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Major Pharma Scandal: Whistleblowers Claim Popular Asthma Drug Was Marketed Illegally
Martha Rosenberg - AlterNet,
14 Mar 2016
Novartis, Genentech and Roche “determined as early as 2003 that they would never succeed in transforming Xolair into a blockbuster or near-blockbuster drug unless they broke the law.” And that is exactly what they have knowingly done.
→ read full articleSpain’s Radical Left Podemos Party Refuses to Sell Out
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
7 Mar 2016
During an impassioned speech to parliament, Iglesias said that his radical left party, which is now Spain’s third largest, would not allow the “miserable” leader of the more mainstream Socialists, Pedro Sánchez, to become prime minister because he had adopted the economic policies of the right.
→ read full articleWhy the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Politico – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology. Instead we should examine the more complex rationales of history and oil — and how they often point the finger of blame back at our own shores.
→ read full articleA Forever Imminent Threat?
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2016
Two towering exclamation points have been writ high on the sky, each an indelible imprint on human consciousness. Hiroshima! Nagasaki! And yet, 70 years later, through the countless wars that have followed WWII, on the surface of the fracturing social, economic and political global landscape, humanity dreams on, unaware and unforgiven.
→ read full articleDark Spots, Light Spots, and Apple’s Protest
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
By their logic, 1984 is finally here, and embedding security (i.e., surveillance) chips in toothbrushes, children’s toys, and everywhere else The Enemy might lurk is both necessary and proper. You’d better consider flossing regularly and having your kids play with sticks and stones. Barbie is watching, and even Tim Cook can’t stop her.
→ read full articleMoral Courage – Stand Up to Wall St. & the U.S. War Machine!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
“Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
– – Robert F. Kennedy
Telephone (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Martynas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
Martynas Levickis is one of the brightest young accordion musicians from Lithuania. He has received over 30 prizes and awards, being a Bachelor graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the People of West Papua
James Burrowes & Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Feb 2016
We have recently been discussing your ongoing courageous struggle to liberate yourselves from more than 100 years of occupation, first by the Netherlands, briefly and brutally by Japan during World War II, and now by Indonesia. In that regard, we would each like to share a brief message with you, our friends from West Papua.
→ read full articleA Plan Must Be Made for ‘Life after Isis’ in the Middle East
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
22 Feb 2016
In the Second World War, Allied leaders planned for the post-war world – a ‘United Nations’ – years before the conflict ended. We must do the same for the Middle East. I cannot stand the old clichés about “when the guns fall silent”. But schools and universities are going to be more deadly to Isis than any air-strike. That’s how you deal with nightmares.
→ read full articleHaiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity
Nia Imara and Robert Roth – Haiti Action Committee,
22 Feb 2016
We say NO, WE WILL NOT OBEY ILLEGITIMATE OFFICIALS. Self-defense is a legitimate universal law. Civil-Disobedience is an accepted universal right when a people confronts an illegal regime. The right to elect a government is universally accepted as a way for people to protect its existence. Today, confronted by the danger presented by local and international colonialists, the Haitian people have started a RESISTANCE FOR EXISTENCE movement.
→ read full articleSecuring a Future for Child Soldiers
Forest Whitaker - Reader Supported News,
22 Feb 2016
It is impossible for us to comprehend the magnitude of a child soldier’s pain: how deep his wounds, how heavy her burden, how alone these children must feel when they return from the battlefield to a world they do not recognize. Unless we are there to meet them with open arms, open homes, and open schools, their wars will never end. And neither will ours.
→ read full articleSocialism and the Fight against War
International Committee of the Fourth International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
The great historical questions arising from the present world situation can be formulated as follows: How will the crisis of the world capitalist system be resolved? Will the contradictions wracking the system end in world war or world socialist revolution? Will the future lead to fascism, nuclear war and an irrevocable descent into barbarism?
→ read full articleContaminated Nuclear Weapons Sites
Robert Alvarez – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
22 Feb 2016
West Lake Story: An Underground Fire, Radioactive Waste, and Governmental Failure
→ read full articleBeached America
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2016
17 Feb 2016 – For at least the last four decades now I feel like I’ve been living in Beached America: a nation that has lost its values, even as it writhes in violent agitation, inflicting its military on the vulnerable regions of the planet.
→ read full articleThe Case for Radical Modernity
Jeremy Gilbert – Popular Resistance,
15 Feb 2016
The left should embrace technological innovation and new class alliances as part of a strategy for 21st-century socialism.
→ read full articleProphets to Profits: The Corporate Takeover of Spirituality
Vida Norris – The Conscious Reporter,
15 Feb 2016
As sacred principles are co-opted and watered down to sell feel-good mass-market products, those unwilling to sell-out spiritual principles are pushed further to the margins – where they are increasingly maligned as “cultist” for putting spirituality ahead of materialism.
→ read full articleChina: One Belt, One Road
Gen. Qiao Liang – Heartland-Eurasian Review of Geopolitics,
15 Feb 2016
The document casts a light on China’s new strategic thinking. Beijing’s biggest challenge is not geopolitical but economic. This derives from a cold and cruel analysis of US behavior since 1944, the time of the Bretton Woods agreement, and more importantly since 1971, with the dollar decoupling from gold, and 1973 with the US imposing the use of the petro-dollar.
→ read full articleMorgan Stanley to Pay $3.2 Billion over Contributors to ’08 Crisis
Michael Virtanen, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
15 Feb 2016
Morgan Stanley will pay $3.2 billion in a settlement over bank practices that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, including misrepresentations about the value of mortgage-backed securities, authorities announced Thursday [11 Feb 2016].
→ read full articleThe Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves
John Martin - Global Research,
8 Feb 2016
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
→ read full articleWall Street Worldview: Why Are People Upset?
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
8 Feb 2016
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the discontent felt by other Americans these days. He is a bland-looking, somewhat paunchy, not unattractive, balding man of benign demeanor. He’s worth $12 billion, give or take a few hundred million, and a poster boy for Wall Street success and self-esteem and cluelessness.
→ read full article(Italiano) In Memoriam – Nanni Salio
Roberto Minganti, Soka Gakkai Italia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Nanni Salio ci ha lasciato ieri sera, lunedì 1 febbraio 2016.
→ read full articleDeadlock: North Korea’s Nuclear Test and US Policy
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2016
Serious engagement with North Korea remains the only realistic policy option for the United States and its allies. To be effective, however, engagement must be undertaken strategically—as a calculated use of incentives with expectation of mutual rewards, namely in security and peace. And it should be undertaken in a spirit of mutual respect and with due regard for sensitivity in language and action.
→ read full articleDispossessed in the Name of ‘Security’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Feb 2016
A new book, edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, both involved with The Transnational Institute, brings together a thoughtful collection of scholars, journalists and activists to explain the pre-eminence of the military and corporations in shaping the global response to the climate catastrophe as an ‘opportunity’.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to the American People: Political Responsibility in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk, David Krieger and Robert Laney – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What is most notable about the Nuclear Age is that we humans, by our scientific and technological ingenuity, have created the means of our own demise. The world currently is confronted by many threats to human wellbeing, and even civilizational survival, but we focus here on the particular grave dangers posed by nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Agreement: How Close Are We to “a World Free of Nuclear Weapons?”
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
The JCPOA is undoubtedly a victory for non-proliferation advocates, but the current possessors of nuclear weapons do not seem willing to apply the same logic to their own continuing programs of increase and “modernization” of their arsenals and point to the technological advancement of their rivals in order to justify their own military efforts. The nuclear arms race takes on new forms as bombs become smaller, lighter and smarter.
→ read full articleThe Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
In Jason MacLeod’s new book, Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, the failure to develop a comprehensive strategy of any kind, violent or nonviolent, to liberate West Papua is overwhelmingly evident. And MacLeod does an excellent job of identifying why this has happened as he provides us with an overview of the history and geopolitical circumstances of the occupation of West Papua as well as a history of the resistance, both violent and nonviolent, to this occupation.
→ read full articleRingling Circus Elephants to Retire in May
Tamara Lush, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
18 Jan 2016
12 January 16 – The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of circus elephant acts with local governments passing “anti-circus” and “anti-elephant” ordinances in response to concerns over animal cruelty.
→ read full articleRemembering Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
January 17th marks the date of the illegal overthrow of Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani and the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 by U.S. business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines. January 18th marks the holiday named for Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. who was a champion for civil rights, justice, peace and the power of nonviolent action, assassinated in 1968.
→ read full article‘Regrettable’ Is As Far As UK Criticism of Saudi Arabia Is Allowed to Go
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
18 Jan 2016
It was instructive, also, to hear Kawczynski refer to executions as “certain domestic actions”, as if slicing heads off human beings was something to be kept within the family – which is true, in a sense, since the Saudi authorities allow their executioners to train their sons in the craft of head-slicing, just as we Brits used to allow our hangmen to bring their sons into the gallows trade.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia a Force for Stability? Dream On!
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
11 Jan 2016
The Saudi mass beheadings on January 2 proved nothing new to a world that well knows Saudi Arabia is still a tribal police state with a moral code of medieval barbarity. Saudi Arabia is a Sunni-Muslim country that executes people for witchcraft, adultery, apostasy, and homosexuality (among other things).
→ read full articleDecide to Be a Spiritual Person
Robert Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
Render others spiritual
Irradiate your spirituality
Treat every moment of your life
with divine respect
Poor 2016, So Many Handicaps
Roberto Savio – Other News,
4 Jan 2016
December 31, 2015 – At this time, we all wish “a very good year”. While the wish is always a positive thing, we should also realize that we cannot expect too much from the new born year. He is loaded by so many handicaps, that we should have lots of sympathy for him… Here is a list of the major handicaps for 2016, which is of course a personal view: but supported by many data.
→ read full articleGITMO Clock
Andy Worthington, Close Guantánamo Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Holding President Obama to his promise to release the 48 cleared-for-release detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
As of 4 Jan 2016, 12:25 p.m. GMT:
1321 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes since the promise on May 23, 2013.
Don’t Eat That Shrimp
Roberto A. Ferdman – The Washington Post,
4 Jan 2016
Indentured and Enslaved Workers Fuel the Thai Shrimp Industry – Burmese men, women and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains.
→ read full articleA Happy & More Just and Peaceful New Year FOR ALL! -> Reduce the Great Divide between Rich and Poor
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
There are great divides that need healing. Honolulu has the largest number of homeless per capita of any city in the U.S. The gap between rich are poor widens while $50-100 million-dollar private jets crowd the Kona airport bringing the super rich to vacation in luxury homes and resorts.
→ read full articleSlaughter through a Stethoscope
Dennis J. Bernstein - Reader Supported News,
28 Dec 2015
Dr. Mads Gilbert, a self-described “political doctor” and practitioner of “solidarity medicine,” started to keep a journal of his experiences as an emergency room doctor during the last two massive Israeli attacks on the tiny Gaza Strip. He is the only Western medical doctor who worked clinically in Gaza’s hospitals during the last four Israeli attacks on Gaza (2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014).
→ read full article15 Indigenous Rights Victories That You Didn’t Hear about in 2015
John Ahni Schertow – IC Magazine,
28 Dec 2015
21 Dec 2015 – Good news. Sometimes, it comes in the form of a cancelled hydro dam that spares 20,000 people from the burden of displacement. Other times, it takes the shape of a simple court admission that Indigenous Peoples do actually make the best conservationists. In this day in age such stories are incredibly rare.
→ read full articleWhere to Invade Next
Godfrey Cheshire, Roger Ebert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
Moore tells us the Joint Chiefs of Staff invited him to Washington, DC to confess that all their wars since “the big one” have been disastrous and ask his advice. He responds by offering himself up as a one-man army who will “invade countries populated by Caucasians whose names I can mostly pronounce, take the things we need from them, and bring them back home to the United States of America.”
→ read full articleThe NRA Is Actually Half Right: Guns Don’t Kill People — Americans Kill People
Michael Moore – The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Dec 2015
The ‘Where to Invade Next’ filmmaker argues that even if the U.S. banned guns, its lack of a social safety net would still turn many toward violence: “We just need to modify [the NRA’s slogan] to, ‘Guns don’t kill people — Americans kill people.'”
→ read full articleFukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
21 Dec 2015
Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Why nuke plants are as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleEndless War Crimes in Yemen Slowed by Ceasefire
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
21 Dec 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen Has a Fascist Whiff of Franco’s Spain Circa 1936 – The first lie about Yemen’s dirty war in the world of official journalism is that the fighting there has been a “nine-month conflict” and that “the conflict started in March,” as the New York Times put it on December 17. This is simply not true in any meaningful sense.
→ read full articleThe U.S. and the Rise of ISIS
Stephen Zunes – National Catholic Reporter,
21 Dec 2015
The rise of ISIS (also known as Daesh, ISIL, or the “Islamic State”) is a direct consequence of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. While there are a number of other contributing factors as well, that fateful decision is paramount. And there are no clear answers as to how to best respond to the threat from ISIS.
→ read full article
Empire Files
Abby Martin, TheRealNews - TeleSur,
21 Dec 2015
Abby Martin debuts teleSUR’s The Empire Files exploring the U.S. Empire and its rise to world hegemony.
→ read full articleExtinction is Forever
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
it is two things that drive species over the edge: our systematic destruction of land habitat – forests, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands, mangroves… – in our endless effort to capture more of the Earth’s wild places for human use (whether it be residential, commercial, mining, farming or military) and our destruction of waterways and the ocean habitat by dumping into them radioactive contaminants, carbon dioxide, a multitude of poisons and chemical pollutants, and even plastic.
→ read full articleFive Years since the Arrest of Julian Assange
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
8 Dec 2015 – On December 7, 2010 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained in London under a European Arrest Warrant issued by Sweden. His sole crime was to bring to global attention the heinous war crimes committed by the US and other imperialist powers in Iraq and Afghanistan—crimes authorised at the highest levels of government.
→ read full articleThe Taboo of Radiation Exposure in Japan: The Social Effects of Fukushima
Erin O’Flaherty – Activist Post,
14 Dec 2015
Radiation is physically harmful to those who are exposed to it. However, it is also harmful on a social level. Those who become exposed to radiation form a new class within society, one that is discriminated against and even feared by many ordinary people. This has certainly been the case with the Fukushima nuclear incident.
→ read full articleBritish Amputee Soldier Bold Statement Defending Muslims
Chris Herbert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
Point is, fuck off. I know who I dislike, and I know who I don’t. I know who I appreciate, and I know who I don’t. If you want to hate an entire race of men and women for the actions of a few dickheads feel free, but don’t push your views on me, thinking I am an easy target because one douchebag decided it was my day to die. Blaming all Muslims for the actions of groups like Daesh and the Taliban, is like blaming all Christians for the actions of the KKK or Westboro Baptist Church.
→ read full articleFour Examples of Mainstream Media Fabricating News to Push for War
Dylan Charles, Waking Times – The Conscious Reporter,
14 Dec 2015
As we inch further into the future and evermore closer to the next, and certainly last, world war, it seems proper to give pause and consider the significance of the fact that much of the information provided on world events is dreadfully compromised by corporate and political propagandists.
→ read full articleObama, like Bush, Just Makes It All Worse
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
14 Dec 2015
Fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and secrecy all conspire to defeat confidence, calm, proportionality, and reason. Leadership and populace alike embrace a zeitgeist of agitation and over-simplification, lashing out in one-dimensional military responses to misperceived threats that are not even fundamentally military. Anti-terrorism, as practiced by the US, is an oxymoron.
→ read full articleThe Dynamics of Compassion
Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
We invented written language. The human species is now in the process of inventing something just as crucial: how to love itself, how to engage with itself nonviolently. We’ve been organized for far too long in a state of only partial connection, relying on the presence of enemies to stay in solidarity with our neighbors.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (I)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
Le professeur Almada a été victime de la torture et de la répression militaire dans le cadre de l’ « Opération Condor » en Amérique du Sud. Malgré cela, Martin Almada n’a jamais renoncé à ses idéaux et il a été celui qui, en 1992, a découvert au Paraguay les « Archives de la Terreur », mettant au jour les preuves de l’existence d’un vaste réseau et d’un système de répression coordonné à l’échelle internationale entre les dictatures militaires, appuyé par la CIA.
→ read full article(Français) 40ème anniversaire du Plan Condor : globalisation et terrorisme d’état (II)
Alex Anfruns & Martin Almada, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
C’est pourquoi il est urgent de mondialiser les luttes contre l’Impunité du Terrorisme d’État. Le capital prédateur s’est mondialisé ces dernières années. Maintenant, c’est à notre tour de mondialiser nos convictions en faveur d’une citoyenneté active, d’une authentique démocratie adaptée à nos réalités. Il nous faut surtout vivre solidairement pour empêcher que la moribonde ALCA ne ressuscite.
→ read full articleReflections about the Dam Burst in Brazil and the (In)Visibility of Structural Violence
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Peace Reflections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
In a 1969 article, Johan Galtung stated that violence is “the cause of the difference between the potential and the actual, between what could have been and what is”. If a political system allows corporate interests to determine the path of a country’s economic development, this system is not democratic. It is a privatized political system that responds to the interests of a rich minority.
→ read full articleTurkish Intelligence Chief: ISIS Is a Reality and We Must Stop Putin from Crushing the Islamic Revolution
AWD News – Fort Russ,
30 Nov 2015
“ISIS is a reality and we have to accept that we cannot eradicate a well-organized and popular establishment such as the Islamic State; therefore I urge my western colleagues to revise their mindset about Islamic political currents, put aside their cynical mentalité and thwart Vladimir Putin’s plans to crush Syrian Islamist revolutionaries,” – Anadolu News Agency quoted Mr. Fidan as saying on Sunday [22 Nov].
→ read full articleThe Tardigrade Genome Has Been Sequenced, and It Has the Most Foreign DNA of Any Animal
Fiona Macdonald , Science Alert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
25 Nov 2015 – Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species.
→ read full articleMore Paris Puzzles
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
Why assume that the suicide bombers knew who was organizing the attack? There seems to be abundant evidence that ISIL is a US creation, one that is still dependent on US active or passive support—thus the conflict between Putin and Washington over attacking ISIL.
→ read full articleEscalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Viet-Nam War
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Nov 2015
Too much truth has not been the traditional path to the White House. But too little truth, as we have seen too often, makes the achievement bitter and pointless. The problem is to put peace on the table in a way that is hard to oppose without seeming to be a monster. And there is an easy approach.
→ read full articleEnd the Cycle of Violence
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
The U.S. likes to see itself as the “exceptional” nation, a bastion of freedom and democracy, the world’s benevolent “good guy.” Evil is out there in others – the terrorists. But much of the world sees the U.S. (and its ally France) as a dangerous racist empire of domination out to exploit and control labor and resources to benefit corporate interests and a wealthy elite at the expense of the earth and everyone else. ISIS obviously sees itself as the “good guys” and the problem of evil focused in France, the US, etc. Both sides appear to agree on “by any means necessary.” Terrorism against terrorism is terrorism.
→ read full articleThe Climate Talks in Paris Will Fail. Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2015
As a nonviolent activist, I have never asked elites (or their governments and corporations) to change their behaviour. Instead, I have invited them to respond powerfully to circumstances that I create that compel change. If I invite others to participate in the action I am taking and enough do so, elites have no choice but to act as I prefer. Let me give some examples to explain this.
→ read full articleHere Come the Paris Truthers: Paranoia, the American Right, and the Missing Complexity from Our Terrorism Debate
Arthur Goldwag - Salon,
23 Nov 2015
France was a colonial power in the Middle East and Africa for a century; it has boots on the ground in West Africa and its war planes have been bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq and Syria. As shocking and terrible as Friday’s attacks were, there really is no mystery as to why they happened; they did not come out of the blue. Just as Israeli realpolitik helped lay the groundwork for Hamas, ISIS, as we now know, is a monster that the West had a hand in creating.
→ read full articleNew Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People under the Whip
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short – In the Western world democracy has been decapitated. In Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and the United States itself, there is no connection between the will of the people and the policies of the government. Only in tiny Iceland did the people prevail over the banks. Everywhere else the people are forced to pay for the gambling losses and leveraged debts of the financial sector.
→ read full articleArming Dictators: An American Tradition
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015 – Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations.
→ read full article‘We Remain Blindfolded about Isis’ Says the Man Who Should Know
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
16 Nov 2015
So immediately after the Paris massacres, I sought for reason, clarity and wisdom from a man who spent four and a half years in the hands of Muslim kidnappers – 54 months wearing a blindfold, always waiting for death. Brian Keenan was held by Shia Muslims loyal to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
→ read full articleThe Scofield Bible—The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
9 Nov 2015
“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.” —The New Scofield Study Bible
→ read full articleThe ‘Devil’ Gets His Due: Elephant Poaching Kingpin Arrested
John R. Platt - TakePart,
9 Nov 2015
3 Nov 2015 – Tanzanian officials have arrested a poacher and smuggler whom they say is responsible for thousands of elephant deaths across several African nations. Many poachers and smugglers get off with little more than a slap on the wrist—or less. “These cases need to be followed to their conclusion.”
→ read full articleThe Pentagon’s Law of War Manual (Parts 1-4)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The new US Department of Defense ‘Law of War Manual’ is essentially a guidebook for violating international and domestic law and committing war crimes. The 1,165-page document is not a statement of existing law as much as a compendium of what the Pentagon wishes the law to be.
→ read full articleFukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to opening Pandora’s box, there’s no stopping a ferocious atom-splitting insanity that knows no end.
→ read full articleThe Punishment Society
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
With our public schools and police forces working overtime to teach the children who will comprise the future generations that violence is the solution and submission is the only alternative, expect the United States to be unliveable at home and an even worse danger to the rest of the world.
→ read full articleA New Book Reveals the Horrifying, and Fascinating, Details of Daily Life under Isis
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
9 Nov 2015
It details all of Isis’s cruelty, but places it in the context of a very bloody history.
→ read full articleThe “War on Terror” Is the Hoax Foundation of the Police/Spy State
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The “war on terror” was a hoax. Americans were deceived by policymakers, who are pursuing a hegemonic agenda. Who can possibly believe that a handful of Saudi Arabians acting without the support of any state and any intelligence service could outwit the entire apparatus of the American National Security State and inflict a humiliating defeat on the world’s only superpower?
→ read full articleTobacco’s Children: Brazil Sets an Example for the U.S.
Margaret Wurth, The Progressive – Human Rights Watch,
9 Nov 2015
Brazil and the United States are among the top five global tobacco producers. The US has no restrictions on children working in tobacco farming, despite many known dangers. But Brazil has banned children under 18 from working on the farms. How do the two countries compare now?
→ read full articleExposed by WikiLeaks: The US Empire According to Itself
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
In the book ‘The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire’ we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the ‘top secret’ correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of WikiLeaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize.
→ read full articleCan Haiti’s Corrupt President Hold On to Power?
James North – The Nation,
2 Nov 2015
Michel Martelly is trying to impose a successor amid widespread public anger at government repression and failure to rebuild after the earthquake.
→ read full articleFact-finding Delegation Reports an Electoral Coup Now in Process in Haiti
Report from the Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Most international observers of the election have focused on the day of the election, but not on the vital final stage of the electoral process – the counting and tabulation of the votes. Although multiple political parties are protesting the post-election counting process, Haiti’s ruling party is praising the vote and objecting to critiques of the tabulation process.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels - Encyclopædia Britannica,
2 Nov 2015
Arrested in January 1898 for revolutionary activity, Bronshtein spent four and a half years in prison and in exile in Siberia, during which time he married his coconspirator Aleksandra Sokolovskaya and fathered two daughters. He escaped in 1902 with a forged passport bearing the name Trotsky, which he adopted as his revolutionary pseudonym.
→ read full articleFrom European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Europe will have to accept that it is not going to be the homogenous and white society that the right wing and xenophobic parties dream of reestablishing. The lack of global governability has created a staggering figure of 60 million refugees. Solidarity or not, Europe demography will require the arrival of some million. What will be the Europe of 2030?
→ read full article(Português) O Que Está em Causa
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
2 Nov 2015
27 out 2015 – O fenómeno não é português. É global, embora em cada país assuma uma manifestação específica. Consiste na agressividade inusitada com que a direita enfrenta qualquer desafio à sua dominação, uma agressividade expressa em linguagem abusiva, manipulação do medo de modo a eliminar a esperança, falsidades proclamadas como verdades sociológicas, destempero emocional no confronto de ideias, etc., etc.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Prof. Edward Curtin – Information Clearing House,
2 Nov 2015
The continuing Killing Deep State within the U.S. Empire. David Talbot has exposed the face of evil incarnate in Allen Dulles, the hitman for the power elite.
→ read full articleThe War Politics behind Nobel Prize
Gouthama Siddarthan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015 – The Nobel committee is at it again, proving for the umpteenth time that it has been a playground for the international political game of chess.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Prof. Johan Galtung’s 85th Birthday
Erika Degortes and Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
We are here not to offer you a gift dear Johan, but to celebrate the gift you have given to all those interested in bringing about peace as a sociological and as a political responsibility in our multipolar and multicultural world.
→ read full article(Português) Nações Unidas – 70 Anos
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Setenta anos atrás, em 24 de outubro de 1945, entrou em vigor a Carta das Nações Unidas. Toda a comunidade internacional tem o dever de esforçar-se ao máximo a fim de tornar realidade os nobres ideais que presidiram a sua fundação.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #7 (October 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter,
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
The United Nations at 70
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Seventy years ago, on October 24 1945, the Charter of the United Nations entered into force. It is the duty of the entire international community to do the utmost in order to make true the lofty ideals under which it was founded.
→ read full articleHow Can We Win America’s Peace?
Robert Hinds, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The current map of instability in the Middle East can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration in World War I. The war in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban are repercussions from the Cold War, which was itself a result of WWII. Forty-five years after Nixon’s disastrous decision to continue the war in Vietnam, the lesson should seem clear. A policy that favors warfare more than diplomacy will not bring peace.
→ read full article“War Is a Racket”
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Record U.S. Military Budget! The U.S. military receives more funding than the rest of the 10 largest militaries in the world combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea): $1.3 trillion dollars per year.
→ read full article(Swahili-Haiti Kreyol) Hotuba ya Rais wa zamani wa Kiswahili Jean-Bertrand Aristide juu ya Maadhimisho ya 24 ya Statskupp
Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Hai vle di non, pa. Tii vle di obeyi nan lang Swaili. Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Haïti ou Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Lontan, esklav yo te toujou ap di: Pa obeyi kolon yo. Jodia, nou di: pa obeyi moun ki pa respekte dwa moun. Haitii!
→ read full articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ 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 articleColumbus Day, 12 October, Is a Reminder That Nothing Exists Until a White Guy “Discovers” It
Jake Flanagin, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We know that Native Americans were living in the Americas for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. We know their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from northeastern Asia, and in the ensuing 10,000 to 15,000 years populated the New World with civilizations as diverse and distinct as the Mayans, the Inuit, [the Tupi-Guaranis in the South], and the Mapuche.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Mystery Solved: Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.” Asking Toyota where the USSD’s own trucks came from is another indication of just how lost US foreign policy, legitimacy, and credibility have become.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis doivent-ils s’allier à Al-Qaida en Syrie ?
Robert Parry, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Aux Etats-Unis, la nouvelle « pensée collective » souligne que le président russe Poutine n’a pas tenu sa promesse d’attaquer seulement l’État islamique lorsque ses avions de guerre ont frappé d’autres cibles rebelles en Syrie. Mais Poutine n’a jamais précisé quels terroristes il allait frapper. Et la coalition des rebelles ciblés comprend des affiliés d’Al-Qaida.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Gegen die Nato: Frankreich unterstützt Russland in Syrien
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
5. Oktober 2015 – Die Franzosen unterstützen den Kampf Russlands gegen andere Terror-Gruppen in Syrien. Sie stellen sich damit auf die Seite von US-Präsident Barack Obama, der die Russen zu ihrem Einsatz ermuntert hat und über den Fortgang informiert wird.
→ read full articleFormer Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the 24th Anniversary of the Coup d’état That Deposed Him
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Hai means no, do not. Tii means obey in the Swahili language. Haiti or Haitii means do not obey. Long ago, slaves were always saying “Do not obey the colonists.” Today we say “Do not obey people who have no respect for human rights. Haitii!
→ read full article(Ελληνική-Greek) Οι ελίτ θέλουν περισσότερους πρόσφυγες: Γιατί;
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza International Press Agency,
5 Oct 2015
Αν δεν είμαστε επαρκώς ενημερωμένοι, μπορούμε να ασχολούμαστε μόνο με ένα ή περισσότερα συμπτώματα της δικής τους παραφροσύνης. Οι ελίτ θέλουν περισσότερους πρόσφυγες, εν μέρει διότι με αυτόν τον τρόπο αποσπάται η προσοχή μας και δεν αναλύουμε ή δεν αντιστεκόμαστε σε αυτό που κάνουν συνολικά.
→ 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 articleNetanyahu’s Real Message Was to Israel’s Jews: “Talk Peace but Prepare for Doomsday”
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
How Israel’s Jews would react if they were put on notice that they would be subjected to complete isolation and effective sanctions? Left behind in a walled-in nuclear-armed fortress, the zealots would be prepared, as Golda Meir once said to me in a BBC Panorama interview when she was Israel’s prime minister, to take the region and the world down with them.
→ read full articleThe Western Media Is Dying and Here’s Why
Tony Cartalucci – New Eastern Outlook,
5 Oct 2015
Seymour Hersh has risked much over his decades of journalism. He is a true journalist who has been attacked, slandered, and shunned by all sides simply because he seems to resist taking any side. When he reported on US atrocities in Vietnam, he was first attacked and denounced as a traitor or worse.
→ 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 articleGandhi Jayanti, Gandhi’s Dream
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On behalf of those of us who struggle to honor Gandhi’s legacy to the world, I would like to wish Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi ‘happy birthday!’ He was born on 2 October 1869. Gandhi’s dream of a world without violence might be fanciful. But, as John Lennon once sang, he is ‘not the only one’. Many of us share this dream. Are you a dreamer too?
→ read full articleHuman Rights and the Targeting by Drone
Robert McCorquodale - European Journal of International Law,
28 Sep 2015
“International human rights law prohibits arbitrary killing. This prohibition is reflected in specific treaty obligations and forms part of customary international law. lethal remotely piloted aircraft attacks will rarely be lawful outside a situation of armed conflict, because only in the most exceptional of circumstances would it be permissible under international human rights law for killing to be the sole or primary objective of an operation.” — UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Killings
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