with the compliance of key officials and official bodies does not bode well.
→ read full articleThey Made Them Do It…. – What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
Robert Bonomo - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day. Imagine that instead of Palestinian children, it was Jewish children being denied toys, books, music and until a few years ago, even pasta.
→ read full articleThe Dubious Colombia Exports of German Arms Manufacturer Sig Sauer
Volkmar Kabisch, Georg Mascolo, Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer – Süddeutsche Zeitung International,
11 Aug 2014
Military experts estimate that German small arms have killed more people than were killed by the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. In just the past decade small arms and ammunition exports have been nearly 1 billion euro. In 2013 the German government allowed exports amounting to 135 million euro, some 43 percent more than the year prior.
→ read full articlePrivacy 2014: Google as an Arm of the Surveillance State
Thomas L. Knapp - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a pretty large gap between “we’ll let the government look at your stuff if they insist” and “we’ll keep an eye out for stuff that the government might want to see.” The latter, with respect to privacy, represents the top of a very slippery slope.
→ read full articleThe Syrian War Spills into Lebanon
Jonathan Woodrow Martin - CounterPunch,
11 Aug 2014
Security Council’s Hollow Warning: “Don’t Get Involved” – This was the message delivered to the Lebanese government by the UN Security Council, do not get involved in the conflict in Syria. Anyone with even a basic grasp of the Syrian conflict and the entwined history of Lebanon and Syria will know that this is unrealistic at best and already a moot point.
→ read full articleMarx and Freud, Daoism and Gandhi
Johan Galtung, 4 Aug 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
The State stabilizes through outer control with punishment and reward; the Spirit through inner control with bad or good conscience. Wanting to do what has to be done simplifies human existence.
→ read full articleFive Things Each of Us Human, Jews and Non-Jews, Can Do for Gazans/Palestinians
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
I will personally not have anything to do with any Zionist, who whitewashes, justifies, or actively supports Israel and its Nazi conduct towards Gaza. I urge you to show your solidarity by engaging daily in people-to-people boycott of Israel. Here are five things you can do – and this list is only suggestive.
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Slave Workers Dying in Shocking Numbers in Qatar
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
After visiting labor camps in Doha an international federation of trade unions called Qatar a country with only “a facade of government,” saying that migrant workers are living in squalid conditions as employers keep their passports and exit visas. Working in “unbelievable heat” six days a week they are now dying in “unprecedented numbers,” according to the report’s authors.”
→ read full articleSomething Sinister Going On? – The Unanswered Questions of MH17
Mike Whitney - CounterPunch,
4 Aug 2014
Why hasn’t Washington been more forthcoming with the information they have? Why are they basing their judgment on the nonsense they’ve gleaned from social media and Twitter feeds instead of spy-in-the-sky photos and satellite imagery? Why are they dragging their feet and obstructing the investigation?
→ read full articleGlobal Language Dictionary – The Israel Project 2009
Frank Luntz – The Israel Project,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel Project’s 2009 – Spin Manual for Defenders of Israeli Policies: the rest [beginning?] of the story… This manual will provide you with many specific words and phrases to help you communicate effectively in support of Israel.
→ read full articleWhy Israel Needs Anti-Semitism
Diana Johnstone – CounterPunch,
28 Jul 2014
Last July 12 [2014], Jewish Defense League (JDL) militants provoked some participants in a Paris protest demonstration against the Israeli attack on Gaza into violent clashes in front of a synagogue in the rue de la Roquette. The JDL militants were protected by police, whereas several pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested.
→ read full articleWe Need a New Understanding of the Security Council
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The permanent members of the UN Security Council are certifiably sick entities suffering from bouts of psychoses. They are all suffering from imperial syndrome of various versions.
→ read full articleBRIC(K)S for a New World Economic Order!
Johan Galtung, 28 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
They made it, with constructive alternatives–the New Development Bank and the Contingency Reserve Agreement–to the US-dominated World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Those two parts of Bretton Woods were basic pillars in the economic infra-structure of the US Empire in the hands of the US Congress.
→ read full article“Not Only– “
Dr Kyi Maung Kaung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A Poem on Burma by a Rightly Angry Poet
→ read full articleI Am Not a Jew
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
A poem in honor of the indomitable spirit of fellow humans who are being killed by Israel while being locked up in the Zionist concentration camp – called Gaza.
→ read full articleSetting Aside Your Humanity to Cheer “Team Israel”
MJ Rosenberg – Tikkun Daily,
28 Jul 2014
3000 years and it’s come to this. Go Blue (and White). If you defend this war, you are defending atrocities because, when it comes to Israel, you suspend all moral judgement. Fine. Just don’t think you are fooling anyone.
→ read full articleNot in My Name, Netanyahu
David Harris-Gershon - Tikkun Daily,
28 Jul 2014
When Netanyahu blames Palestinians for their own deaths, dismissing them as “human shields” – including the over 100 children who have been lost – rather than note Israel’s choice to obliterate homes in dense, urban areas when it’s known innocents will die, he does not speak for me. Netanyahu does not represent the Jewish people. And he certainly doesn’t represent me.
→ read full articleUse Malaysia’s MH17 To Make Peace Instead
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
28 Jul 2014
The government of Ukraine as well as the separatists, NATO/U.S. and very many leading Western mainstream media seem all to know who has caused the tragedy.
→ read full article(Italiano) La violenza strutturale riesaminata
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Il saggio “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992″ Philip Leech pubblicato nella newsletter di TRANSCEND del 14 luglio 2014 tra tutti i commenti il più profondo, è un’ottima opportunità per chiarire e sviluppare ulteriormente alcune delle premesse teoriche.
→ read full articleIt Is Time to Know A Little More about Realities
Fidel Castro Ruz - CounterPunch,
28 Jul 2014
The Importance of BRICS – The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other. We are political animals, as affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity’s thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises.
→ read full articleStatement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar
UN Information Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, undertook her first official visit to the country from 17 to 26 July 2014 to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in Myanmar.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Ugly Game in Gaza
Stephen Zunes – The Progressive,
21 Jul 2014
Obama’s call for Israelis and Palestinians to exercise restraint and peacefully settle their differences is not enough. Whatever terrible acts may be committed by one side or the other, this is not an ethnic conflict. It is an illegal military occupation of one nation by another.
→ read full articleIncubating a Non-Dollar Architecture
Akshay Mathur –Indian Council on Global Relations,
21 Jul 2014
Can the mandate of the new [BRICS] bank be extended to incubate a non-dollar financial architecture for emerging countries? If so, what would the design look like?
→ read full article“Buddhists Betray the Teachings” — Jack Kornfield on the Anti-Muslim Violence in Burma
Jack Kornfield, Shambhala SunSpace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
A religion known for nonviolence is being used to fuel a genocidal campaign against the Muslims of Burma. Inside the coming, September 2014 Shambhala Sun, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, who recently returned from Burma, urges us to join the call for peace.
→ read full articleBRICS Bank Is First Step towards New International Economic Order [NIEO]
Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava - CounterCurrents,
21 Jul 2014
China is now an important country in financial terms. India has huge middle class with purchasing power equal to European people. Russia has potential to control the EU affairs in its sphere of influence. Brazil is instrumental in promoting the socialist model, influencing adjoining countries. South Africa has vast natural resources with impact upon the whole continent.
→ read full articleStructural Violence Re-Explored
Johan Galtung, 21 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The essay “Galtung’s Structural Violence and the Sierra Leone Civil War c. 1985-1992” by Philip Leech [TMS-Analysis 14 Jul 2014],–of all the commentators the deepest–is a very welcome opportunity to clarify and develop further some of the underlying thinking.
→ read full article100 Years of War-100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014
Peter van den Dungen, World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
The West, and the rest of the world, would indeed be a great deal more civilised if war – ‘the foulest blot upon our civilization’ in the words of Andrew Carnegie – was abolished. When he said so, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still Japanese cities like any other.
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