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Seymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
Ray McGovern- Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Commission Urges Myanmar/Burma to End Rohingya Restrictions
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said today. It warns against using force and ignoring concerns of world’s ‘single biggest stateless’ community.
→ read full articleThe US and Latin American Fascism: Old and New
Franklin Frederick - The Dawn News,
4 Sep 2017
14 Aug 2017 – Fascist tendencies are back in Latin America. They can be clearly seen in the murderous Venezuelan opposition but also in the streets of Argentina and Brazil. Economic inequality and political equality are incompatible, more so in a continent with such an unequal wealth distribution. However, Latin American fascism is also an expression of a deeper political and economic program that must be better understood if we want to defeat it.
→ read full articleAfghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
Pepe Escobar - Sputnik News,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – Afghanistan is infested by contractors; numbers vary from 10,000 to tens of thousands. Military and ex-military alike can be reasonably pinpointed as players in the heroin ratline — in many cases for personal profit. But the clincher concerns the financing of US intel black ops that should not by any means come under scrutiny by the US Congress.
→ read full articleMyanmar Bishops Ask Pope Not to Use Rohingya Term during Visit
John Zaw- UCANews,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Myanmar have suggested to Pope Francis not to use the term “Rohingya” when he visits Myanmar for three days in November. The visit, aimed broadly at helping the troubled peace process in the strife torn country, welcomed by faith leaders.
→ read full articleMyanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.
→ read full articleBrave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive
Matt Agorist – MintPress News,
28 Aug 2017
Congressman Thomas Massie blows the lid off the US subsidized opium trade and taxpayer funds flowing into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
→ read full articleLandmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage.
→ read full articleBrazil Opens Vast Amazon Reserve to Mining
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. Covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. It is larger than Denmark. WWF’s report said that a “gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to indigenous cultures”.
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleRelease the Hounds
Latuff – MintPress News,
21 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleAn Insatiable Appetite
Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleWhen Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition in Venezuela and Syria
Ramiro S. Fúnez – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing.
→ read full articleIf You’re Wondering Why Saudi Arabia and Israel Have United against Al-Jazeera, Here’s the Answer
Robert Fisk – Other News,
14 Aug 2017
There are still honourable Israelis who demand a state for the Palestinians; there are well-educated Saudis who object to the crazed Wahabism upon which their kingdom is founded; there are millions of Americans, from sea to shining sea, who do not believe that Iran is their enemy nor Saudi Arabia their friend. But the problem today in both East and West is that our governments are not our friends.
→ read full articleBuddies
Latuff – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
So It Goes… Mission Accomplished
→ read full articleTowards a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
2 Aug 2017 – We need a profound reform of the UN so that it is managed more directly by the peoples of the world – through cities or parliaments instead of the present Member States that are inextricably linked to the culture of war. A significant first step towards such a reform would be the proposed parliamentary assembly of the UN (UNPA). There are proposals from the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and an international conference of around 300 chief justices, judges, legal experts and ambassadors from nearly 60 countries predominantly from the Global South.
→ read full articleJames Le Mesurier: The Former British Mercenary Who Founded the White Helmets
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
James Le Mesurier, a British ex-mercenary, founded the White Helmets in 2013. The group has been lauded for its “humanitarian” efforts in Syria, but they have actually functioned more as a logistics and propaganda arm of Syria’s al-Qaeda branch, complete with training from Le Mesurier.
→ read full articleMontreal’s Olympic Stadium Welcomes Haitians, Other Asylum Seekers from U.S.
James Rainey – NBC News,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Though the newcomers are from many countries, some told journalists they were Haitian and felt less welcome in America after President Donald Trump said in May that protective status for those who fled a massive 2010 earthquake could be withdrawn, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
→ read full articleDeadly Combination of Cholera, Hunger and Conflict Pushes Yemen to ‘Edge of a Cliff’ – Senior UN Official
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
1 Aug 2017 – Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy today said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.
→ read full articleBiological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Since March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states.
→ read full articleImperial Folly Brings Russia and Germany Together
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Economic war has been declared against Russia for at least three years now. The difference is this latest package also declares economic war against Europe, especially Germany. Make no mistake; the EU leadership will counterpunch. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, put it mildly when he said, “America first cannot mean that Europe’s interests come last.”
→ read full articleEmpire of Whiners
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of “US primacy” around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war.
→ read full article(Français) Les raids saoudiens pulvérisent le patrimoine du Yémen
Chiara Cruciati | Near East News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
La guerre contre le Yémen est une guerre occultée : plus de 4 mille morts, un million de personnes déplacées en interne, 21 millions de personnes sans accès constant à l’eau et la nourriture. Sanaa, Marib, Aden : des villes dont chaque coin raconte l’histoire du monde arabe et sa rencontre avec les peuples d’Asie et d’Afrique, sont en ruines. “Paradis”: c’est cela que signifie en arabe le nom d’Aden, la ville portuaire du sud, cible des violents raids de la coalition anti-Houthi menés par l’Arabie saoudite.
→ read full articleIn Defense of Venezuela
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Other News,
31 Jul 2017
28 Jul 2017 – I have been following the Bolivarian Revolution from its beginning with critical attention and solidarity. Venezuela´s social conquests of the past two decades cannot be disputed. You just have to consult the 2016 UN Report on the evolution of the Human Development Index. Hugo Chavez´s premature death in 2013 and the decrease in the price of oil in 2014 had a tremendous impact on the ongoing processes of social change. Chavez´s charismatic leadership had no successor.
→ read full articleUK’s First ‘Slaughter-free’ Dairy Farm Gains a Permanent Home
ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 – A dairy company which doesn’t cull its older cows, but instead “retires them”, has moved to a new permanent home. The UK’s first “slaughter-free” dairy farm is hoping its model will be picked up upon by other farms. The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit company, and produces 23,000 of litres of milk a year.
→ read full article16 Years after Onset of U.S. Plan Colombia, Cocaine Profits Reach Record Highs
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The U.S.-Colombia drug war alliance has failed to stop the country’s drug trade, with last year’s coca yield breaking records. The record harvests can be traced to the country’s government, right-wing paramilitaries and wealthy individuals who are sympathetic to U.S. business interests.
→ read full articleThe Logic in North Korean ‘Madness’
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
24 Jul 2017
North Korea’s nuclear deterrent is a logical – not crazy – reaction to U.S. “regime change” wars in Iraq and Libya, two countries attacked after they surrendered their WMD stockpiles.
→ read full articleMoral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The U.S. government uses drones to eliminate risk to its soldiers and thus domestic opposition to war, but that heightens the moral imperative to challenge the remote-controlled killings, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleEnemy of My Enemy
Latuff – MintPress News,
17 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articleIgnoring the Human Disaster in Yemen
Alon Ben-Meir – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The West’s protestations about human rights sound hollow when one looks at Yemen where the U.S. and U.K. place profits from arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the carnage those weapons are inflicting.
→ 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 articleIsraeli Exports into Gaza
Latuff – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
22 Jun 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articleGruesome Pic Shows Mass Slaughter of Whales in Faroe Islands Hunt
James Rogers - Fox News,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Faroe Islanders have turned the sea red after slaughtering hundreds of whales as part of a hunt that has been harshly criticized by animal rights groups. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a ‘spinal lance’ that is inserted through the animal’s neck to break its spinal cord. The grisly image shows a hunt on June 16.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, One Girl’s Plight Epitomizes Rohingya Struggle: Worse than Prison
Todd Pitman - AP News,
10 Jul 2017
Girl, 4, Becomes Face of Suffering Rohingya Children Starving to Death amid ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
→ read full articleUN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
→ read full articleHow al-Qaeda Became an American Ally in ‘The War on Terror’
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
Nearly 16 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States is inexplicably finding itself in bed with al-Qaeda, its alleged sworn enemy. The group’s efforts to terrorize the population of Syria have been rewarded with U.S. arms, training and other military aid.
→ read full articleCardinal Bo Takes Aim at Minority Abuses in Eid Message
Union of Catholic Asian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
Prelate reiterates call for probe against persecution of minorities, especially Rohingya Muslims.
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Chen (Israel)
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
One night we had to meet an agent from the security forces in order to find a wanted terrorist. My men surrounded a house and as we entered with our flashlights. People were sleeping on mattresses all over the floor. Then the agent woke someone up and dragged him to the jeep. It was a 10-year-old child. “How can this be the ‘wanted terrorist’?” I asked myself.
→ read full articleSalafism vs. Wahhabism: Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s Proxy War Rages in Syria Thanks to US Militarism
Steven Sahiounie – MintPress News,
3 Jul 2017
Salafi jihadist scholar Abdullah al-Muhaysini is one of many agents working on behalf of Qatar to combat Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabist ideology. Their battleground is Syria, where a so-called “civil war” is covering up a silent fight between competing political movements.
→ read full articleMost Terrorists in the USA Are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report
Mirren Gidda – Newsweek,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – Right-wing extremists were not only more successful, they were often more deadly, too. From 2008 to 2016, a third of right-wing attacks involved fatalities, compared to 13 percent of Islamist attacks.
→ read full articleOn World Refugee Day 20 Jun UN Urges Support, Solidarity for Record Number of Displaced People
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
20 June 2017 – With a record 65.6 million people last year forcibly uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution, UN Secretary-General António Guterres today called on the international community to provide support and solidarity. World Refugee Day is a moment to ask what each of us can do to overcome indifference or fear and embrace the idea of inclusion, “to welcome refugees to our own communities, and to counter narratives that would seek to exclude and marginalize refugees and other uprooted people.”
→ read full articleUN Report Reveals 3 Nations Producing Most Refugees Were Targets of US Intervention
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
22 Jun 2017 – A UN report has shown that more than 65 million people were forced to leave their home countries last year, becoming refugees due to deadly conflict. The top nations from which refugees fled have one thing in common, they were all targets of US intervention.
→ read full articleHouse of Saudi Cards: The Inside Story
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
26 Jun 2017
Just when geopolitical practitioners were betting on regime change in Qatar – orchestrated by a desperate House of Saud – regime change ended up happening in Riyadh, orchestrated by Warrior Prince, Destroyer of Yemen and Blockader of Qatar, Mohammad bin Salman.
→ read full articleState Sponsors of Terror
Latuff – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
The Club
→ read full articleHow Greece Became a Guinea Pig for a Cashless and Controlled Society
Michael Nevradakis – MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
As Greece moves closer to becoming a cashless society, it is clear that the country’s attitude towards cash is reckless and dangerous. The supposed convenience of switching to a cash-free system comes with a great deal of risk, including needless overreach by the state.
→ read full articleIsrael Demolishes Palestinian Village for 114th Time in Seven Years
Whitney Webb - MintPress News,
26 Jun 2017
Israeli bulldozers flattened a village inhabited by the ancient Palestinian Bedouins, a tribe that has lived on the land for thousands of years. Israeli authorities have systematically run the indigenous Bedouins off of their land to pave the way for Jewish-only settlements.
→ read full articleUN Chief: US Will Be Replaced If It Disengages from World
Edith M. Ledrer | Associated Press – Yahoo News,
26 Jun 2017
20 Jun 2017 — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced. Guterres made clear at his first press conference since taking the reins of the UN that he is not afraid to stand up to President Donald Trump, citing his vocal opposition to the U.S. leader’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.
→ read full articleExclusive: Overruling Diplomats, U.S. to Drop Iraq, Myanmar from Child Soldiers’ List
Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick | Reuters - US News & World Report,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Department experts and senior U.S. diplomats.
→ read full articleUntreated Sewage Could Flood Gaza as Crippling Power Outages Worsen
MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
Conditions in Gaza are worsening, with grave consequences for both human health and the environment due to untreated wastewater. Worse still, Israel has announced it will cut the electricity it supplies to Gaza by nearly half.
→ read full articleThe West Can’t Smell What Eurasia is Cooking
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
19 Jun 2017
A tectonic geopolitical shift happened in Astana, Kazakhstan, only a few days ago, and yet barely a ripple registered in Atlanticist circles.
→ read full articlePolitical Will, Financial Support Needed to Bolster New Approach to Cholera in Haiti – UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – The UN deputy chief Amina Mohammed today called on Member States to fund the Organization’s new strategy to counter cholera in Haiti. “Without your political will and financial support, we have only good intentions and words.”
→ read full articleSaudi Blockade Triggers Massive Cholera Epidemic in Yemen, Claiming One Life Each Hour
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen and its continuing blockade of Yemeni ports has virtually collapsed the country and basic necessities are in dangerously short supply. Now, Yemen finds itself unable to treat a rapidly growing cholera outbreak that claims the life of one civilian every hour.
→ read full articleHow BAE Sold Cyber-Surveillance Tools to Repressive Arab States
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across the Middle East of sophisticated surveillance technology, including to many repressive governments. These sales have also included decryption software which could be used against the UK and its allies.
→ read full articleJoint African Action Crucial to Protect Persons with Albinism from Violence, Highlights UN Expert
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
13 Jun 2017 – Highlighting the importance of cooperation among countries to overcome the violence and discrimination faced by persons with albinism, a United Nations rights expert has urged African nations to fully implement a regional action plan on ending attacks on persons with albinism.
→ read full article‘BRICS’ Countries Well Placed to Help Lead Global Efforts to Tackle Hunger
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 20187 – With the clock ticking toward the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, five of the world’s most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in helping to achieve these objectives, according to the UN: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
→ read full articleChildren Hardest Hit as Cholera Spreads in War-Torn Yemen – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
14 Jun 2017 – As the outbreak of cholera in Yemen continues to spread at an alarming rate – with terrible impact on children – the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate support to enable the country’s health workers respond or risk even more deaths from the deadly disease.
→ read full articleTanzania Forced to Embrace Seed Patents or Risk Losing Developmental Aid
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
19 Jun 2017
Agribusiness companies are taking advantage of Tanzania’s desperate need for aid to push a development plan that will allow them to dominate the country’s agriculture sector and plunge farmers into debt. A similar plan led to a suicide epidemic among Indian farmers in recent years.
→ read full articleUN Chief Praises ‘Vision, Tenacity’ of the Late Helmut Khol, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
16 Jun 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has lauded the vision and tenacity of the former Chancellor of Germany, Helmut Kohl, who died today at the age of 87.
→ read full articleThe Terror Club Schism
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Jun 2017
Terrorism vs Terrorism
→ read full articleCatastrophe of Aral Sea Shows ‘Men Can Destroy the Planet’, Warns UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
António Guterres today visited Muynak, Uzebkistan in the Aral Sea – once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement– the ‘cemetery of ships’ – once a port city but now devoid of all water. “It shows that if in relation to climate change, if we are not able to act forcefully to tame this phenomenon, we might see this kind of tragedy multiply around the world,” he warned.
→ read full articleThe US Hand in the Libyan/Syrian Tragedies
Jonathan Marshall – Consortium News,
12 Jun 2017
The Obama administration’s “regime change” debacles in Libya and Syria are spreading terrorist violence into Europe, but they have inflicted vastly more bloodshed in those two tragic nations.
→ read full articleFather of Iconic Aleppo Boy Says Media Lied about His Son
Eva Bartlett – MintPress News,
12 Jun 2017
Mohammad Daqneesh, the father of the now-infamous Aleppo boy Omran Daqneesh, says his son was exploited by Syrian rebels and the media for political gain.
→ read full articleTowards a Sociology of Absences
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
12 Jun 2017
Contrary to appearances, the abyssal line has not been erased with the end of territorial colonialism. It is still there today, just like colonialism is, albeit in new forms. It is this abyssal line that justifies racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, the destruction of countries like Iraq, Libya, or Syria, the Palestinian “final solution” perpetrated by victims turned into aggressors, the massive incarceration of young Black people in the United States, the inhuman treatment of refugees.
→ read full articleOscar Winning Industry Heavy Weights Team with Sea Shepherd on Student Film Contest
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
8 Jun 2017 – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society partnered with a group of Hollywood industry heavyweights and a middle school from the Los Angeles Unified School District on a student filmmaking contest.
→ read full articleFreedom Fighters
Latuff – MintPress News,
12 Jun 2017
No comment
→ read full articleTrump’s Sword Dance Sets Off the War of the Wahhabis
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
12 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017 – The fact is the House of Saud went amok, in a flash, going after Qatar and bombing from the inside that glorious Arab NATO project – call it NATOGCC — sworn with pomp over a glowing orb. US President Donald Trump could not possibly have predicted the game-changing after-effects of his triumphal sword dance in Riyadh. Or could he?
→ read full articleGreece Forced to Sell Public Water Utilities under EU-Imposed Privatization Plan
Michael Nevradakis – MintPress News,
6 Jun 2017
Greece’s economic woes continue to pile up, with key public utilities such as water now on the chopping block of privatization. But activists like Maria Kanellopoulou are working to spread awareness of this issue and prevent Greek water from being put into private hands.
→ read full articleS. Korea’s President Orders Probe over Increasingly Unpopular US Missile Launchers
AP – MintPress News,
5 Jun 2017
Many of South Korean President’s supporters don’t want the missile system, which Donald Trump suggested Seoul should pay for.
→ read full articleA UN of the Future to Effectively Serve All Member States
UN Secretary-General António Guterres – Other News,
5 Jun 2017
In a letter to Permanent Representatives of 193 member states, the Secretary-General details his plan for a revitalization of the UN system.
→ read full articleOhio Sues Pharmaceutical Manufacturers over Role in Opioid Epidemic
Kevin Koeninger – MintPress News,
5 Jun 2017
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Wednesday [31 May] the filing of a lawsuit against numerous prescription pain medication manufacturers, as part of the ongoing effort to fight its opioid addiction epidemic. He described the state’s drug crisis as a “fire stoked by greed, fueled by deceit, and tended by a multi-billion dollar industry.”
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Flory Kazingufu (DRC)
John Oryang – Peace News,
5 Jun 2017
At the height of the First Congo War in 1996 Floribert Kazingufu, a teacher in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fled to South Africa as a refugee. His journey inspired him to become a leading peace-builder for his people, co-founding the Chirezi Foundation, which provides education and ‘peace courts,’ and the Pan African Peace University in Uriva, DRC.
→ read full articleWhat’s in a Name? U.S. Takes Syria’s Al-Qaeda off Terror Watchlists
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
By changing its name to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda has managed to secure its removal from the U.S. and Canadian terror watchlists, allowing citizens of those countries to donate money and travel to fight with them.
→ read full articleJohn Pilger: The White Helmets Are a “Complete Propaganda Construct”
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
26 May 2017 – In yesterday’s interview with RT’s Going Underground, John Pilger outed the White Helmets as nothing more than a “complete propaganda construct in Syria.”
→ read full articleGlobal Development through China’s New ‘Silk Routes’
Kalinga Seneviratne – Other News,
29 May 2017
25 May 2017 – When China hosted a two-day conference in May to help revive the ancient trade routes from Asia to Europe and Africa it was greeted with scepticism by most of the western media. But in much of Asia the mood was more of optimism and opportunity.
→ read full articleSo It Goes
Latuff – MintPress News,
29 May 2017
Friends in High Places
→ read full articleU.S. Military World’s Largest Polluter – Hundreds of Bases Gravely Contaminated
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
22 May 2017
Producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined, the U.S. Department of Defense has left its toxic legacy throughout the world in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead, among other pollutants.
→ read full article
Is Russia the “Adversary” of the United States?
theREALnews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2017
May 19, 2017 – Moscow based [Atlantic Monthly] journalist Jeffrey Taylor and Paul Jay challenge the underlying assumption of the furor in Washington, that Russia is the enemy of the American people.
→ read full articleDisposing of Nuclear Waste is a Challenge for Humanity
Behnam Taebi – Newsweek,
22 May 2017
Nuclear waste is found at hundreds of sites around the world, the product of a half century of nuclear energy production. There are thorny ethical issues that should first be addressed. The risks are difficult to calibrate, because there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure, certainly not for the type of radiation emanating from plutonium and uranium as present in Hanford.
→ read full articleAgony of Mother Earth: World’s Forests Depleted for Fuel (II)
Baher Kamal – Other News,
22 May 2017
Humankind is the biggest ever predator of natural resources. Just take the case of forests, the real lungs of Mother Earth, and learn that every 60 seconds humans cut down 15 hectares of trees primarily for food or energy production. And that as much as 45,000 hectares of rainforest are cleared for every million kilos of beef exported from South America.
→ read full articleHorizons Needed
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
15 May 2017
The totalitarianism of our times announces itself as the end of totalitarianism and, because of this, it is more insidious than former totalitarianisms. We are too many and too humane to follow a single path; on the other hand, however, if paths are many and they go in all directions they can easily become a labyrinth or a skein of yarn, a dynamic field of paralysis, anyway. This is the condition of our times. To exit from it we need to combine the plurality of possible paths with the coherence of a horizon that organizes circumstances and gives them meaning.
→ read full articleRadiation Disaster in Washington State – Evacuations Ordered – No Fly Zone Imposed
Newsroom | Superstation 95 NYC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
9 May 2017 – A train tunnel containing radioactive fuel rods and other highly radioactive products has COLLAPSED at the Hanford Nuclear Site. Employees have been evacuated,the “Emergency Operations Center” has been activated; and now, the Federal Aviation Administration has imposed a NO-FLY ZONE 5 miles in all directions from the site.
→ read full articleChild Soldiers Reloaded: The Privatisation of War
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
1 May 2017 – From opportunistic guns for hire on the fringe of domestic conflicts to a global force operating within a multibillion-dollar industry – the private military sector seems to be flourishing. How private companies recruit former child soldiers for military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
→ read full articleMonsanto PCBs May Leave Orca Pod ‘Doomed to Extinction’
Carey Wedler – MintPress News,
15 May 2017
The Guardian reported last Tuesday [9 May] that Lulu, the full-grown whale who died, “was a member of the UK’s last resident pod and a postmortem also showed she had never produced a calf. The pollutants, called PCBs, cause infertility and these latest findings add to strong evidence that the pod is doomed to extinction.” The levels of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, found in Lulu’s blubber were “more than 100 times the 9mg/kg limit above which damage to the health of marine mammals is known to occur.”
→ read full articleThe Decline of the West Revisited
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
15 May 2017
Europa, in Greek mythology, was a Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus and carried off to Crete. In time, Europe was meant to designate the western extreme of Eurasia. Europe, essentially, was the quite provincial Western seed that then sprouted an octopus: the global West.
→ read full articleIs Reconciliation Working in Rwanda?
John Oryang | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2017
13 May 2017 – The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed nearly 800,000 lives. Now, over 20 years later, the country is still healing. Peace News traveled to Rwanda to hear from the next generation about their views of the country’s violent past, and their dreams for Rwanda.
→ read full articleScientists and Sea Shepherd Team on Humpback Whale Research and Microplastics in Ocean
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
26 Apr 20917 – Sea Shepherd joined forces with a group of scientists last month to conduct research on two separate projects off the coast of Mexico: humpback whales and ocean plastics.
→ read full articlePeople Choosing Peace: Ayuel Madut, South Sudan
Ochan Hannington | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
I fought alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Army that later took power in South Sudan. During the guerrilla war I was a child soldier. At such a young age I thought I fully understood the reasons for fighting the Khartoum government, which was our “enemy” then.
→ read full articleOliver Stone Honored with Press Freedom Award
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 May 2017
4 May 2017 – Though most people know Oliver Stone as a famous screenwriter and movie director, he has also lent his talents and resources to a number of documentary films that embrace the core journalistic idea that there are usually two sides – if not more – to a story.
→ read full articleIntel Vets Voice Doubts on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
VIPS-Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity – Consortium News,
1 May 2017
26 Apr 2017 – Two dozen former U.S. intelligence professionals are urging the American people to demand clear evidence that the Syrian government was behind the April 4 chemical incident before President Trump dives deeper into another war.
→ read full articleJapan Should Be More Active Peace Contributor
Shinichi Kitaoka | The Japan News - The Yomiuri Shimbun,
1 May 2017
When Prime Minister Abe committed to making a “more proactive contribution to peace,” some commentators who criticized the new policy for being confusingly similar to the concept of “positive peace” popularized by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the father of peace studies. Galtung defined an ordinary state of peace with the absence of war as “negative peace” and a state of peace with the absence of structural violence, such as oppression, poverty and discrimination as “positive peace.”
→ read full articleJournalist Barrett Brown Detained [again] for Exercising Free Speech
Grant Ferowich – Sputnik News,
1 May 2017
US intelligence reporter Barrett Brown was arrested, again, on Thursday [27 Apr] morning for criticizing the US government while appearing on radio interviews. “If this were happening in another country, [the US government] would deplore it,” former CIA clandestine operative Barry Eisley tweeted.
→ read full articleDemocratic World Federalists and the San Francisco Promise
Roger Kotila, Editor | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
The truth is that the UN Charter itself is so badly designed that it is in reality the main part of a geopolitical war system. A global peace system will require replacing the UN Charter with a genuine world federal union constitution such as the Earth Constitution. The Charter is undemocratically rigged in favor of only five nations of the UN Security Council: U.S., Russia, China, France, and UK.
→ read full articleWhy Washington is Terrified of Russia, China
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
1 May 2017
The Russia-China strategic partnership, uniting the Pentagon’s avowed top two “existential” threats to America, does not come with a formal treaty signed with pomp, circumstance – and a military parade.
→ read full articleDoes Climate Change Increase Conflict?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2017
Today’s wars are often attributed to ethnic conflict or extremism, but environmental factors could also be behind tensions. Linking climate and conflict is a controversial issue. Some scholars warn that inflating the links between conflict and climate change could be damaging to both areas of study. However, evidence on the ground appears to be increasing.
→ read full articleThe Bait-and-Switch ‘War on Terror’
Gareth Porter | Middle East Eye – Consortium News,
24 Apr 2017
22 Apr 2017 – New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman outraged many readers when he wrote an opinion piece on April 12 calling on President Trump to ”back off fighting territorial ISIS in Syria.” The U.S. “war on terror” has always been a bait-and-switch scam on the American people, with Washington putting the desires of its Mideast allies ahead of defeating Al Qaeda and ISIS.
→ read full articleMaking the Future Possible Again
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
17 Apr 2017
14 Apr 2017 – When we look at the past through the eyes of the present, we find huge cemeteries of abandoned futures, struggles that inaugurated new possibilities but were neutralized, silenced, or distorted, futures murdered at birth, or even still-born futures, contingencies that determined the winning choice later ascribed to the course of history.
→ read full articleMLK’s Warning of America’s Spiritual Death
Gary G. Kohls – Consortium News,
17 Apr 2017
4 Apr 2017 – Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis. The New York Times accused him of “slander” for decrying the Vietnam War and The Washington Post detected “unsupported fantasies” in his speech.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi: No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority
BBC News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2017
6 Apr 2017 – Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread reports of abuses. Instead, Myanmar’s de-facto leader said the country would welcome any returning Rohingya with open arms.
→ read full articleAnother Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Apr 2017
The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities.
→ read full article4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars (Up to 2015 alone): Should We Call It Genocide?
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
3 Apr 2017
18 Aug 2015 — It may never be possible to know the true death toll of the modern Western wars on the Middle East, but that figure could be 4 million or higher. Since the vast majority of those killed were of Arab descent, and mostly Muslim, when would it be fair to accuse the United States and its allies of genocide?
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