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Palestinian Villages ‘Get Two Hours of Water a Week’
Eloise Bollack – Al Jazeera News,
7 Nov 2016
Israeli control over water supplies in the occupied West Bank has left Palestinians desperate.
→ read full articleParallels Seen in Protests of Dakota Pipeline, Oregon Refuge
Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
31 Oct 2016
30 Oct 2016 – On the same day seven defendants celebrated their acquittal in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and firing bean bag rounds arrested nearly 150 water-protectors camped out in North Dakota. “How is it that people who were seen on national media with guns having a standoff with police officials were acquitted … and we’re being treated like we’re terrorists?”
→ read full articleGood Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
24 Oct 2016
Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east Aleppo held by Al Qaeda.
→ read full articleThe NYT’s Neocon ‘Downward Spiral’
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Oct 2016
Every day, The New York Times – America’s “paper of record” – sinks deeper into the swamp of propaganda, now reliably touting predictable neocon notions about the Middle East and Russia.
→ read full articleDakota Access Pipeline ‘Water Protectors’ Block Construction despite National Guard Blockade, Police Harassment & Arrests
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
10 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 — Amid near continuous harassment and frequent arrests by police, members of over 300 Native American tribes gathered on native land in North Dakota continue to block construction on the Dakota Access pipeline. ‘Our intentions are to protect water for the 18 million people downstream. And we’re not protesters, we’re protectors,’ a member of the Navajo Nation living at the encampment told us.
→ read full article‘Terrorists vs. Moderates’: Lessons from the MI5 Middle East Files
Nikolai Gorshkov – Sputnik News,
3 Oct 2016
Another batch of MI5 files just released by the National Archives in London reveals more details regarding the origins of present day troubles in the Middle East, as well as the machinations of western allies trying to upstage one another.
→ read full articleHow the US Armed-up Syrian Jihadists
Alastair Crooke – Consortium News,
3 Oct 2016
29 Sep 2016 – The West blames Russia for the bloody mess in Syria, but U.S. Special Forces saw close up how the chaotic U.S. policy of aiding Syrian jihadists enabled Al Qaeda and ISIS to rip Syria apart, explains ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.
→ read full articleComputer Program Beats Doctors at Spotting Brain Cancer
Ajay Ghosh – The Universal News Network,
26 Sep 2016
21 Sep 2016 – A computer program developed by a team of researchers led by an Indian American scientist has outperformed physicians in diagnosing brain cancer. The program was nearly twice as accurate as two neuroradiologists.
→ read full articleHow Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming
Harvey Wasserman - Reader Supported News,
26 Sep 2016
Supporters of nuclear power like to argue that nukes are the key to combatting climate change. Here’s why they are dead wrong. Every day, large reactors like the two at Diablo Canyon, California, individually dump about 1.25 billion gallons of water into the ocean at temperatures up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the natural environment.
→ read full articleLaw Is to Justice as Treaties Are to Native Americans
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
19 Sep 2016
Once again, it’s the American empire versus interfering outsiders. As a Yale senior joining Skull and Bones, Jeb Boasberg kissed Geronimo’s skull. That act of atavistic triumphalism shines through in his legal decision against the Standing Rock Sioux. Kissing the skull of an enemy is just another way of showing who’s in control here, whose burial is sacred, and whose is not.
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America’s Murderous Legacy in Laos
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
As Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, The Real News brings you an interview with Fred Branfman, the man who first exposed America’s secret bombing campaign there.
→ read full articleGaza-Bound Flotilla Sails Off from Spain’s Barcelona
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
A new flotilla of international activists has left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona, hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade. Two sailing boats with 11 women on board each sailed off on Wednesday [14 Sep] under the banner “The Women’s Boat to Gaza”.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Dalai Lama Criticizes [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya Silence at EU Meeting
Mizzima News from Myanmar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
16 Sep 2016 – The Dalai Lama has condemned attacks against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, describing them as acts of “some mischievous individuals who do not represent Buddhism.” The Tibetan Buddhist leader was speaking to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Strasbourg.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Advocates Press [Nobel Peace Laureate] Aung San Suu Kyi for Immediate Relief of the Rohingya Minority
Catherine Maddux – Voice of America News,
19 Sep 2016
13 Sep 2016 – When Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi meets Nobel Peace Laureate President Barack Obama at the White House this week, activists will be watching to see how the pro-democracy icon will address the plight of the country’s ethnic Rohingya, whom human rights groups say are among the world’s most persecuted minority groups.
→ read full articleStudy: Scientists Who Won’t Link Pesticides to Bee Deaths Are Often Funded by Agrochemical Industry
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
14 Sep 2016 — Pesticide manufacturers have spent millions influencing researchers who are investigating the role of neonicotinoids, a nicotine-like chemical found in many major pesticides, in bee die-offs, according to a recent analysis by Greenpeace.
→ read full articleG20 Summit: For the First Time the West Couldn’t Dictate, but Had to Listen
Asif Aziz – Astute News,
12 Sep 2016
9 Sep 2016 – China has spent months organizing the G20 Summit in Hangzhou. They had their own ideas and it was a sort of coming out for Chinese, showing to the international community that they are a real global power politically and economically.
→ read full articleControversial New U.S. Nuclear Bomb Moves Closer to Full-Scale Production
Len Ackland - Rocky Mountain PBS News,
12 Sep 2016
The most controversial and dangerous nuclear bomb ever planned for the U.S. arsenal has received the go ahead. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Aug 1 that the B61-12 – the nation’s first guided, or “smart,” nuclear bomb – had completed a four-year development and testing phase and is now in production engineering, the final phase before full-scale production slated for 2020.
→ read full articleUS Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
12 Sep 2016
Does anyone think America is accountable for its own actions? The preposterous ironies of President Obama’s unapologetic visit to Laos on September 6 have not yet generated the attention they deserve, but they provide an excellent measure of the self-righteousness of the monstrous continuity of American violence inflicted on the world from Viet Nam in the 1950s to Yemen more than sixty years later.
→ read full articleThe Court That Rules the World
Chris Hamby | BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Some of them half-jokingly refer to themselves as “The Club” or “The Mafia.” – An Investigative Reporting
→ read full articleNew US Policy: Kill the Kurds
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
5 Sep 2016
The incoherence, insanity, and ultimate inanity of US policy in and around Syria was highlighted by Vice President Joe Biden on a state visit to Turkey August 24, when he threatened the most effective fighting force against the Islamic State – the Kurdish militias – with American punishment if they didn’t play nice with the Turks, who have spent years supporting the Islamic State (aka ISIS or ISIL), attacking “bad” Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, and who are now attacking “good” Kurds in Syria.
→ read full articlePhotos Show Why the North Dakota Pipeline Is Problematic
Kate Bubacz and Daniella Zalcman - BuzzFeed News,
29 Aug 2016
17 Aug 2016 – A proposed oil pipeline is set to begin construction on tribal lands in North Dakota. Members of various Native American reservations gathered Monday [15 Aug] to try to stop it.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Bans Native American Tribe from Protesting on Their Own Land – Send in Police to Remove Protesters
Jafari Tishomingo – Counter Current News,
29 Aug 2016
21 Aug 2016 – The Bakken project runs through Native American sacred sites, water sources, such as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. When money is to be made like $3.8-billion and 570,000 barrels of sweet crude oil every day to feed America’s oil habit, we don’t let scared sites or ecosystems get in the way.
→ read full article2,500 Native Americans Successfully Block Oil Pipeline Construction — State of Emergency Declared
Counter Current News Editorial Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 – The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment.
→ read full articleThe Dumbed-Down New York Times
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Aug 2016
27 Aug 2016 – The Times applies a conscious double standard when reporting on the actions of the United States or one of its allies (note how Turkey’s recent invasion of Syria was just an ‘intervention’) as compared to how the Times deals with actions by U.S. adversaries, such as Russia.
→ read full articleUS Okay With Surgical Strikes on Yemen Hospitals
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
29 Aug 2016
This war is a war of aggression [on Yemen], started by Saudi Arabia in March 2015, with crucial US blessing, participation, personnel, and ordnance. The US has been a willing, guilty partner and enabler in 18 months of military atrocities in a one-sided war that everyone involved knew – or should have known – was a pure war crime.
→ read full articleIs Bloodied Syrian Boy Omran Daqneesh Just another Image?
Lina Sergie Attar – BBC News,
29 Aug 2016
The iconic image of a bloodied Syrian boy in an ambulance has sparked international compassion but can it now transcend being just a hashtag or viral moment and become a movement to end the war?
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Hundreds of Children Recruited into Armed Groups, Reports UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 – Reporting that 650 children have been recruited into armed groups in South Sudan since January, the United Nations Children’s Fund called today for an immediate end to recruitment and an unconditional release of all children by armed actors.
→ read full articleHow ‘Think Tanks’ Generate Endless War
Todd E. Pierce – Consortium News,
22 Aug 2016
U.S. “think tanks” rile up the American public against an ever-shifting roster of foreign “enemies” to justify wars that line the pockets of military contractors who kick back some profits to the “think tanks.”
→ read full articlePhoto of Boy Pulled from Rubble Reminder of ‘Unimaginable Horrors’ Syrian Children Face – UNICEF
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
19 Aug 2016 –“No child in Syria [is] safe while the conflict drags on,” Christophe Boulierac, a spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund told the press in Geneva, referring to the photograph which went viral on social media yesterday and has galvanized world attention to the suffering in Aleppo, Syria’s iconic second city.
→ read full articleUkraine, Instability, and the US Election – No Way Out?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
15 Aug 2016
Headline: Ukraine claims Russian invasion possible ‘at any minute’ – The headline shown above is from the Irish Times, over a story quoting unnamed sources in the Kiev government, who in turn quote unnamed sources in Crimea. Nothing in the story, taken as a whole, supports the fearmongering headline. Even Kiev acknowledges that Russian troop movements are exercises, of unstated scale at an unstated distance from the border.
→ read full articleThe Global Campaign for Peace Education
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
The Global Campaign for Peace Education provides coverage of peace education from around the world, including original articles, research and stories cultivated from journals and independent and mass media sources.
→ read full articleErdogan Wants to ‘Smash NATO Secret Army’ Allegedly Involved in Attempted Coup
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
According to Turkish media reports, there was a secret NATO structure involved in the attempted coup that took place in Turkey on July 15, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten wrote. “If one wants to again create relationship of trust with the Western institutions, Gladio [clandestine NATO structure] in Turkey must be eliminated as it already was in several Western countries.”
→ read full articleThe Zika Virus Mosquito Is so Dangerous the Military Considered Using It as a Weapon
Rod Tanchanco | History News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
It is a master of stealth, stretching less than half an inch long and weighing in at 2.5 milligrams with as estimated air speed of 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. It is virtually soundless in flight, registering zero decibels from ten feet. Its tracking systems hone in on targets by detecting infrared radiation from warm bodies, chemicals such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, body odors from as far as a hundred feet, as well as movement from fidgety hosts. It can carry an impressive array of payload: up to 32 different types of viruses, many of which are lethal to humans. And it protects itself from the same viruses with a well-developed immune system that provides a highly effective antiviral defense mechanism. The Aedes mosquito, insect vector for dozens of viruses including the Zika virus, is a near-perfect drone.
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad: Exclusive Interview
NBC Nightly News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
NBC’s Bill Neely speaks with President Bashar Al-Assad. This interview was filmed by the Presidential press office of Bashar al-Assad. No editorial changes were made to the content.
→ read full article‘Fraud’ Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
25 Jul 2016
An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case – a finding embraced by The New York Times – is denounced by a forensic expert as an “outright fraud.”
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US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia Risks Nuclear War and Loss of European Partners by the USA
TheRealNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
Michael Hudson says that the US-led confrontational approach of NATO with Russia is driving European countries to consider disbanding or leaving the military alliance due to increased security risks.
→ read full articleDon’t Eat the Yellow Rice: The Danger of Deploying Vitamin A Golden Rice
Ted Greiner – Independent Science News,
18 Jul 2016
The purpose of Golden Rice was never to solve vitamin A problems. It never could and never will. Its purpose from the beginning was to be a tool for use in shaming GMO critics and to convince Nobel Laureates to sign on to something they didn’t understand. The signatures of 107 Nobel Laureates do not prove that Golden Rice is safe or effective—but they do prove that, no matter how good scientists are in their own narrow fields, they are often no smarter than any of the rest of us about many other things.
→ read full articleBlood Spills on to the Shores of the Danish Faroe Islands in the First Pilot Whale Slaughter of the Year
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
6 Jul 2016 – The ordeal began this morning when locals spotted a pod of between 100-150 pilot whales passing by Svínoy. Several boats then drove the pod of whales approximately 11 kilometres to Hvannasund, where the whales were forced to beach, and slaughtered by locals. Faroese media outlets have confirmed between 30-50 pilot whales have been killed.
→ read full articleOn International Day of Cooperatives, UN Hails Them as Drivers of Sustainable Future
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2016
UN estimates: One person in six is either a member or a client of a cooperative and some 2.6 million cooperatives employ 12.6 million people worldwide. Cooperatives’ assets are worth about $20 trillion and they generate about $3 trillion in annual revenue.
→ read full articleWhy the UK Said Bye Bye to the EU
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
27 Jun 2016
24 Jun 2016 – The irrepressibly mediocre Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, posing as a “historian”, had warned that Brexit, “could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but Western political civilization in its entirety”. That’s foolish. Brexit proved that it’s immigration, stupid. And once again, it’s the economy, stupid (although the British neoliberal establishment never paid attention).
→ read full article‘They Called Me Osama’ – A Documentary to Teach People about Sikh Religion
Ajay Ghosh – The Universal News Network,
27 Jun 2016
22 Jun 2016 – This new documentary film seeks to educate people about the Sikh religion and the experiences of Sikhs in America including bullying in schools, racism, and hate violence. It was made with funding from the University of Connecticut and aims at preventing abuses of Sikhs and informing about the centuries old Sikh religion.
→ read full articleEurope Migrant Crisis: Charity Rejects EU Funds over Migration Policy
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2016
Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy.
→ read full articleHow the Drone King Turned Assassination into Counter-Terrorism Policy
Mnar Muhawesh – MintPress News,
20 Jun 2016
Barack Obama launched more drones strikes in his first year in office than George W. Bush did in both of his terms combined. Exposing what one military scholar called a global policy of assassination. Drones, Jeremy Scahill writes, “are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination.”
→ read full articleNGOs Call on Thailand to Better Protect Rohingya Refugees, Victims of Trafficking
Nontarat Phaicharoen – Benar News,
13 Jun 2016
9 Jun 2016 – A group of NGOs has marked the anniversary of the 2015 Andaman Sea migration crisis by calling on Thailand to end “arbitrary and indefinite detention” of refugees from Myanmar who came ashore then, and do more to protect survivors and witnesses of human trafficking.
→ read full article(Italiano) Quando la Siria ospitava i rifugiati europei
Evan Taparata e Kuang Keng Kuek Ser | PRI – Frontiere News,
30 May 2016
Nei primi anni ’40, Aleppo (così come Nuseirat in Palestina e diverse località in Egitto) ha accolto migliaia di europei in fuga dagli orrori e dalle tragedie della seconda guerra mondiale.
→ read full articleMalawi: Albino Killings on the Rise, Bishops Speak Out
Catholic News Agency – Eurasia Review,
30 May 2016
26 May 2016 – Amid increased violence against albinos in the southeastern African nation of Malawi, the bishops’ justice and peace commission has condemned their killing, which is linked to the practice of witch doctors.
→ read full articleThe CIA and Hollywood, an Unlawful Alliance
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
30 May 2016
CIA employees taking gifts from Hollywood producers for giving them, in the case of Zero Dark Thirty, classified briefings on the bin Laden raid is bad enough. The CIA director leaking classified information to the producers is worse. Therein lies the problem with the relationship between the CIA and Hollywood. There’s little-to-no oversight. And when rules and laws are broken, nobody has to pay the piper.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Says Secretive Trade Agreement Paves Way to ‘Corporatization of Public Services’
John Dyer – Vice News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – WikiLeaks has released thousands of documents that show how officials negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement, or TiSA, could force privatization on public institutions around the world. The most surprising revelations involve state-owned enterprises, or SOEs — government-owned corporations that often operate like private businesses but pursue public goals, experts said.
→ read full articleWhy I Keep Fighting
Chelsea Manning - Reader Supported News,
23 May 2016
As a military prisoner, my public persona is carefully controlled and enforced. Any interviews or statements that I make — such as this one — must be written or dictated through someone else who types it up on my behalf. I am not allowed to be recorded over the telephone, do any video interviews, or have any pictures taken — with the exception of the occasional grainy mug shot. For those living in my situation, it’s easy to start feeling invisible — left behind and dismissed by the rest of a fast-paced society. Despite these obstacles, I know I need to keep going. It is important to stay vocal. To stay creative. Active. Motivated. To keep fighting.
→ read full articleNeocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 May 2016
Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.
→ read full articlePutin Declines World Humanitarian Summit Invitation as Russia Cries Foul
Ben Parker | IRIN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul as Russia is refusing to be bound by the results of a process it says failed to include its views.
→ read full articleKen Livingstone Isn’t On Trial, Zionism Is
American Herald Tribune – Mint Press News,
9 May 2016
In subjecting Ken Livingstone to trial-by-media over his comments on Zionism, his detractors have also unwittingly placed Zionism itself on trial.
→ read full articlePalmyra Witnesses Two Cultural Events on Occasions of Martyrs’ Day in Syria and Victory Day in Russia
Syrian Arab News Agency SANA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The first event has started amid large popular turnout through the concert of the Symphony Orchestra of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theater, headed by Maestro Valery Gergiev at Palmyra’s Roman Theater.
→ read full articleThe Unrepentant Torturers
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
2 May 2016
A policy of torture, a policy of holding people incommunicado in secret prisons, a policy of rendering people to third countries to undergo even more brutal torture, does nothing but serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Torture doesn’t prevent terrorism, it causes it.
→ read full articleKenya Burns Huge Pile of Ivory Tusks to Protest Poaching
Tom Odula, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
2 May 2016
Kenya’s president set fire Saturday [30 Apr 2016] to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species. Kenya decided to destroy the ivory instead of selling it for an estimated $150 million. Pres. Kenyatta said that Kenya wants to make the point that ivory should not have any commercial value.
→ read full articleBoat Tragedy Highlights Myanmar’s Treatment of Rohingyas
John Zaw – UCA News,
25 Apr 2016
21 Apr 2016 – The deaths of over 20 Rohingyas in a boating accident have again put the focus on Myanmar’s ill treatment of the Muslim minority. Nine children were among the 21 confirmed dead from the accident that occurred in rough seas off the coast of Rakhine state April 19. Tens of thousands are held in internment camps where they face severe restrictions on their freedom of movement.
→ read full articleWhy We’re Never Told Why We’re Attacked
Joe Lauria – Consortium News,
18 Apr 2016
Connecting terrorism to Western intervention could spark a serious self-examination of the West’s behavior in the region leading to a possible retreat and even an end of this external dominance. But that is clearly something policymakers in Washington, London and Paris – and their subservient media – aren’t prepared to do.
→ read full articleDemocracy Spring: Thousands Descend on US Capitol, Over 400 Arrested
Scott Galindez - Reader Supported News,
18 Apr 2016
12 Apr 2016 – Thousands of Americans have descended on Washington to launch one week of civil disobedience under the banner Democracy Spring. Their main demand is to get money out of politics. Over 400 people were arrested today, and over 3,000 have pledged to risk arrest over the next week.
→ read full articleA Thai Monk Is Using Social Media to Preach Violence against Muslims
Abby Seiff and Rin Jirenuwat – Newsweek,
11 Apr 2016
Increasingly, monks in Thailand are looking to their counterparts in Sri Lanka and Myanmar—two places where Buddhist ultranationalism has spilled into anti-Muslim violence.
→ read full article‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
11 Apr 2016
Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders.
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Global Tax Haven Network Means Americans Can Hide Wealth At Home
Jessica Desvarieux - The Real News Network,
11 Apr 2016
6 Apr 2016 – Economist James Henry describes the network of international banks, law firms, accountants, and trust companies that allow wealth to be hidden in tax havens like Delaware.
→ read full articleThinking: The Missing Link
Sutapa Das – ISKCON News,
4 Apr 2016
How does inspiration turn into transformation? What does it take to cash in on this spiritual wealth that we gather? Why do striking moments of insight inconspicuously fade away upon re-entering the routine of life?
→ read full articleHolland: Five Prisons to Close as Falling Crime Rate Leaves Cells Empty
Dutch News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016 – More prisons will close in the next few years as the government looks to cut the cost of hundreds of empty cells, justice minister Ard van der Steur has told parliament. The downward trend in crime is expected to mean 3,000 prison cells and 300 youth detention places will be surplus to requirements in five years’ time.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in Cuba
Harvey Wasserman - Reader Supported News,
28 Mar 2016
Maybe our elected officials should cease their hypocritical yapping about the human rights situation in Cuba until they come clean about what’s happening here in the United States. The idea of the United States lecturing Cuba or any other country on this planet about human rights comes down somewhere between embarrassing and nauseating. Consider:
→ read full articleUS-Saudi Terror in Yemen Dwarfs ISIS Attacks in Europe
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Mar 2016
25 Mar 2016 – Why are two of the richest countries in the World, the United States and Saudi Arabia, engaged in unrelenting, aggressive war against one of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen?
→ read full articleScientist Who Discovered That GMOs Cause Tumors Wins Lawsuit
JBA Healthy News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
19 Feb 2016 – A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors.
→ read full articleUS Remains Reluctantly Tied to Global Security Role
Mark Urban – BBC News,
22 Feb 2016
America’s military finds itself pulled in several directions – and even the $582bn (£403bn) defence budget rolled out earlier this month will not be enough to satisfy all of its needs. One of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe.
→ read full article‘Silk Road’ Trade Route Revived as First Train Arrives in Iran from China with Goods
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The train’s journey was 30 days shorter than the sea voyage from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
→ read full articleSecuring a Future for Child Soldiers
Forest Whitaker - Reader Supported News,
22 Feb 2016
It is impossible for us to comprehend the magnitude of a child soldier’s pain: how deep his wounds, how heavy her burden, how alone these children must feel when they return from the battlefield to a world they do not recognize. Unless we are there to meet them with open arms, open homes, and open schools, their wars will never end. And neither will ours.
→ read full articleGorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps—A First
Ker Than - National Geographic News,
22 Feb 2016
“Very confident” four-year-olds outsmart hunters and protect their clan. Just days after a poacher’s snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene.
→ read full articleIndia Firm to Launch ‘World’s Cheapest’ Smartphone
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – Ringing Bells said their Freedom 251 phone would be priced under 500 rupees (€6.57; £5; $7.3), but Indian media reports said it would cost just 251 rupees (€3.29; $3.67; £2.56). India is the world’s second-largest mobile market and has one billion mobile phone subscribers.
→ read full articleRestructuring Rather Than Dividing Syria
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – The Arab Daily News,
15 Feb 2016
8 Feb 2016 – Syrians are no longer in charge of their future; outsiders seem to be. The threat to divide Syria, as a solution, is tempting but fatal. Syria ought to be restructured and “reinvented” to allow healing and gradual reunification.
→ read full article7 Years in Greece – 16 Years of Crisis
André Maia, EmbassyNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Having experienced the crisis twice, I think the Greeks are really brave. I admire them and I want to continue living in Greece. This country gave me space to create, to develop my artistic soul and I´m truly thankful for that. I feel at home!
→ read full articleMorgan Stanley to Pay $3.2 Billion over Contributors to ’08 Crisis
Michael Virtanen, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
15 Feb 2016
Morgan Stanley will pay $3.2 billion in a settlement over bank practices that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, including misrepresentations about the value of mortgage-backed securities, authorities announced Thursday [11 Feb 2016].
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A Conversation with Mother Agnes Mariam
UK Column News Special – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
Jan 26, 2016 – Mike Robinson speaks to Mother Agnes Mariam about the situation in Syria, the media coverage of it and both the political peace process and her own Reconciliation Initiative.
→ read full articleWall Street Worldview: Why Are People Upset?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Feb 2016
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the discontent felt by other Americans these days. He is a bland-looking, somewhat paunchy, not unattractive, balding man of benign demeanor. He’s worth $12 billion, give or take a few hundred million, and a poster boy for Wall Street success and self-esteem and cluelessness.
→ read full article(Castellano) Bachelet crea Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas en Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – La Presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, firmó hoy en el Palacio de La Moneda las leyes que crean el Ministerio de Pueblos Indígenas, el Consejo Nacional y los Consejos de Pueblos Indígenas.
→ read full articlePresident Creates Ministry of Indigenous People in Chile
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
15 Jan 2016 – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signed today at La Moneda Palace the laws that create the Ministry of Indigenous People, the National Council and the Indigenous People”s Councils.
→ read full articleHow Kenya Confirmed the Deathbed of WTO
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
25 Jan 2016
The outcome of the meeting, the so-called Nairobi Package, was a slap in the face for the peoples of the South. It was especially egregious that the US used the 10th Ministerial, with the help of the Kenyan leadership, to undermine the future of Pan-African trading relations and to drive a wedge between the BRICS societies and those that the US wants to manipulate in the poor countries. The 10th Ministerial has hastened the demise of the WTO.
→ read full articleArrested
Copley News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What are the charges?
→ read full articleRingling Circus Elephants to Retire in May
Tamara Lush, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
18 Jan 2016
12 January 16 – The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of circus elephant acts with local governments passing “anti-circus” and “anti-elephant” ordinances in response to concerns over animal cruelty.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia a Force for Stability? Dream On!
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Jan 2016
The Saudi mass beheadings on January 2 proved nothing new to a world that well knows Saudi Arabia is still a tribal police state with a moral code of medieval barbarity. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni-Muslim country that executes people for witchcraft, adultery, apostasy, and homosexuality (among other things).
→ read full articlePoor 2016, So Many Handicaps
Roberto Savio – Other News,
4 Jan 2016
December 31, 2015 – At this time, we all wish “a very good year”. While the wish is always a positive thing, we should also realize that we cannot expect too much from the new born year. He is loaded by so many handicaps, that we should have lots of sympathy for him… Here is a list of the major handicaps for 2016, which is of course a personal view: but supported by many data.
→ read full article‘No-Grow Zone:’ Israel Admits to Spraying Poisons Inside Gaza Strip
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
The Israeli Army has admitted that they used crop-dusters to kill hundreds of acres of Palestinian crops, claiming that it was to “enable security operations.”
→ read full articleSlaughter through a Stethoscope
Dennis J. Bernstein - Reader Supported News,
28 Dec 2015
Dr. Mads Gilbert, a self-described “political doctor” and practitioner of “solidarity medicine,” started to keep a journal of his experiences as an emergency room doctor during the last two massive Israeli attacks on the tiny Gaza Strip. He is the only Western medical doctor who worked clinically in Gaza’s hospitals during the last four Israeli attacks on Gaza (2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014).
→ read full articleLarge Pod of Bottlenose Dolphins Endures Brutal Capture and Slaughter in Taiji’s Infamous Cove
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
A large pod of approximately 85-90 bottlenose dolphins driven into Taiji, Japan’s infamous cove on Sunday, Dec. 20 was forced to endure brutal captive selection and slaughter that claimed the freedom of 30 dolphins and the lives of 28-30 others.
→ read full articleAwakening an American Society and the Global Community
Clive Hambidge – Media with Conscience News,
28 Dec 2015
The celebrated physicist Fritjof Capra explains why this is a fact in nature, “Evolution is not just adaptation to environment … but rather an organism and its environment evolv[ing] together. Likewise, in music, the essence of the musical chord lies in relationship. Even subatomic particles are not discrete and separate.”
→ read full article(Deutsch) Das Weihnachtswunder von 1914
MMNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Deutsche und britische Soldaten legten zu Heiligabend 1914 die Waffen nieder und feierten an der Front ein spontanes Friedensfest. Das als “Christmas Truce” (“Weihnachtsfrieden”) in die Geschichte eingegangene Ereignis zeigt die Sinnlosigkeit von Kriegen.
→ read full articleEndless War Crimes in Yemen Slowed by Ceasefire
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Has a Fascist Whiff of Franco’s Spain Circa 1936 – The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense.
→ read full articleFrom Taiji to Tanks: The Barren Life of Captive Dolphins
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
16 Dec 2015 – The slaughter of dolphins and small whales that takes place in Taiji, Japan’s infamous cove is a horrific and inhumane massacre of highly intelligent and socially complex cetaceans. It is sad to say, though, that as they are taken from their ocean home to be sold for captivity, an even worse fate is soon to come, because their suffering is just beginning.
→ read full articleAsian Scholars Crafting a Non-Adversarial Approach to Journalism
Kalinga Seneviratne - InDepthNews,
21 Dec 2015
19 Dec 2015 – While a ‘Mindful Communication’ fad is currently sweeping across the United States, a group of Asian scholars and media practitioners gathered to examine how this traditional Asian way of communication could be adopted to train 21st century journalists to create a media that would promote harmony rather than conflict.
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Empire Files
Abby Martin, TheRealNews - TeleSur,
21 Dec 2015
Abby Martin debuts teleSUR’s The Empire Files exploring the U.S. Empire and its rise to world hegemony.
→ read full articleStudy Unveils How Big Philanthropy Shapes Development Agenda
Rodney Reynolds - IDN-InDepthNews,
21 Dec 2015
“They have become influential actors in international policy debates, including, most importantly, how to address poverty eradication, sustainable development, climate change and the protection of human rights. The scope of their influence in both past and present discourse and decision-making processes is fully equal to and in some cases goes beyond that of other private actors.”
→ read full articleUN Issues Record Aid Appeal amid Unprecedented ‘Human Suffering’
Deutsche Welle – Daily News Egypt,
14 Dec 2015
A growing number of conflicts and natural disasters are spreading misery across the globe, affecting some 125 million people, the UN said on Monday [7 Dec], as it requested a record amount of aid from donor governments.
→ read full articleObama, like Bush, Just Makes It All Worse
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
14 Dec 2015
Fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and secrecy all conspire to defeat confidence, calm, proportionality, and reason. Leadership and populace alike embrace a zeitgeist of agitation and over-simplification, lashing out in one-dimensional military responses to misperceived threats that are not even fundamentally military. Anti-terrorism, as practiced by the US, is an oxymoron.
→ read full articleImpeachment against Rousseff Might Be a Matter of Personal Vengeance
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
Impeachment proceedings against Brazil’s President launched by speaker of the lower house Eduardo Cunha is a matter of his personal vengeance, Deputy Leader of the Workers Party in the Brazilian parliament Margarida Salomao told Sputnik Thursday [3 Dec 2015].
→ read full articleFake Ads Mocking Corporate Sponsors of the COP21 Climate Talks Pop Up in Paris
Lauren O'Neil - Radio Canada CBC News,
7 Dec 2015
‘Brandalism’ group covers Paris in satirical outdoor ads for the climate summit’s corporate sponsors.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Warns Japan against Resuming Whaling
AFP – Yahoo! News,
30 Nov 2015
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd warned Japan on Sunday [29 Nov 2015] against resuming “research” whaling in the Antarctic. After a decade of harassment by Sea Shepherd, Japan was forced to abandon its 2014-15 hunt after the International Court of Justice said it was a commercial activity masquerading as research.
→ read full articleTurkish Intelligence Chief: ISIS Is a Reality and We Must Stop Putin from Crushing the Islamic Revolution
AWD News – Fort Russ,
30 Nov 2015
“ISIS is a reality and we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular establishment such as the Islamic State; therefore I urge my western colleagues to revise their mindset about Islamic political currents, put aside their cynical mentalité and thwart Vladimir Putin’s plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries,” – Anadolu News Agency quoted Mr. Fidan as saying on Sunday [22 Nov].
→ read full articleEscalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Viet-Nam War
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Nov 2015
Too much truth has not been the traditional path to the White House. But too little truth, as we have seen too often, makes the achievement bitter and pointless. The problem is to put peace on the table in a way that is hard to oppose without seeming to be a monster. And there is an easy approach.
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