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Pillow Talk
Joe Kandra (cartoonist) and Kathie MM – Engaging Peace,
4 Nov 2019
There you go again…
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The Olive Tree–Not Just an Ordinary Tree
Mazin Qumsiyeh | DesertPeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
21 Oct 2019 – It is hard to describe to non-Palestinians what the olive tree means to us. My thoughts wonder to the Palestinians who lost their olive groves to the colonial settlement activity (over 1 million trees have been uprooted). The olive harvest is after all a ritual that borders on an act of worship (and maybe it is). Palestinians over the past 5000 years have cultivated olive trees and derived great benefit from these wonderful hardy trees.
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2019 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award Acceptance Speech
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
24 Oct 2019 – Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” I would add, as I’m sure he would, that we must work diligently to attain this reality.
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Correcting the (Im)Balance of Power (Before It’s Too Late)
Joseph Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
Nothing New under the Sun… (?)
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In Memoriam: Dietrich ‘Dieter’ Fischer (22 Sep 1941 – 18 Oct 2015)
Prof. Johan Galtung | Founder – TRANSCEND Network of Peace Practitioners,
28 Oct 2019
My dear friend, co-founder of TRANSCEND, let us celebrate your life while deploring that you are no longer among us, in deep gratitude for all you did to inspire and help–and for peace in general.
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A Hat! A Hat! My Kingdom for a Winning Hat!
Joseph Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
What the devil is under those hats?
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The International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
2 Oct 2019 – The International Day of Peace, as officially proclaimed by the UN, is the most universal action for peace in our times, and it contributes to the consciousness from the culture of war to a culture of peace. It would be good to be able to measure the IDP actions each year, to know if they are increasing or not, and to know if this is occurring throughout the world, or more in some regions than in others.
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Pathways to Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
I am very hopeful for the future as I believe if we can reject militarism in its entirety as the aberration/dysfunction it is in human history, and all of us who no matter what area of change we work in, can unite and agree we want to see a demilitarized unarmed world. We can do this together. Let us remember in human history, people abolished slavery, piracy, we can abolish militarism and war, and relegate these barbaric ways into the dustbin of history.
→ read full articleWhy Work to Abolish Nuclear Weapons?
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2019
We can change the world in important and necessary ways.
We can take a giant step forward for humankind.
We can join with others in demonstrating good stewardship of the planet…
Nuclear Abolition: Q&A with Dr. David Krieger
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
A special dialogue held at Nuclear Age Peace Foundation during our overseas fieldwork on 1 Feb 2019. This session was held between 13 Kansai Soka High School students and Dr. David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
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David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2019
11 Sep 2019 – I would encourage you to seek to advance global sustainability by adopting a planetary perspective, doing no harm, engaging in doing good for the planet and its present and future inhabitants, choosing hope, and persevering. If we accept these responsibilities as individuals and work to implement them in our national and international policies, we can turn Earth Day into a year-around commitment to creating a planet we can be proud to pass on to future generations.
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Peace People Founder Ciaran McKeown Dead at 76
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
It is with deep sadness that I heard of the death of my dear friend and co-peace worker Ciaran McKeown on 1 Sep 2019. When the Peace People started in Aug l976 at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, it was Ciaran, a political journalist, who courageously took the peace leadership–giving up his job and becoming a volunteer in spite of the fact that his fifth child was soon due–and joined myself and Betty Williams in co-founding the Peace People. RIP
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Peace as a Profession and New Peace Action Roles
Johan Galtung | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
1974 – Today we see relatively clearly that there are liberal and Marxist conceptions of peace, and perhaps we also see more clearly than before that «liberalism vs. Marxism» is a false dichotomy—although we still live under the pressure of the false dichotomies, and particularly in the thinking about peace. Hence, this essay is an effort to try to indicate, at a very simple, common sense level, that both views are fruitful in conceiving of new forms of peace action, and that they in a sense reinforce each other.
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What Really Happened in Zimbabwe
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2019
8 Sep 2019 – Yesterday the New York Times carried several very long articles about former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who had just died, saying that he was a “tyrant” and that he “presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands.”
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The Initiative to Clean Up Unexploded Bombs in Vietnam
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2019
Chuck Searcy of Project RENEW describes the major success and strides in making Vietnam safe from the devices of death dropped on the country by the United States.
→ read full articleEven the Bermuda Triangle Has a Plastic Problem
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Sargasso Sea: Home to Sea Turtles, the Bermuda Triangle and… Way Too Much Plastic
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Lessons from Einstein for Scientists Today
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
The year 2005 also marked the 50th anniversary of Einstein’s death and of the issuing of his last public appeal, the Russell-Einstein Manifesto. It is an appropriate time to consider what lessons we might draw from Einstein’s life that would benefit those engaged in scientific activities today.
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How the Western Media Support State Terror – While Millions Die
Matthew Alford, Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Issue Aug/Sep 2019 – Five academics examine our media’s coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.
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(Français) Comment les médias occidentaux soutiennent le terrorisme d’Etat qui fait des millions de victimes
Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford | Peace News – Le Grand Soir,
19 Aug 2019
21 juillet 2019 – Quatre universitaires examinent la couverture médiatique des affaires étrangères dans un article censuré (puis refusé) par une grande publication libérale.
→ read full article(Français) La résolution des Nations Unies pour la culture de la paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2019
1er août 2019 – La lutte pour une culture de la paix pourrait gagner beaucoup plus de force si cette résolution était utilisée comme base d’analyse et de pratique par plus d’organisations dans le monde, mais malheureusement, elle est mal connue. La situation me rappelle l’utilisation d’un autre document historique des Nations Unies, la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
→ read full articleThe UN Resolution for the Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2019
1 Aug 2019 – The struggle for a culture of peace could gain much more force if this resolution were used as the basis for analysis and practice by more organizations around the world, but unfortunately it is relatively unknown. The situation reminds me of the use of another landmark UN document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The Big Lie
Jeff Davis | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
End US terror wars and US drug wars!
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And Ye Shall Inherit the Whirlwind or Learn to Live in Gratitude and Grace (Parts 1 to 3)
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
We are free to become free. This is the lesson taught by Socrates. It is also the essence of Buddhism. The word “Buddha” means “awake.” Awakening, as Plato would say, is recollecting the sanity we were born with. Nietzsche quotes Pindar: “Become who you are.” We are inextricable strands in the holistic web of being and becoming. Said the poet Byron: “Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?” John Lennon said: “I am the walrus.”
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Response to the Report on Venezuela by the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
8 Jul 2019 – The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, strongly rejects the Report on Venezuela presented on 4 July by the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet. The Report lies outrageously about the reality of Venezuela, using the same narrative used over and over again by the U.S. government in condemning and disqualifying the legitimate government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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Consciousness + Institutional Change = Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
2 Jul 2019 – People are taking to the streets to defend human rights and demand democracy around the world. We need more institutional change if we are to harness the consciousness of people in the coming decade when the global financial system has crashed and a window of opportunity opens for us to move from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams
Dr Hakim Young and the Afghan Peace Volunteers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
5 Jul 2019 – In Kabul, our thoughts and feelings are diverse, complicated and flawed, so we centre our three dreams on relationships. We hope that each of us can take tiny actions to free ourselves from the ravages of money and power.
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Christine Barie and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
Great? Who? What?
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Christine Barie and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2019
This is a test!
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Find a Deal, and It Goes ‘Round, ‘Round, ‘Round, as It Spins Along…
Christine Barie and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
Dealmaker?
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2019 – In this month’s bulletin of CPNN we try to identify those to whom we can look for peace leadership in these turbulent times. Let us consider their actions and advice. Let’s listen first to the new generation of youth activists.
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American Empire Defined
The Peace Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
Informative, educational
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Then and Now
Christine Barie and Kathie Malley-Morrison | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
For the record…
→ read full articleWhy Julian Assange Is So Important
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
The control of information has become a crucial means for the culture of war – without this control it cannot be sustained. In the past, only a few of the secrets and lies were revealed. But thanks to Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks, we have learned about many more secrets and lies in the past few years. How do governments react?
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National Campaign for Peace Education Launched in Cameroon
Global Campaign for Peace Education – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2019
On 6 Mar 2019, Cameroon Peace Foundation Association, in collaboration with the Global Campaign for Peace Education, launched a National Campaign for Peace Education in Buea. The Campaign brought together religious leaders, lecturers, teachers and police officers.
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What Does It Mean to Teach Peace?
Ellen Birkett Lindeen | Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
[Note from TMS editor]: Peace does not mean the absence of war; that is called negative peace. Positive peace is based on equitable distribution of resources, restoration of relationships, the creation of social systems that serve the needs of the whole population and the constructive resolution of conflict. To work for a sustainable peace, people focus on factors to generate positive peace, rather than simply to avoid violence. [Galtung 1996].
→ read full articleCan Students Become a Revolutionary Force?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 – It seems we are now starting to see student strikes to demand that their governments address the problem of climate change. Can this movement become revolutionary? Students are beginning to see that their world is being exploited by their governments and that their schools seem to be in complicity with the governments. The American Youth Climate Strike say in their mission statement that “if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then the system is forced to face the climate crisis and enact change.”
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Failed Economics
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
17 Mar 2019 – The super-elites, the 2,208 billionaires — those who attend Global Economic Summits, own banks, buy off governments, pollute with impunity, and hold political influence in virtually every nation in the world — comprise not the “1%” but only 28-millionths of a percent of the human population. According to Forbes magazine, the average billionaire makes about $635 million dollars every year, $12 million per week, even when they’re on holiday.
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Talk by John Perkins, Author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’
Veterans For Peace National Convention – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2019
A Talk at the Veterans For Peace National Convention
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Don’t Play Politics with Our Peace
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
It is with deep concern and regret that I witness Northern Ireland has been without a Parliament for almost two years. We have a fundamental right to government; all our futures are in your hands. Please don’t play politics with our peace. SIGN THE PETITION
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A Conspiracy of Decency
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
We will conspire to keep this blue dot floating and alive,
to keep the soldiers from gunning down the children;
to make the water clean and clear and plentiful,
How to Prepare for a Global Financial Crash: Rural-Urban Continuum and Electric Vehicles
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
1 Mar 2019 In this blog we have often proposed that the culture of war is not sustainable and that the American empire is destined to crash for the same reasons that the Soviet empire crashed. It can be an opportunity for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace. However, the crash of the American empire may well be accompanied (caused) by a global financial crash with suffering for ordinary people, as it did for the Soviet people 30 years ago.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
1er février 2019 – Au cours des derniers mois, deux élections ont eu lieu: en République Démocratique du Congo et au Venezuela.
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There’s Something Rotten with the Meat Industry
Nora Holzman and Katarzyna Jagiełło | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
It was an unimaginable scene: diseased cows dragged to slaughter in excruciating pain, then sold without veterinary control around Europe and landing on the plates of many consumers.
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Trump Withdraws U.S. from INF Treaty
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – The Trump administration announced the USA will suspend the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty effective 2 Feb. This crucial treaty requires the USA and Russia to eliminate all nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. Where does this leave us?
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
1 Feb 2019 – In the past few months we have a tale of two elections: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Venezuela.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2019 – Nomination info in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish – Deadline: 31 Jan
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019 – Please use our attached information on the 2019 Nobel Prize; for your convenience in English, Français, Deutsch, Castellano, Svenska.
→ read full articleThe Doomsday Clock
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
2 Jan 2019 – Looking back at 2018, we see progress in all of the areas of a culture of peace except one: disarmament, and in particular nuclear disarmament. Symbolic of this, last year the “doomsday clock” of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists was reset to only two minutes before midnight, the shortest it has been since 1953!
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Nominate a True Nobel «Champion of a Global Peace Order and Disarmament»
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
Nobel Peace Prize 2019-Nominations Deadline: 31 January | Dreaming of a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019… for some person, idea, or group dear to you?
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Mairead Maguire Nominates Julian Assange for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
7 Jan 2019 – Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire wrote today to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Ms. Maguire wrote:
→ read full articleHacking Nuclear Weapon Systems: A New Weakness in Nuclear Deterrence Theory
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
There are many ways a nuclear attack could be initiated. These include the four “Ms” of Malice, Madness, Mistake and Miscalculation. Of these ways of initiating a nuclear attack, only malice could possibly be inhibited by nuclear deterrence (fear of nuclear retaliation), and such an inhibition from attack would not be reliable due to psychological and communication issues that are required for nuclear deterrence to be effective.
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Veterans For Peace Statement on Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Syria
Veterans For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – Veterans For Peace is pleased to hear that President Trump has ordered a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, where they had no legal right to be in the first place. Whatever the reasoning, withdrawing U.S. troops is the right thing to do.
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A Message to Today’s Young People: Put an End to the Nuclear Weapons Era
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
Nuclear weapons were created to kill indiscriminately. That means women, men, children – everyone. Even during war, under the rules of international law, that kind of mass killing is illegal. It is also immoral.
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Global Arms Industry: US Companies Dominate the Top 100
SIPRI-Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2018
10 Dec 2018 – Sales of arms and military services by the world’s largest arms-producing and military services companies totalled $398.2 billion in 2017, according to new international arms industry data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
→ read full articleA World Adrift
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
29 Nov 2018 – As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends whom I told about my revulsion at the world’s indifference at the Yemen tragedy, at the hypocrites of the West who shamelessly crawl at the feet of the butcher of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman.
→ read full articleRationale for an Alternative to the UN Security Council
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
3 Dec 2018 – In last month’s blog, I returned to a previous theme of an Alternative UN Security Council. It has been pointed out to me that I did not provide a very explicit rationale about this proposal and why it should be given priority. So let me try to do that now in terms of the following strategy and tactics involved.
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To Put Humans First
Nadine Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Better World Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – Nadia was named the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. For her invaluable work she was honored with the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Why Are We Allowing Yemen to Starve?
J.P. Linstroth | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
22 Nov 2018 – All of us—all people across the United States and across the globe—should be very concerned about systematic starvation of civilian populations as a war tactic. This needs to stop. There needs to be accountability for such humanitarian atrocities and there needs to be passage of international law to put an end to these military practices. Otherwise, unnecessary and unfortunate suffering as is happening in Yemen will continue.
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Enough Is Enough – End the War in Yemen
Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Laureate – The Washington Post,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – Today, the Yemeni people are suffering from the actions of outsiders. Regional powers have turned the country into an arena for proxy conflicts that have little to do with the actual interests of the Yemeni nation. Large parts of the country have been devastated, including much of its vital infrastructure. Millions are threatened by starvation and disease.
→ read full articleAbolish Militarism and War
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Nov 2018
Presented at the International Conference against US/NATO Military Bases, 16-18 Nov 2018, Dublin, Ireland – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO, which should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was dissolved, continue to carry out wars and proxy wars in many countries pushing towards the borders of Russia and resurrecting a cold war between the East and West. I believe that NATO should be disbanded and should be made accountable and make restitutions to the millions of people in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many others it has illegally attacked, invaded, destroyed.
→ read full articleA Mother‘s Plea to Save Her Son… Held 8 Years without Charges by UK Government
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
On Nov 3, Christine Assange, mother of Julian Assange, made a deeply moving video with a public appeal to save the life of her son. She says Julian is in immediate critical danger, all alone, sick, and cut off from all contacts including computer, phone, and mail. He deserves all our admiration and gratitude for his courage and bravery in truth telling. He is an inspiration to us all.
→ read full articleAs the Empire Crashes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
2 Nov 2018 – As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme. Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.
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Presidential Nuclear Nonsense
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
24 Oct 2018 – These questions could all be settled with negotiations, but President !#&$! wants to get contracts for new missiles signed the and the gusher of military spending pumping, so that electoral votes are bought and paid for this year, and in 2020. Last Feb. 12, the Prez boasted, “We’re increasing arsenals of virtually every weapon. If they’re not going to stop, we’re going to be so far ahead of anybody else in nuclear like you’ve never seen before.”
→ read full article(Français) La solution souffle dans le vent
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
7 octobre 2018 – Je suis tombé sur an article à propos de deux réunions le même jour aux Nations Unies sur les armes nucléaires. Les principaux États nucléaires (États-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Chine et Russie) se sont tous rendus à la réunion sur la non-prolifération et ils ont boycotté ainsi la réunion sur le désarmement! Comme l’article le conclut à juste titre, les États nucléaires “n’accordent pas de priorité à leur obligation d’éliminer leurs propres armes de destruction massive, mais se concentrent plutôt sur l’empêchement des autres d’acquérir de telles armes”.
→ read full articleThe Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
7 Oct 2018 – I came across a piece about two meetings at the UN on the same day concerning nuclear weapons. The major nuclear states (USA, France, UK, China and Russia) all went to a meeting for non-proliferation and boycotted the meeting for nuclear disarmament. As the article correctly concludes, the nuclear states “place very little priority on their obligations to eliminate their own weapons of mass destruction, focusing instead on preventing others from acquiring such weapons.”
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Peace Poll Reveals People Think Conflict Prevention Is Better than Cure
Harriet Lamb | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
20 Sep 2018 – Asked where their governments should spend more to promote peace, people gave top ranking to ‘dealing with the reasons why people fight in the first place’. This was strongly followed by ‘teaching peace, tolerance and conflict resolution in schools’. Again, military interventions had the least support.
→ read full articleCampaign to Get ‘Peacebuilding’ in Dictionaries Gains Traction
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2018
29 Sep 2018 – ‘Peacebuilding’ was coined in the 1970’s by Norwegian scholar Johan Galtung, who defines it as projects that involve “concrete action” towards peace. The word gets 7 million hits on Google, but is not in most dictionaries. Now a campaign has started to get ‘peacebuilding’ included.
→ read full articleNorthern Ireland: Squandering a Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Sep 2018
I want to challenge everyone to look at their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews and question: how big is their division? Gone are the days of fear and threat. So where does the problem lie? I believe the problem lies in the older generations who have suffered terribly on all sides through violence and fear. My generation has a responsibility not to restrain the youth by our bigotry and division.
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Imprisonment, Torture and Rape: Why Myanmar Must Be Referred to the ICC
Shirin Ebadi and Tawakkol Karman | Both Nobel Peace Laureates – CNN,
24 Sep 2018
18 Sep 2018 – Today, the investigation led by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar presented its findings to the Human Rights Council. The mission’s exhaustive report defines human rights violations and abuses as “shocking for their horrifying nature and ubiquity.”
→ read full articleDemonization of Russia in a New Cold War Era
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Inventing a foe to sell military ambitions: still the most dangerous of games. In examining the future, we must look to the past.
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Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The U.S. Is Defending al-Qaeda in Idlib – Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. The US spent billions to get rid of him and even provided weapons and training to the kinds of radicals that attacked the United States on 9/11.
→ read full articleNuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – The sunlight-blocking dust generated by the detonation of, say, 300 thermonuclear weapons in a war between the US and Russia could trigger a new Ice Age, dropping global temperatures to the lowest levels in 18,000 years, and leaving civilization utterly destroyed. Those who would survive the blast, heat, and radiation of nuclear war would live in a nuclear winter of freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. The survivors would likely envy the dead.
→ read full articleThe Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
3 Sep 2018 – The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.” … Some of the world’s other major accidental radiation releases indicate that the Big Three are just the tip of the iceberg.
→ read full articleThe Paradox of the United Nations: Peace vs. Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
2 Sep 2018 – If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the UN would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its allies.
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My Reflections on Pope Francis’ Visit to Ireland…
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
… and His Plea for Forgiveness of Victims for Church Clerical Sexual Abuse
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World Scholars, Artists, Activists Call for Demilitarization of Okinawa
Peace Philosophy Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
… We call on Prime Minister Abe to cancel forthwith the planned base construction for the US Marine Corps at Henoko and to open negotiations with the government of the United States towards drastically reducing, and eventually eliminating, the US military base presence on Okinawa…
(TO SIGNERS: Please email satoko@peacephilosophy.com your name and your brief title/affiliation)
Declaration of Solidarity with Rohingya and Call for Myanmar Government to Be Investigated by the ICC
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
One young woman, Fatima (20), told us how Myanmar soldiers entered their village and came into her home. They shot her husband, made her carry her six month- old baby girl down to the lake where they threw the child into the pond and drowned her. They took Fatima back to her home; several soldiers held her down and constantly raped her until she became unconscious. They carried her outside to the field where they left her for dead. She was saved by an elderly Rohingya woman who helped her get across the border into Bangladesh. – Rohingya Genocide Day 25 Aug 2018
→ read full articleHow Has the Declaration of Human Rights Changed the World?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. It set up human rights standards for all and is the world’s most translated document, in over 500 languages.
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Peace Journalism: A Needed, Desirable and Practicable Reform
Vanessa Bassil | University for Peace – Peace and Conflict Monitor,
13 Aug 2018
The idea of peace journalism has attracted its share of critiques and controversies, but as Vanessa Bassil argues, it still offers a much needed and practical, peace-oriented perspective from which media can be analysed and produced.
→ read full articleMovement for Sustainable Development: Model for Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Already we see that the paradigm of a culture of peace, as opposed to a culture of war, is becoming internalized in the consciousness of a large proportion of humanity. Can we not expect that the closer we come to a collapse of the present system, the more it will become evident that wise financial investment should seek out productive sectors instead of militarized sectors of the economy? If and when this occurs, then the time will be ripe for a social revolution from the culture of war to a culture of peace.
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What a Green and Peaceful Future Could Look Like
Paula Tejón Carbajal | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – We’re experiencing a deep systemic disconnection: an ecological, social and spiritual cultural divide. There’s a discernible disconnect between the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet Earth; between private ownership and the best societal use of property; between GDP and well-being. “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
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First Ever: 40 Jewish Groups Worldwide Oppose Equating Antisemitism with Criticism of Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Jewish Voice for Peace proud to stand in global solidarity against harmful definition of antisemitism and with human rights and freedom to protest
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Johan Galtung on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Amy Goodman | Envision Peace Museum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award. He serves on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
→ read full article“Slow News” vs “Fast History”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
2 Jul 2018 – This blog last month suggested that history is moving much faster than we think and that the collapse of the American empire is likely to come within the next two years. This leads me to the question: Can the slow development of the culture of peace make it possible for a transition from the culture of war to a culture of peace when the American empire crashes?
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Johan Galtung Wishes America a HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2018
Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Video contains excerpt from Rabbi Michael “Tikkun Olam ” Lerner’s Muhammed Ali memorial speech.
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Fukushima’s “Hot Particles” Travelled Extreme Distances
John LaForge | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
3 Jul 2018 – “Cesium found 375 miles from Japanese plant,” read the headline in the Japanese daily paper Yomiuri Shimbun. Proponents of nuclear power still get away with denying that inhaled or ingested exposures cause harm. This is because when the cancers begin appearing 10, 15 or 20 years from exposure, no one can to prove they were caused by Fukushima’s hot particles. “Got cancer?” they ask. “Not our fault. Nuclear power is safe.”
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Peace as the Business of the Future
Sawssan Abou-Zahr | Peace Insight – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – “The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World without War” was written by Scilla Elworthy, the founder of Peace Direct. It is “for those who feel powerless in the face of what they see in the news, for those who want to step out of helplessness and find out how they can apply their personal skills to do something about the challenges facing us”. It offers a roadmap to building peace with ourselves and with others, though it is intended for a bigger picture, one of peace among nations and within them.
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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at 50: Awaiting Good Faith
Robert F. Dodge, MD | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
50 years ago on July 1, 1968 the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed. This landmark nuclear arms control treaty brought the world’s nuclear powers together with the ultimate goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by engaging in good faith efforts toward that end. Unfortunately, there was no enforcement mechanism.
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Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Camilo E. Mejia | International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth. Camilo E. Mejia, Iraq war veteran, resister, and conscientious objector (2003-2004). Amnesty International prisoner of conscience (June 2004). Born in Nicaragua, citizen of the world.
→ read full articleFree Julian Assange!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
We owe Julian Assange our deepest thanks for his courage and being prepared to tell the truth even at risk of his own liberty and life. We can all, especially the media, and governments, refuse to be silent in face of such injustice and persecution of a man whose only crime was telling the truth to stop the wars and save lives.
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Reflections on the Donald Trump/Kim Jong-un Singapore Summit
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Peace Studies Prof. Lee Jae-bong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
Interview with Lee Jae-bong, Professor of Peace Studies at Wonkwang University, South Korea, in the early afternoon of June 12, 2018 while the United States-North Korean Summit was taking place in Singapore.
→ read full articleWhy There Is So Much Anger
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Wherever we turn, people are angry. In France and United States where I live, voters are angry and turn their anger against immigrants and people of color. And they vote for the Front National and for Donald Trump. And the struggle in the US between students protesting school massacres, gun sales and the National Rifle Association is fueled by anger on both sides. We are going through an especially dangerous period of history, and we need to analyze its causes and possible solutions.
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Celebrate World Meat Free Week – For a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You!
Dawn Bickett | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
This week [11-17 Jun] is World Meat Free Week!
Eat Less Meat, More Plants, Tell Your Friends
Consequences of the Crash of the American Empire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – In last month’s article, I mentioned the prediction of Johan Galtung that the American empire cannot last more than another two years. Is that likely, and if so, what will be the consequences? Having witnessed the crash of a previous empire, I think is likely.
→ read full articleUshering in a New Era of Peace and Feminist Future
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Seoul International Women‘s Peace Symposium, South Korea National Assembly
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Operazione Colomba
Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Descriptive Document on the Phenomenon of “Hakmarrja” and “Gjakmarrja” to Raise Awareness among Albanian and International Institutions
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Minuteman III Missile Test Launched Prior to USA-North Korea Summit
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation- TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
14 May 2018 – The U.S. tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a mock nuclear warhead early morning today from Vandenberg Air Force Base. What kind of message is the U.S. sending to North Korea with this latest launch when these are the same class of missiles for which the U.S. has been highly critical of the North Koreans for developing and testing?
→ read full articleAfter 70 Years of Ethnic Cleansing and Global Complicity – Are We Racist?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
16 May 2018 – Since the beginning of the Palestinian Grand Return March on land Day 30th April, the world has looked on in horror as Israel has killed at least 109 Palestinians and injured thousands of unarmed protestors. I extend to the Palestinian people my deepest sympathy on the killing of their sons and daughters and the continuing occupation and seizing of their land by Israel. I thank them for their courage and sacrifice to challenge injustice and the latest inhumanity perpetrated upon them by Israeli/USA policies.
→ read full articleTrump Withdraws U.S. from Iran Nuclear Deal: There Will Be Negative Consequences
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
The decision to withdraw from the treaty:
* Makes it more likely Iran will pursue nuclear weapons.
* Makes war between the U.S. and Iran more likely.
* Separates the U.S. from its major allies.
* Shows U.S. commitments are not reliable.
* Further reinforces lack of U.S. leadership in the world.
* Will likely have adverse effects on achieving nuclear deal with N. Korea.
Violating the Iran Deal: Playing with Nuclear Fire
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – President Trump has demonstrated yet again why he lacks the understanding, intelligence and temperament to be president of the United States. By violating the Iran nuclear deal, he is undermining the security of the U.S., our allies and the world. He has just fired another serious warning shot across the bow of democracy, one that bodes ill for the nuclear non-proliferation regime, for peace and for the future of our democratic institutions.
→ read full articleA Bomber Pilot Speaks
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The stain of death spreads below,
but from my cockpit I see none of it.
I only drop bombs as I have been trained