Articles by David
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Peace Lessons
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I just read what may be the best introduction to peace studies I’ve ever seen. It’s called ‘Peace Lessons,’ and is a new book by Timothy Braatz. It’s not too fast or too slow, neither obscure nor boring. It does not drive the reader away from activism toward meditation and “inner peace.”
→ read full articleLondon Is Now the Global Money-Laundering Centre for the Drug Trade, Says Crime Expert
James Hanning and David Connett – The Independent,
13 Jul 2015
Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday [5 Jul 2015], Mr Saviano said of the international drugs trade that “Mexico is its heart and London is its head”. He said the cheapness and the ease of laundering dirty money through UK-based banks gave London a key role in drugs trade.
→ read full articleNSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure
Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda – The Intercept,
6 Jul 2015
4 Jul 2015 – President Rousseff just yesterday returned to Brazil after a trip to the U.S. that included a meeting with President Obama, a visit she had delayed for almost two years in anger over prior revelations of NSA spying on Brazil.
→ read full articleThe 51-Day Genocide
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2015
6 July 2015 – Max Blumenthal’s latest book, ‘The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza,’ tells a powerful story powerfully well. I can think of a few other terms that accurately characterize the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza in addition to “war,” among them: occupation, murder-spree, and genocide. Each serves a different valuable purpose. Each is correct.
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Age at Seventy
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
The first explosion of a nuclear device took place at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Just three weeks later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days after that on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
→ read full articleVeterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
17 Jun 2015 – Letter Reinforces Call Made in National TV Ad Campaign – An increasing number of United States military veterans are counseling United States military drone operators to refuse to fly drone surveillance/attack missions – the veterans are even helping sponsor prime time television commercials urging drone operators to “refuse to fly.”
→ read full articleUkraine and the Apocalyptic Risk of Propagandized Ignorance
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2015
‘Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated’ – This book may very well be the best written one I’ve read this year. It puts all the relevant facts — those I knew and many I didn’t — together concisely and with perfect organization. It does it with an informed worldview. It leaves me nothing to complain about at all, which is almost unheard of in my book reviews.
→ read full articleNet Neutrality Rules Go into Effect
Mario Trujillo and David McCabe, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The new federal rules for net neutrality were allowed to take effect on Friday [12 Jun 2015] after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied a motion to stay the regulation. The ruling is not on the final merits of the challenge, but it hands an early victory to net neutrality advocates.
→ read full articleWhat Slavery, Ordeals, Duels and Lynching Can Teach Us about Abolishing War
David Carroll Cochran – Waging Nonviolence,
15 Jun 2015
Wars still exist, but in John Mueller’s influential theory, most represent the “remnants of war,” low-intensity civil war fought by loosely-organized warlords and criminal gangs in failed states. Abolition is not a neat and linear process. Its starts and stops, stubborn hold-outs and even reversals can make it seem futile. However, Margaret Mead famously suggests that “Warfare Is Only an Invention – Not a Biological Necessity.”
→ read full articleFilm: Costa Rica Abolished Its Military, Never Regretted It
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
In 1948 Costa Rica abolished its military, something widely deemed impossible in the United States. This film documents how that was done and what the results have been. I don’t want to give away the ending but let me just say this: there has not been a hostile Muslim takeover of Costa Rica, the Costa Rican economy has not collapsed, and Costa Rican women still seem to find a certain attraction in Costa Rican men.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons: Grand Bargain Is Not So Grand
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The five nuclear-armed countries that are parties to the NPT (US, Russia, UK, France and China) appear more comfortable working together to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals than they do to fulfilling their disarmament obligations under the treaty. Their common strategy appears to be “nuclear weapons forever.” The US plans to spend $1 trillion on modernizing its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades.
→ read full articleScience, Time and Hawaii’s Mauna a Wākea: The Thirty-Meter Telescope’s Capitalist-Colonialist Violence
David Maile – The Hawaii Independent,
25 May 2015
The TMT is, in fact, a part of a legacy of colonial-capitalist violence committed against Hawaii and Hawaiians, regardless of its scientific merit.
→ read full articleDrone Warfare in ‘Good Kill’
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2015
‘Good Kill’ opens in theaters in the US on May 15 [2015]. A roundtable interview with writer-director Andrew Niccol and actor Ethan Hawke. Drone strikes carried out by the US military and CIA have killed thousands of civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and other countries. The barbaric strikes are illegal under international and US law and amount to war crimes.
→ read full articleHubris versus Wisdom
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
Humankind must not be complacent in the face of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. The future of humanity and all life depends upon the outcome of the ongoing struggle between hubris and wisdom. Hubris is an ancient Greek word meaning extreme arrogance. Wisdom is cautionary good sense.
→ read full articleA Trade Rule That Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That and More
David Korten - YES! Magazine,
27 Apr 2015
The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear.
→ read full articleScholar Maung Zarni Defines Genocide in ‘Holocaust and Human Rights Project’ Lecture
David Reich - Boston College Law School Magazine,
20 Apr 2015
15 Apr 2015 – The word genocide calls to mind events like the Jewish and Armenian holocausts, but according to Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar affiliated with Harvard and the London School of Economics, smaller-scale killing can also fit the definition “if done in an attempt to destroy a people.”
→ read full articleHow Worker Co-ops are Moving beyond Capitalism
David Morgan, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
11 Apr 2015 – The explosion of worker cooperatives in recent years has social justice organizers talking. Transitioning to a people-powered economy will require the work of many different social movements and worker co-ops have come to the center of the conversation due to their ability to address multiple issues at once.
→ read full articleDrone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2015
Their suit argues that it is illegal under German law for the German government to allow the U.S. air base at Ramstein to be used for drone murders abroad. The suit comes after the passage of a resolution in the European Parliament urging European nations to “oppose and ban the practice of extrajudicial targeted killings.”
→ read full articleA Poem for the Crossroads
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
I would like to write a poem and nail it
to a stake at humanity’s crossroads.
It would say: choose your path wisely.
The “Naturalness” of the Commons
David de Ugarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
Why so much sudden love for Elinor Ostrom? No, to understand the shared economy, to work together to manage the needs of all in a community economy, we don’t need great treaties or consultation with university technicians. We just need to go back home, back to basics.
→ read full articleHow The Guardian Told Me to Steer Clear of Palestine
David Cronin, Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2015
11 Mar 2015 – When I started out as a journalist in the 1980s, I asked an experienced Irish reporter for advice. “Read The Guardian,” he told me. The message that there was no better newspaper had a lasting effect. For years, I wanted to write for The Guardian. Eventually, this desire was realized.
→ read full articleU.S. Standing Alone against Children
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
The United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. And why not?
→ read full article“It’s Ugly, It’s Vicious, It’s Brutal”: Cornel West on Israel in Palestine — And Why Gaza Is “The Hood on Steroids”
David Palumbo-Liu – Salon,
9 Mar 2015
Cornel West speaks with a Stanford professor about the divestment effort and Palestinian activism.
→ read full article(Català-Catalán) Víctimes i Victimaris
David Álvarez – Carta de la Pau dirigida a l’ONU,
2 Mar 2015
Dialogar no és una cosa genètica, és una competència que s’ensenya i es socialitza en el procés vital de tota persona. Des de la llar fins a l’Estat, els processos de diàleg han de ser els mecanismes que hi hagi les relacions entre tots els éssers humans. Un diàleg en què ens reconeixem iguals i amb dret a expressar les nostres idees i propostes, alhora que som capaços d’escoltar i entendre les idees i propostes dels altres.
→ read full articleTesting Nuclear Weapons in the Marshall Islands
David Krieger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The islands were alive
with the red-orange fire of sunset
splashed on a billowy sky.
I Am Not Charlie Hebdo
David Brooks – The New York Times,
12 Jan 2015
Let’s face it: If they had tried to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over the last two decades it wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds. Student and faculty groups would have accused them of hate speech. Public reaction to the attack in Paris has revealed that there are a lot of people who are quick to lionize those who offend the views of Islamist terrorists in France but who are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend their own views at home.
→ read full articleOn Freedom of Speech
David van Mill, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
The discussion moves on from the harm principle to assess the argument that speech can be limited because it causes offense rather than direct harm. [From TMS Editor – Of interest, in view of recent atrocities in Paris: 3.3 HATE SPEECH AND THE OFFENSE PRINCIPLE]
→ read full articleOn Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
David Krieger - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
8 Dec 2014
Modernization of the US nuclear arsenal is not the only choice we have. A far better and saner choice is to end the nuclear weapons era, and that can only be done by diplomacy and negotiations for a nuclear weapons-free world.
→ read full articleThe Battle for Jerusalem
David Hearst – Huffington Post,
1 Dec 2014
To be a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem is to suffer from a special form of statelessness. They are citizens neither of Israel nor of Palestine. They cannot vote. They have no official passports and cannot freely cross borders.
→ read full articleNo Escape for Civilians in Syria
David Miliband – Al Jazeera,
24 Nov 2014
The number of Syrians able to flee violence in their country has dropped dramatically. The responsibility to shelter those fleeing lies with the whole world. Meeting it grows daily more urgent.
→ read full articleTanzania Accused of Backtracking over Sale of Masai’s Ancestral Land
David Smith, Africa correspondent – The Guardian,
24 Nov 2014
Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a private hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family.
→ read full articlePeace Leadership
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Nov 2014
We live in a time of war and in a world that sacrifices its children at the altar of violence. There are children growing up today who have never known peace. Can you imagine what this must be like?
→ read full articleUS Army Drafts Blueprint for World War III
Bill Van Auken and David North, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Oct 2014
The Pentagon is preparing for unlimited global warfare and military dictatorship within the United States. The document was formally released at this week’s Association of the United States Army conference.
→ read full articleU.S. Nuclear Policy: Taking the Wrong Road
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Oct 2014
On September 21, 2014, the International Day of Peace, The New York Times published an article, “U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms.” Federal study put the price tag for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal at “up to a trillion dollars” over the next three decades.
→ read full articleU.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms
William J. Broad and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
29 Sep 2014
This expansion comes under a president who campaigned for “a nuclear-free world.” Mr. Obama spoke in Prague saying the United States had a moral responsibility to seek the “security of a world without nuclear weapons.” The Nobel committee, citing his disarmament efforts, announced it would award Mr. Obama the Peace Prize.
→ read full articleObama and ISIS
David McReynolds – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
The problem is that, as always happens in these cases, there is a certain “selective outrage”, a kind of “willed amnesia” about our own role in such matters. Not all of the sins of America, taken together, justify the beheading of a single journalist – but memory may help us understand the roots of that horror.
→ read full articlePeace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
→ read full articleWhere Slaughtered Dolphins Go to Be Sold
David Kirby, takepart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
12 Sep 2014 – As the annual dolphin-killing season begins at the cove at Taiji, Japan, the focus will be on the slaughter. Far less attention will be paid, however, to the fate of dolphins captured and sold to marine-mammal entertainment parks worldwide.
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleIs Israel Bad for the Jews?
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
8 Sep 2014
Let’s recall that Israel’s reason for being was to give Jews shelter from the ravages of anti-Semitism. Indeed, with but very few exceptions, it is hard to imagine anywhere less safe for Jews than present-day Israel. And, there is growing evidence that Israeli behavior is a major source of today’s increasing anti-Semitism.
→ read full articleMonty Python State Department
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
No actual diplomats were harmed in the making of this production. Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets.
→ read full articleWar in the Hundred Acre Woods
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
“To renounce aggression is not enough,” writes Milne. “We must also renounce defence.” What do we replace it with? Milne depicts a world of nonviolent dispute resolution, arbitration, and a changed conception of honor or prestige that finds war shameful rather than honorable. And not just shameful, but mad.
→ read full articleDemand Swells for Straight Answers on Plane in Ukraine
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
22 Aug 2014 – A long list of prominent individuals has signed, a number of organizations will be promoting next week, and you can be one of the first to sign right now, a petition titled “Call For Independent Inquiry of the Airplane Crash in Ukraine and its Catastrophic Aftermath.”
→ read full articleFrom Albert Einstein to Noam Chomsky: Famous Jews Who Have Opposed Israel
David Wilson – Stop the War Coalition,
18 Aug 2014
There is a long tradition among prominent Jewish figures opposing the Israeli state, who found themselves, like Isaac Asimov, “in the odd position of not being a Zionist”.
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Walk on the Wild Side: The Warhol Superstars (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK)
Lou Reed and David Bowie – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2014
Lou Reed and David Bowie’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (1972) tells the stories of Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dellasandro, Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis. Before stardom under Warhol’s wing they had lived a life of crime and prostitution to survive in the harsh New York City streets. Lou Reed died on 27 Oct, 2013. RIP
→ read full article(Português) Os abutres, isolados do mundo
David Cufré, Página/12 –TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
É digno de nota que a Argentina obtenha apoio do editorialista estrela do Financial Times. “O caso da Argentina é uma temática proeminente para a comunidade internacional, que evidencia um vazio jurídico e deve dar lugar para reformas que permitam proteger os bens comuns.”
→ read full articleIf a Genocide Falls in the Forest
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a wide and mysterious chasm between the intentions of the Israeli government as depicted by the U.S. media and what it has been doing in Gaza, even as recounted in the U.S. media. With the morgues full, Gazans are packing freezers with their dead children. Meanwhile, the worst images to be found in Israel depict fear, not death and suffering.
→ read full article(Português) Harvey: A violência nas ruas e o fim do capital
David Harvey – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Trecho editado do mais recente livro de David Harvey, 17 contradições e o fim do capitalismo, onde o britânico identifica e disseca didaticamente todas as contradições do capital segundo a análise feita por Marx – para ele, seriam exatamente dezessete.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Losing Narrative
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
4 Aug 2014
The Israel government still has most U.S. politicians and pundits under its thumb, but the Zionist narrative – excusing the latest slaughter of Palestinians – is losing the hearts and minds of millions of others around the world.
→ read full article(Castellano) Los buitres, aislados del mundo
David Cufré, Pagina/12 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
La pelea de Argentina con los fondos buitre viene a completar una etapa que arrancó en 2008, con la crisis de las hipotecas subprime en Estados Unidos. “El de Argentina es un caso testigo para la comunidad internacional, que pone de manifiesto un vacío legal y debe dar lugar a reformas que permitan proteger el bien común”.
→ read full articleNot in My Name, Netanyahu
David Harris-Gershon - Tikkun Daily,
28 Jul 2014
When Netanyahu blames Palestinians for their own deaths, dismissing them as “human shields” – including the over 100 children who have been lost – rather than note Israel’s choice to obliterate homes in dense, urban areas when it’s known innocents will die, he does not speak for me. Netanyahu does not represent the Jewish people. And he certainly doesn’t represent me.
→ read full articleNobel Literature Laureate Nadine Gordimer Dies Aged 90
David Smith – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
Nobel-prize-winning chronicler of apartheid died peacefully in Johannesburg on Sunday [13 Jul 2014].
→ read full articleCNN: Palestinians Want to Die
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
William Westmoreland once remarked on Vietnam, where the United States killed 4 million men, women, children, and infants: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner.” Banastre Tarleton stood up in Parliament and defended the slave trade on the grounds that Africans did not object to being slaves. President William McKinley said little brown Filipinos appreciated being conquered and dominated.
→ read full articleTooling Up for War: Can Japan Benefit from Lifting the Arms Export Ban?
David Mcneill - The Japan Times,
7 Jul 2014
28 Jun 2014 – Abe’s decision to end the nation’s four-decade ban on selling weapons in April reflected an intention to take a hard-nosed approach that builds military and technical alliances to counterbalance China’s rise. But what does it all mean? And, more importantly, who is expected to benefit from the deal?
→ read full articleSave the Bees, Ban Neonic Pesticides
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival. The insects pollinate everything from apples and zucchini to blueberries and almonds. If bees and other pollinators are at risk, entire terrestrial ecosystems are at risk, and so are we.
→ read full articleJapan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleThe World’s Most Important Spectator
David Bromwich – London Review of Books,
30 Jun 2014
‘If we have to use force,’ Madeleine Albright said, ‘it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.’ Very much in that spirit, Obama told the graduating West Point cadets that the US must lead the world even though it cannot police the world.
→ read full articleMass Murderers Brazenly Hold Conference, Discuss Tools of Trade
David Swanson - Reader Supported News,
16 Jun 2014
7 Jun 2014 – A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that, “to allow participants to speak more freely about potentially sensitive topics, the conference is closed to the media and open only to registered participants.”
→ read full articleThe Truth about Geoengineering – Science Fiction and Science Fact
David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, Katharine Ricke – Foreign Affairs,
2 Jun 2014
In 1891, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes admonished Dr. Watson, “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” And right now, the politics of geoengineering are far ahead of the science. As the 2010 decision within the Conventional on Biological Diversity shows, fears about geoengineering are leading to counterproductive policy schemes.
→ read full articleFine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies
David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
26 May 2014
The NSA has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil’s huge national oil company, but angry Brazilians have guesses: the company’s troves of data on Brazil’s offshore oil reserves, or perhaps its plans for allocating licenses for exploration to foreign companies.
→ read full articleReasons for Intellectual Conformity
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
26 May 2014
Indeed, from a historical perspective most people of high intellect have sought to serve power and not critique or question it. This is quite in line with the fact that most non-intellectuals accept the word of those in power as authoritative and true.
→ read full articleJournalism Can Be an Agent of Peace
David Robie – New Matilda,
12 May 2014
Embracing ‘peace journalism’ will help journalists be part of the solution. The study of wars and news media portrayal and reportage of conflict has been well developed as an academic discipline, termed by some as “war journalism”. But the study of peace journalism lags far behind. War journalism often focuses on violence as its own cause and is less open to examining the deep structural origins of the conflict. Heavy reliance on official sources leads to a general zero-sum analysis and deepens divisions.
→ read full articleWar Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Ian Morris maintains that the only way to peace is to make large societies, and the way to large societies is through war. From peace prosperity follows and from prosperity flows happiness. Therefore, war creates happiness. But if you want peace, prosperity and joy you must never stop engaging in — you guessed it — war.
→ read full articleTolerating Israel’s Land Grabs
Lawrence Davidson – Consortium News,
28 Apr 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have reached their predictable collapse, but the U.S. news media still shies away from blaming Israeli intransigence and expansionism – nor advocating stern action against the land grabs.
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Hungarian Dance No.5 (Music Video of the Week)
David Garrett – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Composition: Johannes Brahms. David Garrett: Violin
→ read full articleN.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlrothmar – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to documents provided by Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.
→ 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 articleHow the GDP Measures Everything ‘Except That Which Makes Life Worthwhile’
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
“Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” —Robert F. Kennedy.
→ 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 articleStar Wars to Become Reality as US Navy on Course to Arm Ship with Laser
David Sharp – The Independent,
24 Feb 2014
Some of the US Navy’s futuristic weapons sound like something out of Star Wars, with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds.
→ read full articleWill Thorium Save Us from Climate Change?
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2014
If the choice is between keeping nuclear power running or replacing them with coal-fired power plants, the nuclear option is best for the climate. But, for now, investing in renewable energy and smart-grid technologies is a faster, more cost-effective and safer option than building new nuclear facilities, regardless of type.
→ read full articleMedia Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger Be Stopped?
David Rosen - CounterPunch,
17 Feb 2014
The merger will be one more step in the further consolidation of the media marketplace that includes “last mile” connections for wireline delivery, wireless communications, Internet access and, increasingly, programming.
→ read full articleLetters from a Tennessee Jail: Anti-Nuclear Activists Await Sentencing
David Cook – Religion & Politics,
27 Jan 2014
Sister Rice, an 83-year-old nun, is considered a terrorist by the American government. She, Walli, and Boertje-Obed currently sit in the Ocilla jailhouse awaiting sentencing on January 28. They could receive anywhere from 10 to 30 years in prison. “We believe Christians have a duty of public witness against nuclear weapons.”
→ read full articleOpen Ended Dead End
David Colquhoun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
→ read full articleN.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway into Computers
David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 3 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2014
[Parts 1 & 2 in preceding weeks] It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 2 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
[Part 2 last week – Part 3 next week] The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
→ read full articleCivil Disobedience (Part 1 of 3)
Henry David Thoreau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2013
[Part 2 next week – Part 3 following one] The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
→ read full articleAttempts to Silence Environmentalists Continue
Dr. David Suzuki, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
A recent report by human rights organization Global Witness documents the murders of more than 700 environmental and indigenous-rights activists over the past decade—more than one killing a week, on average. They reviewed databases, academic studies and news reports, and consulted with the UN and other international agencies.
→ read full articleThe M23 Surrenders: A Pyrrhic Victory in Eastern Congo
David Zarembka – Foreign Policy In Focus,
25 Nov 2013
Given the roots of the ongoing conflict in North Kivu, military victory amounts to exchanging one group of exploiters for another.
→ read full articleJPMorgan Says ‘Mea Culpa’ in $13 Billion Record Settlement with U.S.
Aruna Viswanatha, David Henry & Karen Freifeld, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2013
But even after the settlement, the bank faces at least nine other government probes, covering everything from its hiring practices in China to whether it manipulated the Libor benchmark interest rate. It may still also face criminal charges linked to mortgage matters. The bank said last month it had set aside $23 billion to cover litigation expenses.
→ read full articleJPMorgan’s Bait-And-Switch: The Ballyhooed Settlement Is Just a Scam!
David Dayen - Salon,
25 Nov 2013
Ignore all the noise about the “big” fraud settlement JPMorgan supposedly just signed. Here’s why it’s one big zero.
→ read full articleCosta Gavras’s “Capital”: A Critique of “Cowboy Capitalism”
David Walsh, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
That unprincipled, greedy men and women are largely to blame for a good deal of the world’s problems and that they ought to and can be exposed by crusading individuals is a conception that seems to guide, semi-consciously or otherwise, a number of the current films on the subject of Wall Street and related issues.
→ read full articleHoly Logic: Computer Scientists ‘Prove’ God Exists
David Knight – Der Spiegel,
28 Oct 2013
Two scientists have formalized a theorem regarding the existence of God penned by mathematician Kurt Gödel. But the God angle is somewhat of a red herring — the real step forward is the example it sets of how computers can make scientific progress simpler.
→ read full articleJournalist Or Activist? Smearing Glenn Greenwald
David Edwards – Media Lens,
28 Oct 2013
Modern thought control is dependent on subliminal communication. Messages influencing key perceptions are delivered unseen, unnoticed, with minimal public awareness of what is happening or why. For example, journalists tell us that Hugo Chavez was ‘divisive’, that Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are ‘narcissistic’, that George Galloway is ‘controversial’. But beneath their literal meaning, these adjectives communicate a hidden message: that these individuals are acceptable targets for negative media judgement; they are fair game.
→ read full articleHow Can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize Winner – Fail to Condemn Anti-Muslim Violence?
David Blair – The Telegraph,
28 Oct 2013
I never thought I would write this, but Aung San Suu Kyi sent a shiver down my spine when she appeared on the Today programme this morning [24 Oct 2013]. Her equivocal attitude towards the violence suffered by Burma’s Muslim minority was deeply disturbing.
→ read full articleSlavery Was Believed Permanent Longer Than War Has Been
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Religion and science and history and economics all purported to prove slavery’s permanence, acceptability, and even desirability. In Ephesians 6:5 St. Paul instructed slaves to obey their earthly masters as they obeyed Christ. And culture, of course, that tries to preserve itself by calling itself “human nature.”
→ read full articleWhere Journalism Collides With State ‘Security’: BBC News, MI5 and the Mantra of ‘Keeping People Safe’
David Cromwell – Media Lens,
21 Oct 2013
We make no apology for again citing the American writer H. L. Mencken: ‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’
→ read full articleCanadian PM Says ‘Very Concerned’ by Brazil Spying Allegations
David Ljunggren, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2013
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed concern on Tuesday [8 Oct 2013] about allegations that Canada’s intelligence agency had targeted Brazil. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday demanded Canada explain a report that said the Communications Security Establishment Canada – the equivalent of the top-secret U.S. National Security Agency – had spied on Brazil’s Mines and Energy Ministry.
→ read full articleThe Italian Job
David Vine – TomDispatch,
7 Oct 2013
The US military has been shifting its European center of gravity south from Germany, where the overwhelming majority of U.S. forces in the region have been stationed since the end of World War II. At bases in Naples, Aviano, Sicily, Pisa, and Vicenza, among others, the military has spent more than $2 billion on construction alone since the end of the Cold War
→ read full articleSave the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself
David Swanson, War is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
On October 11, we’ll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin. In March 2012 the Swedish Foundations Authority ordered the Nobel Foundation to examine the will and ensure compliance. The NF defied the order and applied for a permanent exception from such oversight.
→ read full articleAdobe Announces Security Breach
David Kocieniewski – The New York Times,
7 Oct 2013
Hackers infiltrated the computer system of the software company Adobe, gaining access to credit card information and other personal data from 2.9 million of its customers, the company acknowledged on Thursday [3 Oct 2013].
→ read full articleSeeing Food as a Commons Opens Up Creative New Possibilities
David Bollier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
What would the world look like if we began to re-conceptualize food as a commons? Jose Luis Vivero Pol of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has done just that in a recent essay, “Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System.”
→ read full articleA Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison over a Link
David Carr – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government’s ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.
→ read full articleObama’s Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam
DavidSwanson – Washington’s Blog,
9 Sep 2013
We are coming up on the 50th anniversary of the American war in Viet Nam. As peace and justice activists, we believe it is crucial that the realities of the war be faced squarely. President Obama has announced his plan for a 13-year-long commemoration featuring a full panoply of Orwellian forgetfulness and faux-patriotism.
→ read full articleSoldiers’ Perspectives on the Use of Chemical Weapons
David - WikiLeaks Press,
26 Aug 2013
On June 10, 2013, US Iraq war veteran Daniel Somers wrote a final letter to his wife and family before taking his own life. He said he was forced to participate in horrific crimes against humanity and cover them up. Soldiers of conscience are coming forward against wars. They strive to inform the public that what has transpired during these wars should be considered a crime.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Wins Peace Prize
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
19 Jul 2013 – U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.
→ read full articleTalk Nation Radio: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Says Syrians Oppose Intervention
David Swanson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2013
Mairead Maguire speaks about her recent trip to Lebanon and Syria where she met with refugees, combatants, members of the opposition and members of the government. She found that supporters and opponents of the government, including those working for political changes, overwhelmingly oppose foreign interference and violence.
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