01/01/2018
By Johan Galtung*
1 Jan 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service –– Two basic institutions in Western history and individual lives: Christianity offering Salvation to those following Laws, Commandments, and Science offering Truth to those who believe in scientific laws.
Johan Galtung
After Enlightenment ushered in a godless world, one is waning and the other vexing, seen as antithetical to each other. Is evolution being contested by “intelligent design”? By “diversity and symbiosis”? Neither one nor the other? Or both?
We do not know, nor do we come to grips with evolution beyond homo sapiens. Neither did Christianity.
But we are used in history to successors carrying the imprints of predecessors, and vice versa.
We are used to plus ça change plus ça este la même chose (the more it changes, the more it stays the same). And the more intended Italian cambiamo le cose affinche se mantengono le stesse (we change the things so that they remain the same).
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01/01/2018
By Charles Shoebridge*
(RT)* — Charles Shoebridge takes a look at some of the last year’s security and foreign policy developments.
**Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit | Kremlin.ru | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
The Arrival of Trump
One year ago, expectations for 2017 were running high. Donald Trump was about to take office, and predictions ranged from a new era of US policy pursuing peace and international partnership, to the US becoming a puppet of Russia, and even World War III.
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01/01/2018
(Wall Street International) Apologising again! While the previous article Once Upon a Time a Planet… may have disturbed you by presenting a sharp panoramic picture showing how dangerous human-made pollution is now, this Part II might probably molest with you another situation in which most of us are involved… hopefully inadvertently!
It is simply about the growing voracious consumption in particular in rich societies, and the never-stoppable commercial greed dominating worldwide. See what happens:
When you go to the supermarket, you will be challenged with tremendously attractive, almost irresistible “bargains” such as, “Pay 2, Take 3”! “Special Offer,” or simply “Save”!
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01/01/2018
By Uri Avnery*
NOBODY DESCRIBED the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher.
Uri Avnery
A man lives in a house that catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of the window. He lands on a passer-by in the street below and injures him grievously. Between the two a bitter enmity arises. Who is to blame?
Of course, no parable can reflect reality exactly. The man who jumped out of the burning house did not land on this particular passer-by by chance.
The passer-by became an invalid for life. But on the whole, this parable is better than any other I know.
Deutscher did not provide an answer to the question of how to solve the conflict. Are the two condemned to fight each other forever? Is there a solution at all?
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