Archive for November 30th, 2015

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30/11/2015

Peace Journalism: Is It Working?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung*

30 November 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Short answer: No. The Paris event triggered war journalism; no peace journalism was observed. To doubt that anti-IS violence will work is not peace journalism, only war journalism with question marks.

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Johan Galtung

Peace journalism was conceived in the 1960s as a reaction to foreign news negativism, and focus on actors and elite people/countries.

Not as advocacy of peace, but as journalism about peace; like war journalism is not advocacy of war, but indispensable journalism about war, reporting what happens, and who is winning.

It can be done well or not, and often becomes propaganda for one side, in national more than local and global media (with Anglo-American accent, however).

Thus, peace journalism was never a substitute for war journalism. The idea was to have both, complementing each other.

The media suffer from bad, unprofessional journalism, reporting only one side of what goes on, only the negative, the violence, and only what elite actors in elite countries do. Plus some “leaders” in some other countries.

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30/11/2015

The Reign of Absurdiocy

Human Wrongs Watch

By Uri Avnery*

30 November 2015

There is no such thing as “international terrorism”.

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Uri Avnery

To declare war on “international terrorism” is nonsense.

Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both.

Terrorism is a weapon. Like cannon. We would laugh at somebody who declares war on “international artillery”.

A cannon belongs to an army, and serves the aims of that army. The cannon of one side fire against the cannon of the other.

Terrorism is a method of operation. It is often used by oppressed peoples, including the French Resistance to the Nazis in WW II.

We would laugh at anyone who declared war on “international resistance”.

Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military thinker, famously said that “war is the continuation of politics by other means”. If he had lived with us today, he might have said: “Terrorism is a continuation of policy by other means.”

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30/11/2015

International Peace Delegation to Syria

Human Wrongs Watch

By Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate*

30 November 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service – International Peace Delegation to Syria 24-30 November 2015

Mairead Maguire

Our delegation has just spent five days with the people of Syria visiting the cities of Damascus, Homs, Tartus, Qara and Ma’alula.

We have been deeply moved by the kindness and warmth of the Syrian people whom we have had the privilege and joy of meeting.

Although they have suffered unimaginable violence, they have inspired us by their vision of a peaceful Syria and deep commitments to solutions in their country.

These are the findings of our delegation, consisting of eleven peace and human rights advocates from six countries. Over the course of five days, we met with internally displaced persons, refugees, affected communities, religious leaders, combatants, government representatives and many others in Syria.

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30/11/2015

‘Oxygen for Jihadists’: ISIS-smuggled Oil Flows Through Turkey to Intl Markets – Iraqi MP

Human Wrongs Watch

30 November 2015 (RT)*– Terrorist group Islamic State earns millions of dollars selling oil on the black market in Turkey, Iraqi MP and former national security adviser, Mowaffak al Rubaie told RT. He also revealed that wounded terrorists are being treated in Turkish hospitals.
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Source: RT

“In the last eight months ISIS has managed to sell … $800 million dollars worth of oil on the black market of Turkey. This is Iraqi oil and Syrian oil, carried by trucks from Iraq, from Syria through the borders to Turkey and sold …[at] less than 50 percent of the international oil price,” Mowaffak al Rubaie said in an interview with RT.

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30/11/2015

In 3 Steps, Here Is What Paris Can Do – and What We Need to Do Afterwards

Human Wrongs Watch

By Daniel Mittler*

28 November 2015 (Greenpeace) – The last few weeks have seen the best and the worst in terms of climate change. 

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Credit: Vincent Go/Greenpeace

Victories which pundits told us for years were “impossible” have been coming at a breathtaking pace. Coal demand is in terminal decline worldwide, after a dramatic – if not complete – change of course in China.

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30/11/2015

Paris, India, and Coal

Human Wrongs Watch

By John Scales Avery*

30 November 2015

The MIT Technology Review recently published an important article entitled “India’s Energy Crisis”. The article makes alarming reading in view of the world’s urgent need to make a very rapid transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy.

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**Fossil Fuel’s last stand | Credit: Michael Loewa/Greenpeace

We must make this change quickly in order to avoid a tipping point beyond which catastrophic climate change will be unavoidable.

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