And then it happened: Mubarak out. Enormous cheers in Tahrir square; Egypt is Free! A historical deed, triggered by Tunisia, carried by a million heroes. Leaderless…
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Part One And then it happens, right there, for our eyes. The pattern, above all a product of the US-Israel alliance (inspired by Jesaiah 2:1-5), is…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Weltinnenpolitik–a term linked to the great Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker–global domestic policy, needs concretization to move from policy to politics. We live in…
Speech delivered at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, what a good idea, a conference on a world without walls in the…
Do we not have enough peace, development and environment problems if we should not in addition worry about “unidentified flying objects”, UFOs? Why not rather worry…
Jondal, Hardanger, Norway: A seminar on peace service after a symposium where Ministries of Peace were brought up puts this little community of 10,000 in the…
Washington Post published 19 July an article by Dana Priest and William Arkin on the huge US “national security enterprise”. And July 26 came the long…
Speech delivered at the International Sociological Association – Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010. The mediation theory of TRANSCEND opens for five possibilities for simple conflicts and much…
This is the Epilogue of a book just to be printed, A Theory of Conflict, TRANSCEND University Press, 2010. “If you cannot remove conflict, why not…
Washington DC: Difficult to tell. And this column has to admit that Greece+, and the fall of the euro, came as a surprise. The fall of…
Greensboro, NC [i]: This is where it happened: the sit-in at the Woolworth lunch-counter 1 February 1960, unleashing a cascade of events leading to the Civil…
“Only about 400 rebels had been in the fight at the bridge, but as the day wore on the number increased to several thousand. They would…
JICA-ASEAN-WORLD BANK Consultation on World Development Report 2011 Address by Johan Galtung to the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, April 2010 Your Excellencies, a World Bank World Development…
The US Empire is leaving an economic-military-political-cultural gap, China is not signing up, nor the EU with its recent experience of how colonialism crumbles. The state…
We are living a world battle against terrorism. With the words of the present US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, then, in 2001 a Senator, in…
Consider this. Obama promised change we can believe in and delivered non-change we certainly believe in, betraying those who voted for him. His deeds do not…
President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance lecture in Oslo 10 December 2009 – the Human Rights Day! – added tragedy to the comedy. It was vintage Orwell,…
Istanbul – Imagine a country losing an empire in their command for more than five centuries, ending with the occupation of Istanbul 1918 at the end…
The Nobel Peace prize to a president for rhetoric, with no real achievement, is like a peace prize for a movie to a former vice-president, with…
The past week had two important anniversary messages. One came through loud and clear in the Western media: the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the…
This UN General Assembly will go down in history because of three persons: Hu Jintao, Qaddafi and Chávez, from the three Third World continents. And Obama…