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Pfizer Cuts States Off from Execution Drugs
Bryce Covert – Think Progress,
16 May 2016
14 May 2016 – After pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Friday [13 May] that it will clamp down on the distribution of its drugs so that they can no longer be used in executions, any state that wants to use lethal injection will now have to resort to getting them on underground markets.
→ read full articleOffshore Leaks Database
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.
→ read full articleNeocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 May 2016
Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.
→ read full articleBeekeepers Lost 44% of Honey Bee Colonies Last Year in the USA
Friends of the Earth | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
On Tuesday [10 May] the Bee Informed Partnership, in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, released its annual report on honey bee losses in the U.S. Beekeepers reported losing 44 percent of their total number of colonies managed over the last year. These losses are considered too high to be sustainable for U.S. agriculture and the beekeeping industry.
→ read full articleA Killing Nation!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
It has become increasingly clear that the U.S. is not about the business of “freedom and democracy” but rather global domination that benefits an economic corporate elite at the expense of nearly everyone else and the earth itself. Of course, the domination is disguised and fueled by fear: war on terror, regime change, destroying Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. but increasingly the world is seeing through the disguise. So what are we to do?
→ read full articleThe Ugly Truth Behind the Greek Bailout
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
16 May 2016
IMF Queen Christine’s backroom stratagem, described in a WikiLeaks’ leaked confidential letter exclusive to Troika members, preceded the three-day nationwide strike in very strong protest against more and more, infinitely more, austerity measures burying the Greek people as quid pro quo for bailout money, which almost exclusively (95%) serves to service creditors. This is insanity of the highest order. How can Greeks at all accede to a measly 5%?
→ read full articleOxyContin’s 12-Hour Dosing Claim Attacked in Massive Investigation
Sy Mukherjee - Fortune,
9 May 2016
Purdue Pharma’s marketing of opioid was dangerously misleading, report says. Since 1999, more than 165,000 people have died from overdosing on prescription painkillers; opioids have even been implicated in the death of superstar Prince.
→ read full articleLeaked TTIP Documents Cast Doubt on EU-US Trade Deal
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
9 May 2016
1 May 2016 – Talks for a free trade deal between Europe and the US face a serious impasse with “irreconcilable” differences in some areas, according to leaked negotiating texts. The two sides are also at odds over US demands that would require the EU to break promises it has made on environmental protection.
→ read full articlePresident Obama Should Meet A-Bomb Survivors, and Heed Their Call to Ban the Bomb
Kevin Martin | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
5 May 2016 – President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Remarkably, many Hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, are still alive today, though they often suffer from various radiation-caused illnesses or other physical ailments 71 years after the bombs were dropped.
→ read full articleCowardice and Exoneration in Kunduz
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
“The aircrew appeared to be confused by the directions from the Americans on the ground. At one point, the crew was told it would need to hit a second target after the strike it was about to commence, and ‘we will also be doing the same thing of softening the target for partner forces.’” This is the reality: An action that wound up killing 42 hospital workers and patients –men, women and children, some of whom were burned alive in their beds – was instigated in order to “soften the target” . . .
→ read full articleHonor Father Dan Berrigan: Carry the Torch of Justice & Peace!
James ‘Jim’ Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
In early 1968, Dan made international headlines when he traveled to North Vietnam with U.S. historian Howard Zinn to bring home three U.S. prisoners of war. Later that year, Dan, his brother Phil and seven others took hundreds of draft files from the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland and set the files on fire in the parking lot, using homemade napalm, to protest the Vietnam War.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s New Weapons: Full Speed Ahead
Mel Gurtov | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
The best and only chance of dissuading Kim Jong-un from continuing on the path of weapons modernization, which is both dangerous and ruinous in terms of human development, is to put before him a package of alternative incentives— a peace treaty to end the Korean War, security guarantees, sustainable energy options, and meaningful economic aid.
→ read full articleThe Calm before the Coming Global Storm
Pepe Escobar | The International Reporter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
6 May 2016 – They have seen what Washington does offer; endless war; the progressive smashing of the nation state; democracy blasted to smithereens; and technocratic governance by the 0.00001%. Yet all this is just the calm before the geopolitical/financial storm. Let’s review the current state of play via the dilemmas afflicting the House of Saud, the EU and BRICS members Russia, Brazil and China.
→ read full articleLiving Peace Sign Is Happening in London!
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
An exciting and much needed event is happening at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 14 May 2016. Seeing Trafalgar Square full of people holding candles for peace, means that united we can send a very strong message to the world with our wish for ending all wars and conflicts.
→ read full articleSanctions and Defiance in North Korea
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
When all is said and done, the most likely scenario is that the new round of sanctions will produce no better results than previous rounds. This is so not only because North Korea has many ways to procure items needed for its military purposes, and plenty of willing private sellers.
→ read full articleThe Unrepentant Torturers
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News,
2 May 2016
A policy of torture, a policy of holding people incommunicado in secret prisons, a policy of rendering people to third countries to undergo even more brutal torture, does nothing but serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Torture doesn’t prevent terrorism, it causes it.
→ read full articleWashington Launches Its Attack against BRICS
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
26 Apr 2016 – Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleAnthropologists Marshalling History: The American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions
Roberto J. González and David Price - CounterPunch,
2 May 2016
The AAA’s full membership now has a historic opportunity to vote on whether or not to approve the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The rank-and-file membership’s overwhelming support for the Resolution 2 was clear, but so too is the determination, resources, and willingness to use fear tactics of the minority who oppose the pro-boycott measure. Now is the time for concerned anthropologists to take action by voting to support the resolution.
→ read full articleKenya Burns Huge Pile of Ivory Tusks to Protest Poaching
Tom Odula, Associated Press – Reader Supported News,
2 May 2016
Kenya’s president set fire Saturday [30 Apr 2016] to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species. Kenya decided to destroy the ivory instead of selling it for an estimated $150 million. Pres. Kenyatta said that Kenya wants to make the point that ivory should not have any commercial value.
→ read full article2016 World Press Freedom Index: Leaders Paranoid about Journalists
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2016
20 Apr 2016 – Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests. 180 Countries Ranked According to Freedom Allowed to Journalists
→ read full articlePalestine and Zionism: The Whole Truth
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Brainwashed and idiotic Zionists in Sardinia tried and failed to have some of my lectures and debates cancelled by accusing me of being an anti-Semite who is inciting anti-Semitism. They knew nothing about my book and its contents and were reading from Zionism’s script. Their efforts resulted in increased sales of my book!
→ read full article(Danish-Dansk) Hvorfor araberne ikke ønsker USA i Syrien
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Berlingske,
25 Apr 2016
De millioner af flygtninge, der strømmer ind i Europa, er ofre for en krig om en rørledning og CIAs adskillige fadæser. Lad os se i øjnene: Det, vi kalder »krigen mod terror«, er i virkeligheden blot endnu en oliekrig.
→ read full articleSyrian Elections Prove again That Washington and Its Presstitutes Lie through Their Teeth
Paul Craig Roberts – Dissident Voice,
25 Apr 2016
On April 14 2016, Syria held parliamentary elections at 7,000 polling stations, keeping the voting open an extra five hours to accommodate the massive turnout. Washington is angry, because Syria held elections before Washington had time to purchase its slate of politicians and Washington-funded NGOs to claim that Assad had stolen the election. Putin and Assad should take note that Washington still intends to overthrow the Syrian government and to install either a puppet or chaos as in Iraq and Libya.
→ read full articleAP Investigation: Are Slaves Catching the Fish You Buy?
Robin Mcdowell, Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza, AP –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Update: On 18 Apr 2016 the all-woman Associated Press team won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for this investigation [published on TMS in 30 Mar 2015].
25 Mar 2015 – The men the AP interviewed on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world. They were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and forced to fish. Their catch was then shipped back to Thailand, where it entered the global stream of commerce.
“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart
Pepe Escobar – The International Reporter,
25 Apr 2016
The coup has been sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha; holder of 11 illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Car Wash’s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?
→ read full articleOxfam: US Corporate Tax Cheats Hiding $1.4 Trillion in Profits in Offshore Accounts
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
The biggest tax dodger is technology giant Apple, with $181 billion held offshore. General Electric had the second-largest stash, at $119 billion, enough to repay four times over the $28 billion GE received in federal guarantees during the 2008 Wall Street crash. Microsoft had $108 billion in overseas accounts, with companies like Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, IBM, Cisco Systems, Google, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson rounding out the top ten.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #8 (April 2016)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
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 Charter signatories. Building a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts is quite a challenge but we are making solid progress!
→ read full articleWhere Are Marx and Lenin When We Need Them?
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism. Today capitalism is being financialized with the consequence that its productive power is being drained into the service of debt.
→ read full articleWhy We’re Never Told Why We’re Attacked
Joe Lauria – Consortium News,
18 Apr 2016
Connecting terrorism to Western intervention could spark a serious self-examination of the West’s behavior in the region leading to a possible retreat and even an end of this external dominance. But that is clearly something policymakers in Washington, London and Paris – and their subservient media – aren’t prepared to do.
→ read full articleCreating Resilient Communities
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Real peace — positive peace, which transcends violence and turns conflict into opportunity — is and always has been part of who we are. We know a lot more about how to create peace than we think we do. We’re perfectly capable of transcending violent solutions to our troubles and building a sustainable future. The first step is to take our conflicts out of isolation.
→ read full articleThe Panama Papers and the 1%
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2016
Global companies do not simply “go abroad”; they shift capital, as well as labor and technology, to wherever the advantages are greatest. This reality of globalization is well known, and it is matched by the similar behavior of powerful, wealthy individuals, including present and former top government officials who find tax shelters abroad where their money is completely hidden from public view. It’s what the One Percent do.
→ read full articleDemocracy Spring: Thousands Descend on US Capitol, Over 400 Arrested
Scott Galindez - Reader Supported News,
18 Apr 2016
12 Apr 2016 – Thousands of Americans have descended on Washington to launch one week of civil disobedience under the banner Democracy Spring. Their main demand is to get money out of politics. Over 400 people were arrested today, and over 3,000 have pledged to risk arrest over the next week.
→ read full articleMigration Crisis Infographic: The 95,000 Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum in Europe in 2015
Safya Khan-Ruf, Maeve McClenaghan, Gemma Newby and Eilidh Urquhart – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
18 Apr 2016
The numbers and their voices can be read and heard by clicking on the image for our unique infographic below.
→ read full articleEnding Human Violence Is a Task for Each of Us
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Do you think that ending human violence is impossible? Do you believe that even aiming to do so is unrealistic? Well, you might be right. But you might also be interested to know that there are a lot of people around the world who are committed to trying. And, if you think the aim is worthwhile, you could be one of them.
→ read full articleSpies and Shadowy Allies Lurk in Secret with Help from Offshore Firm
Will Fitzgibbon - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ,
11 Apr 2016
Firm helps CIA operatives and other characters — real or fanciful — from the world of espionage set up offshore companies to obscure their dealings.
• Spy chiefs, secret agents and alleged CIA contractors among those to use offshore companies
• Secret agents used offshore companies to, among other things, own golf courses
• Octopussy, Goldfinger, SkyFall, GoldenEye, Moonraker among offshore company names used by Mossack Fonseca
(Português) Estudar na universidade é um sonho tornado realidade para cada vez mais ciganos em Portugal
Susana Venceslau, André Kosters e Pedro Martins, Lusa – Sapo24,
11 Apr 2016
8 abr 2016 – Ser cigano e estudante universitário é uma realidade que começa a ser cada vez mais frequente, como José e Francisco, dois ciganos em busca do mesmo sonho, mas sem perderem a identidade que os une.
→ read full articleNuclear Insecurity
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Mel Gurtov has been a nuclear analyst since his early days for the RAND corporation when he and Daniel Ellsberg worked together. Dr. Gurtov’s expertise–and anyone who studies these issues in depth–was affronted by President Obama’s patently false claims in his recent op-ed message in the Washington Post.
→ read full article(Italiano) In che direzione andiamo?
Martin Luther King Jr. – Znet Italy,
11 Apr 2016
Brani tratti dal discorso di King “Dove andiamo da qui?,” fatto ad Atlanta, Georgia, il 16 agosto 1967 alla 11a Convention Annuale della SCLC – Southern Christian Leadership Conference – (un’organizzazione statunitense per i diritti civi).
→ read full article‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
11 Apr 2016
Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders.
→ read full article(Castellano) Un drama de larga historia en el aún corto siglo XXI
Carta de la Paz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
En primer lugar, aseveramos que no es posible entender una política que sólo hable de hechos tristes y vergonzosos, sin al mismo tiempo esforzarse por poner remedio a las causas que lo producen. Afirmamos rotundamente que es necesario poner fin a las guerras causantes de esos más de 60 millones de personas en busca de refugio, vagabundeando por las tierras y las aguas del mundo.
→ read full article(Français) Evaluation critique de la Cour Pénale Internationale (1998 – 2002 – 2016)
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
Dans un monde non consensuel où l’Occident et ses alliés « communient exclusivement dans les valeurs du marché et les droits de l’homme » civils et politiques en oubliant toujours le social et aspirent à un fédéralisme universel, une authentique justice criminelle internationale demeure une utopie difficilement accessible.
→ read full articleBrazilian Democracy Thrown to the Dogs
Pepe Escobar – The International Reporter,
11 Apr 2016
Military coups are so Pinochet-era. It’s never enough to stress that what’s taking place in Brazil is advanced Hybrid War, a white coup/regime change operation organized by the Federal Public Ministry, corporate media (controlled by four families) and a significant part of Congress.
→ read full articleVatican to Host First-Ever Conference to Reevaluate Just War Theory, Justifications for Violence
Joshua J. McElwee - National Catholic Reporter,
11 Apr 2016
The Vatican will be hosting a first of its kind conference April 11-13 to reexamine the Catholic Church’s long-held teachings on just war theory, bringing some 80 nonviolent struggles experts to Rome to develop a new moral framework that rejects ethical justifications for war– displacing the centuries-old just war theory as the main Catholic response to violence.
→ read full articleRecovering from Militarism
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
The pols cry glory and revenge. They cry security. They cry greatness. Then they stick in the needle, or the missile or the rifle shell, or the nuclear bomb. Or at least they imagine doing so. This will fix the world. And they approve more funding for war. We talk about “the Pentagon” as though it were a rational entity, hierarchically in control of what it does.
→ read full articleGiant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption: The Panama Papers
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens.
→ read full articleExplore the Panama Papers Key Figures
Rigoberto Carvajal, Mar Cabra, Álvaro Ortiz and Fernando Blat - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists-ICIJ,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – The 2.6 terabyte trove of data at the core of this investigation contains nearly 40 years of records, and includes information about more than 210,000 companies in 21 offshore jurisdictions. Read more about the data and our methodology.
→ read full articleNuclear Security: Continuous Improvement or Dangerous Decline?
Matthew Bunn, Martin B. Malin, Nickolas Roth and William Tobey - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
4 Apr 2016
The answer will shape the chances that terrorist groups, including the Islamic State, could get their hands on the materials they need to build a crude nuclear bomb. In a report (pdf file) we published late in March, we outline the shape of the threat and the steps that must be taken to keep potential nuclear bomb material out of terrorist hands.
→ read full articleThe “Islamophobia” Industry Feeds War Abroad, Grows Police State at Home
Tony Cartalucci - Land Destroyer Report,
4 Apr 2016
It’s real simple. Create a threat, predicate expanding autocracy at home and endless wars of hegemony abroad upon confronting that threat, and all the while intentionally perpetuate fear, hysteria, hatred, and division to keep that threat relevant in the hearts and minds of as many people as possible.
→ read full article(Català) Un drama de llarga història a l’encara curt segle XXI
Carta de la Pau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2016
En primer lloc, assegurem que no és possible entendre una política que només parli de fets tristos i vergonyosos, sense al mateix temps esforçar-se per posar remei a les causes que els produeixen. Afirmem rotundament que cal posar fi a les guerres que causen aquests més de 60 milions de persones a la recerca de refugi, vagabundejant per les terres i les aigües del món.
→ read full articleConsciousness versus Computers
Jon Rappoport - The Conscious Reporter,
28 Mar 2016
Can machines truly be spiritual? Are they free? Or are freedom and spirituality born from consciousness, which machines sorely lack? The author explores whether consciousness is being negated and replaced with a technocratic religion as a subtle form of social control.
→ read full articleChina: Broken Rice Bowls, Stifled Voices
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2016
China, no different from any other large country, has a multitude of domestic problems, but those two are especially worrisome in that they have the potential for significant unrest. And for the Chinese leadership, social instability always raises red flags.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Astounding Human Rights Hypocrisy in Cuba
Harvey Wasserman - Reader Supported News,
28 Mar 2016
Maybe our elected officials should cease their hypocritical yapping about the human rights situation in Cuba until they come clean about what’s happening here in the United States. The idea of the United States lecturing Cuba or any other country on this planet about human rights comes down somewhere between embarrassing and nauseating. Consider:
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: A ditadura e seus psicopatas de ontem e de hoje
Antonio Lassance – Carta Maior,
28 Mar 2016
Os que marcham em defesa do golpe são gente que fede a religião, mas não acredita em Deus – como diria Mário de Andrade. É gente que esbofeteia cada um dos milhões de brasileiros que foram privados da liberdade por mais de duas décadas neste país. Que marchem, mas não ousem tocar suas mãos sujas em nossa democracia, nem pisar sobre nossas consciências.
→ read full articleUS-Saudi Terror in Yemen Dwarfs ISIS Attacks in Europe
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Mar 2016
25 Mar 2016 – Why are two of the richest countries in the World, the United States and Saudi Arabia, engaged in unrelenting, aggressive war against one of the poorest countries in the world, Yemen?
→ read full articleWhat Does Daesh Mean? ISIS ‘Threatens to Cut Out the Tongues’ of Anyone Using This Word
Nicola Oakley and Suchandrika Chakrabarti - Mirror,
28 Mar 2016
Google searches for the term have leapt almost 600% in the last week, since the Brussels Attacks – but what does it mean, and why does ISIS hate the word so much?
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation: A Killer
Robert Hunziker – Dissident Voice,
28 Mar 2016
Today, the radiation at the Fukushima plant is still so powerful it has proven impossible to get into its bowels to find and remove the extremely dangerous blobs of melted fuel rods, weighing hundreds of tonnes. Five robots sent into the reactors have failed to return. It’s killing robots!
→ read full articleUnderstanding Self-Hatred in World Affairs
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
Conscious self-hatred is an intensely unpleasant feeling to experience and, consequently, people who feel self-hatred learn to fearfully and deeply suppress their awareness of it when they are very young. Having learned to do this, subsequent opportunities for this self-hatred to be felt are progressively more easily suppressed. I emphasise the word fearfully suppressed.
→ read full articleThe US Role in the Honduras Coup and Subsequent Violence
Stephen Zunes - National Catholic Reporter,
21 Mar 2016
Clinton’s role in supporting the coup in Honduras is a reminder that the Middle East is not the only part of the world in which she is willing to set aside principles of international law and human rights to advance perceived U.S. economic and strategic interests.
→ read full articlePresident Obama Is Wrong on Encryption; Claims the Realist View Is ‘Absolutist’
TechDirt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2016
The President says he won’t comment directly on the Apple legal fights, but then launches into the standard politician talking point of “yes, we want strong encryption, but bad people will use it so we need to figure out ‘some way’ to break in.”
→ read full articleWestern Media Ignoring Reality on the Ground in Syria
Eva Bartlett – Russia Today,
14 Mar 2016
The interview was typical of the infrequent times corporate media has bothered to interview Dr. Shaaban: loaded lexicon, pre-priming the audience with false allegations about the Syrian government, repeatedly cutting-off the high-ranking guest, and a notably rude and condescending demeanor not afforded to guests who tow the NATO narrative on Syria.
→ read full articleMajor 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 article