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New Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People under the Whip
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Portuguese Revolution Falls Far Short – In the Western world democracy has been decapitated. In Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and the United States itself, there is no connection between the will of the people and the policies of the government. Only in tiny Iceland did the people prevail over the banks. Everywhere else the people are forced to pay for the gambling losses and leveraged debts of the financial sector.
→ read full articleArming Dictators: An American Tradition
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015 – Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations.
→ read full article‘We Remain Blindfolded about Isis’ Says the Man Who Should Know
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
16 Nov 2015
So immediately after the Paris massacres, I sought for reason, clarity and wisdom from a man who spent four and a half years in the hands of Muslim kidnappers – 54 months wearing a blindfold, always waiting for death. Brian Keenan was held by Shia Muslims loyal to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
→ read full articleThe Scofield Bible—The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
9 Nov 2015
“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.” —The New Scofield Study Bible
→ read full articleThe ‘Devil’ Gets His Due: Elephant Poaching Kingpin Arrested
John R. Platt - TakePart,
9 Nov 2015
3 Nov 2015 – Tanzanian officials have arrested a poacher and smuggler whom they say is responsible for thousands of elephant deaths across several African nations. Many poachers and smugglers get off with little more than a slap on the wrist—or less. “These cases need to be followed to their conclusion.”
→ read full articleThe Pentagon’s Law of War Manual (Parts 1-4)
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The new US Department of Defense ‘Law of War Manual’ is essentially a guidebook for violating international and domestic law and committing war crimes. The 1,165-page document is not a statement of existing law as much as a compendium of what the Pentagon wishes the law to be.
→ read full articleFukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to opening Pandora’s box, there’s no stopping a ferocious atom-splitting insanity that knows no end.
→ read full articleThe Punishment Society
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
With our public schools and police forces working overtime to teach the children who will comprise the future generations that violence is the solution and submission is the only alternative, expect the United States to be unliveable at home and an even worse danger to the rest of the world.
→ read full articleA New Book Reveals the Horrifying, and Fascinating, Details of Daily Life under Isis
Robert Fisk – The Independent,
9 Nov 2015
It details all of Isis’s cruelty, but places it in the context of a very bloody history.
→ read full articleThe “War on Terror” Is the Hoax Foundation of the Police/Spy State
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
The “war on terror” was a hoax. Americans were deceived by policymakers, who are pursuing a hegemonic agenda. Who can possibly believe that a handful of Saudi Arabians acting without the support of any state and any intelligence service could outwit the entire apparatus of the American National Security State and inflict a humiliating defeat on the world’s only superpower?
→ read full articleTobacco’s Children: Brazil Sets an Example for the U.S.
Margaret Wurth, The Progressive – Human Rights Watch,
9 Nov 2015
Brazil and the United States are among the top five global tobacco producers. The US has no restrictions on children working in tobacco farming, despite many known dangers. But Brazil has banned children under 18 from working on the farms. How do the two countries compare now?
→ read full articleExposed by WikiLeaks: The US Empire According to Itself
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
In the book ‘The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire’ we are taken on a journey to understand just how the world works if we read the ‘top secret’ correspondence of those who regard themselves as our masters. Following a thoughtful contextual introduction by Julian Assange, our journey is guided by eighteen first-rate scholars who carefully explain the significance of a range of WikiLeaks-released documents in relation to the region of the world in which they specialize.
→ read full articleCan Haiti’s Corrupt President Hold On to Power?
James North – The Nation,
2 Nov 2015
Michel Martelly is trying to impose a successor amid widespread public anger at government repression and failure to rebuild after the earthquake.
→ read full articleFact-finding Delegation Reports an Electoral Coup Now in Process in Haiti
Report from the Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Most international observers of the election have focused on the day of the election, but not on the vital final stage of the electoral process – the counting and tabulation of the votes. Although multiple political parties are protesting the post-election counting process, Haiti’s ruling party is praising the vote and objecting to critiques of the tabulation process.
→ read full articleLeon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels - Encyclopædia Britannica,
2 Nov 2015
Arrested in January 1898 for revolutionary activity, Bronshtein spent four and a half years in prison and in exile in Siberia, during which time he married his coconspirator Aleksandra Sokolovskaya and fathered two daughters. He escaped in 1902 with a forged passport bearing the name Trotsky, which he adopted as his revolutionary pseudonym.
→ read full articleFrom European Union to Just a Common Market
Roberto Savio, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
Europe will have to accept that it is not going to be the homogenous and white society that the right wing and xenophobic parties dream of reestablishing. The lack of global governability has created a staggering figure of 60 million refugees. Solidarity or not, Europe demography will require the arrival of some million. What will be the Europe of 2030?
→ read full article(Português) O Que Está em Causa
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
2 Nov 2015
27 out 2015 – O fenómeno não é português. É global, embora em cada país assuma uma manifestação específica. Consiste na agressividade inusitada com que a direita enfrenta qualquer desafio à sua dominação, uma agressividade expressa em linguagem abusiva, manipulação do medo de modo a eliminar a esperança, falsidades proclamadas como verdades sociológicas, destempero emocional no confronto de ideias, etc., etc.
→ read full articleThe Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Prof. Edward Curtin – Information Clearing House,
2 Nov 2015
The continuing Killing Deep State within the U.S. Empire. David Talbot has exposed the face of evil incarnate in Allen Dulles, the hitman for the power elite.
→ read full articleThe War Politics behind Nobel Prize
Gouthama Siddarthan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
20 Oct 2015 – The Nobel committee is at it again, proving for the umpteenth time that it has been a playground for the international political game of chess.
→ read full articleA Tribute to Prof. Johan Galtung’s 85th Birthday
Erika Degortes and Naakow Grant-Hayford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2015
We are here not to offer you a gift dear Johan, but to celebrate the gift you have given to all those interested in bringing about peace as a sociological and as a political responsibility in our multipolar and multicultural world.
→ read full article(Português) Nações Unidas – 70 Anos
Emb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Setenta anos atrás, em 24 de outubro de 1945, entrou em vigor a Carta das Nações Unidas. Toda a comunidade internacional tem o dever de esforçar-se ao máximo a fim de tornar realidade os nobres ideais que presidiram a sua fundação.
→ read full articleNonviolence Charter: Progress Report #7 (October 2015)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone and Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Dear fellow signatories of the Nonviolence Charter,
Here is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ and a sample of news about, and reports of forthcoming events by, Charter signatories.
The United Nations at 70
Amb. Sergio Duarte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Seventy years ago, on October 24 1945, the Charter of the United Nations entered into force. It is the duty of the entire international community to do the utmost in order to make true the lofty ideals under which it was founded.
→ read full articleHow Can We Win America’s Peace?
Robert Hinds, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The current map of instability in the Middle East can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration in World War I. The war in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban are repercussions from the Cold War, which was itself a result of WWII. Forty-five years after Nixon’s disastrous decision to continue the war in Vietnam, the lesson should seem clear. A policy that favors warfare more than diplomacy will not bring peace.
→ read full article“War Is a Racket”
James Albertini – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Record U.S. Military Budget! The U.S. military receives more funding than the rest of the 10 largest militaries in the world combined (China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K., France, Japan, India, Germany & South Korea): $1.3 trillion dollars per year.
→ 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 articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ read full articleFrench Government Aligns with Russia’s War against ISIS
Paul Craig Roberts – German Economic News,
12 Oct 2015
11 Oct 2015 – The French will support Russia’s fight against terrorists in Syria. U.S. President Obama will be kept informed about developments as a permanent information exchange concerning the progress of the raids has been established. Israel is being informed as well and cooperates with the Russians on an informal basis.
→ read full articleColumbus Day, 12 October, Is a Reminder That Nothing Exists Until a White Guy “Discovers” It
Jake Flanagin, Quartz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We know that Native Americans were living in the Americas for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. We know their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from northeastern Asia, and in the ensuing 10,000 to 15,000 years populated the New World with civilizations as diverse and distinct as the Mayans, the Inuit, [the Tupi-Guaranis in the South], and the Mapuche.
→ read full articleThe Mystery of ISIS’ Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Mystery Solved: Just last year it was reported that the US State Department had been sending in fleets of specifically Toyota-brand trucks into Syria to whom they claimed was the “Free Syrian Army.” Asking Toyota where the USSD’s own trucks came from is another indication of just how lost US foreign policy, legitimacy, and credibility have become.
→ read full article(Français) Les Etats-Unis doivent-ils s’allier à Al-Qaida en Syrie ?
Robert Parry, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
Aux Etats-Unis, la nouvelle « pensée collective » souligne que le président russe Poutine n’a pas tenu sa promesse d’attaquer seulement l’État islamique lorsque ses avions de guerre ont frappé d’autres cibles rebelles en Syrie. Mais Poutine n’a jamais précisé quels terroristes il allait frapper. Et la coalition des rebelles ciblés comprend des affiliés d’Al-Qaida.
→ read full article(Deutsch) Gegen die Nato: Frankreich unterstützt Russland in Syrien
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
5. Oktober 2015 – Die Franzosen unterstützen den Kampf Russlands gegen andere Terror-Gruppen in Syrien. Sie stellen sich damit auf die Seite von US-Präsident Barack Obama, der die Russen zu ihrem Einsatz ermuntert hat und über den Fortgang informiert wird.
→ 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 article(Ελληνική-Greek) Οι ελίτ θέλουν περισσότερους πρόσφυγες: Γιατί;
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza International Press Agency,
5 Oct 2015
Αν δεν είμαστε επαρκώς ενημερωμένοι, μπορούμε να ασχολούμαστε μόνο με ένα ή περισσότερα συμπτώματα της δικής τους παραφροσύνης. Οι ελίτ θέλουν περισσότερους πρόσφυγες, εν μέρει διότι με αυτόν τον τρόπο αποσπάται η προσοχή μας και δεν αναλύουμε ή δεν αντιστεκόμαστε σε αυτό που κάνουν συνολικά.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton’s ‘Wicked’ Syrian Choice
Rick Sterling – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton bought into the neocon/liberal-hawk agenda that spread the chaos of Iraq across Libya, Syria and now into Europe. How Clinton approached those challenges suggests that she would head down the same “regime change” path as President.
→ read full articleNetanyahu’s Real Message Was to Israel’s Jews: “Talk Peace but Prepare for Doomsday”
Alan Hart – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
How Israel’s Jews would react if they were put on notice that they would be subjected to complete isolation and effective sanctions? Left behind in a walled-in nuclear-armed fortress, the zealots would be prepared, as Golda Meir once said to me in a BBC Panorama interview when she was Israel’s prime minister, to take the region and the world down with them.
→ read full articleThe Western Media Is Dying and Here’s Why
Tony Cartalucci – New Eastern Outlook,
5 Oct 2015
Seymour Hersh has risked much over his decades of journalism. He is a true journalist who has been attacked, slandered, and shunned by all sides simply because he seems to resist taking any side. When he reported on US atrocities in Vietnam, he was first attacked and denounced as a traitor or worse.
→ read full articleThe Power of False Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
5 Oct 2015
28 Sep 2015 – In this age of pervasive media, the primary method of social control is through the creation of narratives delivered to the public through newspapers, TV, radio, computers, cell phones and any other gadget that can convey information. This reality has given rise to an obsession among the power elite to control as much of this messaging as possible.
→ read full articleGandhi Jayanti, Gandhi’s Dream
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
On behalf of those of us who struggle to honor Gandhi’s legacy to the world, I would like to wish Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi ‘happy birthday!’ He was born on 2 October 1869. Gandhi’s dream of a world without violence might be fanciful. But, as John Lennon once sang, he is ‘not the only one’. Many of us share this dream. Are you a dreamer too?
→ read full articleHuman Rights and the Targeting by Drone
Robert McCorquodale - European Journal of International Law,
28 Sep 2015
“International human rights law prohibits arbitrary killing. This prohibition is reflected in specific treaty obligations and forms part of customary international law. lethal remotely piloted aircraft attacks will rarely be lawful outside a situation of armed conflict, because only in the most exceptional of circumstances would it be permissible under international human rights law for killing to be the sole or primary objective of an operation.” — UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Killings
→ read full articleDisaster Capitalism: Outsourcing Violence and Exploitation
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
In his just-released book, ‘Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe’, Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations as multinational corporations consolidate their control over the political and economic life of the planet.
→ read full articleYemen as Laboratory: Why Is the West So Silent about This Savage War?
Martha Mundy - CounterPunch,
28 Sep 2015
23 Sep 2015 – What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence?
→ read full articleHumanity United For Universal Demilitarisation
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Those who share my vision are welcome to go to the microphone and address the masses of people who will be at London’s famous Trafalgar Square on 14 November 2015. Please mark your calendar.
→ read full article(Português) O lado escuro do Chocolate – Documentário que a Nestlé se recusou a assistir
A Arte da Omissão – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
Com este tipo de acções não se pretende que os produtos não sejam produzidos e vendidos. Pretende-se que as respectivas corporações tomem medidas e não façam de conta que não sabem. Por vezes tal só é conseguido, quando o mundo grita e pára de comprar o fruto dessa exploração humana. Espero que partilhem este documentário e expliquem aos vossos filhos o que se passa. Subtitulada en Español.
→ read full articleIt’s Not the Chinese Economy That’s on Life Support
Martin Jacques – The Guardian,
21 Sep 2015
Western markets are only panicking about China because their own economies are so fragile. The western world continues to depend on a life-support system, namely zero interest rates, combined with Chinese growth.
→ read full article‘Samsung Is to Blame’ for Cancers
Sandra Bartlett – The Center for Public Integrity,
21 Sep 2015
Hundreds of former employees of the electronics giant believe their cancers were caused by workplace exposures to toxic chemicals.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le élites globali vogliono più rifugiati: perché?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
21 Sep 2015
I rifugiati sono solo un sintomo di una crisi più profonda. Inoltre, come altri sintomi di questa crisi più profonda, l’élite globale è felice di sfruttarlo per tenerci maledettamente preoccupati; infatti l’urgenza del problema rifugiati esige il massimo della nostra attenzione e della nostra compassione.
→ read full articleUruguay Shows the Way by Leaving Secret Trade Deal TiSA
Viviana Barreto and Sam Cossar-Gilbert – Common Dreams,
21 Sep 2015
17 Sep 2015 – A strong coalition of trade unions, environmentalists and farmers working together on an effective public campaign were able to take on the interests of the world’s biggest companies and win. Last week the Uruguayan government decided to end its involvement in the secret negotiations of the Trade in Services Agreement TISA, signifying an important victory in the global fight against bad trade deals.
→ read full article(Português) Para Ler em 2050
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Carta Maior - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
É estranho que uma época que começou como só tendo futuro tenha terminado como só tendo passado.
→ read full article9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst.
→ read full articleHow Neocons Destabilized Europe
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
14 Sep 2015
7 Sep 2015 – The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change.
→ read full articlePrintable Solar Panels, Developed by CSIRO and Melbourne Universities, One Step Closer to Market
Emily Stewart – ABC News Australia,
14 Sep 2015
Australian solar power scientists are one step closer to making available a cheaper and faster way to print solar cells onto plastic.
→ read full articleRethinking Syria
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The current U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow Assad and push back ISIS is simply unworkable.
→ read full articleElites Want More Refugees: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis. Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is all too demanding of our attention and our compassion.
→ read full articleUS/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War
Don North – Consortium News,
7 Sep 2015
2 Sep 2015 – The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North.
→ read full articleMissing from Reports of Yemeni Carnage: Washington’s Responsibility
Jim Naureckas – Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting,
7 Sep 2015
Washington’s role in facilitating deaths unmentioned by mainstream media.
→ read full articleAbsence of Meat Makes the Heart Grow Stronger
Julieanna Hever – US News & World Report,
7 Sep 2015
2 Sep 2015 – A recent study found that consuming plant-based foods such as beans, nuts, whole grains, fruits and vegetables is associated with a sharply reduced risk of stroke and heart attack.
→ read full articleSpeak the Truth!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars: When Should We Call It Genocide? The U.S. is largely responsible for massive global migration taking place due to wars, climate catastrophe and economic injustice. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini said, “Fascism is when the corporations and the state become one.” What do we call it when corporations supersede all state authority?
→ read full articleHanford Nuclear Weapons Site Whistle-blower Wins $4.1-Million Settlement
Ralph Vartabedian – Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep 2015
When Walter Tamosaitis warned in 2011 that the Energy Department’s plans for a waste treatment plant were unsafe, he was demoted. Tamosaitis had been leading a team of 100 scientists and engineers in designing a way to immobilize millions of gallons of highly toxic nuclear sludge as thick as peanut butter.
→ read full articleU.S. & Saudi Arabia War Crimes Keep Killing Yemenis
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
31 Aug 2015
30 Aug 2015 – Is There Anyone Who Believes That Yemeni Lives Matter? Saudi Arabia’s aggression against Yemen, the poorest country in the region, has been catastrophic for Yemen, which is all-but-defenseless. Backed by eight other Arab dictatorships and the US, they have committed uncounted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleThe Psychology of Projection in Conflict
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2015
Unfortunately, understanding the psychology of conflict is not easy and I would like to illustrate one significant problem in this regard and explain what we can do about it. That problem is what is often called ‘projection’ or ‘transference’ and it illustrates the importance of emotional, as distinct from intellectual, content in any conflict.
→ read full articleHow Google Could Rig the 2016 Election
Robert Epstein – Politico Magazine,
31 Aug 2015
It’s possible that Google decided the winner of the Indian election. Google’s own daily data on election-related search activity was subsequently removed from the Internet, but not before my colleagues and I downloaded the pages.
→ read full article(Português) Silêncios Ruidosos
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
24 Aug 2015
O Estado burocrático, impessoal, não se deixa impressionar por dramas pessoais, individuais. Em tempos de imposição de austeridade aos cidadãos mais vulneráveis, qualquer pretexto é bom para reduzir os encargos do Estado, por mais ilógico e injusto que seja.
→ read full article(Français) Après le politique, faut-il «tuer la géopolitique»?
Robert Charvin, Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
21 août 2015 – La « révolution » conservatrice, à l’œuvre dans l’ensemble des sociétés occidentales, a pris des chemins variés d’un pays à l’autre. En Europe, elle s’appuie parfois sur la collaboration des droites traditionnelles et de mouvements de l’ultra-droite (en Hongrie, par exemple), voire dans certains cas néonazis (en Lettonie ou en Ukraine, par exemple).
→ read full articleLeading Israeli Journalist Says Israel Is an Apartheid State
Ben Norton, Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
What I’m about to write will not come easily for me. I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of apartheid as applied to Israel. I’m not one of those people any more. Not after the last few weeks.
→ read full article
Is Climate Change Just a Lot of Hot Air?
MinuteEarth – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
[Animation] The Consequences of Warmer Global Temperatures in Oceans and Lands
→ read full articleThe Social Cost of Capitalism
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
11 Aug 2015 – Few, if any, corporations absorb the full cost of their operations. Corporations shove many of their costs onto the environment, the public sector, and distant third parties. For example, currently 3 million gallons of toxic waste water from a Colorado mine has escaped and is working its way down two rivers into Utah and Lake Powell. At least seven city water systems dependent on the rivers have been shut down.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates Endorse Violence
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
In a recent letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, twelve Nobel Peace laureates declared their support for the long history of US elite violence against Native Americans and enslaved Africans, as well as the US imperial violence around the world that has butchered tens of millions of people over the past 200 years.
→ read full articleUS Torturers Lose Psychologists’ Corrupt Cooperation
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
17 Aug 2015
American Psychological Association Acts to Heal Itself – American psychologists have voted overwhelmingly against helping their government torture people. In an even more radical step, the psychologists voted to obey international law, even in instances where US law tolerates war crimes or crimes against humanity.
→ read full articleHow I Learned to Hate Animals
Jon Hochschartner - CounterPunch,
17 Aug 2015
How are we socialized into accepting systematic violence against animals? Like anything else, I think we learn the rationales for non-human exploitation in drips and drops. This education — or more accurately, miseducation — probably takes place throughout our lifespan, with different answers formulated to meet our ideological needs at different times and places.
→ read full articleUS Psychologists’ Convention Bans Participation in Torture
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
On Friday [7 Aug 2015], the American Psychological Association overwhelmingly adopted a resolution banning participation by psychologists in national security interrogations, in the face of accusations that the proposed ban on torture was “anti-government” and “anti-military.”
→ read full articlePope Francis: Burmese Treatment of Rohingya Minority a Form of ‘War’
Joshua J. McElwee – National Catholic Reporter,
10 Aug 2015
Pope Francis has again entered into controversial geopolitical territory, saying sharply Friday [7 Aug 2015] that Burmese treatment of its populous and persecuted Rohingya minority constitutes war against them.
→ read full articleCitigroup’s Unchecked Crime Wave Proves that America Is Headed in the Wrong Direction
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Citigroup, the bank that played a central role in bringing America to its knees in 2008; received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance to resuscitate its insolvent carcass; pleaded guilty to a felony count of rigging foreign currency trading in May and was put on a three year probation – is now under a string of manycriminal and civil investigations.
→ read full article(Português) Guerras e Recessão: As Promessas da Pax Norte-Americana
Emir Sader, Carta Maior – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
Os países que resistem aos imperativos do capital é que estão no começo de um novo ciclo, de construção de um mundo baseado na solidariedade.
→ read full articleUN Paid Millions to Russian Aviation Firm Even after Learning of Sex Attack on Girl
Paul Lewis, Oliver Laughland and Roger Hamilton-Martin – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
30 Jul 2015 – Documents reveal United Nations unit uncovered possible ‘culture of sexual exploitation and abuse’ after 2010 attack by UTair crew member, but permitted company to continue receiving contracts worth millions.
→ read full articleBig Pharma’s Profiteers: You Want Us to Pay What for These Meds?
Martha Rosenberg - CounterPunch,
3 Aug 2015
Drug makers are even not above scaring the populace if it sells drugs for rare diseases. Your back pain may not be from working out at all but from a disease called ankylosing spondylitis, says AbbVie, a condition that can be treated with its biologic drug Humira for as much as $20,000 a year. (Injectable “biologic” drugs are a new drug industry push because they are so expensive and less susceptible to generic competition than pills.)
→ read full articleHedge Funds Tell Puerto Rico: Lay Off Teachers and Close Schools to Pay Us Back
Rupert Neate – The Guardian,
3 Aug 2015
Report commissioned by 34 hedge funds says government had been ‘massively overspending on education’ despite spending only 79% of US average per pupil.
→ read full articleRevolting World
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
‘The World Order and Revolution! Essays from the Resistance’ – Using a combination of political, legal and economic analyses [in their new book], Vltchek, Black and Koenig carefully strip away the façade that the corporate media presents to us, and which the imperial elite wants us to believe, so that we can see some of the ugly, underlying truth about our world.
→ read full articleEU’s Greek Debt Austerity Plan Rejected by the IMF
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
I have maintained that the imposition of austerity on Greece could not possibly work and that the only solution was to write down the debt and introduce reforms that loosen the hold the oligarchs have on the Greek economy. The current Greek government has taken the same position, and now the IMF has joined us.
→ read full articleJPMorgan Chase Closes at All-Time High – As Financial Crises Sprout Like ‘08
Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
JPMorgan Chase is a global bank with over $2 trillion in assets “serving corporations and individuals in over 100 countries.” In February, the U.S. Treasury Office released a report showing staggering levels of interconnected risk among global banks. JPMorgan had the highest overall score for systemic and interconnected risk.
→ read full articleBest Exercises for Strong Bones
Elizabeth Quinn, Sports Medicine Expert – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
Build Stronger Bones with the Right Exercises
→ read full articleRohingyas, the Victims of Sustained Genocidal Persecution for Nearly 40 Years
Amine Tuna Ertürk - İHH İnsani ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Merkezi (Turkey),
27 Jul 2015
Interview with Dr Maung Zarni – “Humanitarianism is all well and fine. It plays an ameliorative role. But the root cause is politically and racially driven genocide. In situations of genocide, humanitarianism is woefully inadequate. It is a band-aid, not a cure.”
→ read full article(Português) União Europeia:Testes Fatais
Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Carta Maior,
27 Jul 2015
A Europa transformou-se num laboratório do futuro. O que nele se experimenta deve causar preocupação a qualquer democrata e a qualquer pessoa de esquerda. Será o epicentro de um novo despotismo ocidental, rivalizando em crueldade com o despotismo oriental estudado por Karl Marx e Max Weber.
→ read full articleUkraine: The Mess That Nuland Made
Robert Parry – Consortium News,
27 Jul 2015
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it’s hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made.
→ read full article(Italiano) T-tip, il nostro futuro greco
Francesco Martone, Comune Info – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2015
21 luglio 2015 – Per uno paradosso o una significativa coincidenza lo stesso giorno nel quale processava Alexis Tsipras, il parlamento europeo avrebbe votato il rapporto Lange sul Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-tip). Raffigurazioni plastiche ed evidenti di come il progetto europeo di spazio di cittadinanza comune abbia ceduto il passo a quello elitario dell’austerity, e dell’ordoliberismo a tutti i costi, ed agli interessi delle imprese e dei mercati anche a costo della sopravvivenza di uomini e donne in carne ed ossa.
→ read full articleThe American Psychological Association, Torture, and the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial
Tom Carter, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
13 Jul 2015 – A 542-page independent report made public by the New York Times on Friday [10 Jul] implicates the American Psychological Association in the CIA torture program. The devastating report not only exposes the involvement of psychologists in torture, but also lifts the curtain on years of lies, conspiracies, and cover-ups reaching to the top of the APA and academia.
→ read full articleHow Goldman Sachs Profited from the Greek Debt Crisis
Robert B. Reich – The Nation,
20 Jul 2015
The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of the debt, and in the process almost doubled it.
→ read full articleRetired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
20 Jul 2015
“What we have is this continued investment in conflict,” the retired general says. “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just … fuels the conflict.”
→ read full articleDavid Graeber Interview: ‘So Many People Spend Their Working Lives Doing Jobs They Think Are Unnecessary’
Stuart Jeffries – The Guardian,
20 Jul 2015
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play.
→ read full articlePluto and Earth
Patrick Martin, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The flyby of Pluto by the spacecraft New Horizons—a scientific achievement of the first order—stands in contrast to the seemingly intractable social crises on our own planet.
→ read full articleSoulless Economics
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service~,
20 Jul 2015
Austerity, the tool of neoliberal capitalism, stands up to Greek democracy and stares it down. Oh well. We’re remarkably comfortable with soulless economics and have yielded to this economic model in thought, word and deed.
→ read full articleYanis Varoufakis Full Transcript: Our Battle to Save Greece
Harry Lambert – New Statesman,
20 Jul 2015
To have ‘the powers that be’ speak to you directly and the complete lack of any democratic scruples from the supposed defenders of Europe’s democracy. The quite clear understanding on the other side that we are on the same page analytically and yet to have very powerful figures look at you in the eye and say “You’re right in what you’re saying, but we’re going to crunch you anyway.”
→ read full articleObama to Out Bomb Bush!
James Albertini, Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This is only the latest campaign in a 15-year global air war, largely ignored by U.S. media, in which the United States and its allies have conducted at least 118,000 air strikes against other countries since 2000.
→ read full articleCNN to Broadcast Corporate Propaganda as News?
C. Robert Gibson – Al Jazeera America,
13 Jul 2015
Companies paying media outlets to produce news-like content is a new low for network TV. Once a news outlet as recognizable as CNN starts airing branded content, it has the potential to create a huge conflict of interest in editorial decisions.
→ read full articleThe Collateral Damage of Austerity
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
A bogus moral authority seems to accompany the accumulation of wealth — a sense that one deserves it, while those without wealth deserve servitude and hopelessness. Beyond this moral authority lies the desperate need not to recognize the common humanity of those who are struggling to survive.
→ read full articleYemeni Genocide Proceeds Apace, Enjoying World’s Silence
William Boardman - Reader Supported News,
13 Jul 2015
If any of the umpteen candidates for president of the United States has said anything humane, useful, or even dimly relevant about Yemen, it is hard to find (and I have found nothing). And nowhere have I found any call to establish the appropriate International War Crimes Tribunal to judge the illegality of the multiple, heinous predations of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and their sundry allies, all members in good standing of the world peacekeeping authority.
→ read full articleWind Power Generates 140% of Denmark’s Electricity Demand
Arthur Neslen – The Guardian,
13 Jul 2015
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too.
→ read full articleMost Attitudes and Beliefs are Outcomes of Fear
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
I routinely come across efforts to change an individual’s attitude, belief and/or value by using education to teach the ‘right’ one. I would like to explain why education cannot achieve such a change, except in the most superficial of circumstances, as the evidence clearly demonstrates.
→ read full articlePentagon Concludes America Not Safe unless It Conquers the World
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy to declare that Washington “supports the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.
→ read full articleThe Hijackers [A Review of 4 Books]
Hugh Roberts – London Review of Books,
13 Jul 2015
Western policy (towards the Arabs’ Middle East) has been a disgrace for Iraq, Libya and now Syria, and the fallout is killing Americans, French people and now British tourists, in addition to its uncounted victims in the Middle East. #IS or Islamic State is good for you!, or so do Western powers delude themselves. US, UK and France have facilitated, out of their receptive/positive interest, the rise of Islamic State as a covert strategy for the overthrow of Assad regime.
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