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Human Influence on Climate Clear, IPCC Report Says
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
IPCC Press Release. Stockholm, 27 Sep 2013 – Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe, a new assessment concludes.
→ read full articleUSA 2013
Chris Hedges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
We now live in a nation where
doctors destroy health
Noam Chomsky on the Era of the Drone
Steven Garbas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
“And of course now data can be collected endlessly. In fact Obama supposedly has a data storage system being constructed in Utah somewhere where all kinds of data are being poured in. Who knows what? And so slowly the foundations of liberty are ripped to shreds, torn apart.”
→ read full articleThoughts on R2P from the Arab Region
Fateh Azzam – Open Democracy,
30 Sep 2013
Opinions in the Arab region are divided regarding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), although marked by a deep skepticism based in the perceived double standards of the great powers, especially the United States. Only a more democratic UN will ensure morality trumps politics in applying R2P.
→ read full articleClimate-Change Protests Heat Up
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
30 Sep 2013
25 Sep 2013 – Last week in the Arctic Ocean the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise approached a Gazprom oil-drilling platform and launched a nonviolent protest. The Russian government responded swiftly and with force, arresting 30 and towing the Greenpeace ship. This protest is remarkable for its sheer audacity but by no means the sole protest lately against runaway fossil-fuel extraction and consumption.
→ read full articleFinancial Core of the Transnational Corporate Class
Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne, Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In this study we decided to identify in detail the people on the boards of directors of the top ten asset management firms and the top ten most centralized corporations in the world. There is a total of thirteen firms with 161 directors on their boards. They collectively manage $23.91 trillion in funds and operate in every country in the world. Western governments and international policy bodies work in the interests of this financial core to protect the free flow of capital investment anywhere in the world.
→ read full articleThe Westgate Mall Massacre: Reflections
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The Westgate Mall Massacre: The Rage of Fanaticism – Imagine deciding on the life or death of any person, but particularly a child, by whether or not they could name the mother of Mohammed or recite a verse from the Koran. Of course, even fanatics have a certain logic of justification that makes their acts congruent with a warped morality.
→ read full articleThe Violence of Psalm 21
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Psalm 21 and the Human Predicament – If a religious text nurtures morally unacceptable impulses that are acted upon either consciously or sub-consciously in political domains, how can these adverse influences be repudiated without purporting to claim a hegemonic status for a secular reader?
→ read full articleNairobi Tragedy – Carnage Foretold
Andre Vltchek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In 2010, one year before the invasion by Kenya of Somalia, Kenyan opposition leader Mwandawiro Mghanga, predicted trouble: “…Look at our foreign policy, our involvement with Somalia on behalf of the United States. The way it is going right now, it can only cause us much harm. We are the ones who will pay the big price for following instructions and defending U.S. interests in the region… Somalia is suspected of having an enormous amount of oil under the ground.”
→ read full articleUS Websites Should Inform EU Citizens about NSA Surveillance, Says Report
Bryan Glick, Computer Weekly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
All existing data sharing agreements between Europe and the US should be revoked, and US web site providers should prominently inform European citizens that their data may be subject to government surveillance, according to the recommendations of a briefing report for the European Parliament.
→ read full articleBreaking: Whistleblower Reveals U.S. State Dept. Ships Arms Directly to al-Qaeda
Kit Daniels, Infowars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
A former CIA gun runner revealed that the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in order to cover up the U.S. State Department’s direct arm shipments to al-Qaeda.
→ read full articleUS Caught Spying on Greek Diplomatic Communications in 2004-2005
WikiLeaks Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
September 23, 2013 – The following post is a summary of events from the “Athens Affair”, which was widely reported on in 2007. In particular, an investigation was re-opened and concluded in 2011, of which we found almost no reference in English media.
→ read full articleEncountering Otherness as a Waveform
Anthony Judge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Human civilization has a serious “otherness problem” — as indicated by the media on a daily basis. The problem is evident in the relationships between the principles and the adherents of the Abrahamic religions in particular. It is also evident in the relations between science and alternative perspectives, one political ideology and another, or “development” and “environment”.
→ read full articlePolice Harassment of PMANE Leaders Continues in Koodankulam
Anuj Wankhede – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy has been leading a long and completely non-violent struggle against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project. Their struggle has been highly appreciated for its length and non-violence all across the globe. The government of India and the state government of Tamil Nadu unleashed massive police repression against these innocent protestors.
→ read full articleCrisis at Fukushima Continues to Spiral with Hole in Radiation Barrier
Andrea Germanos – Common Dreams,
30 Sep 2013
In the latest in a series of mishaps to hit the crisis-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, a radiation-stopping “fence” around the reactors has developed a hole, plant operator TEPCO admitted on Thursday [26 Sep 2013]. Fences made of earth and sand sit in the harbor next to the plant and were erected to help contain radioactive material from flowing into the ocean.
→ read full articleBragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch,
30 Sep 2013
It’s indisputable that the bragging rights to American exceptionalism are Washington’s. For those who need proof, what follows are just eight ways (among so many more) that you can proudly make the case for our exceptional status, should you happen to stumble across, say, President Putin, still blathering on about how unexceptional we are.
→ read full articleA Corporate Coup of a Different Order: The Growing Resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Arthur Phillips – Toward Freedom,
30 Sep 2013
In February, more than four years later, President Obama claimed his to be “the most transparent administration in history.” Perhaps the least publicized example of that statement’s dishonesty is the White House’s efforts to negotiate the biggest trade agreement since the mid 1990s in near-total secrecy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, has been in negotiations since 2007.
→ read full articleScience Changes the Character of War
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Our ideas and our political institutions adjust much too slowly to the realities of technology. A nuclear war today could destroy human civilization and much of the biosphere. But politicians continue to risk the future of the world by initiating potentially catastrophic wars.
→ read full articleUK: How Politicians and the Media Made Us Hate Immigrants
Chitra Nagarajan – Open Democracy,
30 Sep 2013
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as ‘uncomfortable truth’. Yet the problem is not immigration but socio-economic inequality. Poverty and exclusion are faced by working class people of all backgrounds.
→ read full articleThe Millennium Development Goals and the Courage to Go Further
Paul Kagame – Al Jazeera,
30 Sep 2013
Rwandan President Paul Kagame argues for a post-2015 Millennium Development Goal agenda that goes beyond poverty reduction.
→ read full articleCutting Controversy: German Court Sets New Circumcision Rules
Der Spiegel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In the latest twist in a controversy that has divided Germans, a regional court has ruled that doctors need to discuss circumcision procedures with the child before they can be carried out.
→ read full article(Italiano) Bravo – Papa Francesco!
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
La Chiesa Cattolica romana è diventata “ossessionata” da aborto, matrimoni gay e contraccezione. La chiesa dovrebbe trasformarsi in una casa per tutti e non in una cappella per pochi. “Dobbiamo trovare un nuovo equilibrio”, ha affermato il Papa, “diversamente, con la perdita della freschezza e della fragranza del Vangelo, anche l’edificio morale della chiesa crollerà come un castello di carte.”
→ read full articleHouse Arrest
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
For Indian women who live an occupied life under marriages of honour.
→ read full articleLife on the Line: Can Humanity Survive?
Robert J. Burrowes – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
As we approach the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, which recognizes Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, one challenge we face is to celebrate his life in a way that Gandhi himself would have found meaningful.
→ read full articleQuestions Plague UN Syria Report. Who Was Behind the East Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack?
Sharmine Narwani and Radwan Mortada - Al-Akhbar,
30 Sep 2013
A senior United Nations official who deals directly with Syrian affairs has told Al-Akhbar that the Syrian government had no involvement in the alleged Ghouta chemical weapons attack: “Of course not, he (President Bashar al-Assad) would be committing suicide.” When asked who he believed was responsible for the use of chemical munitions in Ghouta, the UN official, who would not permit disclosure of his identity, said: “Saudi intelligence was behind the attacks and unfortunately nobody will dare say that.”
→ read full articleNSA Surveillance Goes Beyond Orwell’s Imagination – Alan Rusbridger
Dominic Rushe – The Guardian,
30 Sep 2013
Guardian editor says depth of NSA surveillance programs greatly exceed anything the 1984 author could have imagined.
→ read full articleA Poor
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
A word No vowels
A song No rhythms
The Chancellor of Europe, Re-Elected
Steffen Vogel – Open Democracy,
30 Sep 2013
Strengthened by a clear victory in the ballots, Angela Merkel is unlikely to change her austerity course. In the absence of a strong domestic opposition, it is up to the citizens of Europe to challenge her policies.
→ read full articleOld Dog, Old Trick: US, Saudis, Qatar Attempt “Arab Spring” Retread in Sudan
Tony Cartalucci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Protests are smokescreen for unfolding US-Saudi-Qatari backed violence seeking regime change in Sudan.
→ read full articleNo New Nuclear Threats in India
Socialist Worker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
The Indian government is currently planning to develop and install nuclear power plants in several states. In a statement, the International Socialist Organization extends its solidarity to those fighting to stop the new nuclear threats in India.
→ read full articleHow the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
How a deplored “tradesman of death” brought to life the highest accolade of human achievement.
→ read full articleFasted Training: Should You Eat Before Exercise?
The Guardian Running Blog – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Traditional research states that runners need carbohydrate to train effectively, but new studies show the benefits of fasted training. A nutritionist explains the ‘train low, compete high’ concept.
→ read full articleHenry Hikes to Fitchburg: Lovely Illustrated Children’s Adaptation of Thoreau’s Philosophy, Full of Universal Wisdom for All
Maria Popova, BrainPickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
An existential walk into what money can and can’t buy. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her sublime meditation on presence vs. productivity.
→ read full articleIran Says It Has Finished Decoding Downed CIA Drone
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
“All the memories and computer systems of this plane have been decoded and some good news will be announced in the near future not just about the RQ-170 and the optimizations that our forces have done on the reversed engineered model of this drone, but also in area of other important defense achievements,” Fars quoted Hossein Salami, the lieutenant commander general of Iran’s Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.
→ read full articleMorales: Obama Can Invade Any Country for US Energy Needs
Russia Today – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
In his dramatic speech in New York, Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the UN to be moved out of the US and for Barack Obama to be tried for crimes against humanity. In his most controversial demand, Morales said that Obama should face an international trial with human rights watchdogs among the judges. He accused his US counterpart of instigating conflicts in the Middle East to make the region more volatile and to increase the US’s grip on the natural resources it abounds in.
→ read full articleCarter, Elders Call for End to Burma Violence
Voice of America – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Jimmy Carter and other former world leaders known as “The Elders” have called on Burma to end violence against the country’s minority Muslim population. Before ending a three day visit to Burma in Rangoon Thursday [Sep 26, 2013], the former U.S. president said the problem cannot be ignored.
→ read full articleThe Best Countries in the World for Vegetarians
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2013
Glasgow has been heralded as the best city in the world for vegans, but where are the best nations for travellers on a meat-free diet?
→ read full articleThe Surveillance Marketplace
Jillian C. York – Open Democracy,
30 Sep 2013
Behind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business selling surveillance technologies – and stay apathetic to the consequences.
→ read full articleLook With Your Own Eyes: The Videos of the Chemical Attacks in Syria Show Tampered Scenes
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
The videos presented by the US Intelligence Community as evidence have staged scenes. Simple observations of the videos can verify this. This is exactly what a recent and modest study did.
→ read full articleAt 16, Ganesh Got a Job in Qatar – Two Months Later He Was Dead
Pete Pattisson in Kathmandu and Doha – The Guardian,
30 Sep 2013
Nepalese workers go to Qatar to find a way out of poverty. Instead, many are trapped into 12-hour days and nights in overcrowded, filthy camps. Some never make it home alive.
→ read full article‘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 articleLessons 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 articleHappy Peace Day [21 September]
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2013
On this peace day
I wish and pray
Hugo 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
U.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 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 articleThe 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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