Human Wrongs Watch
By Johan Galtung*
12 February 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — 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.
Johan Galtung
And yet it does not happen, to the detriment of the parties concerned: the USA and its relations to the world.
USA wants to be feared but reaps hatred with right column politics.
Does it want to be loved?
A theory is something tested along its edges (Quine); what you deduce from the theory–and to me the key “edge”–is its action-consequences.
| CONFLICTS | CONSTRUCTIVE, POSITIVE | DESTRUCTIVE, NEGATIVE |
| FINANCIAL FREAL R
ECONOMY CRISIS |
Encourage local saving banksPublish M2 Check Fed Reserve
Tax speculation Drop bonuses Outlaw basic needs speculation Democratic control of central banks, state or private Mixed world currency |
More F than Real growthMore money than value
Serving loans not people Countries in debt bondage Globalization through privatized central banks US$ world reserve currency |
| TERRORISM | Identify their just goalsPublish Atta Who did 9/11? | Extra-judicial executionSOCO-Drones Covert war |
| US-ISRAEL vs ARAB-MUSLIMSTATES | Palestine recognized; andA two states solution; and
A Middle East Community MEC Israel and 5 Arab neighbors 1967 borders with revisions; and Org for Sec Coop West Asia |
Tail wagging dog:Israel wagging USA;
AIPAC wagging Congress Judeo-Christianity is anti-Islam. Danger: Extreme US anti-semitism |
| LIBYA | Self-determination for parts, Federalism with democracy | Continued anarchyUnitary state illusion |
| SYRIA | Self-determination for parts,Federalism with democracy | Attack; SCO response?split Syria, rule parts |
| IRAQ | Self-determination for parts,(Con)federalism with democracy
Kurdish autonomous communities |
Withdrawal only:no rebuilding,
no compensation |
| IRAN | Conciliation for 1953,Middle East nuclear free zone
Cooperation on non-fossil energy |
Attack, SCO response?No Iran nuclear arms
Controlling Iran oil? |
| PAKISTAN | Pashtun autonomy, drop Durand Self-determination in KashmirIndian-Pakistani-Kashmiri parts | Building a Durand fenceExtrajudicial execution
SOCO-Drones Covert war |
| AFGHANISTAN | A Central Asian CommunityFederation Local autonomies
OIC-UNSC joint peacekeeping Nonaligned, no bases |
Withdrawal only;no rebuilding,
no compensation keeping troops, bases |
| KOREA | Peace Treaty with N KoreaNormalization USA-N Korea
Korea as nuclear free zone |
Marginalizing N KoreaUS-SK military exercises
Breaking agreements |
| CHINA | Open high level dialogue,Mutual learning in economics
Civil and economic rights |
Encircling, sub-sat-navy“Reform”=neoliberalism
civil rights only |
| JAPAN | Japan in NE Asian CommunityGood relations to USA, APEC+
USA pulls out of Okinawa |
Impeding conciliationKeeping Japan as client
Subverting A9 |
| AFRICA | Welcome African UnityBuild with China E-W highway | AFRICOMMilitary intervention |
| LATIN AMERICA | Welcome CELAC integrationEquity Latin/Anglo-America
Normalization USA-Cuba |
Military interventionSupporting coups
CIA micro-management |
| WORLD | All human rights conventions,across state borders
National self-determination Dialogue of civilizations Stronger UN, with parliament |
Civil-political only,within state borders
Unitary state models Western universalism US exceptionalism |
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*Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of TRANSCEND International and rector of TRANSCEND Peace University.
Prof. Galtung has published more than 1500 articles and book chapters, over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service, and more than 170 books on peace and related issues, of which more than 40 have been translated to other languages, including 50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives published by TRANSCEND University Press.
More information about Prof. Galtung and all of his publications can be found at transcend.org/galtung.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 12 Feb 2018: TMS: 15 Cases: Constructive vs Destructive U.S. Foreign Policies
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