The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
In Pursuit of Peace, Justice, & Common Good – 100 Living Peace and Justice Leaders (List #2) In the omnipresent face of abuses and oppression, we recall iconic peace and justice leaders of the past, including Mohatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Samuel Gompers, Caesar Chavez, Larry Itliong, Rachel Corrie, Philip Berrigan & …
15 Cases: Constructive vs Destructive U.S. Foreign Policies The right column is sadly familiar; add more recent cases. The left column also carries an element of sadness but nothing really radical; more like common sense that could easily be translated into political practice. A theory is something tested along its edges (Quine); what you deduce …
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Richest 1 Percent Bagged 82 Percent of Wealth Created Last Year – Poorest Half of Humanity Got Nothing 22 Jan 2018 – Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world …
It was my great honor to have lunch with Johan Galtung, the founder of the peace studies and peace practice (honored by all EXCEPT the Nobel Peace Prize Committee). Below the fold are extracts from the Transcend Peace Record — actual accomplishments of peace in the real world — since 1958.
On Saturday, December 2 2017, Johan Galtung is awarded the alternative peace prize, The People’s Peace Prize In Accordance With Nobel’s Will. Who Is JohanGaltung The Prize Background Significance The Ceremony Contact Read full announcement.
America – a failed state? By Johan Galtung Transnational.org, 3 April 2014 Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its …
Who runs the world? The Subconscious*) Not one or a group of persons, not one or a group of countries. But they may serve as instruments for scripts engraved on the deeper recesses of their minds, not the conscious, easily retrievable ones. Scripts that are too trivial, obvious, too painful/shameful and hence repressed. Jung calls …
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