User talk:Veredict

My effort at clarifying and improving the controverial aspects within the Galtung post was done in good faith. The fact that the sentences I posted have been undone with the simple claim that my contribution was an act of vandalism is mind boggling. The facts that I posted are directly from sources quoted and massively indicated in the reference section below. It is evident from the wanton deletion from the user responsible for the "vandalism" charge, that he has never even read a single of Galtungs epistemological papers. I advise to google search the following: "johan galtung filetype:pdf" and spend some time reading through the countless speeches of the man himself as well as the numerous documents by analysts before deleting verified facts. -->A man who has a degree in mathematics is -and not only in my opinion- a mathematician. Why erase that? Where is that an act of vandalism? -->If the book is about the decline and fall of the U.S EMPIRE, whereby EMPIRE is defined extensively in the book in question, it is inherently WRONG to write that Galtung claims the USA as an entity per se is the object of his analysis. Here's a quote... "Definition: An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity; militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement; politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression; culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning. Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: "The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing". In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence. The Center is continental USA and the Periphery much of the world. Like any system it has a life-cycle reminiscent of an organism, with conception, gestation, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, senescence and death. Seeded by the British Empire, the maturing colonies honed their imperial skills on indigenous populations, ventured abroad in military interventions defining zones of interest, took over the Spanish Empire, expanding with world, even space hegemony as goal, now in the aging phase with overwhelming control tasks quickly overtaking the expansion tasks." from here: http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/meet/2004/Galtung_USempireFall.html

I'm tired already... whats the point in arguing if there it can all be verified?