The self-appointed Inter Action Council, IAC, chaired by German ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (of US missile stationing fame) had its 27th Annual Meeting in King Abdullah Economic…
تتصفح: Galtung Johan
The slogan was coined by the famous German nuclear physicist, philosopher and peace researcher, Carl Friedrich von Weizscäcker, who passed on in 2007 at the age…
A key hypothesis in the recent The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? (www.transcend.org/tup) is that the successor system to the US Empire…
Of course Turkey will become a member of the European Union, with French and German support. It will take some time, but they need each other.…
We find it all over, right now in the streets of Tegucigalpa, Tehran, Urumqi; as massive killing in connection with US-Allies attacks on Iraq, Afghanistan and…
Officials from the Ministry of Defense, Officers from the Army, Ladies and Gentlemen, Power comes in hard and soft varieties, be that as economic power, exploitation…
Ladies and gentlemen, My approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues; in…
European Commission Making the Difference: Strengthening the Capacities to Respond to Crises and Security Threats Brussels, 4 June 2009 Concluding Remarks: Wrapping Up, the Road Ahead
“I feel uneasy. I love him, but how do I know how he is?” The councilor said, “Watch how his father treats his mother. This is…
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation – a thesis, a…
“Too handsome that president” was the conclusion of the French women’s magazine Voici (27/12/08) “le président plus sexy jamais élu”, the most sexy president ever elected,…
To start with the conclusion: the piracy issue–in 2008 40 of 100; in 2009 so far 25, attacks succeeded, 18 vessels with about 310 sailors captive,…
The white, tall, Anglo-American, Wall Street defenders in London won; but Lula was wrong about blue eye color, and one was black. No "turning point" (Obama)…
Iraq, from being "a brutal dictatorship, is now an Arab democracy", he said, W, after having set the USA back more than his eight years. And…
Beyond the immense human tragedy unfolding in the Gaza atrocity a question takes shape: have the Israeli leaders, politicians and military alike, totally lost their senses?…
Let’s assume that. Then, what follows? Let’s have a look. Money is needed, for production of goods and services by existing enterprises, and for creating new…
We are back again to the basics. Atrocities are committed along the Somali coast and in Mumbai, and our thoughts are with the victims and the…
The crisis in the US economy would also have happened even without the empire. The crisis is an outcome of US hyper-capitalism, capitalism at maximum pressure,…
Israel and Palestine met for peace this weekend, or so did positive parts of their civil societies, under the good auspices not of Italy’s government but…
Should the world have the right to vote in US presidential elections given their importance for world affairs? Formally speaking, a better solution would be a…
There is much talk about energy and its conversion these days. Actually, as the sum of energy is constant, it is about conversion from one form…