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Want to Have a Real Impact on Climate Change? Then Become a Vegetarian
Travis McKnight – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Millennials who care about the environment should put their money where their mouths are and stop eating meat. It’s time to start a dietary revolution.
→ read full article(Castellano) Javier Bardem sobre la masacre en Gaza
Javier Bardem – El Diario,
4 Aug 2014
25 Jul 2014 – Solo las alianzas geopolíticas, esa máscara hipócrita de los negocios -por ejemplo, la venta de armas- explican la posición vergonzosa de EEUU, la UE y España.
→ read full articleCruelties of Ceasefire Diplomacy
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Devastation and violence has continued in Gaza, with Palestinians deaths now numbering over 1000 (overwhelmingly civilians) and Israeli deaths latest reported at being 43 (almost all military personnel). Such casualty figures and disparities raise questions of state terrorism in a stark manner.
→ read full articleAs the Gaza Crisis Deepens, Boycotts Can Raise the Price of Israel’s Impunity
Rafeef Ziadah – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
If governments refuse to act on Gaza, we must emulate the methods that isolated South Africa during apartheid.
→ read full article(Português) Galeano: Pouca Palestina Resta. Pouco a Pouco, Israel Está Apagando-a do Mapa
Eduardo Galeano – TRANCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
Desde 1948, os palestinos vivem condenados à humilhação perpétua. Não podem sequer respirar sem autorização. Têm perdido a sua pátria, as suas terras, a sua água, a sua liberdade, tudo. Nem sequer têm direito a eleger os seus governantes.
→ read full articleJavier Bardem: Genocide in Gaza
Javier Bardem – El Diario,
4 Aug 2014
In the horror happening right now in Gaza there is NO place for distance or neutrality. It’s a war of occupation and extermination waged against a people with no means, confined in a minimum territory, with no water, and where hospitals, ambulances, and children are targets and presumed to be terrorists.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Qatar World Cup: Migrants Wait a Year to Be Paid for Building Offices
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Monday 28 July 2014 – Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar’s 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.
→ read full articleJoint Declaration on International Law & Gaza – Final List of Endorsers
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
With only a voluntary effort the Joint Declaration on International Law in relation to the Gaza Attacks by Israel has elicited an encouraging response from legal experts from around the world, including some of our most distinguished colleagues. Others without formal legal credentials have also indicated their support, and expressed their desire to endorse the Joint Declaration.
→ read full articlePortugal Uses EU Bailout Cash to Shore Up Troubled Banco Espírito Santo
Chris Johnston – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Portugal injected almost €5bn into Banco Espírito Santo on Sunday [3 Ago 2014] night to stave off the collapse of the country’s biggest bank following a series of financial scandals.
→ read full articleModern-Day Slavery – Trapped in Qatar: The Migrants Who Helped Build the ‘Tower of Football’
Robert Booth, and Pete Pattisson in Doha – The Guardian,
4 Aug 2014
Despite World Cup host’s promises to improve life for foreign labourers, many still live desperate lives in the shadow of unimaginable riches.
→ read full articleBoth Israelis and Palestinians Are Losers in This Conflict
Daniel Barenboim – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
There can be no military solution. Both sides need to acknowledge the other’s suffering and their rights.
→ read full article(Português) Povos de todo o mundo exigem fim do genocídio israelense contra palestinos
Leonardo Wexell Severo – Brasil de Fato,
28 Jul 2014
Em repúdio à carnificina, as grandes avenidas da Alemanha, Argélia, Colôm¬bia, Egito, França, Grécia, Indonésia, Ir¬landa, Estados Unidos e Turquia, entre outras dezenas de países, foram tomadas por multidões vestindo o vermelho, ver¬de, preto e branco da bandeira palestina.
→ read full articlePalestinian Recourse to the International Criminal Court: The Time Has Come
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
The political plausibility of invoking the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of criminality directed at Israel increases with each passing day.
→ read full articleWhen BBC Calls, Don’t Answer
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
That is, don’t answer, if you are a certified critic of Israeli policies and practices.
→ read full article(Castellano) Galeano: Ya poca Palestina queda. Paso a paso, Israel la está borrando del mapa
Eduardo Galeano – Sin Permiso,
28 Jul 2014
Desde 1948, los palestinos viven condenados a humillación perpetua. No pueden ni respirar sin permiso. Han perdido su patria, sus tierras, su agua, su libertad, su todo. Ni siquiera tienen derecho a elegir sus gobernantes.
→ read full articleGaza Interview
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
[Prefatory note: This is an interview with a knowledgeable Greek journalist covering a range of issues associated with the Gaza ordeal] – “Blood on American Hands”: Richard Falk on Palestine
→ read full articleGoogle Doesn’t Want You to Limit Its Ability to Follow You around the Internet
Dan Gillmor – The Guardian,
28 Jul 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
→ read full articleOn ‘Human Shielding’ in Gaza
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon – Al Jazeera,
21 Jul 2014
The Israeli army has tried to justify striking civilian areas. For Palestinians living in Gaza today, simply spending time in their own homes, frequenting a mosque, going to a hospital or to school has become a dangerous enterprise since any one of these architectural edifices can become at any moment a target.
→ read full articleNo Exit from Gaza: A New War Crime?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
As the casualty totals continue to mount while the world looks on in stupefied inaction, the attacks go on; at the very least, from a humanitarian perspective, there should be a global outcry demanding that children, mothers, and those sick and disabled be allowed to leave the Gaza Strip until current hostilities end. Yet this is a gap in international humanitarian law and refugee law.
→ read full articleI, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
He doesn’t drink, he’s reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesn’t wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, America’s most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah – and why the world remains ‘more dangerous than Orwell imagined’.
→ read full articleAmerica: Where the “Good Guys” Torture – A Nation of Cowards?
Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch,
21 Jul 2014
Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes. There is a word for people whose first concern is always for their own safety and who will therefore permit anything to be done in their name as long as it keeps them secure. Such people are sometimes called cowards.
→ read full articleTormenting Gaza
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
There is so much regional turbulence at present that it is unlikely to hope for anything more than scattered verbal denunciations from authorities in the region preoccupied with other concerns, but given the gravity of the situation, attention needs to be refocused on the Palestinian ordeal.
→ read full articleEdward Snowden Urges Professionals to Encrypt Client Communications
Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
Whistleblower says NSA revelations mean those with duty to protect confidentiality must urgently upgrade security. Watch Snowden’s interview with the Guardian in Moscow.
→ read full articleA Nurse at Gitmo Refuses to Force Feed Any More Prisoners – Others Should Too
Cori Crider – The Guardian,
21 Jul 2014
What the US military does to detainees at Guantánamo is shocking. Perhaps change can come from within.
→ 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 articleThe Last Days of Che Guevara: A Graphic Novel – Book Review
Paul Buhle – Toward Freedom,
21 Jul 2014
No iconic, rebellious image of anyone from the 1960s, it is safe to say, looms larger than that of Che Guevara, even today, so long past his death. Che is the one in museums, and on towels in Italy, posters in Vietnam, statues and assorted monuments in Venezuela and so on.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Cities: Istanbul and Rome
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Symbolically and culturally Istanbul deserves to be privately christened as the global capital of the 21st century. It is only world city that qualifies by virtue of its geographic and civilizational hybridity, Western by history and experience, Eastern by culture and location, Northern by stage of development, modernism, and urban dynamism, Southern by affinities, outreach, and partial identification.
→ read full articleBlood Test Breakthrough in Search for Alzheimer’s Cure
Sarah Boseley – The Guardian,
14 Jul 2014
Test for 10 proteins predicts onset of disease over 12 months in those with mild memory loss with 87% accuracy.
→ read full articleRemembering Fouad Ajami
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
For me Fouad Ajami’s legacy is that of ‘sleeping with the enemy.’ And it is an enemy that is politically, morally, and legally responsible for millions of deaths, displacements, and devastating losses.
→ read full articleClimate Refugees: An Entire Island Nation Is Preparing to Evacuate to Fiji Before They Sink Into the Pacific
Gwynn Guilford, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The seas around Kiribati’s 32 atolls are rising 1.2 centimeters a year—about four times faster than the global average—thanks to the flux of ocean currents. Some residents expect the sea to subsume their homes within 20 or 30 years.
→ read full articleShifts in the Climate Change Debate: Hope and Suspicion
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
The intense lobbying efforts by climate deniers, reinforced in the United States by a right wing anti-government tsunami that has paralyzed Congress, succeeded in blocking even modest market-based steps to induce energy efficiency.
→ read full articleIsis Announces Islamic Caliphate in Area Straddling Iraq and Syria
Mark Tran and Matthew Weaver – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Jihadist group challenges al-Qaida as it changes name to Islamic State and pledges to free Palestine in video.
→ read full articleFacebook Denies Emotion Contagion Study Had Government and Military Ties
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
7 Jul 2014
Researchers say the study was not funded by Minerva Research Initiative, which engaged scientists in national security issues.
→ read full articlePentagon Preparing for Mass Civil Breakdown
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
30 Jun 2014
Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements.
→ read full articleRevealed: Asian Slave Labour Producing Prawns for Supermarkets in US, UK
Kate Hodal, Chris Kelly and Felicity Lawrence – The Guardian,
30 Jun 2014
Thai ‘ghost ships’ that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers.
→ read full articleChina’s Subversive Propaganda War against the Dalai Lama
Gerardo E. Martinez-Solanas – Open Democracy,
30 Jun 2014
The Chinese government is engaged in an intense propaganda war to disrupt or prevent the Dalai Lama’s visits to every country he travels to.
→ read full articleWhy Would Bigots Attack a Jewish-Arab School in Israel That Teaches Tolerance and Mutual Respect?
Neve Gordon and Catherine Rottenberg – The Nation,
16 Jun 2014
This latest evidence of hatred is an alarming reminder of how a wonderful educational project continues to stand on precarious ground.
→ read full articleEmpire of Prisons
James P. Jordan – CounterPunch,
16 Jun 2014
How the United States Is Spreading Mass Incarceration around the World
→ read full articleThe Age of Climate Warfare Is Here. The Military-Industrial Complex Is Ready. Are You?
Nafeez Ahmed – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
30 May 2014 – During his speech at West Point Military Academy earlier this week, President Barack Obama described climate change as a “creeping national security crisis” that will require the armed forces to “respond to refugee flows, natural disasters, and conflicts over water and food.”
→ read full articleFour Ways Edward Snowden Changed the World – And Why the Fight’s Not Over
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
Encrypted Gmail. Transparency from mobile providers. Maybe even a legal ‘revolt’ against ‘Orwellian’ surveillance. But until we get real reform, NSA and Co may survive in the shadows.
→ read full articleWho’s in Control – Nation States or Global Corporations?
Gary Younge – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
The limited ability of national governments to pursue any agenda that has not first been endorsed by international capital and its proxies is no longer simply the cross they have to bear; it is the cross to which we have all been nailed. The nation state is the primary democratic entity that remains. But given the scale of neoliberal globalisation it is clearly no longer up to that task. Minorities are blamed but the real culprit is Neoliberalism.
→ read full articleObama’s Legacy: “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Cautioning against militarism at West Point President on May 22nd Obama in a speech mostly notable for its reassertion of what might be best understood as imperial nationalism of global scope declared the following:
→ read full articleSolidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
Beverly Bell and Jessica Hsu – Toward Freedom,
9 Jun 2014
[As Eduardo] Galeano, the Uruguayan writer, said: “Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.”
→ read full articleA Message From Edward Snowden, One Year Later
Edward Snowden – American Civil Liberties Union,
9 Jun 2014
4 Jun 2014 – Below is an email ACLU supporters received from Edward Snowden this morning, one year to the day since The Guardian broke the first in a series of revelations exposing the breathtaking scope of U.S. government surveillance.
→ read full articleGreece – SS Songs and Antisemitism: The Week Golden Dawn Turned Openly Nazi
Helena Smith – The Guardian,
9 Jun 2014
7 Jun 2014 – Supporters of the far-right party gave Hitler salutes and sang the Horst Wessel song outside parliament last week. How Golden Dawn has taken on a sinister new tone.
→ read full articleProsecuting Syrians for War Crimes Now
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
Is justice served when the authority of the ICC is invoked as a political instrument to influence the outcome of a civil war? Why was there never any initiative to pursue leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom during the course of the Iraq War, which also included many incidents that seemed to qualify as crimes against humanity? Double standards?
→ read full articleEdward Snowden: Breaking Law Was Only Option, Says Whistleblower
Tom McCarthy – The Guardian,
2 Jun 2014
One year after revealing himself as the source of the biggest intelligence leak in US history, Edward Snowden appeared in a long network television interview on Wednesday [28 May 2013] to describe himself as an American patriot and to make the case that his disclosures were motivated by a desire to help the country.
→ read full article(Português) Boff: “Piketty Está Certo, Democracia e Capitalismo Não Convivem”
Leonardo Boff - Brasil de Fato,
2 Jun 2014
Para o teólogo Leonardo Boff, obra do economista francês Thomas Piketty acerta quando diz que “a desigualdade não é acidental, mas o traço característico do capitalismo”.
→ read full articlePope Francis Visit to Palestine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2014
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land raises one overwhelming question: ‘what is the nature of religious power in our world of the 21st century?’ ‘Can it have transformative effects’?
→ read full articleHomophobia Is Deep-Rooted, Rife – And Ultimately Doomed
Owen Jones – The Guardian,
2 Jun 2014
The more conservative the man, the stronger the impulse to wash away gay contact – which is a menace to their identity. A society free of sexism and homophobia won’t just emancipate women and gay men: it will free straight men, too.
→ read full articleFukushima Daiichi Begins Pumping Groundwater into Pacific
Justin McCurry – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
21 May 2014 – The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has started pumping groundwater into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to manage the large volume of contaminated water at the site. Tokyo Electric Power said it had released 560 tonnes of groundwater pumped from 12 wells located upstream from the damaged reactors.
→ read full articleThe Pentagon Report on Snowden’s ‘Grave’ Threat Is Gravely Overblown
Julian Sanchez – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
NSA defenders still won’t tell the whole truth, but a newly revealed damage assessment offers a window into government damage control – not any actual damage done by Snowden.
→ read full article10 Reasons to Go Vegan That Have Nothing to Do with Animal Rights
Lindsay McDougall – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
Do you want to go meat free but are sick of the animal rights crowd? Can’t remember a single stat about sustainable land use? Then try these alternative reasons (excuses) on for size.
→ read full articleVirus Experiments Risk Unleashing Global Pandemic, Study Warns
Ian Sample – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
Several groups of scientists around the world are creating and altering viruses. But in a report published on Tuesday [20 May 2014], researchers at Harvard and Yale universities argue that the benefits of the work are outweighed by the risk of pathogenic strains escaping from laboratories and spreading around the world.
→ read full articleFirst Dog on the Moon on … surveillance, everywhere
First Dog on the Moon – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
Think the NSA doesn’t know you are reading this cartoon, right now? Think again.
→ read full articleKidnapped Girls Become Tools of U.S. Imperial Policy in Africa
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The “humanitarian” U.S. military occupation of Africa has been very successful, thus far. Imagine: the superpower that financed the genocide of six million in Congo, claims to be a defender of teenage girls and human rights on the continent.
→ read full article[Grotesquely Pornographic] Sunday Times Rich List: “Astonishing Year” for Britain’s Most Wealthy
Jordan Shilton, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
The headline on May 18 [2014] was that the number of billionaires in Britain had surpassed 100 for the first time. With a total of 104 billionaires, Britain has witnessed the emergence of more than 20 new billionaires over the past year and has the highest concentration of billionaires of any country.
→ read full articleSecrets, Lies and Snowden’s Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
Ladar Levison – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
For the first time, the founder of an encrypted email startup that was supposed to insure privacy for all reveals how the FBI and the US legal system made sure we don’t have the right to much privacy in the first place.
→ read full articleThe Truth about “Traditional” Japanese Whaling
Paul Watson – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,
26 May 2014
Japan argues that whaling is a cultural tradition practiced by the Japanese for centuries and believe they have an inherent right to continue this tradition. But how traditional is it? There is no racial or cultural justification for slaughter. None. Especially for a practise that is not, and has never been, a tradition.
→ read full article[An Antithesis of Peace Journalism]: 1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
Simon Parkin – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s violence through an online adventure game. Swenson describes 1,000 Days of Syria, which is freely available to play on the internet, as “part electric literature; part newscast; and part choose-your-own-adventure.”
→ read full articleOn Citizenship in the 21st Century
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Reading Robert Paehlke’s carefully crafted essay on global citizenship provides the occasion both for an appreciation of his approach and some doubts about its degree of responsiveness to the urgencies of the present or more specifically its adequacy in relation to the call for ‘transformative vision and praxis’ that lies at the heart of the ‘Great Transition Initiative.’
→ read full articlePentagon Report: Scope of Intelligence Compromised by Snowden ‘Staggering’
Jason Leopold – The Guardian,
26 May 2014
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Defense Department earlier this year.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers with US-Made Internet Routers
Glenn Greenwald – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas – even though the US government has warned against using Chinese technology for the same reasons, says Glenn Greenwald, in an extract from his new book about the Snowden affair, No Place to Hide.
→ read full articleHow Thailand Is Contributing to the Misery of Burma’s Persecuted Rohingya
Editorial Board – The Washington Post,
19 May 2014
This is a sad case of Thailand’s navy attempting to extinguish reporting rather than the misery that the reporting exposed. It is wrong to punish the journalists. But this misguided attempt at coercion is doubly wrong because it attempts to hide the shameful treatment of a people, the Rohingya, who are already suffering far too much.
→ read full articleEU Court Backs ‘Right to Be Forgotten’: Google Must Amend Results on Request
Alan Travis and Charles Arthur – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court.
→ read full articleGlobal Warming: It’s a Point of No Return in West Antarctica. What Happens Next?
Eric Rignot – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Last week [12 May 2014] saw a ‘holy shit’ moment in climate change science. A landmark report revealed that the collapse of a large part of Antarctica is now unstoppable.
→ read full article12 Shocking Facts about the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs
Dr. Edward F. Group, Global Healing Center – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2014
The disorders range from depression and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) to bipolar and anxiety disorders. The sordid story behind how these medications work, how they come to market, and how they interfere with the lives of users is a complicated web.
→ read full articleQatar Promises to Reform Labour Laws after Outcry over ‘World Cup Slaves’
Ian Black, Owen Gibson and Robert Booth – The Guardian,
19 May 2014
Officials said they would replace the country’s “kafala” sponsorship system, which tethers workers to a single employer, who can therefore treat his workforce with impunity, pending the approval of a draft law.
→ read full articleMichael Sam Is First Openly Gay NFL Player as St Louis Rams Draft Pick
Martin Pengelly – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Michael Sam, the college defensive end who made headlines earlier this year by coming out, is set to become the first openly gay player to play in the National Football League. Sam was picked in Saturday’s [10 May 2014] final round of the NFL Draft, by the St Louis Rams.
→ read full articleDanger of Drones Highlighted by Near Collision with Airliner in Florida
Associated Press – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Jim Williams of the Federal Aviation Administration’s unmanned aircraft systems office acknowledged the incident on Thursday [8 May 2014, citing it as an example of the risks posed by drones.
→ read full articleCitizens versus Subjects in a Democratic Society: The American Case
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
In my understanding silence is passivity as a way of being. Silence can be much more than the avoidance of speech and utterance, and is most poignantly expressed through evasions of body, heart, and soul.
→ read full article(Português) As revelações de O Capital no Século XXI
Paul Mason, The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Sucesso internacional, livro de Thomas Piketty expõe engrenagens que produzem desigualdade e pobreza, sugere alternativas e desafia: elites aceitarão debatê-las?
→ read full articleAntivirus Software Is Dead, Says Security Expert at Symantec
Samuel Gibbs – The Guardian,
12 May 2014
Information chief at Norton developer says software in general misses 55% of attacks and its future lies in responding to hacks.
→ read full articleKagame: Murderer of Millions in Congo and Rwanda
Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report,
12 May 2014
Notables from around the globe pay homage to Rwandan President Paul Kagame as if he were the savior of Africa. “For 20 years, Kagame has posed as the soldier who stopped the Rwandan genocide, when all evidence and logic point to him as the main perpetrator of the crime.”
→ read full articleEdward Snowden and Laura Poitras Take on America’s Runaway Surveillance State
Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras – The Nation,
12 May 2014
On April 30 [2014], in a ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, the Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation awarded their annual Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and filmmaker Laura Poitras.
→ read full articleArmenian Grievances, Turkey, United States and 1915 (I)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The Turkish government has reiterated its offer to establish a joint commission composed of Armenian, Turkish and international historians to establish an authoritative narrative. The idea that core concern is ‘historical’ misses a main point that such a traumatic series of events need to be interpreted from multiple perspectives, including that of international criminal law.
→ read full article‘Genocide’ in 1915: Law, Language, and Politics (II)
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
I am arguing that the historical argument should be put to rest, and that the issues that need to be resolved relate to the legal questions surrounding the applicability of genocide, as well as the related semiotic and political questions associated what be called ‘the politics of genocide.’
→ read full article(Castellano) Como a Obama, hay que pedirle cuentas a Vladimir Putin en materia de espionaje
Edward Snowden – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
5 May 2014
El jueves pasado [10 de abril 2014] cuestioné en directo en televisión la implicación de Rusia en el espionaje masivo. Le hice al presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, una pregunta que no puede responder negativamente de un modo creíble ningún líder que dirija un programa moderno e intrusivo de vigilancia: “¿Intercepta [su país], analiza o almacena las comunicaciones de millones de individuos?”
→ read full articlePalestine: Why the Peace Talks Collapsed—And Should Not Be Resumed
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
It is important that world public opinion reject as meaningless the diplomatic charade of peace talks while the fate of a people continues to be daily sacrificed on the altar of geopolitics.
→ read full articleIt’s Not Russia That’s Pushed Ukraine to the Brink of War
Seumas Milne – The Guardian,
5 May 2014
The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all.
→ read full articleThe New Interventionists: Civil Society Activists
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Debates about intervention are inevitable in an interdependent world order in which ideals of territorial sovereignty clash with the interests and values of hegemonic political actors. There are no either/or solution for the dilemmas posed. What seems preferable is a contextual assessment tempered by humility arising from the experience of past interventions.
→ read full articleA Vindication for the Public: The Guardian and Washington Post Win the Pulitzer Prize
Edward Snowden – Freedom of the Press Foundation,
28 Apr 2014
I am grateful to the committee for their recognition of the efforts of those involved in the last year’s reporting, and join others around the world in congratulating Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, Ewen MacAskill, and all of the others at the Guardian and Washington Post on winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
→ read full articleWe Need an Apartheid-Style Boycott to Save the Planet
Desmond Tutu – The Guardian,
28 Apr 2014
10 Apr 2014 – We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
→ read full articleWhy US Fracking Companies Are Licking Their Lips over Ukraine
Naomi Klein – The Guardian,
28 Apr 2014
From climate change to Crimea, the natural gas industry is supreme at exploiting crisis for private gain – what I call the shock doctrine.
→ read full articleVladimir Putin Must Be Called To Account on Surveillance Just Like Obama
Edward Snowden – The Guardian,
28 Apr 2014
On Thursday [17 Apr 2014], I questioned Russia’s involvement in mass surveillance on live television. I asked Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, a question that cannot credibly be answered in the negative by any leader who runs a modern, intrusive surveillance program: “Does [your country] intercept, analyse or store millions of individuals’ communications?”
→ read full articleSole US Nuclear Weapons Waste Storage Site Still Closed and Hot
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
28 Apr 2014
Nobody’s ever tried to fix an underground radiation accident before. More than two months after plutonium and americium leaked from the supposedly leak-proof underground nuclear weapons waste storage facility in New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy still does not know what caused the leak almost half a mile underground.
→ read full article(Português) Putin deve prestar contas em matéria de espionagem tal como Obama
Edward Snowden – The Guardian,
28 Apr 2014
A 10 de abril, questionei em direto na televisão o envolvimento da Rússia na espionagem em massa. Fiz uma pergunta ao presidente da Rússia, Vladimir Putin, que não pode ser respondida negativamente de um modo credível por qualquer líder que dirija um programa moderno e intrusivo de vigilância: “[O seu país] interceta, analisa ou armazena as comunicações de milhões de indivíduos?”
→ read full articleAs We Sweat Government Surveillance, Companies Like Google Collect Our Data
Dan Gillmor – The Guardian,
28 Apr 2014
The depressing news just seems to be getting worse. Google confirmed this week what many people had assumed: even if you’re not a Gmail user, your email to someone who does use their services will be scanned by the all-seeing search and the advertising company’s increasingly smart machines.
→ read full articleAnswer Offered By Seymour Hersh Gets Little Public Attention
William Boardman ¬– Reader Supported News,
21 Apr 2014
Benghazi Mystery Explained!?! – Report from London links CIA Covert Op with Turkey, Syria
→ read full articleWhat to Celebrate in Rwanda’s Genocide Anniversary
Editorial Board – The Christian Science Monitor,
7 Apr 2014
April 3, 2014 – The 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide should focus as much on how the African nation worked toward reconciliation through forgiveness as on the mass slaughter itself.
→ read full articleNonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security*
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
In this short essay, my attempt will be to articulate a conception of a world order premised on nonviolent geopolitics, as well as to consider some obstacles to its realization.
→ read full articleLeak the CIA Report: It’s the Only Way to Know the Whole Truth about Torture
Trevor Timm – The Guardian,
7 Apr 2014
Unless, of course, you think spies redacting 6,300 pages of their own sins is transparency. Look how much leaks told us this week.
→ read full articleIsraeli Boycott Case: Sydney Academic’s Lawyers Say Claims Are Pumped Up
Michael Safi – The Guardian,
31 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014 – Lawyers for a Sydney University academic who is accused of unlawful discrimination for his boycott of Israel say the case against [TMS advisor, TRANSCEND member] Jake Lynch is full of “pumped-up claims” that are “embarrassing in the legal sense, and embarrassing in the non-legal sense”.
→ read full articleOnline Dating for Lesbians: Has Dattch Rewritten the Rules?
Eleanor Margolis – The Guardian,
31 Mar 2014
The award-winning UK-based app Dattch says it’s the first of its type designed specifically for women. So has it improved the online dating experience for lesbians?
→ read full articleHere’s How We Take Back the Internet
Edward Snowden – TED Talks,
24 Mar 2014
Mar 18, 2014 – Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he say, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.”
→ read full articleMicrosoft Tightens Privacy Policy after Admitting to Reading Journalist’s Emails
Alex Hern – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
After outrage from privacy campaigners, the tech firm will now seek legal advice before examining the contents of customers’ inboxes.
→ read full articleThe Obsolescence of Ideology: Debating Syria and Ukraine
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
To insist that the left/right distinction obscures more than it reveals is not the end of the story. To contend that ideology is unhelpful as a guide for action is not the same as saying that it is irrelevant to the public debate.
→ read full articleUS Tech Giants Knew of NSA Data Collection, Agency’s Top Lawyer Insists
Spencer Ackerman – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
NSA general counsel Rajesh De contradicts months of angry denials from big companies like Yahoo and Google.
→ read full articleFukushima’s Shameful Cleanup
The Editorial Board - International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
A pattern of shirking responsibility permeates the decommissioning work at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. An increasing proportion of the 3,000 contract laborers at Fukushima are poorly trained, with little technical expertise or knowledge of radiation.
→ read full articleThe Vegans Are Winning. It’s OK to Give In – And Still Eat Mcdonald’s Sometimes
Emma Brockes – The Guardian,
24 Mar 2014
Veganism’s benefits have been sold, bought, taken mainstream. You’re probably eating animal-free more often than you thought.
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