Articles by RAND
We found 106 results.
The AI Threat Landscape: Common Attack Vectors
RAND - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
Modern AI systems introduce attack vectors that differ from traditional software security because their behavior is shaped by data, statistical learning, and opaque internal representations. These characteristics make them powerful but also create unique avenues for adversarial manipulation.
→ read full article
Israeli Navy Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla in New Attempt to Break Gaza Blockade
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Israeli naval forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla today as they attempted to break the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip for the third time, boarding the ships in broad daylight after the flotilla had set sail from Turkiye last week to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
→ read full article
Terrorist State of Israel Assaults the Humanitarian Sumud Flotilla in International Waters: The Screams, Torture, Impunity, and the Duty to Name It
Claudia Aranda at Mediterranean Sea | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2026
2 May 2026 – The interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla was not a legal dispute over a naval blockade; it was not an inspection, not an administrative detention nor a “security check.” It was an armed capture of civilians in international waters, followed by beatings, humiliation, deliberate deprivation of food and water, coercive isolation, and direct allegations of torture.
→ read full article
Legal Sovereignty in the Face of Orbital Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
27 Feb 2026 – In the dispute between the Brazilian State and Starlink, the government embodied an active defense of legal sovereignty. The confrontation is not simply Brazil versus Musk. It is the symptom of a global dilemma: who governs digital space when key infrastructure belongs to private actors with transnational ambitions?
→ read full article
Iran’s Missiles Smash US Bases, Trump-Israeli War Backfires
Elijah Magnier & Mohammad Marandi | Danny Haiphong – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2026
28 Feb 2026
The US and Israel launched strikes into Iran in the early hours of February 28. Iran has already retaliated in a massive way, leaving several US bases and Israel itself under heavy fire. War correspondent Elijah Magnier joins the show to break it all down.
→ read full article
Nobel Laureate Perez Esquivel Slams Trump in Open Letter to Obama
Victor Miranda | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2026
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel sent a letter on 12 Feb 2026 to former President Barack Obama to denounce Donald Trump’s policies describing him as a “global dictator” and the “number one terrorist.”
→ read full article
Trump Halts Environmental Policies: The Danger of Brutal Ignorance in Power
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 – The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming.
→ read full article
Conflicts and Persistent Human Rights Violations in Sudan and Other Regions
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Feb 2026
5 Feb 2026 – Behind this architecture of power and crossed vetoes lie concrete bodies. In Sudan, women have been systematically used as spoils of war: gang rapes, sexual slavery, abductions, and forced pregnancies form part of a pattern documented by humanitarian organizations and by survivors who, in many cases, have no access to medical or psychological care.
→ read full article
After a Generation of Peace, Europe Tells Its People to Prepare for War
Max Colchester and Bertrand Benoit | Wall Street Journal/msn - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2026
European security officials now regularly broadcast a message nearly unimaginable a decade ago: get ready for conflict with Russia.
→ read full article
Towards Piracy 2.0
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2025
13 Dec 2025 – What is taking shape is not an anomaly, nor a “moment of tension,” it is the normalization of plunder. We are heading toward piracy 2.0 not because norms are lacking, but because the powerful decided they do not apply to them. The USA is playing at the edge of the precipice–a rogue state par excellence.
→ read full article
Kidnapped Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla Begin Hunger Strike in Ketziot Prison
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
4 Oct 2025 – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived at the port of Ashdod on 2 Oct staging a scene designed for public humiliation. From that port began the transfer of more than four hundred activists kidnapped in international waters toward an equally infamous destination: Ketziot prison, in the heart of the Negev desert.
→ read full article
China Supports Palestine’s Incorporation into BRICS: New Momentum for the Palestinian Cause?
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2025
29 Sep 2025 – Resounding across the geopolitical stage, China officially supported Palestine’s integration into BRICS at the end of Sep 2025, days after the Palestinian National Authority submitted its application to join the influential bloc.
→ read full article
We Are Missing 680,000 Souls: Gaza, the Most Public Hidden Genocide
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2025
20 Sep 2025 – Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has issued a severe denunciation: the real number of deaths in Gaza exceeds 680,000, more than ten times the officially reported figure.
→ read full article
The Epilogue of Gaza City: The Demolition
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
30 Aug 2025 – The last 48 hours in Gaza City have been marked by a series of relentless bombings that have destroyed the last habitable neighborhoods in the city.
→ read full article
Bombed Clinic and Conquest Decision: Netanyahu Hastens Gaza’s Final Collapse
Claudia Aranda | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
6 Aug 2025 – The image is brutal. The explosion—like a torn throat—shatters the silence of the night and lights up the ruins of Gaza surrounding the UN clinic, which blew into a thousand pieces. This is not an excess. It is a message. The missile did not only strike a medical facility: it struck the very threshold of imaginable horror. This destruction was no accident. It was the result of a war logic forged behind closed doors.
→ read full article
Gaza’s Gas: The Silent Offshore Heist Exposed
TheRandomReporter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jun 2025
3 Jun 2025 – Gaza’s offshore gas could transform lives, but who’s really cashing in? Dive into the hidden network of exploitation.
→ read full article
Bertrand Russell’s Message on Palestine/Israel the Day before He Died
Bertrand Russell - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
This statement on the Middle East was dated 31 Jan 1970 and read on 3 Feb, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo.
→ read full article
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 69 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
→ read full articleThe Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 July 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
→ read full article
Proposal to Award Johan Galtung the Freedom of Expression Foundation Honorary Award
Randi Rønning Balsvik, Magnus Haavelsrud and Nils Vidar Vambheim – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
15 Dec 2023 – Letter to the Norwegian Foundation Freedom of Expression – It is no exaggeration to say that Johan Galtung started modern peace studies and contributed through tireless work for half a century to making this study a respected academic discipline
→ read full article
The Great Reset Is Almost Here – Are You Prepared?
Brandon Smith | Birch Gold Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
Imagine a world in which everything we know about the economy is upended. A world fully digital within a cashless society where monetary interactions are replaced by CBDCs, tracked and traced, nothing being private unless you are a criminal in a black market.
→ read full article
Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
→ read full article
It’s a Man’s World (Music Video of the Week)
Brandi Carlile and Brittany Howard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Madison Square Garden 22 Oct 2022
“Insanely Good!”
Vandana Shiva: “This Is How We Beat the Great Reset”
Russell Brand - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Renowned environmental activist and author, Vandana Shiva, joined me and we spoke about the mainstream media, great reset, and more.
→ read full article
We Can’t Let Them Do This: Russell Brand Interviews Matt Taibbi
Russell Brand – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – War, Censorship, and the State’s “Monopoly on Lying” – Mis-information and dis-information. Who should be responsible for deciding what truth we’re told? We should leave that up to the government, shouldn’t we?
→ read full article
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 67 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
→ read full article
(Français) Mauvaise foi, mauvaises nouvelles et Julian Assange
Edward Snowden | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
24 décembre 2021- Edward Snwoden explique pourquoi la décision de la Haute Cour britannique en faveur de l’extradition d’Assange pourra créer un précédent extrêmement dangereux pour le métier de journaliste.
→ read full article
“The Trial of Julian Assange” – A Book by Nils Melzer
Penguin Random House – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
“This is a landmark book, the first by a senior international official to call out the criminality of Western governments, and their craven media echoes, in the persecution of Julian Assange. Mark the word, persecution, says Nils Melzer…” —John Pilger
→ read full article
Energy Dilemma
Cédric Durand | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
5 Nov 2021 – The ecological bifurcation is not a gala dinner. After a summer of extreme climatic events and a new IPCC report confirming its most worrying forecasts, large parts of the world are now roiled by an energy crisis that prefigures further economic troubles down the road. This conjuncture has buried the dream of a harmonious transition to a post-carbon world, bringing the question of capitalism’s ecological crisis to the fore.
→ read full article
Bolsonaro’s 1,000Km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos–It Must Be Stopped
David Miranda | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
28 Jul 2021 – Jair Bolsonaro is determined to expand his exploitation of Brazil’s natural resources. His latest project, one of the most destructive yet, would rapidly deforest large areas of the Amazon, which would wreak havoc on the planet.
→ read full article
Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates’ Book Is Rubbish!
Russell Brand | Under the Skin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
I spoke with Indian scholar, food sovereignty advocate and environmental activist #VandanaShiva. She speaks about #BillGates’ book and the colonisation of land and food production. However, she provides us with hopeful and powerful words of advice that might help us challenge these Tech Giants and monopolies.
→ read full article
(Français) Stefania Maurizi: « C’est un incroyable échec du journalisme »
Stefania Maurizi interviewée par Nadja Vancauwenberghe et John Brown | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
18 oct 2020 – La journaliste italienne Stefania Maurizi a travaillé pour certaines des plus grandes publications du pays, dont la Repubblica, l’Espresso et, maintenant, Il Fatto Quotidiano. En 2009, elle a commencé à travailler avec Julian Assange et WikiLeaks sur des dossiers secrets concernant la guerre en Afghanistan, les câbles de la diplomatie américaine et les détenus de Guantanamo.
→ read full article
Trump Authorizes Sanctions against the International Criminal Court
Nahal Toosi and Natasha Bertrand | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020 – Trump today moved to further punish officials of the ICC, authorizing economic sanctions against them as well as the expansion of visa restrictions on the officials and their families. The efforts come amid anger over the ICC’s efforts to look into alleged war crimes by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
→ read full article
15 May–International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
Lewis Randa | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Although conscientious objection to war is not a hot media topic today, respect, admiration, and appreciation for COs are expressed (mostly distally) around the world.
→ read full article
Nicaragua: Advancing Social Equality and Food Sovereignty
Carissa Brands | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2020
20 Mar 2020 – Other than the economy still recuperating from the attempted coup of 2018, the Nicaraguan people continue their struggle to remain independent and out of the grips of the neoliberal orbit of US imperialism. Despite the crippling effects of US sanctions, the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega has made significant social advances since it came to power in 2007
→ read full article
The Far-Right Bolsonaro Movement Wants Us Dead. But We Will Not Give Up
Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda – The Guardian,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Courage is contagious. Those are the people who inspire us and so many like us in Bolsonaro’s Brazil who are confronting state repression to defend the democracy that so many people suffered so much to bring about. Demagogues and despots like Bolsonaro are a dime a dozen. They centrally rely on intimidation, fear and the use of state repression to consolidate power. A refusal to give into that fear, but instead to join hands with those who intend to fight against it, is always the antidote to this toxin.
→ read full article
Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo Named Top Plastic Polluters for the Second Year in a Row
Matt Franklin | Brand Audit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo top the list according to a new report “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluters.” The rest of the top 10 plastic polluters are Mondelēz International, Unilever, Mars, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, Phillip Morris, and Perfetti Van Melle.
→ read full article
(Français) Comment les médias occidentaux soutiennent le terrorisme d’Etat qui fait des millions de victimes
Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford | Peace News – Le Grand Soir,
19 Aug 2019
21 juillet 2019 – Quatre universitaires examinent la couverture médiatique des affaires étrangères dans un article censuré (puis refusé) par une grande publication libérale.
→ read full article
Modern Money Theory: How I Came to MMT and What I Include in MMT
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
I was asked to give a short presentation at the MMT conference. What follows is the text version of my remarks, some of which I had to skip over in the interests of time. Many readers might want to skip to the bullet points near the end, which summarize what I include in MMT.
→ read full article
(Français) Dominants des médias, médias dominants et médiatisation de la pensée dominante
Denis Souchon | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
16 juillet 2019 – La connaissance des groupes dominants de l’espace médiatique, une arme au service de la lutte de libération et d’appropriation démocratique des médias.
→ read full article
Debt-Free Money: A Non-Sequitur in Search of a Policy
L Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2019
In discussing money, G.F. Knapp (one of the developers of the State Money Approach, adopted by Keynes and by Modern Money Theory) made a useful analogy with the cloakroom token. When you drop off your coat at the cloakroom, the attendant offers you a token, usually with an identification number. The token is evidence of the debt of the cloakroom, which owes you a coat. Some hours later you return with the token. The attendant returns your coat.
→ read full article
Why Does Everyone Hate Modern Money Theory?
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2019
Money is a creature of the state. Money is effectively an IOU. Anyone can issue money; the trouble is getting it accepted. The ability to impose taxes (or other obligations) makes a country’s ‘money’ valuable.
→ read full article
Tax Bads, Not Goods
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
We’ve long taxed various sins. While some confuse the purpose of sin taxes, it should be clear that the purpose of taxing bads is not to “raise revenue” but to “reduce sin”. We want to reduce the sin of smoking. Of polluting. Of high-speed trading. I’m always surprised when my progressive friends see the “Tobin Tax” (financial transactions tax) as a potentially great source of tax revenue to “pay for” all the goodies they’d like government to provide.
→ read full articleModern Money Theory: The Basics
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2019
So here’s an attempt to put the fears of Krugman and Post Keynesians to rest. There is a symmetry between bank lending and government spending. I also hope to help clarify things for a third group—the “debt-free money” folks who want Uncle Sam to spend “debt-free money”. Short answer: depending on how you look at it, he either already does, or cannot ever do so.
→ read full articleCreationism versus Redemptionism: How a Money-Issuer Really Lends and Spends
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
I will examine three analogous questions (each of which has the same answer):
1. Does the government need to receive tax revenue before it can spend?
2. Does the central bank need to receive reserve deposits before it can lend?
3. Do private banks need to receive demand deposits before they can lend?
How to Pay for the War
L. Randall Wray | New Economic Perspectives – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2019
16 May 2019 – I’m going to talk about war, not peace, in relation to our work on the Green New Deal—which I argue is the big MEOW—moral equivalent of war—and how we are going to pay for it. So I’m going to focus on Keynes’s 1940 book— How to Pay for the War—the war that followed the Economic Consequences of the Peace.
→ read full article
Washington Trained Guatemala’s Killers for Decades
Greg Grandin and Elizabeth Oglesby – The Nation,
18 Mar 2019
The US Border Patrol played a key role in propping up Latin American dictatorships.
→ read full article(Português) Nos Dá Medo Pensar?
Bertrand Russell | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
Fora o pensamento! Voltemos aos fantasmas do preconceito, não estejam a propriedade, a moral e a guerra em perigo! É melhor que os seres humanos sejam estúpidos, amorfos e tirânicos, antes que seus pensamentos sejam livres. Posto que se seus pensamentos fossem livres, seguramente não pensariam como nós. E esse desastre deve se evitar a todo custo. Assim argumentam os inimigos do pensamento nas profundezas inconscientes de suas almas. E assim agem as igrejas, escolas e universidades.
→ read full article
Earth Just Experienced One of the Warmest Years on Record
Brandon Miller – CNN,
11 Feb 2019
6 Feb 2019 – Last year was the fourth-hottest year ever recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA, which means that the past five years have been the five warmest years in the modern record.
→ read full articleAre We Afraid of Thinking?
Bertrand Russell | Opinion Sur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
Away with thought! Back into the shades of prejudice, lest property, morals, and war should be endangered! Better men should be stupid, slothful, and oppressive than that their thoughts should be free. For if their thoughts were free they might not think as We do. And at all costs this disaster must be averted.” So the opponents of thought argue in the unconscious depths of their souls. And so they act in their churches, their schools, and their universities.
→ read full article
(Français) Tout comprendre à la nouvelle offensive contre le Venezuela
Romain Migus | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
L’investiture de Nicolas Maduro, ce jeudi 10 janvier, provoque déjà des remous politiques et médiatiques. Élu le 20 mai 2018, le président du Venezuela doit faire face à une opération concertée et planifiée des USA et de leurs alliés.
→ read full article
Capitalism and the Wage System
Bertrand Russell – The Sun Magazine,
5 Nov 2018
The modern growth of monopolies in the shape of trusts, cartels, federations of employers and so on has greatly increased the power of the capitalist to levy toll on the community. This tendency will not cease of itself, but only through definite action on the part of those who do not profit by the capitalist regime.
→ read full article
(Français) Voici les exigences que l’Equateur impose à Julian Assange pour mettre fin à son isolement
Cassandra Fairbanks | Le Grand Soir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Oct 2018
16 oct 2018 – Bien que de nombreux rapports affirment que les communications de Julian Assange ont été rétablies, elles ne le sont pas encore – et il y aura un régime sévère d’amendes et de sanctions sur ses paroles et ses écrits quand elles le seront.
→ read full article
A Brief History of the U.S. Relationship to Jihadists and al-Qaeda across the World
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post,
2 Apr 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Even when many Americans can clearly see that the United States is funding extremists in order to destroy Assad, it is difficult for them to grasp that the most frightening enemy of all, ISIS itself, is also being directed by Western intelligence, the GCC, and Israel.
→ read full article
A Ticking Time Bomb of Mercury Is Hidden Beneath Earth’s Permafrost
Brandon Specktor | Live Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2018
According to a new study published 5 Feb 2018 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, there may be more than 15 million gallons (58 million liters) of mercury buried in the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere — roughly twice as much mercury as can be found in the rest of Earth’s soils, ocean and atmosphere combined. And if global temperatures continue to rise, all that mercury could come pouring out.
→ read full article
Reporters Without Borders Tries to Shut Down Independent Press Event Discussing White Helmets
Brandon Turbeville - Activist Post,
4 Dec 2017
28 Nov 2017 – Self-proclaimed “press freedom watchdog” Reporters Without Borders launched a new campaign: shutting down a short panel discussion by journalist Vanessa Beeley and Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. Reporters Without Borders is a fully funded organization receiving money from the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, International Republican Institute and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.
→ read full article
Despite Western-Funded NGO’s Boycott, Vanessa Beeley Exposes White Helmets at Swiss Press Club
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post,
4 Dec 2017
29 Nov 2017 – Despite the best efforts of State Department/Soros-funded Reporters Without Borders, the Swiss Press Club refused to cave to RWB’s grandstanding, threats, and bullying and the event surrounding the truth about the White Helmets continued as scheduled.
→ read full articleJournalist Eva Bartlett Travels to North Korea, Brings Back Photos Very Different from Main Stream Media
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post,
2 Oct 2017
On 24 Aug 2017, Eva Bartlett and a handful of other activists and journalists entered North Korea as a delegation for the purpose of hearing what North Koreans had to say about their country, their culture, and the constant threat of war from the United States. They stayed in North Korea from the 24th to the 31st.
→ read full article(Français) On saura que le Venezuela est devenu une dictature le jour où les médias arrêteront d’en parler
Viktor Dedaj – Le Grand Soir,
14 Aug 2017
31 juillet 2017 – Au Venezuela (comme ailleurs), la différence entre une dictature de droite et une dictature de gauche est la suivante : sous une dictature de droite, les opposants “disparaissent”. Sous une dictature de gauche, les opposants passent tous les soirs à la télé et dans tous les médias internationaux pour dénoncer la dictature.
→ read full article(Français) L’attentat de Manchester est le résultat des interventions désastreuses de l’Occident
Max Blumenthal | AlterNet – Le Grand Soir,
5 Jun 2017
Grâce aux guerres de changement de régime et à l’armement et à la formation des groupes islamistes, les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et la France ont déployé leurs illusions impériales à travers le Moyen-Orient. En Syrie et en Libye, ils ont cultivé la boite de Pétri parfaite pour une insurrection djihadiste, créant ainsi des nihilistes armés comme Abedi, déterminés à rapatrier à domicile les guerres de l’Occident.
→ read full articleAmericans Claim Role in Yeltsin’s Russian Elections Win
Eleanor Randolph - Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan 2017
Consultants say they spent months in Moscow secretly devising U.S.-style strategy.
→ read full articleObama Says “Big Nations Should Not Bully Small Ones” as U.S. Bullies Small Nations across the World
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post,
6 Jun 2016
Ever since World War II, the United States has prided itself on being number 1, a classification of superiority. However, if it were trying to achieve the number 1 position in hypocrisy, then President Barack Obama has made a two-week jaunt the crossing of the finish line for a country racing to be labeled as the most hypocritical nation on the face of the earth.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Legacy Will Be Its Downfall: Empire Always Comes Home
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post,
9 May 2016
Amidst the constant propaganda and dehumanizing method of reporting “news” in the West, both the humanity and the wishes of the Syrian people are lost completely.
→ read full article(Português) O Brasil Está Sendo Engolido pela Corrupção — E por Uma Perigosa Subversão da Democracia
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda – The Intercept,
21 Mar 2016
Tudo isso parece historicamente familiar, particularmente para a América Latina, onde governos de esquerda democraticamente eleitos tem sido repetidamente removidos do poder por meios não legais ou democráticos. A mídia internacional está apresentando os protestos de rua como uma revolta nobre e populista. Os fatos são muito mais complicados.
→ read full articleBrazil Is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda – The Intercept,
21 Mar 2016
Western media are depicting street protests as a noble populist uprising. The facts are much more complicated. It all seems historically familiar, particular for Latin America, where democratically elected left-wing governments have been repeatedly removed by non-democratic, extra-legal means.
→ read full articleSure, Washington Has Always Supported Democracy in Haiti
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
1 Feb 2016
American politicians’ rhetoric on Haiti remains woefully disconnected from reality.
→ read full article(Swahili-Haiti Kreyol) Hotuba ya Rais wa zamani wa Kiswahili Jean-Bertrand Aristide juu ya Maadhimisho ya 24 ya Statskupp
Dr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Hai vle di non, pa. Tii vle di obeyi nan lang Swaili. Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Haïti ou Haitii vle di pa obeyi. Lontan, esklav yo te toujou ap di: Pa obeyi kolon yo. Jodia, nou di: pa obeyi moun ki pa respekte dwa moun. Haitii!
→ read full articleFormer Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the 24th Anniversary of the Coup d’état That Deposed Him
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Hai means no, do not. Tii means obey in the Swahili language. Haiti or Haitii means do not obey. Long ago, slaves were always saying “Do not obey the colonists.” Today we say “Do not obey people who have no respect for human rights. Haitii!
→ 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 articleEduardo Galeano: A Prophet Who Looks Backward
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
20 Apr 2015
Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America’s most beloved writers, died on Monday [April 13, 2015] in a hospital in Montevideo, after a long battle against lung cancer. His first book, Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), which the late Hugo Chávez famously presented to Barack Obama as a present, appeared in 1971.
→ read full articleThe Warming World: Is Capitalism Destroying Our Planet?
Alexander Jung, Horand Knaup, Samiha Shafy and Bernhard Zand – Der Spiegel,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – World leaders decided in Copenhagen that global warming should be limited to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that target, though, would take nothing less than a miracle. With another round of climate negotiations approaching, it is becoming increasingly clear that mankind has failed to address its most daunting problem.
→ read full articleMisery Made Me a Fiend: Latin America and the Torture Report
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
15 Dec 2014
11 Dec 2014 – A central player in the Bush-Cheney’s torture program is Jose A. Rodriguez during the worst of the barbarity—the rectal hummus flushes, drills, dogs, broken limbs, sexual humiliation and assault, sleep deprivation, intense heat, intense cold, blood thinners, beatings and deaths from exposure. Rodriguez was born in Puerto Rico and joined the CIA in 1976.
→ read full articleWhy the Left Continues to Win in Latin America
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
3 Nov 2014
Washington-led and financed anti-communism united the right’s various branches. Without such an organizing principle the right can’t electorally compete with what voters, all things considered, want: economic justice, a dignified life, peace and social welfare.
→ read full articleCuba’s Sending Doctors to Fight Ebola in West Africa — How Will the US React?
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
20 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014 – Last week, BBC News reported that Cuba had sent 165 healthcare workers to Sierra Leone to help that country fight Ebola. Another 296 doctors and nurses are scheduled to arrive in Liberia. In addition to West Africa, Cuba is also sending specialists to Nicaragua, though that country has not yet had a reported case, to prepare local doctors and nurses in case there is an outbreak.
→ read full article‘The New York Times’ Wants Gary Webb to Stay Dead
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
20 Oct 2014
Kill the Messenger, a movie starring Jeremy Renner, just opened, about the life and death of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb, who committed suicide in 2004. Webb came late to the Iran/Contra scandal, long after most of the mainstream media had moved on.
→ read full article(Castellano) Monsanto en Argentina: El bloqueo que cumple un año
Darío Aranda – Pagina12,
29 Sep 2014
19 sept 2014 – Desde hace un año, una movilización social impide la instalación de una planta de semillas transgénicas en Malvinas Argentinas. Para festejarlo, hoy habrá un festival y diferentes actividades. Reclaman que se haga un plebiscito para definir el futuro del emprendimiento.
→ read full article‘The Economist’ Has a Slavery Problem
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
22 Sep 2014
Multiple commentaries from the journal show a pattern of making sure white people aren’t taken for total villains when discussing slavery.
→ read full articleWhy Aren’t ISIS and Al-Qaeda Attacking Israel?
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
It is important to examine Israel’s central role in helping to create the very same organizations that it claims to be threatened by.
→ read full articlePETA’s Undercover Shearing Videos Expose Horrific Sheep Abuse in U.S. and Australia
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
It would be tough to think of any disgusting, gutless acts that aren’t featured in new videos about brutal sheep shearing in Australia and the U.S., produced by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
→ read full articleChile to Build Largest Solar Farm in Latin America
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
A large solar power plant is coming to Chile’s Atacama Desert, and the U.S. is providing financial support to make it happen.
→ read full articleWorld’s First Battery-Powered Bus Transports 135,000 Passengers in 10 Days
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2014
Electric buses have been rolled out at trade shows in recent years, but a suburb of São Paulo, Brazil began picking up riders earlier this month in what officials say is the world’s first battery-powered public transit bus.
→ read full article3 Years after Fukushima: How Survivors’ Mental Health Continues Deteriorating
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
“After the Chernobyl disaster children were diagnosed many years later,” she told the BBC. “My boys may be fine now, but if there is any risk I need to find out as soon as possible.” She’s not comfortable relying on the government for information. Just two weeks ago, Japanese officials announced plans to restart reactors that were closed after the incident, calling nuclear energy a “vital source” of power.
→ read full articleWorld’s Poorest Suffer from Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium
Brandon Baker, EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2014
More than 60 percent of Niger’s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium—one of the few resources the world’s poorest country still has.
→ read full articleReading Melville in Post-9/11 America
Greg Grandin – The Nation,
20 Jan 2014
The author’s half-forgotten masterpiece, Benito Cereno, provides fascinating insight into issues of slavery, freedom, individualism—and Islamophobia.
→ read full articleHow Journals like Nature, Cell and Science Are Damaging Science
Randy Schekman, 2013 Medicine Nobel Laureate – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
The incentives offered by top journals distort science, just as big bonuses distort banking. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. But it is disfigured by inappropriate incentives. The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
→ read full articleRussell Brand: We Deserve More from Our Democratic System
Russell Brand – The Guardian,
11 Nov 2013
Following his appearance on Newsnight, the comedian explains why he believes there are alternatives to our current regime.
→ read full articleRussell Brand on Revolution: “We No Longer Have the Luxury of Tradition”
Russell Brand – New Statesman,
28 Oct 2013
But before we change the world, we need to change the way we think. The revolution of consciousness is a decision, decisions take a moment. In my mind the revolution has already begun.
→ read full articleBelgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather Modification
Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2013
Even as the mainstream media and a television-obsessed American public refuse to admit the existence of chemtrails and government-sponsored weather modification programs, the evidence continues to mount with ever-increasing speed that not only do these programs exist, but they are also effective and widespread.
→ read full articleInternet Advocates Say the Trans-Pacific Partnership Is the Biggest Threat Yet to Open Web
Russell Brandom, The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2013
Closed-door meetings mean no one knows for sure how damaging the final treaty will be.
→ read full articleA Death Grip on Our Food Supply: Monsanto’s Death Patents
Randall Amster - CounterPunch,
18 Mar 2013
It increasingly appears that Monsanto is patenting death, perhaps even more so than life. Their patent rights should not trump the rights of people to procure safe, healthy, living foods. We should roundly deem Monsanto a loser in the court of public opinion, and strive to loosen their death grip on our food supply.
→ read full articleGoodbye Blue Sky
Rand Clifford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering,“SAG” for short. Sunlight-scattering particles are being sprayed into the stratosphere right now, have been for years. It involves spraying into the upper atmosphere a “…very fine, white-talcum-like aerosol of aluminum oxide, barium oxide and other oxides…” to reduce global warming. Also of interest is this video from GeoEngineering Watch titled: “Military to Own The Weather In 2025 – Chemtrails HAARP Space Weapons”
→ read full articleThe Latin American Exception: How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth
Greg Grandin - TomDispatch,
25 Feb 2013
The map tells the story. To illustrate a damning new report, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition,” recently published by the Open Society Institute, the Washington Post put together an equally damning graphic: it’s soaked in red, as if with blood, showing that in the years after 9/11, the CIA turned just about the whole world into a gulag archipelago. No region escapes the stain. No region, that is, except Latin America.
→ read full articleGangs’ Truce Buys El Salvador a Tenuous Peace
Randal C. Archibold – The New York Times,
3 Sep 2012
They had faced off many times before, on the streets, with guns in their hands. But when top leaders of two of the hemisphere’s most violent street gangs sat across from one another in the stifling air of a maximum security prison here this year, the encounter had a very different aim: peace.
→ read full articleControversy Deepens Over Pesticides and Bee Collapse
Brandon Keim - Wired,
16 Apr 2012
Researchers led by biologist Chensheng Lu of Harvard University report a direct link between hive health and dietary exposure to imidacloprid, a so-called neonicotinoid pesticide linked to colony collapse disorder, the mysterious and massive die-off of bees across North America and Europe.
→ read full articleSpeculating with Lives: How Global Investors Make Money Out of Hunger
Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl and Anne Seith – Der Spiegel,
5 Sep 2011
In recent years, the financial markets have discovered the huge opportunities presented by agricultural commodities. The consequences are devastating, as speculators drive up food prices and plunge millions of people into poverty. But investors care little about the effects of their deals in the real world.
→ read full articleSins of the Flesh: Church Shaken by Sexual Abuse Allegations in Africa
Horand Knaup in Nairobi – Der Spiegel,
11 Jul 2011
Following a series of abuse cases in Europe and North America, revelations have emerged of sexual abuse by priests in a number of African countries. The case of Father Renato Kizito, who is accused of raping young men in Kenya, shows how local power structures work in favor of the clerics.The Vatican has taken little action. The priest continues to operate his street-children projects. But one thing is clear: Just as in the past, it seems that the Church does not want to know.
→ read full articleDeChristopher Guilty of Placing Bogus Bids
Brandon Loomis & Aaron Falk - The Salt Lake Tribune,
7 Mar 2011
Newly convicted climate activist Tim DeChristopher appreciated the songs, the banners and the hugs outside the courthouse Thursday [3 Mar 2011], but he expects more. “We know that now I’ll have to go to prison,” DeChristopher said. “If we’re going to achieve our vision, many after me will have to join me as well.” The 29-year-old Salt Lake City man said he is prepared to do time after Thursday’s two felony guilty verdicts for misrepresenting himself and placing bogus bids at a federal oil and gas lease auction.
→ read full articleAn Urgent Call: Return Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti
Jean-Bertrand Aristide – Hayti.net,
7 Feb 2011
In support of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide (currently in exile in South Africa), hundreds of signatories to a petition have demanded that the United States, the United Nations and the Haitian government stop blocking the leader from returning to the land of his birth. A letter from Aristide himself precedes this call.
→ read full articleThe Eve of Secession: What the Future Might Hold for Southern Sudan
Horand Knaup – Der Spiegel,
3 Jan 2011
All signs point to the secession of Southern Sudan following a referendum in early January. But what would happen next? Despite significant oil reserves, the region is among the poorest in the world. And there is no guarantee that the north won’t meddle.
→ read full articleAnarchism and Nonviolence: Time for a ‘Complementarity of Tactics’
Randall Amster – Waging Nonviolence,
19 Jul 2010
This may not win me any new friends among fellow anarchists, yet it needs to be said: Anarchists ought to publicly and demonstrably proclaim their nonviolence, especially in the context of mass demonstrations. This will make it clear that any violence done in that theater — which time and again is used to legitimize mass arrests, bloated police budgets, and the rest of the fascistic enterprise — is not the product of anarchists but more likely of agents of the state itself. After all, that is the basic notion being advanced, isn’t it? To wit: the state (including its corporate underwriters and beneficiaries) is inherently violent both overtly and structurally; anarchists above all reject the state and thus would do well to highlight the fundamental contrast. “The state is violent, and we are not” would be a very good place to start the discussion.
→ read full article