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From Taiji to Tanks: Dolphin Captures Show Captive Industry’s Link to Slaughter
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
12 Nov 2015 – On November 10 (Japan time), the captive industry’s inextricable link to the slaughter of dolphins and small whales in the infamous cove was on full display once again in Taiji, Japan.
→ read full articleBritish Research Institute Report Says Rohingya Face Genocide Comparable to Nazi Era
Lucy Westcott - Newsweek,
2 Nov 2015
29 Oct 2015 – Updated | Myanmar’s Rohingya minority population is in “the final stages of a genocidal process” comparable to that in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and Rwanda in the 1990s, and attacks against them are planned at the highest levels of government, according to a new report from a British research institute.
→ read full articleFrench Government Aligns with Russia’s War against ISIS
Paul Craig Roberts – German Economic News,
12 Oct 2015
11 Oct 2015 – The French will support Russia’s fight against terrorists in Syria. U.S. President Obama will be kept informed about developments as a permanent information exchange concerning the progress of the raids has been established. Israel is being informed as well and cooperates with the Russians on an informal basis.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton’s ‘Wicked’ Syrian Choice
Rick Sterling – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton bought into the neocon/liberal-hawk agenda that spread the chaos of Iraq across Libya, Syria and now into Europe. How Clinton approached those challenges suggests that she would head down the same “regime change” path as President.
→ read full articleThe Power of False Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
28 Sep 2015 – In this age of pervasive media, the primary method of social control is through the creation of narratives delivered to the public through newspapers, TV, radio, computers, cell phones and any other gadget that can convey information. This reality has given rise to an obsession among the power elite to control as much of this messaging as possible.
→ read full articleIceland’s Capital Bans All Israeli Products
Itamar Eichner – Ynet News,
21 Sep 2015
Reykjavik has passed a resolution boycotting Israeli-made goods, in protest of Israel’s ‘racist apartheid policy’ towards the Palestinians.
→ read full articleHawai’i: 5 Million Gallon Oil Plume beneath Pearl Harbor
Rick Daysog – Hawaii News Now,
21 Sep 2015
18 Sep 2015 – For decades, leaks from Pearl Harbor’s fuel tanks and other sources have been collecting beneath the ground. Five Million Gallons are roughly half of Alaska’s Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. “This is the most egregious, the most harmful environmental issue there is,” said environmental activist Carroll Cox.
→ read full articleHow Neocons Destabilized Europe
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
14 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change.
→ read full articlePrintable Solar Panels, Developed by CSIRO and Melbourne Universities, One Step Closer to Market
Emily Stewart – ABC News Australia,
14 Sep 2015
Australian solar power scientists are one step closer to making available a cheaper and faster way to print solar cells onto plastic.
→ read full articleGaza Could Become Uninhabitable in Less Than Five Years Due to Ongoing ‘De-Development’– UN Report
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
1 Sep 2015 – A new report by UNCTAD warns that the Gaza Strip could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 if current economic trends persist. In addition to eight years of economic blockade, over the past six years, Gaza has endured three military operations that have shattered its ability to export and produce for the domestic market, ravaged its already debilitated infrastructure, and left no time for reconstruction and economic recovery.
→ read full articleUS/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War
Don North – Consortium News,
7 Sep 2015
2 Sep 2015 – The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.
→ read full articleAbsence of Meat Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
Julieanna Hever – US News & World Report,
7 Sep 2015
2 Sep 2015 – A recent study found that consuming plant-based foods such as beans, nuts, whole grains, fruits and vegetables is associated with a sharply reduced risk of stroke and heart attack.
→ read full articleU.S. & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Aug 2015
30 Aug 2015 – Is There Anyone Who Believes That Yemeni Lives Matter? Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen, the poorest country in the region, has been catastrophic for Yemen, which is all-but-defenseless. Backed by eight other Arab dictatorships and the US, they have committed uncounted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleAssange: What WikiLeaks Teaches Us about How the U.S. Operates
Julian Assange - Newsweek,
31 Aug 2015
28 Aug 2015 – In an introduction to a new book, The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to U.S. Empire (Verso, 2015), WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange explains how the leaked U.S. documents have lifted the veil on the imperialist nature of American foreign policy.
→ read full articleUS Urges ‛Genuine Democracy’ in Cuba
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Secretary Kettle said that Cubans were misled into thinking their system was democratic just because they elected the people who run their government. This was not real democracy, because corporations were not allowed to vote. A problem in Cuba is that there aren’t many privately owned corporations, so it will be difficult to bring Cuban elections up to US standards.
→ read full articleAnonymous Hacks Israeli Government, Officials Blame Hamas, So They Hack Again to Prove It Was Them
Zeidy David – Counter Current News,
24 Aug 2015
August 16, 2015 – This past week we reported on a new wave of #OpIsrael attacks by Anonymous on the State of Israel. A new attack, being termed #OpBurnedAlive was reported on in an article entitled Anonymous Hacks Israel After Police Release Terrorist Who Murdered Toddler
→ read full articleHere’s What Actually Gets Terrorists to Tell the Truth — And It’s Not Torture
Peter Aldhous, BuzzFeed News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
Over the past five years, psychological research — some involving real terrorist suspects — has shown how to get information from people who don’t want to talk. Now Washington has the chance to put these findings into practice.
→ read full articleOccupy Greece: Germany Wins Bid to Run Regional Airports
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The sale is on but the money isn’t in the bank yet. While Greece waits for European Parliaments to approve the country’s bailout package, German airport operator FRAPORT has won the bid to takeover and run 14 Greek regional airports in the first (of many) privatization deals done by the Syriza government.
→ read full articleUnspoken Death Toll of Fukushima: Nuclear Disaster Killing Japanese Slowly
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
20 Aug 2015 – The Japanese government is still in denial and refuses to recognize the disastrous consequences of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, London-based independent consultant on radioactivity Dr. Ian Fairlie states, adding that while thousands of victims have already died, thousands more will soon pass away.
→ read full articleAfter the Bailout: The Spoils of Greece Are Bound for Germany
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The ‘Asset Development Plan’ for Greece is out and it’s all go for the privatization of the country. Hellenic seaports, airports, motorways, petroleum companies, water and gas supply, real estate, holiday resorts – it’s all for sale.
→ read full articleEurasian Counter Gambit: Sino-Russian Alliance ‘Acting as Magnet for World’
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
22 Aug 2015 – While US interventionists continue to promote a collection of policies that have repeatedly failed, China and Russia are acting as a magnet for forces of “the rest” aiming to build an entirely new economic infrastructure, US experts Dimitri K. Simes and Richard Burt note.
→ read full articleIs the Pacific Ocean Japan’s Private Dumpyard?
Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
The most important part of the Tepco Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning plan is to be able to dump as much contaminated water as possible into the Pacific Ocean. Tepco has been doing that all along, but in a sneaky manner. With the now obtained approval of the Fukushima Prefectural Federation, Tepco will be able to do it in the open.
→ read full articleUS Torturers Lose Psychologists’ Corrupt Cooperation
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
17 Aug 2015
American Psychological Association Acts to Heal Itself – American psychologists have voted overwhelmingly against helping their government torture people. In an even more radical step, the psychologists voted to obey international law, even in instances where US law tolerates war crimes or crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of the 500-Million-Year Old Dorchester Pot
Mïmi Benzaid, Zon News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
You would not expect to find a mobile phone during the Victorian Era, right? Because during that time, the technology to make mobile phones was non-existent – so this is in essence what oopart is all about. Accepting the logic that the Pot came from inside a rock 500 million years old, it stands to reason that the Dorchester Pot itself is at least 500 million years old.
→ read full articleSea Shepherd Found Guilty by Danish Court of Defending Pilot Whales
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Yesterday [6 Aug 2015] five Sea Shepherd volunteer crewmembers were found guilty in a Danish court of breaking the Faroe Islands Pilot Whaling Act for the “crime” of interfering in the slaughter of over 250 pilot whales on the killing beaches of Bøur and Tórshavn on July 23.
→ read full articleThe Greek Bailout Paves the Way for the United States of Europe
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Mint Press News,
10 Aug 2015
Illusions are at play in the modern tragedy that is the Greek economic system, particularly when it comes to notions of who benefits most from the latest bailout. The Greek bailout is for Germany and Western Europe, not Greeks.
→ read full articleWorld Welcomes US Border Walls
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
T. Ronald Dump, one of 68 (and counting) contestants for the Republican presidential nomination, proposed a wall only for the border between the US and Mexico. But, as 67 other Republican contenders quickly argued, it would be relatively easy for Mexican rapists and drug dealers to travel to Canada and then invade the US across the northern border, so a northern wall was needed also.
→ read full articleVideo Graphic Footage Shows Mass Slaughter of Pilot Whales in the Faroe Islands
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
• All five Sea Shepherd crewmembers who were detained overnight have been arrested.
• Approx. 250 pilot whales were killed yesterday. *111 killed at Bøur *130-150 killed at Tórshavn.
Needed: Political Will . . .
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A solution to the problem of global warming is not a technical problem, but rather a political problem. The means are available. The Earth Policy Institute published “Seven Surprising Realities behind the Great Transition to Renewable Energy” showing that the global transition to clean, renewable energy and away from nuclear and fossils is well under way. Their “seven surprising realities:”
→ read full articleNGO Open letter to Member States of the General Assembly on the Selection Process of the UN Secretary-General
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The selection of the new Secretary-General in 2016 will be one of the most important decisions the General Assembly will make in the next ten years. The new Secretary-General will have to address a world confronted with increasingly dangerous civil wars, humanitarian and environmental disasters, terrorism, regressive development, economic and financial turmoil, and inequality.
→ read full articleProtecting Schools 80 Years after Roerich
Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch – Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
The Declaration is a political commitment to do more to protect students, teachers, schools and universities from attack and from military use during times of armed conflict. It calls upon armed forces to refrain from converting schools or universities into military bases, barracks, defensive positions, detention centers, and weapons caches, as well as from harassment, rape, and forced recruitment by the soldiers inside the school.
→ read full articleBolivia: Mediators Are Formed In Culture of Peace
Henry A. Aira Gutiérrez, Correo del Sur - Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
July 22, 2015 – Culture of peace and conflict resolution are new phrases that Bolivians can use to avoid going to court. With the implementation of the new moral codes as of August 6, it is also the expression of the mediators, whose job is to reduce the caseload in the courts for civil and commercial matters.
→ read full articleTutu: The Slow Genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar (Burma)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Newsweek,
27 Jul 2015
I would be more inclined to heed the warnings of eminent scholars and researchers including Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate in economics, who say this is a deliberately false narrative to camouflage the slow genocide being committed against the Rohingya people. There’s evidence, they say, that anti-Rohingya sentiment has been carefully cultivated by the government itself.
→ read full articleIran Calls for Universal Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Sputnik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 Jul 2015 – Nuclear weapons should be completely eliminated worldwide as they are “detrimental to international peace and security,” the Iranian government said in a statement following a passage of the Security Council resolution endorsing the Iran nuclear deal.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Mess That Nuland Made
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jul 2015
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it’s hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made.
→ read full articleTwo Sea Shepherd Crewmembers Arrested in the Faroe Islands with Assistance of Danish Navy
Sea Shepherd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
20 Jul 2015 – Two volunteer crewmembers from the Sea Shepherd ship, Sam Simon, have been arrested in the Faroe Islands. “I made multiple request of the Danish Navy today for information; about whether a grindadráp had been called; about whether our crew had been arrested; and about whether the Farley small boat had been confiscated. Each time, my requests went unanswered.”
→ read full articleThe Universality and the Variety of Suffering
Chaitanya Charan Das - ISKCON News,
20 Jul 2015
Everyone has to grow old, get diseased and die. Before that, everyone has to undergo the three types of miseries: environmental, relational and physical. The ways in which the wealthy suffer may be different from the ways in which the not-so-wealthy suffer, but that variety doesn’t change the reality that everyone suffers.
→ read full articleWho Is to Blame for Greek Crisis? Goldman Sachs Takes Heat
Sputinik News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Goldman Sachs Banker, who got $12 million for getting Greece into the Eurozone by falsely extolling its financial capacity, could now see a lawsuit.
→ read full articleYemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jul 2015
If any of the umpteen candidates for president of the United States has said anything humane, useful, or even dimly relevant about Yemen, it is hard to find (and I have found nothing). And nowhere have I found any call to establish the appropriate International War Crimes Tribunal to judge the illegality of the multiple, heinous predations of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their sundry allies, all members in good standing of the world peacekeeping authority.
→ read full articleGhost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools: The Failure of US-Funded Schools in Afghanistan
Azmat Khan, BuzzFeed News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
9 Jul 2015 – The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student.
→ read full article(Castellano) Colombia: La Cátedra de la Paz
Ernesto Amézquita en Cronica del Quindio – Culture of Peace News Network,
6 Jul 2015
28 jun 2015 – En desarrollo de la ley 1732 del 2014, el gobierno nacional acaba de dictar el decreto “por el cual se reglamente la cátedra de la Paz en todas las Instituciones educativas del País. Para responder al mandato constitucional consagrado en los arts. 22 y 41 de la Constitución Nacional, el carácter de la cátedra de la Paz, será obligatorio”.
→ read full articleColombia: Teaching Peace
Ernesto Amézquita en Cronica del Quindio – Culture of Peace News Network,
6 Jul 2015
28 Jun 2015 – According to law 1732, adopted in 2014, the national government has to issue a decree “by which the teaching of Peace is regulated in all educational institutions of the country”. Article number 2: “to meet the constitutional mandate enshrined in the articles 22 and 41 of the Constitution, the teaching of Peace is compulsory.”
→ read full articleGermany’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plant Goes Offline
Associated Press – US News & World Report,
29 Jun 2015
28 Jun 2015 — Germany’s oldest remaining nuclear reactor has been shut down, part of a move initiated four years ago to switch off all its nuclear plants by the end of 2022.
→ read full articleForeign Investment in Israel Drops by 50%
Jack Moore – Newsweek,
29 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015 – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Israel dropped by almost 50% last year in comparison to the year before as the country continues to feel the effects of last summer’s Gaza conflict, a new UN report has revealed.
→ read full articleGoogle Chrome Listening in to Your Room Shows the Importance of Privacy Defense in Depth
Rick Falkvinge, Privacy Online News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
Nobody is to be trusted with a technical capability to listen to every room in the world, with listening profiles customizable at the identified-individual level, on the mere basis of “trust us”.
→ read full articleNYT’s Orwellian View of Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
29 Jun 2015
In the up-is-down Orwellian world that is now The New York Times’ editorial page, there was no coup in Ukraine in 2014, no U.S.-driven “regime change,” no provocation on Russia’s border, just Moscow’s aggression — a sign of how propaganda has taken over mainstream U.S. media.
→ read full articleIsrael Blocks Visit of UN Human Rights Envoy
AFP, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
Israel has blocked a visit to the Palestinian territories by a UN rights envoy, an official said Monday [15 Jun 2015], just ahead of the publication of a United Nations report on last year’s Gaza war.
→ read full articleWhite Phosphorous War Crimes Connect Israel to Monsanto
Kit O'Connell – MintPress News,
22 Jun 2015
16 Jun 2015 — Monsanto Corporation, the agribusiness giant best known for its pesticides and genetically-modified crops, also manufactured white phosphorous for the U.S. government over at least the past 20 years. Used in incendiary military weapons, the United States sold white phosphorous-based weapons to Israel, which used those weapons to commit brutal war crimes against Palestinians living in Gaza in 2009.
→ read full articleWhat You Should Know about the MERS Outbreak
Maggie Fox – NBC News,
15 Jun 2015
What Is MERS? And Other Questions about the Outbreak
→ read full articleU.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Jun 2015
The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people – that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleAnimals Get Legal Recognition as ‘Sentient’ Beings in New Zealand
Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
8 Jun 2015- New legislation in New Zealand dictates that animals can feel both positive and negative emotions, and takes steps to improve animal welfare in research.
→ read full articleNo Progress on Nuclear Weapons Control – As Planned
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Jun 2015
US Leadership Vetoes Steps toward Nuclear Weapons-Free World
→ read full articleWind Energy vs. Fossil Fuels: Hurdles and Hopes for a Renewable Future
Michael Walsh, Yahoo! News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
5 Jun 2015 – The colossal oil spill in Southern California last month spurred many to wonder why we have not abandoned fossil fuels for wind and other sources of renewable energy. The fossil fuel industry receives billions in taxpayer subsidies as the wind industry fights to take flight.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Jonathan Latham – Independent Science News,
25 May 2015
For Monsanto and GMOs the situation suddenly looks ominous. Chipotle may well represent the beginnings of a market swing of historic proportions. GMOs may be relegated to cattle-feed status, or even oblivion, in the USA. And if GMOs fail in the US, they are likely to fail elsewhere.
→ read full articleNuclear Proliferation Is Still the Greatest Threat We Face
Valerie Plame Wilson - Reader Supported News,
18 May 2015
Twenty-six years after the end of the Cold War, the world still has more than 15,000 nuclear weapons. Whatever other issues people care about — poverty, the environment, inequality and so many others — if we don’t get this one right, and soon, nothing else will matter. We are at a crossroads on this issue and the decisions we make over the next 10 years will set us on a course either toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons or toward expanding arsenals and proliferation.
→ read full articleWhy the Media Ignores Jeremy Hammond While Praising Edward Snowden
Kit O'Connell – Mint Press News,
18 May 2015
Jeremy Hammond’s hack of Stratfor, a corporate intelligence agency, created global solidarity by revealing how the 1% targets activists worldwide.
→ read full articleThe Origins of That Eisenhower ‘Every Gun That Is Made…’ Quote
Robert Schlesinger – US News & World Report,
18 May 2015
The quote currently making the rounds on Facebook is genuine Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone… “
→ read full articleChanges to the List of States Supporting Terrorism
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
Dear Mr. President, as you will be aware, your decision to remove Cuba from the List of States Supporting Terrorism leaves a depleted List, consisting of only three countries: Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
→ read full articleLatin America in Perspective: Between Successes and New Challenges
Raffaele Morgantini and Tarik Bouafia – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
Movements against governmental fiscal austerity, are they part of the global movement for a culture of peace? Austerity cures imposed on some countries in the region by the IMF and the WB have been abandoned in favor of stimulus policies where the state has taken up a key role in managing the economy.
→ read full articleClosing of the World Social Forum: Citizens of the World versus Terrorism and Oppression
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
6 Apr 2015 – The 13th edition of the World Social Forum 2015, which took place over four days in the Tunisian capital, completed its work under the slogan of “all-out solidarity with all oppressed peoples.”
→ read full articleThose Damned Migrants [Refugees]: Blame It All on Them!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
4 May 2015
“It is sickening to see thousands of refugees drowning on the doorstep of the world’s wealthiest continent,” declared actress Angelina Jolie, the UN’s Special Envoy for Refugees. “No one risks the lives of their children in this way except out of utter desperation.”
→ read full articleThe Day after Damascus Falls
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
4 May 2015
The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic.
→ read full articleThe Pentagon’s ‘Long War’ Pits NATO against China, Russia and Iran
Pepe Escobar – Sputinik News,
4 May 2015
Whatever happens with the nuclear negotiations this summer, and as much as Tehran wants cooperation and not confrontation, Iran is bound to remain — alongside Russia — a key US geostrategic target.
→ read full articleAssange: How ‘The Guardian’ Milked Edward Snowden’s Story
Julian Assange - Newsweek,
27 Apr 2015
20 Apr 2015 – The Book ‘The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man’ by Luke Harding is a hack job in the purest sense of the term. Pieced together from secondary sources and written with minimal additional research to be the first to market, the book’s thrifty origins are hard to miss. The Guardian is a curiously inward-looking beast.
→ read full article[Physics Nobel Laureate] Professor Peter Higgs Backs Anti-Trident Call
Edinburgh News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
12 April 2015 – Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Higgs has joined leading figures in music, the arts and science to call for the UK to scrap its nuclear deterrent.
→ read full articleFukushima Storage Facility Drone Video – Nuclear Waste in Bags Near Ocean
Jennifer Baker, Revolution News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Drone footage captured by Ruptly shows millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture. This incredible video shows the haphazard manner in which this temporary storage facility is stacking up nuclear waste in what appears to be less than 100 yards from the Pacific Ocean.
→ read full articleNot Fit to Print: When Good Design Goes Bad
Anna Flagg and Moiz Syed, AJ+ On the News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
A Lesson from The New York Times on How to Mislead with Numbers – What follows is a breakdown of some ways that design can be misused to tell a biased story. This New York Times article reminds us that design is just as much an editorial tool.
→ read full articleNuclear Talks: Israel Demands Equality
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
The Israeli government yesterday demanded that it receive “equal treatment” to that in any agreement between Iran and the “P5+1” concerning Iran’s nuclear program. A possible further complication is that US agreement with the new Israeli position might lead the Iranian President to demand an invitation to explain to Congress why the Israeli government can’t be trusted.
→ read full articleThreats Everywhere
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
The President: Well, now that we’ve dealt with the Venezuelan threat, I guess the world is a safe place for the Homeland again? Or are there any other dangers?
The Secretary of State: Well, there are some threats in Iraq. And Syria – those ISIS terrorists. Perhaps we should impose sanctions on their leaders.
The Chief NSB Advisor: We’re already bombing them. That’s stronger than sanctions.
“Radioactive Cover-Up” at Fukushima — Experts Believe “Other Sources of Contamination” Are Flowing into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Emergency hearing with plant officials — “TEPCO decided long ago there was no need to monitor” the water with high-level radioactive materials.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Becomes World’s Biggest Arms Importer amid Regional Concerns
I24News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
8 Mar 2015 – Saudi Arabia has become the world’s largest arms importer, surpassing India, amid increased tensions in the Middle East. Spending rose to $6.5 billion, rising 54 percent as compared to last year.
→ read full articleChildren of South Africa’s Liberation Icons Condemn Israeli Apartheid
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
It is the Israeli Apartheid Week in South Africa. The children of celebrated liberation heroes have come out to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel, denouncing the Jewish state’s brutal colonial occupation of Palestine. The campaign is supported by 85 South African organizations and institutions.
→ read full articleGaza in Ruins after Receiving Only 5% of Pledged Reconstruction Funds
Ken Klippenstein - Reader Supported News,
2 Mar 2015
23 Feb 15 – Chris Gunness, spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), discusses the causes and consequences of the fact that only about 5% of pledged donations have reached Gaza.
→ read full articleRadioactive Fukushima Water Leak Was Unreported for Months: Official
Arata Yamamoto - NBC News,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – The operator of Japan’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant admitted it failed to report a radioactive rainwater leak from the facility for about 10 months.
→ read full articleEU Reeling between US and Russia
Pepe Escobar – Sputinik News,
2 Mar 2015
Minsk 2.0 agreement de facto shows that Germany and France, the leading European powers are trying to break away from the “American Chaos project.”
→ read full articleGaza Homes Flooded after Israel Unbolts Dam Gates
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
Scores of Palestinian family homes east of blockaded Gaza were flooding after the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened dam gates at dawn Sunday [22 Feb 2015]. This is not the first time Israeli occupation authorities have opened the Gaza Valley dams.
→ read full articleGuantanamo Whistleblower: Guards Rehearsed for Reporter Visits Weeks in Advance
Ken Klippenstein - Reader Supported News,
23 Feb 2015
RSN interviewed Joseph Hickman, a former Guantanamo staff sergeant and author of the recently published book, “Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay.” In the book, Hickman alleges that three Guantanamo detainees were murdered at a CIA black site, and that this was later covered up, the deaths portrayed as suicides.
→ read full articleThe Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
23 Feb 2015
The New York Times – much as it did when it was falsely reporting breathlessly about ‘aluminum tubes’ for Iraq’s non-existent nuclear weapons program – continues to promote U.S. government propaganda about Ukraine as fact and dismisses any rational assessment of the situation as crazy.
→ read full article500 Rabbis Urge Israel to Stop Demolition of Palestinian Homes
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
9 Feb 2015 – Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance is against “international law and Jewish tradition.”
→ read full article700 British Artists Pledge to Boycott Israel
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 – A group of over 700 British artists signed a pledge to culturally and professionally boycott Israel to pressure an end to its aggressive and discriminatory practices against the Palestinians.
→ read full articleWretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Feb 2015
The U.S. news media has failed the American people often in recent years by not challenging U.S. government falsehoods, as with Iraq’s WMD. But the most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
9 Feb 2015
4 Feb 2015 – Saudi Arabia is under a new cloud after a jailed al-Qaeda operative implicated senior Saudi officials as collaborators with the terror group – and the shadow could even darken the political future of Israeli Prime Netanyahu because of his odd-couple alliance with Riyadh.
→ read full articleUNRWA: The Situation in Gaza Is Worse Than Ever Before
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2015
Robert Turner, Director of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in Gaza-UNRWA said in a press conference on Wednesday [4 Feb 2015] that the current situation in Gaza Strip is worse than before Israel’s summer offensive.
→ read full articleThe American Sniper You Didn’t Hear About
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
2 Feb 2015
Another American sniper became so disgusted by what he had done that he started the first-ever antiwar blog, and is actively encouraging his fellow soldiers to use their First Amendment rights to speak out against what he calls an ‘illegal occupation’ in Iraq.
→ read full articleThe Inside Information That Could Have Stopped 9/11
Jeff Stein – Newsweek,
26 Jan 2015
Former FBI agent Mark Rossini said the CIA prevented him from going to FBI headquarters with the information that two known terrorists, who later went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, had entered the US.
→ read full articleUN: Israel Illegally Demolished 77 Palestinian Houses This Week
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015 – The UN said in a statement on Friday [23 Jan 2015] that 77 Palestinian families, half of them children, have been rendered homeless in the past three days. Some demolished structures were provided by the international community to shelter poor Palestinian families.
→ read full articleNorman Finkelstein: Charlie Hebdo Is Sadism, Not Satire
Mustafa Caglayan – Anadolu Agency News,
26 Jan 2015
World renowned political science professor says he has ‘no sympathy’ for staff at Charlie Hebdo.
→ read full articleDenied Visa by Israel, UN Rights Expert Cancels Visit to Palestine
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
An official visit by Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, was cancelled Friday [16 Jan 2015] after Israeli authorities refused to give her a visa to enter Palestine. She had been invited on a fact-finding mission by the Palestinian Authority.
→ read full articlePalestine Recognizes ICC Jurisdiction for Period Covering Gaza War
Ma’an News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
6 Jan 2015 – The International Criminal Court said Palestinian authorities had formally recognized the court’s jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed during last summer’s Gaza war.
→ read full articlePalestine Joins the International Criminal Court
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
8 Jan 2015 – The ICC has accepted the Palestinian Authority’s request to join the Rome Statute. A statement said that “the deposit of the instruments of accession by the State of Palestine,” effected as of January 2 [2015], had brought the number of state parties to 123.
→ read full articleAmerican Aircraft Dropped Weapons to ISIS, Says MP
Amre Sarhan – Iraqi News,
12 Jan 2015
On Saturday [3 Jan 2015], MP Majid al-Ghraoui said that an American aircraft dropped a load of weapons and equipment into the hands of the ISIS group militants in southeast of Tikrit, located in Salahuddin province.
→ read full articleThe Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) Agreement Must Be Defeated
US Sen. Bernie Sanders - Reader Supported News,
5 Jan 2015
The TPP is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy. It will also negatively impact some of the poorest people in the world.
→ read full articlePalestinians Granted Observer Status at International Criminal Court
JNS-Jewish and Israel News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
The ICC upgraded the Palestinians’ status to “non-state observer” at its summit meeting in New York on Monday [8 Dec 2014]. While largely symbolic, the move gives the Palestinians the right to ratify the Rome Statue, the founding treaty of the ICC.
→ read full articleMore Than 220 Ukrainian Jewish Immigrants Land in Occupied Palestine
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Dec 2014
Some 226 Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, among dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Occupied Palestine on Monday [22 Dec 2014]. They are the first in an expected group of over 400 Ukrainians who will arrive before the end of the year. A second flight is scheduled for Dec. 30.
→ read full articleSelling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars
Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley – Consortium News,
29 Dec 2014
More and more “peace and social justice” groups are being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria,” a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World.”
→ read full articleGaza: One War, One Family. Five Children, Four Dead
Sarah Helm - Newsweek,
29 Dec 2014
People nowadays call Gaza a giant prison, and as I saw the new perimeter wall, built since I was last here, looming through the torrential rain, I could see why. And yet Gazans on the other side are not there for committing a crime. The vast majority are descendants of Palestinians who came to Gaza 66 years ago for refuge.
→ read full articleThe Slow Genocide of (Myanmar’s) Rohingyas: Interview with Dr Zarni
Basfin Siregar - GATRA National News,
29 Dec 2014
“About four weeks ago several NGOs which track the movement of Rohingyas on the ground reported that about 10.000 Rohingyas already left by boats. What happened to them? Where did they land? For the past four weeks, not a single country reporting any sight of Rohingya boat refugees? So where are they now? I can only imagine that in such a vast sea, with poor boats, 10.000 people are merely a dot. They might have drowned and we don’t even know. “
→ read full articleGaza’s Doctor Mads Gilbert Named Norway’s Person of the Year
Falastin News Palestine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2014
20 Dec 2014 – An outspoken Norwegian doctor whose efforts to treat Palestinians wounded in the Gaza conflict garnered worldwide attention has been named person of the year by the country’s largest tabloid, Verdens Gang (VG).
→ read full articleClassified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front of Their Mothers
John Vibes – Mint Press News,
22 Dec 2014
19 Dec 2014 – Now, over a decade later the evidence of these events are beginning to surface. According to a number of global mainstream media sources, the Pentagon is covering up a disturbing video that was never made public with the rest of the recent torture report.
→ read full articleArchitects of Atrocity Remain at Large, and Unrepentant
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
22 Dec 2014
We know who the torturer-in-chief was, and we know his vice-torturer has said George Bush was as fully informed as he, Dick Cheney, was. Along with everything else we know about these men who still defend their criminality, why isn’t that enough for probable cause and a criminal indictment? There’s much more to be said about this defining moment in our history.
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