Articles by The National
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Animals in Military Service
The National Humane Education Society – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
Animals have been used in military service for centuries. Some in active combat, including elephants, camels, pigeons, and horses. Others, including pigs, oxen, dogs, mules, horses, and camels, have been used to transport troops and supplies. Not one of these animals enlisted.
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Never Has So Little Done So Much Harm to So Many
Scott C. Tips | The National Health Federation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
4 Apr 2020 – The Latest Coronavirus Attack Is A Cover for Restricting Our Health Freedoms
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The Myanmar Journalists Risking Their Lives to Report on the Rohingya’s Plight
Stephen Starr – The National [UAE],
6 Aug 2018
3 Aug 2018 – While the charred, blood-soaked borderlands of northern Rakhine state are off limits to most outsiders, it’s a place journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu knows only too well. The dangers of uncovering stories in Rakhine during a time when so many tales need to be told.
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Antony Loewenstein – The National,
10 Oct 2016
From its beginning, Israel’s settlement project was shrouded in secrecy. After 50 years of occupation, Israel is a radically different country than in the late 1960s. Zionism, with a messianic and nationalist fervour, is in the ascendancy while liberal and more tolerant humanism is dying.
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Nitzan David Foucks – The National Interest Magazine,
15 Aug 2016
Not a single expert has questioned his own beliefs. Not a single word on the dysfunction of the EU, or why exactly cosmopolitanism should be embraced. And the Brexit is just one example where the experts put the blame on the general public. Another is Trump. And again, instead of questioning why their voice has become irrelevant, the elites blame the masses. This trend cannot go on.
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Antony Loewenstein – The National,
15 Aug 2016
1 Aug 2016 – Arms dealers make money from the European refugee crisis. The defence industry has never been happier. With sales at unprecedented levels – US$ 65 billion in 2015, according to the Global Defence Trade Report – France, the United States, Canada and Britain have become global leaders in arms exports.
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Cortney Weinbaum | The National Interest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
Some of society’s brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community—with its vast budgets and profound capabilities—have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations.
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The National Security Archive, George Washington University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
April 15, 2015 – Despite denials for decades, the U.S. has finally declassified information affirming its knowledge of Israel’s Dimona nuclear program since 1960. Included in the report are a myriad of other documents indicating dubious practices on the part of the U.S., Israel, the UK and even international agencies.
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Mahmoud Kassem – The National,
11 Aug 2014
A number of big international investors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, join in a burgeoning financial boycott of Israel amid a push by the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. SodaStream, headquartered in the Israeli city of Lod, has its main factory in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim.
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Sonia Luthra – The National Bureau of Asian Research,
3 Mar 2014
In this NBR interview, Suresh Babu (International Food Policy Research Institute) examines the dynamics facing Indian agriculture as the country seeks to meet its food security needs while moving more of its workforce to the industrial and services sectors.
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Paul R. Pillar – The National Interest,
19 Aug 2013
Despite U.S. and European appeals for restraint, the Egyptian military slaughtered supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, an atrocity rationalized by claims of combating Islamic “terrorism.” But the bloody crackdown is likely to make terrorism a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Alison Weir – The Council for the National Interest,
24 Jun 2013
The NY Times says that the Israeli-American judge, Theodor Meron, “… has led a push for raising the bar for conviction in such cases, prosecutors say, to the point where a conviction has become nearly impossible.” Some analysts feel that Meron’s motivation may be to protect Israeli political and military leaders from prosecutions that could place them in legal jeopardy.
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Michael Evans – The National Security Archive,
15 Apr 2013
Two years ago, the Archive published “The Chiquita Papers,” a declassified collection of more than 5,000 pages of internal Chiquita documents turned over to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a criminal investigation of more than $1.7 million in payments to the AUC over six years, and for nearly three years after the group was formally designated as a terrorist organization. That case resulted in a 2007 sentencing agreement in which Chiquita admitted to more than ten years of payments to a variety of Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.
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Allison Brito – The National Memo,
11 Feb 2013
The poll found that 39 percent of voters identified Fox News as the news outlet they trust the least — this dwarfs the 14 percent who named MSNBC, followed by CNN at 13 percent, Comedy Central at 12 percent, ABC and CBS at 5 percent, NBC at 3 percent, and the 1 percent who said they least trust PBS.
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William D. Cohan, The National Memo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
There is no point in mincing words: UBS AG, the Swiss global bank, has been disgracing the banking profession for years and needs to be shut down.
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The National – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2012
The 85-year-old author’s brother Jaime told El Universal newspaper in Mexico that he speaks to the 1982 Nobel winner nearly every day from their native Colombia, hoping to help keep some of his memories alive. “What he has are some memory issues; in our family, we all end up with senile dementia. I am starting to get some of the onset complications and he already is in the throes of it,” he said.
→ read full articleIsrael Paves the Way for Killing by Remote Control
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent – The National,
19 Jul 2010
It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill. Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army. Spot and Shoot, as it is called by the Israeli military, may look like a video game but the figures on the screen are real people – Palestinians in Gaza – who can be killed with the press of a button on the joystick.
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The National Convention on “The Politics of Nuclear Energy and Resistance”,
8 Jun 2009
Statement of The National Convention on “The Politics of Nuclear Energy and Resistance,” June 4-6, 2009, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India We, the undersigned organizations, peoples’ movements and concerned citizens committed to building a world free from nuclear exploitation, nuclear business, nuclear power and nuclear weapons, do hereby declare the following: 1. In the context of […]
→ read full articleGLOBAL TRENDS 2025
Chairman of the National Intelligence Council,
23 Nov 2008
"Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" is the fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. Our report is not meant […]
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