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Fukushima 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.
→ read full articleUS Senate Votes to Sanction Venezuela over CIA Torture
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
The US Senate passed a bill imposing sanctions on Venezuelan for not having done more to prevent the torture of prisoners by the CIA. “As is well known, we have been trying to straighten out Venezuela for 15 years or more, but the recalcitrant government of that country refuses to be straightened. If it hadn’t been for places like Venezuela, we would have had much more time to keep an eye on the CIA.”
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The Architect of the CIA’s Enhanced Interrogation Program [a.k.a. torture]
VICE News Exclusive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Dec 10, 2014 – This is the first time James Mitchell has ever appeared on camera.
→ read full articleUN Official Wants US Administrators Involved in Torture to Be Prosecuted
Samuel Oakford – Vice News,
15 Dec 2014
Following the publication on Tuesday [9 Dec 2014] of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Bush-era CIA interrogation practices, a top United Nations expert has called for US officials involved in torture to be prosecuted — and he says that they can be tried in any country.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 Dec 2014
A top problem of Ukraine has been corruption and cronyism, so it may raise eyebrows that new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, an ex-U.S. diplomat and newly minted Ukrainian citizen, was involved in insider dealings while managing a $150 million U.S. AID-backed investment fund.
→ read full articleThinking Frantz Fanon
Nigel C. Gibson – Pambazuka News,
8 Dec 2014
Fanonian Translations In and Beyond ‘Fanon Studies’- Translations are not neutral; they are products of history and are highly charged politically. Yet despite this, Fanon’s thought in his translated works has remained clear, inspiring people from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo.
→ read full articleThirty Years On, Bhopal’s Ghost Haunts India
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
1 Dec 2014 – Even after three decades, the memory of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster is kept alive by “mini Bhopals” that occur across India.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Demolition of Palestinian Homes ‘Contrary to International Law,’ UN Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
25 Nov 2014 – The Israeli Government’s use of house demolition as a punitive measure must end immediately, UN experts urged today. The practice – which targets Palestinian homes in both Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – is a violation of human rights law.
→ read full articleIn Israel, Only Jewish Blood Shocks Anyone
Gideon Levy, Haaretz – Reader Supported News,
24 Nov 2014
Terror is always Palestinian, even when hundreds of Palestinian civilians are killed. The name and face of Daniel Tragerman, the Israeli boy killed by mortar fire during Operation Protective Edge, were known throughout the world; even U.S. President Barack Obama knew his name. Can anyone name one child from Gaza among the hundreds killed?
→ read full articleIsrael Bans Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Nov 2014
A Norwegian doctor has been permanently banned from entering the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government. Dr Mads Gilbert says he was stopped trying to cross into Gaza in October. He called the move “totally unacceptable”. Israel cited security reasons for imposing the ban.
→ read full articleJournalism and Reality
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
So, when I discovered the Contras engaging in a variety of criminal activity, from extrajudicial killings, rapes, torture and drug trafficking, my reporting was unwelcome both inside and outside the AP (and later I encountered the same hostility at Newsweek). The usual response was to challenge my journalism and to pretend that the ugly reality wasn’t the reality.
→ read full articleThe Silence of the Israelis on ISIS
Stephen J. Sniegoski – Consortium News,
10 Nov 2014
Has anyone seen a hint that our vital regional ally could be of any assistance at all in the supposedly civilizational battle against ISIS? This is quite in contrast to the complaints about other Middle East countries such as Turkey that are being harshly criticized for their failure to become actively involved in fighting the Islamic State.
→ read full articleGorbachev, the Man Who Changed the World
Federico Mayor Zaragoza – Other News,
10 Nov 2014
Twenty-five years ago the initial dismantling commenced at the Berlin Wall. And with its fall the immense Soviet empire was transformed practically overnight into a Commonwealth of Independent States… And all of this was accomplished without shedding even one drop of blood, thanks to Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the “magician of the unexpected”.
→ read full articleLawsuit Spotlights U.S. Charities That Fund Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
PR Newswire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Oct. 28, 2014 – Lawsuit seeks release of a government report about how American branches of Israeli charitable and educational institutes fund secret nuclear weapons research and development programs.
→ read full articleStoning in Somalia: Recent Incidents Highlight Continued Brutality
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Nov 2014
Call for action from both parties within and outside Somalia to prevent stoning and other form of torture and violence from continuing to cripple the ability of Somali people to lead viable lives.
→ read full articleCamps Bring Further Danger to Rohingya Muslims Fleeing Potential Genocide in Burma
Nic Dunlop - Newsweek,
3 Nov 2014
For now, the situation is on edge. A tense normality has returned to Sittwe, but there are no Muslims to be seen. They are either in the ghettos sealed by police, or in the camps outside. Nazir quarter where they once lived is now an empty lot, reclaimed by tropical vegetation.
→ read full articleGermans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Oct 2014
For months, Western governments and media have accused Russia of supplying the anti-aircraft missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But now German intelligence has reportedly determined the missile came from a Ukrainian military base.
→ read full articleNot Only Coal ‛Good for Humanity’
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Oct 2014
“Death is the basic source of jobs in Australia’s funeral industry,” the Prime Minister declared. “My government is determined to protect those jobs against the fantasist-terrorist doctors who are trying to prevent it.”
→ read full articleAssange: Google Is Not What It Seems
Julian Assange - Newsweek,
27 Oct 2014
In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, at Ellingham Hall, England where he was under house arrest. In this extract from ‘When Google Met WikiLeaks’ Assange describes the encounter and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Without a War Is like an Apple Pie without Apples
William Boardman – Reader Supported News,
20 Oct 2014
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is among the loudest voices for war nowadays. Better, this Nobel Peace prize recipient has unchecked power to wage war and uses it willfully in a variety of nations. Perhaps best, this prize-winning peace president has set out to a plan to make a desert and call it peace, for which a grateful power structure might well give him yet another prize.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Thousands of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis surrounded the parliament in Kiev demanding that the government honor Ukrainian paramilitary forces who fought for Adolf Hitler in World War II, another embarrassing reminder of the extremism unleashed by last February’s U.S.-backed coup.
→ read full articleThe Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
13 Oct 2014
If you ever wondered how the mainstream U.S. media changed from the hard-nosed Watergate press of the 1970s into the brown-nose MSM that swallowed the Iraq War lies, a key middle point was the Contra-cocaine scandal of the 1980s/1990s, the subject of a new movie.
→ read full articlePolice Go Nuts over Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Remote Speech in Vermont
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Oct 2014
When Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to be the commencement speaker at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
→ read full articleCuba to Send Doctors to Ebola Areas
Smitha Mundasad - BBC News,
13 Oct 2014
Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists travel to Sierra Leone in October and stay for six months.
→ read full articleHonouring Gandhi’s Legacy, UN Reaffirms Power of Peaceful Protest
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
2 October 2014 – UN urges the international community to reaffirm the power and potential of change through peaceful means, following Mahatma Gandhi who inspired today’s International Day of Non-Violence.
→ read full articleThe CIA/Main-Stream-Media Contra-Cocaine Cover-up
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
6 Oct 2014
With Hollywood set to release a movie about the Contra-cocaine scandal and the destruction of journalist Gary Webb, an internal CIA report has surfaced showing how the spy agency manipulated the mainstream media’s coverage to disparage Webb and contain the scandal.
→ read full articleThe Real Reason We Are Bombing Syria
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
29 Sep 2014
This Frankenstein-like experiment of arming the alleged freedom-seeking Syrian opposition created the monster that roams the region. ISIS and the U.S. have a curious relationship — mortal enemies that, at the same time, benefit from some of the same events.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Council Backs Argentina on US Debt Row
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 – The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution in Geneva condemning a group of American hedge funds that took Argentina to court.
→ read full articleThe Intellectual Battle against ISIS
Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum – Gulf News,
29 Sep 2014
Enlightened thinking, open minds, tolerance and improved service delivery to provide a better quality of life will help eliminate this barbaric extremist outfit.
→ read full articleArgentina v. the Hedge Funds
Andrés Cala – Consortium News,
29 Sep 2014
Argentina will go down in history as the country that first stood up to America’s most powerful weapon, its control over global finances, a battle that may catalyze the end of an era for U.S. financial hegemony.
→ read full articleGlaxoSmithKline Fined $488.8M for ‘Massive Bribery Network’ in China
Kaijing Xiao – ABC News,
29 Sep 2014
19 Sep 2014 – China has fined the British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline $488.8 million for a “massive bribery network” to get doctors and hospitals to use its products. Five former employees were sentenced to two to four years in jail, but ordered deported instead of imprisoned, according to state news agency Xinhua today.
→ read full articleResponse to Questions at US Presidential Press Conference
News from Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
So, are we at war with the TVBP (those very bad people)? I am glad someone asked that question, because it allows me to make perfectly clear that this is not a new war we are embarking upon. And no, it is not the old war, even though it’s happening in more or less the same place. Because I ended that war.
→ read full articleHigh Time to Build a Movement of Solidarity to End UN Occupation of Haiti
Ajamu Nangwaya – Pambazuka News,
22 Sep 2014
On October 15, the UN occupation force in Haiti will be up for renewal by the Security Council. Urgent and swift efforts are now needed to demand an immediate withdrawal of the decade-old army of occupation that has turned Haiti into a UN colony.
→ read full articleGerman TV Shows Nazi Symbols on Helmets of Ukraine Soldiers
NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
→ read full articleMalaysia Airlines flight MH17 Whodunnit Still a Mystery
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
15 Sep 2014
More than seven weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, a preliminary report failed to address the mystery of who shot the plane down. The Dutch investigators didn’t even try to sort through conflicting allegations and evidence.
→ read full articleISIS, Libya, NATO and Preventing the Next 9/11
Dennis Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
We must resist the illusion that the only “decisive” response to terrorism is bombing. Instead, we should begin to confront ISIS by drying up its sources of revenue from places like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
→ read full articleIs Israel Bad for the Jews?
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
→ read full articleFukushima Crisis Continues, Was Worse Than First Reported
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Sep 2014
Nobody in the world knows how to dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That’s a given. So Tokyo announced on August 29 [2014] that the Fukushima waste would be stored for 30 years in Fukushima prefect, in an “interim facility.” In Japanese, “Fukushima” means “Island of Good Fortune.”
→ read full articleThe Whys behind the Ukraine Crisis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism?
→ read full articleThe Other 9/11
Mickey Z. - World News Trust,
8 Sep 2014
Sep. 11, 1973: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” — Henry Kissinger. Allende was dead. In his place, the people of Chile now faced brutal repression and human rights violations, book burnings, a powerful secret police, and more than 3,000 executions.
→ read full articleDutch Intellectuals Apologize to Putin for Lies on MH17, Syria, Ukraine…
Macedonian International News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
27 Aug 2014 – A letter sent by a prominent Dutch Professor to Russian president Vladimir Putin has attracted much media attention in Europe. The letter was written by Professor Cees Hamelink and signed by dozens of Dutch intellectuals and professors. Below is the letter in its entirety.
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The Powers behind the Islamic State
Nafeez Ahmed – The Real News Network,
25 Aug 2014
August 24, 2014 – Investigative journalist, TRANSCEND member Nafeez Ahmed gives specific examples of how Saudi, Qatari, and American interests have supported the group known as ISIS and what the global community can do now to rein them in.
→ read full articleUS, NATO and the Destruction of Libya: The Western Front of a Widening War
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
18 Aug 2014
NATO claimed that its intervention in Libya was a historic success. But three years later, Libya is in complete chaos. Some 1700 militias have a combined total of 250,000 men under arms. Another external intervention seems necessary to stabilize the country. But the US and NATO must never be involved.
→ read full articleConclusive: Two Ukrainian Government Fighter-Jets Shot Down That Malaysian Airliner
Eric Zuesse, OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
August 5, 2014 – We’ll go considerably farther than has yet been revealed by the professional intelligence community, to provide the actual evidence that conclusively shows that (and how) the Ukrainian Government shot down the Malaysian airliner, MH-17, on July 17th [2014].
→ read full articleKhmer Rouge Verdicts Bring History Alive for Cambodian Students
Preeti Jha, AFP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
On Thursday [7 Aug 2014], Cambodia’s UN-backed court found “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, guilty of crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life in prison.
→ read full article[MUST READ] USB ‘Critically Flawed’ after Bug Discovery, Researchers Say
Dave Lee, Technology reporter - BBC News,
11 Aug 2014
8 Aug 2014 – Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB. Most famously, the Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges was believed to have been caused by an infected USB stick. “Basically, you can never trust anything anymore after plugging in a USB stick.” A USB device that appears completely empty can still contain malware, even when formatted.
→ read full articleWe Can Negotiate Peace in Gaza: Here’s How
Dennis J. Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
4 Aug 2014
When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is not time for us to take sides, but to take steps, with compassion and clarity, to end the carnage. We must move beyond the pro-Israel, anti-Israel narrative in the Middle East, which can lock us into a position where we must declare support for either Israelis or Palestinians, to the exclusion of the concerns of the other.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Losing Narrative
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel government still has most U.S. politicians and pundits under its thumb, but the Zionist narrative – excusing the latest slaughter of Palestinians – is losing the hearts and minds of millions of others around the world.
→ read full articleThe Slow Death of Nuclear Power and the Rise of Renewables
Jeffrey Cavanaugh – Mint Press News,
4 Aug 2014
Six decades ago, the head of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission forecast an era of electricity that would be “too cheap to meter,” so what happened? The technology known as nuclear power today is a lumbering giant utterly dependent on state-based largesse for its existence.
→ read full articleUS Navy Thanks Ukrainian Rebels
News From Somewhere – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
US Navy Admiral Boris K. Orloff, head of the Navy’s Department of Shortening Memories (formerly Public Relations) today announced the intention to present a medal to whomever among the Ukrainian rebels was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. “We have been waiting for something like this for 26 years now,” he explained.
→ read full article18 Jul 2014 – World Marks 1st Mandela Day since His Death
News24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
People around the world celebrate “Mandela Day” on Friday [18 Jul 2014] for the first time since the iconic former president’s death, by doing good deeds on what would have been his 96th birthday.
→ read full articleFacts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
As usual, the mainstream U.S. media is rushing to judgment over the crash of a Malaysian airliner in war-torn eastern Ukraine, but the history of U.S. government’s deceptions might be reason to pause and let a careful investigation uncover the facts, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleStorage of Radioactive Spent Fuel Rods Still Haunts Nuclear Industry
Paul Brown – Climate News Network,
21 Jul 2014
Nuclear power is seen as one of the possible solutions to climate change, but the recent closure of five US power stations is forcing the industry to face up at last to the damaging legacy of how to deal with radioactive waste.
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“Evacuate to Where?” – Report from Gaza and Israel
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Jul 17, 2014 – Gaza-based blogger Nalan al Sarraj and TRNN’s Lia Tarachansky report on the mood of the people in Gaza and Israel as Israeli ground troops join the attack.
→ read full articleWhat Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?
Dennis Kucinich – Consortium News,
21 Jul 2014
Israel can kill, injure, humiliate Palestinians at will, with impunity, which is exactly what gave rise to Hamas and strengthens Hamas’ hold in Gaza, even as the IDF advances… Since the U.S. is helping to pay Israel’s bills, we cannot avoid the consequences of paying the price for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
→ read full articlePope Francis: ‘About 2%’ of Catholic Clergy Paedophiles
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
The Pope said that abuse of children was like “leprosy” infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to “confront it with the severity it demands”.
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Nation Editor Stuns ‘Architect of Catastrophe’ Bill Kristol: “Join Iraqi Army if You Want War “
ABC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Jun 29, 2014 – Katrina vanden Heuvel and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with the Iraq “architects of catastrophe” and suggested he enlist in the Iraqi army if he’s so serious about fixing the region.
→ read full articleHate Crime, Racism on the Rise in Southeast Asia
Abby Seiff, UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Global Minorities Report Highlights Resurgence of ‘Ethno-Religious Nationalism’
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Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead for Weeks
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
TRNN Middle East Correspondent Lia Tarachansky says Palestinian anger towards the Palestinian Authority has reached unprecedented levels, and that the Israeli government is now trying to instigate a third intifada in order to legitimate military actions in the West Bank and Gaza.
→ read full articleThe Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
7 Jul 2014
Pressured by neocons and the mainstream U.S. media, the Obama administration is charting a dangerous course by seeking a military solution to Ukraine’s political crisis and possibly provoking Moscow to intervene to protect ethnic Russians.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Former intelligence contractor interviewed in Brazil
ABC News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
6 Jun 2014 – Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by US authorities and currently living in Russia, has told Brazil’s Globo TV network he would “love to live in Brazil”.
→ read full articleMass Murderers Brazenly Hold Conference, Discuss Tools of Trade
David Swanson - Reader Supported News,
16 Jun 2014
7 Jun 2014 – A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that, “to allow participants to speak more freely about potentially sensitive topics, the conference is closed to the media and open only to registered participants.”
→ read full articleAn Appeal for More Whistleblowers
Norman Solomon – Consortium News,
16 Jun 2014
As more and more secrecy envelopes the U.S. government – with millions of hidden records concealing both past and present – there is no practical alternative for democracy but to fight back with “unauthorized” disclosures, as Norman Solomon explains in an appeal for more whistleblowers.
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An Explanation of Syria’s Nightmarish Situation
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2014
Based on the World Café Methodology – Written by Mnar A. Muhawesh, editor in chief of Mint Press.
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Sonia Bridi Entrevista [Interviews] Edward Snowden
Globo News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Portuguese Subtitles – Legendado em Português –
Interview conducted in English with Comments in Portuguese –
Entrevista em inglês com comentários em português
New Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Jun 4, 2014 – Former whistleblowers Radack, Wiebe, Coleman-Adebayo and Ellsberg speak out at the launch of ExposeFacts.org a US based independent media organization that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate malfeasance.
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