Yes, go beyond, transcend!–that is our message, New Year or not. Take the US school shootings. The National Rifle Association’s vice president on TV: “the only…
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From Frankfurt am Main, Caritas How do social structures and handicaps–mental or physical, spiritual or material–relate to each other? Answer: about the same way as social…
From Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany The probability of a devastating Third World War is not zero, but very far away from 100%. Let us explore why. The worst…
From Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany Anti-Semitism, AS, is to be against Jews as such; pre-judging all based on some, pars pro toto. Being anti any category humans are…
From Washington, DC There is History in the UN 29 November 2012 vote: 138 YES to giving Palestine the UN status as “nonmember observer state”, only…
The Glorious Art of Peace by John Gittings, NYC: Oxford University Press, 2012 What a wonderful idea, the history of peace! Something most people want to…
… was the title of the Symposium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia-USA 17-19 Nov 2012. An example of the blossoming wave of peace studies all…
Peace studies matter; same as health studies. We are born with the inclination to reject suffering, be it from violence or disease, and to seek wellbeing,…
Both, of course. Well deserved for EU’s past and for relations within, in the tradition of West rewarding West. But critics are right about relations without…
Testimony for Russell Tribunal on Palestine, NYC 7 October 2012. Honorable Members of the Jury: Sociocide is a new concept that has not found its place…
Keynote Speech, Istanbul, Hacettepe University, 4 October 2012. Empires come and go. The Ottoman-Muslim Empire was among the better whereas the Iberian-Catholic and the European-Protestant were…
There are two key human rights values in this confrontation: [1] The freedom of expression ─ basic, but not alone in the world;[2] The freedom from…
Keynote Speech at the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum – Oct 1, 2012 Your Excellencies: The title for this Sixth Social Forum–in the context of…
The Israeli attack seems imminent. Richard Silverstein circulates a leaked “shock and awe” strategy of Netanyahu‑Barak hard zionism to decapitate, paralyze Iran; and Alon Ben‑Meir (an…
Conspiracies exist. They are a part of social reality, have always been, and will always be; as confirmed conspiracy theories, as unconfirmed conspiracy hypotheses, as suspicions,…
How do we come to grips, intellectually, with today’s world? Some time ago the geopolitical map was based on the direct East-West conflict, the two superpowers…
Talk at the Nordic Peoples’ Parliament in Jondal, Norway Let us start with the crisis. It is not a world but a Western crisis. The root…
And that reality is ambiguous. On the one hand a high level of Muslim immigration, and some conversion to Islam. And high level tolerance of races…
He died twenty years ago, the great German statesman. Germany, Europe and the world have much to be grateful about, and much to learn from this…
The police explores concrete logistic collaborators and-or ideological support; like Peter Mangs in Sweden, the “laser man” who killed what looked like immigrants, wrote a rightwing…
Talk at the Advanced Studies Research Center, Brussels, Belgium The multi-season Arab Spring is the third anti-imperialist Arab revolt in less than a century: against the…