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Fear & Loathing: Albino Africans Survival in Tanzania
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
People can be so afraid that they’re even willing to kill. They say giving birth to such a “creature” is a curse. Some call them ‘ghosts’ and believe that owning a part of their body will make them rich–all because of the color of their skin. Documentary (26:10)
→ read full articleUS Operates Global Drone War from German Base – Ex-Pilot
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
6 Apr 2014 – “The entire drone war of the US military wouldn’t be possible without Germany,” Brandon Bryant, who resigned in 2011, told NDR television and Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
→ read full articleChina, Crimea and Pashtunistan
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
24 Mar 2014
At the center of the simultaneous tumult faced by both Afghanistan and Pakistan stands the ultimate taboo: Pashtunistan. How does the dream of a common Pashtun land connect to the secession of Crimea from Ukraine? And what does China think about all this?
→ read full articleSanctions Effect: Russia to Change Its Economic Partners…For the Better
Irina Sukhoparova – Russia Today,
24 Mar 2014
Western sanctions might push Russia to deepen cooperation with BRICS states, in particular, to strengthen its ties with China, which will possibly turn out to be a big catastrophe for the US and the EU some time later.
→ read full articleMalaysia Flight Riddle: How Can a Passenger Plane Go Missing in the Age of Universal Surveillance?
Nadezhda Kevorkova – Russia Today,
24 Mar 2014
In the post-9/11 world, a jetliner with 239 people on board cannot simply “disappear,” not least because the American secret services have made universal surveillance the order of the day. And the longer the search continues, the more questions arise. Are the secret services indeed as powerful as they assure people?
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Full Video Interview 10 Mar 2014
Russia Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Speaking remotely from Russia on Monday 10 Mar 2014, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told attendees at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that encryption is still a powerful deterrent against government surveillance. (1:01:23)
→ read full articleExtremist Tourists: 250 Jihadists Reportedly Return to UK
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
17 Feb 2014 – Around 250 British jihadists have returned to the UK after training and fighting in Syria, a senior Whitehall security official told the Sunday Times. Security services are monitoring the “extremist tourists”, fearing they might carry out attacks at home.
→ read full articleGermany, France to Mastermind European Data Network – Bypassing US
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande will review plans to build up a trustworthy data protection network in Europe. The challenge is to avoid data passing through the US after revelations of mass NSA spying in Germany and France.
→ read full articleKerry’s Laughable Remarks in Beijing
Eric Sommer – Russia Today,
24 Feb 2014
US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered remarks both laughable and frightening after meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing on Friday [21 Feb 2014].
→ read full articleFour Latin American Countries Agree $85 bn Free-Trade Deal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico have signed a treaty to eliminate tariffs on 92 percent of goods and services. The Pacific Alliance is free trade area of some 210 million people, accounting for more than a third of all Latin American and Caribbean GDP.
→ read full articleSaudi Arabia Criminalizes ‘Terrorists’ Defaming State’s Reputation, Disturbing Order
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Actions that threaten Saudi Arabia’s unity, disturb public order, or defame the reputation of the state or the king – will be considered acts of terrorism under a new counterterrorism law which has come into force in the gulf kingdom.
→ read full articleSyria-Bound Trucks Filled with US Dollars, Says Opposition Party Leader
Today’s Zaman, Istanbul – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
The trucks, which were stopped by the Turkish gendarmerie, were reportedly filled with weapons and ammunition. The Turkish government claimed that the Syria-bound vehicles contained humanitarian aid supplies for Syrian Turkmens. “Within those aid supplies there were dollars; those dollars were being transported to Syria, to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleTunisia: A Success Story?
Irina Sukhoparova – Russia Today,
3 Feb 2014
3 Feb 2014 – Three years to the day since the ex-president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia, the country is doing much better than others that witnessed an Arab awakening in 2011, providing some hope for people in the Middle East and North Africa.
→ read full articlePsychology’s Newest Joke: Not Very Funny
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – Psychology Today,
27 Jan 2014
There’s a new psychology joke making the rounds, a simple one-liner. Rather dark, more than a bit absurd, and relying on a healthy dose of incongruity between reality and pretense: “The American Psychological Association-APA will not tolerate psychologist participation in torture.”
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The People Guarding US Nukes Will Shock You
Abby Martin, Breaking the Set – Russia Today,
20 Jan 2014
Jan 17, 2014 – Calling attention to thirty four officers at Malstrom Airforce Base in Montana who were caught cheating on a proficiency exam related to nuclear launch procedures.
→ read full articleMIT Study of Ghouta Chemical Attack Challenges US Intelligence
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
→ read full articleSupreme Court Hands Monsanto Victory over Farmers on GMO Seed Patents, Ability to Sue
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials.
→ read full articleBrazilian Hacker Creates Twitter-like App Shielded from NSA Gaze
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
In a post-Snowden world where NSA surveillance has been exposed as ubiquitous, one man decided to invent a networking system akin to Twitter, but with one key difference: It would be surveillance-proof and completely decentralized. Meet ‘Twister.’
→ read full articleSorry for Letting Them Snoop? Dell Apologizes for ‘Inconvenience’ Caused by NSA Backdoor
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Dell told an irate customer on Monday [30 Dec 2013] that they “regret the inconvenience” caused by selling to the public for years a number of products that the intelligence community has been able to fully compromise in complete silence up until this week.
→ read full article‘Children in Cages’: Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Torture
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
An Israeli human rights organization has accused the country of torturing Palestinian minors, with reported cases of public caging as well as threats and acts of sexual violence.
→ read full articleThe Myth of American Exceptionalism
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick – USA Today,
16 Dec 2013
• Devoid of historical knowledge, Americans substitute myths like exceptionalism.
• Since the 1980s, this has become the mantra of American leaders.
• When viewed through this lens, the worst atrocities can become tolerable to the historically challenged.
Mother Agnes: “Nobody is Safe-Foreign Forces Need to Stop Fueling Violence in Syria”
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Dec 10, 2013 – RT’s Meghan Lopez speaks with Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, founder of the James the Mutilated Monastery in Syria, who says that the videos show the chemical weapons were used by Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleLeaked: Pussy Riot, Greenpeace Activists Will Be Freed Under Amnesty
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The members of the Pussy Riot punk band, Greenpeace activists and protesters jailed after the May 2012 Bolotnaya demonstration will be freed in an amnesty dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Russian Constitution, Russian media report. Russia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the country’s Constitution on December 12.
→ read full article‘Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach’: Evil Octopus Strangling the World Becomes Latest US Intelligence Seal
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The latest spy satellite to be sent into orbit by the NRO can be recognized by its seal: a malevolent octopus with furrowed brows that also happens to be wrapping its tentacles around all corners of the Earth.
→ read full article‘Modern Slavery’: Int’l Delegation Decries Migrant Rights Abuses in Qatar
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
2 Dec 2013 – Qatar has made no progress in abolishing laws that effectively force foreign workers into slavery, an international delegation has said. A worker’s rights group has estimated 4,000 migrant workers could die if nothing is done before the 2022 World Cup.
→ read full articleIceland Defies Banks and Advances $1.2bn Debt Relief Plan
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,600) of every household’s mortgage, fulfilling its election promise, despite overwhelming criticism from international financial institutions.
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GMO-Free Hawaii: ‘Big Island’ Bans Biotech Companies
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Nov 22, 2013 – A Hawaian island has passed a law banning companies which produce genetically modified food from operating on its territory. Modified crops will also be restricted to indoor structures, and experimenting with new types of plants has been prohibited.
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‘I Saw Rebels Beheading Men for Religion’ – Syrian Cleric
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
RT talks to mother Agnes Mariam, founder of monastery in Qara in Syria and witnessed what the people went through when the first sparks of trouble ignited the war.
→ read full articleNorway Admits It Carried Out Phone Surveillance for NSA
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Norway’s intelligence services said they, not the US National Security Agency, collected data on more than 33 million phone conversations in Norway over the space of one month last year.
→ read full articleMother Agnes and the ‘Liberal’ Hawks Out to Silence Her
Neil Clark – Russia Today,
25 Nov 2013
Owen Jones and Jeremy Scahill unfortunately bowed to the pressure, and said that they would withdraw from the conference if Mother Agnes was also on the platform. At the weekend Stop the War announced that Mother Agnes had withdrawn from the conference. Her dignified, graceful letter to Stop the War was in sharp contrast to the nastiness of the attacks made on her by her accusers.
→ read full articleGCHQ Snoops on Hotel Reservations Targeting Diplomats – Snowden Leaks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
17 Nov 2013 – A UK spy agency infiltrated international hotel booking systems for some three years, tracing high profile officials and wiretapping their suites, new leaks reveal. GCHQ’s top secret ‘Royal Concierge’ program tracked 350 hotels across the globe.
→ read full articleRussia Implores UN to Take Control of Libya’s ‘Unguarded’ Yellowcake Uranium
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Russia has asked the UN Security Council to look into the dangers posed by a badly-guarded stockpile of yellowcake uranium in the Libyan Desert. Recent reports have said that Al-Qaeda is interested in the supply as a potential nuclear weapon component.
→ read full articleRebels Conduct New Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria near Turkish Border – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
The rebels used chemical weapons in north-eastern Syria near the border with Turkey on Tuesday [29 Oct 2013]. The attack was reported by Kurdish defense forces who are conducting military operations against the rebels in the region.
→ read full articleMonsanto and Pepsi Trying to Stop GMO Labeling Law in Washington State
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
A Washington State ballot measure to label food featuring genetically modified crops is under fire as food and chemical corporations pour millions of dollars against the campaign.
→ read full articleUS and Pakistan Locked in a ‘Drone Marriage’
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
28 Oct 2013
Obama didn’t even mention “drones” when talking to the media after his meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. So is it all Islamabad’s fault? Not really.
→ read full article19 Syrian Rebel Groups Refuse to Take Part in Geneva-2 Peace Talks
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
A total of 19 Syrian rebel groups fighting against President Bashar Assad have refused to take part in the upcoming Geneva-2 peace conference in November. “We announce that the Geneva 2 conference is not, nor will it ever be, our people’s choice or our revolution’s demand,” the groups said Saturday [26 Oct 2013] adding that to disobey this recommendation would be viewed as “treason” and result in the groups having “to answer for it before our courts.”
→ read full articleEU Parliament Votes to Suspend US from Financial Databank to Avoid Spying
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2013
The European Parliament voted Wednesday [23 Oct 2013] for US access to the global financial database to be suspended. EU lawmakers are concerned that the US is covertly using information from the SWIFT database following leaked US documents aired by Brazil’s biggest television network Globo, which indicated that the US has secretly tapped into SWIFT.
→ read full articleReport: NSA Collecting E-Mail and IM Contacts Globally
Melanie Eversley & Byron Acohido - USA Today,
21 Oct 2013
Oct 15, 2013 – The National Security Agency has been collecting contacts from people’s personal e-mail address books and instant messaging accounts in an effort to detect relationships that might be crucial to government security, the Washington Post is reporting.
→ read full articleReport: Documents Show NSA Involvement in Drone Program
Melanie Eversley - USA Today,
21 Oct 2013
Documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show NSA ties to killing program.
→ read full articleCash-for-Castles: Italy Sells Off Historic Sites to Plug Budget Holes
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
A Grand Inquisitor’s villa, a Pope’s fort and a Venetian island will be sold off to fill Italy’s depleted state coffers, local media reports. It’s hoped the 50 historic sites will raise 500 million euros needed to obey strict EU austerity rules.
→ read full articleCanadian Spy Agency ‘Dissected’ Brazilian Energy Ministry
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2013
A new leak by Edward Snowden showed documents from a meeting of the ‘Five Eyes’ spy network, comprising the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, in June of last year. In a presentation the Communications Security Establishment Canada – the Canadian version of the NSA – outlined how they used a program called Olympia to break through the Brazilian ministry’s encryption.
→ read full articleEcuador’s Correa: Obama’s Exceptionalism Talk Reminiscent of Nazi Rhetoric before WWII
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
“Does not this remind you of the Nazis’ rhetoric before and during World War II? They considered themselves the chosen race, the superior race, etc. Such words and ideas pose extreme danger.”
→ read full articleJudge Orders Release of Schizophrenic Guantanamo Detainee
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
A federal judge issued a release order Friday [4 Oct 2013] for Ibrahim Idris of Sudan, who has spent much of his 11 years at the prison in a psychiatric ward and was never formally charged despite being held at the US naval base as an enemy combatant.
→ read full articleHomophobic Men Most Aroused by Gay Male Porn
Nathan Heflick - Psychology Today,
7 Oct 2013
Homophobia is associated with sexual excitement by male-on-male sex. Sigmund Freud theorized that people often have the most hateful and negative attitudes towards things they secretly crave, but feel that they shouldn’t have. Men who are the most opposed to male homosexuality have particularly strong homosexual urges for other men.
→ read full articleTehran, Moscow Agree to Build New Nuclear Power Plant – Iran’s Nuclear Chief
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
23 Sep 2013 – Tehran and Moscow will cooperate on the future construction of a new nuclear power plant, according to Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi. The news comes as Russia hands over operational control of the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear plant to Iran.
→ read full articleA Crash Course in Somalization, from Syria to Kenya
Pepe Escobar – Russia Today,
30 Sep 2013
So what was Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen – the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali outfit – really up to in Kenya? Somalis who have nothing to do with al-Shabaab may and will pay the price – as much as Syrians who detest Al-Nusra Front are victims of the West’s blind, blank support of ‘rebels’. Dick Cheney must feel vindicated; the West is finally consolidating his ‘vision’ of Al-Qaeda as a mercenary shadow army disguised as global Terror Inc.
→ read full articleIran Says It Has Finished Decoding Downed CIA Drone
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
“All the memories and computer systems of this plane have been decoded and some good news will be announced in the near future not just about the RQ-170 and the optimizations that our forces have done on the reversed engineered model of this drone, but also in area of other important defense achievements,” Fars quoted Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.
→ read full articleMorales: Obama Can Invade Any Country for US Energy Needs
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In his dramatic speech in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the UN to be moved out of the US and for Barack Obama to be tried for crimes against humanity. In his most controversial demand, Morales said that Obama should face an international trial with human rights watchdogs among the judges. He accused his US counterpart of instigating conflicts in the Middle East to make the region more volatile and to increase the US’s grip on the natural resources it abounds in.
→ read full article‘Staged and Scripted’: Mother Agnes Finalizes Chronology of Damascus Chemical Attack
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
26 Sep 2013 – A new version of a study pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence against the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works. The report by the Christian nun, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, has alleged that many videos featuring supposed victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Ghouta in August were in fact staged and scripted.
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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.”
→ read full articleA Psychologist’s Deceptions about Prison Abuse in California
Roy Eidelson, Ph.D. – Psychology Today,
10 Sep 2013
“Brutal killers should not be glorified. This hunger strike is dangerous, disruptive and needs to end.” That’s how Jeffrey Beard, head of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, concluded his disturbingly deceptive August 6th op-ed in the Los Angeles Times.
→ read full articleIncidences of Thyroid Cancer on the Rise among Fukushima Children
Jessica Kozuka – Japan Today,
26 Aug 2013
According to a representative of Fukushima Medical University, which has been running the tests, they cannot conclusively link the incidences to Fukushima Daiichi, because although there were confirmed cases of cancer linked to the Chernobyl incident, many of these did not present until four or five years after or even later.
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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 articleHawaiian Mind Games: American Psychological Association Fiddles While Psychology Burns
Roy Eidelson and Stephen Soldz, Psychology Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2013
More consequential will be the APA leadership’s latest victory in its long-running campaign: the stubborn obstruction of all efforts to meaningfully address the central role psychologists played in U.S. government torture and abuse of national security detainees.
→ 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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