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‘Staged and Scripted’: Mother Agnes Finalizes Chronology of Damascus Chemical Attack
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
26 Sep 2013 – A new version of a study pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence against the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works. The report by the Christian nun, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, has alleged that many videos featuring supposed victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Ghouta in August were in fact staged and scripted.
→ read full article(Castellano) Inauguración del Parque por la Paz Johan Galtung
El Periodic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
28 Sep 2013 – El parque donde se erige la escultura de Agustín Ibarrola es denominado desde hoy el parque por la paz Johan Galtung tras un acto que ha contado con la presencia del pacifista internacional noruego, el alcalde de l’Alfàs, el cónsul noruego, y una representación de la corporación municipal.
→ read full article(Português) Vitórias da Multipolaridade Mundial
Emir, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
O que parecia impossível há 3 semanas, agora é uma realidade consolidada. O Conselho de Segurança da ONU aprovou o acordo da Rússia com os EUA para a crise síria. Perdem Israel, a oposição síria, a Arábia Saudita, o Qatar. Ganham os que pregam o enfraquecimento da hegemonia norte-americana em favor da multipolaridade mundial.
→ read full articleAbe Eager to Lift Japan’s Ban on Collective Defense
Jiji Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his resolve on Wednesday [25 Sep 2013] to change the interpretation of the constitution [Article 9] in order to allow his country to exercise the right to collective self-defense.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Chemical Arsenal under New Scrutiny
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A plan to inspect and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons has focused new attention on Israel’s undeclared WMDs.
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House Extends Monsanto Protection Act
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Sep 19, 2013 – House passes a rider which protects biotech giants like Monsanto from being sued in federal court.
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Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark: US Sanctions Are Genocidal
Abby Martin – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Sep 17, 2013 – Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the countries these sanctions target.
→ read full articleJapan: Anti-Democratic Secrecy Bill
Editorial – The Japan Times,
23 Sep 2013
The Abe administration plans to submit to the Diet a bill to protect state secrets that the government deems vital to national security. It carries a danger of expanding the scope of special secrets ad infinitum and could undermine the fundamental democratic principles of freedom of information and freedom of the press.
→ read full articleRemembering Sabra and Shatila Massacre
IMEMC & Agencies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The massacre lasted for three days (16, 17 and 18 of September 1982). Approximately 3500-8000 persons, including children, infants, women and elderly were slaughtered in this horrific and gruesome massacre perpetrated by the Israeli army and its allied criminal militia. Back then, around 20.000 refugees lived in the refugee camp that was supposed, as any other camp, to receive international protection.
→ read full articleHappy Peace Day [21 September]
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
On this peace day
I wish and pray
Lessons from Libya: How Not to Intervene
Alan Kuperman – Harvard Kennedy School,
23 Sep 2013
Policy Brief, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School – September 2013. Based on “A Model Humanitarian Intervention? Reassessing NATO’s Libya Campaign,” which appears in the Summer 2013 issue of International Security.
→ read full articleHugo Boss Gave the Nazis Style
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
23 Sep 2013
Russell Brand: “Also glad to grace the stage where [London mayor] Boris Johnson has just made light of the use of chemical weapons in Syria – meaning that GQ can now stand for Genocide Quips. If any of you know a little bit about history and fashion, you know that Hugo Boss made the uniforms for the Nazis – now the Nazis did have flaws, but they did look f-ing fantastic, let’s face it – while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality. “
→ read full articleCDC Reveals Scary Truth about Factory Farms and Superbugs
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
23 Sep 2013
Nearly 80 percent of antibiotics consumed in the United States go to livestock farms. Meanwhile, antibiotic-resistant pathogens affecting people are on the rise. Is there a connection here?
→ read full article31 Years after the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape the predicted orgy of butchery.
→ read full articleAre USA and NATO Replacing the UN?
Motsoko Pheko – Pambazuka News,
23 Sep 2013
Is the United States of America and its NATO Allies replacing the United Nations? Is this alliance now the supreme world body in international affairs? Is the United Nations going the disastrous end of its predecessor the League of Nations? Should the civilised nations of the world allow the nefarious schemes of these self-appointed police of the world to destroy the world again through disguised colonialism, racism and new imperialism? And enslave other nations especially in the developing world through terrorist militarism?
→ read full articleTop 1% Getting 95% of Income Gains: Is Washington Responsible?
Lauren Lyster, Daily Ticker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The study by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty also found that the top 1% of earners enjoyed 95% of the income gains since the recession ended. Why have incomes for most Americans hardly moved while those of the top earners took off? It could come down to that old adage: it takes money to make money.
→ read full articleSenator John McCain: Russians Deserve Better Than Putin
US Sen. John McCain - Pravda,
23 Sep 2013
“I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today. I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just.”
→ read full articleDentist Economics
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Betty goes to a dentist and asks him how much it will cost to extract a wisdom tooth. “Eighty Euros,” the dentist says.
→ read full articleNSA Signals Intelligence – Industrial and Diplomatic Espionage
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Communications between aides of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, as well as those of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, were also of interest to the NSA, according to a recent TV Globo interview with Glenn Greenwald. Brazil Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardozo called the spying “an attack on our country’s sovereignty.”
→ read full articleNSA Spied on Brazil Oil Company, Petrobras—What WikiLeaks Cables Reveal About Possible Motivation
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The article quotes a large number of cables which suggest that, for a number of years, the US government has been very interested in helping US companies to win contracts to make investments in Brazil, against Petrobras.
→ read full article(Português) “Superpotência Moral”? Dá Um Tempo.
Gideon Levy, Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
É impossível afirmar que os Estados Unidos, país responsável pela maior parte do derramamento de sangue desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Ásia, América do Sul, Afeganistão e Iraque, seja dirigido por considerações morais. O ataque à Síria seria um Iraque II. Os EUA nunca foram punidos pelas mentiras do Iraque I e pelas centenas de milhares de mortos em vão nessa guerra.
→ read full article(Português) Celso Amorim: “Precisamos Nos Preparar Para Evitar Uma Guerra Cibernética”
Martín Granovsky, Pagina/12 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Ministro de Relações Exteriores, no governo Lula, e ministro da Defesa, no governo Dilma, Celso Amorim, em entrevista ao jornal Página/12, explica por que a América do Sul necessita de uma visão comum sobre a defesa baseada na cooperação e na preservação dos recursos naturais. E também o que fazer diante de uma guerra cibernética. “Estamos pensando em realizar um grande esforço na área da defesa cibernética”, anuncia.
→ read full articleLondon Whale Scandal to Cost JP Morgan $920m in Penalties
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
23 Sep 2013
JP Morgan has agreed to pay about $920m in penalties to US and UK regulators over the “unsafe and unsound practices” that led to its $6.2bn losses last year. It admitted wrongdoing as part of the settlement, an unusual step for a finance firm in the crosshairs of multiple legal actions.
→ read full articleTaking Exception to Exceptionalism
Bernard Weisberger – Common Dreams,
23 Sep 2013
The unchecked violence of our times must be reduced before it destroys any hopes of a decent future for humanity. If the US would take an active role as a partner in the process, rather than an armed dictator of terms from a lofty perch of morality, it would go far towards restoring the admiration the world long felt for us when our military establishment was tiny and our practice of democracy was robust.
→ read full articleThe Distrusted and Discredited Indian Prime Minister Should Cancel His US Trip!
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The drama will be called “Nuclear Bhopal All over Again!” This dilution of liability is nothing but seditious. This makes us wonder who this Prime Minister and his government are working for? For the people of India? Or for America, Russia, France and other foreign countries and their corporations? All this makes us wonder if Dr. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister or the Crime Minister of India?
→ read full articleThe BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet”
Umberto Pascali - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, announces publicly the creation of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from the “US-centric internet”. Not many understand that Rousseff can take such a historic step because the alternative infrastructure, the BRICS cable from Vladivostock, Russia to Shantou, China to Chennai, India to Cape Town, South Africa to Fortaleza, Brazil, is being built and is in its final phase of implementation.
→ read full articleThe US: World’s Policeman or Schoolyard Bully?
Bill Maher – The Guardian,
23 Sep 2013
Bombing seems to be our answer for everything. Since 1945, when Jesus granted America air superiority, we’ve bombed Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Somalia, Bosnia, the Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen.
→ read full articleToo Big to Fail Is Now Bigger Than Ever Before
Michael Snyder – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The six largest banks in the United States have gotten 37 percent larger over the past five years. Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared from the banking industry during that time. What this means is that the health of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley is more critical to the U.S. economy than ever before.
→ read full articleU.S. Urged to Curb Militarisation in Latin America
Jim Lobe – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Sep 2013
Of particular interest is the increase in deployments to Latin America and the Caribbean by the Special Operations Forces – elite units like the Army’s Green Berets and Navy SEALS – due to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and drawdown from Afghanistan. Over the past decade, SOF ranks have more than doubled to about 65,000, and command has been particularly aggressive in seeking new missions in new theatres.
→ read full articleThe Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control.
→ read full articleEgypt Joins Israel as Gaza’s Jailer
Medea Benjamin and Pam Bailey – Common Dreams,
23 Sep 2013
As the military and other opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi the interim government of Egypt has increasingly allied itself with Israel in strategy and actions – becoming just as much Gazans’ jailer as its neighbor to the east.
→ read full articleA Wind Gives Ear
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
It rains
From the sky
To the earth
To have a relief
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows.
→ read full article(Castellano) Diputados de Brasil Negocian Viaje a Rusia Para Entrevistarse Con Snowden
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
La delegación se reunirá este martes [17 Sep 2013] con el embajador de Rusia en Brasil, Sergey Pogóssovith Akopov, con el fin de concretar las condiciones en las que se reunirán con el exanalista de la CIA, Edward Snowden, para conocer más en detalle el caso de espionaje de EE.UU. contra la nación.
→ read full articleThe Syria Deal: Dangers and Opportunities
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Commentators tell us that there is a palpable sense of relief in Damascus and in other parts of Syria in the wake of the Russia-US deal over Syria’s chemical weapons. The citizens of Damascus — the world’s oldest, continuously inhabited city — know that they will not be bombed for the time being.
→ read full articleIsrael, Syria and the United States
Stephen Zunes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For now, US and Israeli policies toward Syria have only allowed Assad to play his nationalist card, strengthen his otherwise dwindling domestic support and weaken democratic Syrian forces hoping to bring down their tyrannical regime.
→ read full articleSeeing Food as a Commons Opens Up Creative New Possibilities
David Bollier – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
What would the world look like if we began to re-conceptualize food as a commons? Jose Luis Vivero Pol of the Centre for Philosophy of Law at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has done just that in a recent essay, “Food as a Commons: Reframing the Narrative of the Food System.”
→ read full articleIn an Age of ‘Realists’ and Vigilantes, There Is Cause for Optimism
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Understanding Kissinger’s criminality is vital when trying to fathom what the US calls its “foreign policy”.
→ read full articleLook at ‘Liberated’ Libya and Despair
Abdel Bari Atwan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Welcome to the new Libya, a country ‘liberated’ by NATO which now finds itself without the oil revenues which could make it rich, with no security, no stability and assassinations and corruption at unprecedented levels.
→ read full articleOil and Fracking Chemicals Spill into Colorado’s Floodwaters
John Upton, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
The floods have also triggered other problems that have gotten a lot less media attention: Fracking infrastructure has been inundated and its toxic contents have spilled out. Pipelines that transport fossil fuels are sagging and snapping under pressure. Tanks that store chemicals and polluted water are being overwhelmed and toppling over. Oil and gas wells are flooding.
→ read full article‘Follow the Money’: NSA Monitors Financial World
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark – Der Spiegel,
23 Sep 2013
The NSA monitors banks and credit card transactions — sometimes in apparent violation of national laws and global regulations. The European SWIFT financial transaction network is being tapped on different levels, internal documents from the US spy agency show.
→ read full articleChaotic Libya Appeals for Help to Restore Security
Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Julia Payne, Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Libya’s prime minister on Tuesday [17 Sep 2013] appealed to the outside world to help restore security, as it combats political chaos and tries to restart oil exports crippled by protesters at a cost of $130 million a day in lost income.
→ read full article(Castellano) EE.UU. Acusa a Siria Pero Tiene Uno de los Mayores Arsenales Tóxicos del Mundo
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El país que más acusa a Siria de poseer armas químicas, es propietario de uno de los mayores arsenales tóxicos del mundo y ha incumplido dos fechas límite para destruir sus reservas. EE.UU. posee tres mil 100 toneladas de armas químicas.
→ read full articleHow Occupation Was Dressed Up As Peace
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Twenty years this month after the signing of the Oslo Accords, conditions for Palestinians have worsened, and Israel has tightened its colonial domination.
→ read full articleHow the Syrian Chemical Weapons Videos Were Staged
James Corbett, Mother Agnes Mariam, and Prof Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
In the wake of the Syrian chemical weapons attack, shocking footage of the victims of that attack were widely circulated in an effort to raise the ire of the public and spur support for military intervention. Now, a new report on that footage finds troubling inconsistencies and manipulation with the video that calls the official narrative of the attack and its victims into question.
→ read full articleSri Lanka: Tamil National Alliance Wins Landslide Victory in First Local Elections since Civil War
Michael Edwards and wires – Australia Network News,
23 Sep 2013
Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party has secured 30 seats in the 38-member Northern Provincial Council. A coalition of parties representing president Mahinda Rajapaksa won seven seats, while a Muslim party won one.
→ read full articleEthics for the Future
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In the long run, because of the enormously destructive weapons, which have been produced through the misuse of science, the survival of civilization can only be ensured if we are able to abolish the institution of war. The world which we want will be a world of changed values, where human qualities will be valued more than material possessions.
→ read full articleSyria, Prepare Yourself for Rape!
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Syria is next! She is already marked, cornered, psychologically ravished, and now petrified. She is tied, exposed, and told to expect the worst. She is where we tried to get her for years, where our regime has wanted her to be.
→ read full articleThe Chemical Attacks in East Ghouta Used to Justify a Military Intervention in Syria
Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross – Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
“From the moment when some families of abducted children contacted us to inform us that they recognized the children among those who are presented in the videos as victims of the Chemical Attacks of East Ghouta, we decided to examine the videos thoroughly…”
→ read full articleShall We Play a Game?: The Rise of the Military-Entertainment Complex
Corey Mead - Salon,
23 Sep 2013
The Army wants you to play video games: For decades, the military has been financing, inventing and perfecting them. The origins of the U.S. military’s involvement with video games lie in its century-old status as this country’s primary sponsor of new technologies.
→ read full article(Castellano) Evo Morales Promulgó Ley de Control de Armas en Bolivia
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
El presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales, promulgó una Ley para el control de armas en Bolivia, a través de la cual se busca regular el porte y tenencia de armas de fuego por parte de civiles y militares en ese país suramericano. La norma establece un nuevo tipo penal que es el tráfico ilícito de armas, que tendrá una pena de hasta 30 años de cárcel según quien lo efectúe, en este caso miembros de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía.
→ read full articleNorthern Elections: A Litmus Test for Democracy or Tamil National Aspirations?
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka,
23 Sep 2013
The increasingly widening gulf between the repressive policies of an ethnocratic state and the ongoing abstract ‘reconciliation discourse’ is not a false projection of the ‘Tiger propagandists’ but an undeniable ground reality. The northern election will not be a litmus test for Sri Lanka’s dysfunctional democracy, but it will certainly be a testing ground that would prove Tamil people’s resilience and will to be free.
→ read full articleOne Nun Puts Entire US Intel Community to Shame over ‘Stage-Managed’ Syria Footage
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
The US intelligence community has been put to shame by the dedication and determination of a lone Christian nun. Her modest study of the videos of the Syrian chemical attack shows they were productions involving staged bodies.
→ read full articleSWIFT Suspension? EU Parliament Furious about NSA Bank Spying
Gregor-Peter Schmitz in Brussels – Der Spiegel,
23 Sep 2013
Revelations the US is spying on international bank transfers have angered European parliamentarians. Some are calling for the suspension of the SWIFT deal between the EU and US. “Washington must make clear where it stands,” says one.
→ read full articleStolen Wars
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
This week Israeli TV screened a documentary film about the life of the Israelis in the Shah’s Iran. It was sheer paradise (“paradise” is also a Persian word). The Israelis lived off the fat of the land. They built the Shah’s dreaded secret police (the Savak, not to be confused with Shabak, its Israeli model). They befriended his generals, most of whom were trained in Israel. They built his industries and started to construct his nuclear installations. Sheer nostalgia.
→ read full articleFive Lies Invented to Spin UN Report on Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
A barrage of suspiciously worded headlines attempt to link in the mind of unobservant readers the UN’s “confirmation” of chemical weapons use in Syria and Western claims that it was the Syrian government that used them. The US, British, and French governments have quickly assembled a list of fabrications to spin the UN report to bolster their still-unsubstantiated accusations against the Syrian government.
→ read full articlePetition Campaign to Open the Rafah Crossing
Gaza Solidarity Organizations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Open the Rafah Crossing Permanently and Unconditionally. Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. SIGN THE PETITION HERE!
→ read full articleGay Rights in Russia and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
Michael Averko - Global Research,
23 Sep 2013
Since the enactment of Article 6.13.1, Russia has hosted two international sporting events (the World University Games and the IAAF World Championships), without any report of abuse against LGBT athletes or spectators. In comparison to these two sports events, the winter Olympics receives greater attention, thereby making it a more attractive event for advocacy promotion.
→ read full article(Italiano) Siria: Tre Livelli di Conflitto. Soluzioni?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Da vari anni, in questa rubrica abbiamo argomentato a favore di un Parlamento di due Camere in Siria, con un Camera Alta rappresentativa di 8 o più nazioni – come i millet ottomani – e un governo di coalizione. Assai lontano dalle “soluzioni progressiste” USA, le nostre si basano sull’incriminare invece che sull’uccidere il regime, con Assad processato dalla Corte Penale Internazionale (escludendo gli americani), etc.
→ read full articleOptimism Is Your Choice
Maxim Varfolomeyev, ISKCON News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Optimism is not something emotional. It’s a very practical tool, a mindset. It’s like a morning workout, an exercise. It took you years to train your brain to look at the problems, now start training it to look at the opportunities. It takes time, but as they say, practice makes perfect.
→ read full articleBravo – Pope Francis!
Johan Galtung, 23 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
In an interview to the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica (IHT, 20 Sep 13), Pope Francis says that the Roman Catholic Church has become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. The church should become a home for all and not a small chapel. “We have to find a new balance”, the Pope says, “otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel”.
→ read full article(Português) Por Que Controlar os Fluxos de Capitais
Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, Carta Capital – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Keynes repetiu seguidamente nos trabalhos preparatórios da Conferência de Bretton Woods: “O controle de capitais deveria ser uma característica permanente da nova ordem econômica mundial”. O Plano Keynes postulava a criação de uma moeda internacional. Perdeu a parada para os interesses do establisment americano.
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President al-Assad Interview with Dennis Kucinich (Part I) مقابلة الرئيس الأسد مع قناة فوكس نيوز الأمريكية – الجزء الأول
Syrian Presidency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
17 Sep 2013 – President Al-Assad’s interview with Dennis Kucinich, former U.S. Congressman, and Greg Palkot, senior foreign affairs correspondent of Fox News.
→ read full articleSpying Scandal Sends US Influence on Latin America into Nosedive
Mauricio – Russia Today,
23 Sep 2013
Democratic leaders from Mexico to Argentina are so resentful of American influence that they are now willing to take action. Spies did the trick. The times are definitely a-changing. America might be on the way to belonging to all Americans, and that includes Latin Americans as well.
→ read full articleThe World Community Must Now Take Charge at Fukushima
Harvey Wasserman – The Free Press,
23 Sep 2013
There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4. Some 400 tons of spent fuel in a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air and resting on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down, could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.
→ read full articleUS Struggle with Iran’s Peace Offensive
Eric Margolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, has lost no time in trying to end the 34-year old political and economic siege imposed on his nation by the United States and its allies. President Barack Obama, having just been wrong-footed over Syria, now faces a surprise Iranian diplomatic and public relations offensive that will be hard to resist. America’s war party is furious.
→ read full articleUpdating International Nuclear Law
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
For Those Interested in Nuclear Liability Issues in Various Countries – Nuclear research and nuclear industry have managed to grow and survive because of highly favourable structures found in international law and institutions.
→ read full articleWhat Is the Obama-Backed Free Syrian Army?
Alex Newman – New American,
23 Sep 2013
The outfit’s main selling point appears to be that, as opposed to the more effective fighting forces in Syria, the Free Syrian Army is not technically al-Qaeda. But what is the Free Syrian Army, really? Virtually everyone agrees that it is dominated by Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood and various other hardline Salafist groups known for violently seeking sharia law and strict enforcement of their interpretation of Islamic doctrine.
→ read full articleU.S. Weapons Reaching Syrian Rebels
Ernesto Londoño and Greg Miller – The Washington Post,
16 Sep 2013
12 Sep 2013 – The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.
→ read full articleSnowden Disclosures Finally Hit 12 on a Scale of 1 to 10
Kevin Drum – Mother Jones,
16 Sep 2013
A few days ago, NBC News quoted a former intelligence official about the fallout from Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. “The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,” he said.
→ read full articleVoyager Probe Reaches Interstellar Space
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The US space probe Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming humanity’s first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA has said. Thirty-six years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered spacecraft is more than 11 billion miles from the Sun in interstellar space.
→ read full article(Português) Neonicotinoides: Que São e Como Podem Afetar Você
George Monbiot – Outras Palavras,
16 Sep 2013
Como no caso do DDT, ameaçaram pessoas que se mostraram preocupadas, publicaram argumentos enganosos e fizeram de tudo para ludibriar o público. E, como para garantir que a história segue o velho roteiro, governos colaboraram com esse esforço. Entre os mais (ir)responsáveis está o do Reino Unido.
→ read full article(Castellano) Centro de Arbitraje de UNASUR Promoverá Mediación y Solución de Conflictos
TeleSur – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
El Centro de Solución de Controversias que proyecta crear la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas promoverá también la utilización de mecanismos de solución de contenciosos, como la mediación y la facilitación, con la finalidad de sumar a aquellas naciones que “no aceptan el arbitraje” internacional. La Unasur está integrada por Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guayana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Uruguay y Venezuela.
→ read full articleRich Man’s Recovery
Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
Basically, while the great majority of Americans are still living in a depressed economy, the rich have recovered just about all their losses and are powering ahead.
→ read full articleThe People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits and Wealth and It’s Sickening Our Politics
Joe Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate - AlterNet,
16 Sep 2013
A hundred and sixty five years ago, Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. ” We have become a house divided against itself – divided between the 99% and the 1%, between the workers, and those who would exploit them. We have to reunite the house, but it won’t happen on its own.
→ read full articleThe Metamorphosis of Colombia’s Medellin: Once Most Dangerous, Now “Most Innovative City”
Andrew Gold, Occupy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Medellin has worked hard to negate its former harmful image. Now, tourists flock to the city for the first time in its history.
→ read full articleKerry, Kissinger, Allende, and the Other Sept. 11
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
16 Sep 2013
The Kerry-Kissinger meeting, and the public outcry against the proposed attack on Syria to which both men are publicly committed, should be viewed through the lens of another Sept. 11 … 1973. On that day, 40 years ago, the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was violently overthrown [and killed] in a U.S.-backed coup.
→ read full articleEndless Fukushima Catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under Contamination Threat
Dr Helen Caldicott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
How can Japanese Prime Minister Abe possibly say that Tokyo will be safe for the Olympics? He actually said that “there is absolutely no problem” and “the situation is under control.” Does he not understand that parts of Tokyo are already radioactively contaminated and that his government is dumping ashes from the incineration of thousands of tons of radioactive debris from the tsunami and earthquake into Tokyo Bay? Is this what the athletes will be swimming in?
→ read full articlePolice Are More Dangerous to the Public Than Are Criminals
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. At the federal level the threat is a seventh war (Syria) in 12 years, leading on to the eighth and ninth (Iran and Lebanon) and then on to nuclear war with Russia and China.
→ read full articleMoral Hypocrisy and U.S. Exceptionalism
Ajamu Baraka - Global Research,
16 Sep 2013
In his recent op-ed in the New York Times, Vladimir Putin raised hackles among the talking-heads across the U.S. when he questioned the wisdom of President Obama’s evocation of the narcissistic idea of “American exceptionalism.” After all, the exceptionalism of the U.S. has never been a subject for reasoned discussion or debate in the media or elsewhere.
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Vaccine Pioneer Admits Adding CANCER-CAUSING VIRUS to Vaccine!
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In this interview Dr. Maurice Hilleman makes some astounding revelations. He admits that Merck drug company vaccines (Polio) had been deliberately contaminated with SV40, a cancer-causing monkey virus from 1953 – 63.
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Robert Gallo: The Man Who Created AIDS
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Where did AIDS come from? Some say it doesn’t matter, as long as we find a cure. But what if the man and money that created it, are still spreading it along with lies and half-truths?
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Five Years after Lehman Brothers Fall, Big Banks Even Larger
The Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
In contrast to workers and homeowners, banks fully recover from the financial crisis.
→ read full articleSyria in Search of a Political Solution: Toward Functional Coexistence
Tatsushi Arai, PhD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The extensive use of chemical weapons in Syria, the commitment and readiness expressed by US President Barak Obama to launch airstrikes against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and the Russian diplomatic initiative that has led to a US-Russian framework agreement on safeguarding and dismantling Syrian chemical weapons are all important developments in the prolonged war in Syria.
→ read full articleCritical Flaws in UN Report on Syria
Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Response to the Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic Dated 16 August 2013
→ read full articleContinuity of Agenda: Syria Catastrophe Engineered Under Bush, Executed Verbatim Under Obama
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The rise of Al Qaeda in Syria and the predictable bloodbath that followed is the documented work of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
→ read full articleAmerican Bombing Still Likely – “Go Tell It on the Mountain, From the Peaks of Qasioun!”
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, set up a Human Shields and Observers camp to protect the Syrian TV channels, radio and communication towers situated at the crest of Mount Qasioun which rises up 1,151 meters (3,776 ft) at its crest.
→ read full articleNSA Masqueraded As Google to Spy on Web Users – Report
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all the data entered to NSA data banks.
→ read full articleDrones
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Drones are fun, so let’s enjoy them,
from safe distance fast deploy them.
Blow up people easily
(Italiano) Il Caucaso lascia la guerra fredda
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Tbilisi, Georgia – Per loro il vecchio pensare-parlare-agire basato sull’egemonia tra stati e e all’interno di singoli stati – nella compensazione di quanto perdono in autonomia nei confronti di un Grande Potere negandolo ad altri all’interno – è fuori questione. Quello che è ammesso –i dettagli non sono chiari in nessun modo – è l’equità fra gli stati all’interno del sistema statale globale, e l’autonomia all’interno degli stati per le nazioni.
→ read full articleResolving the Syrian Chemical Weapons Crisis: Sunlight and Shadows
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Not only did Vladimir Putin exhibit a new constructive role for Russia in 21st statecraft, spare Syria and the Middle East from another cycle of escalating violence, but he articulated this Kremlin initiative in the form of a direct appeal to the American people. For Putin to be so forthcoming, without being belligerent, was particularly impressive.
→ read full articleA Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison over a Link
David Carr – The New York Times,
16 Sep 2013
Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim. A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government’s ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.
→ read full articleGeneral and Complete Disarmament in 50 Years on the Basis of Global Harmony
Antonio C. S. Rosa, editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
A Global Harmony Association Constant Petition to the UN to Collect 1 Million Signatures by September 21, 2013 – International Peace Day. PLEASE HELP THE WORLD BY SIGNING THE PETITION http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Global_Disarmament_Now_1/.
→ read full articleFairness
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Two colleagues went to a restaurant and ordered fish. The waiter brought a plate with a bigger and a smaller fish.
→ read full articleSyria: Three Conflict Levels, Solutions?
Johan Galtung, 16 Sep 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
This column has for years been arguing for a two-chamber parliament in Syria having an upper house with eight or so nations—like the Ottoman millets–and a coalition government. Very far from US “progressive solutions,” ours are based on criminalizing rather than killing the regime, with Assad for the International Criminal Court (Americans ruled out), etc.
→ read full article“Humanitarian” Missile Strikes against Syria?
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
The issue of chemical weapons is obscuring the more important issues of legality and the question of whether an attack on Syria would not greatly increase the suffering of the people of that region because of escalation. A large-scale war in the Middle East would cause immense suffering to the people of the region, and it might turn into a Third World War. It would be a criminal act to initiate such a war, violating both the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles.
→ read full articleWar May Be Over but Sri Lanka Is Still Far from Peace
UCANews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“After the war people expected a lot from the government, that there would be reconciliation, peace. But the people have been deceived,” says Father Regno, director of HUDEC Jaffna, the social arm of the Catholic Church of Jaffna. “There has been no sign of reconciliation. Without a political solution, we have no future.”
→ read full articleHow PPP Helped Stop a War!
Jim Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Overwhelming public opinion and people-power protest action, both in the U.S. and around the world, against a U.S. attack on Syria, including an appeal by the Pope, and a diplomatic proposal from the Russians all helped to call off the planned illegal U.S. military attack on Syria in the 11th hour.
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Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Music Video of the Week)
Wilhelm Kempff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
Just listen… and enjoy your senses.
→ read full articleTEPCO Official Denies Abe’s Claim That Nuclear Crisis Is ‘Under Control’
The Asahi Shimbun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
“We regard the current situation as not being under control,” Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co., told a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture. The comment contradicts the well-publicized assurance that Abe gave at an IOC general meeting in Buenos Aires on Sep. 7, before Tokyo was selected as the host city for the 2020 Olympic Games.
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