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Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley.
→ read full articleThe Rich Complain That We Do Not Love Them
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said “The rich are different from you or me”, yet in his days, in the early years of the 20th century, the rich were not subject to public scrutiny, and were generally an object of envy, not resentment. Fast forward to the 21st century and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
→ read full articleMuch Bank Crime, Little Punishment
Danny Schechter – Consortium News,
17 Mar 2014
Wall Street banks made a bundle on securitized subprime mortgages until the bubble began to burst in 2007 inflicting devastating harm on average people around the world. Yet, despite government rhetoric to the contrary, the key culprits have escaped punishment.
→ read full article(Português) O capitalismo global está destruindo a raça humana
Paul Craig Roberts – Carta Maior,
17 Mar 2014
Fora as armas nucleares, o capitalismo é a maior ameaça que a humanidade já enfrentou. Ele levou a ganância a um patamar de força determinante da história.
→ read full articleWashington Has Set the World on a Path to War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
Why is Washington so opposed to Crimean self-determination? The answer is that one of the main purposes of Washington’s coup in Kiev was to have the new puppet government evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base in Crimea. Washington cannot use the government Washington has installed in Ukraine for that purpose if Crimea is no longer part of Ukraine.
→ read full articlePropaganda Rules the News
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Glenn Greenwald points out the independence that RT, a Russian media organization, permits Abby Martin who denounced Russia’s alleged invasion of Ukraine, compared to the fates of Phil Donahue (MSNBC) and Peter Arnett (NBC), both of whom were fired for expressing opposition to the Bush regime’s illegal attack on Iraq.
→ read full articleCalifornia Bill Would Ban Orca Shows at Seaworld
Michael Martinez - CNN,
10 Mar 2014
A California state legislator is proposing to ban the captivity of killer whales for entertainment at SeaWorld in the wake of CNN’s controversial documentary Blackfish. “It is time that we embrace that the long-accepted practice of keeping orcas captive for human amusement must end,” state Assemblyman Richard Bloom, a Democrat from Santa Monica, said at a press conference Friday [7 Mar 2014] at the city’s oceanfront pier.
→ read full articleThe Conundrum of ‘Democratic’ Coups
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
The U.S. government says it wants to spread “democracy,” a questionable claim considering the history. Think Iran-1953, Guatemala-1954, Chile-1973, Haiti-1991/2004, etc. Just this past year, the U.S. has embraced coups against elected presidents in Egypt and now Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
10 Mar 2014
That the sources of this supposedly expert analysis are funded by corporations and governments openly hostile to the Venezuelan government, and which have even attempted its overthrow in the past, would appear to be a fairly glaring omission.
→ read full articleFour Ways to Evolve Beyond Capitalism
Carl Gibson - Reader Supported News,
10 Mar 2014
Now that we’re having a serious conversation about capitalism, we can also have a conversation about solutions. Along with calling out flaws of capitalism, I’m proposing four solutions that would fix the most glaring problems in capitalism and blaze a new path forward for the next generation.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Staggering Hypocrisy In Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
The United States has invaded or otherwise intervened in so many countries that it would be challenging to compile a complete list. Just last decade, there were full-scale U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, plus American bombing operations from Pakistan to Yemen to Libya. So, what is to make of John Kerry’s pronouncement that Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea section of Ukraine – at the behest of the country’s deposed president – is a violation of international law that the United States would never countenance?
→ read full article(Português) A Ucrânia no caminho das superpotências
Jeferson Miola – Carta Maior,
10 Mar 2014
A potência norte-americana financia os setores oposicionistas, a maioria deles de extrema-direita e neonazistas. E se movimenta politicamente e diplomaticamente.
→ read full articleDiplomacy NOT War!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
Author, historian, and former U.S. State Dept. employee, William Blum, in his book “Killing Hope” documents U.S. military and/or CIA interventions in 77 countries since WWII. Ukraine makes #78. Today, there is increasing danger of world war and financial collapse by miscalculation or design over the crisis in the Ukraine which the U.S. helped to create.
→ read full articleThe ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Mar 2014
7 Mar 2014 – The only foreign policy show on the U.S. media dial this past week has been the bashing of Russian President Putin over the Ukraine crisis – with a slap or two at President Obama for having worked with Putin on Syria and Iran. Lost in this “group think” is the why behind this demonization.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil – Experiência com animais: Opinião contrária
Laerte fernando levai – ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais,
3 Mar 2014
O resgate de quase duzentos cães beagles no Instituto Royal de São Roque/SP, realizado por ativistas, surge como divisor de águas de um tema ainda considerado tabu no direito brasileiro: a experimentação animal.
→ read full articleWere It Not for the French, Hezbollah Would All Be Syrians Fighting on Their Own Government’s Side Inside Their Own Country
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
3 Mar 2014
And you thought the Middle East was a difficult place to understand. Try living here.
→ read full articleThe Crisis in Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
The moderates have certainly lost control. They cannot protect public monuments, and they are forced to try to pre-empt the neo-nazis by legislating the neo-nazi program. The captive Ukrainian parliament has introduced measures to ban any official use of the Russian language. This, of course, is unacceptable to the Russian provinces.
→ read full article(Português) Cerveja: o transgênico que você bebe
Flávio Siqueira Júnior e Ana Paula Bartoletto – Outras Palavras,
3 Mar 2014
Sem informar consumidores, Ambev, Itaipava, Kaiser e outras marcas trocam cevada pelo milho e levam à ingestão inconsciente de OGMs.
→ read full articleHonoring the ‘Accomplices’ to Truth Who Caught Clapper in a Lie
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
3 Mar 2014
On Sunday [16 Feb 2014] it was announced that the prestigious George Polk Award for National Security Reporting would be given to the four journalists—Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras and Barton Gellman—most active in reporting about the content of the NSA documents leaked by Snowden.
→ read full article(Português) 6 Notas para Compreender o que se Passa na Crimeia, Peça Chave do Conflito na Ucrânia
Alberto Sicília, de Kiev - Principia Marsupia (Espanha),
3 Mar 2014
27 fev 2014 – Depois do ocorrido durante a última semana em Kiev, o foco do conflito na Ucrânia translada-se à Crimeia. O que acontecer nesta região será determinante: pode a situação degenerar numa guerra civil? Putin intervirá militarmente? Continuará a Ucrânia a ser um país ou caminha para a secessão?
→ read full articleIn the Shadows of the Mafia Regime: Algeria’s Renewed Despair
David Porter - CounterPunch,
3 Mar 2014
To date, despite internal divisions, the regime has continued its manipulation and suppression of any organized resistance, of any orientation, thus assuring huge difficulties for any independent radical or revolutionary force from emerging.
→ read full articleWestern Media Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
3 Mar 2014
In the upside-down world that has become the U.S. news media, the democratically elected president was a dictator and the coup makers who overthrew him were “pro-democracy” activists. Events in Ukraine and Venezuela suggest that the idea of respecting the results of elections and working within legal, albeit flawed, political systems is no longer in vogue, unless the “U.S. side” happens to win, of course.
→ read full articleThe Moazzam Begg Arrest: Part of the Effort to Criminalize Muslim Political Dissent
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
3 Mar 2014
Moazzam Begg, a native-born British citizen of Pakistani descent, spent three years incarcerated in Guantánamo without ever being charged with any crime. On Tuesday [25 Feb 2014], Begg was arrested in an “anti-terror raid” on his home outside Birmingham, charged with “terrorism” offenses for having allegedly traveled to Syria to assist Syrian rebels.
→ read full articleWorst Spill in 6 Months Is Reported at Fukushima
Martin Fackler – International New York Times,
24 Feb 2014
About 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday [20 Feb 2014], calling the leak the worst spill at the plant in six months.
→ read full articleGlobal Capitalism Has Written Off the Human Race
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Economic theory teaches that free price and profit movements ensure that capitalism produces the greatest welfare for the greatest number. This theory doesn’t work when the US government socializes cost and privatizes profits as it has been doing with the Federal Reserve’s support of “banks too big to fail” and when a handful of financial institutions have concentrated much economic activity.
→ read full articleJudaism and Zionism: A Divorce in the Making…?
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
A highly armed regional power, with nearly every kind of weapon at its disposal, economically and scientifically advanced, a member of nearly every important international organization and with global influence that far outstrips its size, an ally of the world’s sole superpower, claims that its existence is under threat. That’s bullshit.”
→ read full articleUkraine’s Future Is Tied Up With Syria’s – And Vladimir Putin Is Crucial to Both
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
24 Feb 2014
No one in the Middle East will be studying Ukraine’s violent tragedy with more fascination – and deeper concern – than President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
→ read full articleUK Ruling against David Miranda Escalates Assault on Democratic Rights
Robert Stevens, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
In what was clearly a politically motivated judgment, the High Court in London ruled Wednesday [19 Feb 2014] that David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained lawfully when he was held for nine hours last August at London’s Heathrow Airport. The 28-year-old Brazilian was in transit from Germany to Brazil when he was arbitrarily detained by the Metropolitan Police.
→ read full articleRounding Up Scientific Journals
Adriane Fugh-Berman and Thomas G. Sherman – The Hastings Center Report,
24 Feb 2014
Bioethics Forum – Scientific journal publishing reached a low point in November, when the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology retracted a study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues at Caen University in France. The retraction of the Séralini study is a black mark on medical publishing, a blow to science, and a win for corporate bullies.
→ read full articleDemocracy Murdered by Protest: Ukraine Falls to Intrigue and Violence
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Who’s in charge? Certainly not the bought-and-paid-for-moderates that Washington and the EU hoped to install as the new government of Ukraine. Americans have no idea that the neoconservative regime of the White House Fool is leading them into a Great Power Confrontation that could end in destruction of life on earth.
→ read full articleWhy Do We Fear the Truth?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
The bottom line is this: Can you still hear your inner voice? And do you, like Gandhi, have the courage to follow it ‘whatever the consequences’?
→ read full article(Português) O Sigilo Sobre Fukushima
Ralph Nader – Carta Maior,
17 Feb 2014
Sob suas disposições, somente o governo decide o que é considerado segredo de estado e qualquer civil que divulgue algum segredo pode ser preso por até 10 anos. Jornalistas pegos tornando o assunto público podem ser presos por até 5 anos.
→ read full articleNuclear Issue in Limbo as Indecision Grips Japan
Martin Fackler – International New York Times,
17 Feb 2014
Several industrialized countries have turned their backs on nuclear power as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including one that has already begun permanently shutting functioning plants. That country is not Japan.
→ read full articleObama’s Arms Sales Policy: Promotion or Restraint?
William D. Hartung – Foreign Policy In Focus,
17 Feb 2014
The United States is far and away the world’s leading arms trafficking nation, with $60 billion in arms transfer agreements last year [2013] alone. In 2011, the last year for which full global statistics are available, U.S. companies and the U.S. government controlled over three-quarters of the international weapons trade.
→ read full articleThe Five Criminals – In America, the Gestapo Has Replaced the Rule of Law
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
Russia Today is the best English language news source available to Americans. On January 29, RT published a photo of 5 presidential appointees lying through their teeth to Congress. All five of these Gestapo wannabes are in violation of their oath of office to protect the Constitution of the United States.
→ read full articleWill Boycotting Israel Go Mainstream?
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
If peace talks failed, Kerry warned, the effort to delegitimize Israel would go ‘on steroids.’ “Today’s status quo absolutely, to a certainty, I promise you 100 percent, cannot be maintained,” Kerry warned like an Old Testament prophet and the grandson of Eastern European Jews who converted to Catholicism. “It’s not sustainable. It’s illusionary.”
→ read full articleAIPAC and the Israel Lobby: Down, but Not Yet Out!
Steve Weissman - Reader Supported News,
10 Feb 2014
To this day, Washington has not shown that the horrific use of gas came from Assad’s forces rather than from the Sunni rebels. But, no matter, AIPAC and its pro-Israel allies led a massive campaign to support U.S. military intervention. They pushed and they failed.
→ read full articleThe Hypocrisy of Human Rights Watch
Keane Bhatt - NACLA Report,
10 Feb 2014
This affinity for the U.S. government agenda is not limited to Latin America. In the summer of 2013, for example, when the prospect of a unilateral U.S. missile strike on Syria—a clear violation of the UN Charter—loomed large, HRW’s executive director Kenneth Roth speculated as to whether a simply “symbolic” bombing would be sufficient.
→ read full articleWashington Destabilizes Ukraine
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. “Fuck the EU.” So much for Washington’s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite is Insane
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2014
As anyone who pays even the slightest realistic attention to the global elite already knows, the elite’s efforts to maximise its political and economic clout, and hence its wealth, at the expense of everyone else and the Earth itself, are carefully crafted. And this is not going to change on our recommendation or because we talk to them, or even because we listen to them. Moreover, the reason is simple. The global elite is insane. And it is incredibly violent.
→ read full articleBig Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
10 Feb 2014
Official Washington’s neocons still influence U.S. foreign policy despite their Iraq War disaster. Forever pushing what they view as Israel’s strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.
→ read full articleUSA, Greatest Threat to Peace!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2014
“The U.S. military budget is almost as large as the military spending of all the world’s other nations, combined. Together, the U.S. and its NATO allies account for more than 70 percent of global weapons spending. At last count, the U.S. spent six times more on war than China, and 11 times more than Russia. In fact, if you count up the U.S. and all of its allies, they are probably responsible for about 90 percent of total moneys spent on war.”
→ read full articleUS Feigns “Horror” Over Cooked-Up Report on Syrian War They Engineered
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Qatar – chief financier of Al Qaeda in Syria – commissions “report” on atrocities published just ahead of Geneva conference.
→ read full article(Português) Por que o Brasil deveria dar asilo a Snowden
Roberto Brilhante – Outras Palavras,
27 Jan 2014
Sexta-feira, 24 Jan 2014, ocorreu o diálogo “Soberania Digital e Vigilância na Era da Internet”, que reuniu Sérgio Amadeu, professor da Universidade Federal do ABC; Demi Getschko, um dos “pais” da internet brasileira; Antonio Martins, criador do Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil e de Outras Palavras; e David Miranda, companheiro de Glenn Greenwald e estrategista de marketing que coordena a campanha que pressiona o Brasil a conceder asilo a Edward Snowden.
→ read full articleAn Open Letter to Soldiers with ‘Mental Health’ Issues
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Are you a soldier or veteran who is supposed to have a ‘mental health’ issue such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or PTSD? If you are, then I have some suggestions for you to consider.
→ read full articleUS Government Privacy Board Says NSA Bulk Collection of Phone Data Is Illegal
Spencer Ackerman and Dan Roberts – The Guardian,
27 Jan 2014
23 Jan 2014 – The US government’s privacy board has sharply rebuked President Barack Obama over the NSA’s mass collection of phone data, saying the program defended by Obama last week was illegal and ought to be shut down.
→ read full articleHuman Rights Watch’s Syria Dilemma
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jan 2014
Human Rights Watch, which has pushed for a U.S. military intervention in Syria, continues to blame the Assad government for the Aug. 21[2013] Sarin attack even though the group’s high-profile map supposedly proving the case has been debunked.
→ read full articleGenocide and Indigenous Rights: The Inuit People of Canada
John Bart Gerald - Global Research,
27 Jan 2014
In a territory where the suicide rate of Inuit is thirteen times the national average, young men commit suicide at 40 times the rate of those in southern Canada. This happens when a culture is being destroyed. Ongoing genocide warning.
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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 articleNAFTA at 20: A Model for Corporate Rule
Manuel Perez-Rocha and Stuart Trew – Foreign Policy In Focus,
20 Jan 2014
NAFTA and treaties like it grant transnational companies total freedom of movement for capital, goods, and services, coupled with the ability to sue countries in secret courts when governments attempt to get in their way.
→ read full articleCan Brazil Help Roll Back US Surveillance?
Robert Valencia – Open Democracy,
20 Jan 2014
Brazil has become a staunch and vocal critic of US espionage, asking Google and Facebook to install local servers. But will this really work? The US eavesdropped on Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. The former wrote letters of protest, but in Sep. 2013, President Dilma Rousseff took the issue up with the UN General Assembly.
→ read full article250 Dolphins Captured, Prepared for Slaughter in Japan
Hawaii Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
17 Jan 2014 – Five separate pods of Bottlenose dolphins were driven into Taiji’s infamous killing cove yesterday and held overnight. This now massive pod of more than 250 dolphins includes babies and juveniles, including a rare albino calf that has been clinging as closely as possible to the mother.
→ read full article(Português) A Atualidade de Uma Marxista Rebelde
Antonio Martins – Outras Palavras,
20 Jan 2014
Como Rosa Luxemburgo, morta há 95 anos, ajuda a reinventar, em tempos de crise do capitalismo, o pensamento de Marx. “Rosa tem uma concepção aberta do marxismo. Para ela, Marx não era uma Bíblia com verdades prontas e imutáveis, mas manancial que permite levar adiante trabalho de compreensão do mundo contemporâneo”.
→ read full articleA Day of Infamy!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
On January 17, 1893 U.S. Marines assisted wealthy sugar barons to illegally overthrow the independent nation and lawful Hawaiian government of Queen Lili’uokalani. 120 years of continuous illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i does not make the occupation legal.
→ read full articleJapan’s Response to Fukushima Should Worry Us All
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jan 2014
Japan has created a funhouse of distorting mirrors from which emerging information about the ongoing disaster cannot be considered credible without reliable, independent verification.
→ read full articleGerman Star Footballer Thomas Hitzlsperger Announces He Is Gay
BBC Sport – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
The ex-Aston Villa midfielder, 31, who retired because of injury in September, revealed his sexuality on Wednesday [8 Jan 2014]. “We still have a long way to go before there will be an openly gay man playing in a top league because we fear a reaction and we don’t know what will happen,” Hitzlsperger, who won 52 caps for Germany, said.
→ read full articleFundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
While religious fundamentalism is recognisable to most people, fundamentalism has many non-religious manifestations as well. These are widespread, even if they often occur in less readily identifiable ways.
→ read full articleNow It’s Middle Eastern Regimes Fighting Al-Qa’ida, while the US Ties Itself Up in Knots
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
6 Jan 2014
And so, for the first time in recent history, it seems that the “war against terror” – and specifically against al-Qa’ida – is being fought by Middle East regimes rather than their foreign investors.
→ read full article(Português) A Revolta de Chiapas, 20 Anos Depois
Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Já se passaram anos, balas e mortos, prisões e injustiças. Ocorreram críticas e zombarias, mas o Subcomandante Marcos e os zapatistas seguem presentes.
→ read full articleNew York Times Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
6 Jan 2014
For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 [2013] Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where the rockets supposedly were launched. But the Times now grudgingly admits its analysis was flawed.
→ read full articleShopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
Jacob Appelbaum, Judith Horchert and Christian Stöcker – Der Spiegel,
6 Jan 2014
After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices.
→ read full articleFukushima, a Global Conspiracy of Denial
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
6 Jan 2014
Does anyone in authority anywhere tell the truth about Fukushima? If there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it’s not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be.
→ read full article2014 and Beyond: Chaos or Community?
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Nearly 50 years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.” That choice is becoming ever more profound as we enter the new year of 2014.
→ read full articleNSA Seeks to Build Quantum Computer That Could Crack Most Types of Encryption
Steven Rich and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
6 Jan 2014
The US National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world, according to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
→ read full article2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
In terms of surveillance technology, we are far beyond Orwell’s imagination. In terms of the unaccountability of government, we exceptional and indispensable people now live a 1984 existence. In America today citizens have become subjects, an indication of social collapse.
→ read full articleEnd the U.S. National Security State!
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
The U.S. military has begun to use the phrase “harvest” to describe the killing done by drones. The U.S. has now become a National Security State, a global empire, “harvesting” children – Holy Innocents, at home and abroad. When will it end?
→ read full articleMandela and Cuba: Another Memory Hole
Alex Doherty – Open Democracy,
30 Dec 2013
The media’s careful avoidance of the contrasting Cold War roles of the United States and Cuba regarding South Africa is not of mere academic consequence. As George Orwell understood, control of historical narratives gives elites a powerful grip over public perceptions of present realities and grants those elites greater latitude in their future action.
→ read full article6 Crimes against Nature Perpetrated by the Food Industry
Martha Rosenberg, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Treating animals like heads of lettuce—“forget it’s an animal” says one farming magazine—has created institutionalized ruthlessness toward animals, workers and the environment, harming humans who eat the products thanks to meat-related obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, and greedy, short-sighted land-use policies.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden, after Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished
Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
24 Dec 2013 – “For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
→ read full article(Português) O Funesto Império Mundial das Corporações
Leonardo Boff – Carta Maior,
30 Dec 2013
Muitos como J. Stiglitz e P. Krugman esperavam que o legado da crise de 2008 seria um grande debate sobre que tipo de sociedade queremos. Erraram feio. A discussão não se deu. Ao contrário, a lógica que provocou a crise foi retomada com mais furor.
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Gun or Gandhi
Martin Arnold - TED Talks,
30 Dec 2013
Nov 25, 2013 – TRANSCEND member Martin Arnold worked at the vocational school Essen-West as a protestant vocational pastor until 2010. From 2004 to 2009 he led a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace.
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9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out
911ExpertsSpeakOut – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
Public Broadcasting Station, Colorado Public Television, have courageously thrust themselves at the forefront of our nation’s public service media network. This is the 1-hour version of our 1 ½ hour groundbreaking documentary.
→ read full articleTime to Be Bold and Make Peace in Syria
Jimmy Carter and Robert A. Pastor – The Washington Post,
30 Dec 2013
23 Dec 2013 – We would need Russia and the United States to agree to this approach, Iran and other regional powers to stop supporting their proxies and the United Nations to elevate this issue to a top priority. It is time to change the agenda, the preconditions and the strategy on Syria — and end the war.
→ read full articleDefeating the Violence in Our Food and Medicine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
Apart from exposing the medical industry, there has been much effort to expose the way in which the pharmaceutical and agribusiness food industries (particularly the meat industry) have ensured that little in the way of health-enhancing advice and treatment is available to patients who risk all by subjecting themselves to a ‘doctor’.
→ read full article(Português) Fórum Mundial dos Direitos Humanos Reúne Mais de 5 Mil em Brasília
Najla Passos – Carta Maior,
16 Dec 2013
Com a presença de 5.987 pessoas de diferentes segmentos sociais de diversos países, o Fórum Mundial dos Direitos Humanos foi aberto nesta terça (10 Dez), em Brasília, na data em que se comemora o Dia Internacional dos Direitos Humanos e os 65 anos da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos.
→ read full articleNew Evidence of Contra-Cocaine Scandal
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Dec 2013
Special Report: Since journalist Gary Webb died in 2004, the story that destroyed his life has slowly come into clearer focus, revealing how President Reagan’s beloved Contras really were enmeshed in cocaine trafficking. On this ninth anniversary of Webb’s suicide, new corroboration has emerged.
→ read full articleSyria’s War: The Next Phase
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
While the initial conflict was disingenuously portrayed as the spontaneous militarization of unarmed protesters fighting against a “brutal regime,” in reality Al Nusra was already inside the country and operating on a national scale. The US State Department itself would reveal this in its December 2012.
→ read full articleIs NATO’s Trojan Horse Riding Toward the ‘Ukraine Spring’?
Dennis Kucinich - Reader Supported News,
16 Dec 2013
While the draft of the EU “Association Agreement” is being sold as an economic boon for Ukrainian citizens, it is a massive expansion of NATO’s military position in the region. Naomi Klein’s Disaster Militarism. Ukrainians may be pro-EU, but are the EU and NATO pro-Ukrainian?
→ read full articleAloha Nelson Mandela!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. Before and after his release from prison, he embraced an unabashedly progressive and provocative platform.
→ read full article(Português) Veja Como a NSA Acessa Seu Gmail
Alberto Sicilia, Principia Marsupia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Procuramos explicar de maneira simples como funcionam os dois programas do governo dos Estados Unidos que recolhem os nossos dados na Internet.
→ read full articleReports on Syrian Paramilitary Groups
The Carter Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
The reports are part of the Center’s Syria Conflict Mapping Project, which analyzes the unprecedented volume of online citizen-generated information about the conflict in an effort to better inform peace-building efforts.
→ read full articleWashington Drives the World toward War
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
Exceptionalism Killing America’s Soul – A person might wonder what is exceptional and indispensable about a government that is a reincarnation of Nazi Germany in every respect. People propagandized into the belief that they are the world’s special people inevitably lose their humanity.
→ read full articleNew Documents Show How the NSA Infers Relationships Based on Mobile Location Data
Ashkan Soltani and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
Everyone who carries a cellphone generates a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that reveal a wealth of information about who we are, where we live, who our friends are and much more. The NSA is collecting location information in bulk — 5 billion records per day worldwide — and using sophisticated algorithms to assist with U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.
→ read full articleFresh Doubts about Syria’s Sarin Guilt
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
16 Dec 2013
Exclusive: A new analysis, buried in a UN report, reveals that one of the two missiles at the center of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, which nearly led to a U.S. military attack, showed no evidence of Sarin, further undermining Official Washington’s certainty that the Syrian government was to blame.
→ read full articleNSA Uses Google Cookies to Pinpoint Targets for Hacking
Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson and Barton Gellman – The Washington Post,
16 Dec 2013
The agency’s internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking operations.
→ read full articleApple, Google, Microsoft and More Demand Sweeping Changes to US Surveillance Laws
Dan Roberts and Jemima Kiss – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public’s trust in the internet.
→ read full article(Português) O Antigo Jovem Marx e o Novo Velho Marx Renascem em Berlim
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
9 Dec 2013
O Marx que provavelmente emergirá do projeto MEGA, edição integral de Marx/Engels, será menos apocalíptico e teleológico, mais profético e analítico.
→ read full articleLobbying Elites: The Fast Track to Extinction
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
The evidence teaches us that elites want us to lobby (or vote for) them so that they can ignore us, and that mobilizations of people in one place provide easy targets for repression. So we need to develop strategies that primarily allow us to organise collectively in small local groups, to work with people whose values we share and to minimize the opportunities for military and police repression.
→ read full articleDefeated by the Taliban, Washington Decides to Take on Russia and China
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
It is a good bet that the Ukrainian protests are a CIA organized event, using the Washington and EU funded NGOs and manipulating the hatred of Ukrainian nationalists for Russia. The protests are directed against Russia.
→ read full articleNSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide, Snowden Documents Show
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani – The Washington Post,
9 Dec 2013
Dec. 4, 2013 – The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.
→ read full articleUS Government Considered Nelson Mandela a Terrorist Until 2008
Robert Windrem, Investigative Producer, NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
From the White House to the halls of Congress, U.S. government officials have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a hail of testimonials to the late South African president’s leadership in the struggle for freedom and human rights. Until five years ago, however, the U.S. officially considered Mandela a terrorist.
→ read full article(Português) A Senciência e a Defesa dos Animais
Gilberto Pinheiro – Jornal do Brasil,
2 Dec 2013
Um grupo de neurocientistas canadenses, chefiados pelo doutor Philip Low, ao fazer estudos comparados, cotejando o cérebro humano ao de um animal, concluiu e subscreveu um manifesto ao mundo científico que os animais possuem consciência como todos nós. Inclusive emoções, sentimentos, o que, na verdade, já se sabia empiricamente.
→ read full article(Português) Direito à Privacidade: Nova Vitória do Brasil na Cena Internacional
Flávio Aguiar – Carta Maior,
2 Dec 2013
ONU aprovou resolução sobre direito à privacidade e temas afins, inclusive na internet, apresentada conjuntamente pelo Brasil e pela Alemanha.
→ read full article(Italiano) Il contributo di Johan Galtung alla teoria ed alla pratica della pace e della nonviolenza
Prof. Alberto L’Abate – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
2 Dec 2013
Galtung è sicuramente uno degli studiosi che ha più contributo allo sviluppo teorico- pratico di questo settore, grazie alla sua prolificità nello scrivere (fino al 2012, 1785 saggi, 165 libri, scritti o curati da lui o insieme ad altri; molti dei quali tradotti in 34 lingue, compreso l’italiano1), sia grazie al lavoro da lui svolto in molti paesi del mondo (anche per le Nazioni Unite, ed altre importanti O.I.G) soprattutto per la mediazione di conflitti, con risultati importanti cui avremo occasione di accennare in seguito.
→ read full articleWhy Don’t We Try to Understand and End Human Violence?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
Most of us want to use violence when it suits us and to ‘get away with it’ when we do. This is why most of us find ways to inflict our violence in socially legitimized ways or we do it in relative secrecy. Apart from inflicting violence on our own children and the natural environment, society has created whole sectors of activity in which ‘legitimized violence’ can be inflicted.
→ read full articleThe Warsaw Walkout and the Climate Movement
Sasha Reid Ross, Earth First! Newswire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
The story is now part of climate history. Yesterday [21 Nov 2013], as climate talks degraded into a sideshow for the coal industry, more than 800 conference participants walked out. Wearing T-shirts adorned with the word, Volveremos (We will return), the activists handed in their registration badges and abandoned the United Nations Climate Change Summit.
→ read full articleSyrian Nun Seen as Threat to War Resistance
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
25 Nov 2013
Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross is a Carmelite nun and mother superior of the Monastery of James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria, which has a community of three monks and twelve nuns. Born in Lebanon in a refugee camp 61 years ago, she is Palestinian on her father’s side and has worked in Syria for about 20 years. She is the spokesperson for the Catholic Information Center in Beirut, where the Musalaha Initiative also has its office.
→ read full articleJohn F. Kennedy’s Vision of Peace`
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Rolling Stone,
25 Nov 2013
On Nov 22, 1963, my uncle, president John F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as “nonsense” the right-wing notion that “peace is a sign of weakness.” He meant to argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that “practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice.”
→ read full article‘Syria Is Not a Revolution Any More – This Is Civil War’
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Turkey and Syria – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
Rivalry between rebels and Islamists has replaced the uprising’s lofty ideals, leaving veteran commanders despairing. The goals of the first war – freedom, Islam, social equality of some sort – were replaced by betrayal, defeat and anger towards rival militias, jihadis and foreign powers fighting in Syria.
→ read full articleThe U.S. National Security State-CIA Killed J.F.K. in 1963
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
Kennedy was killed by multiple shooters with the killing shot coming, not from the school book depository building in the rear, but from the front, behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. Dr. Robert N. McClelland, MD, the surgeon that treated Kennedy, stated frankly that the killing shot came from the front causing a massive exit wound in the right side of the President’s skull.
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