Photo by TRANSCEND member Dr. Diane Perlman.The American Muslim Alliance Foundation-AMA honored Prof. Johan Galtung, the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies, with the…
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The world is ambiguous, with forces and counter-forces, for good and for bad. Contradiction is the rule, with bad in the good and good in the…
Dialogue of Civilizations, Rhodes Forum, Greece, 7 October 2011With the US Empire collapsing, parts of the West de-developing, the state system yielding to a region system…
Dialogue of Civilizations, Rhodes Forum, Greece, 9 October 2011I will work in the tradition of the NGO I represent, TRANSCEND (www.transcend.org): diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy.The basic…
Talk given in Beijing at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, 27 Sep 2011Dear Friends,Again you have kindly invited me for…
Thesis 1: The atrocious violence against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC did not communicate. 9/11 itself set the…
History seems to move, even accelerate, quickly these days.Well, maybe for those unused to dialectic thinking. There could also be an accumulation of tensions, problems, contradictions,…
After more than 50 interviews on the 7/22 events in Norway, here is one as editorial-with Swedish free lance journalist Ditte Lundberg.1. Why do you think…
Anders Breivik was driven by a calling to save christianity–catholic essentially–from a European civil war with islam. Islam enters Europe on roads paved by multiculturalism, built…
There is much talk about nonviolence these days. Politicians and journalists get serious about the power that played a key role in ending colonialism (India) and…
Pre-Islamic Arabia lived for a long time under various forms of asabiya: chauvinism to the Arab race (arabism), to the tribe (tribalism), or to a clan…
The problem is in the term “humanitarian intervention”. “Humanitarian” is OK: protecting victims of autocratic killing and repression. With the two human rights conventions of 16…
Introduction du traducteurLes guerres n’engendrent que malheur et destruction. Le nombre de victimes, de veuves et d’orphelins, conséquence des agressions militaires et de la violence aveugle…
There is much talk about emerging powers these days.BRIC, the UNSC abstainers over “no fly zone” in Libya; BRICS, adding South Africa for all major continents;…
These are the days of the christian easter and the judaic passover; the passion story of Jesus delivered to his father in heaven, and the story…
Chandra Muzaffar, in his superb JUST Commentary for March 2011, argues for Gaddafi to step down, and adds that if he so does he may be…
The Libya attack was planned months ago, and Alfred Ross (cell +1 917 848-3473) summarizes the history in five points:[1] Since 1969, when Gadhafi forced the…
Indeed. A physician who heals only friends, not foes, is no physician but party to a war. An organization that protects only our side civilians not…
Mother Earth, angry or not, has shown her strength. Pacific tectonic plates move under the Japan plate and the crashes show up as the heaviest earthquake…
Ladies and gentlemen,To watch US mainstream media misleading and being misled by its narrow discourse about what happens is painful. And discourse, what you look at,…
As the Arab revolt broadens and deepens, the roles of a global and a regional empire, USA and Israel, will surface increasingly. There will be more…