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Just Skin and Bone: The Starving Gaza Children Kept in Incubators
Perkin Amalaraj | Daily Mail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
UN Human Rights Chief Warns Israel May Be Guilty of War Crime if It Has Cut Off Food Aid
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Switzerland Refuses to Approve AstraZeneca Jab and Says ‘New Studies’ Are Needed after France, Germany and Sweden Rejected It for Over-65s
Rachael Bunyan | Mailonline - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Switzerland has refused to approve the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine with regulators raising concerns over insufficient test data and arguing ‘new studies’ are needed. It comes after France, Sweden and Germany advised against administering the jab to those over 65 and Emmanuel Macron claimed it was ‘almost ineffective’ for the age bracket.
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Time to Repatriate Humanity
Wael Qarssifi | Malay Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2020
30 Apr 2020 – It is rather disappointing and shocking in 2020 to read that a Malaysian writer and journalist is asking the Rohingyas — the most persecuted minority in the world — to be thankful for not being put on an island camp, and using factual errors and xenophobic remarks to provoke the Malaysian public against one of the most deprived communities in the world.
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How Distressed and Injured Indonesian Civets Are Locked in Tiny Cages and Force-Fed Beans to Make the ‘World’s Most Expensive Coffee’
Chris Pleasance – Daily Mail,
17 Feb 2020
The Abuse behind Your Trendy Caffeine Fix – Animals eat and digest the coffee before the beans are ground up and sold for €500 or US$700 per Kilo.
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Brazil’s Deepening Malaise
Robert Rotberg - The Globe and Mail,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 – With the Amazon burning and politicians regaining impunity after corruption scandals recede, Brazil’s rule of law is suffering sharp blows. Although President Jair Bolsonaro campaigned as an anti-corruptionist, and as someone who would crack down on crime, Brazil slides rapidly into a slough of deceit. Modern day brigands are pillaging Brazil’s environment.
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Do Not Turn Away from the Horrors That the Rohingya Face
Bob Rae - The Globe and Mail,
5 Aug 2019
2 Aug 2019 – Two years ago this August, the world was shocked by brutal, tragic images coming out of Myanmar–a deep humanitarian crisis: systematic violence, rape, burning of villages and the killing of some 10,000 Rohingya who make up the largest percentage of Muslims in Myanmar. More than 700,000 were forced to abandon their homes and villages, joining an earlier exodus of refugees to Bangladesh – and those refugees are still there, in a crowded muddy camp in a town on Bangladesh’s southeast coast known as Cox’s Bazar.
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The Slumlords’ Peace
Ismail Khalidi – Al Jazeera,
1 Jul 2019
25 Jun 2019 – Trump and Kushner have crafted a Palestinian ‘peace’ plan with the same ignominy they’ve done dirty real estate deals.
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Tragic End for a Gentle Giant: Elephant Struggles against Its Chains Before It Collapses and Dies at Indian National Park, Prompting Allegations of Neglect
James Tweedie – Daily Mail,
6 May 2019
• Heartbreaking video shows the beast of burden tugging at its chains then falling
• Elephant handlers said they asked for a vet for the sick animal but no help came
• The elephant, named Drona, had twice taken pride of place in a religious parade
When the Ice Melts: The Catastrophe of Vanishing Glaciers
Dahr Jamail – The Guardian,
14 Jan 2019
8 Jan 2019 – As global temperatures rise, shrivelling glaciers and thawing permafrost threaten yet more climate disruption. How should we confront what is happening to our world? While western colonialist culture believes in “rights”, many indigenous cultures teach of “obligations” that we are born into: obligations to those who came before, to those who will come after, and to the Earth itself.
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(Français) Brésil: l’élection d’un chef de gang d’extrême droite, ouvre la voie à «un nettoyage jamais vu dans l’histoire du Brésil»
Smail Hadj Ali | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2018
Bolsonaro a été élu ce dimanche avec 56% de voix environ, contre 44% de voix pour Fernando Haddad, à l’heure où ces lignes sont rédigées. Son programme se résume, pour reprendre ses propos, à : « un nettoyage jamais vu dans l’histoire du Brésil ».
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(Français) Brésil: le suprémaciste Steve Bannon, ami public commun de Bolsonaro & Marine Le Pen
Smail Hadj Ali | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
Interrogée sur Bolsonaro le jeudi 11 octobre Mme Le Pen a été d’une grande clarté sur ce candidat de l’extrême droite brésilienne : « Dès que quelqu’un dit quelque chose de déplaisant, il est d’extrême droite dans les médias français. Je ne vois pas ce qui en l’occurrence fait de M. Bolsonaro un candidat d’extrême droite”.
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The River of Blood: Water Turns Bright Red as White Sided Dolphins Are Slaughtered by Laughing Fishermen in the Faroe Islands
Sara Malm – Mail Online,
24 Sep 2018
11 Sep 2018 – Shocking video footage shows dozens of dolphins and whales being slaughtered by hand in the Faroe Islands earlier today. The brutal killing of the marine animals, who are traditionally hunted in the Danish Atlantic Ocean archipelago, was broadcast live on Facebook by marine wildlife charity Sea Shepherd.
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UN Envoy to Myanmar: Perpetrators of Rohingya Attacks Must Be Held Accountable
AFP – The Daily Mail,
25 Jun 2018
21 Jun 2018 – The new UN envoy for Myanmar told authorities in Naypyidaw during her first visit that credible measures were needed to establish accountability for the violence that engulfed Rakhine state and drove 700,000 Rohingya from their homes, a UN statement said today.
→ read full articleCanada’s Nuclear Diplomacy Is Make-Believe
Paul Meyer and Ramesh Thakur - The Globe and Mail,
9 Oct 2017
More than 120 states, parties of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, deemed it important for the survival of the planet to conclude a comprehensive prohibition on nuclear weapons and the use or threat of use of these devastating and indiscriminate arms. But Canada opted to join a “dissenting minority” of nuclear-armed states and U.S. allies
→ read full articleHow to Stand Up to Online Trolls – and Profit – with Humour
Amira Elghawaby – The Globe and Mail,
4 Sep 2017
We have observed that humorous counter-speech can shift the dynamics of communication, de-escalate conflict, and draw much more attention to a message than it would otherwise garner. The authors point to a social media campaign that included pasting pictures of rubber ducks onto images of Daesh fighters, and to sarcastic responses to their calls for violence.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Dahr Jamail | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Former nuclear industry senior vice president Arnie Gunderson, who managed and coordinated projects at 70 U.S. atomic power plants, thinks it simply makes no sense to hold the Olympics in Japan. “Holding the 2020 Olympics in Japan is an effort by the Japanese government to make these ongoing atomic reactor meltdowns disappear from the public eye. I discovered highly radioactive dust on Tokyo street corners in 2016.” According to him and other nuclear experts, the crisis is even worse.
→ read full articleGroundwater Drunk by BILLIONS of People May Be Contaminated by Radioactive Material Spread across the World by Nuclear Testing in the 1950s
Shivali Best – The Daily Mail,
8 May 2017
Researchers looked at groundwater from over 6,000 wells around the globe
They found traces of radioactive tritium in over half of the wells
Even at low doses, tritium has been linked with increased risk of cancer
Chechnya Opens World’s First Concentration Camp for Homosexuals since Hitler’s in the 1930s
Thomas Burrows – Daily Mail,
24 Apr 2017
• Campaigners say gay men are being tortured with electric shocks and beaten to death.
• One of those who fled said prisoners were beaten to force them to reveal other members of the gay community.
• Comes after 100 gay men were detained and three killed in Chechnya last week.
10 Warning Signs of Vitamin C Deficiency
Baba-Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
According to a study at the University of Illinois, many fell short of consuming enough vitamin C. But getting enough of this essential vitamin is important for our overall well-being. In fact, high blood levels of vitamin C may be the ideal nutrition marker for overall health. If you are concerned that you might be deficient in vitamin C, here are some signs and indications you should be on the look-out for.
→ read full articleThirteen Foods That Can Replace Pills
BabaMail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Whenever we start feeling ill, the first thing we do is reach for the medicine cabinet. The problem with taking pills is that even though they’ll probably help with your predicament, they’re also bound to have unwanted side effects. The best solution is to use these 13 natural remedies, which are just as efficient as drugs:
→ read full articleThe Syrian Boy Soldier with a Thousand-Yard Stare: The Sad Image of Child Aged SEVEN
David Williams – Daily Mail,
4 Apr 2016
Puffing on a cigarette, a Kalashnikov AK-47 slung awkwardly across his little shoulders, seven-year-old Ahmed stands at a [NATO supported] makeshift barricade in Syria. He is one of the youngest fighters to be swept into his country’s civil war and something in his blank expression seems to hint at horrors that no child of his age should ever have to witness.
→ read full articleSix Reasons You Should Drink More Water
Baba Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
As you most likely know, water is a basic need without which we cannot survive. It is also a great way to heal the body. Here are six reasons that you should drink a few more glasses of water each day.
→ read full articleDr. Palmer, Why Did You Kill Cecil?
Tony Keller – The Globe and Mail,
7 Sep 2015
It is seeking out something rare and beautiful and alive – and killing it. It is searching for this beautiful thing not for the joy of being awestruck at its existence, but to be able to say that you ended its life. It is the worst of the human impulses, which is in each of us: the impulse to destroy and to glory at the destruction we have wrought.
→ read full articleNew Exhibit ‘Camera Atomica’ Surveys the Nuclear Age
James Adams – The Globe and Mail, Canada,
3 Aug 2015
Growing up absurd came easily in North America in the 1950s and ’60s when nuclear war would alternate from sinister diplomatic bargaining chip to “the end of civilization as we know it.”… If there’s a particular feeling you’re left with at the exhibition, it’s unease. On one hand, it’s hardly a clarion call to the anti-nuke barricades; on the other, it’s no apologia for the nuclear-industrial complex, no plea to cozy up to “our friend, the atom.”
→ read full articleIn France, Post-Charlie Debate Hits a New Level of Vitriol
Konrad Yakabuski - The Globe and Mail,
1 Jun 2015
The marches were an act of “domination” and a warning to marginalized members of society to stay in line. They were the act of a deeply insecure elite reclaiming as “its highest priority the right to spit on the religion of the weak.” All the talk of freedom of expression, Mr. Todd concludes, was a “sham.”
→ read full articleDestroying What Remains: How the U.S. Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic
Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch,
25 May 2015
The bottom line on all this is simple, if brutal. The Navy is increasingly focused on possible future climate-change conflicts in the melting waters of the north and, in that context, has little or no intention of caretaking the environment when it comes to military exercises.
→ read full articleScience, Time and Hawaii’s Mauna a Wākea: The Thirty-Meter Telescope’s Capitalist-Colonialist Violence
David Maile – The Hawaii Independent,
25 May 2015
The TMT is, in fact, a part of a legacy of colonial-capitalist violence committed against Hawaii and Hawaiians, regardless of its scientific merit.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi Plays Down Role as Myanmar’s Conscience
Nathan Vanderklippe - The Globe and Mail,
13 Apr 2015
Ms. Suu Kyi has faced withering disapproval over her unwillingness to offer a strong repudiation of Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya, a Muslim group the country does not recognize as citizens and which the United Nations has called one of the most persecuted minorities on earth. Some have called for her Nobel Prize to be rescinded, while others have accused her of trading her moral standing for calculated politics.
→ read full articleCalling All Whistleblowers: afriLeaks Offers a Secure Platform
Mail & Guardian Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
In the post-Snowden world with government and corporate surveillance a reality, it has become critically important for journalists and whistleblowers to ensure their digital safety. Enter afriLeaks, a joint project of the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting and the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Digital Human Rights.
→ read full article“Now Put Blair and Straw on Trial for Torture” – Ex-British Diplomat
Craig Murray, Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan – The Daily Mail,
22 Dec 2014
Diplomat Craig Murray Was Fired When He Warned Labour Government of UK Collusion with US Abuse – We don’t need an inquiry into British complicity in torture. We need a trial. And it should be Tony Blair and Jack Straw in the dock.
→ read full articleISIS Publishes Shocking Guidebook Telling Fighters How to Buy, Sell and Abuse Captured Women
Abul Taher – Daily Mail,
15 Dec 2014
14 Dec 2014 – Islamic State (IS) has published a shocking guidebook for its fighters on how to rape slave girls – even if they have not reached puberty. The Arabic manual, titled Questions And Answers On Taking Captives And Slaves, instructs IS fighters on how to buy and sell women and girls who have been captured in war as booty.
→ read full articleAustralian Power Company Caught Overcharging Customers to Make Up for Lost Revenue Due to Solar
Kelmeny Fraser & Sarah Vogler - The Courier-Mail,
29 Sep 2014
Energex documents reveal that the company last year planned to “recover” $469.8 million in “under-recovered revenue” over the next two years, with the amount to be tagged on to future prices.
→ read full articleHas Blackwater Been Deployed to Ukraine?
Damien Gayle – Daily Mail,
10 Mar 2014
9 Mar 2014 – Notorious U.S. mercenaries ‘seen on the streets of flashpoint city’ as Russia claims 300 hired guns have arrived in country.
→ read full articleUganda to Authorise Life Sentence for Homosexuals
Mail & Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni plans to sign a bill into law that prescribes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, officials said Friday [14 Feb 2014], alarming rights activists who have condemned the bill as draconian in a country where homosexuality already has been criminalized.
→ read full articleThe Monks’ Army
Eric Ellis – The Global Mail (Australia),
20 Jan 2014
A founder of Sri Lanka’s Army of Buddhist Power tries to explain his militant views on Muslims, and how they fit with the government’s triumphant story of post-war reconciliation.
→ read full articleZuma Silent on Sri Lankan Human Rights Abuses
Ruki Fernando – Mail & Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
The Canadian and Mauritian heads of state and more than half the leaders of the 53 Commonwealth Heads of Government boycotted the 2013 meeting held in Sri Lanka. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said that it should not be held in Sri Lanka. South African President Jacob Zuma, by contrast, was among the heads of state who refused to consider a boycott against Sri Lanka, to speak out about human rights abuses or to show symbolic solidarity with the victims.
→ read full articleQuantum Physics Proves That There IS an Afterlife, Claims Scientist
Victoria Woollaston – Daily Mail,
18 Nov 2013
Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism says death is an illusion
He said life creates the universe, and not the other way round
This means space and time don’t exist in the linear fashion we think it does
He uses the famous double-split experiment to illustrate his point
And if space and time aren’t linear, then death can’t exist in ‘any real sense’ either
Inside the Outrageous World of Child Cage Fighting: Tiny Boys Who Are Trained to Attack Each Other in America’s Baby MMA Arenas
James Nye – Daily Mail,
11 Nov 2013
It is estimated that three million boys and girls, some as young as five-year-old launch themselves at each other weekly across the nation engaged in Pankration – some wearing no head protection and throwing punches boasting gloves little more than one-inch thick. Prominent critics of MMA call it ‘human cockfighting.’
→ read full articleIraq: War’s Legacy of Cancer
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness a steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours.
→ read full articleU.S. ‘Backed Plan to Launch Chemical Weapon Attack on Syria and Blame It on Assad’s Regime’
Louise Boyle – Daily Mail,
4 Feb 2013
Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington.’ Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad last month that use of chemical warfare was ‘totally unacceptable.’
→ read full articleWashington’s Dilemma: The “Good Terrorists” versus the “Bad Terrorists”
Dr. Ismail Salami – Global Research,
31 Dec 2012
Terrorism is terrorism and it cannot be defined otherwise unless the interests of one party tilt the scale in disfavor of another and the dichotomization of the terrorists in Syria into good and bad by the West casts doubt on its claim on democracy.
→ read full articleIs Flossing Your Teeth a Waste of Time?
Lucy Elkins – Daily Mail,
3 Dec 2012
Dentists nag us about it. Scientists insist it prevents heart disease. But now an expert says they’ve all got it wrong…
→ read full articleMoney, Power and Class in America
Francis Fukuyama - The Globe and Mail,
5 Nov 2012
Is America a plutocracy? The rich throughout American history have manipulated government in such a way as to protect and expand their own wealth and influence at the expense of others. Many observers have noted that Americans are much less bothered than Europeans by unequal economic outcomes, being far more concerned about equality of opportunity.
→ read full articleEntire Indian Tribe Threatens to Commit Mass Suicide after Brazil Court Rules They Must Leave Sacred Burial Land
Matt Roper – Daily Mail,
29 Oct 2012
An entire tribe of 170 Indians have vowed to commit mass suicide after a court in Brazil ruled they must leave what they believe is sacred land, it was reported today [27 Oct 2012]. The community of 50 men, 50 women and 70 children from the Guarani-kaiowa tribe are camped inside a ranch in Brazil’s southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
→ read full articleGulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
27 Aug 2012
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan said. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.
→ read full articleHundreds of Words to Avoid Using Online if You Don’t Want the Government Spying On You
Daniel Miller – Mail Online,
28 May 2012
(And They Include ‘Pork’, ‘Cloud’ and ‘Mexico’) – Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request. Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent.
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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
30 Apr 2012
It’s almost two years since BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists say they have found deformities among seafood and a great decline in the numbers of marine life.
→ read full articleAn Odious Affair: The UN in Somalia
Abdi Ismail Samatar – Al Jazeera,
9 Apr 2012
The organisation may destroy the country’s political autonomy if there is no immediate pro-Somali intervention. This brief essay examines the particular roles played by two UN agencies – the Monitoring Group for Somalia and Eritrea (MG) and the United Nations Special Representative (SR) – in the reproduction of the disaster in the country. These two agencies have separate mandates, but collectively they have been engaged in activities that undermine Somali efforts to rebuild the country.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Unveils Heat Ray Weapon: ‘You’re Gonna Feel It’
Paul Koring -The Globe and Mail,
19 Mar 2012
In the ‘War of the Worlds’ the Martians used them to incinerate pesky humans more than a century ago. The Pentagon plans are more modest: crowd control of pesky humans. Still, after more than a century, the ‘heat ray’ has made the leap from fiction to reality with the U.S. military demonstrating the so-called ‘goodbye effect’ of directing electromagnetic waves at people. It delivers sudden, unbearable heat, like the invisible wave when a hot oven door is opened but far more powerful – an intense, enveloping but non-lethal blast.
→ read full articleBP Goes to Court
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
27 Feb 2012
The largest environmental trial in US history begins February 27 [2012], as BP is sued for its 2010 oil spill disaster.
→ read full articleFallujah Babies: Under A New Kind of Siege
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
9 Jan 2012
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
→ read full articleWestern Oil Firms Remain As US Exits Iraq
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
9 Jan 2012
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil. While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain.
→ read full articleMan-Made Flu Virus with Potential to Wipe Out Many Millions If It Ever Escaped Is Created In Research Lab
Daily Mail Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
A group of scientists is pushing to publish research about how they created a man-made flu virus that could potentially wipe out civilisation. The study is one of two that have caused serious debate about scientific freedom and about regulating research that might have potential public health benefits but at the same time could also be useful for bio-terrorism.
→ read full articleFamine as a Crime against Humanity
Abdi Ismail Samatar – Al Jazeera,
5 Dec 2011
Several months ago, I wrote an essay entitled “Genocidal Politics and the Somali Famine”. It appears that the coordinator of the UN’s Monitoring Committee for Somalia agrees with the essay’s proposition that nature is not to blame and that powerful human actors are responsible for the catastrophe.
→ read full articleWorld’s Oceans in Peril
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
21 Nov 2011
Climate change is causing our oceans to become increasingly acidic, threatening to alter life as we know it. What to do? Despite grave concerns there is something that can be done. If ocean 1.0 is the pristine natural ocean, 2.0 is the ocean we have now under the petroleum product regime of 100 years of use, and 3.0 is the future ocean, it can either be a dead ocean, or we can come up with some very innovative solutions that right now people aren’t even talking about.
→ read full articleThousands of Dead Birds Wash Up On Ontario Shores, Botulism Blamed
The Globe and Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2011
Ontario Provincial Police Constable Peter Leon said Saturday [22 Oct 2011] the number of dead waterfowl is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000. The dead birds are scattered along a nearly three-kilometre stretch north of the community of Wasaga Beach.
→ read full articleNo End in Sight for Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
19 Sep 2011
Fifteen months after BP’s crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square kilometers of water are surfacing not far from BP’s well. Al Jazeera flew to the area on Sunday, September 11, and spotted a swath of silvery oil sheen, approximately 7 km long and 10 to 50 meters wide, at a location roughly 19 km northeast of the now-capped Macondo 252 well.
→ read full articleVictim Blinded In a Post-9/11 Hate Crime Now Fights For His Attacker’s Life
Daily Mail Reporter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
Mr Bhuiyan, a devout Muslim who says he learned to forgive Stroman years ago, told MSNBC: ‘I’m trying to do my best not to allow the loss of another human life.’ He was a 26-year old recent immigrant when he encountered Stroman. It took him years to recover from the gun shot, and he still carries bits of metal embedded in his face. Mr Bhuiyan lost the sight in one of his eyes, but did not suffer brain damage. He did lose a fiancé in the ordeal but earned a degree in aeronautical engineering and works as a technology professional in Dallas, although he says he wants to go to journalism school and study human rights, after trying to save Stroman’s life.
→ read full articleFukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
20 Jun 2011
Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
→ read full articleBack from the Dead: Astonishing Pictures Show How Japan Is Recovering Just Three Months after Tsunami
Emily Allen – Daily Mail,
13 Jun 2011
Three months on, these images show the Japanese people remain undaunted by the havoc nature has wreaked on their homeland as step by step they rebuild their nation.
→ read full articleBP Anniversary: Toxicity, Suffering and Death
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Apr 2011
April 20, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of BP’s catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 4.9 million barrels of BP’s oil would eventually be released into the Gulf of Mexico before the well was capped 87 days later. BP has used at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic dispersants to [try unsuccessfully to] sink the oil. Marine and wildlife biologists, toxicologists, and medical doctors have described the impact of the disaster upon the environment and human health as “catastrophic.” This is only the beginning of that what they expect to be an environmental and human health crisis that will likely span decades.
→ read full articleFukushima: A ‘Nuclear Sacrifice Zone’
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
11 Apr 2011
Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was heavily damaged by the tsunami from the massive March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake continues to spread extremely high levels of radiation into the ocean, ground, and air.
→ read full articleHow Will the Arab Spring Reshape the Middle East?
Patrick Martin – The Globe and Mail,
21 Mar 2011
The Islam-is-down, secularism-is-up theme is one of three common notions about what the aftermath of the upheavals will bring. The second assumption is that greater democracy will emerge. The third is that, as far as the two non-Arab states that compete for influence in the region are concerned, the Iranian regime’s fortunes are looking brighter, and Israel’s much darker. It’s too soon to tell what exactly will emerge from this remarkable revolutionary period, but it’s not too soon to question some of these popular notions.
→ read full articleSorry, PETA: Undercover Farm Videos May Become Outlawed
Tralee Pearce - Globe and Mail,
14 Mar 2011
Imagine not being able to pull out a camera and take a snapshot of Nelly the cow in a country field or a flock of chickens waddling by. No, it’s not your kid’s worst nightmare at the petting zoo this March Break. It’s a series of proposed laws in the United States that would make it illegal – and punishable by prison time – to take a photo or video of farm animals. Even from the road. The bills are designed to protect farms and agribusinesses from undercover videos and other images used to slam the industry.
→ read full articleSupporters in Haiti Make Ready for Aristide
Clarens Renois – Mail & Guardian,
28 Feb 2011
Supporters beat drums in the slums while workers spruced up his private villa as Haitians prepared on Tuesday for the possible return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide with feverish anticipation. “Some people are cleaning the streets, others are getting the residence ready, and we are making preparations for a beautiful party,” Rene Civil, a die-hard follower of Haiti’s first democratically elected leader, told Agence France-Presse.
→ read full articleClimate: Putting People over Money
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
21 Feb 2011
Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, like Jose Domingo Cruz in El Salvador, don’t have time to debate.
→ read full articleAflockalypse: More Mass Animal Deaths, Thousands of Fish Found Floating in Florida and 200 Birds Dead on Texas Bridge
Wil Longbottom – Daily Mail,
24 Jan 2011
• Thousands of fish found floating in Florida after cold snap
• 200 birds found dead on highway bridge in Texas
• 50 dead jackdaws found on city street in Sweden
• 100 tons of sardines, croaker and catfish wash up dead on Brazilian coast
• Hundreds of fish dead in New Zealand
• And in Britain, 40,000 devil crabs join list of casualties
Illnesses Linked to BP Oil Disaster
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
10 Jan 2011
Doctor attributes widespread sickness to toxic chemicals from the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.
→ read full articleCanada Enlists in America’s Permanent War for Peace
Gerald Caplan – The Globe and Mail,
6 Dec 2010
Gerald Caplan charts the bloodthirsty history of ‘the most awesome military power the world has ever known’. ‘Look forward to a future of permanent war in the pursuit of peace,’ he writes.
→ read full articleMajor Spy Scandal As Five Scandinavian Governments Catch the U.S. Watching Their Citizens
Daily Mail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
America has been accused of illegally spying on hundreds of people in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. Officials in the five countries expressed their unhappiness at surveillance tactics that were conducted without the knowledge of the individual nations’ governments.
→ read full articleBP Dispersants ‘Causing Sickness’
Dahr Jamail - Aljazeera,
1 Nov 2010
Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast.
→ read full articleOut of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it’s not out of sight)
Dahr Jamail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
New York Times: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday [11 Aug 2010] that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.” The Times was accommodating enough to lead the story with a nice photo of a fishing boat motoring across clean water with several birds in the foreground. This message was disseminated far and wide, via other mainstream media outlets like the AP and Reuters, effectively announcing to the masses that despite the Gulf of Mexico suffering the largest marine oil disaster in US history, most of the oil was simply “gone.” This kind of government cover-up is nothing new, of course.
→ read full articleBILLIONAIRES AND MEGA-CORPORATIONS BEHIND IMMENSE LAND GRAB IN AFRICA
John Vidal – Mail & Guardian,
10 Mar 2010
20+ African countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era. We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon […]
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Dahr Jamail – Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17 years. This incident is but one example of countless atrocities US […]
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Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
This is the second part of an interview with Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic, a Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University who has written three books on US misconduct in Iraq: "The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor," "Rules of Engagement?: Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq" and "The ‘Good Soldier’ on […]
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Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
26 Jan 2010
A core tenant of the Obama administration’s plans for "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan is an increased reliance on counterinsurgency.As previously reported on this web site, the US military has sent shock troops – anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists – with their own troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who also donned helmets and flak […]
→ read full articleTHE ‘FALSE’ PANDEMIC: DRUG FIRMS CASHED IN ON SCARE OVER SWINE FLU, CLAIMS EURO HEALTH CHIEF
Fiona Macrae - MailOnline,
11 Jan 2010
The swine flu outbreak was a ‘false pandemic’ driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed. Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, accused the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation’s decision to […]
→ read full articleWORLD MARCH FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE AT THE 10TH NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES SUMMIT – BERLIN, NOVEMBER 10-11, 2009
Javier Tolcachier – Pressenza International, by email,
8 Nov 2009
The summit’s slogan is "BREAKING DOWN NEW WALLS AND BUILDING BRIDGES TO ENSURE A WORLD OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND A WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE." The World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be at the Summit on November 11th when Silo, thinker of Universalist Humanism and main inspiration of the March will speak. The Summit will […]
→ read full articleUSA TO LAUNCH ICBM MINUTMAN III ON NOV 18 FROM VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE TO THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
MacGregor Eddy, by email,
5 Nov 2009
This seems hypocritical after the criticism of North Korea’s short range liquid fuel missiles. Minuteman III is a hair trigger alert high speed, solid fuel, computer/satellite guided desiged to carry weapons for large civilian areas. The test missile will carry dummy warheads, but it is a missile test for nuclear delivery systems. This violates the […]
→ read full articleCYBER RESISTANCE
Dahr Jamail,
24 Oct 2009
If technology has transformed warfare into a spectacle of shock and awe, its contribution to the cause of dissent has been no less remarkable. It has enabled solidarities across borders and facilitated networks and forums dedicated to impartial communication of ground realities beyond the sanitized projection of mainstream news. True, technological advances have not […]
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Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola,
13 Oct 2009
Happy Columbus Day Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two … May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you. Wishing you a great Columbus Day – Columbus Day greeting card To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: WHERE EMPIRES GO TO DIE
Dahr Jamail,
19 Sep 2009
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Soldiers demanded that hospital […]
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Dahr Jamail,
29 Oct 2008
Long before I discovered the mysterious mix of pain and relief that writing from the heart brings, I was pursuing a Masters in English Literature at Central Washington University in the small town of Ellensburg, Washington. I was broke, like most grad students, and supported myself by working for two individuals confined to […]
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