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UN 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
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→ 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.
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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?
→ read full articleHow US Flooded the World’s Media with Psyops
Robert Parry - Consortium News,
3 Apr 2017
25 Mar 2017 – Newly declassified documents from the Reagan presidential library help explain how the U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens, a structure that expanded U.S. influence abroad and quieted dissent at home.
→ read full articleThe True Legacy of David Rockefeller
MintPress News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
No one person encapsulates the enduring legacy of the “robber barons” of the Industrial Age quite like David Rockefeller, who died today [21 Mar] at the age of 101. While often remembered for his philanthropy, the last surviving grandson of America’s first billionaire leaves behind a dark legacy indicative of how American nobility often shape policy from behind the scenes.
→ read full articleMainstreaming South-South Cooperation in the UN System
Ramesh Jaura | IDN – Other News,
27 Mar 2017
23 Mar 2017 – How is the UN Office for South Cooperation, as the global and United Nations system-wide focal point for South-South cooperation, engaging in advocacy, policy development, knowledge sharing and innovative programmatic activities? Interview with Jorge Chediek, Director of the UNOSSC.
→ read full articleDaesh, Creature of the West
Pepe Escobar - Sputnik News International,
27 Mar 2017
James Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Emerging Threats at NATO – now that’s a lovely title – recently gave a talk at a private club in London on the Islamic State/Daesh. Shea, as many will remember, made his name as NATO’s spokesman during the NATO war on Yugoslavia in 1999. In the end, Shea frankly admitted that Gen David Petraeus, conductor of the much-lauded 2007 surge, had trained these Sunnis now part of Daesh in Anbar province in Iraq.
→ read full articleBeing Anti-Russia Will Take the West Nowhere
Jonathan Power – Other News,
20 Mar 2017
The truth is the West would be enjoying the same benign relationship with Russia if under presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US hadn’t, step by step, put Russia under the hammer by expanding NATO and breaking its solemn promise not to. (Neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush, who understood Russia, saw fit to expand NATO. Richard Nixon, a Russophile, would never have.)
→ read full articleThe ‘Birth Pangs’ of a New Middle East, Remixed
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
20 Mar 2017
You all remember former US Secretary of State Condi Rice’s notorious 2006 prediction about “birth pangs of a New Middle East.” True to the George “Dubya” Bush/Cheney regime, Condi got it all spectacularly wrong. By now it’s much clearer who’s configuring the birth pagans of a new Middle East. It’s not Israel. It’s not the House of Saud. And it’s not exactly Trump.
→ read full articleIsrael Closes Palestinian Map Bureau, Arrests Head
AFP – Yahoo! News,
20 Mar 2017
Israeli police on Tuesday [14 Mar 2017] closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services. The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said.
→ read full articleIndia, Brazil, Germany and Japan Open to Forgo Veto for Now if Granted UNSC Membership
Ajay Ghosh – The Universal News Network,
20 Mar 2017
In a joint statement delivered by India’s Representative to the UN on March 8, the G4 nations emphasized that an overwhelming majority of the UN member states supports the expansion of both permanent and non-permanent membership in a reformed UN Security Council.
→ read full articleAustralia: Great Barrier Reef Survival Relies on Halting Warming, Study Warns
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2017
16 Mar 2017 – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can be saved only if urgent steps are taken to reduce global warming, new research has warned. Attempting to stop coral bleaching through any other method will not be sufficient, according to scientists.
→ read full articleBulgarian Vigilantes Patrol Turkey Border to Keep Migrants Out
Mac William Bishop – NBC News,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 — Figures in camouflage and ski masks gather at a fishing lodge. Many are armed with long knives, bayonets and hatchets. The 35 men and women are on the hunt in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Migrants trying to cross into Europe are their prey.
→ read full articleMyanmar Muslim Minority Subject to Horrific Torture, UN Says
Jonah Fisher - BBC News,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 – A top UN official says “crimes against humanity” are being committed by the military and police against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleChina’s Strategy in Its ‘War on Terror’: Jobs Not Drones
Caleb T. Maupin – MintPress News,
6 Mar 2017
The Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.
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US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Meets with Syrian President Assad
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
Jan 27, 2017 Tucker Carlson, Fox News – “First, I want to make a correction to your intro. I am not a defender of Assad.”
→ read full articleTulsi Gabbard vs. ‘Regime Change’ Wars
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
27 Feb 2017
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is a rare member of Congress willing to take heat for challenging U.S. “regime change” projects, in part, because as an Iraq War vet she saw the damage these schemes do.
→ read full articleEurasia Integration: A Three-Speed Affair
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
27 Feb 2017
Europe, relatively integrated, lives today in a de facto two-speed reality. Eurasia integration, a work in progress and with vastly more reach, is for the moment a three-speed process, as seen through the positioning of three Central Asian “stans”.
→ read full articleThe Cancer of War: U.S. Admits to Using Radioactive Munitions in Syria
Anti-Media News Desk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
18 Feb 2017 – The innocent citizens of Syria will be forced to endure increased risks of cancer, birth defects, and other disease related to exposure to radioactive materials. Depleted uranium has a half-life in the hundreds of millions of years. Damage to Syrian territory will thus continue long after anyone involved in current hostilities is dead.
→ read full articleMystery Messages Engraved into Scotland’s Rocks up to 5,000 Years Ago Might Soon Be Unveiled Using 3D Scans
The Vintage News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Recently, a new project has launched an attempt to finally solve the mysteries of prehistoric stone carvings. Using 3D scanning to record and examine more than 2,000 carvings around the country, specialists are creating a new digital database of the mysterious etchings.
→ read full articleFukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
20 Feb 2017
After a week of limited coverage of “unimaginable levels” of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima, Nuclear-News.net reported Feb 11, 2017 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than “unimaginable.”
→ read full articleLord Rothschild Discusses Cousin’s Crucial Role in ‘Miracle’ Balfour Declaration
Stephen Oryszczuk – Jewish News,
13 Feb 2017
8 Feb 2017 – The current and fourth Lord Rothschild has described the Balfour Declaration that helped pave the way for the creation of Israel as a “miracle” and revealed new details about his cousin Dorothea’s crucial role.
→ read full articleManaging National Borders ‘Cannot Be Based on Any Form of Discrimination’ – UN Chief Guterres
UN News Centre | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are entitled to protection, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on 31 Jan 2017, expressing concern at decisions around the world that have undermined the integrity of the international refugee protection regime.
→ read full articleMyanmar Army Killed and Raped in Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing: UN
Reuters – Channel News Asia,
6 Feb 2017
Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October in a campaign that probably amounts to crimes against humanity and possibly “ethnic cleansing”, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday [3 Feb].
→ read full articleUN Report Details ‘Devastating Cruelty’ Against Rohingya Population in Myanmar’s Rakhine Province
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
3 Feb 2017 – In a report issued today, the United Nations human rights arm said that the widespread human rights violations against the Rohingya population by Myanmar’s security forces in the country’s northern Rakhine state indicate the very likely commission of crimes against humanity.
→ read full article(Português) Obituário: Mário Soares 1924 – 2017
Eleutério Guevane - ONU News,
9 Jan 2017
A ONU News apresenta momentos da vida do político e ativista pela independência que também advogou pela unidade entre países de língua portuguesa; ex-presidente de Portugal liderou painel de figuras de mais alto nível nas Nações Unidas.
→ read full articleWhy U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan May Now Be Riskier for Civilians
Abigail Fielding-Smith and Ruhullah Khapalwak - Newsweek,
9 Jan 2017
With few troops on the ground to provide intel, American airstrikes in the country are now dependent on local partners and the notoriously limited insights of drones. The number of US troops in Afghanistan has declined, but the drone strikes haven’t. And they’re continuing to kill civilians.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Settlements Are Illegal, Violation of International Law: Security Council [Full Text of Resolution 2334]
UN News & Media Resources – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
23 Dec 2016 – The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law. 14 Delegations in Favour of Resolution 2334 (2016) as United States Abstains.
→ read full articleUS Criminal Hypocrisy at Work in Syria and Yemen
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
26 Dec 2016
On December 13, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power offered up yet another stark exercise in imperial deceit, shedding crocodile tears for those suffering in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, while continuing her strategically amoral silence about much greater suffering in the country of Yemen. The basis for this unconscionable choice is simple. Russia, Syria, and Iran are attacking Aleppo.
→ read full articleMyanmar Must Strengthen Effort to Diffuse Tension in Northern Rakhine State – UN Special Adviser
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2016
The UN said that authorities need to take proactive measures to protect the local civilian population and allow humanitarian access to the areas of conflict. This call follows last month’s visit by nine local ambassadors, the UN Resident and various UN agencies who voiced their concerns after a trip to the Rakhine state.
→ read full articleCircle of Poison
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
A look at the powerful pesticide industry, its effect on the developing world and how small farmers are fighting back.
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The Alzheimer’s Laboratory
CBS News | 60 Minutes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2016
27 Nov 2016 – Colombia is home to the largest concentration of people in the world who carry a rare gene that makes them 100 percent certain to develop Alzheimer’s disease. It strikes when people are in their mid-40s and leads to demise a few decades later–generations on end.
→ read full articleDakota Pipeline: Protesters Soaked with Water in Freezing Temperatures
Tim Stelloh, Molly Roecker, Chiara Sottile and Daniel A. Medina – ABC News,
28 Nov 2016
21 Nov 2016 – Tear gas, freezing cold water and rubber bullets were used to disperse a crowd of 400 protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline in clashes late Sunday [20 Nov] and early Monday that left more than 150 activists and one law enforcement officer injured.
→ read full articleProtests in Asian Capitals over Violence against Rohingya
Channel News Asia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2016
Angry protesters took to the streets in cities from Jakarta to Dhaka on Friday (Nov 25, 2016) to denounce Myanmar over allegations of indiscriminate killing and rape in a military crackdown on the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.
→ read full articleNYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
28 Nov 2016
In its lead editorial on Sunday [20 Nov 2016], The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.” But the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.”
→ read full articlePolice Departments Refuse Participation in Dakota Access Pipeline Crackdown
Isiah Holmes – MintPress News,
14 Nov 2016
8 Nov 2016 — In addition to the general retreat of departments, two officers have already turned in their badges in support of the protesters. As if that wasn’t enough, an army of sympathizers is re-purposing social media to combat police efforts in Standing Rock.
→ read full articleObama Is Pathetic on Human Rights in North Dakota
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
7 Nov 2016
For someone supposedly monitoring this closely, the President might be expected to know that people have already been hurt and most if not all of those hurt were nonviolent, peaceful protestors set upon by dogs and assaulted by rubber bullets, sound cannons, and chemical weapons. What fundamental, callous irrationality prompts this president to bring in Black Lives Matter? That is strange beyond comprehension.
→ read full articleMassive North Dakota Oil Leak Proves Native American Protesters Right for Fighting Illegal DAPL Pipeline
Jeremiah Jones – Counter Current News,
7 Nov 2016
Are you still wondering why So many people support the #NoDAPL protectors? This spill is part of the reason. A North Dakota oil well owned by Oasis Petroleum Inc blew out over the [30 Oct] weekend and has yet to be capped, leaking more than 67,000 gallons of crude so far and endangering a tributary of the Missouri River. The well is about 15 miles south of White Earth, North Dakota, in Mountrail County.
→ read full articlePalestinian 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.
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