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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study
Alene Bouranova | Boston University Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
5 Jun 2024 – New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case – The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.
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A Few for the Road…
Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
Light weight?
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Snowden Gets Russian Citizenship
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden today. The North American’s name was included without fanfare on a list of 72 foreigners who became citizens.
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Myanmar’s Once Nationalist Military Has Just Lost the Nation
Maung Zarni | Politics Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – Whatever the outcome of the violent confrontation between civil society and the military will be, one thing is certain: the Burmese military has lost the nation irretrievably.
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Exclusive: US Counterterrorism Operations Touched 85 Countries in the Last 3 Years Alone
George Petras, Karina Zaiets and Veronica Bravo | USA TODAY - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
26 Feb 2021 – These globe-spanning operations have cost the U.S. in blood and treasure and had a massive impact on populations around the world. Newer nonmilitary threats from climate change to cyberattacks raise questions about the utility of holding on to hundreds of foreign bases and deploying tens of thousands of troops overseas.
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Experts Use This Trick to Transform Conflicts
Matthew Legge | Psychology Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – Too much of the coverage of conflicts avoids key questions like “How this conflict might be transformed?” or “What efforts to constructively address this conflict are already happening?” Journalists don’t need to have the answers; they just need to ask a range of people with relevant perspectives and expertise. When we see the other side as the problem, it limits our thinking.
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Where Did COVID-19 Come From?
Elizabeth Weise and Karen Weintraub | USA TODAY - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
20 Jan 2021 – As the U.S. marks one year since its first case, questions remain about the origin of the coronavirus that causes the disease. The answers matter.
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Pompeo Says US Will Take ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Bar War Crimes Probe of Military
Deirdre Shesgreen - USA TODAY,
9 Mar 2020
5 Mar 2020 – The international court, based in the Hague, Netherlands, ruled today that its prosecutors could move forward with an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban, Afghan forces and American military and CIA personnel. “This is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body,” Pompeo said at the State Department.
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July Was the Hottest Month Ever on Earth – Now Massive Wildfires Are Burning Across the Globe
Trevor Hughes - USA TODAY,
26 Aug 2019
23 Aug 2019 – Wildfires are burning across the globe, clogging the sky with smoke from Alaska to the Amazon, and scientists say it’s no coincidence that July was the warmest-ever month recorded on Earth.
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Hawai’i: Mauna Kea Is only Latest Thing They Want to Take, ‘We Will Not Give It to Them’
Anne Keala Kelly | Indian Country Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – Mauna Kea is a 13,800-foot high mountain on Hawai‘i Island, and considered the most sacred site to Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Named after Wākea, Father Sky, it is home to a number of religious deities, and is a traditional burial ground for the most revered ali‘i (royalty) and kahuna (priests). So far, Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope through legal challenges and civil disobedience.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals Made from 80,000 Tons of Recycled Mobile Phones, Electronics
Jay Cannon - USA Today,
5 Aug 2019
25 Jul 2019 – With the opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo exactly one year from yesterday, the medals are one thing organizers won’t need to worry about finishing in time. The Tokyo 2020 Medal Project sparked the collection of nearly 80,000 tons of mobile phones and small electronic devices around Japan, which will be used in the crafting of every gold, silver and bronze Olympic and Paralympic medal awarded to athletes at next year’s games.
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How Israel and the US Are Preparing for War with Iran
Yochanan Visser – Israel Today,
22 Apr 2019
17 Apr 2019 – The US is seriously taking in account that the current tensions with Iran will boil over and will cause a new armed conflict in the Middle East. An unspecified number of American F-35’s landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday [15 Apr]… Another indication that Israel is working in tandem with the US to contain Iran came in the form of a unique missile defense drill which was held in Israel recently… The joint drills between the Israeli army and the US military will result in better preparation for “real-life challenges” according to Brig Gen. Ran Kochav of Israel’s missile defense unit.
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White House Insider: War with Iran Planned by Trump to Occur in the Fall of 2019
Israel Today News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2019
18 Apr 2019 – President Donald Trump and his inner circle are planning an extensive invasion of Iran, according to a source working in the White House. The plan involves a ground invasion and the use of tactical nuclear weapons, in a campaign planned for the Fall of 2019. Iran will be “wiped off the map” according to the source, and the war effort is expected to cost “two and half times the Iraq War.”
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Six Big Leaks from Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks over the Years
William Cummings - USA Today,
15 Apr 2019
12 Apr 2019 – Julian Assange: Some consider him a champion of government transparency and freedom of the press, while others have condemned him as a dangerous rogue who has undermined national security. Here is a look at some of the biggest leaks Assange and his organization have been behind since its founding in 2006.
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(Português) Por que o Irã está oprimindo cães e seus tutores?
Stanley Coren, Ph.D | Psychology Today - ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
11 Feb 2019
4 fev 2019 – Uma série de notícias me chamou a atenção na semana passada, uma vez que indicam crescente hostilidade em relação aos tutores de cães domésticos no Irã. Ela pode ser motivada pela política e não pela religião.
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Bob Woodward’s Book, ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’ — The 5 Most Explosive Claims
Steve Kiggins - USA Today,
10 Sep 2018
5 Sep 2018 – More than four decades ago, Bob Woodward’s reporting helped shine light on a scandal that ended the Nixon presidency. If his reporting holds true again, this time there’s another presidency hanging in the balance. Idiot. Liar. Dumb. Little rat. Little baby.
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Another Crossroads for the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
23 Jul 2018 – The President is a big fan of waterboarding, and worse. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called torturers “patriots.” New CIA Director Gina Haspel oversaw torture at the agency’s infamous black sites. Chief of Staff John Kelly subjected Guantanamo detainees to brutal treatment. National Security Adviser John Bolton is notorious for dismissing international law. The list is incomplete, but it’s sufficient to make one thing clear: for the Trump White House, inhumanity awaits as soon as the right opportunity arises.
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“They’re Different from Us”: The Profiteers of Prejudice
Roy Eidelson | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
18 Jun 2018 – The 1% could use their influence to challenge bigotry. Too often they don’t. If we want to focus on the kind of differences that truly matter, we should turn our attention to the striking divergences between the documented policy preferences of the 1% compared to the rest of us.
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Pope Francis Tells Gay Abuse Victim: ‘God Loves You Just the Way You Are’
James Macintyre | Christian Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
21 May 2018 – A victim of clerical sex abuse has said Pope Francis told him God made him gay, that his sexuality ‘does not matter’ and that God and the pope love him as he is. Juan Carlos Cruz revealed what he said were details of the private conversation he had with Francis last week about the abuse he suffered at the hands of a prominent Chilean priest, Fernando Karadima.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association Speaks Out Against Gina Haspel
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The APA took an important step last week. In key ways, the APA’s opposition to Gina Haspel’s nomination is important symbolically even if its immediate practical impact proves limited.
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Earth’s Carbon Dioxide Levels Continue to Soar, at Highest Point in 800,000 Years
Doyle Rice - USA Today,
7 May 2018
4 May 2018 – Carbon dioxide — the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming — reached its highest level in recorded history last month, at 410 parts per million. This amount is highest in at least the past 800,000 years, according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
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Brooklyn Students Use ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ to Explore Solutions to Gun Violence
Anya van Wagtendonk | Youth Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
30 Apr 2018 —The inspiration comes from ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ by Nobel Peace Prize nominee, dramaturge Augusto Boal, a ramification of Paulo Freire’s seminal book, ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed.’ Both educators were Brazilian.
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Conservation Icon Jane Goodall: Stop Destroying the Planet or We May Destroy Ourselves
Owen Ullmann - USA TODAY,
19 Mar 2018
Iconic conservationist Jane Goodall has a chilling warning for all of us Earth dwellers: Stop pillaging the planet or “we may not even be on it anymore.” “We’re seeing extraordinary problems everywhere,” said Goodall,who became an international celebrity for her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees in Africa in the 1960s.
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Creating Clouds to Stop Global Warming Could Wreak Havoc
Doyle Rice - USA TODAY,
29 Jan 2018
22 Jan 2018 – To counteract global warming, humans may someday consider spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to form clouds — and artificially cool the Earth. The idea is known as geoengineering. However, suddenly stopping that spraying would have a “devastating” global impact on animals and plants, potentially even leading to extinction.
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Why Some People Resent “Do-Gooders”
Juliana Breines, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Dec 2017
Doing well can be a double-edged sword.
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Slave Markets in ‘Liberated’ Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks
Neil Clark – Russia Today,
4 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in ‘liberated’ Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called ‘humanitarian intervention’ carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Libya was transformed by NATO from the country with the highest Human Development Index in the whole of Africa in 2009 into a lawless hell-hole, with rival governments, warlords and terror groups fighting for control of the country.
→ read full articleKosovo Led to Catalonia. But West Won’t Admit It
Nebojsa Malic – Russia Today,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – The same countries that cheered when Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union broke up and insisted on ‘independent Kosovo’ now say Catalonia’s declaration of independence is unacceptable. But they wrote the rules the Catalans are now following.
→ read full articleClimate Change’s Impact on Human Health Is Already Here — And Is ‘Potentially Irreversible,’ Report Says
Doyle Rice - USA TODAY,
6 Nov 2017
30 Oct 2017 – The U.S. federal government should adopt a strategy to manage climate change risks, as their cost to the government may rise as much as $35 billion per year by mid-century, a congressional watchdog office report released today said.
→ read full articleIn Welcome Move, No Circus in India Can Now Make Wild Animals Perform Tricks
Shashank Shekhar – India Today,
6 Nov 2017
27 Oct 2017 – The days of elephants standing on two legs or balancing themselves on beach balls to entertain India’s circus enthusiasts are over. The ministry deregistered several circuses under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, to ban the training, exhibition and use of elephants for performances.
→ read full articleDying in Myanmar – When Genocide Becomes Normative Rather Than Aberrational
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
30 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – It’s official. Myanmar, according to the UN in its latest report, has given in to wanton murder and systematic oppression to cleanse its streets of its designated undesirables: Rohingya Muslims. However, violence is but the tip of that iceberg.
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Alexander Yakovenko – Russia Today,
2 Oct 2017
25 Sep 2017 – The 9th BRICS summit in Xiamen, China has emphasized the proximity of member states’ positions on current global problems, demonstrating that over the last 10 years, BRICS has grown into a full-fledged international mechanism for global cooperation.
→ read full articleOrdinary People Left Behind by God & the Free Market
Slavoj Žižek – Russia Today,
18 Sep 2017
16 Sep 2017 – The automatization of production creates a challenge for humanity: what to do with those “left behind” by progress? And this superfluousness also has broader implications across society.
→ read full articleThe BRICS Strike Back
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – The wide-ranging Xiamen Declaration, issued in conjunction with the just wrapped-up annual BRICS summit, shows that Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, although facing internal challenges of their own, may be about to step up their collective game, big time.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi: Still a Noble Democracy Champion?
Oliver Ward – ASEAN Today,
28 Aug 2017
22 Aug 2017 – The Aung San Suu Kyi who won a Nobel Prize and made speeches standing on tables about the importance of democracy and human rights is almost unrecognisable to the woman in government today. Rather than representing the solution, she has become part of the problem, standing idle while Myanmar descends into genocide. If the Aung San Suu Kyi of 1988 could have a conversation with the woman of today would she still see herself as the noble peace prize winner and democracy champion that John Bercow described in 2015?
→ read full articleYemen: War Crimes the World Can No Longer Ignore
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Beyond the many and despicable sectarian adjectives the media may have wielded since 2015 to frame Yemen’s war within a binary that has the region locked in fictitious crusadic dynamics: Shiite Iran versus self-righteous Saudi Arabia, truths have had a way of eroding at such a construct. If one can understand the pull money can hold over state officials, politics, after all, is not child’s play, empowering fanatical despots is still counter intuitive.
→ read full articleIt’s the Opium, Stupid: ‘Afghan Surge Guarantees CIA Black-Ops Budget Boost’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
23 Aug 2017 – The CIA is also overjoyed because its black-ops budget – which is tied to the exponential growth of opium production in Afghanistan – is now secured possibly for another 20-50 years, claims Mike Raddie, co-editor of online site BSNews.
→ read full articleIntl. Community Recoils as Saudi Arabia Goes on ‘Crusade’ of Mass Killing in Yemen
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
14 Aug 2017
11 Aug 2017 – While few will pause upon hearing that Yemen was bombed yet again by Saudi Arabia’s U.S. supported war coalition, thus leading to many deaths, the kingdom’s propensity to concentrate its firepower on civilians has become a little hard to stomach.
→ read full articleRead It and Weep: QE, the Largest Transfer of Wealth in History
Dan Glazebrook – Russia Today,
24 Jul 2017
22 Jul 2017 – It appears that the massive, almost decade-long transfer of wealth to the rich known as ‘quantitative easing’ is coming to an end. Given that – judged by its official aims – QE has been a total failure, this makes perfect sense.
→ read full articleMade in the West: New Era of Global Famine Thanks to War and Chaos
Dan Glazebrook – Russia Today,
17 Jul 2017
16 Jul 2017 – The famines threatening many parts of the world today have one thing in common: Western aggression and destabilization.
→ read full articleUniversiti Malaya, Chandra Muzaffar to Host Tribunal on Atrocities against Rohingya
Ho Kit Yen – Malaysia Today News,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – A tribunal that hopes to expose claims of crimes against the Rohingya and other ethnic groups by the Myanmar government will hold a hearing at the Universiti Malaya in September. Dr Chandra Muzaffar, who is organising committee chairman, says witnesses will be called to testify in court-like setting.
→ read full articleWorld’s Debt Over Three Times Greater Than Economic Output
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
29 Jun 2017 – Global debt levels have surged to a record $217 trillion in the first quarter of the year. This is 327 percent of the world’s annual economic output (GDP), reports the Institute of International Finance.
→ read full articleFrom Outer Space, Three Guideposts for the Resistance
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Beware Trump’s fearmongering, blind loyalists, and divide-and-conquer tactics.
→ read full articleOliver Stone’s ‘Putin Interviews’ Offend a US Establishment Drunk on Its Own Exceptionalism
John Wight – Russia Today,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – Oliver Stone’s documentary series on Vladimir Putin, you would think, is required viewing for Western audiences looking to see beyond the crude caricature of Russia’s president in order to gain an insight into his worldview.
→ read full articleBilderberg 2017: Should We Be Worried Yet?
Robert Bridge – Russia Today,
5 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017 – Just like they’ve been doing every year since 1954, influential Bilderberg members – including journalists – assembled behind closed doors to hold off-the-record talks on a number of pressing global issues. The 2017 Bilderberg Meeting takes place 1-4 June in Chantilly VA, USA. A press release including the list of topics and participants can be found here.
→ read full articleWhy Japan Wants US Exercise Cancelled: ‘Fears of N. Korea Escalation & Relations with China’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2017
30 May 2017 – To reduce tension in the region following a missile test by North Korea, Japan wants the US to cancel military exercises in Okinawa. Tokyo is worried that in a confrontation Japan is the likely target, says Asian affairs specialist Andrew Leung.
→ read full articlePutin Aligns with Xi in Crafting the New World (Trade) Order
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
22 May 2017
15 May 2017 – History will record the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing marked the juncture where the 21st century New Silk Roads assumed their full character of Globalization 2.0, or “inclusive globalization,” as defined by President Xi Jinping in Davos earlier this year.
→ read full articleWestern Reporters in Kiev Continue to Ignore the Rise of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
15 May 2017
Since the 2013 protests in Kiev’s Maidan square there’s been a problem with what Western readers are consuming about Ukraine. The reluctance of Kiev-based hacks (and plenty in Moscow too) to call a neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi. Instead, we read terms like “nationalists,”“right sector,”“patriots” and “militants.” And it’s rarely explained how these headbangers are the tail wagging the government dog.
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The Coming War on China
John Pilger | The Big Picture - Russia Today,
15 May 2017
Thom Hartmann talks with author and filmmaker John Pilger about his new documentary “The Coming War on China” and the military escalation that could lead World War III.
→ read full articleRegime Change Buddies: ‘Western Forces Stop Targeting ISIS Fighters once They Cross into Syria’
Mike Raddie - Russia Today,
1 May 2017
24 Apr 2017 – The US has never liberated a Middle Eastern country – ever! And the fear of the civilians in Mosul is understandable considering the indiscriminate carnage occurring there. — Mike Raddie, editor, BSNews, human rights activist.
→ read full articleAwarding Saudi Arabia Chair on Women’s Rights Commission Makes UN Complicit in Crimes
Marwa Osman – Russia Today,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – The Saudi Arabia that publicly beheads women and dangles bodies from cranes was just elected to the UN Women’s Rights Commission. After the scandal of re-electing Saudi Arabia to the UN Human Rights Council in 2016, that same Saudi Arabia which has been indiscriminately bombing Yemeni civilians for more than two years, now gets ‘elected’ to the new position. This is not the punchline of a twisted joke, but the intergovernmental UN shaming itself.
→ read full articleGM Products: ‘Frankenstein Foods’ or Miracle Solution for a Hungry Planet?
Tomasz Pierscionek – Russia Today,
1 May 2017
25 Apr 2017 – The manufacture of Genetically Modified Organisms is a controversial subject. Should GMO be feared or embraced? Are they the answer to solving world hunger or could their creation have consequences?
→ read full articleUS Threat of War Forces North Korea into Siege State Mentality
Carlos Martinez – Russia Today,
24 Apr 2017
Many people in the West are worried about the situation not because of Donald Trump’s insane militarism, but that of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Such thinking is irrational and ahistorical, and is rooted largely in mass-media deception and good old-fashioned ‘Yellow Peril’ racism. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has invaded and bombed not a single country. The USA, on the other hand, has invaded and bombed dozens of countries – including Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Grenada, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and, yes, Korea.
→ read full article‘Trump Attacked the Very People Fighting Islamic State’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
A rush to judgement? A one-off attack? Or maybe the start of a major military offensive in Syria? Scholars, analysts and journalists offer their opinions on the Trump administration’s decision to attack the Syrian military on Friday [7 Apr 2017].
→ read full articleNeo-Feudal Society: Tax Havens for Big Multinationals Is ‘Robbery of Population’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2017
28 Mar 2017 – It’s alarming big European banks, unlike ordinary people are not paying their fair share of taxes, says Oxfam policy advisor Aurore Chardonnet. Tax dodging is a crime against the people, a robbery of the population, adds business consultant Gerald Celente.
→ read full articleNATO Logic: British Troops in Estonia, Good. Russian Soldiers in Russia, Bad
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
27 Mar 2017
20 Mar 2017 – Supporters of NATO believe American, British and German soldiers being sent to Russia’s borders is “defensive.” But the Kremlin’s counter moves are aggressive. This delusion could be dangerous.
→ read full articleBritish Iraq and Afghanistan War Memorial Sacrifices Justice for Propaganda
John Wight – Russia Today,
13 Mar 2017
11 Mar 2017 – There is nothing more despicable than those responsible for carnage and suffering on a grand scale not only escaping justice for doing so but seeking to ascribe something noble, honorable, and moral to that carnage and suffering. Step forward the British ruling class.
→ read full articleThe Legend of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi
Mary Scully – Pakistan Today,
13 Mar 2017
“… or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” – She received the first of her now nearly 150 awards and honorary degrees in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. For what? Outside of some speeches at 8888 movement rallies, signing on to the formation of the NLD, and running once for office, there isn’t a single recorded instance of Suu Kyi sticking her neck out for human rights.
→ read full articleBully Nation: Is America Hardwired for War & Aggression?
Robert Bridge – Russia Today,
13 Mar 2017
9 Mar 2017 – Watching Washington attack one sovereign state after another since the collapse of the Soviet Union prompts the question: Are we Americans behaving out of some inherent aggression, or is this just old-fashioned empire building by a global superpower?
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Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
6 Mar 2017
The New Yorker made quite a splash with its uber long read on ‘Trump, Putin and the New Cold War.’ What a shame then the actual product is sloppy, misinformed tosh masquerading as something of highbrow distinction.
→ read full articleDecade after Putin Shook Munich, Lavrov Indicates ‘Post-West’ Is Now a Thing in Moscow
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
27 Feb 2017
Understanding the intentions of Russian leaders is easy these days, you just have to listen to what they say. This isn’t understood in the West, where policymakers and the media haven’t moved on from the Cold War and foolishly regard Russia as more mysterious than it is.
→ read full articleTrump Is Wrong – Saudi Arabia, Not Iran Is the World’s ‘Number One Terrorist State’
John Wight – Russia Today,
13 Feb 2017
9 Feb 2017 – Iran, to repeat, is not a state that sponsors, funds, or foments terrorism, while Saudi Arabia is. The mere fact that this needs to be pointed out to the President is redolent of a view of the world from the Oval Office that continues to be upside down.
→ read full articleTo Bee, or Not To Bee: Will Bumblebees Become Extinct?
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
Widely used pesticides and insecticides, climate change, and introduced species are factors for bumblebees as well as other species of bees being endangered.
→ read full articleRecord High Fatal Radiation Levels, Hole in Reactor Detected at Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Facility
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – Record high radiation levels that are lethal even after brief exposure have been detected at a damaged reactor at the Fukushima power plant in Japan. Specialists also found a hole, likely caused by melted nuclear fuel.
→ read full articleFrom Lenin to Davos: A Stark Warning on Capitalism’s Excesses
John Wight – Russia Today,
23 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 – The surprise over Oxfam’s recent report on global poverty is that anyone is surprised. The revelation that eight people own more wealth than the poorest half of humanity merely confirms that neoliberalism is working precisely as intended. When the Russian Revolution occurred a hundred years ago in 1917, it did so in response to an economic order that had been responsible for the most devastating global conflict the world had seen, one that left 17 million killed and millions more wounded and maimed.
→ read full articleHeart of Darkness: Observations on a Torture Notebook
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
A psychologist tries to defend the indefensible, and fails.
→ read full articleChina ‘Marco Polo’ Xi Jinping Starts Jockeying in Post-Obama World
Pepe Escobar - Russia Today,
28 Nov 2016
17 Nov 2016 – Beijing and Moscow have arrived at the conclusion that President-elect Donald Trump is not an ideologue in the neocon sense of the term; he’s a pragmatist. Therefore, resets are inevitable, as well as surprises.
→ read full article‘There’s No Will to Prosecute Crony Capitalism or Corruption like Case of Barroso & Goldman Sachs’
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
7 Nov 2016
5 Nov 2016 – Former European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, who was complicit in helping Goldman Sachs defraud the Greek economy, is now taking a job with the company. Financial analyst Max Keiser says this is crony capitalism and corruption at the highest level.
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Secret World of US Election: Julian Assange Talks to John Pilger
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2016
Nov 5, 2016 – Whistleblower Julian Assange has given one of his most incendiary interviews ever in a John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, in which he summarizes what can be gleaned from the tens of thousands of Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks this year.
→ read full articleRussia Loses UN Human Rights Council Place, Saudi Arabia Re-Elected
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
29 Oct 2016 – Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International produced a joint statement earlier this year condemning Saudi Arabia for “an appalling record of violations” in Yemen. Saudi Arabia carried out 157 executions domestically last year – the highest number in two decades, and is on pace to match the number this year. Critics of the regime have often faced detention, while women do not enjoy autonomy and equal status before the law.
→ read full articleWashington’s Game of Good Terrorists vs Bad Terrorists
John Wight – Russia Today,
24 Oct 2016
22 Oct 2016 – When you reach the stage of making a distinction between good terrorists and bad terrorists, not only are you defending the indefensible, you are engaged in the ugly business of sowing dragon’s teeth. On Oct 20, US State Department spokesman, John Kirby, was asked by a reporter, “Is the US fighting al-Nusrah [sic] in Syria at this time?” Kirby replied, “Our efforts militarily in Syria, as I said today, is against ISIS, against Daesh.”
→ read full articleWhy the New Silk Roads Terrify Washington
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
10 Oct 2016
7 Oct 2016 – Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany ‘the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.’ Washington panicked. The record shows how Putin’s vision – although extremely seductive to German industrialists – was eventually derailed by Washington’s controlled demolition of Ukraine.
→ read full articleOrwell 2016: Censorship in the Age of Social Media
Catherine Shakdam – Russia Today,
3 Oct 2016
30 Sep 2016 – If George Orwell is watching from above, he must be impressed. In his novel 1984, what was meant as a cautionary tale against government control and intellectual obscurantism, seems to have come to pass without our full knowledge.
→ read full articleWells Fargo Fined $185M for Fake Accounts – 5,300 Were Fired
Kevin McCoy - USA Today,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – Wells Fargo Bank, one of the nation’s largest banks, has been hit with $185 million in civil penalties for secretly opening millions of unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts that harmed customers, federal and state officials said Thursday [8 Sep].
→ read full articleMade in China: G20 and Its Geoeconomic Significance
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
12 Sep 2016
5 Sep 2016 – What has just taken place in Hangzhou, China, is of immense geoeconomic importance. Beijing from the start treated the G20 very seriously; this was designed as China’s party, not the declining West’s. And much less Washington’s.
→ read full articleThe Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment
Jay Dixit | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
You Are Not Your Thoughts – We live in the age of distraction. Yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that your brightest future hinges on your ability to pay attention to the present.
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Panama Papers: Corruption PSYOPS
Peter Lavelle | CrossTalk – Russia Today,
22 Aug 2016
The so-called Panama Papers are sold to us as a vast leak chronicling the financial misdeeds of the rich and powerful. But is this really the case? Certainly, we are given insight into the secretive world of offshore banking, but is it a complete and balanced story? One interpretation of the Panama Papers is the West targeting its enemies.
→ read full articleAll Eyes on You
Jennifer Golbeck, Ph.D. | Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Thirty-two years after 1984, Big Brother is here. In many cases, we’ve invited him in. How does this constant surveillance affect us and what, if anything, can we do about it? There’s no question our privacy has been eroded with the help of technology. As Scott McNealy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, famously said: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
→ read full articleBetween a Rock and a Hard (South China) Place
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
18 Jul 2016
Beijing argues that all the attention over the South China Sea revolves around conflicting sovereign claims over islands/rocks/reefs and related maritime delimitations – over which the court has no jurisdiction. Attributing territorial sovereignty over maritime features in the South China Sea goes beyond the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
→ read full articleU.S. Plans to Saturate Globe with Weapons
David Swanson | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
11 Jul 2016 – My headline above is a plain English translation of this Pentagonspeak found in a Reuters headline today: “International demand for U.S. weapons systems is expected to continue growing in coming years, a senior U.S. Air Force official said on Sunday [10 Jul], citing strong interest in unmanned systems, munitions and fighter jets.” Thus is the proliferation of drones around the world spun as something positive, along with bombs and jets.
→ read full articleWhy Has NATO Chosen Russia as Its Enemy Instead of ISIS?
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
18 Jul 2016
14 Jul 2016 – According to statements made at last weekend’s summit in Warsaw, NATO regards Russia as a bigger threat than ISIS. Of course, that’s ludicrous but when you scratch beneath the surface, the use of these falsehoods makes perverted sense.
→ read full article[Some Good News!] Brexit Strips World’s 400 Richest People of US$ 127bn – Bloomberg
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – Brexit-caused losses of the world’s 400 richest people amounted to an eye- watering $USD127.4 billion in a single day, Bloomberg estimates. Rich Britons have lost a “mere” $5.5 billion, according to reports.
→ read full articlePutin: ‘EU Is Russia’s Friend; NATO Is the Problem’
Bryan MacDonald – Russia Today,
20 Jun 2016
19 Jun 2016 – Vladimir Putin used a keynote address in his home city of St. Petersburg this weekend to outline his belief that America uses NATO to drive a wedge between the EU and Russia. Instead, he offered an alternative vision for European unity.
→ read full articleDeadly Irony: US Calls Russia ‘Aggressive’ as NATO Creeps Eastward
Robert Bridge – Russia Today,
20 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 – With US military bases breeding faster than McDonald’s franchises, and 28-member NATO smashing up against Russia’s border, antagonizing Moscow with war games, the West continues selling the pulp fiction of ‘Russian aggression’ to an increasingly suspect audience. Today, Russia is not taking any chances with the unpredictable global hegemon, whose list of nations it has invaded grows annually. But instead of throwing open the gates to the Western juggernaut, Russia has hedged its bets on long-term strategy, investing in strong national defense. And that is an “act of aggression” US-led NATO simply can’t tolerate.
→ read full article‘RT Broadcast Halt in Argentina Is All-Out Psychological Onslaught on Latin America’
Adrian Salbuchi – Russia Today,
13 Jun 2016
The suspension of the broadcast of RT Spanish in Argentina, that provides a much-needed alternative viewpoint, along with TeleSUR, is “psychological warfare” and part of the West’s all-out onslaught on Latin America.
→ read full article‘March of Silence’ in Uruguay Sends Message of Remembrance to South America
Andre Vltchek - Russia Today,
13 Jun 2016
The entire center of Montevideo came to a standstill. Blocks and blocks of this marvelous city were literally inundated by the river consisting of human bodies. Argentina was crying out in pain under the neoliberal President Mauricio Macri, while the great Brazilian nation – fooled, cheated and spat at – was just slowly and painfully waking up after the long night of a shameless coup that brought a corrupt lackey and snitch of the West – Michel Temer – to power.
→ read full article‘Saudi Violence in Yemen Can’t Be Ignored Any Longer’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – The UN has blacklisted Saudi-led coalition for killing and maiming thousands of children in Yemen. But will there be any consequences or sanctions for the House of Saud? Will their allies reconsider their support for Riyadh?
→ read full articleGoogle Wipes Palestine Off the Map
Kevin Barrett | Veterans Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
After Googling around, I have discovered that when you ask what time it is in any country on earth, Google tells you – right there in that prominently-placed box above the search results. Except Palestine. Google is apparently part of the Zionist entity dedicated to wiping Palestine off the map. The only “Palestine” Google knows is a town in Texas.
→ read full article600 Tons of Melted Radioactive Fukushima Fuel Still Not Found, Clean-Up Chief Reveals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
24 May 2016 – The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning said. The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021.
→ read full articleShame on Shell: Ecocide by Oil Extraction in the Niger Delta
Cynthia McKinney – Russia Today,
16 May 2016
14 May 2016 – Millions of barrels of oil have been spilled in Nigeria’s Delta region. Tired of the abuse, Nigerians just blew up a pipeline and a platform in an attempt to rectify what politicians and courts have been slow to do.
→ read full article‘Fake Jewish Graves in Muslim Cemeteries’: UNESCO Slams Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Sites
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
18 Apr 2016 – The Israeli authorities are furious after a UNESCO resolution stated that the Temple Mount and holy sites in Hebron and Bethlehem are an “integral part of Palestine.” The organization also criticized Israel, “the occupying power,” for planting fake graves in Muslim cemeteries.
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Fall of Empire, End to US Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions Taking Place
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, predicts the fall of the “US Empire” by 2020. Military defeats in wars of choice will generate political loss of influence and irrelevance externally, what may trigger a soul-searching internally. The Vietnam War was but a prelude. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya follow the script. Israel may become a burden to the USA.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks: US Government, Soros Funded Panama Papers to Attack Putin
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – Washington is behind the recently released offshore revelations known as the Panama Papers, WikiLeaks has claimed, saying that the attack was “produced” to target Russia and President Putin.
→ read full article‘Who’s Funding This?’ CIA & MI5 Whistleblowers Question Credibility of Panama Papers Coverage
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
7 Apr 2016 – While neither Vladimir Putin nor any members of his family were mentioned in the Panama Papers leak [more like a hack], most Western media chose to break the story with the Russian president’s photo. Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer, said that the fact that the Western media has been using Putin as the “face” of the Panama Papers leak can be easily explained by looking at the people and organizations behind these news outlets.
→ read full articleRest in Power Toussaint L’Ouverture: Saluting Haiti’s Triumph against Colonialism
Richard Sudan – Russia Today,
11 Apr 2016
April 7th marks the passing of one of the greatest, most revered and most important figures of African and world history, Toussaint L’Ouverture one of the liberators of Haiti. By 1801 Haiti, an island made up of half a million slaves, two-thirds of whom had been born in Africa, declared independence from European colonialists.
→ read full articleAustralia: The Dirty Secret of Utopia
John Pilger – Russia Today,
11 Apr 2016
The remote homelands are seen as an ideological threat, for they express a communalism at odds with the neo-conservatism that rules Australia and demands “assimilation.” It is as if the enduring existence of a people who have survived and resisted more than two colonial centuries of massacre and theft remains a spectre on white Australia: a reminder of whose land this really is.
→ read full articleHappy Birthday, NATO: It’s Time to Retire!
Danielle Ryan – Russia Today,
4 Apr 2016
4 Apr 2016 – Birthdays are always a good time to take stock of one’s achievements, make some resolutions and contemplate the road ahead. So, with NATO turning sixty-seven today, perhaps it’s time for the military alliance to engage in some honest self-reflection.
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Johan Galtung, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee: ‘Best Offense Is Defense against Daesh’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
24 Mar 2016 – ‘We’re at war’ with Daesh, and to get out of it, the West should use its military defensively to protect threatened areas as the previous strategy of brutality has only generated more extremists, said Prof. Johan Galtung, the father of Peace Studies and founder, among others, of the International Peace Research Institute and TRANSCEND Media Service.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Revolution Starting to Reveal Its True Colors
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
28 Mar 2016
“Rule of law” in Brazil has now been debased to Turkey’s Sultan Erdogan levels – featuring business leaders with the “wrong” political connections arrested for months without trial. The Brazilian Constitution is being torn to shreds. The politicization of the Judiciary runs in parallel to the mainstream media spectacularization, criminalizing politics but only selected politicians. And forget about reading any of this on Western corporate media.
→ read full article‘Prime Minister’ Lula: The Brazilian Game-Changer
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
21 Mar 2016
Only three days after massive street demonstrations calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, and less than two weeks after his legally dubious four-hour detention for questioning, former Brazilian President Lula is about to spectacularly re-enter the Brazilian government as a Minister, actually a Super-Minister. This is Rousseff’s one and only chess move left amidst an unprecedented political/economic crisis.
→ read full articleWestern Media Ignoring Reality on the Ground in Syria
Eva Bartlett – Russia Today,
14 Mar 2016
The interview was typical of the infrequent times corporate media has bothered to interview Dr. Shaaban: loaded lexicon, pre-priming the audience with false allegations about the Syrian government, repeatedly cutting-off the high-ranking guest, and a notably rude and condescending demeanor not afforded to guests who tow the NATO narrative on Syria.
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