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Gaza Redux

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Johan Galtung wrote this seminal Editorial in 2009 and is being republished to offer a context to Gaza 2024. What has changed? What remains the same? What devolved? What if…? Israel, beware the grave you are digging for yourself.

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Global Evils Today (Part 2): Misinformation, Disinformation and Media Propaganda Demystified

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

The system controls and manipulates the media in whatever form it deems necessary. Ethics, morality and subversion are of no consequence, as long as the tenets of the system are propagated and totally subscribed to by the subjugated citizenry.

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(Italiano) La Politica Non Violenta Mondiale Oggi

Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

Sessanta anni fa il cammino storico dell’umanità ha incontrato la minaccia del suicidio nucleare; ma non ha saputo porre mano a questo male ultimo; e anche oggi vengono evitate le decisioni coraggiose su altri problemi simili, che nel frattempo sono sopraggiunti.

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The Genesis and Psychotype of Brutal and Gruesome Peace Disruptors

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

 “In the present malicious, toxic global environment, the future trees of humanity will grow to lead the future with further agony and no ecstasy; deformed tress will produce deformed fruits for generations to come, and monsters will breed monsters without fail, globally.”

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Agony of the Past and Ecstasy of the Future: War or Peace, Welcome 2024

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

“The Search for the Elusive Peace is striving with patient persistence and perseverance, coupled with realistic agony and expectant ecstasy.  This is indeed the hallmark of the righteous humanity, in its efforts to achieve global, sustainable peace, in the 21st century.”

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The Forgotten (Part 4): President Bashar-al-Assad, Syrian Civil War Chief Peace Disruptor

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

“The Syrian War has effectively demonstrated that under violent conditions there is total stripping of Dignity, even in Death, while the perpetrators of crimes against humanity are thriving unaccountably, in a pseudo-civilised manner. Unfortunately, this trend has been repeatedly perpetuated in the 21st century, on a regular basis, disrupting Peace.”

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Will Palestine Ever Be Free? Understanding Elite Strategy in the Global Context

Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

17 Nov 2023 – How the genocidal assault on Gaza and the ongoing military attacks on the occupied West Bank constitute a fundamental threat to the people of Palestine while at the same time they are only a local manifestation of the wider assault on humanity.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

23-29 October 2023

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

11-17 September 2023

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Why More Upstream Care Ethics Are Badly Needed

Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

The time has come for ethics of care. In the plural. Reverberating through revivals of venerable old spiritual caring traditions. Reverberating through adoptions of benevolent new innovative caring practices. My story starts in Sweden in the early 1970s.

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9/11: Whodunnit? and Why It Matters to the Peace Movement

Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

Johan Galtung introduced me to Graeme at a 2011 TRANSCEND symposium in North Carolina.  9/11 was not on the formal agenda, but came up in side conversations as the 10-year anniversary approached.  Galtung has always promoted open dialog on challenging topics, bucking the penchant of academic institutions and major media platforms to ignore dissenting views on 9/11 and dismiss them as crazy conspiracy theories.

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Will the Circle be Unbroken? Reviving the Spirit of Bandung and Panchsheel

Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

“I hate the US empire, and I love the US republic.” — Johan Galtung. Economic colonization continues, backed up by financial networks, covert CIA/MI6 operations and hundreds of US military bases that dot the globe in over 85 countries.  The sun still never sets on the modern Anglo-American empire. Implementation of the Panchsheel principles would set the stage for peaceful coexistence in a nuclear weapons-free world.

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The Occident Is Now Militarising Itself to Death for a Second Time

Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

May Others Learn to Avoid That Fate – If we survive the demise of the global US Empire and concomitantly of NATO, a new much more balanced, multipolar, cooperative and peaceful world becomes thinkable, desirable and possible.

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Immanuel Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right

Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

Crisis, indeed. The way out is a new discourse, less material, more spiritual; something to live for, not only from. Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire for which local elites used to kill and rule; now having to do most killings itself.

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(Italiano) Nuovi modelli di conflitto e debolezza dei movimenti per la pace

Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

L’inizio della guerra russo-ucraina nel febbraio 2022 ha drammatizzato un pericoloso conflitto globale tra gli Stati Uniti e i loro avversari della Guerra Fredda, Russia e Cina. Un conflitto regionale che avrebbe potuto essere risolto mediante negoziati o dialoghi tra le parti è diventato relativamente intrattabile, senza soluzioni immediate in vista.

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New Patterns of Conflict and the Weakness of Peace Movements

Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

The beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in Feb 2022 dramatized a dangerous global conflict between the USA and its Cold War adversaries, Russia and China. A regional conflict that might have been resolved by negotiation or dialogues between the parties became relatively intractable, with no immediate solutions in sight.

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Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches

Jake Lynch | MDPI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

13 Aug 2021 – This article belongs to the Special Issue, Beyond Fake News and Fact-Checking: The Political, Social and Technological Consequences of the Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation.

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Dual Denialisms

Jake Lynch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

As hydrocarbon addiction turns downward, and extractivist logics weaken, it will become less attractive to cosy up to repressive Gulf monarchies – and we may also observe the further weakening of US support for Zionism, which has been its main foundation since 1947. Both for powering the planet, and for bringing peace to Palestine, we must be ready with alternative visions.

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Shall We Welcome the U.S./NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Richard Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

Some “Peacebuilders” Say No!

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Behind the Smokescreen: West’s China Cold War Agenda

Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby | TFF - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021

An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop

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The “Inside Job” Hypothesis of the 9/11 Attacks

Prof. Graeme MacQueen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Sep 2020

Three days after 9/11 the eminent economist Celso Furtado suggested that it was a provocation carried out by the American far right to justify a takeover. He compared these attacks to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany. I am not concerned in this article to demonstrate the truth of the “inside job” hypothesis. Ten years of research led me to conclude that it is correct, but in the present paper I am concerned only with the preliminary, but vital, issue of imagination. Those who cannot imagine this hypothesis to be true will leave it unexamined.

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Back to the Drawing Board: Beirut Has Been Bombed to the Ground. Now What?

Amanda Haydar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Aug 2020

17 Aug 2020 – Embedded in Lebanon’s system is what Galtung calls structural violence. The current arrangement has failed to ensure the best interests of the Lebanese people and it is neither conducive to peace nor development. Conflict in Lebanon embodies Cultural Violence–the tendency to utilize aspects of culture to legitimize and justify direct and structural violence. Ask yourself this: “What does the Lebanon I want to live in look like?”

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Toward a Global Ethics of Nonviolence

Charles P. Webel and Sofia Khaydari – TRANSCEND Media Servire, 13 Jul 2020

In this paper, from within the framework of Peace and Conflict Studies, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of “Global Ethics” in general and of “Nonviolence” as a core global value and as a conflict transformation strategy in particular. Many peace theories and nonviolent political movements and ideas are examined, ranging theoretically from Kant and liberalism to Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, and empirically from Brian Martin, Gene Sharp, Chenoweth and Stephan, and Steven Pinker, to case studies of Poland, Denmark, the Philippines, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding the UNGA Resolution of 1959 That Recognized Attainment of Self-Government for Hawaii

Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2020

April 2020 – In 1959, the territory and the people of the formerly independent nation/state of Hawaii was declared a State of the U.S. union and Hawaii was removed by the UN General Assembly as one of those places subject to further reporting by the United States in the progress toward Hawaii’s self-governance under Article 73 of the U.N. Charter.  This document calls upon the UN General Assembly to review its actions taken in 1959.

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COVID-19 Blunders Signal End of ‘American Century’

Wang Wen | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – For most people it’s unfathomable that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is the first global event that hasn’t been led by the US since 1941. The principal founder of peace and conflict studies, Johan Galtung, predicted in his 2009 book ‘The Fall of the US Empire-And Then What?’ that the US empire will decline and fall by 2020. According to Galtung, it is due to USA expanding hegemon that has driven it to exploit and suppress other countries. 

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A 21st Century Worldview: Interviewing Ahmet Davutoğlu

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020

28 Mar 2020 – Interview that I conducted with the former Turkish Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, published in Middle East Monitor on March 23-24, 2020. His responses to questions 18-20 concern the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the world. The interview is long, yet a worthwhile overview how the most important intellectual political figure in Turkey views global and national reality given the shape of recent developments.

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Towards a Mayors’ Security Council

David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Mar 2020

1 Mar 2020 – Around the world we see the beginning of failed states, consumed by violence: Libya, Yemen, and a case can be made for Mexico. Johan Galtung has gone so far as to imagine that the United States will split into two countries as the American Empire crumbles. The situation is so serious that UN Secretary-General Guterres devoted his annual press conference on February 4 to the “wind of madness” sweeping the globe. ”

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Becoming God! “Controlling Human Ontology:” Ambitions of the “Secret-State Confederation”

Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2020

9 Jan 2020 – I use the word “Confederation” because I do believe no single group, no single nation, and no single concern is capable of controlling and dominating humanity, nations, and the world. Defining characteristics of sinister “Confederation” of individuals, groups, and organizations include:

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On Curves, Their Interrelations, and History

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2020

This essay is focused on concrete curves, and on concrete actors like USA, EU, Russia, China. And on interrelations of several curves.

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“Omnipresent Surveillance:” Dystopian Society in Our Global Era

Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2019

Imposing Authoritarian Control, Domination, and Rule: Strategies, Methods, Techniques, Tactics

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Trump Adds $4.1 Trillion to National Debt. Here’s Where the Money Went

Sibile Marcellus | Yahoo! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2019

26 Jul 2019 – Once President Trump signs the budget deal that was passed by the House yesterday and is expected to be approved by the Senate in a few days, he will have added $4.1 trillion to the national debt. It seems that Trump is steadily walking toward a collapse of the US federal debt, which could trigger the fall of the US Empire–by 2020 according to peace/conflict researcher, sociologist Johan Galtung.

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(Italiano) Perché Julian Assange è così importante

David Adams | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2019

Il controllo dell’informazione è diventato un mezzo cruciale per la cultura dei guerra – esnza il quale non può sostenersi. In passato, solo alcuni dei segreti e delle bugie degli US e dei loro alleati sono state rivelate. Ma grazie a Julian Assange e alla sua organizzazione WikiLeaks, ne abbiamo appreso molti di più negli ultimi pochi anni. Come reagiscono i governi?

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Why 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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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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(Castellano) La psicología del fascismo

Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

El continuo aumento del fascismo en todo el mundo está atrayendo cada vez más la atención, sobre todo porque se necesita un mayor control dentro de las sociedades nacionales que durante mucho tiempo se ha visto que lo han rechazado. Algunos estudios recientes nos han recordado las características de los movimientos e individuos fascistas, particularmente cuando se manifiestan entre fascistas políticamente activos.

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The Psychology of Fascism

Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Oct 2018

29 Oct 2018 – The continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent studies have reminded us of the characteristics of fascist movements and individuals, particularly as they manifest among politically active fascists.

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Imminent Collective Communication “Info-death”?

Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Sep 2018

Much is currently made of an impending collapse, whether the focus is on that of the economic system (as some kind of replica of 1929 or 2008), of the ecosystem (notably as a consequence of climate change), or of overpopulation and other post-peak implications (notably the exhaustion of non-renewable energy resources), as can be variously recognized.

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Towards a Global Movement against All Violence

David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Apr 2018

1 Apr 2018 – The growing mobilizations by teenagers in the US and Palestine remind me of the mobilizations by youth against the War in Vietnam in the 1960’s and by youth against Apartheid in the 1970’s. The time is short. Johan Galtung has repeated his prediction, first made in 2004, that the American Empire cannot be sustained beyond the year 2020.

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Meanwhile, Around the World

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Apr 2018

As usual, many truths emerge, very much worth knowing. A world trying to substitute economic for military power should try to use better cultural power, also as spiritual power: “Pope Francis offers a different model of power”, with very very concrete proposals. May he reach the corridors of power; they are fortunate enough to co-exist in time with this giant.

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Not War on Terrorism but Dialogue for Solutions

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2018

I am sitting somewhere in Afghanistan. Across the table are three Taliban; Pashtuns like most Taliban. My opening question is standard: “What does the Afghanistan look like where you would like to live?” with some equally standard follow-up questions: “What is the worst that happened to you?”, and “Was there a good period in the past?”

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American Diplomacy with North Korea and Vietnam

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2018

There seems to be a stalemate, with 8 million or so in and around Seoul being as hostages to North Korean artillery should there be a US attack. North Korea will not launch a first strike, but they want to show USA-Japan-the World that they are equal to USA in offensive capability with an invulnerability of force and value–people–unmatched in human history. Mantra: “1952” NEVER AGAIN!

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(Italiano) Lo stato dell’Impero nell’era del trumpismo

Diane Perlman | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2017

“Odio l’Impero USA, ma amo la Repubblica USA”. Sento da anni questo mantra da Johan Galtung, mio caro amico, mentore e collega. Con lo svolgersi degli avvenimenti, acquisisce nuovo significato.

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Meanwhile, Around the World

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2017

Trump is trumping himself by making America Last, not in the sense of long-lasting, but in the sense of going down. There is something to learn for those receptive to learning, and Islam puts it forcefully: togetherness, and sharing. We would add: as equally as possible. But Trump politics is the opposite of that, and the price is increasing. And so is today also much of Muslim politics, to their detriment.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2017

Nov 13-19, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2017

Oct 23-29, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” — Tupac Shakur

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Meanwhile, Around the World

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2017

What a year, this 2017! 500 years ago Luther’s theses; 150 years ago Marx’ Das Kapital, 100 years ago Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution; shaking Rome’s control of Europe, and Europe’s control of the world. Usually the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prizes are compliant with the foreign policy of Norway; this time not. The next step is to solve conflicts between nuclear powers, like USA vs N. Korea, West vs Russia.

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Turning Taboos into Constructive Discourses

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2017

Freedom of expression can be severely curtailed by taboo zones in any country, outruling, sometimes also outlawing the unspeakable… To see Hitler, not his ideas, as evil, is itself an evil idea. Kill Hitler or he kills himself and the ideas are still alive, blowing in the air so to speak, in search of new carriers. The ideas have to be confronted and overcome; only killing individual carriers is naive.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2017

Sep 18-24, 2017 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” – Maurice Chevalier

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Spain–Where Are You Heading?

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2017

It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may be a Western habit, one of those words driving the West on.

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Macro-History from Norway

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2017

The US Trump ship is sinking and does not serve Norway’s interests. Time for the Norwegian rat to jump ship boarding increasingly accepted EU to build its own ship: defensive defense, neutral between West and Rest; with positions, not only jobs for less inequality; seeing the good in all, for projects linking good with good.

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This Week In History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2017

Jun 26-Jul 2 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.“ — George Bernard Shaw

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Engaging the ISIS Threat: Time for a Method yet Untried

Marc Pilisuk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2017

12 Jun 2017 – Responses to the threat of terrorist attacks have been ineffective in removing these threats. Both military and diplomatic officials acknowledge that a military solution is not possible. This can be a learning moment for international conflict resolution. Before digging more deeply into endless war, an examination of some powerful nonviolent tools provides a clearer and more hopeful path. The fields of international psychology and conflict resolution suggest some effective tools. They are available to governments, NGOs and citizen groups.

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American Military Cancer Spread throughout the World

ClassWarFilms – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2017

Prof. Johan Galtung’s prophetic book The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? Successors, Regionalization or Globalization? US Fascism or US Blossoming? is proving right on the first part of the third question.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2017

Apr 10-16 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls

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The “Karma Year” and Current Conflicts

Johan Galtung, 6 Mar 2017

An Unstable World: Analysis, Forecasting, Solutions

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History: Epochs or Trends–Medieval Spain

Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2017

Visions of the Past for Constructing a Future: Historiography of Spain – History unfolds over or in time, the basic variable, the X axis. The events are points. The trends are curves of any shape, not necessarily continuous, could also be “jumpy”. And the permanents are horizontal lines set at a certain value. Points, curves, lines; with texts indicative of highly complex proactio-actio-reactio relations.

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Putin – Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace

Dr. Leo Semashko and Dr. Rudolf Siebert – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2017

This article has specific structure. In the first part we reconstruct as synopses of the global peace paradigms of two world leaders from their many speeches to facilitate for the readers to find and understand their visions of this sharpest global challenge. In the second part we present the short comments of these paradigms and their dependence from Global Peace Science.

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(Italiano) Nel frattempo, in giro per il mondo

Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2017

Norvegia: “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America odia la Russia”, equilibrato, fece cambiare la dottrina militare delle élite per attaccare la Russia. Poi “Noi amiamo l’America–Noi odiamo la Russia–L’America ama la Russia”, discordante. Dopo un periodo trascorso a odiare l’America di Trump, la Norvegia finirà per accettare la Russia.

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A Collection of Thoughts about American Foreign Policy

William Blum | The Anti-Empire Report #146 – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2016

Louis XVI needed a revolution, Napoleon needed two historic military defeats, the Spanish Empire in the New World needed multiple revolutions, the Russian Czar needed a communist revolution, the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires needed World War I, Nazi Germany needed World War II, Imperial Japan needed two atomic bombs, the Portuguese Empire in Africa needed a military coup at home, the Soviet Empire needed Mikhail Gorbachev … What will the American Empire need?

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Two Indias: Gandhi and Modern India

Johan Galtung, 14 Nov 2016

Gandhi was instrumentalized by Congress to get rid of Britons preaching against caste. India became independent, after a disastrous partition mainly caused by Lord Mountbatten; free to enter modernity, and to keep caste. The Congress Party got the cake and ate it too. So, I see two Indias, Gandhi and modernity, knowing there are more.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2016

Nov 14-20 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” –Cadet Maxim

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Longer, but Less Meaningful Lives?

Johan Galtung, 24 Oct 2016

We are now living the accelerating history of the end of the US empire, in the wake of about 11 in Europe; and the general decline and fall of Western hegemony. Yet, EU creates an EU Army HQ, USA elects a president known for belligerence, Brexit England revives symbols of an empire long since gone; finding meaning in war and domination. Far better would have been for all three to lift up the bottom living in misery.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2016

Oct 24-30 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know that we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.” – Mother Teresa

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October 2: Nonviolence Day, Gandhi’s Birthday

Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2016

It doesn’t matter the amount or prevalence of violence employed or practiced anywhere anytime. It was from within a violent environment, which oppressed him both in South Africa and in India, that the Mahatma, born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, gave birth to his philosophy of nonviolence. Yin-Yang. The world is readier than ever for it. Nevertheless, besides a philosophy NV can be many things for many people depending on contexts.

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Wallerstein on the Global Left and Right

Johan Galtung, 12 Sep 2016

Right now Wallerstein sees capitalism in crisis with no remedy–of which I am not so sure–and the US hegemony also in a crisis with no remedy–a view I share–, as the fall of an empire with local elites killing for them; now they have to do most of the killing themselves. The Global Right, in power for a long time, is now faltering. Time for the Global Left? Or, does Zizek’s brilliant formula “the left never misses a chance to miss a chance” apply?

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2016

Sep 12-18 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even the smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda

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The Global Power Imbalance

Johan Galtung, 29 Aug 2016

This author, in 1976, compared the decline and fall of the Roman Empire to a possible decline and fall of the West in general and the US Empire in particular, based on the synergy of uni-causal paradigms. Rome considered itself exceptional and invincible by barbarians, but the counterforces were tearing at them; and they lived on past glory. Clinton, straight from the past with some domestic renewal, will enact that past; any realistic assessment being close to treason.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2016

Jun 27-Jul 3 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Modern man’s besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.” – Aldous Huxley

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(Italiano) La nonviolenza oggi. L’alternativa della razionalità gandhiana

Antonino Drago – Centro Studi Sereno Regis, 20 Jun 2016

16 giugno 2016 – Il messaggio di Lanza del Vasto (LdV), che invitava alla conversione totale dai mali della civiltà occidentale, ha avuto una prima risposta nelle esperienze delle sue Comunità dell’Arca; ha trovato alleati, su temi specifici, in movimenti per l’alternativa e ha trovato rispondenza in avvenimenti storici di importanza mondiale (rivoluzioni nonviolente del 1989).

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Intellectual Triumph of Harmony in Collective Global Peace Science

Leo Semashko – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2016

June 22, 1941 – my mom, Augusta Rumyantseva, 21 years, with me two days newborn in a maternity hospital in Grodno, on the USSR western border, at 4 o’clock in the morning wakes up from the horrible Nazi bombings. She spent all week underneath them during evacuation in a freight train to Leningrad. Their hell was vividly remembered during her lifetime and she could not remember them without tears.

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East Asia: Four Formulas for Peace

Johan Galtung, 6 Jun 2016

Arms races may deter, but often end with wars. Wars mean trauma for losers and glory for winners. PTSD-post trauma stress disorder-may lead to thirst for revenge, and PGED-post glory exuberance disorder-to thirst for more glory. War, war, war. Worse than ever since WWII. East Asia badly needs another approach. As a minimum, the four tasks in the TRANSCEND peace formula: the negative peace of conciling traumas and solving conflicts; the positive peace of cooperation for mutual and equal benefit-equity-and harmony based on empathy.

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The Korean Peninsula Conflict: A Way Out

Johan Galtung, 30 May 2016

Build on the North Korean goals, hold NK to their words. Their regime will, like all regimes, change; even the USA is now heading for basic change. Design a peace treaty, like with South Korea, normalize diplomatic relations North-South and North-USA; and design a regime for a nuclear free peninsula, destroying or removing weapons monitored by solid UN inspection.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2016

Apr 11-17 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain

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How Ought We Treat Each Other?

Johan Galtung, 4 Apr 2016

Receiving Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builder Prize – Atlanta, 31 Mar 2016

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The Human Rights: A Permanent Challenge

Johan Galtung, 15 Feb 2016

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 10 December 1948 was edited by a committee of Men; Older, White, Bourgeois, Lawyers, French. Nothing about women’s and children’s rights. There are no rights to access to toilet, nor to sexuality: well- mannered bourgeois do such things but do not talk-write about it.

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(Italiano) Ridurre la spesa militare, aumentare la sicurezza e vivere più felici

Nanni Salio – Il Manifesto, 15 Feb 2016

4 febbraio 2016 – Nanni Salio, Maestro della Pace, presidente del Centro Studi Sereno Regis, è mancato il 1 febbraio. Chi scrive, come tanti, era un suo amico personale ed aveva condiviso con lui molte iniziative, battaglie, conferenze, bei momenti. Pubblichiamo qui un suo pezzo parzialmente inedito; crediamo non ci sia modo migliore per ricordarlo, di far leggere cosa scriveva, e come, lo scriveva. Con affetto, Nanni, da Massimo Zucchetti.

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Syria (Minding the Minds II)

Johan Galtung, 11 Jan 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2016

Syria offered a poor choice between a minority dictatorship with tolerance and a majority dictatorship–democracy–without. Violence flourished, attracting old suspects for proxy wars. “Bomb Syria” was the panacea, after “bomb Libya”. What a shame. Bring it to an end.

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Anglo-America, EU, the West: A Prognosis

Johan Galtung, 28 Dec 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Dec 2015

Thanks dear Oxford students for the Xmas gift, challenging the cult of Cecil Rhodes–colonialist, classist, racist. Sounds like Reality TV: The USA claims monopoly on “leadership” granting “special relation” to the UK. And German Scare became Red Scare became China Scare became Islam Scare became Russia Scare. The scare of the day paranoia; easily combined with UK-US narcissism.

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Oxford College Takes Down Plaque of Cecil Rhodes, Colonial Imperialist

Krithika Varagur - The Huffington Post, 21 Dec 2015

Rhodes was a mining magnate and ardent advocate of colonialism who founded the colonial territory of “Rhodesia,” now Zimbabwe and Zambia.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Nov 2015

Nov 16-22 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Life is short; live it. Love is rare; grab it. Anger is bad; dump it. Fear is awful; face it. Memories are sweet; cherish them.” – Anonymous

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2015

October 19-25 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown

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Letter from the Democratic People’s Republic of [North] Korea: Who Is the Real Aggressor? (Part 1)

Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Sep 2015

North Koreans, proud of the cultural heritage, artistic legacies and common language they share with fellow Koreans in the south, long for reunification of the peninsula. DPRK proposals for reunification are based on three principles: Independence (negotiated by Koreans without foreign interference), Federation (limited powers of central government with both north and south retaining autonomy in many areas), and Peaceful Means (mutual commitment to resolving issues nonviolently).

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Sep 2015

Sep 14-20 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred.” – Osho

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The Five Political Prophecies of Lanza Del Vasto

Antonino Drago – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Aug 2015

Likewise Gandhi, also his disciple Lanza del Vasto promoted a reform of the religiosity, ethics and politics of the Western context. With this in mind he wrote a book in which he elevated non-violence at an intellectual system, where his religious argumentations are paralleled by corresponding anthropological, economical, political –national and international – argumentations.

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Aesthetics as One Road to Peace?

Johan Galtung, 20 Jul 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jul 2015

The focus is on one Sultan, Ibrahim Adil Shah II, of the central Indian kingdom of Bijapur, between Mumbai and Goa; we are talking about early 17th century. The Sultan is described as “an erudite scholar, a lute player, poet, singer, calligrapher, chess master and aesthete”. How different from Western rulers with military-political skills; how similar to many Chinese rulers, emperors, mandarins with poetry, calligraphy and more as indelible part of their legitimacy.

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This Week in History

Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jun 2015

June 29–July 5 – QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” – Flavia Weedn

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Meanwhile, with Great Narratives Unfolding

Johan Galtung, 15 Jun 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jun 2015

The decline and fall of the US Empire’s grip on the world; of the West; of the state-system–with the rise of the TNC-IGO-NGO system, regions, nations, local authorities; the rise of the East and the South; of China–many details cross an editor’s desk; inspiring some rethinking.

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Against Kaplan “Bring Imperialism Back to the Middle East”

Johan Galtung and Naakow Hayford, 1 Jun 2015

Rather, help them create a Caliphate with the best qualities of its Ottoman predecessor: tolerance, minority millets, even potentially bridging the Sunni-Shia gap. Use military peacekeeping to protect, defensively, exposed and threatened minorities. Negotiate space for Israel. But do not get lost in sterile military power rivalries; already lost by the USA.

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On Violence: Suicide, Homicide — and Both-And

Johan Galtung, 25 May 2015

This does not apply to state terrorism on the ground or from the air: homicide of tens, hundreds of thousands with no risk incurred, no suicide built into the act, more like an office job. The suicide may come later, though, hating oneself for the homicides

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The West against Itself

Johan Galtung, 27 Apr 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2015

Take the 70th anniversary demarcation of the victory over nazism… Poland lost 20% of its population; the Soviet Union 27.1 million, 16%, with 1,710 cities and 70,000 villages erased; UK 1.1%; USA 0.4%; Norway 0.32%.

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The Von Weizsäckers, Germany’s Kennedys

Johan Galtung, 2 Mar 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2015

President Richard von Weizsäcker passed away 31 January and was very much celebrated in Germany for his brilliant presidency to normalize a Germany with a troubled past, even divided on top of that. But, by and large leaving out his global perspectives mentioned below.

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A Theory of China

Johan Galtung, 2 Feb 2015 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Feb 2015

A theory serves comprehension, prediction and identification of conditions for change. Seven such historical-cultural pointers will be indicated for China; using the West in general, and the USA in particular, for comparisons. The presentation draws on countless dialogues in China over 40 years, since 1973.

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The Satyagraha of John Brown

Timothy Braatz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jan 2015

In popular memory, Brown is known for taking an unwavering stand against the evil of slavery, to the point of killing civilians who stood in his way. In academic circles, Brown serves as the centerpiece of discussions regarding the use of violence for moral ends. As such, the John Brown story can easily become an aspect of cultural violence, meaning those beliefs, ideologies, and cosmologies that legitimize and perpetuate direct and structural (indirect) violence.

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The Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence

Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jan 2015

If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.

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Understanding and Defeating Resurgent Fascism

Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2014

As fascism is being intruded more widely and deeply into key areas of world politics, it is important to identify this trend, to explain the psychology of fascism and to nominate key elements of any strategy to defeat it.

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ISIS: 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?

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After 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.

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What Was History About-Look at the Histomap

Johan Galtung, 14 Jul 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Jul 2014

Let us try an explanation based on empire and dynasty; empires expanding and contracting in space, dynasties in time. Both are based on contradictions, forces and counter-forces, dialectics; but in the empires the dialectic is external, in the dynasties internal.

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Spain 2050–Ten Predictions

Johan Galtung, 16 Jun 2014 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jun 2014

Can we know the future? Rhetorical answer: can we know the past? We rewrite history all the time, not because facts become dubious and new facts appear, but because our angle, perspective, changes.

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The End of Democracy as We Know It

Bernd Hamm – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 May 2014

Abstract: This paper starts with summarizing the major theoretical elements in the definition of a global ruling class. It then examines how neoconservatives in the US took power and used regime change to create chaos in other regions. A strategy of tension is used to press the population into conformity. But the real revolution is to what extent factual politics escape any attempt to democratic control. Three case studies show how far the Deep State already goes. Democracy is on the brink of survival.

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