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Rohingya Crisis Is ‘Very Deliberate Genocide’, Former UN General Romeo Dallaire Says
Dominic Waghorn – Sky News,
18 Dec 2017
The former commander of UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda says the “will to intervene” on the Rohingya crisis is missing. A world authority on genocide, he said what is happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims is undoubtedly genocide and the international community must intervene to prevent it.
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The Case against Iraqing Iran
David Swanson | World Beyond War – MintPress News,
18 Dec 2017
Planning war and funding war creates its own momentum. Sanctions become, as with Iraq, a stepping stone to war. Cutting off diplomacy leaves few options open. Electoral pissing contests take us all where most of us did not want to be.
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Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
18 Dec 2017
As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue.
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Careless Disposal of Antibiotics Could Produce ‘Ferocious Superbugs,’ UN Environment Experts Warn
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
5 Dec 2017 – Growing antimicrobial resistance linked to the discharge of drugs and some chemicals into the environment is one of the most worrying health threats today. “The warning here is truly frightening: we could be spurring the development of ferocious superbugs through ignorance and carelessness.”
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Trump’s Jerusalem
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
11 Dec 2017
Idiocy + Power = Disaster
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Issue of Jerusalem Must Be Resolved through Direct Negotiations between Parties, UN Chief Stresses
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
6 Dec 2017 – “In this moment of great anxiety, I want to make it clear: there is no alternative to the two-state solution. There is no Plan B,” said Mr. Guterres. In his remarks, the UN chief noted that it is only by realizing the vision of two states “living side-by-side in peace, security and mutual recognition, with Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Palestine, and all final status issues resolved permanently through negotiations,” that the legitimate aspirations of both peoples will be achieved.
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What is Peace Journalism?
Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
Have you noticed that news media always cover war and violence, but rarely peace and reconciliations? Check out a new style of reporting that is emerging, and being used worldwide.
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The Struggle to Eliminate Violence against Women Is Essential to the Culture of Peace
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
1 Dec 2017 – The advance this year of the struggle to eliminate violence against women is an important step forward for the global movement for a culture of peace. Here’s why.
→ read full articleMissile Practice
Carlos Latuff – MintPress News,
4 Dec 2017
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More Than 15,000 Scientists from 184 Countries Issue ‘Warning to Humanity’
Nicole Mortillaro - CBC News,
27 Nov 2017
13 Nov 2017 – More than 15,000 scientists around the world have issued a global warning: there needs to be change in order to save Earth. A similar warning was first issued by scientists in 1992.
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Reintegration or Re-recruitment: Preventing Old Wars from Fueling New Wars
Ochan Hannington | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
When fighters return to civilian life their prospects are limited. Now, experts warn many are being re-recruited into other violent groups. “Whether that is forced recruitment because they live in a really remote location, or incentivized recruitment, that we see so much of in the Central African Republic or the Democratic Republic of the Congo where armed groups become the most viable employment offer in a region.”
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More Harm than Good with Climate Geo-Engineering
Tim Radford | Climate News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2017
Geo-engineering might be possible – but so far it doesn’t look practical. Yet another study sees dangers in the technofix. It could create more problems than it could solve.
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The Strength of the Lowly: The Theology of Liberation
Leonardo Boff – Other News,
27 Nov 2017
24 Nov 2017 – When one is asked how the Theology of Liberation is coming along, the answer is found in another question: How are the poor, the oppressed, women, the unemployed, Native peoples, Afro-descendants and others who are excluded treated? How do they enter in the liberating practices of the Christians? It is vital to emphasize that it is not the Theology of Liberation that is important, but the concrete liberation of the oppressed.
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Military Industrial Complex: Shadow World Exposes Greed, Profit and the Business of War
Kevin Gosztola – MintPress News,
27 Nov 2017
A new PBS documentary looks deep into the shadowy world of the global arms trade, profit-making from war, and the politicians who sell the interests of their constituents to the highest bidder.
→ read full articleThe Lost Journalistic Standards of Russia-gate
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Nov 2017
20 Nov 2017 – A danger in both journalism and intelligence is to allow an unproven or seriously disputed fact to become part of the accepted narrative where it gets widely repeated and thus misleads policymakers and citizens alike, such as happened during the run-up to war with Iraq and is now recurring amid the frenzy over Russia-gate.
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America’s Renegade Warfare
Nicolas J S Davies – Consortium News,
20 Nov 2017
Claiming the right to launch preemptive wars and fighting an ill-defined “global war on terror,” the U.S. government has slaughtered vast numbers of civilians in defiance of international law.
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U.S. Congress Approves Defense Bill to Pump $700 Billion into Military
Richard Lardner | Associated Press – PBS News Hour,
20 Nov 2017
14 Nov 2017 — House Republicans and Democrats joined forces today to decisively approve a defense policy bill that authorizes $700 billion to restock what lawmakers have described as a depleted U.S. military and counter North Korea’s advancing nuclear weapons program.
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With UN Support, More Countries Confronting Threat of Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
17 Nov 2017 – Antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals or antiparasitics are widely used in livestock, poultry and aquaculture to treat or prevent diseases. However, their over-use and misuse, such as for “promoting growth” is leading to the emergence of microbes resistant to these drugs, making the diseases they cause impossible to treat. Humans exposed to these antimicrobial resistant pathogens are also affected in the same way.
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Mass Shooters Are Disproportionately US Veterans
David Swanson – MintPress News,
20 Nov 2017
US Military Veterans Are More than Twice as Likely to Be Mass Shooters – It’s important to answer because it’s important for us to know whether military training is contributing to this epidemic,
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UN Envoy Urges Greater Support for Rohingya Victims of Sexual Violence
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
16 Nov 2017 – “My observations point to a pattern of widespread atrocities, including rape, gang-rape by multiple soldiers, forced public nudity and humiliation, and sexual slavery in military captivity directed against Rohingya women and girls,” UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten said today.
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Afghanistan Opium Production Jumps 87 Per Cent to Record Level – UN Survey
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2017
15 Nov 2017 – A profoundly alarming trend in the cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan reveals an 87 per cent production increase compared to 2016, the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime said today.
→ read full articleSelected Articles: 100 Years Ago – The Russian Revolution
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
November 7th, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles, including Eisenstein’s 1928 film, 10 Days that Shook the World.
→ read full articleUN Security Council Calls on Myanmar to End Excessive Military Force in Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
6 Nov 2017 – In a statement, the 15-member body also called on the Government “to restore civilian administration and apply the rule of law, and to take immediate steps in accordance with [the Government’s] obligations and commitments to respect human rights, including the rights of women, children, and persons belonging to vulnerable groups, without discrimination and regardless of ethnicity, religion, or citizenship status.”
→ read full articleTwo Irreconcilable Views on Catalonia
Opinions of Carles Puigdemont and Guy Verhofstadt – Other News,
13 Nov 2017
This Is Not Just about Catalonia. This Is about Democracy Itself – By Carles Puigdemont, The Guardian
Catalonia’s Referendum Lacked Democratic Legitimacy – By Guy Verhofstadt, Irish Examiner
The Resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Is Not All It Seems
Robert Fisk | The Independent – Reader Supported News,
13 Nov 2017
10 Nov 2017 – He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series of discussions on water quality improvement; not exactly the action of a man who planned to resign his premiership
→ read full articleWith the Rohingya of Myanmar: Haunting Images of the World’s Next Genocide
Jerry Adler – Yahoo News,
13 Nov 2017
4 Nov 2017 – “I never thought it would happen. Nobody ever thought this would happen. This level of brutality is just unthinkable. The word that people are using is ‘genocide.’” — Paula Bronstein
→ read full articleSelected Articles: Mainstream Media “Fake News”, War Propaganda
Global Research News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2017
12 Nov 2017 – We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles focusing on the obfuscation of truth through media manipulation as well as the routine dissemination of war propaganda. These articles show how media lies and fabrications are used as a justification to wage so-called “humanitarian wars”.
→ read full article“AmazonLog” — A Military Drill with Vast Amazonian Aspirations: US Empire of Bases
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
13 Nov 2017
While placing pressure on Venezuela could well be part of the agenda behind the public face of this week’s combined military drill, the move is likely reflective of the larger goal of establishing a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon.
→ read full articleDouble Standards
Latuff – MintPress News,
6 Nov 2017
Why?
→ read full articleCatalunya: Culture of War or Culture of Peace?
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
1 Nov 2017 – It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. There are good alternative for Catalunya, apart from secession.
→ read full articleBangladesh Envoy to US: Atrocity against Rohingya ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Nike Ching – Voice of America News,
6 Nov 2017
2 Nov 2017 – Bangladeshi Ambassador to the U.S. Mohammad Ziauddin sat down for an interview on Monday [30 Oct], outlining how Dhaka handled the sudden arrival of 600,000 refugees. He characterized the violence against the Rohingya minority as “ethnic cleansing.” He said the Rohingya are “Myanmar nationals,” and it is a mistake to call them Bangladeshis.
→ read full articleThe US Military Is Conducting Secret Missions All Over Africa
Nick Turse – Vice News,
30 Oct 2017
25 Oct 2017 – U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs, and engagements per year, an average of nearly 10 missions per day, on the African continent, according to the U.S. military’s top commander for Africa, General Thomas Waldhauser.
→ read full articleHidden Fukushima Nuclear Waste Being Released into Ocean
ENENews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – ‘Surprisingly’ high levels of radiation now detected along Pacific coast and in groundwater far from reactors — Expert: No one expected this — “Alarming example of how radiation has spread.”
→ read full articleAmerica’s Scramble for Africa
Finian Cunningham – Sputnik News,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – The ugly row over whether President Trump disrespected the young widow of a fallen American soldier has overshadowed a bigger issue. That is, the increasing number of US military operations across the African continent.
→ read full articleMaung Zarni: Military-Controlled Ethnocracy in Myanmar Causing Exodus of 100,000 Rohingyas Every Week
Fars News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
18 Oct 2017 – Activist and scholar Maung Zarni says that the plight of Muslim Rohingyas has gotten worse under the administration of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. He said that her leadership has been the direct product of the icon manufacturing by Western media and activists which was intended to give acceptability to what, he believes, is a “military-controlled ethnocracy, wrapped in Buddhism”.
→ read full articleMafia World Leadership
Latuff – MintPress News,
23 Oct 2017
U.S. Warriors? Farmers? Drug Dealers? Capitalists? All of the above? What?
→ read full articleUN Special Advisers Statement on Crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2017
19 Oct 2017 – UN sources indicate that more than 530,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh. “Once again, our failure to stop atrocity crimes makes us complicit. When will we live up to our countless promises of ‘never again’?” the Special Advisers asked. The expression “atrocity crimes” refer to three crimes under international law: genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
→ read full articleIn China, a New Political Era Begins
Matthew Massee | Daily Digests – Other News,
23 Oct 2017
20 Oct 2017 – The world has changed since modern China was founded, and it seems that China, not for the first time, is changing with it. When Mao Zedong established the republic in 1949, having fought a civil war to claim it, China was poor and unstable.
→ read full articleUS Withdrawal from UNESCO ‘Loss for Multilateralism,’ Says Cultural Agency’s Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
12 Oct 2017 – UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova voiced “profound regret” today over the United States’ decision to withdraw from the agency. “This is a loss to the United Nations family. This is a loss for multilateralism,” she said in a statement.
→ read full articleCatalonia and the ‘Europe of Regions’
Andrew Spannaus – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
Catalonia’s bid for independence from Spain had a curious twist, a readiness to take its place within the supranational European Union, a further challenge to traditional nation-states.
→ read full articleTrump’s Mendacious Speech on Iran
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
16 Oct 2017
President Trump, in decertifying the Iran-nuclear deal, trotted out all the tripe about the “world leading sponsor of terrorism” and ties to Al Qaeda. But his new policy is one of dangerous incoherence, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full articleUp in Smoke
Latuff – MintPress News,
16 Oct 2017
Trump & Netanyahu, US-Iran Nuclear Agreement
→ read full articleUncle Nazi
Latuff – MintPrewss News,
9 Oct 2017
Déjà-vu all over again?
→ read full articleIn Neoliberal Putsch, Brazil Auctions Off Indigenous Lands, Public Utilities to Foreign Interests
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
9 Oct 2017
Thursday’s [28 Sep] auction was a juicy meal for the 32 corporate bidders, which included such major Western energy giants as Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP. Unprecedented in size and in the opposition it provoked, the auction fit neatly into Temer’s neoliberal agenda for Brazil.
→ read full articlePerpetrators of Genocide Say They’re ‘Good People’
Jeff Grabmeier | Ohio State University News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2017
5 Oct 2017 – Study Examined Testimony of Defendants in Rwandan Violence – The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re actually very good people. Researchers found that an “appeal to good character” was used by defendants more than all other explanations combined to say why they weren’t guilty of the horrible crimes they were accused of committing.
→ read full articleThe Left and Catalonia
Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Other News,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – The Catalonia referendum this Sunday [1 Oct] will become part of the history of Europe, possibly for the worst of reasons.
→ read full articleNorth Korea’s Rational Nuclear Strategy
Ted Snider – Consortium News,
2 Oct 2017
A favorite tactic of U.S. war propaganda is to label a foreign adversary “crazy” to justify a military attack — as is now happening with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un although his nuclear program really makes logical sense.
→ read full articleUS H-Bomb Testing Forgotten In Media Frenzy Over North Korea Threat
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
As the U.S. detonated nuclear bomb after nuclear bomb in the Marshall Islands – amounting to 23 tests of both fission and fusion bombs over a 12-year period – evacuated islanders and others nearby were intentionally exposed to radiation fallout from the testing, in what would become known as “Project 4.1.”
→ read full articleUN Rights Experts Urge Member States to ‘Go Beyond Statements,’ Take Action to Help Rohingya
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2017
26 Sep 2017 – “No one chooses, especially not in the hundreds of thousands, to leave their homes and ancestral land, no matter how poor the conditions, to flee to a strange land to live under plastic sheets and in dire circumstances except in life-threatening situations,” stressed the experts. According to estimates, more than 430,000 people have crossed into Bangladesh since the violence erupted.
→ read full articleMyanmar Government Plans to Redevelop Torched Rohingya Villages
Reuters – CBC Radio Canada News,
2 Oct 2017
27 Sep 2017 – Myanmar’s government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine, a minister was reported today as saying. Nearly 500,000 people have fled to Bangladesh in the past month.
→ read full articleOil, Gas, Geopolitics Guide U.S. Hand in Playing the Rohingya Crisis
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
2 Oct 2017
Internal conflict, appropriately located, spells geopolitical opportunity. With U.S. ally Saudi Arabia funding and stoking Rohingya insurgencies, the U.S. creates a chance to blockade China’s oil supply and provide Aung San Suu Kyi the military cooperation needed to wrest Myanmar back from Chinese influence.
→ read full articleUS Allies Accuse NSA of Manipulating Encryption Standards
Rachel England – Yahoo! News,
25 Sep 2017
21 Sep 2017 – The US National Security Agency is in the global bad books again for trying to manipulate international encryption standards. A computer science professor at the University of Haifa, said, “I don’t trust the designers. There are quite a lot of people in NSA who think their job is to subvert standards. My job is to secure standards.”
→ read full articleIran Implementing Its Nuclear Commitments, UN Atomic Agency Chief Stresses
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
18 Sep 2017 – Iran is implementing its commitments under “the world’s most robust nuclear verification regime,” the United Nations atomic agency head said today, while at the same time voicing “grave concern” at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear programme.
→ read full articleBuddhist Man Calls for Jews to Help Myanmar’s Rohingya People
Matthew Gindin – The Canadian Jewish News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – In March, London-based Burmese Buddhist and human rights activist Maung Zarni stood on the train tracks outside of Auschwitz and asked his companion to press record on his video camera. “If anyone would understand what is happening to the Rohingya, it would be you, the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the survivors and their families,” Zarni told.
→ read full articleUN Human Rights Chief Points to ‘Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017 – He lashed out at the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar which has led to more than 300,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh in the past three weeks, as security forces and local militia reportedly burn villages and shoot civilians.
→ read full articleLacked and Loaded
Latuff – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
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→ read full articleSouth-South Trade Cooperation Key to Sustainable and Inclusive Model of Globalization
Hanif Hassan Al Qassim – Other News,
18 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017 – With more than 80% of the world population living in developing countries, South-South trade has the potential to increase in the years to come and to become a vector for economic growth and prosperity for a major world region whose potential has not been fully tapped during past decades.
→ read full articleIsraeli Website Claims ISIS Commander Revealed as Mossad Agent
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
18 Sep 2017
Libyan security forces arrested a Daesh commander in the city of Benghazi — only to find out soon after that the man they had captured, Ephraim Benjamin, was also an agent of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. Was he working to defeat Daesh or to strengthen it?
→ read full articleSouth-South Cooperation Key to Overcoming Inequalities, Says UN Deputy Chief
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2017
12 Sep 2017 – “South-South cooperation should not be seen as a substitute for North-South cooperation but as complementary, and we invite all countries and organizations to engage in supporting triangular cooperation initiatives,” UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said today, urging all developed nations to fulfill their Official Development Assistance commitments.
→ read full articleThe “Musa Sadr Is Alive” Hoax Has Deceived Lebanon’s Shia for 39 Years
Franklin Lamb | OpEd News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
The Libyan agents put their bags in their rooms, stayed out of site, and they said nothing about checking out to the hotel’s front desk. They simply left their bags, including Rehiby’s elevated shoes “in Imam Sadr’s room” and took a taxi to Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport and returned to Libya. For years Rehiby shoes jokes passed among Gadaffi regime insiders according to friends.
→ read full articleOur News Media Perpetuates Systemic Violence
Emeline Armitage | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
Armitage argues that news media whitewashed the violence that occurred in Charlottesville. How we imprison more people per capita than any other nation, how our police shoot innocent black children, how we are deporting millions whose mother countries’ turmoil we caused, how we bomb civilians in the Middle East — the list can go on and on.
→ read full articleHurricanes Blow Away Climate Change Denial
Paul R. Pillar – Consortium News,
11 Sep 2017
The startling landfall of two giant hurricanes – feasting on especially warm water off Texas and Florida – crashes into the climate change denialism that has been politically popular on the Right, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.
→ read full articleWorld Needs to Move beyond ‘Conceptual Debate’ and Improve Protection from Atrocities, Urges Guterres
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2017
6 Sep 2017 – “All of us are well aware of the grim human reality that lies behind the words, ‘war crimes’, ‘crimes against humanity’, ‘ethnic cleansing’, and ‘genocide’,” Mr. Guterres said. “It is time to move beyond the conceptual debate towards improved protection of people from atrocity crimes.”
→ read full articleInvestigation: White Helmets Committing Acts of Terror across Syria
Vanessa Beeley – MintPress News,
11 Sep 2017
The supposedly Syrian NGO White Helmets were established in Turkey, not in Syria. They are largely trained in Turkey and Jordan, not inside Syria. They were established in March 2013 by a British ex-military officer with $300,000 in seed funding from Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.
→ read full articleHow History Explains the Korean Crisis
William R. Polk – Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
Many Americans simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those simplistic impressions, as historian William R. Polk explains.
→ read full articleSeymour Hersh Honored for Integrity
Ray McGovern- Consortium News,
4 Sep 2017
1 Sep 2017 – An organization led by former U.S. intelligence officials has selected legendary journalist Seymour Hersh to be the recipient of an annual award for integrity and truth-telling, named for the late CIA analyst Sam Adams.
→ read full articleKofi Annan Commission Urges Myanmar/Burma to End Rohingya Restrictions
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said today. It warns against using force and ignoring concerns of world’s ‘single biggest stateless’ community.
→ read full articleThe US and Latin American Fascism: Old and New
Franklin Frederick - The Dawn News,
4 Sep 2017
14 Aug 2017 – Fascist tendencies are back in Latin America. They can be clearly seen in the murderous Venezuelan opposition but also in the streets of Argentina and Brazil. Economic inequality and political equality are incompatible, more so in a continent with such an unequal wealth distribution. However, Latin American fascism is also an expression of a deeper political and economic program that must be better understood if we want to defeat it.
→ read full articleAfghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
Pepe Escobar - Sputnik News,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – Afghanistan is infested by contractors; numbers vary from 10,000 to tens of thousands. Military and ex-military alike can be reasonably pinpointed as players in the heroin ratline — in many cases for personal profit. But the clincher concerns the financing of US intel black ops that should not by any means come under scrutiny by the US Congress.
→ read full articleMyanmar Bishops Ask Pope Not to Use Rohingya Term during Visit
John Zaw- UCANews,
4 Sep 2017
29 Aug 2017 – The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of Myanmar have suggested to Pope Francis not to use the term “Rohingya” when he visits Myanmar for three days in November. The visit, aimed broadly at helping the troubled peace process in the strife torn country, welcomed by faith leaders.
→ read full articleMyanmar Troops Open Fire on Civilians Fleeing Attacks
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
26 Aug 2017 – Myanmar soldiers opened fire on fleeing Rohingya civilians – mostly women and children – as they attempted to cross the border into Bangladesh and escape surging violence. Bangladeshi border guards say troops fired mortars and machine guns at Rohingya civilians trying to escape bloodshed.
→ read full articleBrave Congressman Explains How US Keeps Afghan Heroin Trade Alive
Matt Agorist – MintPress News,
28 Aug 2017
Congressman Thomas Massie blows the lid off the US subsidized opium trade and taxpayer funds flowing into the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
→ read full articleBrazil Opens Vast Amazon Reserve to Mining
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. Covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapá and Pará, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. It is larger than Denmark. WWF’s report said that a “gold rush in the region could create irreversible damage to indigenous cultures”.
→ read full articleLandmark UN-Backed Treaty on Mercury Takes Effect
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
16 Aug 2017 – A ground-breaking global convention on mercury today goes into effect, the United Nations environment wing said, protecting millions of children and infants from possible neurological and health damage.
→ read full articleMyanmar/Burma: UN Welcomes Final Assessment of Independent Advisory Panel on Rakhine State
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2017
24 Aug 2017 – The United Nations today welcomed the release of the final report of an independent advisory body looking into the situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. UN Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric acknowledged its endorsement “to address the root causes of violence and reduce inter-communal violence.”
→ read full articleRelease the Hounds
Latuff – MintPress News,
21 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleAn Insatiable Appetite
Latuff – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
So It Goes…
→ read full articleWhen Washington Decides Democracy Is Dangerous: Stoking Opposition in Venezuela and Syria
Ramiro S. Fúnez – MintPress News,
14 Aug 2017
The opposition “movements” in Venezuela and Syria have a great deal in common: both are seeking the demise of democratically-elected governments; both resort to violence and acts of terrorism; both are tools of U.S. and Western imperialism, and both are failing.
→ read full articleIf You’re Wondering Why Saudi Arabia and Israel Have United against Al-Jazeera, Here’s the Answer
Robert Fisk – Other News,
14 Aug 2017
There are still honourable Israelis who demand a state for the Palestinians; there are well-educated Saudis who object to the crazed Wahabism upon which their kingdom is founded; there are millions of Americans, from sea to shining sea, who do not believe that Iran is their enemy nor Saudi Arabia their friend. But the problem today in both East and West is that our governments are not our friends.
→ read full articleBuddies
Latuff – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
So It Goes… Mission Accomplished
→ read full articleTowards a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
2 Aug 2017 – We need a profound reform of the UN so that it is managed more directly by the peoples of the world – through cities or parliaments instead of the present Member States that are inextricably linked to the culture of war. A significant first step towards such a reform would be the proposed parliamentary assembly of the UN (UNPA). There are proposals from the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and an international conference of around 300 chief justices, judges, legal experts and ambassadors from nearly 60 countries predominantly from the Global South.
→ read full articleJames Le Mesurier: The Former British Mercenary Who Founded the White Helmets
Whitney Webb – MintPress News,
7 Aug 2017
James Le Mesurier, a British ex-mercenary, founded the White Helmets in 2013. The group has been lauded for its “humanitarian” efforts in Syria, but they have actually functioned more as a logistics and propaganda arm of Syria’s al-Qaeda branch, complete with training from Le Mesurier.
→ read full articleMontreal’s Olympic Stadium Welcomes Haitians, Other Asylum Seekers from U.S.
James Rainey – NBC News,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Though the newcomers are from many countries, some told journalists they were Haitian and felt less welcome in America after President Donald Trump said in May that protective status for those who fled a massive 2010 earthquake could be withdrawn, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
→ read full articleDeadly Combination of Cholera, Hunger and Conflict Pushes Yemen to ‘Edge of a Cliff’ – Senior UN Official
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
1 Aug 2017 – Describing the situation in Yemen as “very bleak,” with “no end in sight,” a senior United Nations official envoy today said the war-torn country, already reeling from malnutrition and dwindling health care, is plummeting into further distress amid a deadly cholera outbreak and looming famine.
→ read full articleBiological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Since March 2015, the US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their criminal war of aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes, especially against civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims. Cholera is caused by the bacteria Vibrio cholera and has been weaponized by the US, Japan (in World War II), South Africa (under apartheid), Iraq (under Saddam), and other states.
→ read full articleImperial Folly Brings Russia and Germany Together
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
29 Jul 2017 – Economic war has been declared against Russia for at least three years now. The difference is this latest package also declares economic war against Europe, especially Germany. Make no mistake; the EU leadership will counterpunch. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, put it mildly when he said, “America first cannot mean that Europe’s interests come last.”
→ read full articleEmpire of Whiners
Pepe Escobar – Sputnik News,
31 Jul 2017
As a new report by the Army War College tracks the loss of “US primacy” around the world, it prescribes more of the same; propaganda, surveillance and war.
→ read full article(Français) Les raids saoudiens pulvérisent le patrimoine du Yémen
Chiara Cruciati | Near East News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2017
La guerre contre le Yémen est une guerre occultée : plus de 4 mille morts, un million de personnes déplacées en interne, 21 millions de personnes sans accès constant à l’eau et la nourriture. Sanaa, Marib, Aden : des villes dont chaque coin raconte l’histoire du monde arabe et sa rencontre avec les peuples d’Asie et d’Afrique, sont en ruines. “Paradis”: c’est cela que signifie en arabe le nom d’Aden, la ville portuaire du sud, cible des violents raids de la coalition anti-Houthi menés par l’Arabie saoudite.
→ read full articleIn Defense of Venezuela
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Other News,
31 Jul 2017
28 Jul 2017 – I have been following the Bolivarian Revolution from its beginning with critical attention and solidarity. Venezuela´s social conquests of the past two decades cannot be disputed. You just have to consult the 2016 UN Report on the evolution of the Human Development Index. Hugo Chavez´s premature death in 2013 and the decrease in the price of oil in 2014 had a tremendous impact on the ongoing processes of social change. Chavez´s charismatic leadership had no successor.
→ read full articleUK’s First ‘Slaughter-free’ Dairy Farm Gains a Permanent Home
ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
13 Jul 2017 – A dairy company which doesn’t cull its older cows, but instead “retires them”, has moved to a new permanent home. The UK’s first “slaughter-free” dairy farm is hoping its model will be picked up upon by other farms. The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit company, and produces 23,000 of litres of milk a year.
→ read full article16 Years after Onset of U.S. Plan Colombia, Cocaine Profits Reach Record Highs
Mint Press News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
The U.S.-Colombia drug war alliance has failed to stop the country’s drug trade, with last year’s coca yield breaking records. The record harvests can be traced to the country’s government, right-wing paramilitaries and wealthy individuals who are sympathetic to U.S. business interests.
→ read full articleThe Logic in North Korean ‘Madness’
Ann Wright – Consortium News,
24 Jul 2017
North Korea’s nuclear deterrent is a logical – not crazy – reaction to U.S. “regime change” wars in Iraq and Libya, two countries attacked after they surrendered their WMD stockpiles.
→ read full articleMoral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Ray McGovern – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The U.S. government uses drones to eliminate risk to its soldiers and thus domestic opposition to war, but that heightens the moral imperative to challenge the remote-controlled killings, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
→ read full articleEnemy of My Enemy
Latuff – MintPress News,
17 Jul 2017
3 Jul 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articleIgnoring the Human Disaster in Yemen
Alon Ben-Meir – Consortium News,
17 Jul 2017
The West’s protestations about human rights sound hollow when one looks at Yemen where the U.S. and U.K. place profits from arms sales to Saudi Arabia over the carnage those weapons are inflicting.
→ read full articleUniversiti Malaya, Chandra Muzaffar to Host Tribunal on Atrocities against Rohingya
Ho Kit Yen – Malaysia Today News,
10 Jul 2017
4 Jul 2017 – A tribunal that hopes to expose claims of crimes against the Rohingya and other ethnic groups by the Myanmar government will hold a hearing at the Universiti Malaya in September. Dr Chandra Muzaffar, who is organising committee chairman, says witnesses will be called to testify in court-like setting.
→ read full articleIsraeli Exports into Gaza
Latuff – MintPress News,
10 Jul 2017
22 Jun 2017 – So It Goes…
→ read full articleGruesome Pic Shows Mass Slaughter of Whales in Faroe Islands Hunt
James Rogers - Fox News,
10 Jul 2017
30 Jun 2017 – Faroe Islanders have turned the sea red after slaughtering hundreds of whales as part of a hunt that has been harshly criticized by animal rights groups. Authorities on the islands allow islanders to drive herds of pilot whales into shallow waters, where they are killed using a ‘spinal lance’ that is inserted through the animal’s neck to break its spinal cord. The grisly image shows a hunt on June 16.
→ read full articleIn Myanmar, One Girl’s Plight Epitomizes Rohingya Struggle: Worse than Prison
Todd Pitman - AP News,
10 Jul 2017
Girl, 4, Becomes Face of Suffering Rohingya Children Starving to Death amid ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
→ read full articleUN Conference Adopts Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
UN News Centre – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2017
7 Jul 2017 – The treaty – adopted by a vote of 122 in favour to one against (Netherlands), with one abstention (Singapore) – prohibits a full range of nuclear-weapon-related activities, such as undertaking to develop, test, produce, manufacture, acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, as well as the use or threat of use of these weapons.
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