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Cuba 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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Israelis Deny Palestinian Ministers-Elect West Bank Entry
Gulf News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
The Israeli occupation has denied three future Palestinian ministers from the Gaza Strip entry to the West Bank ahead of the unveiling of a new unity government, a senior source said on Sunday [1 Jun 2014].
→ read full articleWas Clinton’s “No Genocide” Dictate on Rwanda Meant to Ensure Kagame’s Military Victory in 1994?
Milton Allimadi - Black Star News,
2 Jun 2014
By opposing the designation of the 1994 conflict in Rwanda as “genocide,” Clinton not only opposed armed intervention but helped the Rwandan Patriotic Front into power. Many developments show a US preference for an RPF military takeover instead of the upholding the Arusha Peace Accords.
→ read full articleWeather Weapons Have Existed for over 15 Years, Testified U.S. Secretary of Defense
J. D. Heyes, Natural News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
“Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that’s why this is so important.”
→ read full articleNYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
2 Jun 2014
The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times.
→ read full articleThe Paul Kagame Doctrine after 20 Years
Theogene Rudasingwa – Pambazuka News,
26 May 2014
The Kagame Doctrine is a a malignant cancer that spreads day by day. Appeasement and palliative treatment may give us a deceptive and temporary relief. What is needed is aggressive surgery to contain, stop and remove President Paul Kagame and his clique from power.
→ read full articleSouth America Rejects US Sanctions on Venezuela
Associated Press – ABC News,
26 May 2014
Foreign ministers from the 12-member Union of South American Nations issued a statement Friday [23 May 2014] saying that the proposed legislation would constitute a violation of Venezuela’s internal affairs and undermine attempts by regional diplomats and the Vatican to foster dialogue between the government and opposition.
→ read full articleWashington Post Seeks US-Patrolled ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Neocons never blush at their own hypocrisies, demanding Russia respect international law and do nothing to protect eastern Ukrainians, while demanding President Obama ignore international law and create a terrorist/rebel “safe zone” in Syria, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleWilliam Worthy and Vincent Harding: Thank You and Goodbye
Amy Goodman - Aspen Daily News,
26 May 2014
The world lost two remarkable men in May, two African-Americans who helped shape modern history, yet whose names and achievements remain too little known. William Worthy, a journalist, died at the age of 92. Civil-rights activist Vincent Harding was 82.
→ read full articleReasons for Intellectual Conformity
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Indeed, from a historical perspective most people of high intellect have sought to serve power and not critique or question it. This is quite in line with the fact that most non-intellectuals accept the word of those in power as authoritative and true.
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Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
May 12, 2013 – Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott “a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement”.
→ read full articleInternational Whaling Commission to Consider Imminent Extinction of Maui’s Dolphins
Independent News Media – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
In the past two years, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission had issued urgent recommendations about the need to protect the dolphins’ from fishing nets. With less than 15 breeding females, Maui’s dolphins are amongst the rarest and most endangered mammals on earth.
→ read full articleWhat Is Boko Haram and Whence Did It Arise?
Gary K. Busch – Pambazuka News,
19 May 2014
The terrorist group Boko Haram is a vital element in the fight over state power by various political groups in Nigeria. Both Nigeria’s continued politics of corruption and the Al Qaeda link to Boko Haram point to a grim future of continued insecurity.
→ read full articleRwanda’s Proxy Wars for Imperialist Interests
Samir Amin – Pambazuka News,
19 May 2014
Rwanda, a military dictatorship, plays a key destabilising role in the Great Lakes region to benefit its imperialist partners, US and UK, whose primary interest is the mineral wealth in Eastern DR Congo. Democratic forces should work had to expose imperialist agendas and weaken Western influence in the region.
→ read full articleWhy You Should Eat More Cucumber
Monica Bologna, Eco News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
The cucumber is a fruit that often gets overlooked. Like its friend the tomato, it isn’t sweet, it isn’t fancy, but it can do amazing things for your body. Cucumbers contain an incredible amount of vitamins and minerals that are essential for optimal health.
→ read full articleTwisting Putin’s Words on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
Anti-Russian bias pervades the mainstream U.S. media in the Ukraine crisis, reflected in word choices – “pro-democracy” for U.S.-favored protesters in Kiev, “terrorists” for disfavored eastern Ukrainians – but also in how the narrative is shaped by false summaries.
→ read full articleRwanda: 20 Years of Trying to Cover Up the Truth In Vain
Antoine Roger Lokongo – Pambazuka News,
5 May 2014
Despite powerful backing from the West and strong media influence, there have emerged some important facts which call into question the widely-accepted narrative of what really happened in Rwanda in 1994 and the identities of those responsible.
→ read full articleHow Mandela and S. Africa Were Freed
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
History often recounts events through the tales of “great men,” but that is rarely the complete story. South Africa’s overturning of white supremacy is a case in point, not just the personal triumph of Nelson Mandela but the victory of a global movement.
→ read full articleNirvanaless: Asian Buddhism’s Growing Fundamentalist Streak
Anuradha Sharma and Vishal Arora – Religion News,
5 May 2014
Though fundamentalism is a term that has thus far been used mostly in relation to Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, some are beginning to use it to describe Buddhists as well. [TRANSCEND Member] Maung Zarni, an exiled Burmese who has written extensively on the ongoing violence in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, argues that there is no room for fundamentalism in Buddhism.
→ read full articleA People’s War in East Ukraine
Daniel Patrick Welch – Consortium News,
5 May 2014
Ukraine’s Western-backed coup regime in Kiev has launched an offensive against ethnic Russians in the east while a pro-regime mob used fire to kill some 31 anti-regime protesters in Odessa. Virtually all U.S. pundits favor the coup regime. Here is a different view of the conflict.
→ read full articleTolerating Israel’s Land Grabs
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
28 Apr 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have reached their predictable collapse, but the U.S. news media still shies away from blaming Israeli intransigence and expansionism – nor advocating stern action against the land grabs.
→ read full articleBeneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas
Nat Parry – Consortium News,
28 Apr 2014
Behind the geopolitics pitting Russia against the West – and the ethnic tensions tearing Ukraine east and west – another backdrop for understanding this deepening conflict is the big-money competition for Ukraine’s oil and natural gas.
→ read full articleSole US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Apr 2014
Nobody’s ever tried to fix an underground radiation accident before. More than two months after plutonium and americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy still does not know what caused the leak almost half a mile underground.
→ read full articleAnswer Offered By Seymour Hersh Gets Little Public Attention
William Boardman ¬– Reader Supported News,
21 Apr 2014
Benghazi Mystery Explained!?! – Report from London links CIA Covert Op with Turkey, Syria
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Boycott of Israel Moving to Next Level
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Apr 2, 2014 – Shir Hever: “BDS movement including large scale divestment by big corporations and approaching the level of government sanctions.”
→ read full articleSri Lanka Retaliates Against UN Call for War Crimes Investigation – List Tamil Groups as Terrorists
World News Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Chief among them is Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, which held internationally supervised elections among Tamils around the world to elect over 120 Members of Parliament and is leading a campaign for non-violent and democratic approach to solve Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict.
→ read full articleThe End of the Capitalist Era, and What Comes Next
Jeremy Rifkin - Reader Supported News,
7 Apr 2014
The capitalist era is passing… not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm — the Collaborative Commons — is rising in its wake. We are already witnessing the emergence of a hybrid economy, part capitalist market and part Collaborative Commons. The two economic systems often work in tandem and sometimes compete.
→ read full articleUkraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
31 Mar 2014
When Ukrainian neo-Nazis – infuriated over the killing of an ultranationalist leader – surrounded the Parliament in Kiev, the incident presented a problem for the U.S. news media which has been trying to airbrush the neo-Nazis out of the Ukraine narrative.
→ read full articleUganda and the Reconstruction of a Homophobic Colonial Legacy in Africa: Which Way Progressives?
Horace Campbell – Pambazuka News,
24 Mar 2014
African progressives must stand up and speak out against the wave of anti-gay laws now blowing across the continent – aided by American Christian fundamentalists pursuing a white supremacist agenda. The rights of same-gender loving persons are human rights that are inextricably linked with the rights of every person in society.
→ read full articleMainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley.
→ read full articleGlobal Military Spending Is Now an Integral Part of Capitalism
Richard Seymour – Gulf News,
17 Mar 2014
The idea of a ‘peace dividend’ is gone, high levels of military spending are an entrenched part of the global landscape.
→ read full articleMuch Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
Wall Street banks made a bundle on securitized subprime mortgages until the bubble began to burst in 2007 inflicting devastating harm on average people around the world. Yet, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, the key culprits have escaped punishment.
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Three Years Later, Who is Responsible?
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Mar 10, 2014 – Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public’s attitude toward nuclear energy.
→ read full articleJulian Assange “We Are Headed Towards a Transnational Dystopian Total Surveillance Society”
Mox News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
March 07, 2014 MSNBC News
→ read full articleStraighten Up or You’re Dead: The Case for Black Lesbians in South Africa
Fairuz Mullagee and Ernest Booys – Pambazuka News,
10 Mar 2014
In post-apartheid South Africa, sexual violence has become a socially endorsed punitive project for maintaining patriarchal order. Black township lesbians have not benefited from legal protection because of important weaknesses in the justice system. These need to be addressed.
→ read full articleThe Conundrum of ‘Democratic’ Coups
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
The U.S. government says it wants to spread “democracy,” a questionable claim considering the history. Think Iran-1953, Guatemala-1954, Chile-1973, Haiti-1991/2004, etc. Just this past year, the U.S. has embraced coups against elected presidents in Egypt and now Ukraine.
→ read full articleUganda: Scientific Statement from the Ministry of Health on Homosexuality
Pambazuka News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
A team of top scientists appointed by the government to give an opinion on homosexuality is unanimous that this sexual orientation is natural and has existed in Africa and everywhere in the world since time immemorial. It is strange for President Museveni to claim he relied on this expert report to assent to the draconian anti-gay bill.
→ read full articleFour Ways to Evolve Beyond Capitalism
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
10 Mar 2014
Now that we’re having a serious conversation about capitalism, we can also have a conversation about solutions. Along with calling out flaws of capitalism, I’m proposing four solutions that would fix the most glaring problems in capitalism and blaze a new path forward for the next generation.
→ read full articleA Look at Africa’s Anti-Gay Laws
Denis Nzioka – Pambazuka News,
10 Mar 2014
A trend is forming from African nations – which already criminalize same sex acts, albeit, through laws inherited from colonial masters – to further put in place legislation that amplify, further criminalize and increase punishment for same sex acts.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Staggering Hypocrisy In Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
The United States has invaded or otherwise intervened in so many countries that it would be challenging to compile a complete list. Just last decade, there were full-scale U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, plus American bombing operations from Pakistan to Yemen to Libya. So, what is to make of John Kerry’s pronouncement that Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea section of Ukraine – at the behest of the country’s deposed president – is a violation of international law that the United States would never countenance?
→ read full articleCrop Diversity Decline ‘Threatens Food Security’
Mark Kinver - BBC News,
10 Mar 2014
Fewer crop species are feeding the world than 50 years ago – raising concerns about the resilience of the global food system, a study has shown.
→ read full articleThe ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
7 Mar 2014 – The only foreign policy show on the U.S. media dial this past week has been the bashing of Russian President Putin over the Ukraine crisis – with a slap or two at President Obama for having worked with Putin on Syria and Iran. Lost in this “group think” is the why behind this demonization.
→ read full articleThe Ukraine Crisis through the Whimsy of International Law
Neil Macdonald - Radio Canada CBC News,
10 Mar 2014
This is the commander-in-chief of a military that operates a prison camp on Cuban soil, against the explicit wishes of the Cuban government, and which regularly fires drone missiles into other countries. He is a president who ordered that CIA torturers would go unprosecuted, of a nation that has invaded other countries whenever it wished, regardless of what the rest of the world might think.
→ read full articleOn The Third Anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Catastrophe
Karl Grossman, Nuclear News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
3 Mar 2014 – With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions.
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U.S. Christian Right behind Anti-Gay Law Passed in Uganda
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
Feb 24, 2014 – Rev. Kapya Kaoma: “New Ugandan law that makes homosexual acts punishable by life imprisonment was modeled after the talking points of right-wing U.S. evangelicals.”
→ read full articleWestern Media Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
3 Mar 2014
In the upside-down world that has become the U.S. news media, the democratically elected president was a dictator and the coup makers who overthrew him were “pro-democracy” activists. Events in Ukraine and Venezuela suggest that the idea of respecting the results of elections and working within legal, albeit flawed, political systems is no longer in vogue, unless the “U.S. side” happens to win, of course.
→ read full articleFighting Disparity: The Dream of Davos Elites
Farooque Chowdhury – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
The world’s richest nations have admitted that global inequality is appalling. But are they prepared to radically tackle the capitalist system that harbours rich tax thieves and appropriators of labour, who increase their wealth with political favours? A system that safeguards the interests of the minority at the expense of the majority poor?
→ read full articleChina in Africa: Devil or Angel?
Luo Jianbo and Zhang Xiaomin – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
One of the most outstanding features of China’s policy is its aspiration to promote South-South cooperation and to achieve the renaissance of Asia and Africa. Unlike the former colonial masters, China’s engagement provides Africa with new development opportunities.
→ read full articleRemembering Malcolm X 49 Years On
Ama Biney – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
Malcolm X, otherwise known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was a fierce African American human rights crusader with an international agenda. Progressive people commemorating his assassination this week [21 Feb 1965] reflect on his legacy to the Black struggle and to all people around the world who are oppressed by imperialism and capitalism.
→ read full articleAre African Conflicts Exclusive to Africans?
Abdul Ghelleh – Pambazuka News,
24 Feb 2014
A Critical Look at the Role of Western Mainstream Media – The Western media misdiagnoses the root causes of African conflicts and reduces them to tribalism and religion as in the respective case of South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
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US Drones Reaping Death by SIM Card
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Feb 16, 2014 – Michael Ratner: Eliminating Targets Based on NSA spying but not verified by human intelligence demonstrates Obama’s false promise of oversight.
→ read full articleSyria: “There are Terrorists from 83 Countries, Armed and Funded by Saudi Arabia”
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
Syria Information Minister, Omran al-Zoubi said Saudi Arabia’s decision that Saudi citizens who fight in conflicts outside the Kingdom would face harsh punishment does not mean that the Kingdom will stop funding and arming terrorist groups.
→ read full articleWill Boycotting Israel Go Mainstream?
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
If peace talks failed, Kerry warned, the effort to delegitimize Israel would go ‘on steroids.’ “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained,” Kerry warned like an Old Testament prophet and the grandson of Eastern European Jews who converted to Catholicism. “It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary.”
→ read full articleAIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
To this day, Washington has not shown that the horrific use of gas came from Assad’s forces rather than from the Sunni rebels. But, no matter, AIPAC and its pro-Israel allies led a massive campaign to support U.S. military intervention. They pushed and they failed.
→ read full articleBig Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Feb 2014
Official Washington’s neocons still influence U.S. foreign policy despite their Iraq War disaster. Forever pushing what they view as Israel’s strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.
→ read full articlePhilippines – The Women in the Bangsamoro Peace Process: History, Herstory
Carolyn O. Arguillas – Minda News,
3 Feb 2014
[Note from TMS editor: TRANSCEND member Emma Leslie is featured prominently on this report.] When the history of the peace process between the Philippine government and the Bangsamoro is written, the story of the women who helped make it possible will certainly be one of the highlights of this 40-year journey to peace.
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Ownership of Washington Post by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain
Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
Jan 21, 2014 – Norman Solomon: There is a major conflict of interest in the ownership of The Washington Post by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who holds a $600 million contract with the CIA.
→ read full articleCuba Will Propose CELAC to Declare Latin America a Peace Zone
Cuban News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Cuban deputy foreign minister Abelardo Moreno said that his country will propose the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, to take place January 28 and 29 [2014] in Havana, to declare this region a peace zone.
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