HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung*

12 September 2016, TRANSCEND Media Service – Today is September 11, 2016.

Johan Galtung

The TRANSCEND Reaction to 9/11/2001

1. Diagnosis.

Politics, like communication is seen in terms of who does what to whom, how-when-where, and why. The what-how-when-where of the September 11 attack in New York and Washington is clear; the problems are who and why.

But why is at least clear up to a certain point. Like the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, also bombed on a September 11 (1973) somebody had something against what happened inside some buildings: the capitalism of the US world trade and the militarism of the US Pentagon for year 2001/1/; the politics of the Unidad Popular for year 1973.

The text was written in building language, and like for all texts what is not written may be equally important: no museum, no cathedral, no parliament. The 19-20 hijackers hit what they wanted, just like the Chilean Air Force and its masters.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Jan Oberg*

Lund, Sweden, September 10th, 2016 ((TFF–Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research) – This coming Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of what could be called the most counter-productive, if not stupid, war in modern history: The War On Terror.