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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark: US Sanctions Are Genocidal
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Sep 17, 2013 – Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the countries these sanctions target.
→ read full articleFacebook and NSA Privacy Violations: Privacy Becomes a Selling Point
Rick Falkvinge – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
When people are being watched, they start restraining themselves. NSA privacy violations are provoking people to flee Facebook, but where? In fact, millions of users are deserting Facebook. This may not sound like much in the light of the site’s one billion or so users, but it is significant in terms of a trend change.
→ read full articleIslamist Blitzkrieg in Syria: Jihadists Wiping Out Moderate Rebels
Ivan Fursov – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria have begun an offensive against former allies, wrestling moderate FSA rebels out of the controlled areas. With the US assault on Syria postponed, radical Islamists are seeking ultimate authority to fight Assad.
→ read full articleOne Nun Puts Entire US Intel Community to Shame over ‘Stage-Managed’ Syria Footage
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
The US intelligence community has been put to shame by the dedication and determination of a lone Christian nun. Her modest study of the videos of the Syrian chemical attack shows they were productions involving staged bodies.
→ read full articleSpying Scandal Sends US Influence on Latin America into Nosedive
Mauricio – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Democratic leaders from Mexico to Argentina are so resentful of American influence that they are now willing to take action. Spies did the trick. The times are definitely a-changing. America might be on the way to belonging to all Americans, and that includes Latin Americans as well.
→ read full articleNSA Masqueraded As Google to Spy on Web Users – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.
→ read full articleWhy the US, UK, EU & Israel Hate Syria
Adrian Salbuchi – Russia Today,
10 Sep 2013
‘Top Eight Reasons Why They Hate Us’ is an excellent wrap-up, applicable to just about every self-respecting country in the world: no Rothschild-controlled Central Bank, no IMF debt, no genetically modified foods, oil and pipelines, anti-secret societies, anti-Zionism, secularism and nationalism.
→ read full articleNo Economic Espionage? NSA Docs Show US Spied On Brazil Oil Giant Petrobras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
The Brazilian head of state said that “it is evident that the reason for the attempted espionage is not security or combating terrorism, but economic and strategic interests” adding that Petrobras represented “no threat to the security of any country.” Rousseff concluded her remarks on Monday [9 Sep 2013] by saying that the Brazilian state would take “all measures to protect the country, the government and its companies.”
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‘Rampant Injustice Rules Saudi Arabia’ – Prince Defector
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2013
Aug 12, 2013 – Saudi Arabia, a major supporter of opposition forces in Syria, has increased crackdown on its own dissenters, with 30,000 activists reportedly in jail. In an exclusive interview to RT a Saudi prince defector explained what the monarchy fears most.
→ read full articleAnother Encrypted Internet Service Shutting Down after Lavabit
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Shortly after the owner of Lavabit.com wrote that his nine-year-old encrypted email service was shutting down to avoid becoming “complicit in crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said Thursday [8 Aug 2013] they’d be following suit. “We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now,” founder Jon Callas wrote in a blog post.
→ read full articleGreenwald Tells Brazilian Authorities Up To 20,000 Snowden Documents Are in His Possession
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
Glenn Greenwald testified before a Brazilian Senate foreign relations committee on Tuesday [6 Aug 2013]. The Brazil-based American reporter – who was approached by Snowden while the whistleblower still worked as a contractor for the NSA – alleged that Brazilian companies have agreements in place with American telecoms to collect data for the NSA, and stressed that their complicity should be investigated by that country’s government.
→ read full articleAl-Qaeda Unleashed against Syria and Iraq with Acceptance of the West
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
29 Jul 2013
Now, with Syria as the new magnet of global jihad – once again a direct consequence of a US power play, via Barack “Assad must go” Obama – al-Qaeda is resurgent on both fronts. Washington has already destroyed the social fabric of Iraq. Now it’s helping to destroy Syria’s.
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What Hiroshima & the Iraq War Have in Common
Prof. Michio Kaku – Russia Today,
29 Jul 2013
Oksana Boyko is joined by Dr Michio Kaku, a world-renowned theoretical physicist, author, thinker and visionary. The technological revolution of the 20th century has brought the world unprecedented prosperity as well as unimaginable horrors. Will science liberate humanity or shackle it like never before?
→ read full articleNSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
22 Jul 2013
Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus. He cites spying orders for specific targets that he saw including former Senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.
→ read full articlePRISM & ‘Purity’: NSA Follows Nazi Tradition
Max Keiser – Russia Today,
15 Jul 2013
The NSA in America is following in the Nazi tradition in its attempt to discriminate based on data collection, modeled around their belief system – which justifies trashing the Constitution in pursuit of ‘pure’ data. All dissenters will be arrested. All assemblies will be broken up. All attempts at nonconformity will be met with harsh prison sentences.
→ read full articleBrazil Burning: The Story of an Illusion Gone Sour
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
24 Jun 2013
Brazil remained one the most (deadly) unequal nations in the world, peppered with retrograde landowning oligarchies and some of the most rapacious, arrogant and ignorant elites on the planet – inevitable by-products of ghastly Portuguese colonialism. The die is cast. Once again, it’s people power vs. institutional politics. Remember “Standing Man” in Taksim Square. The time to take a stand is now.
→ read full articleDiscovery of Monsanto GMO Wheat Threatens US Exports
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
The discovery of a Monsanto-created, genetically modified strain of wheat in the US that was never approved by the United States Department of Agriculture has imperiled US exports of a staple world food commodity.
→ read full articleSyria Will ‘Strategically’ Respond to New Israeli Strikes – Assad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
30 May 2013 – Syria will react to any future act of Israeli aggression with a response of “strategic significance,” President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV. Assad also said that the Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries.
→ read full articleOfficial Number of Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers Jumps To 100
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
The official number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay reached 100 on Saturday [27 Apr 2013]. Twenty of them are receiving enteral feeds, five of whom are being observed in a detainee hospital. Lawyers for the detainees say that some 130 prisoners are actually taking part in the protest. The hunger strike began around February 6, 2013.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks Wins Case against Visa – Contractor Ordered to Pay ‘$204k per Month if Blockade Not Lifted’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
25 Apr 2013 – Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assage thanked the Icelandic people “for showing that they will not be bullied by powerful Washington backed financial services companies like Visa.”
→ read full articleIran, Pakistan, Syria, Qatar: Pipelineistan at Work
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
22 Apr 2013
Construction is nearing completion on a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Pakistan, a project that portends a huge geopolitical shift. As regional powers strengthen ties in this key energy market, they’re looking to China, and away from the West.
→ read full articleLobby Group Representing Google, Yahoo Backs CISPA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2013
12 Apr 2013 – A lobbying organization that counts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants among its clients has lent support to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is lined up for a vote in the US House of Representatives next week.
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Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism: Alternatives for Peace
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
15 Apr 2013
Abby Martin highlights the disproportionate nature of the American political and media establishments, and moderates a debate between three people who represent the voices of US growing political alternatives: Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism.
→ read full articleSurviving ‘Collateral Murder’: Soldier Relives Infamous WikiLeaks Video
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2013
“I went back outside and we were told to take pictures and so I started taking pictures of the van,” he says. Then he discovered another child. “That’s me right there,” McCord tells Lopez as he walks her through the now infamous “Collateral Murder” clip. “That is a little boy that I originally thought was dead. I couldn’t stop myself from crying,” he says. “I know that I will never, ever, ever get better,” he says. “I will never get over this.”
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Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar | Interview with Independent Journalist Assed Baig
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
8 Apr 2013
The ongoing genocidal crisis of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The UN has coined the Rohingyas one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
→ read full articleGitmo Inmates Claim Being Denied Drinking Water as White House Breaks Silence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2013
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: “The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,” Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
→ read full articleMedia Fakes War Propaganda | Weapons of Mass Distraction
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
18 Mar 2013
A look at MSNBC’s recent documentary about the lies leading up the Iraq war, and the closer look at the corporate media’s complicity in selling war to the American people by highlighting multiple staged events.
→ read full articleOver 100 Guantanamo Inmates ‘On Hunger Strike,’ Possibly in Grave Condition
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2013
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they said. Most of 130 people housed in Camp 6 of Guantanamo Bay may be involved in the strike.
→ read full articleObama to ‘Bypass Congress’ On CISPA with Cybersecurity Executive Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Serviced,
18 Feb 2013
Obama’s first executive order is expected to be issued this week when the president calls for the creation of new standards on what private-sector companies must do to protect their computer systems from a cybersecurity breach. The order is a direct response to Congress’ refusal to pass the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) last year.
→ read full articleHacker in Chief: Obama Given Right to Launch ‘Preemptive’ Cyberattacks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2013
A secret review has concluded that US President Obama has the authority to launch a preemptive cyber attack on any country on the basis that they are considered a ‘cyber threat’ – even if there is no concrete evidence of this threat. It may not be long before the US conducts crippling attacks on foreign soil with little more than a mouse click, thereby sparing itself the effort of sending its military oversees or declaring war.
→ read full articleIsrael Must Remove All Jewish Settlers from Occupied West Bank – UN Inquiry
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2013
31 Jan 2013 – A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements violate international law, and are an attempt to drive out Palestinians through intimidation.
→ read full article‘Assange Effectively Denied Opportunity to Enjoy Asylum’ – Ecuadorian FM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
By not allowing passage to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from London to Latin America, where he was granted asylum, Britain infringes same international documents it vigorously lobbied for, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino tells RT.
→ read full articleProfiting Off Hunger: Wall Street Makes Big Gains over Food Price Spikes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2013
Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing consumption in China.
→ read full articleUS Patriot Missile Battery Crews Arrive in Turkey
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
5 Jan 2013 – A group of 27 US troops has arrived in Turkey to operate NATO Patriot surface-to-air (SAM) missile batteries. At least six of those will be deployed along the country’s border with Syria.
→ read full articlePutin Second to ‘Nobody’ on World’s Most Powerful List – Thinktank
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
International political thinktank Eurasia Group has ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin second on its list of the world’s most powerful people. The first position is held by ‘Nobody,’ reflecting the perception of a world without a clear leader.
→ read full articleOliver Stone: ‘US Has Become an Orwellian State’
Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
31 Dec 2012
Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with us to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.
→ read full articleUS Deploying Troops to 35 African Countries
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
Soldiers based out of Fort Riley, Kansas’ 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division will begin training in March 2013 in order to prepare for a project that will send troops to as many as 35 African nations, the Associated Press reports.
→ read full articleLosing Faith? Belgium to Charge Church of Scientology with Fraud and Extortion
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2012
After a long lasting legal battle Belgium prosecutors demand to label the Church of Scientology as a criminal organization and charge it and its leaders with extortion, fraud, privacy breaches, and the illegal practice of medicine.
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India Develops USD $1 Vaccine against Deadly Rotavirus
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Dec 2012
In India there is a revolution taking place that could change the world’s approach to public health – and potentially save the lives of 100,000 Indian children every year. An Indian firm is developing a USD $1 vaccine against rotavirus – a disease that causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world.
→ read full articleThe UN Asks for Control over the World’s Internet
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
6 Dec 2012 – Members of the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) have agreed to work towards implementing a standard for the Internet that would allow for eavesdropping on a worldwide scale.
→ read full articleIsrael Rejects UN Call for Nuclear Transparency
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2012
Israel has rebuffed a UN call to adhere to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open itself to international inspectors, calling the suggestion a “meaningless mechanical vote” of a body that “lost all its credibility regarding Israel.” In a 174-6 vote, the United Nations General Assembly demanded in a non-binding call that Tel Aviv join the NPT “without further delay,” in an effort to create a legally binding nuclear-free Middle East.
→ read full articleCristiano Ronaldo Reportedly Donates €1.5mn to Children in Gaza
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The star forward gave his Golden Boot which he earned in 2011 to the Real Madrid foundation. The Spanish giants in their turn sold it at auction and will now donate the funds to schools in Gaza. It’s not the first time Ronaldo has given to charity. Last year he sold most of his sports shoes at a Real Madrid Foundation auction which was also dedicated to raising funds for schools in Gaza.
→ read full articleIran/USA: Who Is Threatening Who? Weapons of Mass Distraction (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
19 Nov 2012
Iran-US Relations: Reality, History, Causes, Consequences
→ read full articleColorado and Washington Vote To Become First US States To Legalize Marijuana
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2012
Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use, and possibly in Oregon as well. Proponents of the initiative argued that pot is safer than alcohol, and that the legal sale of marijuana could rake in $45 to 100 billion in tax revenue, according to Bloomberg. The government will also save an estimated $14 billion in cannabis-related costs in fighting the war on drugs.
→ read full articlePentagon Prisons Revealed: WikiLeaks Publishes Terror Detainee Manuals
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Oct 2012
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained.
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‘Bahrain Buys Favorable CNN Content’ (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Amber Lyon, former CNN journalist – Russia Today,
8 Oct 2012
Amid a violent crackdown on a popular uprising, Bahrain paid CNN to get favorable coverage, says a former reporter who believes her documentary on the protests there was censored by the network.
→ read full article‘Suppliers of Arms to Opposition Want to Destroy the Syrian People’ – Iraqi PM
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2012
States that send arms to Syria face upheavals and unrest due to sectarian violence, their stability will be in jeopardy and the state of affairs will be no better than in Syria, warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in an interview to RT [5 Oct 2012]. “He who starts a fire will be destroyed by fire in the end,” Al-Maliki stated, predicting that sponsorship of the Syrian opposition will backfire on supporting states.
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Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 1)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Has capitalism lost its compass? How should capitalism be defined? How flawed is the system and could it still be revived? And is there any real alternative to capitalism? These issues are discussed with distinguished panelists at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2012 summit held in Vladivostok.
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Has Capitalism Lost Its Compass? APEC Panel (Part 2)
Peter Lavelle, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Jim Rogers and Artyom Volynets are there to defend capitalism in its modern form, while Chandran Nair and Frank-Jurgen Richter are arguing that capitalism has indeed lost its compass.
→ read full articleAssange to UN: ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
27 Sep 2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.
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Captive of the Taliban
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2012
Jere Van Dyk, an author, Taliban expert, former TV correspondent and ex-captive of the Taliban offers a unique perspective on the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He believes the Afghan and Pashtun peoples/cultures/histories/goals are poorly understood in the West (if at all). The Taliban do not accept the Durand Line drawn in 1893 by the British, which arbitrarily divided their Pashtun ancestral lands to artificially create the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
→ read full article‘End of Capitalism’: Bolivia to Expel Coca-Cola
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2012
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. “December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division, it should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed. Last year, Bolivia became the second Latin American country not to have a single McDonald’s.
→ read full article‘After 9/11 NSA Had Secret Deal with White House’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2012
RT talks to Andrew Drake, a former National Security Agency executive in the US who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrong-doings inside the NSA. He was sentenced to a year probation on July 2011.
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DEA Agents Out Of Control in Honduras
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2012
The war on terror isn’t the only battle claiming innocent lives: the war on drugs in Latin America continues to rage on. In the past month, officers with the US Drug Enforcement Agency have shot and killed several innocent people in Honduras. To talk more about this, Adrienne Pine, professor at American University, joins us to discuss.
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FOIA Exposes Forceful Drugging of Detainees (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
The Alyona Show – Russia Today,
16 Jul 2012
For years, current and former detainees from Guantanamo and other US military sites, as well as their attorneys, have argued that they were forcibly given pills and injected with unkonwn medications. Often, they alleged that this happened during or immediately prior to interrogation sessions. And now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Truthout, a report from the DOD’s deputy inspector general has confirmed much of it. Alyona talks to Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter for Truthout.org about what the FOIA exposed.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2012
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s [26 Jun 2012] guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT.
→ read full articleGood Guinness, Deliver Us! Israel Demolishes Arab Village 38 Times
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2012
Palestinian villagers have addressed the Guinness Book of World Records to register a ruinous “record”. A Bedouin village in Israel has been demolished 38 times by Israeli authorities, who say people in the village do not have building permits.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Cypherpunks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Cyber threats, hacker attacks and laws officially aiming to tackle internet piracy, but in fact infringing people’s rights to online privacy. It’s an increasingly topical subject – and the world’s most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it.
→ read full articleSeeds of Doubt: Brazilian Farmers Sue Monsanto
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2012
Five million Brazilian farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant Monsanto, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros. They say that the genetic-engineering company has been collecting royalties on crops it unfairly claims as its own.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Occupy Movement (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2012
The Occupy movement has united hundreds of thousands across the world to fight social and economic inequality. In the latest edition of Assange’s very own interview programme Julian Assange meets with prominent Occupy activists who say their collective efforts target global institutions.
→ read full articleThe Julian Assange Show: Rafael Correa
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
This week, Julian Assange talks to the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. Correa is a left wing populist who has changed the face of Ecuador. But unlike his predecessors he holds a Ph.D. in economics. According to US embassy cables, Correa is the most popular President in Ecuador’s democratic history.
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The World Tomorrow: Surviving Guantanamo
Russia Today, Julian Assange – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2012
Julian Assange speaks with Moazzam Begg – former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner fighting for those still trapped behind the wire, and Asim Qureshi – former corporate lawyer, whose human rights organization Cageprisoners Ltd exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners who remain in Guantanamo Bay.
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Political Correctness Gone Mad
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2012
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports on the latest examples of political correctness gone wild in the U.S. We examine cases that could be on their way to turning the land of the free into the “United States of ‘I’m Sorry.'”
→ read full articleJulian Assange’s “The World Tomorrow” Premiere: Hassan Nasrallah
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Apr 2012
Hezbollah urged the Syrian opposition to engage in dialogue with Assad’s regime, but they refused. Hezbollah leader Sayyid Nasrallah confirmed this in his first interview in six years, the world premiere of Julian Assange’s ‘The World Tomorrow’ on RT.
→ read full articleBig Brother ‘Legal’ In US: Mumia Abu-Jamal Exclusive to RT
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Full Interview – RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January [2012].
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Weapon of Mass Pollution: Pentagon World’s Largest Polluter (VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Mar 2012
America’s mighty military presence around the world is leaving many locals with a bad taste in their mouths… quite literally. The Pentagon is accused of causing massive – and sometimes deadly – pollution. Not just in other countries, but at home too.
→ read full articleChina to Export Yuan to BRICS
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2012
China is reportedly to begin extending loans in yuan to BRICS countries in another step towards internationalizing the national currency and diversifying from the US dollar. Brazil and South Africa were quick to react to the proposal, saying they expect the lending pledge to be included into a master agreement to be signed in New Delhi on March 29 [2012].
→ read full articleTracking the Trackers: Mozilla’s Anti-Big Brother Add-On
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2012
The owner of Firefox, the world’s second most popular browser, is backing an add-on which would allow users to monitor in real-time how their actions are tracked and shared by various websites as they surf the net. The amount of data collected by Google, Facebook and other players less-known to the general public is astounding. But the majority of Internet users are oblivious to this fact. Mozilla’s new add-on – called Collusion – aims to change that.
→ read full articleKeiser Report: D.I.C.s and Hackers
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert – Russia Today,
5 Mar 2012
The Stratfor bimbo and the bank that is in bed with it. WikiLeaks as the modern day Gutenberg press.
→ read full articlePrivacy Betrayed: Twitter Sells Multi-Billion Tweet Archive
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2012
Twitter has sold billions of archived tweets believed to have vanished forever. A privacy row has erupted as hundreds of companies queue up to purchase users’ personal information from the new database. Every time you use social networks you become mere product – it’s an idea we will all have to get used to. So, should we give up worldly goods and hide in a Tibetan monastery till the end of our days, or start putting up a fight to protect our privacy?
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CrossTalk: Malvinas/Falklands
Peter Lavelle - Russia Today,
20 Feb 2012
As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas war approaches, the UK and Argentina are making their cases. Is the UK trying to militarize the conflict? Or is it Kristina Kirchner who is determined to regain Argentina’s control of the islands? Will their status change? How much do the British people care about the issue? How big of an issue is it for the Argentineans? And what about the inhabitants of the island themselves?
→ read full articleSS = Scout Snipers: US Marines Adopt Nazi Goons Emblem
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2012
This picture showing a US Marine scout sniper team posing in front of what appears as a flag of the notorious Nazi organization SS, has surfaced online. The Marine Corps confirmed that the embarrassing photo taken in Afghanistan is real.
→ read full articleFrom Syria to Haiti: Another Showcase of Western Hypocrisy
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2012
Haitian justice decided not to prosecute Haitian dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier for human rights crimes during his grueling regime. The so called free west is not going to do anything about Baby Doc Duvalier, just as it will not act against the medieval monarchies of Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. If human rights were the issue, Baby Doc would be front page news, the top story in the news. He isn’t. He’s our guy. Not like that scoundrel Assad who is not our guy. The first is OK, the latter has to go. Now you know why.
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Keiser Report: Black Holes & Gold Hills in Finances Universe
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert – Russia Today,
13 Feb 2012
In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the latest discoveries of black holes in the financial universe and the populations growing permanently poorer as a result. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Dr. Yanis Varoufakis about financial horror, a currency from which you can’t escape and the Greek situation.
→ read full articleUS Congress Approves $82 Million for Army’s Biggest Weapon
Katerina Azarova – Russia Today,
13 Feb 2012
It weighs as much as the bell in Big Ben; it’s capable of plunging through 60 feet of reinforced concrete and has the most ridiculously sexual name imaginable for a deadly weapon – but the Massive Ordnance Penetrator is THE bomb, says the Pentagon. With this latest investment, however, the US clearly wants Iran to know that its military will MOP the floor with the Islamic Republic and its alleged nuclear threat. In 2013, of course, when the new Penetrator will achieve its new, superb levels of penetration.
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Total Ignorance: Where’s Libya, Iraq or Iran? NYC doesn’t care!
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2012
Leaders of the ‘Free World’: the joke is on them – The men and women hoping to beco
me the next President of the U.S. appear to spend as much time demonstrating their ignorance of the world, as they do their political credentials. But as RT’s Anastasia Churkina found out, that could just be a reflection of society.
Thousands of US Troops Deploying To Israel
Reuters, Nir Elias – Russia Today,
9 Jan 2012
Without much media attention, thousands of American troops are being deployed to Israel, and Iranian officials believe that this is the latest and most blatant warning that the US will soon be attacking Tehran.
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Galtung’s Insights on Paths to War & Peace inside Arab Uprisings (Video of the Week)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2011
Prof. Johan Galtung, father of Peace Studies and rector of the Transcend Peace University: ‘I would like the UN to send a thousand mediators to Damascus right away.’
→ read full articleGeorge Orwell’s Guide to the News
Adrian Salbuchi – Russia Today,
5 Dec 2011
The Western mainstream media falsifies the news resorting to euphemisms, half-truths and lies in the best (worst) style of George Orwell’s novel 1984. We all live in the unreal world of “Newspeak” used by the Global Power Elite to control our minds. Today, mainstream media coverage uses programmed distortion, confusion, even outright lying when its Money Power masters order it to support the “official story” on any major political, economic or financial process.
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Middle Kingdom (1/2)
CrossTalk, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2011
Are we heading into a China-centric world? Will it threaten or benefit the West? Will China bail out the eurozone, and how will Europe repay? Can China offer the world a new political and economic model?
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Middle Kingdom (2/2)
CrossTalk, Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2011
Are we heading into a China-centric world? Will it threaten or benefit the West? Will China bail out the eurozone, and how will Europe repay? Can China offer the world a new political and economic model?
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Bomb, Build, Benefit: UK Joins Gold Rush to Patch up War-Torn Libya
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2011
NATO may have ended its operations in Libya, but the Western presence is far from over – with big companies replacing the warplanes. The countries that bombed the oil-rich country are now getting lucrative contracts to rebuild it.
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Pepe Escobar: Iranian Plot Was an Inside Job
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2011
A US government informant acting as a member of the Zetas, a drug cartel in Mexico, helped thwart an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on American soil. Now Obama’s top national security aides are seeking new international sanctions against Iran. Pepe Escobar, correspondent for the Asia Times, tells us who’s to gain from the situation.
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9/11: US Abuses Power It No Longer Has
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2011
Interview with Lawrence Wilkerson, Ex-Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell – “We seem to think that we are exceptional, so exceptional that we don’t have to think about other people,” he says. “Ends never justify the means.” He believes some of the Bush administration members deserve to be put on trial, and he would be ready to testify against them.
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FBI Targeting Political Activists as Terrorists
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2011
Anti-terrorism resources are being used to target environmentalists, peace, animal and political activists who hold different views than the government. It was recently revealed that a counter-terrorism firm spied on individuals who attended film screenings of the documentary Gasland. The film focuses on the practice of natural gas fracking and what impact it has on the environment and in the communities where it is used.
→ read full articleStalin’s Discs Torment Mainstream Media
NameNotFound – Russia Today,
30 May 2011
Joseph Stalin and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele joined forces and bred deformed children who looked like aliens but were able to fly advanced aircraft like Top Gun pilots. No, seriously. I read it in a book written by “a national security reporter and contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine”, one Annie Jacobsen. I kid you not. The quote is from the New York Times review of her book.
→ read full articleJulian Assange: The Man Who Leaked the World
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
WikiLeaks: the dream of an idealist or a tool to manipulate global politics? Who is the real Julian Assange? He says his dream is a world without secrets. But is that true?
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Blood Bonanza: UK Private Security Firms Eye Libya as New Cash Cow
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2011
Libya might soon turn into a goldmine for private security firms. Reports say that the UK is already hiring mercenaries to protect the interests of the big corporations there, once Colonel Gaddafi goes.
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Johan Galtung on Libya: ‘Obama stuck in wars, Sarkozy aims to rule NATO‘ (Video of the Week)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2011
A NATO-led international group is meeting in Quatar, to decide how to proceed with its military intervention in Libya. France and the UK want to step up the assault on Colonel Gaddafi, and are considering arming the rebels. For more, RT talks to Johan Galtung, rector of the Transcend Peace University…
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Chossudovsky: New deadly war theater opened in Libya
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2011
RT talks to Michel Chossudovsky – Director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Canada.
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NATO Invasion of Libya ‘Disgusting Idea’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2011
RT talks about Libya crisis with Pepe Escobar, who’s a roving correspondent for the Asia Times.
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CrossTalk on the Arms Bazaar
Peter Lavelle – Russia Today,
7 Mar 2011
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, his guests are asked why the countries in the Middle East spend so much on their militaries. Of course the US benefits, but does the region?
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Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2011
21 Feb 2011, New York – Some analysts say the US – bogged down in wars and pressed by emerging powers – will have to rethink its role in world affairs. Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, a peace and conflict expert, goes further by predicting the fall of the “US Empire”. “Iraq is not at all turning out the way they hoped, certainly not Afghanistan either. The same will happen in Yemen and Somalia and a number of other countries where they now have undercover operations,” he told RT. Moreover, the sociologist believes what is going to happen in those areas – for instance, in Afghanistan – will not even be decided in Washington.
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New Arab World
Peter Lavelle, CrossTalk – Russia Today,
28 Feb 2011
25 Feb 2011 – CrossTalking with Middle East expert Harold Rhode and Johan Galtung from TRANSCEND Peace University. Will the US have a say in the Middle East scenario? Will it co-author it or play a silent spectator role? Is there any way the West can benefit from the current chaos? And will it gain any points if it continues to ring the alarm over rising fundamentalism?
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CrossTalk: American Exceptionalism
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2011
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests whether American exceptionalism is a self-serving myth.
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Export of Mass Destruction: Afghan Addicts Drowning in Drug Flood
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2011
(You may find some images in this video disturbing) Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of heroin – does not only make other states suffer from its deadly export – the country itself is flooded with cheap drugs. With the tense situation and very vague prospects of a peaceful life even those who want to kick the mortal habit find themselves at a dead end.
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Inside the Dark Legacy of the US ‘School of Assassins’
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2010
For 62 years, the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in the hemisphere. From Pinochet’s soldiers in Chile, D’Aubuisson’s death squads in El Salvador, Banzer’s minions in Bolivia, Galtieri’s operatives in Argentina and Rios Montt’s soldiers in Guatemala to the present-day generals responsible for the coup in Honduras and the drug war killings in Colombia, the School of the America has a dark legacy. Renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the school has graduated 65,000 soldiers from 18 countries.
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Irish Government Slaves to IMF Terror Machine!
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2010
If Europe’s single currency fails, so would the Union itself. The warning comes from the EU president, who was speaking ahead of the meeting of the Eurozone’s finance ministers. Portugal has warned it could be forced out of the Eurozone, and Ireland is also being urged to use European bailout money to prevent bankruptcy. But Financial analyst Max Keiser says going to the IMF for help would be even worse…
→ read full article“US Wants to Return Iran to Its Sphere of Imperialist Influence” — John Pilger
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2010
”Iran was a pillar of the American empire in the Middle East. That was swept away in 1979 when there was an Islamic revolution, and it has been American foreign policy to get that back,” he said.
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CrossTalk: Iran a Good Guy? (participation of Robert Fisk)
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2010
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests how we should understand Iran’s “soft power” in the Greater Middle East. Is it under-estimated in western mainstream media?
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